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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
WHAT?
Have the British police lost their minds? Via the Guardian:
The police are considering a proposal to let selected British Muslims examine the intelligence used to mount anti-terrorism raids before they take place, the Guardian has learned.
The proposal will be considered as part of a review of the raid in Forest Gate, east London, a fortnight ago when 250 officers stormed a family house searching for a chemical weapon which was not found. One man was shot and police have apologised for the “hurt” caused by the raid which has further damaged strained relations with the local community. The review began this week and is expected to be completed before the end of the month.
While such a review after a controversial incident is standard, this one is unique because British Muslims are involved from the start.
A senior police source with knowledge of the issues involved said: “We are working on sharing more information with the community before, during and after events so they understand as much of the context as we can provide.”
[...]
Any British Muslims shown intelligence would be security vetted but would not have a veto on the raid.
The review includes members of the Muslim Safety Forum, which aims to improve relations between police and British Muslim communities.
Azad Ali, its chairman, said fresh measures, such as British Muslims being able to advise the police on their intelligence and how to act on it before any raid, must be found. “Greater cooperation with the police is possible, but it needs the police to take creative steps to build trust,” he said. “There are people keen to help the police, but episodes like Forest Gate and the way it was mishandled stoke up the mistrust.”
Right. If British Muslims were so “keen” on helping the police, maybe the police wouldn’t have conducted a raid on a home that didn’t contain the chemical weapon they thought it did in the first place!
And as far as those ‘damaged relations’ between the Muslim community and the police go, I can’t imagine why relations would be strained. No, not at all.
Back to the proposal, even considering it is ridiculous. It’s hard to figure out what the British police are thinking here. I wonder if there will be any public outcry in the UK over this idea?
Canadian Conservative writes:
If the goal is to enhance, or provide perspective, on intelligence then shouldn’t law enforcement have some Muslims or Islamic experts on staff?
Otherwise, including non-law-enforcement, ‘community groups’ is either political correctness gone nuts or an attempt to defuse blame should another raid turn up nothing. Either way this would appear to be a dangerous precedent and a total waste of time.
Yep.
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ST: Likely the outcry has already been ululated already, which has led to this latest potential sabotage, in an already too long, long line of pure stoooopud!
One wonders how many British coppers suggested sharing intelligence with Germans or Nazi sympathizers during WWII.
After all, didn’t they want to foster understanding?
Screw the Muzlims! GAD! The Brits can be so stoopid sometimes!
One man killed, and the act apologized for and will be paid for, and the neighbors did nothing to help the police or clear up the misunderstanding … versus how many dead in the 7/7 bombing? I think the balance is just fine. Screw the Muzlims!
Sister, this is not only an example of political correctness gone wild, but also of sheer lunacy.
I’m hoping that innocent Brits don’t lose their lives to terrorism as a result of such madness.
“The police are considering a proposal to let selected British Muslims examine the intelligence used to mount anti-terrorism raids before they take place, the Guardian has learned.”
- I’m not buying it until, and when, I see a specific comment from the British police officials, which you might note, is conspicuously absent from this hatchet piece.
- This is one of the latest in the Lefts bag of media tricks, called affectionately “political rodeo”, where idea’s are put forth in the guise of “news” to “arrange” desired outcomes, by proposing borderline radical senarios hoping to pressure government operations into a particular slant or action. Unfortunately sometimes it works, as we say in the unprecidented, and illegal, detainment of some marines in a recent news driven non-event in Iraq. Hopefully as this technique gets overused, all officials will become mindful of it, and generally deal with it properly at some point.
- The non-mentally deranged part of the electorate can “push back” against this mainstay of Marxist “big lie” mendacity, by choosing not to purchase publications that practice this intentional politicking….
- Bang