{"id":1428,"date":"2017-05-08T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2017-05-08T23:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:23:31","slug":"militarizing-police-freedoms-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Militarizing Police&#8211;Freedom&#8217;s Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas seguing into the U.S. military police state.  For what reason??<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Times Record article front page May 8, 2017\u2026\u201dDirectors to discuss police structure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice Chief wants more paramilitary command hierarchy\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>A \u201cparamilitary\u201d is a combatant force equivalent to a military\u2019s light infantry and most commonly falls under the command of a military\u2014in this case, the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>A paramilitary is an organizational force whose structure, tactics, training, sub-culture &#038; function of those of professional military.  Much of our national city police forces have already undergone the above and their protocols are from international organizations and the city of Fort Smith is a member of at least two of these. <\/p>\n<p>Are Police Chief Nathanial Clark and his cadre of city police not capable of socially, professionally &#038; peacefully functioning in a city environment, i.e. Fort Smith.<\/p>\n<p>From my point of view, Chief Clark is clearly operating outside the boundaries of a civil society and the U.S. Constitution. If our city, in any way demands this type of military involvement why haven\u2019t we been informed of the threat or threats? <\/p>\n<p>It appears that Clark and the rest of the city government are proposing full Battle Dress &#038; Gear. Why?<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Smith city government, e.g. the City Manager, the Mayor, the Board of Directors and now the Chief of Police are in enough mud and have covered their tracks extremely well and here they are preparing to financially attack the taxpaying citizens again that they are hired to protect and not strong-arm. <\/p>\n<p>Chief Clark, tell we the citizens when you received your Directive from DC ordering you to further expand an already militarily armed city police force?<\/p>\n<p>In the offing for city citizens, more corrupt, expensive government expansion.  Chief Clark, if you &#038; your existing cadre cannot implement the proper function of a city police force without military regalia &#038; protocols, all should resign post haste!<\/p>\n<p>Incumbency &#038; lack of transparency are toxic weeds\u2026observe the conduct of the F.S. city government on recent &#038; past occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Joe McCutchen<br \/>\narkansasfreedom.net    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Fort Smith, Arkansas seguing into the U.S. military police state. For what reason?? Times Record article front page May 8, 2017\u2026\u201dDirectors to discuss police structure\u201d. \u201cPolice Chief wants more paramilitary command hierarchy\u201d. A \u201cparamilitary\u201d is a combatant force equivalent to a military\u2019s light infantry and most commonly falls under the command of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Militarizing Police&#8211;Freedom&#8217;s Enemy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government-offenses","category-police-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}