Arique Burgos’s Reviews > Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism > Status Update

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air— however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the dark."

On the second to last chapter and good reads says I’m 53% done what a load of crap

“In one often-cited example, the town of Keene, New Hampshire, obtained a DHS grant for $285,933 to purchase a Bear Cat, an eight-ton armored personnel carrier. Keene has a population of 23,000 and has seen only two murders since 1999.”