Human Events Man of the Year: Roy Moore (Exclusive Ann Coulter Feature Article)

Human Events Online ^ | December 19, 2003 | ANN COULTER

[StriperSniper]

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[YepYep]

Ann Coulter BUMP. She hit one out of the park with this one.

What would happen if every county judge (not Congress) posted (not established) a simple copy of the Ten Commandments (not a religion) somewhere in the courthouse?? Would this keep ACLU busy and broke (and of course wrong) for years??

[MHGinTN]

Don't encourage the bastards ... they're taxpayer funded!

[Tribune7]

bump for ann coulter

[Tribune7]

very true

[TEXOKIE]

bump

[mercy]

Dear Lord, please have George Bush read this. Maybe he'll get it.

[mercy]

Only libertines hate God more than liberals.

[tuesday afternoon]

LOL :)

[AnalogReigns]

The Ten Commandments monument was removed, but this time, not without a fight.

I find it fascinating all the ferver of the Left about what...THE source of absolute values. Clearly they HATE the 10 Commandments, and more profoundly, its Author.

I find the whole column an expression of Coulter's depression over the direction of our country, and I agree with her, whole-heartedly.

With a clash of world-views so major, I cannot help but think somehow in America there will be another bloody Civil War--I don't know where or how, or even exactly between who, but it seems inevitable. Too many like myself are unwilling like sheep to be led to the slaughter of the tyrannous oligarchy of judges.

[King Prout]

Ann outdid herself on this one. well done.

[King Prout]

you missed a trick: "...unless they are REPUBLICAN American government officials."
That's what you menat to say, neh? :)

[lonevoice]

Only libertines hate God more than liberals.

bump!

[King Prout]

If you read it "very carefully" how did you miss this?
"Another judge found that the Ten Commandments plaque violated the 1st Amendment. Apparently, in a little-noticed development, Judge Moore had become "Congress," his Ten Commandments plaque was a "law," and the plaque established a national religion. The Taliban had better legal justification to blow up centuries-old Buddha statues in Afghanistan."
The First Amendment limits what LAWS the Federal CONGRESS can make. Do you find the rule of Law as it is written to be repugnant? Would you prefer rule by fiat?

[NeoCaveman]

Anns best work in a long time.

Good stuff.

You do of course realize this is going to pi$$ off the moderates liberal secular humanist wing of FreeRepublic?

[hobbes1]

Yup. But I say luck fiberal secular humanists

[ArGee]

That's what you menat to say, neh? :)

When it comes to keeping them in power, maybe, but not when it comes to trusting them.

They were as quick to assign sinister motives to Bill Clinton's support for NAFTA as they were for George W. Bush's support for the Partial-Birth Abortion ban. But could there possibly be anything wrong with China's policy toward Taiwan?

Never. Government officials are implicitly trustworthy if they are non-American government officials. And don't even get me started on North Korea's "Dear Leader."

Shalom.

[ArGee]

Yup. But I say luck fiberal secular humanists

Er, that would be "luck fiberal hecular sumanists."

But I think our quarrel is with the libertarians. Their basic proposal, that every man is an island unless he isn't, will eventually destroy the fabric of Western Civilization.

Or at least westroy the cabric of Destern Fivilization.

Shalom.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Ann Coulter's derisively scornful humor works. This is a battle of ideas. In football parlance, she knows how to move the chains.

If you are interested in a more thoughtful analysis of how these battles are fought, I recommend reading Robert Bork's recent book and his pieces in The New Criterion.

For example, why is there a sizable contingent on FR which accepts the ACLU position on the Establishment clause? Could it be that there is a liberationist impulse found in intellectuals on both the left and right? Holders of this impulse label any form of authority as an enemy to freedom and free thinking. The church is a form of authority held in deep suspicion.

I try to argue, alas mainly in vain, that a strong religious element in society works against the steady creep of an all-intrusive secular-socialist government, thus acting to preserve our liberties. The fact that we are staunchly non-theocratic does not mean that religious symbols must be erased from the public square. Moore's rock makes plain that the government of men is under God.