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Homeland Security was built to fend off terrorists. Why's it so busy arming cops to fight average Americans?
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: September 9th, 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/homelan...
America has raged against the appalling behavior of the local police in Ferguson, Missouri, and for good reason: automatic rifles pointed at protesters, tank-like armored trucks blocking marches, the teargassing and arresting of reporters, tactics unfit even for war zones. [But ire] should also be focused on the federal government agency that has enabled the rise of military police, and so much more: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The 240,000-employee [agency] has been the primary arms dealer for out-of-control local cops in Ferguson and beyond, handing out tens of billions of dollars in grants for military equipment in the last decade with little to no oversight. Police can act like paramilitary forces to combat the most mundane crimes without much worry of the consequences. But the problem with DHS is much larger than just combat gear: Homeland Security is also transferring tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in high-tech spying technology to local police through a sprawling backroom operation surveilling your neighborhood, much of which may be unconstitutional. DHS has its own fleet of Predator drones roaming the US border and far beyond, which it has loaned out to police over 500 times. Homeland Security is also handing out millions of dollars to local police to accelerate and facilitate the adoption of smaller drones that police can fly themselves. Cops claim they want these middleman drones for emergencies, but ... documents show theyll end up using them for crowd control and intelligence gathering.
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