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NYPD ALERTS COPS TO 'TERROR INDICATORS'

By Tom Hays
The Associated Press
5/17/04 7:33 PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NYPD has ordered its patrol force to be more vigilant about spotting and reporting possible signs of terrorism, including individuals who "express hatred for America."

Guidelines titled "Possible Indicators of Terrorist Activity" were issued last week on cards designed to fit in police officers' memo books. The cards advise them to contact counterterrorism investigators when they have suspicions over anyone who is, among other things, carrying driver's licenses from different states, videotaping utilities and tunnels or wearing fake uniforms.

Members of the nation's largest police department also have been instructed to take note of "overtly hostile" people who "express hatred for America and advocate violence against America and/or Americans," or who "support terrorists and their goals."

The guidelines stress that the indicators are "general," and may "not necessarily mean that terrorist activity is being planned." They also caution officers not to interfere with free speech, or target anyone based on race or religion.

Still, the directive may be so broad that it invites civil rights abuses, said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

"We're troubled that hostile statements would create suspicion of terrorism," Lieberman said on Monday. "Criticism of our country is supposed to be protected by the First Amendment."

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the guidelines were "not intended in any way to interfere with lawful protest." The cards were an attempt to put terror prevention tips "literally into the back pocket of every police officer," he said.

The cards warn officers to be on the lookout for people who approach a government building or other potential target on foot and abruptly turn away after spotting security officers; who possess notebooks filled with telephone numbers, but no names; and who videotape or photograph "any activity beyond what an ordinary tourist would do."

Inside a home, suspicious signs could include little or no furniture besides a mattress, the presence of radio scanners or night-vision equipment, and airline receipts showing the booking of flights with unnecessary layovers.

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I fear that the terrorist threat is so large that the Gov. knows that they cannot stop all of the plans.

Like the 3 empty suitcases yesterday, in 3 different places.

Next time they won't be empty.

Pay close attention to President Bush, when he is speaking about something that he is allowed to say in his own words, he is a lovely speaker..............

But, when he is having to watch what he says, he garbles it so badly, it is almost impossible to understand him.

The last few days, he is impossible to understand, so to me that means that he has to be so careful of what he can say that it is choking him.

He is not a good liar.

President Bush is best when he shares his thoughts and not what he has been told to say.

Imagine what he must know.

I heard a FReeper explain once that the problem with President Bush, is not a lack of words, but rather that he is thinking so far ahead of what he is saying that he gets lost.

The Gov. has warned us, all that they can. I think that they dare not tell all, as they are having to rely on muslims for the information and until the terrorists are found, cannot give away any details.

My guess is that the mosques here are full of the ones who plan the attacks.

I base some of my thoughts, on past experience. When Sgt. Ogden of the Yuma County sheriffs department got a tip that the local body shop would be broken into, he asked me to take him there. I had a tail light on order, there, so had reason to go into the shop.

Sgt. Ogden was then a lovely 6'6'' mid 30's young man, and I had a 74 Toyota Corolla, the smallest Toyota.

We stuffed him into the laid back seat, I drove in and he got out with his suitcase of ? And he spent the night there, prepared to catch a group of robbers who were hitting all the businesses in our little town.

They didn't show up to rob the shop.

That is the way of being a policeman, win some and loose some.

Sgt. Ogden is or was the Sheriff of Yuma County the last that I heard. I will bet that he is doing a good job, he was a good officer.