Document:Libertarian Party Radical Caucus Platform 2016: Difference between revisions

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We believe that no government agency should be allowed to acquire, purchase, or otherwise accept for use any vehicles, equipment or weapons unless such hardware is readily available in an open commercial market. If any tool in its intended use is deemed too powerful / destructive for any individual to own, i.e. weapons that would destroy towns or neighborhoods in their applications, those tools are also too powerful for any government to own.
We believe that no government agency should be allowed to acquire, purchase, or otherwise accept for use any vehicles, equipment or weapons unless such hardware is readily available in an open commercial market. If any tool in its intended use is deemed too powerful / destructive for any individual to own, i.e. weapons that would destroy towns or neighborhoods in their applications, those tools are also too powerful for any government to own.
The results of the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction are irreversible as are the results of actions perpetrated by a militarized police force. We oppose all legislation calling for the militarization of police forces including the use of drones for warrantless surveillance.


===17. Conscription and the Military===
===17. Conscription and the Military===