Posted on 09/27/2001 12:20:15 AM PDT by Brian Allen
After the World Trade Center was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993, the country quickly chalked it up to a zany one-time attack and five minutes later decided we were all safe again. We weren't. We aren't now. They will strike again. Perhaps they will wait another eight years. But perhaps not.
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks. But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous Islamic cell in America the last time, too.
Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned, aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure. They have no constitutional right to be here.
Congress has it within its power to prevent the next attack, but it won't. When the Sears Tower is attacked, the president is assassinated, St. Patrick's Cathedral is vaporized, anthrax is released in the subway systems or Disneyland is nuked, remember: Congress could have stopped it, but didn't.
Pious invocations of the Japanese internment are absurd. For one thing, those were U.S. citizens. Citizens can't be deported. So far -- thank God -- almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been aliens.
But even more blindingly obvious: There was no evidence that the attack on Pearl Harbor was staged by Japanese saboteurs living in California. The Japanese internment was a pure land grab implemented by liberal politicians -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt and California Gov. Earl Warren (later the namesake of the infamous Warren Court). The internment was vigorously opposed by J. Edgar Hoover.
This time, the very nature of the enemy is that they have infiltrated this country and pass themselves off as law-abiding, quiet immigrants. The entire modus operandi of this enemy is to smuggle mass murderers to our shores.
But the country refuses to respond rationally. Rather, Congress is busily contemplating a series of "anti-terrorism" measures most notable for their utter irrelevance to the threat. What precisely would a national ID card accomplish? The hijackers were in this country legally! A few may have overstayed their visas by a few days -- a minor bureaucratic oversight that they surely would have remedied had they not been about to commit suicide in a monstrous attack.
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has bravely proposed that we take the aggressive step of asking aliens in the country to register periodically with the government so we know where they are. That's already the law in Germany. Several of the hijackers in this attack lived in Hamburg; they obediently complied. The mastermind of the most vicious terrorist attack in the history of the world, Mohammed Atta, was in Florida on a "vocational status" visa (in order to attend flight school). Let's say Atta had registered. Now what, Joe?
As the entire country has been repeatedly lectured, most Muslims are amazingly peaceful, deeply religious, wouldn't hurt a fly. Indeed, endless invocations of the pacific nature of most Muslims is the only free speech it is safe to engage in these days.
This is a preposterous irrelevancy. Fine, we get it. The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.
How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens? Are the good Muslims the ones who live quiet lives, pray a lot and obey the law? So did the architects of Bloody Tuesday's mass murder. Are the peaceful Muslims the ones who loudly proclaim their hatred of Osama Bin Laden? Mohammed Atta did that, too.
The only thing we know about them -- other than that they live among us -- is that they are foreign-born and they are Muslims. The government has been remarkably tight-lipped about precisely how many Muslim visitors we are currently accommodating, but from unofficial estimates, there appear to be more than a million. Even if the attorney general instigated latter-day Palmer raids, it will take years and years to investigate and infiltrate every potential terrorist cell operating on our shores. The investigations should not be conducted while the enemy continues residing here, plotting the next attack.
It's an extreme measure, but we face an extreme threat. It is suicidal naivete to think we can simply seal off every water supply, air vent, food supply and crop duster from now until the end of time. We cannot search every truck, every passenger, every shopper, every subway, every person entering every building -- every American every day.
It is impossible to stop Islamic fundamentalists who believe that slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans will send them straight to Allah. All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave -- with the full expectation of readmittance -- while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.
More benefits of the plan next week, but the beauty part of the Terrorist Deportation Plan can't wait. There will be two fail-safes: (1) Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay; and (2) any Muslim immigrant who gets a U.S. senator to waive his deportation -- by name -- gets to stay.
This is brutally unfair to the Muslim immigrants who do not want to kill us. But it's not our fault. It is the fault of the terrorists who are using their fellow Muslims as human shields. So far, America's response to a calculating cold-blooded enemy has been to say, "Excuse me, you seem to have dropped your box-cutter."
©2001 Universal Press Syndicate
Half of the Western [Civilized] world's population will be dead before this is over. And most of the rest of the world's people will have perished.
"We" [Whoever "we" ends up being ..... Many of us will be dead from old-age before we are even into this struggle] will prevail because -- when it inevitably physically joins [It is already its "spiritual" ally] the rest of the turd wurld lined up against us -- even "China's" much-vaunted 1.25 Billion medieval surfs [And its wildly over-rated "PLA" and its stolen, couterfeited and rodham-blythe-cli'ton-gore supplied, Gestetner-copy "technology" and "weaponry" is no match for -- and will never defeat -- the Human and technological products of two hundred years American Liberty.
[And they ain't seen nothing yet! As ever, Our Fraternal Republic will rise to any and every task!]
But it and the rest of those allied against us will inflict such destruction as to make those who experience it doubt our ability to survive -- and ensure that those of us who do will, for another thousand or two years anyway, be very content that Men be Men -- and that women are not!
Aliens from hostile regimes, legal aliens and otherwise, ought to be deported. I even liked the exceptions that she made--to be signified by a Senator. That means the Senator will be held responsible if the alien he wants to keep turns out to be dangerous.
But they won't be deported. Political Correctness is the extremist religion of our nation at present...and the orthodox of the PC mullahs are quite willing for us to die for their "faith."
almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been aliens.
Prove it. PS Ann, if you want to remain credible, stop writing columns like the last one, basically calling for a renewal of the crusades.
So what is the problem? I ask her (or anyone here) to prove it.
No flame over that statement.
But in #14, you wrote:
This line is pure hyteria:
These two contradict each other, unless you're claiming that charging her with hysteria for the mass murderer claim isn't a flame (which would be picky.)
Thats why I asked for proof. Its is still not clear to me that it is true.
But my main bitch is the appearance on the maher show. To be perfectly honest, I did not consider her feelings for barbara.
The conservatives who go on the show, i'm convinced, never watch the show. They don't see how it is edited. and how stupid he makes them look. but the conservatives who only watch when their heros are just glad to see them, and don't consider the way it looks to his stupid regular viewers.
I could go on...
Which statement? They contradict each other.
Like O'Reilly says, I'll give you the last word.
Ok, im' picky. Thanks. 8^)
7,000 people died last week in auto accidents. The events of 9/11 were an outrage, but we should save our outrage for the perps, not for everyone named Ahmed who is visiting our country. I just don't want to be that kind of American.
BTW: I remember seeing the suggestion at one time that rapists should be castrated. Not all men are rapists, but all rapists are men. Guys, do you really want us applying Ann's logic when dealing with criminals?
Shalom.
I recommend "Magic : The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast during WW II," by David D. Lowman, which details the intelligence about Japanese and (alas!) Japanese-American plans for espionage and sabotage in the United States at the outset of WW II, and how that intelligence led to the internment order.
Of course, there were many Japanese-Americans who distinguished themselves---indeed gave their lives---in both the European and Pacific theaters for their country in WW II. Their language and cultural skills were particularly valuable in the Pacific theater, and the heroism of the J-A "Go For Broke" brigade fighting in Europe is legendary. Nonetheless, there was more than one disloyal "bad apple" among Japanese-Americans at the time, and we have to face that fact in our history if we're going to be honest. We can't allow pious Politically Correct revisionism to prevent us from dealing appropriately with individuals allied with our enemies because of ethnicity during time of war.
The Absolutely Minimum Wartime Standard!
Whose side are YOU on, Congressmen? Senators? Mr President? Feds?
God save our Beloved FRaternal Republic
I think you may want to back off on the insults to those who defend this country, bub.
And Coulter's comments about the internment camps have precisely what to do with women in the military?
Or are you making an equally blanket statement about all women based on a comment from one misinformed individual? Brings to mind that saying about throwing stones....
Good point. I meant to say women don't belong in combat units.
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