{"id":197,"date":"2014-10-19T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=197"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T12:32:40","slug":"reading-the-road-map-to-a-police-state-aaron-tao-mises-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Road Map to a Police State – Aaron Tao – Mises Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the Road Map to a Police State – Aaron Tao – Mises Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>by Radley Balko, PublicAffairs, 2013<\/p>\n

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice<\/em>.” \u2014Charles de Montesquieu<\/p>\n

If there was any silver lining to the horrifying events that took place in Ferguson, Missouri which riled the month of August, it has finally brought the issue of\u00a0police militarization<\/a>\u00a0to the forefront. As outrageous as the\u00a0police shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown\u00a0<\/a>was, the brutal\u00a0law enforcement response<\/a>\u00a0in the form of\u00a0running roughshod over the First Amendment<\/a>and\u00a0resorting to quasi-martial law<\/a>\u00a0to mostly peaceful protests by local residents and activists was worse. To many observers, what took place in a Midwest suburb was\u00a0indistinguishable from scenes out of occupied Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How did this happen? For an answer, the\u00a0writings<\/a>\u00a0of investigative journalist Radley Balko are an invaluable resource. Perhaps more than any other person, Balko has reported substantially onpolice militarization<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0injustice<\/a>\u00a0across the country for years.<\/p>\n

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…click on the link above for the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading the Road Map to a Police State – Aaron Tao – Mises Daily. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces,\u00a0by Radley Balko, PublicAffairs, 2013 “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” \u2014Charles de Montesquieu If there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,519,533,632,633,634,666,838],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ferguson","tag-michael-brown","tag-missouri","tag-police","tag-police-forces","tag-police-militarization","tag-radley-balko","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}