Posted on 12/25/2001 8:09:28 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LONDON--John Walker Lindh, the California Talib, captured the public imagination with his odyssey from Marin County to Mazar-e-Sharif. Yet his tale, arguably, is an exotic one, a sui generis conceit. More disconcerting was Mohammad Junaid, the New York-born Pakistani-American who, after Sept. 11, ditched his $70,000-a-year job as a computer techie and joined the Taliban to "kill Americans." He did so to the cheers of his mother, who, astonishingly, had been rescued from the World Trade Center.
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House leaders recently rejected the Bush administration's request for authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely. Under the House plan, the government could hold immigrants suspected of terrorism for only seven days without bringing charges. Let's hope seven days is enough for the government to perform a thorough intelligence-based investigation of a million Muslim immigrants!
Oddly, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them. Under the Constitution, visitors to this country have no right to be here, but they may have a right not to be detained indefinitely without a hearing.
War is being waged on our soil by noncitizen infiltrators, legally admitted by the INS. If Congress says the attorney general can't detain them, we ought to deport them. (From the "not ready to move on" file: Isn't it curious that we have room for 19 Muslim mass murderers, but no room for an innocent little Cuban boy? In addition to deporting immigrants from terrorist-producing countries, someone should look into deporting every person who ever worked for the INS.)
Any senator (Teddy Kennedy) who is opposed to the mass deportation of immigrants from suspect countries would be free to waive in as many potential terrorists as he could sign his name to. At least then we'd have true government accountability, rather than collective foot-dragging based on pristine tributes to civil rights.
We won't even necessarily need to call on the fine-tuned screening procedures of the INS. The law could simply state that immigrants from certain countries aren't allowed to be here after a certain date, unless they receive a waiver.
Admittedly, fanatics willing to launch monstrous suicide missions are probably also going to be willing to violate a general order of deportation. But it would raise the terrorists' transactions costs. At the very least, noncitizen terrorists will have a tough time maneuvering around the country, becoming pilots, getting hazardous materials licenses and generally doing the things they need to do to nuke Manhattan.
Everyone is profiling now anyway. No one talks about it, which allows liberals the luxury of ritualistically denouncing racial profiling. Ordinary Americans aren't going to die for political correctness. And airlines aren't going to fly empty planes.
The facts are: (1) Nineteen male immigrants of Middle-Eastern descent recently murdered thousands of civilians on our shores in a coordinated attack; (2) other people answering to the same description have been apprehended in the country as suspected co-conspirators; and (3) according to the attorney general, there are more sleeper terrorist cells at large that the government has yet to identify.
Complaints about heightened suspicions toward people who fit the description of fanatical Islamists go well beyond opposing indiscriminate hate. It is a demand that Americans not even have their antennae up.
Focusing on men of Middle-Eastern appearance is less "profiling" than suspect identification. It is in keeping with the standard police practice of not looking for people over 6 feet tall when the eyewitnesses tell you the perp is 5 feet 2 inches. When looking for the Unabomber, I promise you -- the FBI wasn't rousting Asians or Arabs.
This is only part of the article. I love Ann Coulter and Jonah Goldberg articles!
The enemy is not a small group of individuals within a peaceful sect, it is Islam itself. Unless we remove them from our midst, we can never win. It is probably not possible to do this, so I guess we put up with terrorist attacks here at home indefinitely.
If the premise of the article is correct, that the followers of the Koran will not assimilate, then we have a malignancy within the body of America. Without surgery, the country as we know it will perish.
The politicians will not do anything but call for stricter laws, and more suspensions of the constitution. This will eventually lead to a fifth column of those who are traditionaly wary of govt power to rise up against this govt, and begin terrorist attacks of their own. IMHO if the govt does not at least excise the cancer within, and that includes all illegals, things can only get worse.
It is beginning to look like one of the things that will come from this is a form of national ID, the religious will fight it, but it looks to be inevitable. It would be a logical step, and could be a useful tool to identify those not legally here. I hate to see it, but one more atrocity committed against the nation, and people will scream for something to be done, and that is the next step for those that have planned for this eventuality.
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