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Tanks on Main Street | John W. Whitehead Chris Hedges | What Happened to Canada? Sinking the Petrodollar | Pepe Escobar TANKS ON MAIN STREET | JOHN W. WHITEHEAD CHRIS HEDGES | WHAT HAPPENED TO CANADA? SINKING THE PETRODOLLAR | PEPE ESCOBAR FEBRUARY 2012 Cold ype WRITING WORTH READING T ISSUE 63 Jack Laurenson on the London Olympics, the activists, Dow Chemicals, and Bhopal’s 27 years of suffering OLYMPIC SHAME PLUS: WHERE THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE MONEY DID, AND DID NOT, GO Cover: young Tanks on main sTreeT | John W. Whitehead a day in The life of a socialisT sTaTe | philip kraske sinking The peTrodollar | pepe escobar Bhopali girl FEb r U A rY 2012 responds well to CoWriting Worthld reading T ype ISSUE 63 treatment at the Jack Laurenson on the London Olympics, the activists, Dow Chemicals, and Bhopal’s 27 years of suffering Bhopal Medical Olympıc Appeal funded Shame Chingari Clinic in India. Photo: Jack Laurenson PLUS: WHERE THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE MONEY DID, AND DID NOT, GO ColdType FEBRUARY 2012 / ISSUE 63 EDITor’s NOTE 3. TANKS ON MAIN STREET John W. Whitehead SEVERAL readers have asked 6. THE REPRESSION STRENGTHENED US Chellis Glendinning when we were going to start 8. LET THEM EAT ROLEXES Bill Berkowitz publishing fiction in ColdType. Never, has been our response, 11. BIG LIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST William Blum until this month when we 14. ON THE ROAD To self-deSTRUCTION David Michael Green changed our mind after read- 20. THE WORLD WAR ON DEMOCRACY John Pilger ing the excellent short story, Meal (Pages 42 to 45), by 24. COVER STORY: LONDon’s olYMPIC SHAME Jack Laurenson PuzzleMonkey, a South Afri- 30. GUESS WHO WON THE IRAQ WAR Sherwood Ross can writer living in the Middle 33. HOW HAMMAS STOLE ISRAEL’s WAR Uri Avnery East. This is a prime example of contemporary African fic- 36. HAITI: WHERE THE MONEY DID, AND DID NOT, GO tion, telling a wonderful story Bill Quigley & Amber Ramanauskas of day-to-day existence in a 40. haiti: raped since 2004 and sTILL BLEEDING Glenn Ford world of poverty and interna- PuzzleMonkey tional corruption. 42. MEAL We’re also pleased to 45. HURWitt’s eYE Mark Hurwitt run novelist Philip Kraske’s 46. WELCOME TO THE World’s firsT BUNKER STATE Jonathan Cook satirical essay, Another Day 48. THE SACRIFICIAL CASTLE George Monbiot in Socialist Europe (Pages 61-62), which takes a differ- 50. COFFINS FOR NATO, CONTRACTS FOR CHINA Barry Lando ent look at the same theme, 52. SINKING THE PETRODOLLAR Pepe Escobar taking a swipe at the knee- 59. Who’s killing iran’s sCIENTISTS? Alan Maas jerks in North America who believe that looking after every 61. ANOTHER DAY IN SOCIALIST EUROPE Philip Kraske member of society is a bad, 63. KILLING IRAQIS MAKES US SAFER, AND OTHER LIES bad thing. David Swanson Read both and let us know if we should be carrying more 67. THE INDUSTRY THAT Couldn’t leARN literary content in future. Richard C. Bell & Rory O’Connor Tony Sutton, Editor 71. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CANADA? Chris hedges [email protected] 73. MAKING A FARCE OF AUSTERITY Michael Meacher 2 ColdType | February 2012 LAW & ordER? Tanks on Main Street John W. Whitehead looks at the disturbing trend towards militarising local police forces in the United States “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them only seen on the battlefield. “Many police, equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as including beat cops, now routinely carry as- “17,000 local soldiers, when are they going to pick up the sault rifles. Combined with body armor and police forces are mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police other apparel, many officers look more and equipped with department, their creed is to protect and to more like combat troops serving in Iraq and such military serve. A soldier’s mission is to engage his Afghanistan.” equipment as enemy in close combat and kill him. Do we To our detriment, local police – clad in Blackhawk want police officers to have that mentality? jackboots, helmets and shields and wielding helicopters, Of course not.” – Arthur Rizer, former civilian batons, pepper-spray, stun guns, and assault machine guns police officer and member of the military rifles – have increasingly come to resemble and grenade occupying forces in our communities. “To- launchers” ake a close look at your local po- day,” notes Paul Craig Roberts, former Assis- lice officers, the ones who patrol tant Secretary of the Treasury and associate your neighborhoods and ensure the editor of the Wall Street Journal, “17,000 local Tsafety of your roadways. Chances are police forces are equipped with such mili- they look less and less like the benevolent tary equipment as Blackhawk helicopters, keepers of the peace who patrolled Andy machine guns, grenade launchers, batter- Griffith’s Mayberry and more like inflexible ing rams, explosives, chemical sprays, body extensions of the military. As journalist Ben- armor, night vision, rappelling gear and ar- jamin Carlson points out, “In today’s May- mored vehicles. Some have tanks.” berry, Andy Griffith and Barney Fife could be using grenade launchers and a tank to Private sercurity force? keep the peace.” This is largely owing to the increasing arsenal of weapons available to Yet, appearances to the contrary, the Ameri- police units, the changing image of the po- can police force is not supposed to be a lice within communities, and the growing branch of the military, nor is it a private se- idea that the police can and should use any curity force for the reigning political faction. means necessary to maintain order. It is an aggregation of the countless local ci- Moreover, as an investigative report by vilian units that exist for a sole purpose: to Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz reveals, in serve and protect the citizens of each and communities large and small across Ameri- every American community. ca, local law enforcement are arming them- It is particularly telling that whereas in selves to the teeth with weapons previously the past, law enforcement strove to provide February 2012 | ColdType 3 LAW & ordER? a sense of security, trust, and comfort, the transformation of police operations… across In Augusta, Maine, impression conveyed today is one of power, the country. More than ever before, police with fewer than dominance and inflexible authority. How- rely on quasi-military tactics and equip- 20,000 people and ever, this transformation of local police into ment.” For example: where an officer military units did not happen overnight. It If terrorists ever target Fargo, N.D., the lo- hasn’t died from cannot be traced back to a single individu- cal police will be ready. In recent years, they gunfire in the line al or event. Rather, the evolution has been have bought bomb-detection robots, digital of duty in more so subtle that most American citizens were communications equipment and Kevlar hel- than 125 years, hardly even aware of it taking place. Yet lit- mets, like those used by soldiers in foreign police bought tle by little, police authority expanded, one wars. For local siege situations requiring eight $1,500 weapon after another was added to the po- real firepower, police there can use a new tactical vests lice arsenal, and one exception after another $256,643 armored truck, complete with a ro- was made to the standards that have histori- tating turret. cally restrained police authority. What began with the militarization of Not keeping track the police in the 1980s during the govern- ment’s war on drugs has snowballed into a Moreover, no one can say exactly what has full-fledged integration of military weaponry, been purchased in total across the country technology and tactics into police protocol. or how it’s being used, because the federal For example, in 1981, Congress passed the government doesn’t keep close track. State Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement and local governments don’t maintain uni- Act, which granted the military the power form records. But a review of records from 41 to help local police forces wage the “war on states obtained through open-government drugs” by sharing equipment, training, and requests, and interviews with more than two- intelligence. In 1997, Congress approved the dozen current and former police officials and 1033 Program, which allowed the Secretary terrorism experts, shows police departments of Defense to transfer surplus military sup- around the US have transformed into small plies and weapons to local law enforcement army-like forces. agencies without charge – the only thing that For example: In Montgomery County, local police departments have to pay for is Texas, the sheriff’s department owns a shipping and future maintenance. And po- $300,000 pilotless surveillance drone. In lice departments aren’t just getting boots Garland County, Ark., known for its pleasant and medkits – they’re receiving assault rifles, hot springs, a local law enforcement agency mini-tanks, grenade launchers, and remote acquired four handheld bulletproof protec- controlled robots. tive shields costing $600 each. In East Ba- Since 1997, more than 17,000 agencies ton Rouge, La., it was $400 ballistic helmets. have taken advantage of the 1033 Program, In Augusta, Maine, with fewer than 20,000 acquiring $2.6 billion dollars worth of weap- people and where an officer hasn’t died from ons and equipment, and demand is only gunfire in the line of duty in more than 125 getting higher. In fact, a record-setting $500 years, police bought eight $1,500 tactical million worth of equipment was distributed vests. And for police in Des Moines, Iowa, it in 2011, twice the amount given away in 2010, was two $180,000 bomb robots. and orders for fiscal year 2012 are already up The purchases get even more extrava- 400 percent.
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