Militarized police occupy USA
Iraq has spent more than a decade under US occupation.
Afghanistan has been occupied for almost 13 years. More than a million
people have been killed, and millions more rendered homeless refugees,
by occupation forces.
The Zionist occupation of Palestine, too, is sponsored by the US
taxpayer. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the US has spent
more than a trillion dollars propping up the Zionist regime, which just
murdered roughly 2,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, during its
most recent assault on Gaza.
These are just the most vicious and deadly of the many American-sponsored occupations.
America’s rulers have also imposed “occupation lite” on 130 countries
around the world. These nations are under de facto occupation by U.S.
troops stationed at more than 900 military bases.
has highlighted the fact that much of the USA is now under de facto
military occupation by murderously hostile troops posing as police
officers. Witnesses confirm that Michael Brown was shot dead as he stood
harmlessly with his hands in the air attempting to surrender. The
police, as American police always do in these situations, have lied
outrageously as they attempt to protect one of the murderers in their
ranks.
As protests against the Michael Brown shooting spread, the police in
Ferguson responded with full-scale SWAT team tactics reminiscent of
those used against the people of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Whole
platoons of officers in black helmets and body armor have stood atop
armored personnel carriers aiming their assault rifles at protesting
crowds, while experimental weapons, including a long-range acoustic
weapon that produces excruciating ear-splitting pain, have been used
against demonstrators. A second police shooting critically injured a
protestor at 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Saint Louis County SWAT teams have been driving tanks through the
streets and pointing their weapons at vehicles that get too close. It
looks exactly like occupied Iraq, where U.S. troops regularly murdered
whole families of civilians whose cars looked “suspicious” as they
approached checkpoints.
Police in military fatigues have screamed at reporters to “get down”
and “back off” or risk getting caught in the crossfire. They have
arrested reporters for getting too close to their self-created war zone,
then blasted peaceful crowds with stun grenades and doused them with
tear gas.
Even the corporate-controlled U.S. mainstream media has been
questioning the savage military-style occupation of Ferguson, Missouri –
and the larger trend toward militarizing law enforcement. When reporter
Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post was gratuitously assaulted and
arrested for filming, the Post’s executive editor Martin Baron released a
statement saying the newspaper was “appalled by the conduct of the
police officers involved.”
Lowery tweeted: “Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine
because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out
of.” He added: “Got no explanation at any point why in custody other
than ‘trespassing’ – at a McDonalds where we were customers.”
But they are moving in that direction. All over America, police
departments are buying military helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles,
automatic rifles, and even drones – and preparing to use them against
the American population.
The occupation of America, like the occupation of Middle Eastern
nations, has a racial edge. US troops sent to occupy the Middle East are
trained to despise the local people as dark-skinned “sand n-gg-rs” and
“hajjis” who can be slaughtered with impunity.
In places like Ferguson, where the police are virtually all-white while
the majority of the population is black, the militarized police imagine
themselves as occupation troops lording it over the darker-skinned
natives. The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American
President of the United States, has not altered the fact that people of
color in many parts of the US are still living under what amounts to a
kind of foreign occupation.
But it isn’t just people of color who are suffering under the
increasingly vicious militarized occupation of America. Police are also
brutalizing more and more working-class and even middle-class white
people.
If you search “police kill dog” on youtube you’ll get more than 26
million hits. One could spend weeks watching videos of militarized
police marauding through American communities, shooting pets and
occasionally their owners, kicking down innocent people’s doors, beating
people within an inch of their lives or worse, and generally acting
like a bloodthirsty army running amok over occupied foreign territory.
One lesson of 9/11 is that the US imperial oligarchy no longer
restricts itself to mass-murdering browned-skinned people at home and
abroad. By blowing up the World Trade Center and killing almost 3,000
people, most of them white-skinned middle-class office workers, the
masters of empire were sending a message: The elite has shifted gears
and is now prepared to slaughter anyone, including white, middle-class
Americans.
Muslim terrorists, but by the globalist ruling elite. The American
middle class was the biggest obstacle in the path of the New World Order
plan to create a one-world plutocratic tyranny. 9/11 – which
militarized American society, hollowed out the U.S. economy, and turned
the U.S.A. into an occupied nation – was designed to remove that
obstacle.
Will Americans awaken and rise up against their oppressors, like the
people of Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan? Or will they obediently line up to
be microchipped the next time the New World Order elite terrorizes them
with a big false flag attack
Militarized police occupy USA
By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV
Iraq has spent more than a decade under US occupation.
Afghanistan has been occupied for almost 13 years. More than a million
people have been killed, and millions more rendered homeless refugees,
by occupation forces.
taxpayer. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the US has spent
more than a trillion dollars propping up the Zionist regime, which just
murdered roughly 2,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, during its
most recent assault on Gaza.
These are just the most vicious and deadly of the many American-sponsored occupations.
America’s rulers have also imposed “occupation lite” on 130 countries
around the world. These nations are under de facto occupation by U.S.
troops stationed at more than 900 military bases.
But now, as Malcolm X famously said, the chickens areThe shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri
coming home to roost. The U.S. itself is coming under occupation, as
militarized police forces – made up in part of hardened veterans of the
counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – are treating the
American people the same way they treated their victims in foreign
lands.
has highlighted the fact that much of the USA is now under de facto
military occupation by murderously hostile troops posing as police
officers. Witnesses confirm that Michael Brown was shot dead as he stood
harmlessly with his hands in the air attempting to surrender. The
police, as American police always do in these situations, have lied
outrageously as they attempt to protect one of the murderers in their
ranks.
As protests against the Michael Brown shooting spread, the police in
Ferguson responded with full-scale SWAT team tactics reminiscent of
those used against the people of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. Whole
platoons of officers in black helmets and body armor have stood atop
armored personnel carriers aiming their assault rifles at protesting
crowds, while experimental weapons, including a long-range acoustic
weapon that produces excruciating ear-splitting pain, have been used
against demonstrators. A second police shooting critically injured a
protestor at 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
The Saint Louis County SWAT teams have been driving tanks through the
streets and pointing their weapons at vehicles that get too close. It
looks exactly like occupied Iraq, where U.S. troops regularly murdered
whole families of civilians whose cars looked “suspicious” as they
approached checkpoints.
Police in military fatigues have screamed at reporters to “get down”
and “back off” or risk getting caught in the crossfire. They have
arrested reporters for getting too close to their self-created war zone,
then blasted peaceful crowds with stun grenades and doused them with
tear gas.
Even the corporate-controlled U.S. mainstream media has been
questioning the savage military-style occupation of Ferguson, Missouri –
and the larger trend toward militarizing law enforcement. When reporter
Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post was gratuitously assaulted and
arrested for filming, the Post’s executive editor Martin Baron released a
statement saying the newspaper was “appalled by the conduct of the
police officers involved.”
Lowery tweeted: “Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine
because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out
of.” He added: “Got no explanation at any point why in custody other
than ‘trespassing’ – at a McDonalds where we were customers.”
Along with brutalizing reporters and falsely arrestingAt least they aren’t sending out snipers and air strikes to murder reporters like the Zionists do in Gaza… at least not yet.
them, Ferguson police threw canisters of tear gas at an al-Jazeera
America film crew. These deranged storm-trooper cops apparently saw the
al-Jazeera logo and imagined themselves back in some Middle Eastern war
zone.
But they are moving in that direction. All over America, police
departments are buying military helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles,
automatic rifles, and even drones – and preparing to use them against
the American population.
The occupation of America, like the occupation of Middle Eastern
nations, has a racial edge. US troops sent to occupy the Middle East are
trained to despise the local people as dark-skinned “sand n-gg-rs” and
“hajjis” who can be slaughtered with impunity.
In places like Ferguson, where the police are virtually all-white while
the majority of the population is black, the militarized police imagine
themselves as occupation troops lording it over the darker-skinned
natives. The election of Barack Obama, the first African-American
President of the United States, has not altered the fact that people of
color in many parts of the US are still living under what amounts to a
kind of foreign occupation.
But it isn’t just people of color who are suffering under the
increasingly vicious militarized occupation of America. Police are also
brutalizing more and more working-class and even middle-class white
people.
If you search “police kill dog” on youtube you’ll get more than 26
million hits. One could spend weeks watching videos of militarized
police marauding through American communities, shooting pets and
occasionally their owners, kicking down innocent people’s doors, beating
people within an inch of their lives or worse, and generally acting
like a bloodthirsty army running amok over occupied foreign territory.
One lesson of 9/11 is that the US imperial oligarchy no longer
restricts itself to mass-murdering browned-skinned people at home and
abroad. By blowing up the World Trade Center and killing almost 3,000
people, most of them white-skinned middle-class office workers, the
masters of empire were sending a message: The elite has shifted gears
and is now prepared to slaughter anyone, including white, middle-class
Americans.
9/11 also ushered in the formal designation of the U.S.In effect, 9/11 was a declaration of war on America – not by radical
homeland as just another military occupation zone. On October 1st, 2002,
the U.S. military created “NORCOM,” the US Northern Command,
paralleling U.S. military commands in other global occupation zones.
Muslim terrorists, but by the globalist ruling elite. The American
middle class was the biggest obstacle in the path of the New World Order
plan to create a one-world plutocratic tyranny. 9/11 – which
militarized American society, hollowed out the U.S. economy, and turned
the U.S.A. into an occupied nation – was designed to remove that
obstacle.
Will Americans awaken and rise up against their oppressors, like the
people of Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan? Or will they obediently line up to
be microchipped the next time the New World Order elite terrorizes them
with a big false flag attack