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Related: About this forumStop 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 couldnt possibly get bigger, and if you thought this Dr. Strangelove era couldnt 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 administrations 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 Citys brutish stop-and-frisk program. According to New York state legislators, Kelly defends the programs 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
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. K&R!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)2. Nope, not this douche.
Don't think her should be a policeman, much less a mega-cop.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)3. you-gotta-fuckin'-be-kiddin'-me
If they want a law and order type how about this guy:
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Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)4. Obama refuses to "look weak" on security
so the guy is a sure thing if nominated.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)5. It will probably be his predecessor at NY PD
William Bratton.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)6. Is this the guy who had sort of a branch office on Wall Street somewhere?
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
(10,907 posts)7. Yip...
...Here we go into the REAL police state. I agree with David Sirota. Thanks. I hadn't heard anything about this yet...