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Total Surveillance? NYPD to Launch an All-Seeing ‘Domain Awareness System’ to Track ‘Potential Terrorists’ and Criminals

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The New York Police Department will soon launch an all-seeing “Domain Awareness System” that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and “potential” terrorists.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the software with Microsoft.

Kelly says the program combines city-wide video surveillance with law enforcement databases. He added the program will be officially unveiled by New York’s mayor as soon as next week.

Conservative author Brad Thor has coined the term “Total Surveillance,” referring to the federal government’s ability to monitor nearly every aspect of our lives through an array of surveillance technology. The term certainly seems fitting here.

(Author Brad Thor Dishes on His New Thriller: ‘24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week, Our Digital Exhaust Is Being Sucked Up by the Government)

Total Surveillance: NYPD to Launch an All Seeing Domain Awareness System to Track Potential Terrorists and Criminals

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But WNYW reports that there are actually some who are concerned that the program doesn’t go far enough.

Kelly spoke Saturday before an audience at the Aspen Security Forum.

The NYPD has been under fire for surveillance of Muslim communities and partnering with the CIA to track potential terror suspects. Muslim groups have sued to shut down the NYPD programs.

Kelly defended the policies as key to thwarting 14 terror plots against the city since the attacks of Sept. 11th.

According to WNYW, the Domain Awareness System is a counterterrorism tool designed to:

  • Facilitate the observation of pre-operational activity by terrorist organizations or their agents
  • Aid in the detection of preparations to conduct terrorist attacks
  • Deter terrorist attacks
  • Provide a degree of common domain awareness for all Stakeholders
  • Reduce incident response times
  • Create a common technological infrastructure to support the integration of new security technology

Predictably, the citizens of New York fall on both sides of the issue.

“It would make me feel safer to know the public being protected that way,” one resident said. “If you have nothing to hide, why would you worry about surveillance?”

Others are more concerned with their right to privacy and remain unconvinced that more surveillance will actually make the city a safer place.

“Yeah, I don’t there should be so many cameras and so much invasion of privacy going on,” another New Yorker said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (99)

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:33pm

    Fight Back New York, Fight Back!!!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:04pm

      Um yeah. It’s New York. Not only will they lay down and take it, they’ll vote for more.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:40pm

      This weekend I finished Brad Thor’s new thriller “Black List” and he just trashed Stephen King. This is one movie I can’t wait for it to come out if the USA survives long enough for it to be made. Clint Eastwood will probably be the producer. On Thor’s research most of what is in the book is already being done thru NSA and many other government agencys.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:20pm

      Nepollitano and Bloomberg have labeled TEA and Conservatives as Terrorists and Criminals. Anyone who advocates smaller government is a Terrorist who must be killed. Our Government has announced to the World that it is prepared to kill its own people in order to carry out its lawless and unconstitutional policies. Obama and the new Federal Government are prepared to make the Gas Changers of Germany look like musical chairs. Remember what the Federal Government did to the American Indians and Mormons in the 1800s. Priests were once lynched and burned to death in America not long ago.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:27pm

      IT IS TIME TO DEFY THE BLOOMBERGS OF AMERICA

      Can we call for a National Day of Civil Defiance. Smoke at work, burn trash, pollute a stream, spit on a sidewalk, throw trash on the street, J-walk, run a gasoline engine all day, waste water, etc. Show these fatherless men and women who really owns this house and that it is by our grace that they live in it.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:37pm

      THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOING TO BACK DOWN

      Your vote does not really count anymore. There is only one thing that Government and all Governments fear and this is annihilation by its people. The first law enacted by Congress grants We The People the right to change the Government when its must. It is a legal moral act to change a government that no longer represents the will of the people. Governments that represent the will of the people do not threaten its people with death.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 6:15pm

      Yet another reason to never ever go to New York.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 7:00pm

      .
      “If you have nothing to hide, why would you worry about surveillance?”
      So then it should be okay to record cops making arrests, eh?
      Try that and you’ll get the stuffing beat out of you.

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    • black9897
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 7:30pm

      So basically we get a real life system like on the show “Person of Interest.”

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    • ManThong
      Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:49am

      The good thing is that Bloomberg will know where all the illicit jumbo soda pop and baby formula pushers are plying their trade.

      Just wait until he gets his fleet of little drones.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:29am

      @muffythetuffy

      I’ve been trying to say that for a while, that our vote doesn’t count. America has become the second nation to have a guided democracy (look up that term online)…the first? Indonesia. Hummm, isn’t that where Obama er, excuse me, Barry Soetoro, spent his youth?

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  • Semper4everSemper
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:32pm

    Let’s just put the damn things everywhere – in the churches, in every classroom, in everyone’s car, in every room of every frickin’ house! But let’s not forget the White House, Supreme Court and House and Senate chambers are off limits. Oh, how about INSIDE each and every jail cell too. This is what happens when society has already lost it‘s way and when a man can’t control his own actions then SOMETHING must just to maintain civility. We used to BELIEVE that GOD does watch and see. HE IS STILL watching we’re just not listening or believing he sees. HE DOES. God Save the USA.

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  • Dave In Arizona
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:32pm

    Big Brother cometh? No, Big Brother is here.

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  • Dano.50
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:31pm

    And by the way.

    While we may not all be potential terrorists, we are ALL potential crimminals.

    Unless you can keep to the exact speed limits everywhere for starters.

    I wonder, if the gps in vehicles to tax road use becomes law, if speeding will become pro-rated.

    Instead of just getting a ticket when the cop stops you, will you just get a monthly bill saying you were 2 m.p.h. over the limit here, or 4.25 mph over the limit for a period of six minutes here.

    Maybe instead of arguing over the credit card, the most common spousal fight will be over the monthly speeding bill.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 7:24pm

      @muffy… Look here ****. You don’t have any right to privacy if your in a public place. The government has the same right to watch you as I do. If you’re outside of your out where I can see you then I can watch you, take video or pictures of you, and listen to or record your conversation. I have the RIGHT to do that, and so does the government. God never said that we couldn’t. Did she?

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:50pm

      Oldphoto678

      Get out of my country you POS!

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    • Wolf
      Posted on August 1, 2012 at 8:36am

      “…WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:50pm
      Oldphoto678

      Get out of my country you POS!…”

      I Second that sentiment.

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  • supermurder
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:30pm

    “If you have nothing to hide, why would you worry about surveillance?” – THE most idiotic and dangerous statement one can make.

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    • SREGN
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:46pm

      Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither.

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    • MadMax123
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:28pm

      that‘s what happened in Germany in the 30’s soon after the jews were being bagged and tagged.

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    • muffythetuffy
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:31pm

      The Government does not have the right, that is why. Privacy is a right we get from the Creator. I deserve the same right to privacy as does the President and members of Congress.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:09am

      Bloomie, Fat Janet (Where are the doughnuts) Nopolitician, Epic Holdup, Sweet Old Barack and Valerie Jughead want this system installed everywhere. If you don’t agree with them you are a terrorist and must be under observation and must be controlled.
      If you think they have that right reelect Sweet Old Barack and watch him declare himself King of USA. Then it will become a crime to critisize the King.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • Best_Patriot
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:29pm

    All this means is that the cops have to run/walk even less. They’ll get fatter and use lethal force more often as a result.

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  • omgfolks
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:29pm

    This is not about stopping terroist, it is about the goverment having total control, nothing more nothing less. Every day that goes by the goverment uses the “terrorist” as an excuse to take away citiznes rights. We the people have become to consumed with keeping our homes and our jobs that we have lost sight of the country and what it means to so many. With all those who care the ultimate price for freedom we ignore their sacrifice and allow the goverment to lead us blindly into tyranny. It is so sad that we have become such morons in beleiving the wasteful spending will stop, the intrusion to our liberties and our privacy will end. Our financial system was set up to fail from the beginning, we see this truth in our every day lives, goverments state local and federal spend money they do not have, projected dollars from the future to spend today. Whimpy said it best when he said I will glad pay you tuesday for a hamberger today. Our goverement runs this way, all of them. I am sick of the waste and the projected this or thats, I am tired of hearing how terrorist this and terrorist that, The real terrorist in ourselves for becoming dumb enough to drink the dman koolaide.

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  • OniKaze
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:29pm

    Remember folks… By Modern accepted criteria from the U.S. Federal Government… NEARLY EVERY American citizen (no matter how “law abiding” they are) can fit the definition of “Terrorist”…

    All you have to do, is voice ANY kind of differing opinion from that of the current administration (no matter who’s that admin. is…) and you are a “terrorist”…

    Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is a fool…. When you silently sit by and watch your neighbors get “taken away”, there will be no-one around to help you, when its YOUR TURN to be “taken away”…

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:29pm

    Giving up your FREEDOMS in exchange for security can not be a good idea. We are giving up more & more of our rights to freedom every day to the Government. Since the Patriot act got passed the Government has been steadily taking more ground and freedom from us. It’s time to stand our ground and decide when enough is enough. You CAN NOT trade your freedom for so called security!!!

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:07pm

      I did already. Voted with my feet to Texas. If NY wants this and they vote for it, let them have it. Some people really do wish to live in an Orwellian police state. From a freedom loving standpoint…who am I to tell them that they can’t have that? Just don’t try it with me.

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  • Dano.50
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:24pm

    We have those “If you’re not doing anything wrong…” lemmings in Canada too.

    I ask “Well how about letting me go through your bank statements or computer?”

    It never fails that they say “No,“ and when I ask ”Why? You hiding something?” they tend to stutter and pretty much always have no counter except to, “That’s different, you instead of the government.”

    Then they really get annoyed when I say the only difference I see, is you just admitted you trust teh governmetn more than me.”

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  • dorightfearnothing
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:20pm

    Well I guess the question then becomes, what is the definition of a terrorist & criminal from Mayor Bloomberg’s perspective??? Hope you don’t get caught with a 32 ounce Coke…..

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:19pm

    This is what people are being told about the cameras NOW. That doesn’t mean the use of them will remain the same as it is today. Here in Memphis, TN, the city installed cameras on red lights at intersections where there were many accidents. The purpose was to “prevent accidents from people running the red lights”, but others argued that it was to “raise revenue”. The “raise revenue” was more likely the real reason since it is now being discussed that the cameras be used to record how often people from the surrounding suburbs enter the city itself. If individuals enter more than twice per week, they will have to pay to have their car inspected. It’s called “Bait and Switch”.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:09pm

      Then pick candidates that will get rid of them and then vote for those candidates. Simple right?

      If that doesn’t work. Move to where there are like minded people. Eventaully secession will happen and you’ll want to be on the right side of the line.

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  • Teame Zazzu
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:18pm

    Have you heard of DHS Urban Telepresence (TENTACLE) and WIDE AREA AIRBORNE PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE??? DHS attempts to integrate all camera sources from interior and exterior (with software like Tentacle) and WASS into one system that tracks you even when you enter buildings or lose overhead coverage.
    What is DHS Urban telepresence?

    Multi-camera real-time Feature Recognition, Extraction &Tagging Automation (McFRETA), and authored by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The goal of the effort was to design, develop, and demonstrate a scalable framework and software application to enable tracking and feature extraction of uncooperative entities captured in multiple streaming sources and enabling near real-time forensic analysis of the extracted data. http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/Ge...

    What is WIDE AREA PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE ? (ARGUS, Gorgon stare, hawkeye II, angelfire, gigapixel camera, kestrel) CITY-WIDE DRONE 24/7 VIDEO ENABLED WITH AUTOMATIC OBJECT TRACKING OF CARS/PEDESTRIANS IN THE FRAME 50 SQUARE MILES ACROSS
    http://www.pixia.com/solutions...

    Commercially Operated Persistent Surveillance Solution (COPSS). COPSS provides customers a commercial turnkey solution to Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) collection, processing and dissemination for public and private sector customers such as law enforcement, border patrol, federal emergency management officials and private companies. We should all fight aggressively to stop Wide Area Persistent Surveillance

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:12pm

    I have nothing to hide when I’m using the bathroom… that doesn’t mean that I want to be watched!

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  • TeslanEdison
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:10pm

    I don’t think they would waste the money on so many cameras in other cities, now drones following you once you leave their video network, I totally believe that will happen. They should really be careful about relying so heavily on surveillance in a city, there are many ways to Jam a system like that no matter how robust they think it is, I think that is why the FBI will go with drones nationally rather than trying to keep an easily disabled video network up in every major city. This might work in jolly old England but keep in mind Tesla had a lab in down town NY if he lived today and were irritated enough he’d likely jammed their entire network if not fried the whole thing . From what I understand there are supposed to be 10-20 Tesla level scientists based upon population and education in this decade, all they need to do is really upset them.

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  • mbowen
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:03pm

    What crime is a camera gonig to stop? If they did then the 7-11 wouldn’t be getting robbed.

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  • drphil69
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:00pm

    Minority Report anyone?

    Hey, if you have nothing to hide, why would you mind us putting cameras and mikes in your home? Or monitoring your electricity use?

    Or maybe putting a tracking chip in every citizen… hey if you have nothing to hide, where is the harm, right??

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:11pm

      I know Huh?

      These people are sooo evil its not even funny! This is what happens when people fail to self regulate their own morality and actions. You get tyrannical leaders to mind your business 24/7. The founders recognized this and said as much.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:57pm

    Every so called ‘conservative’ would classify this system as erotica,ah yes ‘total surveillance’ for our protection of course.Here’s a gem from a citizen “It would make me feel safer to know the public being protected that way,” one resident said. “If you have nothing to hide, why would you worry about surveillance?” This person is the perfect lemming,willing to sacrifice liberty guaranteed by the constitution,in short an idiot and the type of mindset all tyrannical regimes love to exploit.

    ‘Potential terrorists’ I really like that one what this means is every citizen,yes folks the feds can deem you a terrorist and hold you without an attorney as long as they want,it‘s all fun and games until you’re the ‘suspected terrorist’ and picked up for questioning,I assure you your attitude will change if you’re on the hot seat. But I’m innocent,doesn‘t matter we have ’total protection’ now,see what it cost you?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:04pm

      This is the case of Big Sister and Big Brother coming out in full force; being done both on the local and national levels one step at a time. Mayor Bloomburg and the other communists who seek to reforge the nation into their own nightmarish image of a utopian ideal of uttermost insanity will spin this more and more as a ‘needed means to guarantee the public safety.”

      As was once said, “those who trade freedom for security will not enjoy either for long.”

      So it is here and now, we are seeing the example set with a socialist/communist control of items being banned, lifestyle and family choices being made for them, and now security implemented, which will soon be followed in other communities around the nation.

      One step at a time, and the communists are gaining power.

      We need to end the madness of them across the board, local, city, county, state, and federal while we still have time.

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    • TRILO
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:14pm

      You are 100% correct.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:15pm

      We used to self regulate because we knew God was watching. Since we’ve replaced any belief in him this is the substitute. The ultimate in counterfeiting! Log every action, every word, every transaction etc. Your judged in this world by your stance on the social issues so this is now how they know your heart.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:12pm

      There are a whole lot of y’all that were happy when W signed that Patriot Act. You know it. Don’t act like you have always been about civil liberties. Now when the chickens are coming home to roost y’all are finding religion. Too late. Enjoy the police state you gave birth to.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:34pm

      ROTHBARDIAN_IN_THE_CLEVE That’s some observation on your part,you talk like you know me yet we’re strangers.You need a new crystal ball.

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  • MDECKER
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:55pm

    Anyone that has read, “ The Blaze”, is probably already under surveillance and some even targeted for dispatch.

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  • HKS
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:55pm

    I would say that would fit right in with the leadership of that city. Total control of the citizens in every aspect of life. What you eat, what you drink or don’t and anything else you can think of. Why would anyone want to live there.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:04pm

      It’s a lemmings paradise,they’ll gleefully participate in their own demise and the beauty of it,from the regimes perspective is they don’t even know what they willfully gave up.

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  • Revere2
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:53pm

    Also crime rates will drop. as long as it’s outside where does the privacy issue come in.

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    • booger71
      Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:13pm

      No where in the article does it say it will be used strictly outside.

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  • skiz
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:53pm

    “It would make me feel safer to know the public being protected that way,” one resident said. “If you have nothing to hide, why would you worry about surveillance?”

    What I am worried about is my LIBERTY! This is a trick statement the left and police, to be honest, use. If you trade your freedom for safety you will have niether! Tyranny is ONCE AGAIN raising it’s ugly head and if WE THE PEOPLE,as stupid as most of us are, dont do something soon it will get bloody. Just check the history of every nation that has ever excisted.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:48pm

    In other words, anyone with a 32oz soda, smoking a cigarette, feeding their child formula, exercising their 2nd amendment rights, ordering a buttered popcorn at the movies, in possession of salt and transfats, and god forbid, voting Republican. That is who the intend on investigating.

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  • hauschild
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:48pm

    “Potential Terrorists” is progressive and elitist code speak for “traditional Americans”.

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  • BeckIgnoresConstitution
    Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:47pm

    1st NY then USA.

    “We hold these truths to be self-evident, … that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, … Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence

    Obama routinely omits ‘Creator’ when speaking of unalienable rights.

    Glenn must stop omitting Art 2, Sec 1, of the Constitution when speaking of Obama!

    “The usurper Obama is not eligible for multiple reasons including:
    1. Failure to be a “natural born citizen” as required by Article 2, Section 1.
    2. Being born a British citizen pursuant to British Nationality Act of 1948.
    3. Law enforcement investigators have concluded his birth certificate is fraudulent, which along with other identity anomalies i.e., suspected fraudulent selective service registration, suspected fraudulent social security number(s) and multiple aliases, very likely means Obama is not even a U.S. citizen!

    The most authoritative source for the meaning of a “natural born citizen” as one born in U.S. of U.S. citizen parents (plural), is in fact the Constitution. The meaning of a natural born citizen is further confirmed by American history, the Founders, Congress and the Supreme Court.”[1]

    1. http://www.obamabirthcertificate.net/2012/07/summary-of-obamas-ineligibility.html

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