(Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Denver Police are being asked not to attend an anti-Muslim “Training” session tonight, put on by known bigot and Islamophobe John Guandolo.
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, put out this press release today:
In an email sent today to a number of Denver-area police departments, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper wrote:
“CAIR formally requests that your department investigate whether or not any officers will take Mr. Guandolo’s training and whether you believe the biased and agenda-driven presentations he offers will be of any benefit to your officers or to the communities they serve.”
Earlier this year, CAIR welcomed the withdrawal of an FBI representative from an event in Texas that was initially sponsored by the anti-Muslim hate group ACT! for America and featured Guandolo.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is sponsoring these “training sessions” at the Centennial Gun Club tonight, August 13, 14, and 15. I wrote to Attorney General Cynthia Coffman July 24, asking her to prohibit law enforcement from attending training to learn how to racially profile people, when I published this diary about Guandolo’s event. I never received a reply. Today, I called Denver Police Public Information to find out their response to the CAIR email on indoctrination of their officers. Again, no response.
Southern Poverty Law Center considers Guandolo to be a spokesperson for hate groups. Guandolo, kicked out of the FBI for having a sexual affair with a witness, claims that “Muslims do not have First Amendment rights to anything.” Fellow bigot Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy is worried about Somali nationals packing meat in Greeley; At the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Gaffney said:
I don’t know about you, but it kind of creeps me out that they are getting jobs in the food supply of the United States.
– Southern Poverty Law Center, Disgraced Former FBI Agent….
Four other states – Kansas, Texas, Arizona, and Virginia – have prohibited these nuts from spreading their views, at least to police officers and public officials on the public’s payroll. Guandolo’s organization certainly is a “hate group”, and should not be spreading anti-Muslim bigotry and racial / religious profiling in Colorado.
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And the GOP's 2016 fear mongering campaign begins to take shape:
1. Armed militia in the streets in Ferguson, at Camp Bundy, at the White Hope Mine and who knows where else
2. Gaffney goading attacks with cartoon contests and the like
3. The pro militia lobby (RMGO & Gun Owners of America) sponsoring "hate muslims" training
The lead up to the 2016 elections is getting ugly.
I'll bet they won't have any time to discuss this tonight?:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/states-with-high-gun-ownership-see-more-officers-killed/?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=well.blogs.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwell.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F08%2F13%2Fstates-with-high-gun-ownership-see-more-officers-killed%2F&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0
it makes perfect sense to me that gunheads would be more likely to shoot police officers. They also invest in armor-piercing bullets and the like – preparing for "race war", or the "zombie apocalypse", or maybe just someone worshiping Allah next door.
When Kansas, Texas, and Arizona are ahead of you in protecting against hate propaganda, you probably should stop and take notice.