I’m sure they're rubbing their hands together with glee that the murder of Brian Thompson now allows them to justify a massive ramp up in their “counterterrorism efforts“ 🙄🙄🙄 Great reporting Ken as always. Thank you!
“Terror awareness presentations” to “ensure awareness”. Someone is making a fortune. I wonder if the NYPD would be interested in my counterterrorism rocks?
And meanwhile...Gaza starves and Palestinians are bombed into oblivion. This, however, is not as newsworthy as NYC's New Year's counterterrorism efforts. So sick, and so sad...
It is absolutely horrific and the crack down on civil protests about our continued provision of arms to Israel is 100% unacceptable. We have to not let the issues divide us from the facts: are government is moving into a level or corruption due to greed never seen before. We have to unite everywhere and get those 90,000,000 Americans who didn't vote but tend to be poorer, of color, and progressive out there with us as well as centrists and reasonable conservatives. Don't let them use a culture war to surpress and hide the class war.
The Mangione charge is just grandstanding by a weak Governor. That said, NYC is still the happy dream of destruction to a pretty big set of people with real and imagined grievances with the USA.
We have seen accusations of antisemitism used as a weapon to silence voices that disagree with the atrocities of the Israeli government. Now we are going to water down the use of the meaning of terrorism. Only now we have guns and bullets to use on anything or anybody the state can loosely define as terrorism.
Why does New York always shitty mayors and governors? It's a mostly blue state but all of the governor and mayors seem to be right wing democrats who always act like republicans. Seems bizarre to me.
Why weren’t the ringleaders of the attempted coup on 1/6/2021 designated as domestic terrorists? Why aren’t members of an administration complicit in genocide and instigating a regime change in Syria designated as global terrorists? (Those are rhetorical questions.)
The counterterrorism industry is probably praising Mangione behind closed doors. Imagine the money that has flowed into their coffers.
Guess it's just not that far from murder by spreadsheet to a wannabe police state. My memory of "the enemy is us" extended to Pogo but the actual history goes way back!
This is very interesting, and I appreciate you highlighting it. However, how do you balance your skepticism around this with actual terrorist folks in the country, mostly (I presume) radicalized citizens/nazis/xtian supremacists?
Hi John. Those groups certainly exist but I haven't seen any evidence that they're any more dangerous than they've always been. And just logically the deaths our healthcare system causes (over a million americans ration insulin each year) are incomparably higher than from these extremist groups.
Note the two guys in the center of your picture with their fingers pointing while resting on their guns, the "ready" position. This is seen so often now that it should be superimposed on the American flag as a symbol of what we have come to.
I’m sure they're rubbing their hands together with glee that the murder of Brian Thompson now allows them to justify a massive ramp up in their “counterterrorism efforts“ 🙄🙄🙄 Great reporting Ken as always. Thank you!
“Terror awareness presentations” to “ensure awareness”. Someone is making a fortune. I wonder if the NYPD would be interested in my counterterrorism rocks?
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Much bigger than Luigi and thank you for keeping the real conversation going and doing the work of excellent journalism 🙏🫂
Glad you find it helpful, Garon!
And meanwhile...Gaza starves and Palestinians are bombed into oblivion. This, however, is not as newsworthy as NYC's New Year's counterterrorism efforts. So sick, and so sad...
It is absolutely horrific and the crack down on civil protests about our continued provision of arms to Israel is 100% unacceptable. We have to not let the issues divide us from the facts: are government is moving into a level or corruption due to greed never seen before. We have to unite everywhere and get those 90,000,000 Americans who didn't vote but tend to be poorer, of color, and progressive out there with us as well as centrists and reasonable conservatives. Don't let them use a culture war to surpress and hide the class war.
The Mangione charge is just grandstanding by a weak Governor. That said, NYC is still the happy dream of destruction to a pretty big set of people with real and imagined grievances with the USA.
We have seen accusations of antisemitism used as a weapon to silence voices that disagree with the atrocities of the Israeli government. Now we are going to water down the use of the meaning of terrorism. Only now we have guns and bullets to use on anything or anybody the state can loosely define as terrorism.
Not look at the reason for the anger against health insurance companies.. blame those with the anger instead😡
"Us" as in not the big bourgeois and their ass-kissers and hangers-on as well as ostensibly vetted arms-bearing pork and greens.
Why does New York always shitty mayors and governors? It's a mostly blue state but all of the governor and mayors seem to be right wing democrats who always act like republicans. Seems bizarre to me.
Why weren’t the ringleaders of the attempted coup on 1/6/2021 designated as domestic terrorists? Why aren’t members of an administration complicit in genocide and instigating a regime change in Syria designated as global terrorists? (Those are rhetorical questions.)
The counterterrorism industry is probably praising Mangione behind closed doors. Imagine the money that has flowed into their coffers.
Thanks, Ken.
Once again, politicians misread the room and take all the wrong (and expensive) actions.
Guess it's just not that far from murder by spreadsheet to a wannabe police state. My memory of "the enemy is us" extended to Pogo but the actual history goes way back!
https://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/the-morphology-of-a-humorous-phrase/
This is very interesting, and I appreciate you highlighting it. However, how do you balance your skepticism around this with actual terrorist folks in the country, mostly (I presume) radicalized citizens/nazis/xtian supremacists?
Hi John. Those groups certainly exist but I haven't seen any evidence that they're any more dangerous than they've always been. And just logically the deaths our healthcare system causes (over a million americans ration insulin each year) are incomparably higher than from these extremist groups.
Note the two guys in the center of your picture with their fingers pointing while resting on their guns, the "ready" position. This is seen so often now that it should be superimposed on the American flag as a symbol of what we have come to.
Do the people from the USA agree. They are so brainwashed that think stuff is never going to happen to th
People are largely unaware (I forget sometimes too) because we're just so used to the post-9/11 vibe
How about NYC starts worrying about people set on fire while on a subway or pushed in front of a moving car? There seems to be a problem here.