But police efforts to deny protest will soon be augmented by a helpful partner. In June, an expansion of military laws granted the military explicit power to intervene in public spaces to “quell…civil disturbances.” Naturally, as breaking news about sitcom stars dominated the airwaves, this expansion of martial policy went unnoticed. The Pentagon is developing a troop force to deal with “domestic catastrophes.” You can easily imagine that useless phrase being tossed aside and substituted with “civil disturbances” caused by “domestic extremists,” formerly known as peaceful protestors. Entrapment is now a legitimate tool of police work. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now prepared to surveil your peaceable marches, infiltrate your gatherings, and sow dissent among your ranks. In so doing, the DHS can hopefully incite you to violence—at which point you cross the threshold from deranged anti-corporatist to domestic extremist (the NSA’s foreground of terrorism) and can be usefully detained and deposited in a tent prison on the periphery of your crumbling metropolis
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:17:40 +0000