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Maybe Congressman Barr should connect the dots and ask the NYC Police Commissioner about the policy of allowing Kofi Annan to be protected by illegal weapons and not allowing U.S. citizens to protect themselves with legal weapons.

NYPD Police Chief nixes idea of armed Jewish patrols in Brooklyn
Jerusalem Post | 6/11/02

Posted on 6/11/02 3:41 PM Eastern by pabianice

NEW YORK - New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the use of armed patrols to protect Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn was simply out of the question.
"The department will not tolerate anyone brandishing weapons under the guise of protecting others," Kelly said in a statement Monday. "Anyone attempting to patrol the streets armed with weapons will be arrested."

Kelly's statement came in response to a proposal made Sunday by Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, president of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group, that citizens armed with shotguns patrol the heavily Jewish Borough Park and southern Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn because of comments a suspected terrorist made about targeting them.

Lloyd had said the patrols of 50 to 200 people would carry shotguns in bags, along with people licensed to own and carry other types of firearms. Others would carry bats, pipes, cell phones and walkie-talkies. The patrols were to start on June 16.

"Any move in this direction is counterproductive," Kelly later added at a press conference in Queens. "The tenor of this is wrong. We don't need this."

Lloyd did not immediately return a call for comment on Monday.

Several other leaders in the Jewish community have lined up to criticize the plan. Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes Borough Park, called the idea outrageous. "Don't think of coming into our neighborhoods to stir up trouble," he said "We don't want you and we don't need you."

"We don't believe in vigilantism," Daniel Botnick, director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council said Monday. "It's not only shortsighted, it's irresponsible."

Botnick said the heavily Jewish areas of Crown Heights have a civilian patrol, but they are unarmed. Lloyd's idea was in response to the comments that Abdul Rahman Yasin made during an interview on CBS television's "60 Minutes" on June 2.

Yasin, who is sought by the FBI in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said in the interview from a compound in Iraq that he and his accomplices originally targeted heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn. They later decided to attack the twin towers because they believed most of their occupants were Jewish, Yasin said. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in the bombing.

The Jewish Defense Group was founded by Lloyd in Queens in 1985, and follows the principles of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the right-wing Jewish Defense League.