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Reader comment on item: LA Top Cops Partner With Islamists

Submitted by Concerned, Jun 3, 2012 21:33

LA county officials demonizing and alienating a large group of people that live in the area is not the best idea to gain their trust and cooperation. Should Baca and Downing announce that since terrorism is considered a threat from Muslims only (sadly by our racist government) the US should only monitor that single group and single it out to disregard their constitutional protections? on that same note, Baca should also notify the Black community that since blacks are often involved in gun violence they can all be searched at any time, for any reason, by any law enforcement official to prevent gun homicides.

Also, the comments by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood come after Israel has terrorized and murdered Palestinians for the past century and stolen 93% of their country (Jews in Palestine owned just 7% of the land when Israel declared itself a state in 1948 on more thatn 50% of Palestine); killed thousands of Lebanese civilians in response to the kidnapping of 2 soldiers in 2006--on top of killing thousands more during the span of 2 occupations of Lebanon lasting a total of 23 years; killing several Egyptians soldiers in Sinai despite a long respected peace treaty by the Egyptians and cooperation in all of Israel's security demands with respect to Gaza. The list of Israeli aggression goes on that validates the MB's claim that the Zionist regime in Israel is a National Security threat to all Arabs.

The US, while it claims it is not, is clearly at war with or is openly hostile mainly to Muslim countries: drone strikes and military activity in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya. How can people not resist in any way possible to this? The Pakistani government has demanded that the US stop drone strikes in its sovereign territory, to no avail. More civilians die that militants, and with each strike more militants are recruited. Resistance is life or death. When the US realizes this, and ceases hostile and arrogant actions in the world, we may gain some friends that do not want to attack us.

I recommend taking this into consideration for more objective writing that can actually address reality and promote discussion that can move America and the rest of the world forward in a peaceful and cooperative environment. The self-interested political games are not helping anyone; civilians are dying, history and lands are being destroyed, and the world economy has suffered. The US is in an economic bind that, had it not spend hundreds of billions on killing to get itself into, would be better prepared to invest and grow its economy.

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