One topic that seems to be of great concern to a relatively large swath of the US public is the militarization of American cities.
Indeed, with each passing ‘confrontation’ between protesters and police, ‘protecting and serving’ seems to look more and more like ‘subduing and controlling.’
The fear of military and police overreach came to a head this year in the lead up to the US Spec Ops Command’s multi-state ‘training exercise’ dubbed Jade Helm 15. Thanks to a few viral internet campaigns and some badly-timed Wal-Mart closures, some US citizens came to believe that the federal government had devised a plan to institute martial law in Texas.
Be that as it may, if there’s anything Americans fear more than overt oppression enacted by force it’s covert oppression enacted by a nefarious combination of crony capitalism and corrupt (not to mention largely incompetent) politicians, which we suppose explains why nearly a third of Americans say they would support a military coup in the US. Here’s more from YouGov:
The United States military has long embraced the idea of civilian control of national affairs, and apart from certain rare moments the American officer corps has faithfully followed the orders of their civilian superiors.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/13/2015.
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