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Joe's cautionary notes are crucial. When Ferguson broke a million activists we're saying a) cops are militarized like never before, and b) all their gear and training is from Israel, and c): a and b And I repeatedly ranted on facebook about how ahistorical and inaccurate that was. Yes, policing evolves. But noting carefully how, when, where and why -- and when NOT-- is crucial for knowing how to fight back. Otherwise all the hoo-ha about militarization will become for some an excuse not to fight. On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Joseph Catron via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/knock-knock-youre-dead-the-militarisation-of-the-police-force-in-the-land-of-the-free/ > > > I always wonder about this kind of thing, though. To be sure, the > militarization of police is a Very Bad Thing, and one on which I frown. > > But has it actually made them more any racist, violent, or likely to injure > and/or kill you than they were before? > > I haven't crunched the numbers. But I strongly, strongly doubt it. > > The Redline post writes of "Pennsylvania in 1905 – where previously there > would have been strong identification of officers drawn from local > communities with the workers they live with." > > In that case, it might even be true. I don't know. > > But there's a strong undercurrent of Norman Rockwell-esque bullshit in a > lot of left discourse around militarization, which implicitly, when not > explicitly, hearkens back to some mythical golden age of caring > neighborhood officers we all know perfectly well never existed for most. > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
