Internet Is "The New Afghanistan": NY Police Commissioner

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Internet is the new battleground against Islamist extremism because it provides ideology that could radicalize Westerners who might then initiate home-grown attacks, New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.

"The Internet is the new Afghanistan," Kelly said, as he released a New York Police Department (NYPD) report on the home-grown threat of attacks by Islamist extremists. "It is the de facto training ground. It's an area of concern."

The report found that the challenge for Western authorities was to identify, pre-empt and prevent home-grown threats, which was difficult because many of those who might undertake an attack often commit no crimes along the path to extremism.

The report identified the four stages to radicalization as pre-radicalization, self-identification, indoctrination, and jihadization, and said the Internet drove and enabled the process

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070815/us_nm/security_newyork_internet_dc_2

[Posteritatis]

1. ... ... ... I got nothin'. (nt)

[Gonnuts]

10. Yup, I confess. the Internet made me do it!

Actually, it wasn't the Internet that turned me against our current form of government, it was a very cool 8th grade History teacher in 1960 that started it all. Along the way many authors, journalists, artists, song writers, singers, assassinations, lies, wars, and madman have cemented my belief that mankind has now reached the point that he can and will actually destroy his own species as quickly as the meteorite that destroyed the great dinosaurs.

This is one hell of a ploy to gain control over what can and cannot be said over the Internet.

The Internet is the new Afghanistan?

Sure it is. Just like we found the WMD in Iraq.

The Jackboots are not far along.

[katsy]

2. 4 simple stages that can be applied to:

journalists/media

citizen protestors

Unions

University Professors

Artists

Simple solutions from fascist simpletons.

[Demeter]

3. Are They NUTS? Stupid Question--I Retract That

Similarly, the Post Office, Fed Ex, UPS, and AT&T and the like are also included in this smear. Forgive me for doubting the rampant insanity that is afflicting this nation....

[MikeNearMcChord]

4. Oh so let us ban the internet..eh Comissioner Kelly?

Perhaps you may have, partaken of some of the dope in you police raiding days. Why do you hate America?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Rather than scrutinze the very administration and government that

gave us 911 through the deft use of negligence and irresponsible vacation planning, they choose to target the very people telling them how it is, how it was, and probably how it is going to be. These people apparrently are no students of history, otherwise, they would be looking elsewhere for answers to questions that they have yet to ask themselves. Shallow wells produce tainted waters as we have seen for the past 6 years.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Can he give one concrete example that supports his theory?

Wanting to impeach, try, and convict this criminal administration doesn't count.

[Posteritatis]

7. Oh, I'm sure there are

I don't think any of us has to think hard to remember some really foul sites - and some grade-A idiots using or misinterpreting them - out there.

Saying that means The Internet As A Whole is a looming menace, though, is like saying that kitchens are intrinsically lethal because you've seen me trying to cook in one.

[bemildred]

8. I think it would be simpler and more effective to just fire this weasel. nt

[AX10]

9. Between your assaults on protesters and this,

Kelly is aiming for Bernard Kerik status. :puke:

[sce56]

11. Yep nothing but us FREEDOM HATING RADICALS her on DU ready to join Osama & AlCIAda

I'm sure the next step in the theft of our constitutional rights will be to censor the internets!

[rucky]

12. You will see it before the year's out.

I'll bet cash money.

[nealmhughes]

13. Ah, so my theory that librarians are the most dangerous people on the planet. . .

followed by coffee shop managers. Where does one go for a quick dose of jihad? The internet. How does one get access without paying? Coffeeshops and libraries!

It is a well documented fact that a gay/lesbian bookstore in Godless Midtown Atlanta has a coffee bar in it. Coffee bar+book+library+gay= terrorist enabler!

Our bored youth in search of an identity may well decry their devotion to Hank Rollins and Suicidal Tendencies and turn gay, drink fancy coffee with Italian names (a sister language of French!) and then go to the library or the gay book store and come out a terrorist.

It is a well known fact that the librarian "profession" is rife with homosexuals, French speakers, Italian coffee drinkers and information providers, alongside Democrats and members of the U. U. Church.

Something must be done to stop this scourge or Brittany and Josh may have a vest bomb strapped on after a heavy game of a RPG (probably satanic) on the internets, all hopped up from smoking their ecstasy tablets and engaging in hooking up, with a damned librarian showing them how to make the connections of the timer.

[neuvocat]

14. So they're just gonna leave the internet alone

and let the problems fester just like Afghanistan, huh?

[VWolf]

15. Wow, I never realized

that the Internet is now the #1 producer of heroin. Thanks Ray!

[Vidar]

16. Just another fascist jackass, something we have no lack of.