How The 2nd Largest Armed Force In The World Is Attacking America

WOOP! WOOP! That’s the sound of da police! That’s the sound of the beast!

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7 min readFeb 2, 2022

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A cop funeral in NYC. If this isn’t a police state, what is?

America has both the #1 and #2 armed force in the world. The first is devoted to terrorizing the world. The second is devoted to terrorizing themselves.

That’s right, America has more men at arms occupying its own citizens than the entire military strength of its nearest competitor, China.

Stephen Semmler

The American cops alone are the #3 armed forces, but once you add in their border Stasi, militarized Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, and vast network of prisons, they’re fucking huge. They’re only competing with themselves.

Military Police

America’s borders are a full war-crime-zone, where human beings are deemed ‘illegal’ and thus fair game. They run concentration camps, paramilitary gangs, even ordinary citizens can get in on the hunt.

In every American city, the police forces are armed with full-on military equipment and have a license to kill. They kill black people in the streets and the only response to the largest protest movement in American history against this has been more funding for the police. Rather than improving their cities, America just wants to keep hitting people till they shut up.

This is violence against the poor because it simply doesn’t happen in the suburbs (where I grew up). We did plenty of shit but they just let us go. As Congressperson AOC said:

“What does an America with defunded police look like to you?” Ocasio-Cortez responded, “It looks like a suburb.”

“Affluent white communities already live in a world where the choose to fund youth, health, housing etc more than they fund police,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “When a teenager or preteen does something harmful in a suburb (I say teen bc this is often where lifelong carceral cycles begin for Black and Brown communities), White communities bend over backwards to find alternatives to incarceration for their loved ones to ‘protect their…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.