This has been in action since the Patriot Act in 2001 and accelerated under the renewal in 2008 and under Obama in the NDAA. They want you to get use to see this. Police are be coming militarized at an alarming rate. Look at all levels of government buying obscene amounts of ammo and guns preparing for civil unrest. They are buying arms from Warsaw Pact countries, as well as ammo and just destroying, just so we can't get to it. They want checkpoints between all state lines and Americans getting used to seeing military rolling down our streets in Armored Personnel Carriers and Tanks so when they finally roll in to make this think a totalitarian state, you will see it as just another step and "they hope" we will be too afraid to fight, but the children will grow up and it will be normal and as long as consumerism tells them having the brand name shoes, jeans and iphone is what makes them happy, they will roll over and beg for it once they are told by tyrants on tv that "civil disorder" could result in violence, martial law, and products not getting delivered in the mail and to store shelves, which is what will happen anyway.Brother, glad your eyes are open, unlike most. Educate yourself:Go to: www.infowars.com and  www.prisonplanet.comGod bless and hopefully enough of us, the masses, just one percent could stop the full weight of the US Police State. Amen.