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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Friday, August 15, 2014

What Country Is This?


Where am I, in eastern Ukraine or somewhere?  No.  Ferguson, Mo.  Fucking awful.

A small-town cop emptied his clip in gunning down an unarmed young man, then the police department compounds the error with an over-the-top show of force.  Looked like the Normandy invasion.  Just a wee bit antagonistic, don't you think?






This sort of provocative over-reaction can occur all too easily when police can obtain decommissioned military equipment and weaponry for free, and can buy even more with federal funds through Homeland Security's "anti-terrorism" program.  ("Hey man, we got all these cool toys -- let's use 'em!")

Does the Fort Washakie, Wyoming (pop. 1759) police department really need an armored MRAP fighting vehicle?  They have one.  Barney Fife needs a tank?  C'mon!

This situation is dangerously absurd.


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