Simply pay an informant to TRY and get you questionable comments. Simply pay and informant and TRY to paint the Muslim community as jihad-happy. If there is no evidence and you're the NYPD who have so overreached in their hunt for terrorists behind every tree they may well have broken laws, you just pay people to create the problem you want to investigate.
Oh, and the NYPD? Yeah, they have no comment.
Busted (again).
Showing posts with label it's called the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label it's called the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
According to several sources, the NYPD is running a "rogue domestic surveillance operation", even here in New Jersey
Yeah, hopefully the New Jersey part got your attention. Yes, the NYPD have been running a program very sketchy, probably illegal (which is why the NYPD is so adamant none of these cases be brought out in court) surveillance operations all over the globe. As the AP article states if a suicide bomber blows themselves up in Jerusalem, the NYPD rush to the scene to gather info. The shadowy NYPD group has been accused of running 'mosque crawls' in NY and other states to gather information on what is being said inside Muslim houses of worship (If this is their plan to stop terror maybe they should sit inside Christian churches as well anymore). Yes, they target ethnic communities (like we have here in Jersey City) and elsewhere. While even some in the NYPD think this program stinks to high heaven legally, ethically and constitutionally the program's braintrust of David Cohen and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly don't seem to care what laws may be broken or how badly they violate constitutional freedoms -- it's all in the name of stopping terror they say. Besides, they tell us, have lawyers on their staffs, as if that somehow makes this all OK.
Really? How long are we as Americans going to allow this outdated meme. We can do anything we want to because there might be terror. Oh we can't tell you about the terror plots because they would tip our hand but TRUST US, we're stopping terrorism.
No, they're not. They stopping our constitution from working is what they're doing. SHAME on Kelly and Cohen. How DARE they spy on people. This was the same group that when NYC hosted the GOP convention infiltrated Democratic and liberal groups and when protestors were arrested they were met with questions like "What are your political affiliations?" "Do you do any kind of political work?" and "Do you hate George W. Bush?" Yeah, that's stopping terror. NOT.
This rogue operation has been found out in other states where local police in Massachusetts busted the rogues while they were conducting surveillance on a house there. It's happening people. If you ever see someone who looks like they are running surveillance on a building, start taking PICTURES of them. If they are bad guys the police will LEGALLY be able to use the pictures. If they are NYPD cops doing it, make sure the public knows they think they can do anything in New Jersey they want to. Send us the pictures and we'll be happy to publish them.
There are right ways and wrong ways to be an American. Sadly, in this case Cohen and Kelly and anyone else involved in this program are showing the WRONG ways to be an American. Suspicion is not a warrant. Wanting to stop terror is not a warrant. Overzealous police work is not a warrant. We are a nation of laws and if police think they can break them to meet their own desires it's time the public sat them down by any means necessary and had them re-read the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights that yes, even they must answer to.
Really? How long are we as Americans going to allow this outdated meme. We can do anything we want to because there might be terror. Oh we can't tell you about the terror plots because they would tip our hand but TRUST US, we're stopping terrorism.
No, they're not. They stopping our constitution from working is what they're doing. SHAME on Kelly and Cohen. How DARE they spy on people. This was the same group that when NYC hosted the GOP convention infiltrated Democratic and liberal groups and when protestors were arrested they were met with questions like "What are your political affiliations?" "Do you do any kind of political work?" and "Do you hate George W. Bush?" Yeah, that's stopping terror. NOT.
This rogue operation has been found out in other states where local police in Massachusetts busted the rogues while they were conducting surveillance on a house there. It's happening people. If you ever see someone who looks like they are running surveillance on a building, start taking PICTURES of them. If they are bad guys the police will LEGALLY be able to use the pictures. If they are NYPD cops doing it, make sure the public knows they think they can do anything in New Jersey they want to. Send us the pictures and we'll be happy to publish them.
There are right ways and wrong ways to be an American. Sadly, in this case Cohen and Kelly and anyone else involved in this program are showing the WRONG ways to be an American. Suspicion is not a warrant. Wanting to stop terror is not a warrant. Overzealous police work is not a warrant. We are a nation of laws and if police think they can break them to meet their own desires it's time the public sat them down by any means necessary and had them re-read the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights that yes, even they must answer to.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
There seems to be an issue in NYC (and really everywhere) over filming police
A lot of police (We're loosely referencing this case) think they can intimidate you into not filming them in public doing their jobs. You better believe you have that RIGHT. See cops want to control the ENTIRE situation which leads to 'mission creep' and controlling a whole large area when dealing with a professional situation. If you stay back, out of their way and don't interject yourself you have every RIGHT to film what they are doing. Look they film you right? News crews can film you with or without your consent in public. If you aren't on private property and you're not interfering they cannot stop you, they cannot confiscate your camera, still or video.
Johnny can guarantee you that if Los Angeles police knew they were being filmed in the Rodney King beating they would have confiscated/stolen the camera and that clip never would have seen the light of day. It's about time we citizen 'journalists' start making sure police know OUR rights and that we DO have a RIGHT to film freely in public.
End of story.
Johnny can guarantee you that if Los Angeles police knew they were being filmed in the Rodney King beating they would have confiscated/stolen the camera and that clip never would have seen the light of day. It's about time we citizen 'journalists' start making sure police know OUR rights and that we DO have a RIGHT to film freely in public.
End of story.
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