Phyrfight Intel

More than a  year ago, then Senator Barack Obama called for a “civilian security force” that is just as powerful and well-funded as the military.

Video (the comment is made at approximately the 16-minute mark.)

The war on drugs, however, has already created a military police force that, in many cases, has well overstepped its boundaries. The recent video out of Columbia, MO isn’t a lone incident, it has been the norm in many cities for decades.

I bring these two points together to say that if we continue on our current path, it would not take much time to redirect many police forces, which have already become militarized, from the war on drugs to a war on those inciting sedition (read: Tea Partiers).

I don’t exactly have a solution or comment to make other than to say that when the change comes, there will be little time to react before all those not willing to go along lock-step are silenced.