Napolitano Stepping Down as Homeland Security Chief

[Zacha341]

Napolitano Stepping Down as Homeland Security Chief

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/us...anted=all&_r=0

Napolitano leaving Obama Cabinet

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/12/politi...ing/index.html

[Papasito]

Sharpton, Jackson, and Civil Rights groups remain silent...

[noise]

You haven't posted about every single injustice in the world, so you are just as guilty as Sharpton, Jackson, and any civil rights group.

That's truly one of the dumbest Tea Party-esque positions ever posted [[and constantly repeated).

[Zacha341]

Politics aside that's a horrid video made worse as these are teens! What's going on to take things to this level?

[rb336]

Politics aside that's a horrid video made worse as these are teens! What's going on to take things to this level?

What's going on in this thread? talk about thread-jacking.

for the last 10 years or so, we've seen numerous beat-downs videotaped - a large proportion of them white teen girls. This and the rise of vigilantism are just more of the violent undercurrent that has always been part of American culture.

[Zacha341]

Perhaps the poster of the Florida incident can start a new thread.

Back to the point of the Homeland Security subject:

Who will replace Napolitano?

Muslims Oppose Raymond Kelly Bid For Homeland Security Secretary

[[RNS) Muslim-American groups are mounting a growing campaign to quash the potential nomination of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Muslims say that as head of the nation’s biggest police force, the commissioner oversaw a spying program that targeted Muslims based solely on their religion, showed poor judgment by participating in a virulently anti-Islamic film, and approved a report on terrorism that equated innocuous behavior such as quitting smoking with signs of radicalization.

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano announced she is resigning in September to become president of the University of California system.

“Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is, but if he’s not, I’d want to know about it, because obviously he’d be very well qualified for the job,” President Obama said in a July 16 interview with Univision.

Muslims are particularly indignant because Obama said on numerous occasions that he would work to end profiling.

“Ray Kelly has a proven record of violating Americans’ basic civil rights,” said Glenn Katon, legal director of Muslim Advocates, a civil rights group based in San Francisco. “His willingness to use discriminatory policing methods against innocent citizens should concern Americans of every faith, ethnic and racial background.”

The very mention of Kelly’s name as possible head of the DHS has sparked concern among many Muslim groups, who in a sign of their growing organizational maturity have swiftly marshaled their energies to oppose Kelly before he is even nominated.

See rest of article below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3691876.html

[rb336]

Kelly's got an interesting resume, but I don't want him as head of DHS. He was also the guy behind the suppression of protests during the '04 Republican Convention which resulted in tons of false arrests and harassment charges - including a raid on a book club with a bunch of 60-70 year old grandmothers. The man is a walking civil rights violation

[JBMcB]

He was also the guy behind the suppression of protests during the '04 Republican Convention which resulted in tons of false arrests and harassment charges - including a raid on a book club with a bunch of 60-70 year old grandmothers. The man is a walking civil rights violation

Which is why he's the nominee. Obama learned well from Bush, cracking down on dissent is one of the main functions of DHS.

Go look up the story of the FBI detectives who complained about, what turned out, to be the widespread spying program by the NSA. Unlike Snowden, they went through proper channels. Like Snowden, they got in hot water for daring to complain.

[rb336]

And let's not forget the most blatantly unconstitutional bill ever passed - HR 347 - which defines trespass as knowingly entering any grounds protected by the Secret Service, which was fine when we were talking about the White House, the Veep residence, hotels where they are staying, but it expands that to:

• ‘[[2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;
  ‘[[3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds

• "official functions" is such a broadly drawn phrase that it can include whatever the SS decides it includes, and impedes is another vague term that can include one guy standing on the sidewalk with a sign people stop to read
  
  It also includes:
  
  

  the term ‘other person protected by the Secret Service’ means any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title or by Presidential memorandum, when such person has not declined such protection.’

  essentially anyone for whom the president issues a memo of protection

[Jimaz]

‘[[2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;

Wait. Isn't that exactly what The U.S. House of Representatives has been doing intentionally for years now?

Throw them in the pokey!