Police - The new domestic military

I read this Rush Limbaugh's dream child's blog that he posted about police practices and I fail to see three things. 1) Reason 2) Facts 3) Fairness As for his first argument, A barrier is an object used to separate things, so keeping say protesters out of the way of traffic is probably a good idea. The traffic in this case would not be cars, but other people who have places to go and may be delayed if having to go through an occupy wall street demonstration.... So using steel barriers to keep everyone safe is a good idea, and those who violate the barriers are breaking the law and have subjected themselves to arrest, that is if they even get arrested. As for police brutality, that I am against, and it does happen, but I think the con goes a little far by suggesting that they brutalize citizens so that they can arrest them just for money for themselves...... especially since he didn't provide any facts to back up this argument The sources you offered come from one website which is a die hard tea-party supportive website that is against all things capitalism and government so I assume that this is a biased source "We fight against terrorism for decades in the Middle East while the domestic "public protectors" arm with bulletproof suits and grenade launchers and fully-automatic machine guns against peaceful protesters whom they arrest under fraudulent charges and astronomically exaggerated fairy tales" How the does terrorism have anything to do with this? by the way the con seems to fail at giving the distinction between the police and the riot police. We dont live in a society where every cop carries bulletproof suits, grenade launchers, and automatic machine guns. In fact even the riot police dont have grenade launchers and machine guns they have batons and teargas launchers, both of which are very non-lethal..... "These Neo-Nazis make me sick. At least when Nazi Germany was around their economy was prosperous" Clearly you dont know sh*t about nazism because in Nazi Germany people couldnt speak their minds, be politically free, sell to jews, rent property to jews, and Im pretty sure that their entire economy was manufacturing weapons of war such as cyanide gas, Zyklon-B, etc. So you might want to think about what you compare our government to. "they see a peaceful protest as a jackpot, further killing our economy by draining our tax dollars to pay for these gluttonous hogs to feast on the weak and peaceful victims, protesters. Is it hog hunting season yet? Get your shotguns ready." This sounds more like ranting then actual debating so Ill let the readers decide for themselves whether you view may be slightly biased or not factually supported, or both.................. (answer is both) "The police are minions of the constitution." says you and the biased incompetent website you took it from... "The government better start doing their job that WE PAY THEM TO DO. Or a revolution will happen, a very much needed one. No longer will we stay the victims of those that we employ. YOU WORK FOR US, YOU WILL DO WHAT WE WANT. Don't forget that, feds" I have no idea where the con buys his meth, but so far all of these points of view are coming for his own very warped perception of reality where his entire debate so far is ranting, ranting, ranting, nazi reference, ranting, ranting, ranting, hog hunting season, police pigs, ranting, go look at my blog..... Now as for my very reasonable counter argument..... The police do society a lot of good. They respond very quickly to local emergencies and they do protect us from coming into harm. When the bank down the street from where I lived got robbed a police officer actually parked in my driveway to try to find the criminal(s) before they caused harm to anyone, so I believe that the police do make people safe from that example alone. Furthermore, the police do not take orders from the national government, the state government, or really any government. They are given orders from their dispatchers and other protection agencies to coordinate when a situation has developed and they form a plan to contain the situation and keep others safe. As for the occupy wall street demonstrations. People are being harassed by some, not all, not most, only some, police officers who are only trying to keep order over the demonstrations. Some over-react, some do something they ultimately regret. But we do not live in a society where every cop from New York to San Francisco is trying to find a reason to throw us behind bars so that they can get paid. Anyone who is reading this line right now may want to take some time to prepare themselves for the Con's next hate-filled argument