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THIS IS NOT A U.S. SOLDIER IN IRAQ
It's a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Those War-Ready Cops in Ferguson Are 9/11's Awful Legacy—and Your Taxes Are Paying for It
First came the police officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black
teenager on the way back from the convenience store with a friend. Then
came the protests and looting. Then came the astonishing police response,
which by Wednesday night transformed the streets of Ferguson, Missouri,
an inner suburb of St. Louis, into a scene out of Cairo, Kiev, or
Tehran. Which has led appalled onlookers to ask: Who has been outfitting
local police departments to look like battle-hardened military units?
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Since
the Sept. 11 attacks, the American taxpayer has been providing the
funding for an eye-popping influx of money from the Department of
Homeland Security to state and local law enforcement agencies. The
funding is all in the name of preventing “terrorism,” but funds are
fungible, and so are heavily-armored vehicles and high-powered weaponry.
As the Missouri Department of Homeland Security explains on its own website
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Instead of a knee-jerk reaction by those wishing to incite a race war, why don't we try to understand the root causes of the militarization of the police in the US, i.e. violence towards US citizens, the brutalization of the American psyche, and what appears to be preparations being made for war to be waged against Americans? We need to understand how 9/11 created this mass psychology.
ReplyDeleteThat in the wake of 9/11 (inside job), the PATRIOT Act US police state, Israeli security companies have played a predominant role in the training of us police forces. Police who now treat ordinary Americans as if they were Palestinians in the occupied territories, neighbors who now are being treated as enemies.
Israelification of American Domestic Security
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o0rY44HTJQ
Israel trains US law-enforcement in counter-terrorism
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-trains-us-law-enforcement-in-counter-terrorism/
(Israeli trained) Police State in America
http://www.john-friend.net/2012/08/israeli-trained-police-state-in-america.html
Israel’s export of occupation police tactics
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-export-occupation-police-tactics/8485
Law Enforcement Courses: Israeli Anti-Terrorism Training School
http://www.critraining.com/CRI_LE_Courses.htm
Press TV: Tragedy of US police training by Israeli companies
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/09/27/press-tv-tragedy-of-us-police-training-by-israeli-companies/
Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP): Top Law Enforcement Officials Return from Israel
http://www.jinsa.org/events-programs/law-enforcement-exchange-program-leep/all
U.S. Jewish NGOs to get 97% of Homeland Security's defense grant in 2012
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/u-s-jewish-ngos-to-get-97-of-homeland-security-s-defense-grant-in-2012.premium-1.448373
Has Jewry Infiltrated the Local Police?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6bKp_sMdM
Israeli Company Has FAA Permission to Fly Drones in U.S. Airspace!
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/15/israeli-company-has-faa-permission-to-fly-drones-in-u-s-airspace/
Former CIA Officer Israel Controls U.S. Government & Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p-SszJkjy60
NYPD Opens Branch in Israel: Another confirmation of the Israelification of United States police
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/01/09/nypd-kfar-saba-branch-new-york-p.html
Meanwhile, the Zionists who predominate in state and federal government, are moving to protect themselves from backlash...
California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/california-passes-resolution-defining-criticism-of-israel-as-anti-semitism/