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Coulter speech at Flagler Forum sparks much reaction
St. Augustine Record ^ | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 08:32 AM | RON WALTERS

Posted on 11/13/2002 9:48:17 PM PST by Doctor Raoul



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A political forum at Flagler College was briefly disrupted Tuesday night as several young men handing out leaflets were escorted from the auditorium by St. Augustine police officers.

No one was arrested at Flagler's Forum on Government and Public Policy, which featured Ann Coulter, a political analyst, attorney and author of the national best seller, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right."

Coulter's talk centered on one key point: "Liberalism and terrorism: different stages of the same disease."

Other than applause, the speech began quietly. But shortly into it, comments and noises erupted from several of the audience.

Her only comment to those who were removed from the forum was, "Is that someone else I want on the campaign trail (for the Democrats)?" she said.

Much of Coulter's talk focused on why racial profiling should be allowed in order to ensure national security.

"Sept. 11 reminded us that there are madmen in the world," she said.

However, she said, it likely will take a mushroom cloud to convince liberals that it's time to go after Saddam Hussein, who gassed tens of thousands of his own people, showing "his impressive credentials as a mass murderer."

After Manhattan is nuked, she said, then will it be okay to look at men of Arab descent boarding airplanes?

Coulter said her logic on racial profiling centers on the fact that Muslim extremists have for the past 20 years terrorized Americans and others around the world.

She cited the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an American killed in 1985 on an Italian cruise ship that was seized by Muslim extremists and 1979, when the American Embassy in Iran was seized by Muslim extremists.

"When there is a 100 percent chance it ceases to be a profile. It's called a description of the suspect. This is not a psychological judgement on an ethnic group. It's an all-points-bulletin," she said.

Coulter went on to speak about other problems she has with liberals.

"The only consistency in their position is that we must not do anything to annoy the enemy." It's amusing, she said, "but in wartime it's life threatening."

She said that most "liberal lies" are the same: that conservatives are racist, sexist, homophobic and stupid.

Coulter said that she thinks President George W. Bush will "make out very well" with his plans to go to war with Iraq.

And in regard to the 2004 presidential race, she said, "I think there is no possible way George Bush can lose the next presidential election. When the nation is under attack, you have to have a Republican in the White House."



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1 posted on 11/13/2002 9:48:17 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul
Typical socialists can't understand that "Freedom of Speech" is a right guranteed against the GOVERNMENT. You are not guranteed the right to go into other people's meetings and force them to listen to your views.

Private property is a foreign concept to them.

2 posted on 11/13/2002 9:50:36 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul
I wonder if anybody from that lecture is a Freeper and could comment on the give and take of the event?
3 posted on 11/13/2002 10:04:22 PM PST by A CA Guy
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To: Doctor Raoul
From http://www.anncoulter.org/images/webimages/annfox.jpg:

4 posted on 11/13/2002 10:10:32 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
You dog!
5 posted on 11/13/2002 10:19:00 PM PST by farmfriend
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To: Doctor Raoul
Coulter said her logic on racial profiling centers on the fact that Muslim extremists have for the past 20 years terrorized Americans and others around the world...
From We'll Pay Them Reparations Later (December 27, 2001):
"...I think I have another solution. It's something I like to call "ethnic profiling." My logic is this: There is a common thread hidden within 20 years of relentless attacks on America by Muslim extremists: In every one of these attacks by Muslim extremists, there appears to be one or more Muslim extremists involved. This ought to help the airlines engage in more accurate risk assessment.

Tariq "Biff" Raja attended the same mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, the suspected 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attack. (The New York Times has yet to report Tariq's connection to the mosque, though the paper will surely print that fact before any of the media will ever breathe a word about the story reported in the San Francisco Examiner that American jihadist John Walker's father left Mrs. Walker for another man.)

The men who used passenger jets to attack America on Sept. 11 were Muslim extremists.

Last year, our warship, the USS Cole, was attacked by Muslim extremists.

In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim extremists, killing 212 people and wounding thousands.

In 1996, Muslim extremists exploded a truck bomb outside an Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 and injuring hundreds more.

In 1995, five Americans were killed in a car bomb explosion executed by Muslim extremists.

In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim extremists, killing six and injuring thousands.

Also in 1993, Muslim extremists plotted to assassinate then U.S. President George Bush. (Intriguingly, the word "assassin" comes from a Muslim sect active in the 11th to 13th centuries known as "the Assassins" for their religious practice of murdering infidels.)

In 1988, another passenger jet, Pan Am flight 103, was bombed by Muslim extremists, killing 270 people.

In 1986, Muslim extremists bombed a West Berlin discotheque frequented by U.S. servicemen.

In 1985, Muslim extremists seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, and murdered Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound American.

In 1983, Muslim extremists blew up U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American servicemen.

In 1982, Muslim extremists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 49 people, including 17 Americans.

In 1979, Muslim extremists stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and held American Embassy staff hostage for 444 days.

So naturally, it took the airlines completely by surprise last week when the passenger who tried to detonate a sneaker bomb on a passenger jet turned out to be a Muslim extremist. Doggedly imitating an Alzheimer's joke, the airlines instantly began ever more intrusive examinations of elderly black men, cowboys and Asian women with small children.

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Ya gotta love that gal!
6 posted on 11/13/2002 10:19:41 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Ann is the best. She was so nice in person, she made my year!

7 posted on 11/13/2002 10:22:33 PM PST by Gigantor
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To: RonDog
In 1995, five Americans were killed in a car bomb explosion executed by Muslim extremists.

I believe it was six, five Army civilians and one Warrant Officer. It was a great target if you are Osama. They were there modernizing the SANG, the troops that protect the royal family. Osama hated the US and the royal family.

8 posted on 11/13/2002 10:24:20 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: farmfriend
You dog!
LOL! Just the facts, ma'am. :o)
Those pictures were from Fox TV:
They report; we decide, right?

9 posted on 11/13/2002 10:24:36 PM PST by RonDog
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To: RonDog
She deserves the attention.
10 posted on 11/13/2002 10:26:50 PM PST by farmfriend
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To: Doctor Raoul
Private property is a foreign concept to them.

Private property is a foreign concept to them.

11 posted on 11/13/2002 10:47:15 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: A CA Guy
I wonder if anybody from that lecture is a Freeper and could comment on the give and take of the event?

Check! And I can tell you the disrupters were pathetic. Instead of waiting at the doors to pass out their stuff, they were hanging out a block away. It was pretty obvious they weren't going to be able to blend into the crowd as there were only about 8 of them and they all sat together, so without annonymity their attempts to disrupt were pretty anemic. Nevertheless, the police very prompt about giving them "the choice."

One of the College officials gave a short apology, and told the crowd they had become aware of a group calling itself "Underground Democrats" out of Jacksonville soliciting for disrupters to derail the speech.

I was dying to ask the beautiful and talented Ms. Coulter what her position was regarding yelling "liar" in a crowded theater.

12 posted on 11/13/2002 10:58:45 PM PST by Woahhs
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To: Woahhs
I've been away from FR for a while and I've been told that postings from FU are frowned upon, but since their "coup" failed and they fell on their swords, I believe management will indulge us justbthis once.

Here's the liberal brownshirts call to jihad against Coulter:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID34/1561.html

Never bring a knife to a gunfight.

PS: It's called "FU" because almost every thread there has at least one "FU" in it.

13 posted on 11/13/2002 11:10:53 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Woahhs
What was their handout?
14 posted on 11/13/2002 11:11:50 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul
I know there were two being handed out, but I only got to see one of them. It was something about Aspen. Made no sense what so ever, so it didn't seem important to remember.
15 posted on 11/13/2002 11:23:49 PM PST by Woahhs
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To: coteblanche
Ann Coulter Ping!

Read how our Ann staves off a pack of socialist interlopers during one of her rousing, truth-bearing speeches!

16 posted on 11/13/2002 11:25:35 PM PST by jla
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Read how our Ann staves off a pack of socialist interlopers during one of her rousing, truth-bearing speeches!

And one lonely, pissed-off muslim too!

17 posted on 11/13/2002 11:27:15 PM PST by Woahhs
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To: Doctor Raoul
"Liberalism and terrorism: different stages of the same disease."

I, like many Freepers, absolutely adore this woman. The title of her speech says it all. What a great way to start off the day - armed with a new weapon with which to beat my liberal acqaintences over the head.
19 posted on 11/14/2002 5:19:49 AM PST by x1stcav
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To: Doctor Raoul
FWIW. I point this out NOT to be "politically correct," but rather in the interest of being accurate. It should be "criminal profiling," not "racial profiling." Law enforcement profiles CRIMINALS. RACE is one aspect of that profile. A 7-foot tall white male about 130 years old shoots a cop and the police are gonna stop every male on the planet? I don't think so. This is all just SO stupid!
20 posted on 11/14/2002 5:31:14 AM PST by Lee'sGhost
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