re: #29 Obdicut

Being against profiling is now being against law enforcement in general?

Interesting.

I’m against profiling, because we have a fine, diverse array of terrorists here in the US-of-A. There’s nothing at all wrong with surveilling and tracking radical Muslims, but pretending all Muslims are radical is silly.

I looked into this a few days ago but never posted about it because of the obvious outrageous outrage that would have resulted. It’s actually a sort of interesting grey area. The protests centered around the “morocco Initiative…
AP IMPACT: NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort
Long story short: the NYPD wanted to know who hangs out where. If they have a tip about a Moroccan bomber or a Somalian terrorist, they wanted to have a database of where these people might be hanging out. Probably not much different than previous efforts with the mafia by making notes of who hangs out where. In today’s PC environment I can see how some people might object.
However, I turned away from the radical left because they are pretty stupid when it comes to terrorism. The OWS idiots holding a rally against NYPD surveillance programs just days before a terrorist plot was foiled by NYPD surveillance makes me think I made the right choice.