The violent worldwide demonstrations provoked by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO are purportedly motivated by moral outrage over police militarization. In my previous column on this topic, “Who Curb-Stomped Officer Friendly,” I wrote: Automatic rifles, APCs, tanks, gas, drones, helicopters, and ceramic plate armor are all necessary to maintain order in a society that is disorderly, culturally chaotic, and ridden by internal political conflict. As long as the underlying conditions remain unresolved, it’s not possible to restore the historic rights that the American people expect, guaranteed to them by the legal system that they still believe to […]