New York Post Peachy With NYPD Targeting Muslims

What about geese profiling?

Police commissioner Ray Kelly is tasked with the important job of protecting us from ~~Islam~~ terrorism, and in order to do this effectively, he may have to spy on Muslims. To make a safety omelet, you have to crack a few Korans! Unfortunately, the city council didn't take too kindly to Kelly's counterterrorism tactics of trailing terror-denouncing imams or violating the rights of innocent people, and grilled him at a hearing on Thursday. Kelly can take care of himself, but the New York Post's editorial board is here to help: "Kelly refused to apologize for a decade of brilliant police work. Good for him." Damn straight. Love is never having to say "I'm sorry (I pulled you over because of the color of your skin)."

The Post calls the work of the Associated Press a "bogus…disgraceful piece of agitprop," and the city council's hearing "distasteful." It didn't even have a pithy headline! Without ever citing a specific example in which it was warranted, the editorial states, "Yes, those leaves have drawn undercover cops into stores, cafes and mosques to track radical activity. But that’s a good thing: It’s helped thwart some 13 plots against New York since 9/11." Wait, there's a mosque INSIDE of a Times Square hot dog cart? Call Pamela Geller!

So what if the NYPD may be breaking federal law in its surveillance tactics? It's not as if they have a problem tackling racial issues anyway.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on October 8, 2011 2:15 PM

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soothsayer

You know the Post is serious when they start using (big) words, like "agitprop", words you would never in a million years find printed in their columns.

FIRE

As much as I hate the NY Post, I am 100% with them on this. Like it or not, we are at war with an enemy that dwells within our borders. Pussified apologists like Chris Robbins should stick to writing about pizza vending machines.

Alejandro Delgadillo

Ok, in response to FIRE. I can understand a natural fear involving "idealogical war", and yes it is a war fought from within. At the same time i can't even put into phrasing the amount of loathing that I have for encouraging an entire city to live in fear and (I know run on sentence) in doing so allowing the cops more rights then they should have. We all have rights that should not be violated regardless of a "war". If we concede our rights as citizens then what is the point of continuing to live here? The foundation of which is that each of us are granted rights against government, state and city organizations.

FIRE

What is your suggestion then Al. If our present system was overthrown by these poor persecuted misunderstood zealots," great thinkers" like Mister Robbins, yourself and (dare I say it) myself, would be the first to be rounded up as enemies of the state.

edgie168

lolwut?

billyjack55

I wonder how opponents of these tactics propose intelligence gathering shopuld be conducted? Unless, of course, they are completely against intelligence gathering, of any kind. A question: are using these tactics worse than an individual, or a group of individuals hatching and carrying out a deadly attack in NYC? The easy answer from them would be yes, unless they somehow become victims of an attack. I'm certain their perspective would change somewhat if their Mom got blown up in Times Square by a car bomb.. Personally I'm all for even the most draconian tactics. But then, I'm not of the religion nor geographical area of origin of most terrorists these days.