On Wednesday, we’ll hold solemn remembrances at Ground Zero and across the country in honor of the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11. Twelve years later, the terrorist attacks’ effect is still being felt in countless ways, among them the extraordinary measures taken every day by the NYPD to protect our city.
In two months we’ll hold a general election to determine the next mayor. Arguably, any mayor’s most important responsibility is to protect the city from another terrorist attack. But where do the candidates stand on these issues? Surprisingly, we haven’t heard much.
The threat of terrorism is as great, if not greater, today than it was before the World Trade Center was destroyed. Yet I can tell you that none of the candidates has requested a briefing from the Police Department on this topic.
Don’t think for a second that al Qaeda and those who share its ideology have forgotten about New York. Images of the World Trade Center and scenes of the city are regularly displayed on jihadist Web sites and al Qaeda publications.
In just the past 10 months there have been several plots with a nexus to New York City:
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Well, let's see... "stop and frisk" was ruled "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" (!!) and did THAT stop the police? Hell no. The police and the government obey the law?! LOL! They make the laws for us -- the serfs - not THEM. Photographing us dozens of times a day, stopping innocent people on the street to check their "papers" and possessions, listening to and recording every electronic communication, filling our skies with drones watching our movements and roaming neighborhoods with backscatter X-ray machines (searching our houses is the EXPRESSED purpose and screw the 4th Amendment)....think this is all they want to do?? Better wake up from your dream that laws and the Constitution mean ANYTHING to them. Like EVERY group in power since the caveman roamed the Earth, all -- ALL -- they want to do is control you and increase their power and authority. You keep cheering, they keep tightening the noose. But you still keep cheering....
Rebuilding America's Defenses" - The Project for a New American Century....section V
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