In newspapers around this country today, the Jim Hightower column is one more harbinger of where this country is heading. His column, Police or combat soldiers, is vexing and perplexing … and downright scary.

This creeping (and creepy) paranoia makes us wonder what’s next? And why? Are we just trying to find uses for the military trappings to keep the manufacturers of war material in business so they can funnel more money to politicians to keep voting to enhance the war-making capacity of this country?

PHOTO SOURCE: The New Yorker

Want to read more?

“Swat Team Nation” – The New Yorker magazine

“US police departments are increasingly militarized, finds report” – infowars.com

“War comes home: The excessive militarization of American Policing” – ACLU

In case you’re not not in tune with one conspiracy theory about ultimate control of the population you’re pledged to “protect and serve,” you may want to know a little bit about “Operation Garden Plot” from globalsecurity.org, too.

Maybe this country ought to seek out the wacko’s in government and curb their idiocy.