Forum Post: Corruption-plagued NYPD tramples on democratic rights
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 25, 2011, 8:46 p.m. EST by SandyEnglish
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World Socialist Web Site: Corruption-plagued NYPD tramples on democratic rights
The draconian response of the New York Police Department to the ongoing anti-Wall Street protests in the city is part of a stepped-up attack on democratic rights.
New York police have also targeted Muslim-Americans and Muslim immigrants in the past decade, with revelations last August by the Associated Press and others of an unprecedented and illegal spying operation against Muslims in close collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Last Friday hundreds of Muslims and supporters gathered at Foley Square in lower Manhattan to protest the spying operation. They carried signs saying, “NYPD Watches Us. Who Watches NYPD?” and “NYPD/CIA. Hands Off Our People.” The protesters were joined by about 50 supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose two-month-old encampment in nearby Zuccotti Park had been brutally attacked and dismantled by the police three days earlier. Protesters chanted, “Surveillance is violence, we won’t remain silent.”
Hundreds of undercover officers have been sent into Muslim communities by the police intelligence division in recent years. They have been tasked with monitoring daily activities in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs frequented by Muslims, according to the AP report. The police have also been sending informants inside mosques to spy on Muslims attending prayer services and to monitor sermons.
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Honestly, fuck all of this rhetoric. Why is it that people don't use rational argumentation rather than silver-tongued persuasion?
Are you saying that you need to be convinced about the corruption of the NYPD (the scandal that the article refers to has been in the mainstream NY press for months) or the fact that that it has conducted massive spying operations on Muslims in the US, the routine violation of the rights hundreds of thousands of innocent working-class youth each year ("stop-and-frisk"), violent attacks on OWS protesters, mass arrests, and most recently, the arrests and beatings of students protesting tuition increases?
Is it rhetoric, let alone irrational, to say this in an article? Frankly, there is little in the title or the article that millions of ordinary people in NYC would disagree with. The words coming off of people's lips are a good deal harsher, in fact.
Where do you stand on these issues?
World Socialist? I've read much on that site and I would take anything they say with a grain of salt.
Does this mean that you have found the website's material to be inaccurate or dishonest? Or are you saying that you simply do not agree with the conclusions articles draw? If the former, please give some examples.
They are a propaganda organ like most other sites of that ilk.
Does this mean that you have found the website's material to be inaccurate or dishonest? Or are you saying that you simply do not agree with the conclusions articles draw? If the former, please give some examples.
That's clear and objective journalism, that right there.
Assuming that you are being sarcastic, it seems to me, with all due respect, that you must be quite removed from the struggle against social inequality, let alone daily encounters with the NYPD, to consider the title of this article or the article itself (did you read it though?) anything but objective in the most scientific sense of the word.
In a society divided by classes, objectivity in social analysis is always partisan. The truth itself is partisan. Nor is there anything unclear about where the author or website stands on these issues.