October 29, 2009
Video: Followers of Imam Shot by FBI Assault Camera Crew
Here's a video of the followers of Christopher "Luqman Abdullah" Thomas assaulting a camera crew as they went in for an interview.
As noted previously, there seems to be a dramatic uptick in the number of domestic terror suspects lately. On cue, the NY Times commences hand wringing and wondering whether or not the FBI has too much discretionary power in investigating terrorists here in the homeland.
I always love these journalistic masturbatory exercises that frame the issue of Islamist terror in terms of "privacy concerns". The most glaring point of hypocrisy being that the narrative they construct is one of an unaccountable FBI investigating Muslims which is a "privacy" issue because of, um, what exactly?
Let me once again remind our moral superiors at the New York Times that an investigation is a far cry from an allegation of wrong doing. Often investigations lead to, well, nothing.
And, in fact, when it comes to privacy issues the most unaccountable and dangerous institution is the media itself. The information contained in an investigation being rather irrelevant should no prosecution stem from it unless the media decides that you, the public, have a right to know it.
And what of all those media investigations that never get published because some wise editor decides that the story is full of holes? Should that raise privacy concerns?
The evidential threshold for indicting someone in federal court seems rather higher than that of convincing an editor to run a story which might reveal the embarrassing details of someone's life.
