'A Classic Case of Homegrown Terrorism'

With all due respect to New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, it's mush-headed thinking like this which makes me believe he's spent way too much time kissing Michael Bloomberg's tush and a lot less time dealing with reality.

The suspected driver in a failed car bombing of Times Square fits the profile of a recent wave "homegrown" terrorists threatening America, New York police officials warned Tuesday.

The officials said Faisal Shahzad and other suspects like Najibullah Zazi - the admitted leader of a plot to bomb the New York subway system - had roots in working- or middle-class society, some college education and no previous criminal records, but became radicalized in part by traveling to overseas terrorist hotbeds.

The Times Square threat was "a classic case of homegrown terrorism," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at a briefing for private security executives.

No, these are not "homegrown" terrorists. They're terrorists who emigrated here from hotbeds of radical Islamist extremism, did little to nothing to assimilate into American culture, obviously hate this country and set out on a course of mass murder. Why on earth is it so difficult for these people to admit the obvious:

THESE PEOPLE WANT TO KILL US!!!

Mamby-pamby, mealy-mouthed drivel about how they're "homegrown" completely misses the point. Timothy McVeigh, homegrown. Bill Ayers, homegrown. Faisal Shahzad, radical Muslim from Pakistan.

See the difference?

New York Police Department analyst Mitch Silber said that along with foreign travel, homegrown terrorists typically fall under the spell of extremist, anti-American literature and rhetoric found on the Internet or elsewhere.

Among the items found in Shahzad's home was a version of the Quran known for its "violent interpretation" of jihad, Silber said.

That version of the Quran is known in most circles as the Quran. See, we're supposed to pretend this "religion of peace" preaches sugary sweetness and dedication to loving one another.

It does not. But we're supposed to pretend otherwise. As to the rhetoric found elsewhere, that's code for mosques. But again, we're supposed to live in the land of make believe and pretend those plotting to murder us are somehow falling under a spell on the Internet.

Ray Kelly has made a nice career for himself as a cop, but he's gone soft, preferring to be a lackey for dolts like David Dinkins and incoherent goofballs like his current boss, Mr. Salty, the guy who assumed it was someone who opposed ObamaCare who did the deed in Times Square until the messy facts presented themselves.

By the way, has anyone tracked down that balding white guy in his 40s yet?

Memo to Kelly: Even Eric Holder has begun to figure it out.

A week ago, failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad wasn't even a Muslim, but a 40-something white male and, as Mayor Bloomberg insisted, probably an opponent of ObamaCare.

Then, after Shahzad's apprehension, we were told that he was just another "one-off" in the tradition of Islamist terrorists who aren't really Islamist terrorists at all, but distraught homeowners unable to meet mortgage payments or victims of our prejudice (such as Maj. Nidal Hassan, the traitor and butcher of Fort Hood).

Even generals who knew better lined up to deny that Shahzad was part of a terror network.

Then wham! Over the weekend, the Obama administration unleashed a reverse-course media offensive -- deploying Attorney General Eric Holder, terror czar John Brennan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and plentiful back-channel messages from staffers.

Instead of Shahzad being a one-off, Brennan tied him to the Pakistani Taliban and stressed to TV viewers that there are dangers we're "taking very seriously."

Clinton and others warned Pakistan that it must crack down on militant strongholds in North Waziristan, hinting that Islamabad's failure to do so might lead to direct US intervention in Cambodia (uh, sorry, that's Pakistan).

But the administration's biggest policy reversal to date came from Holder, the longtime advocate of terrorist "rights," who offered one of the most belated acknowledgments in history when he told a TV network, "We're now dealing with international terrorism."

International terrorism. Get it, Ray?

NYCLU Sues NYPD Over Alleged Harassment

The New York Civil Liberties Union is doing their part in the war on terrorism.

Apparently there is nothing they won't do to assist terrorists.

New York City sued for harassing photographers

New York City police officers need better training to distinguish between law-abiding citizens who snap pictures of city landmarks and those suspected of plotting terrorism, a lawsuit filed on Thursday by the New York Civil Liberties Union said.

The lawsuit was filed against the city and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on behalf of Arun Wiita, 26, a Columbia University graduate student of Indian descent who said he was handcuffed and detained after a police officer spotted him snapping pictures near a Manhattan subway station in July.

I guarantee these jerks would be the first one filing dereliction of duty lawsuits against these same officials if a bomb goes off.

So what specifically was this Wiita fellow doing?

Wiita had undertaken a project to photograph all 468 subway stations and their surrounding streets and post them on a Web site.

But the humiliation of being held in handcuffs for almost half an hour had convinced him to scale back the project, he said.

"Most reasonable people would say that you shouldn't be able to slap handcuffs on someone just because they're holding a camera near a New York City subway station," Wiita said.

In other words, Wiita was photographing the buildings and approach/escape routes and posting them on the web. I think most reasonable people would say Wiita was doing a scouting project for potential terrorists.

And the NYCLU is doing everything they can to make that happen.

It's not as if Al-Qaida hasn't thought already about attacks on the NYC subways.

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