{"id":24134,"date":"2011-11-29T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/as-the-police-become-militarized-the-military-becomes-more-policey.html"},"modified":"2011-11-29T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T06:32:17","slug":"as-the-police-become-militarized-the-military-becomes-more-policey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/as-the-police-become-militarized-the-military-becomes-more-policey.html","title":{"rendered":"As the police become militarized, the military becomes … more policey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate continues to move forward with a national defense budget that includes requiring the military (vs the police, the FBI, etc.) to take custody of anyone identified as being a member of al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

Which maybe sounds just fine (as one letter writer in the Denver Post put it, "we don't seem to have a problem with the military arresting civilians"), but this is a classic example of a slippery slope — first al-Qaeda, then any other terrorist group, then other "serious" crimes, then …<\/p>\n

I rarely find myself on the same side as Rand Paul or Mark Kirk on anything, but they, along with most Senate Democrats, oppose this part of the Defense bill, and I do hope that Obama keeps his promise to veto it. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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The Senate continues to move forward with a national defense budget that includes requiring the military (vs the police, the FBI, etc.) to take custody of anyone identified as being a member of al-Qaeda. 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