[META] [RFC] Militarization around the 2022 period

[robkelk]

The price of peace is eternal vigilance.

The Boskone never stop thinking of ways to attack our way of life, and neither should we

That doesn't require an arms race, though.

Take a look at what the average police officer is issued nowadays, compared to what he was issued two decades ago or five decades ago - the improvements are in communications and defence, not in offense. (And, yes, that is the correct comparison - Boskone is a collection of organized crime cartels, not an enemy nation.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012