He was either really lousy at his job, as proven by the fact that he left DHS, planted his fat ass in Congress and became a politician, or… well… no, that’s it.
REP. CARSON: Congressman Andre Carson… Indianapolis, Indiana seventh Congressional district–myself John Lewis and his chief of staff. It was unbelievable.
REPORTER2: Coming out of Cannon?
REP.CARSON: Yeah, I expected rocks to come. I mean… I’m walking with John Lewis who walked with MLK. It was bizarre, but he’s been there done that.
PICKET: You were scared of the crowd?
REP. CARSON:Me? No, I’m a former cop, but I became protective of Congressman Lewis,and a person said, ‘I’m being reminded of another time’ as we’re walking. It was like an old sage. For him to say that is (inaudible)been there done that. A young 35 year old like myself, I’m being protective of the older sage along with this chief of staff. We kept walking. The walk usually takes a couple of minutes. It felt like ten minutes.
PICKET: Do you think the people outside are generally dangerous or no?
REP. CARSON: Oh absolutely. I worked in homeland security. I’m from intelligence, and I’ll tell you, one of the largest threats to our internal security…I mean terrorism has an Islamic face, but it really comes from racial supremacist groups. (inaudible) Its the kind of thing we keep a threat assessment on record [for].
PICKET: From groups like this?
REP. CARSON: Oh absolutely.
A threat assessment. Really? On people like this?
And these guys certainly look dangerous!
And she certainly needs to be watched!
And this little old lady? Yeah, potential car bomber. I can tell.
The only people who keep threat assessments against people such as this are the ones who DON’T want threat assessments on people such as this.
People like Andre Carson, who whip out the terrorism card every time We the People have the temerity to protest his Marxist policies and those of his Teh One™, but simper self-righteously any time the intelligence community actually targets real potential threats.
Revelations that the Department of Homeland Security gathered, held and distributed intelligence information on the Nation of Islam drew condemnation from analysts and civil liberties advocates and left two Black congressmen expressing concern about whether the operation was proper.
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Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, called the investigation reminiscent of Cointelpro. It’s suspicious and those are civil liberties violations using the Patriot Acts and Homeland Security, he said. We have to be very vigilant when looking at domestic surveillance and investigations, said the longtime educator and activist.
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Dr. Daniels also condemned the operations as religious profiling of the Nation of Islam given its broad range of contacts and engagement with Muslim leaders, the Muslim world and others internationally.
Unfortunately in the eyes of the intelligence agencies these relationships were a concern, he said.
Muslim groups or organizations should not be targeted because of their religion, which is a violation of constitutional protections, Dr.Daniels said. No group should be subjected to a day of surveillance without a legitimate reason, he said.
That’s right people, live and learn! Groups that oppose the expansion of government at peaceful rallies are potential terrorists who should be included in a threat assessment, while groups that use their religion to kill innocent people must not be profiled. This is the world according to Ron Daniels and Andre Carson.
“As a former law enforcement professional, it is unfortunate that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have deepened the relationship gap by fostering mistrust and suspicion,” Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.) said in a statement in response to The Final Call. “This practice is unacceptable to any religious organization, including the Muslim faith.Instead of knocking down bridges, they should be focused on building them by strengthening relationships and making our communities safer and better.”
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“Law enforcement can certainly be concerned about organizations that may wish to do violence, to commit illegal acts, whether violent or not. Their role is to investigate those kinds of circumstances. But where their knee-jerk reaction is simply to investigate based upon ideology, they’re setting themselves up to miss important information that could actually help them stop other violent situations that they are missing, simply because they’re paying attention to ideology, and not propensity to violence,” he said.
Does anyone else see the ludicrous hypocrisy of Carson’s claim? When it comes to targeting those who keep contact with religious leaders outside the United States many of whose followers are dedicated to killing innocent Americans, and have tried to do so numerous times, any attempt to focus attention as a potential threat is considered “knee-jerk.” But yet, including people who have not been known to engage in any kind of violence and whose protests are generally peaceful, but who happen to oppose the policies of those currently in power is perfectly acceptable.
Worse yet, Carson whips out the law enforcement and “intelligence” creds to justify what is obviously a biased view of the threats we face.
There’s a reason for the mistrust! Several, actually.
Faizal Shahzad and Anwar al-Awlaki
Jose Padilla, Richard Reid, the Lackawanna Six, Lyman Farris, The Virginia 11, Dhiren Barot, James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat, Levar Haley Washington, Gregory VernonPatterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, Zand Wassim Mazloum, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, the Fort Dix assholes…
And guess what, you blibbering assbag! The vast majority of attempted attacks, were, in fact, related to Islam!
How many old ladies at Tea Parties have plotted against the United States?
Intelligence professionals are taught to recognize their own biases and encouraged to leave them at the door when doing assessments.
In the case of Andre Carson, the bias is quite clear: he’s so focused on his own victim mentality as an African American, he sees RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM around every corner, and is willing to whip out the authoritarian Terrorism Threat Card™ in order to silence those he perceives as racist (read: anyone who disagrees with his statist agenda). But in the meantime, that same bias in favor of anything and anyone associated with the African American culture, is allowing him to calmly assert the need to stop knee-jerking about the Islamist threat and pointedly ignore that it is, for the most part, the fundamentalist Islamic fucktards who have repeatedly attacked the United States in the last decade, and continue to attempt to do so!
No wonder he left the intel field for politics! He’d be crucified in any self-respecting agency (that’s not run by Janet Napolitano), but actually has an audience for his biased tripe in Congress!
May 07, 2010 @ 15:18:19
blah, blah, blah,despite that yes, we need to do threat assesments on “radical muslims”, rather than upon patriots in the tea party, that won’t be enough.why, because Islam is the threat. see my real solution to that problem here -http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposed-constitutional-amendment.htmlfor a taste of it -”Article IIIImmediately upon passage of this Amendment all Mosques, schools and Muslim places of worship and religious training are to be closed, converted to other uses, or destroyed. Proceeds from sales of such properties may be distributed to congregations of said places but full disclosure of all proceeds shall be made to an appropriate agency as determined by Congress. No compensation is to be offered by Federal or State agencies for losses on such properties however Federal funding is to be available for the demolishing of said structures if other disposition cannot be made.The preaching of Islam in Mosques, Schools, and other venues is prohibited. The subject of Islam may be taught in a post high school academic environment provided that instruction include discussion of Islam’s history of violence, conquest, and its ongoing war on democratic and other non-Islamic values.The preaching or advocating of Islamic ideals of world domination, destruction of America and democratic institutions, jihad against Judaism, Christianity and other religions, and advocating the implementation of Sharia law shall in all cases be punishable by fines, imprisonment, deportation, and death as prescribed by Congress. Violent expressions of these and other Muslim goals, or the material support of those both in the United States and around the world who seek to advance these Islamic goals shall be punishable by death.Muslims will be denied the opportunity to immigrate to the United States”now that is a solution mandated by the threat assesement of Islam
May 07, 2010 @ 15:50:12
blah, blah, blah,despite that yes, we need to do threat assesments on “radical muslims”, rather than upon patriots in the tea party, that won’t be enough.why, because Islam is the threat. see my real solution to that problem here -http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposed-constitutional-amendment.htmlfor a taste of it -”Article IIIImmediately upon passage of this Amendment all Mosques, schools and Muslim places of worship and religious training are to be closed, converted to other uses, or destroyed. Proceeds from sales of such properties may be distributed to congregations of said places but full disclosure of all proceeds shall be made to an appropriate agency as determined by Congress. No compensation is to be offered by Federal or State agencies for losses on such properties however Federal funding is to be available for the demolishing of said structures if other disposition cannot be made.The preaching of Islam in Mosques, Schools, and other venues is prohibited. The subject of Islam may be taught in a post high school academic environment provided that instruction include discussion of Islam’s history of violence, conquest, and its ongoing war on democratic and other non-Islamic values.The preaching or advocating of Islamic ideals of world domination, destruction of America and democratic institutions, jihad against Judaism, Christianity and other religions, and advocating the implementation of Sharia law shall in all cases be punishable by fines, imprisonment, deportation, and death as prescribed by Congress. Violent expressions of these and other Muslim goals, or the material support of those both in the United States and around the world who seek to advance these Islamic goals shall be punishable by death.Muslims will be denied the opportunity to immigrate to the United States”now that is a solution mandated by the threat assesement of Islam
May 08, 2010 @ 00:58:45
It takes a two minute Google search to turn up images of Tea Party cavepeople sporting signs with racist invective and threats of armed violence against authorities. So are you lazy or a liar?
May 08, 2010 @ 01:30:56
I’m neither, but you’re obviously incapable of reading comprehension.
May 08, 2010 @ 04:41:16
Hey Ozzie, get bent.
May 08, 2010 @ 23:05:41
Ozzie….And it takes less than a two minute Google search…oh HELL man are you really so friggin stupid that you NEED to do a Google search to call to mind vivid examples of MUSLIM terrorisrm? My original point was that t would take less time (and produce FAR more hits) to simply Google “Bush=Hitler”…but seeing as Bush was a white guy, and somewhat conservative…no harm in equating him with Hitler is there?You’re a fucking boob (with apologies to Boobs everywhere…)
May 09, 2010 @ 08:45:21
“REP. CARSON: Oh absolutely. I worked in homeland security. I’m from intelligence.”Jumbo shrimp anyone?
May 16, 2010 @ 02:00:03
REP. CARSON:Me? No, I’m a former cop, but I became protective of Congressman Lewis,and a person said, ‘I’m being reminded of another time’ as we’re walking. It was like an old sage. For him to say that is (inaudible)been there done that. A young 35 year old like myself, I’m being protective of the older sage along with this chief of staff. We kept walking. The walk usually takes a couple of minutes. It felt like ten minutes.
Feb 03, 2011 @ 02:27:40
Islamic ideals of world domination, destruction of America and democratic institutions, jihad against Judaism, Christianity and other religions, and advocating the implementation of Sharia law