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Fire Walk With Me

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7. I find the last sentence interesting, about the MRAP armored vehicles.

Reply to wilsonbooks (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 11, 2013, 10:51 PM

Mar 2013

This was with us in LA on Mayday last year:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12522688#post3

This has long since occurred here and in other cities. The militarization of the Anaheim PD is most obvious and frightening. Some pics a bit down the page here:

http://occupyobservations.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-leaked-2006-citigroup-plutonomy-memo.html

I'm sorry to learn that the blog writer isn't a legit source, sorry about that, but anyone who's marched with Occupy and seen the DHS, TARU, Terrorist and other jackets and vehicles on-scene knows that this is true and is getting worse.

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