Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said during an interview on Wednesday following a shooting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada that the U.S. needs to forget about political correctness and “go all out with surveillance” of Muslims.
“With ISIS making a concerted effort to bring about these domestic attacks we have to go all out with surveillance,” King said during an interview with NewsmaxTV’s “America’s Forum.” “We have to monitor what’s happening in those communities and we have to be quick to call it terrorism.”
He said Muslim communities and mosques “often are incubators of this type of terrorism.”
“We can have all the technology in the world, the fact is we have to find out what’s happening on the ground in these Muslim communities and we can only do that through increased surveillance,” King said.
King criticized what he described as “morons” at the New York Times editorial board, the Associated Press and the American Civil Liberties Union, who protested the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim communities.
“The fact is we have to find out what people are thinking,” King said. “We have to find out who the radicals are.”
Watch the interview below. His comments start about about the 6:15 mark.
h/t BuzzFeed
Apparently, Islam is the new Communism. McCarthyism is alive and well in the USA. I’d be willing to predict that internment camps of Muslims, a la the Japanese during WWII, are not far away. I wasn’t alive during the 50s, but i have a regretfull feeling that i’m about to live through that decade, all over again.
To sensible Republicans out there, paranoia is a treatable psychiatric illness. History is a very valuable subject, especially if you choose public service as a career. The Bill of Rights cannot be reserved for only a few American citizens, but must be upheld for everyone. The rule of law is established by a democratic process here in America. Inciting violence against the federal government is a felony. Be careful with your choice of words. Fear is not a positive value, and is not a sensible basis for the formulation of policy.
Can you imagine waking up every morning being this afraid and paranoid?
I can’t.
I know where one radical is…he happens to represent a district in Iowa.
I call for immediate and 24/7 surveillance of this anti-American subversive.
Interesting that he didn’t call for “all out surveillance” of Irish-Americans during The Troubles. Oh, that’s right, he was supporting the IRA then. Guess the IRA were different terrorists.
If homegrown terrorism is a real threat, it might be prudent to tighten restrictions on buying guns in general and certain types of guns in particular. (Rolls eyes and whistles innocently.)