Tuesday, July 30, 2002 The civil rights community wants Peter Kirsanow's head. Kirsanow, an ultraconservative African-American lawyer with a clean-shaven pate and a waxed mustache, could be Ward Connerly's evil twin. That is, if Connerly had a distinguishable good side and a bit more mustache wax. But Kirsanow is his own man. Except that he got a major push from George Bush to be the president's right-wing hammer on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Bush's pet commissioner, therefore, can be considered somewhat of a White House mouthpiece on civil rights issues. So you can understand why the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee are calling for Kirsanow's resignation after remarks he made July 19 at a commission hearing in Detroit. Speaking on homeland security and the administration's call for tougher measures, Kirsanow did not beat around the bush. "If there's another terrorist attack, and if it's from a certain ethnic community or certain ethnicities that the terrorists are from, you can forget civil rights in this country," said Kirsanow. Heard enough? There's more. "Not too many people will be crying in their beer if there are more detentions, more stops and more profiling," said Kirsanow.