Sociologist receives $797K to develop methods to identify terrorist social networks (tea party?)

Cornell Chronicle ^ | June 11 2010 | By George Lowery

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Brashears' goal is to develop techniques to uncover covert social networks that could be used by terrorists, human traffickers or drug smugglers -- "any group of people who have to link up to achieve an objective and don't want to be detected by the wider society," he said.

So, basically, we have the Obama administration and a college professor teaming up to figure out how to infilitrate the internet to find "terrorists"....anyone else think this is going to be used to go after, I dunno, tea partiers, Freepers and anyone else that King Hussein the First finds objectionable?

[abclily]

Are the Cornell sociologists going to explain to us about the muslims who hanged a 7-year-old boy in Pakistan to punish his grandfather? Was this a socially acceptable act for holy muslims? Perhaps a sacrament of Islam? Or was this just culturally motivated and acceptable?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Are the Cornell sociologists going to explain to us about the muslims who hanged a 7-year-old boy in Pakistan to punish his grandfather?

Yes. They will blame Bush, western imperialism and the jews.

[FrankR]

" Sociologist receives $797K to develop methods to identify terrorist social networks (tea party?) "

Here's a hint, braintrust...they carry signs!

[ILS21R]

I stopped reading at “A Cornell sociologist..”

[NativeNewYorker]

http://www.soc.cornell.edu/faculty/brashears.html

Seems like an airhead. Interesting that he's getting what looks like a monster-sized grant.

[BenLurkin]

three-year, $797,000

$266,000 a year? Taxpayer’s money wee-weed away big time!

[BenLurkin]

[Thommas]

..identifying covert social networks, including terrorists who are preparing attacks, human traffickers and drug smugglers, among other groups.

I tell you what, send me $50K and I'll tie up the whole research project up in a big bow. With my vast research tools at my very fingertips, I have just collated all of the past 100yrs. of social networked, demographically connected and theology based terrorist acts, and I have come up with the sole, common denominator.

Heck, keep the $50k, you get the answer for free - it's Islam! Unbelievable you say? I know, I was upset to find that it wasn't Freepers, Tea Partiers, Republicans, military veterans, Christians, Libertarians, or even white dudes. (Knock me over with a feather...)

[ExtremeUnction]

Here is the Professor’s website. Pathetic.

http://www.soc.cornell.edu/faculty/brashears.html

[DocRock]

bookmark

[mo]

“any group of people who have to link up to achieve an objective and don’t want to be detected by the wider society,” he said.”

Sooo...our freedom of association is now acknowledged by the Federal gov’mt as a terrorist threat?!!!!

[ketsu]

800k over 3 years isn’t that much. It pays for 2 people or so, ~60k of salary + benefits + office overhead etc...

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Sooo...our freedom of association is now acknowledged by the Federal gov’mt as a terrorist threat?!!!!

Precisely.

[ETL]

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

"So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don’t want to discount the possibility',he said."
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY

[mo]

And I had really hoped to make it through life without having to experience “interesting times”...silly me...

[NativeNewYorker]

I remember when $800,000 was real money. Guess I’m getting old.