Totally legit.
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In a decision that is sure to outrage many who value civil liberties, a federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department over the surveillance of Muslim-Americans, claiming the monitoring was justified because police were trying to find terrorists hiding among law-abiding Muslims.
Just to clarify, as long as the cops are trying to find terrorists, they can strike out whatever sections of the Bill of Rights they want. Â I guess those WWII Japanese concentration camps are justified by this logic, too, because hey, we were just trying to find foreign sympathizers among law-abiding Japanese immigrants.
But surely all that effort, money, time, etc. is warranted ... right?
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According to the AP stories, after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, the NYPD made maps of local Muslim communities, spied on Muslim student organizations, and monitored Muslim businesses, all without evidence of a specific crime or intent to commit one. After all that activity, an NYPD official admitted that the program never resulted in a single investigation.
Thank fucking god someone is watching all those brown people to keep them in line now that all our other crime has been eliminated.
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Diogenes of Sinope:
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:
"Better dead than smeg."
