Last week I talked about the smackdown of New York City's racist "stop-and-frisk" program, found by a federal court to be unconstitutional racial profiling.Well, it's worth mentioning here that NYC Police Commissar Ray Kelly is on the short list to replace Janet Napolitano as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
In fact, he's the only potential nominee that Obama has publicly acknowledged, saying last month that Kelly is "obviously very well-qualified for the job." What's more, he has the backing of Sen. Chuck Schumer, a powerful New York Democrat.
But in addition to maintaining in effect that stop-and-frisk is the only thing standing between innocent New Yorkers and the black and brown hordes, Kelly also oversaw the attempts to limit or block protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention, methods which included illegal mass arrests, directed the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, which included arresting members of the media attempting to cover the event, ran in cooperation with the CIA, which can't legally act domestically, a program to spy on Muslims including groups and mosques well outside the city, beyond the NYPD's authority, and helped advance the proliferation of surveillance cameras on New York City’s streets.
That's who Barack Obama thinks is "very well-qualified" to direct the Department for the Security of the Fatherland.
Maybe Orson Scott Card is not as paranoid as might appear. He's still a bigoted clown, but maybe not so paranoid.
Sources:
http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2013/07/15/why-ray-stop-and-frisk-kelly-possibly-being-nominated-to-dhs-would-be-so-dangerous/
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/ray-kelly-stop-and-frisk-homeland-security-95628.html
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