Americans living and working in Newark were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark.
For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD’s Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping on conversations inside businesses owned or frequented by Muslims.
The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press, containing brief summaries of businesses and their clientele. Police also photographed and mapped 16 mosques, listing them as “Islamic Religious Institutions.”http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/02…


Doesn’t surprise me…I would knock down all of the cameras if it wouldn’t result in my being arrested.
And I thought the ”Repub” position on Islam would favor things like this. After all, it’s you who says the Liberals hate freedom because we support equal protection for Muslims.
I live in Kentucky. Does that make me a Republican?
Yes this is true in Russia before this was normal action. There are men who died fighting this war, and shame on you to complain it is your responsibility as an American to support our government in this war.
Liberal NYC has been ran by republicans for the last 20 years, Bloomberg and Guiliani are both republicans Dont let the facts get in the way of a good rant
NYC lost their minds a little after 9-11… it happens in extreme circumstances…
if it happened in a southern town, they would have thrown them all in an internment camp…
Your question is so full of obama and just smells like His picture.
Is that a very bad thing?
Liberals are not all Democrats and Conservatives are not all Republicans. To clarify that point first. I’m sorry that this is the way things are in America. It reminds me of WW II with the Japanese. You have a group who performed an act that changed everything, and brought themselves as the focal point for mistrust. I’m not a broad brush person, but Muslim terrorist made an entire community suspect. Plus, Italian-Americans getting the same kind of attention because of criminal activities or the new Russians and El Salvadorian immigrants being in that same boat. Lots of groups and not just Muslims are being watched. White supremacist are another group. It sucks, but there are lots of people who want to do things to hurt law adiding people. Do you wait until something bad happens or find a way to head it off before people are hurt.
People say “Freedom isn’t free”. That is a lie. “Freedom is free. The preservation of freedom is what comes with costs”. I don’t care if the 60 page report from the Associated Press was reported. What I want to know is if innocent law abiding Muslims were hurt by the surveillance. If the answer is no, and you just don’t like being watched…welcome to the world I grew-up in as a black male in America. It sucks, but it is not totally without merit. I get lumped in with the thugs who do bad things. If doing this prevents another underwear or Time Square bombing attempt, then you have my apologies, but the only thing that will change this is time and help in getting the people who do horrible things in the name of religion. I understand your opposition, but for the forseeable future this is going to be the norm.