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<DIV>Dear Tom and Visionaries,</DIV>
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<DIV>This is certainly in line with the Trump/Crus view of the world...
unfortunately.</DIV>
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<DIV>It’s a great reason to vote blue in November!</DIV>
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<DIV>All the best for tolerance and understanding and to apprehend the
murderers,</DIV>
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<DIV>Linda Pall</DIV>
<DIV>Former Moscow City Council Member</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 23, 2016 5:57 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] What next? Labor camps?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Is this what our country is degenerating towards?</DIV>
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<DIV>Courtesy of today's (March 23, 2016) Spokesman-Review.</DIV>
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<H1
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; FONT-SIZE: 48px; FONT-FAMILY: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); MARGIN: 5px 0px 20px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1; font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">Cruz
and Trump: Boost surveillance of Muslims after Brussels attacks</H1>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>NEW YORK -
Republican presidential candidate date Ted Cruz said Tuesday that surveillance
in Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. must be intensified following the deadly
bombings at Brussels, while rival Donald Trump suggested torturing a suspect in
last year’s Paris attacks would have prevented the carnage. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Echoing Trump’s
earlier statements, Cruz said the U.S. should stop the flow of refugees from
countries where the Islamic State militant group has a significant presence. The
Islamic State took credit for the attacks at the Brussels airport and a subway
station that killed dozens Tuesday and wounded many more. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“We need to
empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they
become radicalized,” the Texas senator said in a statement. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Trump praised
Cruz’s plan as a “good idea” that he supports “100 percent” in an interview with
CNN. The GOP front-runner also intensified his past calls for the U.S. to engage
in harsher interrogation techniques, arguing that Belgium could have prevented
the bombings had it tortured a suspect in last year’s Paris attacks who was
arrested last week.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“Well, you know,
he may be talking, but he’ll talk a lot faster with the torture. … Because he
probably knew about it. I would be willing to bet that he knew about this
bombing that took place today,” Trump said. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Trump, who has
proposed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the U.S., said “nothing’s
nice” about techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning. He
added, “It’s your minimal form of torture. We can’t waterboard, and they can
chop off heads.” </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Rep. Adam Schiff
of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said
earlier Tuesday the Brussels plot was probably already underway before the
suspect’s arrest and that his apprehension may have sped up its execution.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>When reminded that
international law prohibits torture, Trump responded: “Well, I would say that
the eggheads that came up with this international law should turn on their
television and watch CNN right now, because I’m looking at scenes on CNN right
now as I’m speaking to you that are absolutely atrocious.”</SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Speaking Tuesday
afternoon in New York, Cruz praised the city police department’s former program
of conducting surveillance in Muslim neighborhoods, called for its reinstatement
and said it could be a model for police departments nationwide. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“New Yorkers want
a safe and secure America,” Cruz said. “New Yorkers saw first-hand the tragic
consequences of radical Islamic terrorism.” </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>After the 9/11
attacks, the New York Police Department used its intelligence division to
cultivate informants and conduct surveillance in Muslim communities. In a series
of articles, the Associated Press revealed the intelligence division had
infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated
hundreds. The program was disbanded amid complaints of religious and racial
profiling. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Trump said the
city had had “the finest surveillance of the whole radical Islam situation that
there is.” He joined Cruz in blaming the city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, for
ending it. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“He took it down
and he knocked it out and that was a terrible mistake,” said Trump, adding: “We
can be nice about it and we can be politically correct about it, but we’re being
fools, OK?” </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>New York Police
Department Commissioner William Bratton objected to Cruz’s remarks Tuesday,
saying: “I take great offense at his characterization of that whole population.
… He’s really out of line.” </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>The Council on
American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and
advocacy organization, condemned the calls for surveillance, saying it sends “an
alarming message to American-Muslims who increasingly fear for their future in
this nation and to all Americans who value the Constitution and religious
liberties.” </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Democratic hopeful
Bernie Sanders, campaigning in Arizona on Tuesday, said boosting national
security and protecting civil rights must go hand in hand. He said he strongly
disagrees with calls for heightened domestic surveillance of Muslims.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“That would be
unconstitutional – it would be wrong,” Sanders said. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Imam Abdisalam
Adam, the board chair of Dar Al-Hijrah Riverside Islamic Center, a mosque in a
Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis, said putting more scrutiny on Muslim
communities is not a way to keep the country safe. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“It’s
counterproductive,” he said. “When you look at the American Muslim community,
it’s very well integrated and very involved in civic unification … It’s a
patriotic community that’s involved in so many aspects of the American life.”
</SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>Asked about Cruz’s
comment, none of a half-dozen conservative House Republicans meeting with
reporters Tuesday criticized him and most spoke of the need to keep the country
safe. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“Nearly every
neighborhood is patrolled. That’s what local law enforcement does,” said Rep.
Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., who has endorsed Cruz. He added that he didn’t know
specifically what Cruz was referring to. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0px 0px 17px"><SPAN>“I believe in the
First Amendment, the Second Amendment, every one of them, but we also know that
in this country, we’re going to have to step up security in every neighborhood
across America,” said Rep. Matt Salmon, an Arizona Republican who has endorsed
Cruz.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>"Moscow Cares"</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Tom Hansen</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>Moscow, Idaho</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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