U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect

[Feuer Frei!]

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Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances.

The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.”

Indeed, however the so-called 'stunning' efforts were upturned or over-shadowed by the fact it wasn't the 'stunning' efforts or 'stunning' capabilities to actually find 1 of the suspects. It was a local resident who found him.
Perhaps i'm taking that comment out of context.

The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.

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