Readable Links for a Sunday Afternoon

Fodder for an end-of-weekend open topic discussion thread

By Tec Jonson

Here are some readable links for a Sunday. I am astonished at the willing militarization of America and the acceptance of military presence in our civilian domain. I was driving by Mt. Ogden Park a couple of weeks back on a weekday afternoon and there was a military exercise going on IN THE PARK!!! I stopped to take some footage and to discuss it with the commandants. It was WSU ROTC, but this is a military exercise or training. ROTC cadets are signed military trainees and their training exercisies are CLEARLY military training...in city parks. They were engaged in, what I would call crowd-control formations carrying dummy weapons (undetectable as dummy) marching methodically across the municipal turf with children at play in the adjacent sandpits. Does this offend anyone else? I invite comments. This is just a small part of the indoctrination of our citizenry to comfort with a military presence in our everyday lives. Stop this now!!!

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The floor is open... O gentle ones.