Because the Federal alphabet agencies are bothering right wing extremists?
Via LA Times
Have to hand it to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul. On Thursday, in an essay for Time magazine, he nailed one of the major problems with the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the unconscionably militarized police response:
“If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off,” Paul wrote. “But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.” Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just not paying close enough attention. – Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
As a libertarian, Paul blames “big government” for the disproportionality of the police response: “Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies — where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most Americans think of as law enforcement.” […]
A well-armed white rancher who owed the feds millions of dollars in grazing fees incited a pseudo-militia of gun-toting nutcases to consider violence against the federal government. Who can forget the images of Cliven Bundy and his lunatic supporters, lying like snipers on a freeway overpass, their automatic weapons pointed east — toward Washington, I guess — itching for the chance to open fire on the gummint?
What happened? Nothing. The government backed off, the crazies melted back into the desert, and conservatives strained to disavow Bundy after a reporter recorded him making blatantly racist remarks.