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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 11:27 PM Jul 2013

Stop Ray Kelly from leading Homeland Security Department

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/12/stop_ray_kelly_from_leading_homeland_security_department/

If you thought Big Brother couldn’t possibly get bigger, and if you thought this Dr. Strangelove era couldn’t possibly get any Strangelovier, welcome to the debate over the next head of the Department of Homeland Security.

In the midst of disclosures about the Obama administration’s sprawling — and likely illegal — national security state, the news today is that current Secretary Janet Napolitano is stepping down and that senior Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly to fill the position. And predictably, from their green room couches, elite media blowhards are already frantically cheering on a potential Kelly nomination.

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1. Kelly is the man behind New York City’s brutish stop-and-frisk program. According to New York state legislators, Kelly defends the program’s disproportionate targeting of people of color by insisting that it is specifically designed to “instill fear in them.” Read much more on the practice here.

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3. Kelly forged an unprecedented — and possibly illegal — program allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to embed itself in the NYPD for the purpose of domestic surveillance. Despite the CIA being statutorily barred from conducting surveillance inside the United States, Kelly has loyally defended the program.

(More at the link. Only posting this because it's high-priority. I have given up on so-called "progressives" and "liberals" and yes, "democrats" as being anything more than supporters of the system which is itself the problem no matter their intentions. And FUCK anyone who would automatically call me libertarian or alex jones or republican for having my own conclusions; that sort of person is exactly to whom I refer as BEING the problem.)
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Stop Ray Kelly from leading Homeland Security Department (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 OP
K&R! hrmjustin Jul 2013 #1
Nope, not this douche. Half-Century Man Jul 2013 #2
you-gotta-fuckin'-be-kiddin'-me Joe Shlabotnik Jul 2013 #3
Obama refuses to "look weak" on security Kelvin Mace Jul 2013 #4
It will probably be his predecessor at NY PD jaysunb Jul 2013 #5
Is this the guy who had sort of a branch office on Wall Street somewhere? JDPriestly Jul 2013 #6
Yip... ReRe Jul 2013 #7

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
3. you-gotta-fuckin'-be-kiddin'-me
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 11:52 PM
Jul 2013


If they want a law and order type how about this guy:

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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
6. Is this the guy who had sort of a branch office on Wall Street somewhere?
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 02:04 AM
Jul 2013

Is this the guy that had his men and women beat up on the unarmed Occupy Wall Street crowd?

Is this the guy with the infamous stop and frisk program?

Horrors! What a nasty guy.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
7. Yip...
Sat Jul 13, 2013, 02:41 AM
Jul 2013

...Here we go into the REAL police state. I agree with David Sirota. Thanks. I hadn't heard anything about this yet...

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