Taken from The Highchair Analyst
This investigative journalism piece on who is training our law enforcement in counterterrorism is absolutely worth a read, we might see it again when Pulitzer season comes around.
Racial profiling has always been an extremely suspect practice, but when you add in outright prejudice, institutionalize blatant falsehoods and bigotry you get perilously close to the line we crossed in 1942.
Here is one bit,
Despite their different backgrounds, the counterterrorism trainers we interviewed have a remarkably similar worldview. It is one of total, civilizational war—a conflict against Islam that involves everyone, without distinction between combatant and noncombatant, law enforcement and military. “Being politically correct inhibits you,” Hughbank said. “I know Islam better than my own religion. Some things need to be called a spade.”
In Terror at Beslan, Giduck recounts giving a presentation on the 2002 hostage crisis at the Nord-Ost Theater in Moscow. After most of the terrorists were knocked unconscious by the gas that security forces pumped into the building, Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces, came through, methodically shooting each of the terrorists once in the back of the head. Giduck is convinced that as Americans we could do better: we could shoot them twice. Giduck writes of being alarmed when a policeman came up to him after the talk and said that not one of the cops in the room would ever have considered doing this. “I think the first thing we need to do is pass federal legislation exempting law enforcement from any civil or criminal prosecution, any liability at all, for what they do if there is a terrorist attack on U.S. soil,” Giduck writes. “In attempting to prepare the American psyche for the worst possible terrorist act—the taking and killing of children—we must all shed the veil of civility and luxury in which we conduct our lives.”
The fact that men like Giduck are actually teaching our law enforcement is shocking not only because of the appalling lack of oversight or qualification in the "expertise" that is being bought with our tax dollars, the article does a good job pointing that out, but also as evidence of the Wild-West gunslinging "you're with us or you're against us" mentality that continues to be given a platform even as it has been so unconscionably disastrous.