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 How long are we as Americans going to allow this outdated meme.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.

You wanna support your local police and firefighters but when THIS happens....

Follow along on the saga of Brooklyn firefighter Pat Quagliariello and see if you can tell where the stench on this story stops.

Manuel Tzajguachiac was hit and killed by a heartless gutless driver who fled the scene at 65th Street and 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst like a coward.

Four hours after the accident, the firefighter, Quagliariello went to the 62nd Precinct station house and told the police that he was the owner of the vehicle and that he was represented by a lawyer. (Note he did not say he was driving)

He then clammed up. (This is where he could have told police who was driving, he refused which is most troubling).

NYPD released the firefighter, whose brother is a detective on the police force.

They did not give Quagliariello a breathalyzer. (Now remember here a man is DEAD and the favors are already being doled out).

When asked why Quagliariello was not given a breath test NYPD top cop Ray Kelly said because he was not arrested (Wow, that's some reasoning Ray. We were waiting for why he wasn't arrested and the answer most likely would have been "because he wasn't given a breath test". Specious reasoning Ray should be his new name).

Quagliariello’s certification as an emergency services technician was suspended for one year in 2005 for fraud and deceit in procuring the certification.

See where this is headed? Under a heaping pile of paperwork, legal motions and non-admissable evidence to protect a firefighter by the police.

And we want to believe in these guys.