Racial Profiling

Another outrageous example of police abuse exposed when an Iowa State Trooper pulled over Michael Wagner for not wearing his seatbelt. C’mon, we know better than that, Wagner was really stopped because he is a Muslim! The outrage of it all! And then, just because Wagner failed to prodcue any identification or stick to a name when asked who he was on several occassions, the police officer looked around a little more, finding the following inside the victim’s car:

9mm pistol with magazine (loaded)
bullet proof vest (3 each)
ammunition (hundreds of rounds)
flight simulator and flight manuals
telescope
night-vision goggles
night-vision rifle scope
a copy of the Koran

The police are obviously trying to twist the truth claiming that Wagner had these items, ordinary household religious articles mind you, to use in a possible sniper attack. Where is the ACLU on this?! We’ve got to stop this brutal violation of Mr. Wagner’s rights.

Oh yeah, and while Mr. Wagner and his wife were sitting inside the State Trooper’s cruiser waiting, watching the police pulling his arsenal religious articles from his vehicle, he was caught on the cruiser’s viedo recorder saying to his wife, “I told you I should have killed him.” Sgt Hook out.

Via Michelle Malkin

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The dogs stepping on his holy books doesn’t even compare to the shit he took on his country. He’s a TRAITER and an enemy to the US. Charge and convict him as one!

Comment by Cindy — 29 July 2004 @ 1110

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Hook - this combined with the lady they arrested for a fake passport in Texas on Tuesday (who was listed on a terrorists watch list) means they’re still attempting to use non-Arab males to attack us.

I wish Americans would wake up to this danger.

Thanks for saving our butts.

Comment by Kathleen Acton — 29 July 2004 @ 1111

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I’ve always said that terrorist are within and without our borders. People just assume that Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent are all the terrorists in the world.

I live in OK, just ask me about Timothy McVeigh.

Comment by kb — 29 July 2004 @ 1507

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I don’t get how people can not love this great country, how they can be born and raised with the freedoms we have…well it just floors me everytime I see something like this. Another great post by the way.

Comment by Jenn — 29 July 2004 @ 1551

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Jen, couldn’t agree with you more. As a child the great “warning” of the time that sticks with me was that the Communists will “destroy us from within.” Fifty years later, different time different enemy, the slogan still applies. Thanks Sgt Hook.

Comment by betsy — 29 July 2004 @ 1643

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Hmmmmm, Wagner…Wagner…nope, I don’t think that family name has it’s roots in Islam. Must be a KonVurt of some sort. As far as the audio goes..I’m betting he meant to say cured him..not killed him.

Sheesh…I can hear the court crappola on this one already. If he walks, maybe someone close by can just ‘take care of it’? Where have all the snipers gone?

Great post. Too bad it’s too little too late for us here at home. I say we all arm ourselves and “forgeddabout” the courts.

Comment by radec — 29 July 2004 @ 1921

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Holy s**t, Batman!!! Damn, that pisses me off!

Comment by Connie — 29 July 2004 @ 2003

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Yes, this man is dangerous, but reading the article, I get the sense that he is more of a nutcase, not a bona fide terrorist. Why would a sniper be carrying around flight manuals? Why would a hijacker need a night vision scope? To me, it doesn’t add up unless he was just an insane, violent individual.

I’m glad they caught him, but I’m not entirely convinced that he represents the genuine article. Perhaps he was manipulated.

Comment by Rob C — 29 July 2004 @ 2132

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Umm..

I’m in Iowa.

My blonde, blue-eyed, 21 year old daughter got a $65 no seatbelt ticket about 3 weeks ago. Nothing else, just no seatbelt.

The attorney babbling that it’s racial/religious profiling knows it’s BS. Sheesh, look in our local paper (small town, the paper is published weekly) Our paper lists every ticket and every arrest made each week. A majority of the tickets are either no seat belt, or speeding. (which in our county is 58 in a 55)

In Iowa, if ya don’t wear a seltbelt..you may as well have a neon sign on the roof of your car blinking “Revenue! Revenue! Revenue!”

Comment by Tink — 29 July 2004 @ 2217

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I’ve read before that the USA prisons were becoming a breeding place for muslin converts. Recently read where a muslin cop got help from the ACLU so he could continue wearing his turban on duty. Perhaps our country is also being ‘manuipulated’ in order to be ‘politically correct’. Thank God for that Iowa trooper and bless you Sgt. Hook for making us aware of him. I wish I could give you and your troops a big bear hug for being so damn brave and honoring your pledge to country.

Comment by Granny Jan — 29 July 2004 @ 2226

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What is really freaky is the victim is from Santee, I live in the next town.

Comment by Mary Ellen — 29 July 2004 @ 2329

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like you tell me something new..believe it or not I experience that almost every day. You say about MrWagner well let me tell you about Mrs Giannopoulou (that would be ME). Even my son was a racism victim at school. And we are not muslim.. we are Christians just not catholics. The “problem” with us is that we dont look “American” and we have an accent. Something that automatically to some people means stupid.
Dont let me start on this cause I am full of rage. If you go back on my blog you’ll find the story.
I just wonder…does religion looks or background make other people better than us or us better than them??

Comment by Jenny — 30 July 2004 @ 0353

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is it just me or does anyone else feel like that was a flashback to the DC sniper? Thank God he was caught no matter what he was planning to do or why.

Comment by sherry — 31 July 2004 @ 0650

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