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He was then asked if heightened surveillance would require the registration of Muslims in a database and mandate special identification.
“We’re going to have to—we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”
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The program had the characteristics of an advanced police state—mapping of Muslim communities, photo and video surveillance, police informants, police “rakers” (ethnic cops who blended in Muslim communities), the widespread tracking of individuals and intelligence databases of the sort Trump endorsed.
Muslims sued the NYPD over the program. In October the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals found the Muslim plaintiffs raised sufficient allegations of equal-protection violations and reversed a decision made last year by a judge to dismiss the case.
Others have gone further than Trump in calling for draconian measures aimed at Muslims. For instance, David Bowers, a Democrat mayor in Virginia.
“I’m reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then,” Bowers said.
...http://www.infowars.com/trump-surveillance-state-will-combat-islam/
If Rand Paul has better ideas, let's hear them. And please don't go off on a talkfest a la Ron Paul about isolationism. Let's hear the specific ideas that will combat terrorism by terrorists.
This is a thread about Trump, not Paul. Do you support this idea? Do you think the government will use it responsibly, and not abuse it by expanding what religion/ideology/race/class of people they think are terrorists? Do you see something wrong with the government enacting policies and agencies like this as a solution to problems they created?