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TAMPA, Fla. — Florida law enforcement recovered 163 missing children during a five-day statewide operation, Attorney General James Uthmeier and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced Tuesday.
The children, ranging in age from two months to 17 years old, were located during Operation Statewide Shield, a first-of-its-kind state agency-led initiative focused on finding missing, endangered and exploited children.
“operation”. Everything has to be an “operation” now, even if you’re just doing something routine and boring … has to be an “operation” because that sounds like some sort of glorious large-scale military thing … World War Two-ey even, and yes, yes, a glorious victory is in store, a victory not seen since, well, WW2! I think I’ll go food shopping today, let’s see, “Operation Rotten Banana”. Houseclean a little… “Operation Airtight Vacuum”. Probably take a shit later - “Operation Excreta President”. All will succeed, fabulous successes like nobody has ever seen, not since Patton probably, yeah, nobody can stop these operations, they’re yuge, especially that last one.
It’s part of the militarization of the police which is absolutely a page out of the authoritarian playbook.