Ann Coulter: Please, No More "Border Security'

AnnCoulter.com ^ | 01/02/2018 | Ann Coulter

[SeekAndFind]

The media are trying to convince Trump that if he abandons the wall, he'll be a statesman, so that as soon as he folds, they can start making fun of him as an untrustworthy liar.

Everyone knows that we can never have a secure border without an impermeable barrier -- something like a wall -- across all of it. The Democrats know it, the voters know it, and the millions of illegals hurtling toward our border like cannonballs know it.

The Democrats' latest idea is to call a wall "immoral, ineffective and expensive."

If they think a wall is "immoral," then they're admitting it's effective. An ineffective wall would merely be a place for illegals to stop and get a little shade before continuing their march into the United States.

Democrats' backup argument is to cite -- every four minutes on MSNBC -- Trump's claim that Mexico would pay for the wall. We're all baffled by Trump not having already taxed remittances to Mexico to pay for the wall (100 percent within the president's authority under various banking regulations), but if we're going to start listing the promises Trump hasn't kept, this is going to be a long column.

In point of fact, however, he never said Mexico would pre-pay. We can tax remittances anytime.

To keep the Third World masses flowing across our un-walled border, the media are demanding that Trump agree to nonspecific "border security." It's like ordering a Starbucks and instead of getting a coffee, you're told to have more "pep." Now move along. Here's your change.

Would liberals accept such airy statements of intent in lieu of clear legal commands for any of the things they care about? (Not to be confused with "our country," which they do not care about.)

Instead of EPA emissions standards, with specific parts per million of pollutants allowed into lakes and rivers, how about a law promoting "enhanced appreciation of God's bounty"? Emissions standards are immoral and ineffective!

Nearly every Republican presidential candidate tried to con voters with these meaningless catchphrases about "border security."

Here are The Des Moines Register's summaries of some of the candidates' positions on immigration a few weeks before the 2016 Iowa caucus:

Jeb Bush: "has called for enhanced border security."

Marco Rubio: "proposes ... improved security on the border."

John Kasich: "believes border security should be strengthened."

Chris Christie: "urges ... using technology to improve border surveillance ..."

Rand Paul: "would secure the border immediately."

Carly Fiorina: "would secure the border, which she says requires only money and manpower."

They all lost.

The guy who won: "Trump has said many illegal immigrants are rapists and are bringing drugs and crime to the United States. He has called for building a wall along the southern border, and has said he would make Mexico pay for it. He said he would immediately terminate President Barack Obama's 'illegal executive order on immigration.'"

Trump got more votes than any other Republican in the history of presidential primaries. No one was falling for "border security" then, and they aren't now.

But instead of doing what he said and building a wall, Trump has hired people who don't even grasp that the point is to make it unattractive to break into our country.

On ABC's "This Week" last Sunday, Trump's head of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, announced plans to give illegal alien kids free medical care at the border: "What we've done immediately, (Homeland Security) Secretary (Kirstjen) Nielsen and I have directed that we do medical checks of children 17 and under as they come into our process."

Apparently, our working class is rolling in so much free health care that now our country is diverting medical resources to treat other countries' sick kids.

McAleenan boasted that we -- that's you, taxpayer -- will be providing "doctors, physician assistants, paramedics to do an initial intake check so that we know if a child is healthy as they arrive at the border and then make sure they can get medical care if they need it."

Luckily, this won't hurt any Americans because the doctors they're sending to the border are not currently treating any U.S. citizens. Oh wait! This just in: They will be taken away from sick Americans!

(Possible 2020 Trump campaign bumper sticker: I voted for a wall and all I got was free checkups for illegals.)

Doctors aren't like the Petroleum Reserve. We don't keep them cryogenically frozen, waiting to be unfrozen so they can treat illegals demanding free medical care as the price of hating us. If we rush doctors to the border, they are being rushed away from Americans who need medical care.

How about Democrats compile a list, by name, of the Americans they would like not to see their doctors anymore?

As a result of this boundless compassion for anyone who is not an American, how many more sick kids are going be dragged by their parents across hundreds of miles of desert just to see an American doctor?

Mexican cartel member to poverty-stricken Latin American:

Before setting off on this caravan, I want you to know that when you get to the border your kids will be held up for a medical check. And if they find anything wrong, your child will be given First World medical treatment. Also, you won't be allowed to pay. I just want you to understand what you're getting into before you join this caravan.

And when those kids die, Secretary Nielsen can demand more free medical care for illegals breaking into our country. Instead of having a wall, we'll have a series of interlocking charity hospitals on the border treating the poor of the world before crossing into a country that didn't ask for them and doesn't want them.

Sorry, America. You lose again.

[Cassius Flavia Agrippa]

I’m just focusing on the Roosevelt quote and the “words are pointless” argument.

1. Nobody needs to be in the arena to criticize the pols for whom we vote, and whose salaries we pay. Nonsense.
2. The fact that our words are allegedly pointless never stopped you, me, or anybody else on this forum from attacking Obama, or any of a billion other people.

[dynoman]

I have a problem with republicans attacking Trump, not republicans attacking democrats.

Trump is the best most effective president we’ve had in my lifetime and pathetic purse dogs like Ann think they know more than he does. What skin does she have in the game, like Trump does?? None! What sacrifice has she made for the country like Trump has?? NONE!!

[Cassius Flavia Agrippa]

Again, I am focusing on Roosevelt’s quote.

Do you believe that pols should not be criticized by those not in the arena?

[dynoman]

"Let the man of learning, the man of lettered leisure, beware of that queer and cheap temptation to pose to himself and to others as a cynic, as the man who has outgrown emotions and beliefs, the man to whom good and evil are as one. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attemptThere is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness."

[dynoman]

Trump's not a politician. More from the speech;

"The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be a cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength."

Where does Ann fit in??

[Cassius Flavia Agrippa]

Can pols be criticized by those not in the arena? The stirring quote you posted does not address that. It was very moving, however. Unresponsive, but moving.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I am really beginning to not like her!

[Nifster]

Number one I voted for Bush over Clinton. I worked hard on that campaign because Billy Jeff s armed me to death. So I didn’t allow any such thing

For those who were not busy calling out Paul RINO for her atrocious leadership.....shame on you. Trump ain’t done yet. You and the rest of the sunshine patriots need to start working hard with the rest of us to make sure Trump is reelected. Not bitching and moaning

[dynoman]

“Can pols be criticized by those not in the arena?”

Of course, that happens all the time. Critics, like the poor, will always be with us. The speech addresses that fact. And in the case of Trump it says way more about the critic, than Trump. Trump counts, not his critics.

“which the critic himself never tries to perform”

“there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt”

“all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness”

[Cassius Flavia Agrippa]

Okay... But it’s a dangerous philosophy. I would never run for pres, but I will and do criticize the Obama whore. Just like you. Suppose somebody pointed out to you that you never ran for pres and never will, and that therefore your critique of Obama filth made you “weak”?

[Yo-Yo]

If, and it’s a big ‘if,’ if you are sooooo politically savvy then you know what will happen to Trump if he caves on the wall. But no, you’re too busy calling out ‘sunshine patriots’ to know the real score. But not to worry, you can keep your head in the sand and let us adults worry about Trump.

[dynoman]

I’m specifically talking about so called republicans criticizing Trump who has done more than any republican president ever in only two years. What’s dangerous is the mindless criticism from so those called republicans. Trump’s got more love for America than all those mindless critics put together. And Ann’s in that group. She’s doing it for the publicity and money, just like Mitt and the others.

[dynoman]

Those mindless critics are even here on FR, and say stupid things like “if Trump caves on this I’m done wit him!”

That’s what’s dangerous. I think that’s the kind of critic Teddy was talking about. Cold and timid souls....

[Nifster]

Did you here the interview with Pence tonight

[Nifster]

For all you belly archers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3717206/posts

[Yo-Yo]

Thank you. Yes, I did see President Trump's tweet and watched the video.

What I want to make clear to you is that I am not belly aching, I am trying to convey the reality of the country as a whole.

I am not abandoning President Trump.

I am not going to vote for a democrat - ever.

I am not going to have a temper tantrum and stay home next election.

But Rush Limbaugh, Dan Bongino, and even NancyPants Lindsay Graham have said that if Trump caves on the wall, his Presidency is over.

President Trump has received the message, as he stated at his impromptu press conference yesterday (you can watch it here) "I have never had so much support, as I have in the last week, over my stance for border security."

So he gets it as well. If he caves on this issue at this time, he will lose the grass roots support that put him in the White House. Not my support, but the support of all of those first-time Republican voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa that flipped their states from Dem to Republican. You saw some of it already in the midterms where Wisconsin and Michigan had statewide elections and flipped their governors from R to D.

It is not a threat, nor is it a belly ache, it is a warning.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Enhanced border security think East German border fortifactions ! Not the virtual border fence of the Bush era!