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Well it isn't John Q. Public.
It gets worse - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140813/17591028206/swat-team-shows-up-ferguson-detains-reporters-live-tweeting-their-actions.shtml
You simply have to ask whom benefits from the war machine? Who could possibly benefit from domestic militarisation?