role of the FBI? Just recently, Ramsey county unelected a Sheriff who was
pursuing 33 terrorist organizations in Ramsey county. Meanwhile the case
closure rate had dropped to 8%.
Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek is attending an international
counterterrorism program called "2012 Law Enforcement Mission to Israel." The
program teaches homeland security and countering violent extremism from Israeli
perspective. Remember Israel provokes violence so it has an excuse to takeover
more territory from its neighbors. Is the Israeli model that one we want to
have? Quite frankly, I like our freedoms and our midwestern ways of dealing
with people. That is why I live in the midwest.
The recent video where people describe police giving them drugs and then
dropping them off at the Occupy protest should cause us all to take a second
look at local policing attitudes. Quite frankly I am more bothered by the large
number walk/run marathons for some cause than a single plaza protest that I can
easily walk through. Yet the one (marathon) that actually gets in my way gets
police support while the one (Occupy) that is courteous is police harassed.
Remember that just recently a Pentagon written exam called "protests" as a form
of βlow-level terrorism.β I think the hunt for terrorism turns into a political
harassment. It turns into our suppression of our freedom and rights.
Bottomline is I don't want Occupy or any political protest treated the way that
Israel treats Palestines. Sheriff Stanek is a publicly elected official. I
think we should be talking to our elected representative about that.
Grace Kelly nicknamed Kelly
from across the river in St Paul, still believing in the pledge of "liberty and
justice for all"