Putting the 'paramilitary' in 'police state'
There's a good article over at Alternet titled "Why do the police have tanks?" which is very much in line with things I've written here and here. The article is able to pull together facts and numbers, two things that my blog entries tend to be thin on, so I highly recommend it. Granted, Alternet can reasonably be assumed to have a bias, but the article makes reasonably cogent points either way.
I recommend it as a good read, definitely pulls together information on the topic (as opposed to opinion, such as I usually peddle).
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Currently Reading
2nd in a series; the story itself isn't fabulous, but this is one of those series where you read them to hear more about the protagonist. Uthred is a Saxon raised by Danes, so of course he doesn't fit neatly into either society, and what does a Viking do when he doesn't fit? He fights.