Managing Dissent

Remember when dissent was patriotic? Been a while hasn't it? Three years ago it was the highest form of patriotism, now it's just racist. So what to do with the "racists" who are criticizing the benevolent administration? In many countries, this is the province of the national police, who simply pick up anyone who complains too loudly and either beat them severely (first offense) or simply kill them (second offense).

Here we are civilized. We send the IRS, the EPA, or one of many other agencies with police powers, and drive dissenters into bankruptcy. Or at least that's the official policy. Some see this as mollycoddling the offenders or at least tolerating the racism. Clever people who have seen emergent trends have come up with a better solution.

The emergent trend in question is the militarization of the police. Every municipal police department with more that 2 officers seems to think it needs a SWAT team to handle dangerous scofflaws with overdue library books, multiple unpaid parking tickets, and other offenses against the public order. So they buy  body armor, face masks, automatic weapons, armored vehicles and the like for the boys in blue to play with on the weekends, and use this to make otherwise routine arrests, usually getting the address right.

Herein lies the new application. Don't like what someone is saying about your candidate? Call 911 at 2 AM, and in a babbling voice, identify yourself as the person in question, give the correct home address, and inform the dispatcher that you or someone there has just shot someone else and is holding a third person hostage. Then hang up. In no time the SWAT team will arrive at your victims home with drawn guns and pumping adrenaline, bang on the door, or maybe kick it in, put everyone on the ground in handcuffs and interrogate everyone on the front lawn until they realize that something is missing. An actual perp of some sort, for example, or maybe a victim.

If you answer the insistent banging on the door, do NOT come out with the cell phone you were using to call the cops about a home invasion. An I-phone is indistinguishable from a Mac-10 in the glare of the helicopter floodlight.

There have been two of these so far, and the MSM hasn't said a word. A perp has been pretty much identified as a friend of DNC terrorist Brett Kimberlin, but no action has been taken yet.

Attempting to have your political enemies killed using the police as your hit men strikes me as one of the more despicable acts someone could pull but since the militarization of the police makes this easier, I suppose someone would think of it sooner or later. At the very least someone could be charged with attempted murder, and I'm sure that a competent D.A. could think of several other things to tack on.

Update: The L.A. D.A.'s office doesn't seem to have a problem with this. Evidently it's just another service the government provides to its constituents.