Karen Lugo has written a piece for Townhall on LA County's "Sheriff to the Stars", Lee Baca, who, when he's not having luminaries like Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton in his jail facility for tea and crumpets, is hanging around with questionable Islamic leaders and doing their bidding. In this below piece, Lugo compares Baca to NYPD Chief Ray Kelly and refers to Baca's recent appearance at the Orange County Islamic Center, an event at which I was present.
http://townhall.com/columnists/karenlugo/2012/03/17/nypds_ray_kelly_vs_la_sheriff_lee_baca
It gets worse. At the Orange County event, Baca and LAPD chief of the Counter-Terrorism Unit Michael Downing sat on a panel as the panelists, including Democrat congresswomen Maxine Waters, Loretta Sanchez and Judy Chu lambasted Republicans like Peter King and turned the event into a partisan political affair. Also singled out for criticism were the NYPD and FBI-all while Baca and Downing sat there silently.
Moreover, after the event, I spoke with Downing one-on-one and informed him that in 1992, the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, had spoken at the same mosque as a guest of head imam Muzammil Siddiqi and had given a sermon on violent jihad, which was interpreted in real time by Siddiqi. His response?
"Well, Gary, you know some people change over time."
When I mentioned the name of Zuhdi Jasser (mentioned in the Lugo article) to him as an example of a true moderate Muslim, he didn't even know who he was. He asked me if Jasser were connected to people like Steve Emerson and David Horowitz.
This is what is protecting us from terror?
Peter King deserves to be lambasted, and David Horowitz has changed his stripes but not his methods. Karen Lugo fortunately is in no position to pull off a beer hall putsch, but one might expect her to publish a book called "My Struggle."
ReplyDeleteDo you have any evidence
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteEvidence? Yes. I was at the event she describes. I am involved in the things she describes, It is called first-hand testimony.
Good God, Gary, an ideological bedmate shows up at her speeches, and that constitutes "evidence" that she knows what she's talking about?
ReplyDeleteBy that logic, Heinrich Himmler's presence at the Nuremberg Party Congress is "evidence" that Hitler was right.
To assure you I am not comparing your principles to those of the National Socialist German Workers Party, it is also like saying that Beria's presence at a Central Committee meeting is evidence that Stalin was a great leader.
(OK, Beria would have been shot if he missed a meeting, and you arrived of your own free will. Still, your presence is EVIDENCE of nothing except your own personal preferences.)
The question is whether or not there is a threat of violence from one segment of the population or not. Unless all the stories about terrorist attacks and attempted attacks on us are false, then we have a threat of violence.
ReplyDeleteOur law enforcement and representatives' first obligation is to protect the citizens. If they carry out their obligations with any intelligence they will already know that ethnic groups tend to stick together. There is valuable information not only about future attacks and participants but also about hiding places and methods of communication.
If our greatest threat was from the Mafia, we would (or should) attempt to infiltrate the Italian community ... all parts of it. If the greatest threat was from the Hispanic gangs, law enforcement under cover operatives would (or should) infiltrate the Mexican communities.
We are not going to get any good leads on any of these threats at Lady Queen of Angels Church or Mariners Church or Temple Bat Yahm.
When we have law enforcement officers and representatives who ignore the obvious for political reasons or because of just plain soft-headedness, then we put ourselves at further risk. They should be replaced as soon as possible.
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P.S. The absence of a period suggests that something was missing of what I intended to be my original question.
ReplyDeleteAfter carefully reviewing your original post, I pieced it together:
Do you have any evidence that the sheriff is serving tea and crumpets to celebrity repeat drunk driving parole violating celebrities?
After all, there was not another substantive statement in your post that could be substantiated or disproven by evidence. It's all opinionated characterization.
What's up Gary? Are you afraid to let the world see what comes before the P.S.?
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