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The Republican National Convention convenes next
month. Do you think downtown Cleveland will be safe? Last month, Cleveland.com reported on the Cleveland Police Dept.'s and Safety Director's plans for the July event. But it's not just about crowd control and preventing damage and violence by the expected rent-a-mobs. Mark Tapscott at Daily Caller reports on “Five Ways Political Correctness Kills
Americans.” It is scary. And Clevelanders should be concerned for their safety during
the RNC in July:
Political correctness
in the federal government protected radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen in at
least five ways during the months leading up to his deadly assault on a gay
nightclub in Orlando, according to a national security expert.
“The fact is that the
FBI did recognize Omar Mateen, twice in fact, but as a matter of official
policy under the Obama administration’s politically correct ‘countering violent
extremism’ policies, the institutional rules of our national security agencies
as a matter of intentional design ensure that investigative clues are
obscured,” Patrick Poole told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Poole is co-founder
of Unconstrained Analytics, non-profit group dedicated to analyzing “evidence
unconstrained by preconceptions and biases” concerning international terrorism.
He has been a guest lecturer on counter-terrorism issues at the U.S. Army War College
and a speaker at the Army Provost Marshal’s annual Anti-Terrorism/Force
Protection conference.
PC blinds homeland
defenders: Among the most controversial of the five factors Poole cited was a
2011 decision by FBI officials to remove from its counter-terrorism training materials references to all
terms found objectionable by a team of Muslim experts retained by the
Department of Justice. Despite congressional protests, the material was never
restored.
As a result, “violent
extremist” effectively became the official federal designation for individuals
like Mateen, San Bernadino attackers Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan
Farook, Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and Fort Hood
killer Nidal Malik Hasan, despite their shared devotion to radical Islamic
movements, including ISIS and al Qaeda.
PC perverts religious
tolerance: The FBI’s head-in-the-sand approach is also seen in a recently
completed Department of Homeland Security report that directs
federal officials there “not to use any language that might be ‘disrespectful’
to Muslims, including (but not limited to) the words ‘jihad,’ ‘sharia’ and
‘takfir.’” Poole said the policies recommended by the report are in effect
throughout the federal government.
Among the federal
agencies in DHS are the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, U.S. Secret
Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Coast Guard and the
Transportation Security Administration.
PC discourages witnesses.
. .
PC gives cover to
terrorist allies . . .
PC hamstrings
Congress. . . .
Much more from Tapscott here.
Michelle Malkin outlines the terrifying context in
which the Orlando terror attack took place in her column here.
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