Mike Bloomberg Ran Stasi-Style Police and Surveillance Operations Against Muslim Americans
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🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
As Bloomberg nears a half a billion dollars in paid ads for his presidential campaign, he is intensifying his attacks on Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, the red-baiting smears against Sanders are resurfacing as he surges in national polls. NYU Professor Nikhil Pal Singh, author of "Race and America’s Long War," dissects the record of Bloomberg, what his candidacy says about the state of electoral politics in the U.S. and discusses Bloomberg’s “racial terror” tactics in New York.
Attorney Diala Shamas, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who fought Bloomberg over his Muslim surveillance program, describes the NYPD’s “Demographics Unit” that targeted Muslim Americans, businesses, houses of worship, and restaurants. Shamas compares the surveillance program to some of the activities of the East German Stasi secret police and says Bloomberg’s use of the program should be seen as an ominous sign of what he might do as president.
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| 0:00.0 | The former New York City Mayor releasing an ad attacking the center's supporters is so |
| 0:04.9 | called Bernie Bros for their behavior online. |
| 0:07.8 | And the Bernie Bros again, they're pretty obnoxious and they're very sexist and misogynist. |
| 0:12.0 | So what is the attack besides using bad language and scaring people? |
| 0:15.4 | They've called Elizabeth Warren a snake, they called Pete Buttigieg a rat. |
| 0:18.9 | Is that what you won from a Bernie Sanders supporter? |
| 0:21.1 | What we used to call Bernie Bros which I think is now way too limiting in terms. |
| 0:25.4 | Savaging them online. |
| 0:26.6 | Does that behavior reflect on Sanders' ability to bring the country together? |
| 0:30.8 | You've seen all those reports. |
| 0:32.4 | These people on the left who have large Twitter followers look, I know you don't like us |
| 0:36.9 | and are you going to keep fucking tweeting at us? |
| 0:38.7 | Fine, do whatever the fuck you want. |
| 0:40.7 | Huuuuck! |
| 0:41.7 | Huuuuck! |
| 0:42.7 | Huuuuck! |
| 0:43.7 | Huuuuck! |
| 0:44.7 | And I miss the Bloomberg like anybody else has a right to run for president. |
| 0:50.7 | He does not have a right to buy the presidency. |
| 0:54.8 | This is intercepted. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm Jeremy Skahill coming to you from the offices of the intercept in New York City. |
| 1:37.8 | This is episode 117 of Intercepted. |
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