Posted on 06/13/2016 11:24:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The US has the capability to prevent terrorist attacks such as the nightclub massacre in the US state of Florida but opposition from US officials, including President Barack Obama, to mosque surveillance robs law-enforcement of needed intelligence, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in a television interview on Monday.
In his presidential campaign, Trump has advocated monitoring mosques and Muslim communities to identify individuals who are being radicalized to commit terrorist attacks.
"We need more intelligence, we need a stronger intelligence community," Trump told Fox News. "Obama won’t do that because he doesn’t want to single out this group."
On Sunday, US national Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando. The Orlando massacre has become the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States, surpassing the death toll from the 2007 incident at Virginia Tech university, which claimed 32 lives.
While commenting on a massacre of at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in the US state of Florida, Trump was especially critical of a 2014 decision by New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio to dismantle a police department agency known as the "Demographics Unit."
"In New York City we had a fantastic intelligence group set up. When our mayor, our new mayor de Blasio… wiped it all out, it was the best in the country," Trump said. "So now we don’t know what’s going on."
The Demographics Unit sent plainclothes officers into Muslim neighborhoods to monitor conversations. In the process, the agency created detailed files on Muslims, including where they ate, shopped and worshipped.
At the time, de Blasio said disbanding the unit was necessary to restore trust between the police and communities.
We've seen enough already! Time for internment and deportations!
No. Not surveillance. Parkinglotification.
I got them until I used the proper language in my email responses.
I got them from Heb! and Foamy Boy until I used the proper language in my email responses.
Nope, thats something of a hoax, posted on a fake twitter account.
LOL. Word of the Day.
Thrust of Trump's remarks was that political correctness is killing Americans. Powerful stuff.
IIRC, Richard Clarke said this was not allowed by law. IIRC, It would be considered a warrantless search.
Finally, someone in the political arena with common sense, political correctness be damned!
it’s not a religion, but a world-domination movement cleverly disguised as a religion.
*****************
It is incompatible with every other government and religion... it is hostile and has been since it’s founding. It does not qualify for protection as a religion by our constitution.
So far compare.
The left says ban guns, blame Christians and americans for the attack, say nothing about yet another muslim terrorist doing jihad in ramadan killing gays he hates.
The repubs are out there doing nothing as usual, nope, they have their hands in their pants doing nothing useful for us.
Trump says the common sense stuff we all know that our uniparty repubs will not dare utter.
Rxactly
They all end up in my spam bucket. Haven’t bothered with em for quite a while now
As to Ted. Yeah it does make him a bad man. He is showing that his ego is more important than anything else
Weakness is noticed.
Ironically, that’s the one place we can be assured that is not under the microscope.
The NSA and FBI does warrantless searches on everyone else.
Welcome aboard, Donald. I’ve been saying that since about 9/12/01.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.