Way back before Woodstock (1969, for the uninitiated), I had a “Support Your Local Police” bumper sticker on my car. We wanted to keep our cops free from federal control. We failed, and the LAPD-Dorner incident proves it. The LAPD acted like American troops in Iraq: protect your own, dehumanize everyone else. Remember Tahrir Square? American security forces **guarding high-ranking U.S. officials** killed 17 innocent Iraqi civilians for nothing. But “we didn’t lose one American,” Blackwater bragged. They have been trained and told they can’t tell the enemy from the innocent civilians. As a result, they bring the “preemptive war” … Continue reading LAPD: Collateral Damage For The Sake Of The State