American Police are Overly Militarized

Are American Police overly militarized? How did we get here? Today's militarization is in headlines across the nation (http://www.usnews.com...). Is militarization a Federal government decree (http://www.gs.sc.gov...)? The Federal government, over the last 100-years, centralized power from the states resulting in a soft tyranny. The fallout from a soft tyranny is the catalyst of militarization and is the historical focus of my argument.A soft tyranny is illustrated by the many laws on the books, where the average person commits 3 felonies a day (http://www.amazon.com...). Via the NSA, IRS, police state, etc., the decision for enforcement to incarcerate is a function of one's objective. It could be any objective similar to what Lavrenti Beria, chief of Josef Stalin's secret police, once stated, “Find me the man, and I'll find the crime” (http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com...). Lately one may ask, is DC concerned about drugs and terrorism, or are we becoming paranoid for other reasons? For example, a Helmetta NJ Police Officer recently noted, if Obama doesn't follow the Constitution, we don't have to (http://www.mediaite.com...). Paranoia is in the air.Terrorism came to the mainland after 9/11/2001, the bloodshed in Boston, terrorism at Fort Hood, and many claimed prevented terrorist attacks by our police state. In addition, ISIS is on the move with their threats (http://www.inquisitr.com...).We have open border issues, which precipitated the 9/11 disaster, and potential future terrorist attacks. This issue started with the 1965 Immigration Law changing the face of America (http://www.npr.org...).The 1965 Law opened the border for relatives, enjoying the perks from the Great Society (http://en.wikipedia.org...) and the earlier New Deal (http://americanhistory.about.com...) programs. Over the decades, more free social perks, creating a debt crises (http://www.usdebtclock.org...), while more people want to come to the US for many uninvited reasons. The rate of immigration, via our open boarders, is so great where we no longer maintain the melting pot (http://www.amazon.com...), while the US is losing its identity (http://en.wikipedia.org...) over diversity, as many want to transform the US to their own culture, language, etc., while danger lurks at the boarder (http://www.kristv.com...).Thanks to the “living constitutional” form of government is taking its toll. This form of government is the child of President Woodrow Wilson (http://books.google.com...). Wilson used the popular political fad of his time known as Social Darwinism. His argument appeals to any powerbroker of the past and present, with Wilson's stated logic:“Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice.”This logic went against the Newtonian structure of the US Constitution. Wilson also took issue with the individual's Unalienable Rights (http://www.amazon.com...), where he went on to say:“No doubt a great deal of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual ...”Clearly, Wilson rejected the foundation of the US Constitution starting a slow cancer known as the “living constitution,” and this cancer has metastasize. Today's Congress represents the lobbyist not the people, while the President has a “pen and a phone” to make law, the administration branch (a fourth branch, not part of the Constitution’s three branches) is made up of hundreds of departments (IRS, NSA, EPA, etc.). These departments employ hundreds of thousands of non-elected government employees, writing regulations having the same power as law, to control, monitor us, etc. Today, the people are essentially out of the loop, except on Election Day, and look what choices we have.The US government controlled educational system promote “living constitutional” concepts, to benefit the freedom and growth of government, while reducing the freedom of the people.In addition, the problem of racism seems to be getting worst."There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."A quote by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) African American political leader, educator and author (http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca...).Our nemesis is morality. If society does not have a good understanding of morality, more complicated laws emerge trying to keep the peace, institutional public surveillance becomes commonplace, militarization in law-enforcement is noticeable. Complicated laws morph into plundering dictates, while regulations kill economic freedom. In addition, the leaders of government are also part of this population having similar moral standing. If government controls education, then the moral decline will result in a soft tyranny. This is stuff you don't learn in our government controlled educational system.In modern times, secularism is on the rise where the traditional view of morality rest with religious organizations or at the home. Today's educational systems are becoming schizophrenic about the importance of morality in a civil society, and who is responsible for its teachings.John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (http://www.john-adams-heritage.com...).In this post Constitutional era, declining morality (school shootings, crime ridden neighborhoods as in Chicago, Detroit, etc.), stress from DC's soft tyranny, race baiting professionals, open borders, terrorism, disgusted citizens, the financial bubble, New World Order, and on, and on. With all those factions coming together, our Police need to be militarized to keep the peace during the wars of racism, street violence, terrorism, tyranny, financial uncertainty, and patriotism.With such a bleak horizon, one could only hope, their local Police officers live in the same town, sharing your desires of keeping the family safe in their moral pursuit of happiness.Police officers must remember to uphold and defend the US Constitution, and both Police and citizens encourage their state governments to fix DC (http://www.amazon.com...).Militarization is a function of morality and government tyranny. With that said, I regret to say, to many of those communities throughout the heartland, the days of the Andy Griffith Show are over; a 1960s parity of militarization in the rural heartland embracing morality (http://en.wikipedia.org...).