Police to map Amish communities

http://gzforum.wvgazette.com ^ | 11/9/2007 | Keli Kilohana

[Keli Kilohana]

Lancaster, PA - Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Police Department to map the county's Amish communities, calling it racial profiling.

The LCPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Amish enclaves in order to determine which might be likely to become isolated and susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism," said Deputy Chief Michael P. Drowning on Thursday.

"We want to know where the Shakers, Quakers and Amish are so we can reach out to those communities," said Drowning, who heads the counterterrorism bureau.

Downing said the plan is still in its early stages, but the LCPD wants to work with a Amish partner and intends to have the data assembled by the University of Penssylvania Center for Risk and Economic Analysis.

Drowning testified about the plan before a U.S. Senate committee on Oct. 30.

In his testimony, Downing said his bureau wanted to "take a deeper look at the history, demographics, language, culture, ethnic breakdown, socioeconomic status and social interactions" of the county's Amish communities.

[Keli Kilohana]

Listen! I don't trust those Amish...chocolate and cheese my foot! They are terrorists! Do we want to wait for horse carriage suicide bombers before we do something? I say that we should put them in concentration camps NOW!

[Slapshot68]

Most of the more conservative, orthodox Amish have left Lancaster County due to it’s exponential growth.

[Keli Kilohana]

That’s what they want you to think. Don’t be duped. They’re in cahoots with certain middle east extremists—if you know what I mean.

[KarlInOhio]

Most of the more conservative, orthodox Amish have left Lancaster County due to it’s exponential growth.

So, what's left? The moonbat Amish with their short beards and colored suspenders?

[Leg Olam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfVw9xxoNY

Says it all.

[Keli Kilohana]

Under those black hats are turbans—I bet!

[Slapshot68]

“So, what’s left? The moonbat Amish with their short beards and colored suspenders?”

Actually the ones left are integrating more with modern society, even participating in the local free market economy. They’ve adapted.

[ClearCase_guy]

Racial profiling? I did not realize that the Amish were a race.

[KarlInOhio]

Do we want to wait for horse carriage suicide bombers before we do something?

Clop-clop clop-clop clop-clop clop-clop BOOM!

[Keli Kilohana]

Human race?

[the OlLine Rebel]

This IS a Scrappleface-type posting, right?

I did click a link and see basically all “Moslem” and “Islam” in L.A. references have been replaced by “Amish” and PA references.

;-D

[JZelle]

Is this called the Rosie O’Donnell Domestic Terrorism Act?

[Wallace T.]

Actually, it's those darned Ohio Amish that are the troublemakers (from the 1985 movie, Witness.

[Fresh Wind]

Just think how those one horsepower Amish SUV’s are contributing to Global Whorming!

[The Great RJ]

This is the same PC mentality that causes airport screeners to strip search little old ladies and harass 85 year old Congressional Medal of Honor winners. We should be mapping the location of every mosque and Muslim enclave and making lists of members of those groups advocating jihad.

[twigs]

I thought this was an onion piece.

[Awestruck]

Shakers? Didn’t they die out because they had a strict no procreating policy? Nice furniture though.. probably terrorists...

[chadwimc]

What goes “clip clop clip clop...BANG... clip clop clip clop???

An Amish drive by shooting...

[Leisler]

PING!

Your Cop Tax dollars at waste.

[Teacher317]

And if they did this to Muslim communities?