Posted on 06/28/2006 4:45:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
Ann Coulter once said that her " only regret with [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
Her acid comments about America's most influential newspaper no doubt found new meaning in the wake of the Times' decision to disclose top-secret programs the U.S. government is using to capture terrorists.
"Thanks to The New York Times, the easiest job in the world right now is: 'Head of Counterintelligence -- Al-Qaida.'" Coulter wrote Wednesday in her syndicated column. "You just have to read the New York Times over morning coffee, and you're done by 10 a.m."
Coulter was writing about what she called "the latest of a long list of formerly top-secret government antiterrorism operations that have been revealed by the Times," noting that "last week the paper printed the details of a government program tracking terrorists' financial transactions that has already led to the capture of major terrorists and their handmaidens in the U.S."
To Coulter, a lawyer, that amounted to nothing less than treason, and she wants the newspaper punished for betraying a vital antiterrorism operation meant to prevent future 9/11s.
"Maybe treason ended during the Vietnam War when Jane Fonda sat laughing and clapping on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American pilots," Ann recalled. "She came home and resumed her work as a big movie star without the slightest fear of facing any sort of legal sanction.
"Fast forward to today, when New York Times publisher 'Pinch' Sulzberger has just been named al-Qaida's 'Employee of the Month' for the 12th straight month.
Observing that prior to the Vietnam War, "this country took treason seriously," she charged that Americans are now being told that newspapers have a right to commit treason because of "freedom of the press."
Liberals, she wrote, invoke 'freedom of the press' like some talismanic formulation that requires us all to fall prostrate in religious ecstasy. On liberals' theory of the First Amendment, the safest place for Osama bin Laden isn't in Afghanistan or Pakistan; it's in the New York Times building."
Freedom of them press, she explained "does not mean the government cannot prosecute reporters and editors for treason -- or for any other crime. The First Amendment does not mean Times editor Bill Keller could kidnap a child and issue his ransom demands from the New York Times editorial page. He could not order a contract killing on the op-ed page. Nor can he take out a contract killing on Americans with a Page One story on a secret government program being used to track terrorists who are trying to kill Americans ...
"The federal statute on treason, 18 USC 2381, provides in relevant part: 'Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States ... adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000.'"
Citing the cases of at Ezra Pound, Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") and Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose") who were all charged with treason for radio broadcasts intended to demoralize the troops during World War II, Coulter wrote that the first two were were severely punished and Pound committed to a mental hospital.
"There was no evidence that in any of these cases the treasonable broadcasts ever put a single American life in danger. The law on treason doesn't require it," she wrote.
"There was no evidence that in any of these cases the treasonable broadcasts ever put a single American life in danger. The law on treason doesn't require it," she wrote.
Right on the money!
Always worth repeating, but already posted, see sidebar.
Nevermind, yours wins :)
This is the "Times" out. They don't owe their allegiance to the United States. They owe it to the Left wing liberal socialist kook fringe...!
Phil Brennan, by putting his name on the byline of this cut_n_paste job of a Coulter piece, should have his lazy ass fired.
Pound was captured in Italy by American troops and put into a cage. He describes it in the Pisan Cantos.
He was committed to St. Elizabeth's mental hospital in Washington by his friends and admirers, including T. S. Eliot, because if he hadn't pretended to be crazy he would have been tried and executed. He was a great poet but an odd duck.
Which is what should be done in the case of the four traitors at the Times and the government traitors who leaked to them.
Their broadcasts were sort of like Janeane Garofalo and Randi Rhodes on Air America Radio — except Tokyo Rose was actually witty, and Axis Sally is said to have used a fact-checker.
BWAHHHHHAAAAHHHAHAHA
That's what I was thinking.
While we're at it, can we get the traitors in Congress too?
Bill Keller
"Pinch" Whathisname-homosexual-NYT
Actually I have the audiobook... I get to have Ann read it to me :)
bump
Pervert! :-)
She reads it herself? I heard they don't always do that.
I knew her column had been posted, but this is a STORY on her column. (I guess when your Ann Coulter you get stories written recapping what you've already said.)
If the only 3 keys functioning on my keyboard were CTRL, C and V, my cat could have written the same thing.
This is not one of those cases, however, and I can't say how much this has angered me. Ann makes her best point at the end, imo.....(a not-so-little poke at Bush):
What's going to be actually done about it, eh?
Yep, Ann is reading the audiobook! :) nice feature. :D
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