I had this story to post days ago (just didn’t get around to it) when I wrote about the Maine Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence picking four cities to embarrass and set their citizens’ minds right on the issue of immigrant overload in their communities, and am wondering why they aren’t going to tackle Minneapolis with the largest Somali population in the US. Too tough a nut to crack I’m guessing.
Minneapolis town fathers, concerned about the security of their rather unimportant port, are nonetheless spending millions of federal dollars to beef it up.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minneapolis has never had the port of its dreams. Its river shipping last year slipped below 700,000 tons, a far cry from the predicted 3 million tons annually that sold Congress on building the St. Anthony lock and dam.
But that’s not stopping the city from making plans to spend several million dollars on beefing up riverfront security over the next five years, with federal help. Friday the City Council endorsed spending nearly $1.4 million of that sum.
Although federal port funds are paying the tab, city emergency chief Rocco Forte said the benefits will go beyond preventing terrorist attacks on shipping.
From where might this threat come? The Somali community, where else!
Although Minneapolis lacks enough shipping to crack the most recent list of the nation’s top 150 ports compiled by the American Association of Port Authorities, Forte sees a threat.
“We have to consider ourselves a prime target,” he said Friday. The director of emergency preparedness said the city’s biggest vulnerability comes from youths who have gone overseas and been trained in explosives, as a few Somalis have*.
Sounds a bit hateful, wouldn’t you say Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence?
Heads of major intelligence agencies in US also should get their minds right!
The Washington Times (and every other news outlet in the US) reported this week that intelligence agency heads warned Congress that a terrorist attack (likely from within) is expected in the US in the next 3-6 months. Of course, what these articles never say is that the most likely attackers will be Muslims in the immigrant community!
The five senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community told a Senate panel Tuesday they are “certain” that terrorists will attempt another attack on the United States in the next three to six months.
The warning came during the annual threat briefing to Congress in response to questions from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who asked, “What is the likelihood of another terrorist-attempted attack on the U.S. homeland in the next three to six months? High or low?”
“An attempted attack, the priority is certain, I would say,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, said in response.
Four other intelligence agency leaders who appeared at the hearing with Mr. Blair said they agreed with the assessment.
If the worst should happen, we, at RRW, will be ready and willing to report to confused media about how all the Muslim immigrants from terrorist-supporting countries came to be in the United States in the first place.
* We have chronicled the story of the ‘Somali missing youths’ extensively since the story first broke in November 2008. Use our search function for those words—Somali missing youths—for probably 50 posts on the topic.