Comment by ceejayoz
10 days ago
> yet you do not hear the left in the US saying at all that this was a problem
Sure you do. The left has been very critical of this sort of police militarization. They gave the cops an M1 Abrams to play with, FFS.
10 days ago
> yet you do not hear the left in the US saying at all that this was a problem
Sure you do. The left has been very critical of this sort of police militarization. They gave the cops an M1 Abrams to play with, FFS.
No, they merely complain when it is deployed against them, as with ICE.
Otherwise Waco would be a rallying cry of the US left, and it isn’t.
From "a problem" to "rallying cry" is a pretty neat goalpost move.
Leftists have long warned that expansions of government power (in general) and police militarization (specifically) are most likely to be eventually used against leftists.
Modern leftists are definitionally promoting expansion of government power - it is a core consequence of their beliefs.
The late Murray Bookchin was the exception that proves the rule, and he was hardly popular or widely known, and made some astonishingly prescient interviews before he died about the direction it was all headed in.
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