Tomgram: Matthew Harwood, One Nation Under SWAT

"A striking recent report from the American Civil Liberties Union indicates that . . . policing is being militarized nationwide in all sorts of unsettling ways.  It is, more precisely, being SWATified (a word that doesn’t yet exist, but certainly should)."  By Matthew Harwood   TomDispatch.com   August 14, 2014 Think of it as a different kind of blowback.  Even when More