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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz’s Bizarre Plan For Muslim ‘Patrols’ Just Got Even More Confusing
Ted Cruzs Bizarre Plan For Muslim Patrols Just Got Even More Confusingby Igor Bobic at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-muslim-patrols_us_56f1b90fe4b04c4c376076c6?utm_hp_ref=politics
"SNIP...............
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday elaborated on his proposal to empower law enforcement to patrol Muslim communities in the U.S. in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks.
That does not mean targeting Muslims. It means targeting radical Islamic terrorism, he said in an interview on CNN.
Cruz pointed to a controversial program run by New York Citys police department that spied on New York City mosques and Muslim communities under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, calling it a successful example of Cruzs intentions for the country if elected president. The GOP presidential hopeful blamed Bloombergs successor, Bill de Blasio, for shuttering the program. According to The Associated Press, however, the department never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation in the six years that it eavesdropped on conversations. A federal judge dismissed a suit against the city in 2014, ruling that the program did not discriminate against Muslims.
Its very simple. Its doing what law enforcement does in any circumstance, Cruz added in the interview. If you have a neighborhood where there is a high level of gang activity, the way you prevent it is you increase the law enforcement presence there and you target the gang members to get them off the street.
But Cruz demurred when questioned several times by CNN host Anderson Cooper as to whether he could name a specific community where he would send such patrols.
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Ted Cruz’s Bizarre Plan For Muslim ‘Patrols’ Just Got Even More Confusing (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2016
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Cruz wants to be a menace to society. He wants to break us up into groups
so we can fight it out to please Caesar.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)2. GOP Primaries - Most Crazy Wins!
Extra Credit Points for Race Baiting and Profiling.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)3. We need to patrol the Cubanadian neighborhoods
The Cubanadians are going all whacko again with their fear-based anti-American plans to institute XtianFacism,
and to torture people from the Middle East, just as the Romans tortured Middle Easterners 2016 years ago this Very Freaking Week. Talk about anti-christianity, the Republicans really got that thing down.
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)4. Dont remember ISIS wearing
Gang colors, and being seen alot. Idiot, Cruz is