Are we under seige?

After looking at all the recent pictures of what is going on in Ferguson, Missouri, along with other events that depict the police as an occupying army, I have to ask, "Are we, as a citizenry, under siege by our own local governments?"

This picture should bother you.

If you are a cop, it should really bother you.

A lot.

Police are not tasked with controlling the populace through the use of sanctioned force. They are tasked with upholding the laws of the state. That means watching for someone breaking the law and then arresting them.

Last time I checked, we, as a people, had the right to protest. Specifically, the First Amendment states,

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

As police officer, you are sworn to uphold the Constitution, not oppress it.

I don't pretend to know what happened in that town and I am certainly not on the side of violent mobs destroying peoples lives but when I see a guy dressed in fatigues sitting atop an armored vehicle pointing a scoped rifle mounted on a tripod down a suburban street with a McDonalds sign in the background, all I can think of is the movie Red Dawn...

Call your congressmen and senators and tell them to stop the pentagon from distributing military hardware to local police departments. If the government is going to limit the types of weapons I can own then they should limit the types of weapons they have.

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• This just gets better and better...



• So that's what, 866 years from now? Better start packing.



• Only in Florida.