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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:39 PM
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McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime
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McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime.»

Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq — are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.


Listen here: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-suggests-military-style-invasion-modeled-on-the-surge-to-control-inner-city-crime/


Now that our military experts advocate approaching the “war on terror” with more policing and intelligence gathering, McCain wants to approach urban policing with more military power. (HT: Political Radar)


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-suggests-military-style-invasion-modeled-on-the-surge-to-control-inner-city-crime/
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:41 PM
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1. I guess he's not thinking about all those people in Watts invading Beverly Hills?
Why is there less "inner city crime" in Beverly Hills anyway?
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:42 PM
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2. Kick down doors & throw hand grenades
into inner-city apartments. Kinda sounds like the Good Ol' Days, eh?
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bluesmail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:42 PM
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3. Flashed on the story of DC neighborhoods. You need to prove
you live there to get in.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:50 PM
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4. was there ever any doubt that this was where they wanted to go?
There shouldn't be.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:54 PM
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5. John McCain is a fucking idiot.
It is pathetic they let this guy run.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 08:58 PM
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6. This is beginning to look more and more like the Spanish civil war every day...
Blackwater practiced urban "warfare" in Iraq, in order to implement those strategies in America, in the same manner that the German and Italian forces practiced their air raids on Spain (at Guernica), before moving on to Europe.

Is that a technical Godwin?
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 10:58 PM
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10. Spain is in Europe
:shrug:
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 12:03 AM
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13. I mean to say the REST of Europe. LOL! n/t
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 09:11 PM
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7. Ya, declare martial law!
!
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 09:20 PM
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8. I wondering how long it would take the republicans to turn the sword inward .
Put it to America's throat. That was quick!
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 10:53 PM
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9. If a majority of American voters had any sense, the remark by
McCain about using the "surge style" attack on inner cities would cost him the election.

What is wrong with our people? How did that come to be so confused?
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 10:59 PM
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11. Yes it would. Have people heard it?
Prollee not, and even if they did, "I'm not doing anything wrong, so I have nothing to worry about."
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 12:45 AM
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14. exACTLY, and they favor torture, too, IIRC, according to the polls
that's one of the main reaons Nixon got elected...being REALLY tough on crime. does that qualify as ironic

course ALL pug presidents since/including Reagan are always "tough" on crime, while being among the worst criminals in history
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 05:53 AM
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16. I believe that their code for "tough on crime"means put up an
appearance of controlling petty crimes committed by poor people while protecting the criminal enterprises of the major criminals who are gutting the Constitution, rigging elections, raping the environment for profit, starting wars for political and/or financial gain and the list goes on.

The war in Iraq has broken our economy, killed over 1 million Iraqis ,killed over 4,500 American military personnel, and attacked a sovereign Country under false pretenses. Yet, there will be NO prosecution of the perpetrators, i.e. Bush et al. That's not be "tough on crime". That's being the biggest criminals in the history of the United States and getting off "scott free".
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 09:07 AM
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17. An oh so true outrage, but people just go about their business, whatever business that might be,
and act as though they know nothing about it.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 01:55 PM
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18. True. That behavior might stem from the belief that they are helpless
to do anything about the bad situation, which may be true.
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-02-08 01:04 AM
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15. And the Obama campaign, they should be jumping on this! n/t
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MadrasT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 11:01 PM
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12. Talk like this
scares the crap out of me. It really does. :hide:
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