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N.Y. Jews to Start Armed Patrols
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N.Y. Jews to Start Armed Patrols
Sun Jun 9, 8:03 PM ET
By TED SHAFFREY, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Citizens armed with shotguns will patrol the streets of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods because of comments a suspected terrorist made about targeting them, a rabbi said.
The patrols, to begin June 16, are in response to comments Abdul Rahman Yasin made during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" on June 2, said Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group.
Yasin, who is sought by the FBI ( news - web sites) in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said in an interview from a compound in Iraq that he and his accomplices originally targeted heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
They later decided to attack the twin towers because they believed most of their occupants were Jewish, Yasin said. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in the 1993 bombing.
The largest segment of the population in the Borough Park and southern Flatbush neighborhoods is Hassidic and Orthodox Jews. There are 290 synagogues in the area.
Lloyd said the street patrols would include 50 to 200 people of various religious faiths, mainly Jews, carrying shotguns in bags, along with people licensed to own and carry other types of firearms. Others will carry bats, pipes, cell phones and walkie-talkies and will patrol the streets daily from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. except Friday, the Jewish Sabbath.
"This will be a very effective deterrent against terrorism directed at American Jews and other targets," Lloyd said.
The rabbi criticized the police department for not adequately protecting the neighborhoods and said, "the only people who will view us as vigilantes already look at us that way anyway."
It is illegal to carry an exposed shotgun on city streets, New York Police Department spokeswoman Valerie St. Rose said. She said it was unclear whether carrying one in a bag is illegal.
"We'll monitor the (patrols), and if there needs to be police action taken, it will be taken," said St. Rose, who declined to say how many officers routinely patrol the neighborhoods.
A community leader from Williamsburg, another heavily Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, said he opposes the armed patrols.
"The Jewish community condemns such a thing. We don't need it. We can't have civilians running around with guns. It's going to look like Beirut here," said Isaac Abraham.
The Jewish Defense Group is "a group of men and women who are proud to be Jews" and are committed to defending, demonstrating and rallying for Jewish causes and against anti-Semitism, according to its Web site.
The JDG, founded by Lloyd in Queens in 1985, says it follows the principles of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
In January, JDL chairman Irv Rubin and a group member were charged with conspiring to blow up a mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman in California. Rubin and his co-defendant, Earl Krugel, pleaded innocent and are scheduled to go on trial Oct. 1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_re_us/nyc_armed_patrols_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Sun Jun 9, 8:03 PM ET
By TED SHAFFREY, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Citizens armed with shotguns will patrol the streets of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods because of comments a suspected terrorist made about targeting them, a rabbi said.
The patrols, to begin June 16, are in response to comments Abdul Rahman Yasin made during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" on June 2, said Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group.
Yasin, who is sought by the FBI ( news - web sites) in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, said in an interview from a compound in Iraq that he and his accomplices originally targeted heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
They later decided to attack the twin towers because they believed most of their occupants were Jewish, Yasin said. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in the 1993 bombing.
The largest segment of the population in the Borough Park and southern Flatbush neighborhoods is Hassidic and Orthodox Jews. There are 290 synagogues in the area.
Lloyd said the street patrols would include 50 to 200 people of various religious faiths, mainly Jews, carrying shotguns in bags, along with people licensed to own and carry other types of firearms. Others will carry bats, pipes, cell phones and walkie-talkies and will patrol the streets daily from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. except Friday, the Jewish Sabbath.
"This will be a very effective deterrent against terrorism directed at American Jews and other targets," Lloyd said.
The rabbi criticized the police department for not adequately protecting the neighborhoods and said, "the only people who will view us as vigilantes already look at us that way anyway."
It is illegal to carry an exposed shotgun on city streets, New York Police Department spokeswoman Valerie St. Rose said. She said it was unclear whether carrying one in a bag is illegal.
"We'll monitor the (patrols), and if there needs to be police action taken, it will be taken," said St. Rose, who declined to say how many officers routinely patrol the neighborhoods.
A community leader from Williamsburg, another heavily Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, said he opposes the armed patrols.
"The Jewish community condemns such a thing. We don't need it. We can't have civilians running around with guns. It's going to look like Beirut here," said Isaac Abraham.
The Jewish Defense Group is "a group of men and women who are proud to be Jews" and are committed to defending, demonstrating and rallying for Jewish causes and against anti-Semitism, according to its Web site.
The JDG, founded by Lloyd in Queens in 1985, says it follows the principles of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.
In January, JDL chairman Irv Rubin and a group member were charged with conspiring to blow up a mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman in California. Rubin and his co-defendant, Earl Krugel, pleaded innocent and are scheduled to go on trial Oct. 1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020610/ap_on_re_us/nyc_armed_patrols_1
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Report By J.J. Johnson
Published 06. 9. 02 at 21:20 Sierra Time
Perhaps if were a bunch of White Christians, someone would be calling for the New York National Guard and the NYPD Emergency Services to deal with such gun-toting extremism, but alas - such is the post September 11 World in New York City. Some Jewish citizens, bringing a bit of the old country home, have decided shotguns are the best form of 'Homeland Security'
May God Bless 'em.
Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the Jewish Defense Group, made the announcement based on comments by Abdul Rahman Yasin, a 'Jihadist' getting his 15 minutes of fame on CBS's '60 minutes' Sunday.
Yasin, who is wanted by the feds in the World Trade Center attack - the one that didn't bring the towers down - said in an interview from a compound in Iraq that he and his comrades of Allah's Army originally targeted heavily Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
But with the whole city being unarmed, why not torment innocent gentiles, while you're at it?
This means the targets would include the heavily populated Borough Park and southern Flatbush neighborhoods. Most are Hassidic and Orthodox Jews. There are 290 synagogues in the area.
Lloyd's militia will include 50 to 200 people of various religious faiths, mainly Jews, carrying shotguns in bags, along with people licensed to own and carry other types of firearms. Others will carry bats, pipes (in a country who's government says the individual has the right to keep and bear arms), cell phones and two-way radios and will patrol the streets daily from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. except Friday, the Jewish Sabbath. But like he said - various faiths. Guess Catholics will cover for them on the Jewish Sabbath.
"This will be a very effective deterrent against terrorism directed at American Jews and other targets,'' Lloyd said. Meanwhile, the Gentiles are at the mercy of the Policies of Charles Schummer and Hilary Clinton. Maybe they'll join this militia. Maybe the airline pilots will. Only the Office of Homeland Security knows for sure.
The Good Rabbi criticized the police department for not adequately protecting the neighborhoods and said, "the only people who will view us as vigilantes already look at us that way anyway.'' However, Valerie St. Rose, Spokeswoman for New York's Finest (NYPD), believes protecting this community is best done by reminding them, "It is illegal to carry an exposed shotgun on city streets."
Not to be deterred, the patrols start June 16. Message from the Jews to the bad guys: "Bring it."
But even in the post September 11th world, and with homicidal Jihad freaks turning life in Israel in to a game of Russian roulette, the cult of left-wing, Jewish victimhood shines through. "The Jewish community condemns such a thing. We don't need it. We can't have civilians running around with guns. It's going to look like Beirut here,'' Isaac Abraham, told the associated press.
Abraham made no mention of Tel Aviv, where armed Jewish citizens have probably prevented thousands of deaths.
Come to think of it - there aren't too many Jews in Beirut, either.
But this is Brooklyn, where an armed citizen just isn't 'kosher'.
Stay tuned.
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/06/10/arst2061002.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878