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NYPD drops surveillance of mosques (Thank you Mayor De Blasio)
American Thinker ^ | 04/16/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 04/16/2014 7:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Candidate Bill de Blasio was “deeply troubled” by NYPD surveillance of mosques, and now his police commissioner is dropping the program. Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein report ion the New York Times:

The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped, the department said.

The decision by the nation’s largest police force to shutter the controversial surveillance program represents the first sign that William J. Bratton, the department’s new commissioner, is backing away from some of the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering practices of his predecessor. The Police Department’s tactics, which are the subject of two federal lawsuits, drew criticism from civil rights groups and a senior official with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who said they harmed national security by sowing mistrust for law enforcement in Muslim communities.

The fact that thousands of New Yorkers were killed in the name of Allah by devout Muslims inspired by what they heard at mosques and that millions of Muslims worldwide believe that they can gain access to paradise and 72 virgins by slaughtering infidels means nothing to Mayor de Blasio, apparently. I can only hope that more New Yorkers do not die as a result of his political correctness.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: mosques; nypd; surveillance; terrorism
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1 posted on 04/16/2014 7:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Blood will be on his hands. Moron.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 7:15:52 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not just pretend the mosques are gun owners (they probably are) and call it an ongoing investigation of gun and munition owners?


3 posted on 04/16/2014 7:16:34 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing is shocking anymore. The people in NY city are beyond hopeless.


4 posted on 04/16/2014 7:17:10 AM PDT by mothball
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To: SeekAndFind

A great announcement to make, especially if your plan is to continue “watching the mosques.”
...A man can hope anyway...


5 posted on 04/16/2014 7:18:21 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind

People with any decency need to pack up and get their families out of there. Take the financial hit, do whatever. It;’s only material stuff. But this moron is going to get people killed. As long as it’s his own kind, so be it.


6 posted on 04/16/2014 7:18:25 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: mothball

Actually the folks in NYC are APATHETIC. 77% did not even bother to vote last November. And how they would drone on about how bad things are becoming...


7 posted on 04/16/2014 7:19:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never underestimate the destructive power of political correctness. The city that was devastated by the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attack, is now too sheepish to defend itself.


8 posted on 04/16/2014 7:19:34 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind

More political correctness that is going to get us all killed. But hey! We’ll feel good about ourselves while we’re being slaughtered.


9 posted on 04/16/2014 7:20:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: SeekAndFind
In other news it has been reported that the FBI is canvassing gun shops nationwide looking for people who disparage the government.

We are headed to a very bad place.

10 posted on 04/16/2014 7:23:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

Each and every time a liberal is elected to office,

there is a point where ideology will trump the needs of those who elected them into office.

Congrats NYC libs: tell me with a straight face and clear conscience that you feel comfortable with the mayor now.


11 posted on 04/16/2014 7:23:58 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Lee'sGhost

It will be. I think so far its about 16 potential attacks those programs prevented since Sept. 11th, and even then one got through a few years ago by trying to blow up a car bomb in Times square (which failed to detonate). I think the average is one terror attack or material support of terror per year they prevent by surveillance which of course this Marxist jackass completely ignores. So what will be the result now? Guess what? A terror attack!! And WHEN it happens, of course Comrade de Blasio aka Warren Wilhelm, will blame Republicans.

This is the last slimebag I remember they caught, he tried to blow up the subway system using backpack bombs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najibullah_Zazi


12 posted on 04/16/2014 7:30:18 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

I agree and would only add that the NY Electorate put this admitted (allegedly) communist in office. So, when the next attack occurs, and it will, once again radical lefties (communists) will get a bunch of non-communists, men, women and children SLAUGHTERED!

Some think ALL male Muslims in the US that will not denounce (sworn oath in writing) violence and slaughter of innocents (like 911) should be put on a slow freighter to the deserts of Saudi Arabia.


13 posted on 04/16/2014 7:37:42 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why worry...it’s not like NYC is a target or anything.

This will free up NYPD to perform surveillance on Tea Party subversives, hiding out in christian churches.


14 posted on 04/16/2014 7:52:39 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: SeekAndFind
And how they would drone on about how bad things are becoming...

The ones with brains (like Rush) have already left. The ones with half a brain (like Hannity) are planning to leave. The rest will continue to vote themselves more income. From where, doesn't matter. New York is the walking dead.

15 posted on 04/16/2014 7:56:51 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

WTH! Wikipedia couldn’t be bothered to post a picture of this goat fu..


16 posted on 04/16/2014 8:10:46 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: SeekAndFind

This de blasio clown is just like 0bama. They both are giving a free pass to the members of the religion of peace, and they don’t care if innocent Americans are sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.


17 posted on 04/16/2014 8:28:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t know about my eyes today,first glance at the article headline ,I saw the word mosquito.
Maybe I’m in denial.


18 posted on 04/16/2014 8:29:32 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait for it?

Boooom


19 posted on 04/16/2014 8:34:37 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hey, we all know that these peaceful, faithful muslims are no threat to the rest of us. It is big sodas and big macs that are the real problem. Oh, that and the NRA and the Tea Party. But not good honest peaceful muslims!


20 posted on 04/16/2014 8:35:44 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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