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An outrageous infringement of civil liberties. And a good response by Phil. Shades of McCarthyism and other unsavoury periods of US history.
I recall the forerunners of the Seattle SWAT (the TAC squad as they were) during one of the great unrecorded events of the 20th century – the invasion of the United States by Canadian anti-war activists in 1970 in respons to the US invasion of Cambodia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbDhsBRi1sI&feature=related
They weren’t very nice people then, and I doubt they’ve improved with age.
Meanwhile, in the communities of color that Neel mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqzoKY1CyAg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVftmeURVHg