Posted on 07/18/2009 4:03:53 PM PDT by Libloather
A Chilling Effect on U.S. Counterterrorism
Security at Places of Worship: More Than a Matter of Faith
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart of Stratfor
Jewish World Review July 17, 2009 / 25 Tamuz 5769
In recent months, several high-profile incidents have raised awareness of the threat posed by individuals and small groups operating under the principles of leaderless resistance. These incidents have included lone wolf attacks against a doctor who performed abortions in Kansas, an armed forces recruitment center in Arkansas and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Additionally, a grassroots jihadist cell was arrested for attempting to bomb Jewish targets in the Bronx and planning to shoot down a military aircraft at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y.
In addition to pointing out the threat posed by grassroots cells and lone wolf operatives, another common factor in all of these incidents is the threat of violence to houses of worship. The cell arrested in New York left what they thought to be active improvised explosive devices outside the Riverdale Temple and the Riverdale Jewish Community Center. Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in the lobby of the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita. Although Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad conducted his attacks against a Little Rock recruiting center, he had conducted preoperational surveillance and research on targets that included Jewish organizations and a Baptist church in places as far away as Atlanta and Philadelphia. And while James von Brunn attacked the Holocaust Museum, he had a list of other potential targets in his vehicle that included the National Cathedral.
In light of this common thread, it might be instructive to take a more detailed look at the issue of providing security for places of worship.
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Could Obama mandate federal security of houses of worship to better be able to monitor or threaten them for non-PC speeches?
“Could Obama mandate federal security of houses of worship to better be able to monitor or threaten them for non-PC speeches?”
Isn’t that what the Hate Crimes bill does?
Only evangelical and conservative Christian churches will be monitored.
“I didn’t know it allow monitoring of public assemblies.”
When those public assemblies are made up of people meeting the DHS definition of being dangerous to the govt?
Which is now everyone BUT ACORN, DNC, and Hamas.
Don’t forget Castro and Chavez
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