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
8000/19 = 421 killed by each attacker.
I'm sure even you can see that the murders committed by American mass murderers pale in comparison.
Amen Fred25!
Pancho Villa. Maybe we should target droopy mustaches?
Please tell me which non-citizens are, and which non-citizens are not, terrorist.
Despite your uncalled for insult, yes, the murders pale in comparison. So what does that have to do with her statement? One more time:
almost all the mass
This time it is, as I have railed here -- and elsewhere -- for years, about the very suvival of Our Nation.
And as goes our God-given Nation -- so does the survival of Western ["Human," that is] Civilization -- and our species!
There aren't many "Mexican-Americans" in the South West.
There ARE, however, many [Criminal-alien and legal-alien] Mexicans in the South West -- and many Americans.
Sorry to see that Ann of all people buys into the above without knowing the impetus of what caused the Japanese internment. What it turned out to be,perhaps was a landgrab or whatever, however there was "just cause", that instigated it and the revisionists of history fail to mention it as it does not fit with their demeaning of the US.
Perhaps Ann should do a little research on an article from The Honolulu Star-Bulletin of thursday, April 23, 1998 regarding citizens of island of Niihau. Find out what transpired with three Japanese-Americans, their treason, the FBI and the courts. Their treason is all in the court records for anyone that cares to look. This was the impetus for the internment, not a landgrab or any other vile desire. We were at war, one of survival...
Good Point. In addition, Earl Warren was the Repulican Governor of california. He only became "liberal" after joining the SC. Put on you asbestos clothes... here come the flames.
I hated to see Ann buy into the internment affair with a blanket statement such as she made. That is very poor writing, expecting everyone to accept what the "feel good" American revisionists have been doling out for years.
But my biggest bitch err complaint is her sucking up to that coward bill maher the other nite on his show. Don't conservatives know how maher makes them look like idiots ?
If conservatives continue to appear. we should all start e-mailing them. No conservatives = no show.
The socialists/libs/dems NEVER cut a conservative any slack. I hate it when a supposed conservative plays footsie with the libs.
Lets make this easy.
Yep. Some conservatives say "Mahers show is the only show on that we can get an appearance."
It reminds me of OLIVER TWIST, where he asks for a second bowl of gruel. "Please sir, may I have another." Ugh.
Except for McVeigh, these are "serial" killers, not mass murderers. Take McVeigh out of the picture and lets look at who has been behind terror attacks (around the world) for the past 20 years.
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