Friday, May 16, 2008

They are all good people. I know they are.

So why do I get a wrinkled brow when I read this?

Summary. Sgt Weiss Rasool has been convicted of using his access to a police computer, at the request of a terrorist suspect, to access the network, determine that the suspect was under surveillance and so advise him.

"The target was arrested in November 2005, then convicted and deported, according to court filings in Rasool's case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Linehan said that the target and his family were already dressed and destroying evidence at 6 a.m. when agents arrived to make the arrest, indicating that they had been tipped off."


In addition we find that:

Now the president of an Arlington, Va.-based counterterrorism research center is asking Rasool's bosses to reconsider their 2006 decision to cease using training programs offered by the center. Complaints by Rasool and an officer from another local agency that the training was anti-Islam prompted Fairfax County police to break with the Higgins Center for Counter Terrorism Research.


So he complains about counterterrorism training and rats out the FBI to a a person who was later convicted and deported. Guess what.

He is punished with two years probation and is still working. Wow.

Despite his plea to a misdemeanor, Rasool remains a Fairfax County police sergeant although he is under an internal affairs investigation.


Now you would think that such actions would lead some of the Muslim organizations to condemn Rasools actions. You would be wrong.

Among those writing to the sentencing judge in support of Rasool was CAIR governmental affairs director Corey Saylor. "I have always found Sgt. Rasool eager to promote a substantive relationship between the Fairfax County Police Department and the local Muslim community. His efforts played a significant role in improving trust in a time when mutual misunderstanding could easily severe (sic) all positive ties between these two groups


And who do we find joining Rasool in his attacks on the counterterrorism class?

Another officer who joined Rasool in complaining about the Higgins program works for an area sheriff's department, Leitner said. That officer claimed to be a representative from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Leitner said.


Catch a clue, chums. Our desire to be politically correct is leading us down the wrong road. Think things out.

If the person asking Rasool for help had been a Baptist would he have done so? Would he have told them that the FBI was following them?

Would the Southern Baptist Conference written a letter on his behalf to the sentencing judge??

If the class on terrorism had been about the KKK, would Rasool have complained about it?

And if he had, would the department have canceled the class?



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