What’s next? Conversion camps?
LOS ANGELES — Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city’s Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. The LAPD’s counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Muslim enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to “violent, ideologically based extremism,” said Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing on Thursday. “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities,” said Downing, who heads the counterterrorism bureau.
I don’t see how dumb shit like this is even up for debate. I’m pretty sure that part of what creates animosity towards the establishment is the sense that you are being unfairly screened, watched, and harassed (need proof? ask a Black guy). What do you think the reaction to this particular brilliant plan is by Muslims around the world? I would think that the smart move here is to realize that there is going to be a percentage of every group of people in America who really want to see parts of it explode. If you’re going to start mapping groups of people who you automatically assume are secretly planning to blow shit up–why haven’t we mapped out all the disenchanted postal workers, disgraced marines, and survivalist psychotics?
We should have all known that any PR department that ever could have worked at such an upstanding, spotless organization as the LAPD has long been replaced by a groups of LSD-enhanced space monkeys.
They say they want to ‘reach out’ to those communities, and that they are likely to ‘be isolated.’ Guess what idiots, singling a group of people out based on their religious affiliation or the country that their from specifically for surveillance….ISOLATES PEOPLE. Congratulations on firmly wedging your heads even further up your collective LAPD assholes.
lol..space monkeys.