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Ann Coulter: BUSH PAYS HOMAGE TO THE FETISHISTIC RITUALS OF LIBERALISM
Yahoo ^ | Wed Jun 19, 7:01 PM ET | Ann Coulter

Posted on 06/19/2002 4:45:25 PM PDT by Keyes For President

Interrupting the endless 30-year Watergate retrospective and getting back to the war for a moment, I've noticed that liberals are having trouble making any good arguments against Bush, so I thought I'd help them out this week.

In the third presidential debate, George Bush responded to a question about racial profiling by spontaneously denouncing the profiling of Arabs at airports: "Arab Americans are racially profiled ... people are stopped, and we've got to do something about that."

Admittedly, this was before Sept. 11. If Arabs were being stopped at airports before Sept. 11 -- and that's a big if -- that was probably wrong. There had been only one terrorist attack here in America by Arabs -- the bomb at the World Trade Center in 1993. (This is excluding Sirhan Sirhan, the first Muslim to bring the classic religion-of-peace protest to American shores, when, in support of the Palestinians, he assassinated Robert Kennedy.)

But now it's after Sept. 11, we're at war, and Bush is still vexed about profiling Arabs.

Last week, Bush's Department of Transportation required airport security to search former Vice President Al Gore ( news - web sites). There's a lot not to like about Al Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore said he was glad he was searched. Why? So that a potential terrorist could be spared the trouble?

Searching Al Gore is a purely religious act. It is the purposeless, fetishistic performance of rituals in accordance with the civic religion of liberalism.

It's not just Bush's Department of Transportation swearing fealty to the left's civic religion. A few weeks ago, FBI ( news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee ( news - web sites) that "immediately after Sept. 11" when the FBI was trying to stop "a second wave of terrorists out there," FBI policy was this: "We were not looking for individuals of any particular religion or from any particular country."

Evidently, the only people the Bush administration thinks it appropriate to search are angry men with smoke pouring out of their trousers.

Fortunately, Fitzpatrick and O'Malley out on the street appear to have had a different idea about whom to roust after Sept. 11. If not, then valiant and hardworking FBI agents are to be commended for their rapid surveillance of 280 million Americans -- cheerleaders, dentists, nursing home residents, Amish, performance artists, professional baseball players and so on -- before settling on about a thousand Muslim men to detain.

If it weren't a laughable lie, Mueller should be fired for demanding that FBI agents chastely ignore religion and nationality when investigating terrorism.

But instead of calling for Mueller's head, Democrats on the committee demanded that Mueller issue yet more ritualistic professions of faith in liberalism's civic religion. Only a religious cult would require people to appear before committees and say things that are demonstrably false.

Mueller dutifully complied, repeatedly assuring the assembled clergy that "The bureau is against -- has been and will be against -- any form of profiling." He said the new guidelines do not address "members of a particular group and not members of a particular political persuasion or anything along those lines."

Galileo put up more of a fight.

In his inimitable Stalinist way, Sen. Russell Feingold demanded that no one at the FBI even consider whether racial profiling might have prevented 9/11. Liberals treat racial profiling like the Victorians treated sex. It is not a topic that may be discussed, except to recoil in horror at the practice.

Feingold said he was "very troubled" at seeing government officials "quoted in the press saying that they believe concerns of being accused of racial profiling led the FBI to not act on the Phoenix memo."

The Phoenix memo was the one noting that a lot of Middle Eastern men were enrolled in American flight schools. Inasmuch as all of the leaders of the terrorist attack were Arabs in American flight schools, it's not crazy to think that an aggressive investigation of Arabs in American flight schools might have thwarted the attack.

When Mueller came back with some flaccid response, saying he had heard an "indication" of "a possible concern" about racial profiling, Feingold imperiously informed the director: "I was hoping for a different answer." Not the truth -- just a different answer. The only thing he left out was "Comrade."

Muslim terrorists are trying to nuke Manhattan, and the Senate is conducting Soviet show trials on whether anyone at the FBI is wistfully daydreaming about racial profiling.

Relentlessly pursuing incipient thought crimes at the FBI, Feingold pronounced it "a distortion" to suggest that acting on the Phoenix memo would have constituted racial profiling. The memo, he said, "contained specific information about specific individuals."

The specific information was this: A lot of Middle Eastern men were attending American flight schools. Excising the portion of that statement that liberals refuse to consider -- Middle Eastern men -- the only "specific information" is: "People were attending flight schools."

These are the lunatics the Bush administration is hoping to propitiate by refusing to engage in racial profiling. If an attack comes, I assure you: No one will be praising Bush for abiding by the rules of the cult and carefully searching Al Gore.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; bush; coulter; liberalism; profiling; racialprofiling
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To: Registered
I think if you look at what Ann is writing and compare it to what the President has said, you will see a disparity. But some people don't spend any time listening to him, only trashing him while listening to the same.
141 posted on 06/19/2002 8:03:51 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Registered
*sigh*
142 posted on 06/19/2002 8:03:54 PM PDT by rintense
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To: rintense
This thread has been locked.
143 posted on 06/19/2002 8:05:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: rintense
Long day? ;-)
144 posted on 06/19/2002 8:05:48 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Miss Marple
Miss M,

No one's disputing that we're at war. And I think we understand the need for increased scrutiny, indeed welcome it. What some of us "whiners" cannot abide is the misuse of the brain. The refusal of authorities to key off the obvious. Mueller's idiotic statements to the committee - those incomprehensible things which make us whiners wonder if these same people experienced the events of September 11th or just read about it.

All we ask is that those with security responsibilities engage in logical thought. That's all.
145 posted on 06/19/2002 8:05:55 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: Endeavor
planes will be the last thing they use, too obvious.
146 posted on 06/19/2002 8:23:20 PM PDT by galt-jw
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To: Miss Marple
If rather Dutch looking Wasp types were into terrorism, I sure hope I would be profiled. In fact, I would be annoyed if I wasn't.
148 posted on 06/19/2002 8:36:24 PM PDT by Torie
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To: LindaSOG
Bump to your post about McVeigh being profiled.

And just an addendum to your excellent points: Everybody, even if profiling wouldn't catch a McVeigh, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done!

151 posted on 06/19/2002 8:41:32 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Admin Moderator
First off, I'm not bashing anybody.....however, the person(s) you just suspended probably didn't have time to read your post before they got nuked.
152 posted on 06/19/2002 8:48:17 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: oldvike
I haven't suspended anyone...yet.
153 posted on 06/19/2002 8:50:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Torie
The sensible policy is just to do it, and not publicize it. But that is probably too much to expect.

Words of wisdom.

Richard F.

154 posted on 06/19/2002 8:51:25 PM PDT by rdf
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Oh, I just saw that posts 149 and 150 were gone and figured that whoever posted them got axed.
155 posted on 06/19/2002 8:52:04 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: oldvike
Mine got pulled, but I'm not upset...I'm just linking for a link...
156 posted on 06/19/2002 8:55:19 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
LOL
157 posted on 06/19/2002 8:56:17 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: Registered
LOOKING for a link. Sheesh.
158 posted on 06/19/2002 8:57:06 PM PDT by Registered
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To: Registered
Ahhhhhhhh, better.
159 posted on 06/19/2002 8:58:18 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Keyes won't like that one very much, unless he is going to the same cosmetologist as Michael Jackson pretty darn soon.

Guess you haven't watched Ambassador Keye's show then, because he does indeed advocate profiling and he says that any law enforcement agent or agency that refuses to profile is remiss in their duties. Racial profiling is a gross misnomer. Race is only one aspect of profiling it's not a factor in all profiles. We're doing criminal and anti-terrorist profiling now. The term racial profiling is a bogus invention of the left.

160 posted on 06/19/2002 9:01:42 PM PDT by pgkdan
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