Comments on: “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized. “ https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:15:13 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36084 bowser Sat, 26 Mar 2016 03:15:23 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36084 If those neighborhoods are the target of hate crimes, they need and deserve protection. If those neighborhoods are the target of hate crimes, they need and deserve protection.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36081 RL Sat, 26 Mar 2016 01:38:42 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36081 By turning muslim neighborhoods into a police state you will: 1) Do a MUCH better job of radicalizing american muslims than ISIS could even dream of. 2) Thereby creating a problem where one didn't exist, all for the sake of making stupid people feel safe. 3) Turn our American ideals into a farce. Cruz knows all this, and knows it is counterproductive, and not practical... he is proposing it because it will make morons feel better. It will let bigots feel better- and these 2 groups make up the base of the republican electorate. If we are going to patrol and secure groups of citizens, lets start with the REAL enemy: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/13/the-macabre-truth-of-gun-control-in-the-us-is-that-toddlers-kill-more-people-than-terrorists-do" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">More people were killed by Toddlers last year than by terrorists</a>... By turning muslim neighborhoods into a police state you will:
1) Do a MUCH better job of radicalizing american muslims than ISIS could even dream of.
2) Thereby creating a problem where one didn’t exist, all for the sake of making stupid people feel safe.
3) Turn our American ideals into a farce.

Cruz knows all this, and knows it is counterproductive, and not practical… he is proposing it because it will make morons feel better. It will let bigots feel better- and these 2 groups make up the base of the republican electorate.

If we are going to patrol and secure groups of citizens, lets start with the REAL enemy: More people were killed by Toddlers last year than by terrorists…

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36070 bowser Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:49:20 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36070 When does "security" become oppression? The safer we get, the fewer freedoms we have. If matters continue, we'll all be so safe we'll have trouble leaving our homes. Look at airports now. My Fatherland wants to see what I have in my shorts in order to fly. One inept screwball had, apparently, a bomb in his shoe, so now everyone who flies has to take off their shoes. And if he had a bomb, he couldn't explode it. (What do you call a shoe bomb which doesn't explode? A shoe.) There are neighborhoods clamoring for more police, more security. Would providing that be an effort to oppress the citizens in that area? Probably not. I think the guy is getting a bad rap on this one. God knows I don't love Conservatives, and that I have a problem with Texans, but maybe Cruz deserves a break on this one as we pillory him on the other 1000 ways he's an ass. When does “security” become oppression? The safer we get, the fewer freedoms we have. If matters continue, we’ll all be so safe we’ll have trouble leaving our homes.

Look at airports now. My Fatherland wants to see what I have in my shorts in order to fly. One inept screwball had, apparently, a bomb in his shoe, so now everyone who flies has to take off their shoes. And if he had a bomb, he couldn’t explode it. (What do you call a shoe bomb which doesn’t explode? A shoe.)

There are neighborhoods clamoring for more police, more security. Would providing that be an effort to oppress the citizens in that area? Probably not.

I think the guy is getting a bad rap on this one. God knows I don’t love Conservatives, and that I have a problem with Texans, but maybe Cruz deserves a break on this one as we pillory him on the other 1000 ways he’s an ass.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36068 RL Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:06:51 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36068 Which will only boost his standing with GOP voters... Which will only boost his standing with GOP voters…

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36067 mcfly Thu, 24 Mar 2016 01:04:40 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36067 Cruz, for a supposedly smart guy, can sure be a complete friggin' idiot. But in his defense, he *is* engaged in a race to the bottom (of taste and intelligence) against Trump. If the GOP wins this, then we truly are living in an idiocracy. Cruz, for a supposedly smart guy, can sure be a complete friggin’ idiot. But in his defense, he *is* engaged in a race to the bottom (of taste and intelligence) against Trump.

If the GOP wins this, then we truly are living in an idiocracy.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36062 RL Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:08:22 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36062 <blockquote>President Barack Obama slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday for the presidential hopeful’s statements that he would empower law enforcement to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods“ in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Brussels. “<strong>I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free,</strong>” Obama said during a press conference in Argentina, referring to his historic trip to Cuba earlier this week. He said the proposal “makes absolutely no sense” and goes against basic American values.</blockquote>

President Barack Obama slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday for the presidential hopeful’s statements that he would empower law enforcement to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods“ in the wake of the deadly terror attacks in Brussels.

“I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free,” Obama said during a press conference in Argentina, referring to his historic trip to Cuba earlier this week.

He said the proposal “makes absolutely no sense” and goes against basic American values.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2016/03/22/we-need-to-empower-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods-before-they-become-radicalized/#comment-36048 ER Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:31:34 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=56554#comment-36048 And its exactly what his audience of knuckle draggers wants to hear. And its exactly what his audience of knuckle draggers wants to hear.

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