<div><span style="font-size: larger; ">Police departments and sheriff&rsquo;s offices around the country every day look less like peace officers and more like warfighters.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: larger; ">Using threats of terrorism as a pretext, police are buying (or receiving in free grants) tools developed for the armed forces and using them to carry out police raids or even to serve a simple warrant.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: larger; ">Is there something we don&rsquo;t know that the Federal Government knows and they aren&rsquo;t tell us about as to why all of these law enforcement agencies in the states need this level if armament?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: larger; ">For an article on how the federal government and the Department of Homeland Security are transforming our police agencies click on the following link:</span></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/17515-local-police-adopt-military-technology-and-tactics"><span style="font-size: larger; ">http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/17515-local-police-adopt-military-technology-and-tactics</span></a></div>