Over the last decade, almost all American authorities presented “homeland security” as an excuse to acquire boatloads of new technology, and used it to help expand their power and capabilities to unprecedented levels. There is nothing at all exceptional about the NSA’s massive overreach. It was only keeping up with the Joneses — FBI, DEA, Border Patrol, police forces everywhere — who have all been busy doing exactly the same thing.
The impoverished city of Oakland, for example, is spending more than $10 million on a “Domain Awareness Center” surveillance hub for its cops. Drones are just the tip of the hardware iceberg.
We
produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots,
M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade
launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these
weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against
US citizens.
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