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RUSH: Yesterday, Ted Cruz was big news on the program because he had proposed something that had already been implemented. He suggested that it be re-implemented. And that was the NYPD surveilling and paying attention to — monitoring, whatever you want to say — Muslim neighborhoods to try to find any evidence that there might be bomb-making activity, terrorism being planned or what have you. It was a plan that had already been implemented during the Bush administration in cahoots with the New York City Police Department and the mayor.<\/p>\n

And it had been allowed to end, I think — or if it didn\u2019t end, it certainly faded away at some point — and Cruz, in the reaction to what had happened in Brussels, said, “Hey, it\u2019s time to bring this kind of stuff back. I mean, this is very serious.” And you remember the reaction. Everybody said, “You can\u2019t do that! That\u2019s not our values. That\u2019s not who we are,” all of this rot. People went just had a cow over it, which is why I went back and found the original news stories in the AP back in 2011 describing how the plan worked, and it was not just the NYPD surveilling these neighborhoods.<\/p>\n


\nIt was the CIA helping them, and it happened under Obama. It started under Bush, Obama continued it, and here\u2019s Cruz merely suggesting that something that already had been be re-implemented, and everybody was having a cow over this. But Cruz didn\u2019t back down. And, in fact, there\u2019s more to this. He was on Bloomberg\u2019s All Due Respect on TV last night. Mark Halperin said to him, “What would you say to a young child who would see policemen in their neighborhood and wondering why is their neighborhood, a young Muslim child getting increased scrutiny?” What this is about is…<\/p>\n

I made a point yesterday<\/a>. These moderate, peace-loving Muslims, wouldn\u2019t they welcome a police presence in their neighborhood if it was designed to keep the neighborhood safe, if it was designed to root out terrorists, criminals, bad actors? Because we\u2019re told that moderate, mainstream Muslims want no part of terrorism. We are told, in fact, that terrorism support has nothing to do with Islam. Even though terrorists commit their acts of terror in the name of Islam, we are told that Islam is a religion of peace, that there is no terrorism.<\/p>\n

This is what Obama tells us. I\u2019m not making this up. This is what Obama says; this what Hillary says; it\u2019s what all the leftists and even some queasy Republicans eagerly point out. “No, no! Islam a religion of peace. They would not be violent. In the Koran, there\u2019s no terrorism.” Of course, that\u2019s not true. But let\u2019s say it is true. If it\u2019s a religion of peace, and terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, and it\u2019s just that terrorists hide in Muslim neighborhoods…<\/p>\n

<\/a>If you are a peace-loving Muslim, wouldn\u2019t you welcome an effort by law enforcement to root out that kind of behavior in your neighborhood? That\u2019s the question I raised. And that\u2019s what Halperin\u2019s asking Cruz here, in a disagreeing way. “Well, what would you say to a young child who would see one of these policemen in the neighborhood, wondering why is the policeman in their neighborhood? A young Muslim child getting increased scrutiny. Don\u2019t you see how they could be suspicion of this?”<\/p>\n

CRUZ: New York had in place a very effective program to work cooperatively with the Muslim community to monitor and prevent radicalization and to prevent Islamic terror attacks from occurring before they happen. Now, unfortunately Mayor de Blasio came into office and he\u2019s every bit of a captive to political correctness as is Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, and they disbanded the program. The police are here to protect us. I categorically reject the view of Democrats that the police are the bad guys. When we\u2019ve had police in a community, it protects that community and keeps it safe.<\/p>\n


\nRUSH: And who… It\u2019s hard to disagree with that, but people do, and I will acknowledge that there are many communities think the police are not there but to do anything but catch people and put \u2019em in jail. I understand people think that. It\u2019s a really a sad thing that that view of the police has taken hold in so much of America. It isn\u2019t true. Try living without them. Try living in any community without policing. Try there being nobody at the end of the phone when you call 911. Try it. You\u2019ll want \u2019em back within seconds of them leaving the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

But civil rights coalitions combined with the Democrat Party have worked their magic and have got everybody thinking that the cops are what caused all the problems in Ferguson and Baltimore and Oakland and wherever else, Los Angeles, you name it. The cops are the problem. But you try living in any neighborhood anywhere without them, and you\u2019ll want them back before the day is over. Now, last night in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, there was a campaign event, Insight 2016. One more little sound bite here from Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

CRUZ: I\u2019m so sorry to be dismaying Barack Obama. And, you know, yesterday and today I was attacked by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and New York\u2019s mayor Bill de Blasio — which suggests maybe I\u2019m doing something right!<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t just those. It was the entire leftist power structure that went after Cruz, and many Republicans did, too. They went after Cruz on this. That\u2019s why I spent so much time yesterday trying to tell you, “Hey, this was not Cruz\u2019s idea. This was an idea that was hatched and implemented under George W. Bush and continued by Barack Obama. Barack Obama had a chance to get rid of the program and he didn\u2019t. He kept it in play.”<\/p>\n


\nBarack Obama\u2019s the guy almost personally flying drones in the Middle East looking people to kill based on his decision to kill them. He\u2019s in charge of the Kill List. If the world is our neighborhood, Obama clearly is surveilling it. And under the same premises that Cruz suggested neighborhoods be surveilled in the United States. With all the refugees coming in, with all the illegal immigrants pouring in, tell me it doesn\u2019t make sense. Here, let me give you a story that happens to coincide with this.<\/p>\n

The headline says it all: “Three Washington DC Students Arrested with Bomb-Making Equipment in Dorm Room.”<\/a> I wonder what their names are. Doesn\u2019t say. George Mason University, located in Fairfax, Virginia, outside Washington. It\u2019s been the site of jihadi organizing and recruitment in recent years and even months. Three students were arrested with bomb-making equipment in dorm rooms, and their names have not been released. They have not been identified. Why not?<\/p>\n

Well, any time there\u2019s a political scandal with Democrats involved, you\u2019ll never read that he\u2019s a Democrat. They never put that in the story. Why? Well, because they\u2019re a bunch of hypocrites. The only time scandals are worthwhile is when Republicans commit them and they can get them out of office or otherwise render them impotent. They have their belief system, so if you\u2019re out there and you believe that Islam is a religion of peace and Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism — and if you\u2019re out publicly saying so and you\u2019re out trying to convince people not to fall prey to…<\/p>\n

“Al-Qaeda and these guys, they\u2019re abusing a great religion. They\u2019re not really Islamic! They\u2019re not really Muslim,” and then three students arrested with bomb making dorm room and they happen to be Muslim, of course you\u2019re not gonna mention their name; makes \u2019em look bad. So that\u2019s what everybody\u2019s gonna conclude. If you don\u2019t publish their name, it must be you\u2019re trying to cover for the fact that you\u2019re wrong about something. This is a Breitbart story, by the way.<\/p>\n

“Three Washington DC Students Arrested with Bomb-Making Equipment in Dorm Room — The Associated Press is reporting that three George Mason University students have been arrested for allegedly possessing bomb-making equipment in their dorm room.” Oh, and you know what? There\u2019s another story in here, folks, about how we have rounded up… “US Marshals Arrest 13,000 in Sweep Targeting Worst Violent Offenders,” 13,000 individuals with open warrants as part of a national operation aimed at targeting the worst of the worst. And yet we\u2019re told we cannot round up illegal aliens in the shadows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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