Posted on 09/27/2001 12:20:15 AM PDT by Brian Allen
After the World Trade Center was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993, the country quickly chalked it up to a zany one-time attack and five minutes later decided we were all safe again. We weren't. We aren't now. They will strike again. Perhaps they will wait another eight years. But perhaps not.
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks. But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous Islamic cell in America the last time, too.
Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned, aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Congress has it within its power to prevent the next attack, but it won't. When the Sears Tower is attacked, the president is assassinated, St. Patrick's Cathedral is vaporized, anthrax is released in the subway systems or Disneyland is nuked, remember: Congress could have stopped it, but didn't.
Pious invocations of the Japanese internment are absurd. For one thing, those were U.S. citizens. Citizens can't be deported. So far -- thank God -- almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been aliens.
But even more blindingly obvious: There was no evidence that the attack on Pearl Harbor was staged by Japanese saboteurs living in California. The Japanese internment was a pure land grab implemented by liberal politicians -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt and California Gov. Earl Warren (later the namesake of the infamous Warren Court). The internment was vigorously opposed by J. Edgar Hoover.
This time, the very nature of the enemy is that they have infiltrated this country and pass themselves off as law-abiding, quiet immigrants. The entire modus operandi of this enemy is to smuggle mass murderers to our shores.
But the country refuses to respond rationally. Rather, Congress is busily contemplating a series of "anti-terrorism" measures most notable for their utter irrelevance to the threat. What precisely would a national ID card accomplish? The hijackers were in this country legally! A few may have overstayed their visas by a few days -- a minor bureaucratic oversight that they surely would have remedied had they not been about to commit suicide in a monstrous attack.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has bravely proposed that we take the aggressive step of asking aliens in the country to register periodically with the government so we know where they are. That's already the law in Germany. Several of the hijackers in this attack lived in Hamburg; they obediently complied. The mastermind of the most vicious terrorist attack in the history of the world, Mohammed Atta, was in Florida on a "vocational status" visa (in order to attend flight school). Let's say Atta had registered. Now what, Joe?
As the entire country has been repeatedly lectured, most Muslims are amazingly peaceful, deeply religious, wouldn't hurt a fly. Indeed, endless invocations of the pacific nature of most Muslims is the only free speech it is safe to engage in these days.
This is a preposterous irrelevancy. Fine, we get it. The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.
How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens? Are the good Muslims the ones who live quiet lives, pray a lot and obey the law? So did the architects of Bloody Tuesday's mass murder. Are the peaceful Muslims the ones who loudly proclaim their hatred of Osama Bin Laden? Mohammed Atta did that, too.
The only thing we know about them -- other than that they live among us -- is that they are foreign-born and they are Muslims. The government has been remarkably tight-lipped about precisely how many Muslim visitors we are currently accommodating, but from unofficial estimates, there appear to be more than a million. Even if the attorney general instigated latter-day Palmer raids, it will take years and years to investigate and infiltrate every potential terrorist cell operating on our shores. The investigations should not be conducted while the enemy continues residing here, plotting the next attack.
It's an extreme measure, but we face an extreme threat. It is suicidal naivete to think we can simply seal off every water supply, air vent, food supply and crop duster from now until the end of time. We cannot search every truck, every passenger, every shopper, every subway, every person entering every building -- every American every day.
It is impossible to stop Islamic fundamentalists who believe that slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans will send them straight to Allah. All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave -- with the full expectation of readmittance -- while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.
More benefits of the plan next week, but the beauty part of the Terrorist Deportation Plan can't wait. There will be two fail-safes: (1) Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay; and (2) any Muslim immigrant who gets a U.S. senator to waive his deportation -- by name -- gets to stay.
This is brutally unfair to the Muslim immigrants who do not want to kill us. But it's not our fault. It is the fault of the terrorists who are using their fellow Muslims as human shields. So far, America's response to a calculating cold-blooded enemy has been to say, "Excuse me, you seem to have dropped your box-cutter."
©2001 Universal Press Syndicate
Your turn.
Her proposal is completely different than saying that someone has ideas dangerous to our country, like Islamic religious extremists or the Communists in the 50's (and after), or that someone has participated in actions or is comtemplating acts dangerous to the country, and that therefore they should be deported. She would have us deport people by making a judgment but without proof of guilt or complicity or conspiracy of any kind.
It is hysterical confusion to mix these categories of ethnicity and philosophy and action.
I like Ann Coulter, admire her columns for their spirit, their tartness, and clear thinking, but she's gone over the edge with this one. The attacks on the country, and the personal losses of friends, have pushed some smart people on both sides of the political divide over the edge. I'm sorry she's among them, and I hope she'll right herself soon.
I think Coulter may have been talking about the aliens who participated in the 9/11 attack.
You know, the ones who killed 7000.
>>>>This is a preposterous irrelevancy. Fine, we get it. The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.<<<<
Excellent point! Bears repeating!
Ah, using the bill maher defense. These were here words:
almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been aliens
For someone who writes for a living, you'd think she'd proof read- If you are correct.
Ted Bundy: 32
Timothy Mcveigh: 168
Jeffrey Dalmer: 9
Osama Bin Laden 8,000+ -- and counting.
Dipsh*t!
Yawn.
Well, actually, there were Japanese spies on the West Coast who were keeping track of our US military ship and plane movements around West Coast military bases, and they were reporting the information to Japan by short wave radio and special codes. There was a famous interview with one of the former spies in Esquire magazine back in the ‘60s.
Unfortunately, the internment project did turn out to be a “land grab”, which I think was wrong.
This time, the very nature of the enemy is that they have infiltrated this country and pass themselves off as law-abiding, quiet immigrants.
Some of the Japs did the same thing in the US in the early 1940s. They did the same thing in Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has bravely proposed that we take the aggressive step of asking aliens in the country to register periodically with the government so we know where they are.
I remember public service announcements on TV back in the ‘60s that reminded legal aliens they had to report in (I think at a local post office where they lived) to account for themselves. I think that was required every 6 months.
My guess is, that because one of 'theirs' wasn't murdered among the 7000+...they don't care.......
It is not "racism" in the sense that "racism" is but a word -- albiet a popular one -- and one with which the "political-correctness" tyrants assail and assault and/or gratuitously insult those they would silence and/or sideline -- in peacetime.
And which, in wartime, is about as much use as are tits on boars!
And, as the astute Ms Coulter has observed -- and you have apparently missed:
Fine, we get it. The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.
And, yes:
This is brutally unfair to the Muslim immigrants who do not want to kill us. But it's not our fault. It is the fault of the terrorists who are using their fellow Muslims as human shields. So far, America's response to a calculating cold-blooded enemy has been to say, "Excuse me, you seem to have dropped your box-cutter."
And, "please excuse Ms Coulter, who, although she may well be the only American left with balls, is quite clearly a 'racist' -- and that's the end of that! And of her! And of her Absolutely-appropriate-to-time-of-war contention!"
[Are you, perhaps, Joe Biden? -- Or the NYT in disguise?]
almost all the mass
No name calling, here. But some people need to read more carefully.
My guess is, that because one of 'theirs' wasn't murdered among the 7000+...they don't care.......
Well there is that.
And there is the simple fact that in order that Americans' mean IQ be 100, half of our fellow Americans [AKA, usually, "Democrats"] are of below-average intelligence.
And that a few of those find their way to these boards!
“Racial profiles” are actually more narrow that most liberals claim, and they often include mostly males of all kinds of races, including whites.
For example, little old black ladies are usually not “profiled” in big cities where there is a high crime rate among young black males. Many young white males were “profiled” after the bombing of the OKC federal building. Many white males are “profiled” in cities in which white crackpots are committing serial killings.
The current problem seems to center around young lone foreign-national, Arab, militant Islamic males who don’t have families inside the US and who do a lot of business in cash and who have a history of travel around the US, Europe, and the Middle-East. This narrows down the “profile” quite a lot.
I think it’s idiotic to suddenly begin carefully searching everyone at airports. As far as I can tell, no Mexicans have ever committed a terrorist act in this country. Very young and older white women haven’t hijacked any airplanes. Chinese and Japanese people haven’t hijacked any airplanes. The last white person who hijacked a plane in the US was 20 or 30 years ago. Black males haven’t hijacked any US planes since the late ‘60s or early ‘70s.
This liberal “multi-cultural sensitivity” crap has got to end. When a bear kills your cattle, you don’t go into the woods searching for raccoons and possums.
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