The JTTF isn’t perfect by any means. In fact, it is full of clueless dopes whose heads are filled with politically correct nonsense about the motivating ideology of the terrorists they’re trying to counter. There are so many such people in it that the idea that it is targeting innocent Muslims is absurd.
“It has sowed a complete distrust between the Muslim community and the city of Portland.”
The Muslim community should be working to win the trust of law enforcement officials, not the other way around. It wasn’t JTTF officers who perpetrated over 30,000 terror attacks worldwide since 9/11.
We thoroughly appreciate how many groups are standing up for Muslims in Portland against the JTTF. We see you and we love you. #NoJTTF
— CAIR-Oregon (@CAIROregon) February 13, 2019
“Portland Withdraws From Federal Joint Terrorism Task Force,” by Amelia Templeton, OPB, February 13, 2019:
Portland is out of the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force again.
The Portland City Council voted 3-2 Wednesday to withdraw the city’s police officers from the JTTF, a partnership between federal agencies and local law enforcement.
Commissioners Jo Ann Hardesty, Amanda Fritz and Chloe Eudaly supported the change. They worry there is not enough civilian oversight to ensure Portland officers abide by civil rights and say there isn’t enough evidence to show the task force has made Portland safer.
“The current president has made clear his animosity toward Muslims, immigrants and people of color,” said Fritz, noting that the FBI has not followed through on promises to provide more, regular information on the group’s work since Portland re-entered the partnership several years ago. “I found it hard to trust the JTTF under President Obama. It’s impossible now.”
The vote is a significant win for Hardesty, the newest city commissioner who ran last year on a promise to get Portland out of the federal task force.
“For a whole year, I talked about this on the campaign trail, and everywhere I went, people were concerned about whether or not their data was collected and used in a way that was against Oregon state law,” she said. “We are here today because I am about keeping promises.”
Hardesty and Fritz had made their positions clear before Wednesday’s meeting. Eudaly ended up being the deciding vote and said she does not have confidence city leaders have enough oversight to prevent Portland officers from engaging in police work that targets immigrants and other groups….
Portland’s vibrant left-wing activist community turned out in force at Wednesday’s meeting to show their support for withdrawal. The council chamber was standing-room only with an overflow room filled as well.
Public testimony was overwhelmingly in favor of withdrawal. Of the more than 30 people who spoke, all but two urged the council to pull the city’s two police officers from the JTTF.
The people who spoke largely repeated familiar arguments regarding the task force, noting the FBI’s history of surveillance of left-wing activists and condemning the federal government’s zero tolerance immigration enforcement policy and practice of separating families.
Millie Hobaish, the daughter of a Yemeni immigrant, told the council she is a firsthand witness to the mistreatment of Muslims and immigrants by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Portland: “My family’s home was raided when I was 10 years old after several years of very heavy surveillance,” Hobaish told city leaders. “My father was detained on charges that he was not allowed to know for the first portion of the trial.”
Hobaish said a judge eventually found the charges against her father unsubstantiated and threw them out….
“It has sowed a complete distrust between the Muslim community and the city of Portland,” she said. “With that I urge that you guys vote against remaining in the JTTF.”
Timothy N Tremblay says
Islam will continue to work deceptively for it’s desired goals of slamming the combined free world into a totalitarian backward-ass regime – they’re inbred liars from generation unto generation – 2-legged goats mostly, not that there aren’t a few decent ones. However if their heads have been filled with that dog-pile dogma there may be No Hope for them.
Jayme says
There has been this same sort of push in Canada the left wants to get rid of any anti terrorism laws and they even go as far and say you should only be arrested when you carry out the plan.
Kay says
Why does a city government have the power to withdraw from issues of national security?
James Lincoln says
Both the far left and the jihadi terrorists are celebrating this decision.
Talk about collusion.
somehistory says
The JTTF’s across the country were set up to share information. Due to the simple fact that police departments don’t have the resources to cover every thing extensively, don’t have the training necessary, to investigate crimes and suspicious people, it was thought that if these had a resource like the JTTF, many more crimes could be solved. And many prevented.
For instance: Criminal #1 is known to the FBI, but they haven’t as yet found all of his cohorts in crime. But, they put the information on him and the cohorts they have located, in their computers. Little City someplace, has arrested a guy on suspicion of planning a local terror action. But, the LCPD doesn’t know about #1 criminal or his cohorts. The detectives are doing their job, but they are limited in scope. However, one officer, on his toes, has learned of the JTTF in a nearby city and makes contact. He then learns of the plans that are in the works and finds out, the FBI is looking for his “local” terrorist. He also discovers other facts his department didn’t have and that he can make use of the JTTF’s resources to help with breaking up and rounding up others of the terror cell in his area.
moslims don’t want the JTTF because it might hamper their terror plans. cair supports terror and defends terrorists. It was a cair “attorney” that instructed moslims not to speak with the FBI, and was responsible for the poster instructing moslims what to say to the FBI agents if they came around.
What criminal wants his criminal activity to be hindered by police activity? terrorists are the same. They wish to work unhindered and moslims are the ones committing the major numbers of terror attacks.
Now, Portland can be a free breeding ground and the citizens can be vulnerable targets. The cats have been sent away, so the rats will play. Just like the Portland moslim did a few years ago, during Christmas, I believe.
mortimer says
Trust and respect are earned.
There are an average of 5 lethal jihad attacks every day of the year? Virtually no Muslims go out to picket or complain about that.
sheliak says
How CAIR must laugh at the kafir sheep of Portland who beg for submission to the will of Allah.
gravenimage says
Oregon: Leftist activists trigger withdrawal of Portland, Oregon from federal Joint Terrorism Task Force
…………….
Suicidal insanity.
WPM says
If the Portland libtards do not want to share their information with other cities plus the Feds and the sharing goes both ways remove all federal funding of anything to do with law enforcement in Portland. I would go a step further by removing all federal funding to all emergency services in Portland let Portland and NYC ,Boston ,and all those progressives who do not want to be on the team fighting jihad ,if you want to play by your own rules ,fund your own stupid game. NYC with mayor Debag in charge is already crying thatTrump is saying he might cut back funding for paying part of NYPD police terrorist task force money .New York City police are not allowed to follower leads into neighboring New Jersey at this point.
TruthHonestReality says
It’s funny that they say President Trump is racist for their own misinterpretation of the words he has said, if that’s the case then what are the muslimes that want to murder us simply because we don’t believe in the filthy pig-devil they worship?
I wish that the world these leftists want would become true and happen overnight. We are just slowly giving away the west and most people are completely unaware of what’s going on around them. If everything that the leftists want would suddenly come to fruition overnight then l think people would wake up to what leftists muslimes and globalists are doing.
We all know what will happen in and to Portland if the JFFT pull out. Who and what will they blame when things get bad because they will.
Jay says
Portland is lost in its liberal insanity! I hope and pray they don’t have a major terrorist attack and then
want the Federal Gov. and FBI to rescue them! How can any American citizen side with the enemy within
that wants to destroy our way of life???? It’s like they all drank the Jonestown Kool-aid!!
May God bless and save the USA!!
Trump 2020 ??????????????
somehistory says
The mayor of Portland is accusing the Police Chief of wrong association with “far–right extremists.” The “Patriot Prayer” group wanted to have a protest and he told them how to avoid clashes with antifa by giving a member information about where the opposing group and other protesters would be staging.
The city government is just asking for trouble.
A David Darman says
How do you define left, leftist? I believe that there exists much circular reasoning by RS and commenters. By definition of these folks, a lefitist is anyone who doesn’t condemn Islam and anyone who doesn’t condemn Islam is, ipso facto, a leftist. That makes no sense to me.