CattyNebulart Wrote:The entire notion of the swat team needs to be revisited, why do you need military gear to police the populace? Are they in open rebellion?Occasionally - very, very occasionally - it becomes necessary to use military gear to enforce the law.
A clip from 1970 (the last time it was necessary in Canada):
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/XfUq9 ... 3&hl=en_US
Three days later, Trudeau called out the army to enforce the law. Nowadays this is called the October Crisis.
I understand that there's something in the US Constitution that makes calling out the army to enforce the law illegal. Thus, you folks need SWAT teams or the equivalent... very, very occasionally.
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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