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Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.
Glenn Greenwald
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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
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