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.
Checking him once or 50,000 times isn't going to prevent another attack!
How many Protestant religions, i.e., BAptists or Presbyterians believe in killing the infidels? Even the Branch Davidians weren't killers until they were attacked!!!
Hello.....did they leave you at the new space station that's being built?
It's fun when you misspell your favorite word!
My favorite word is loose: i.e. I told you Alan Keyes was going to loose his show. I told you Alan Keyes was going to loose all the primaries by at least 50 points to Bush. I just hope that Dr. Keyes doesn't loose that application for Truck Driving school.
Good times! Let's never loose this love.
Oh, you are mad that they searched GORE. Now I get it.
Ahhhh .... if only your skills could have somehow been used for the "Forces of Niceness".
Whatever blows your dress up....:)
Regards...
A housecleaning is long long overdue. He should have gone through Washington with a ruthless firehose the same week he was sworn in.
I bet y'all feel like babysitters sometimes, lol.
I propose the old Wally Carbo AWA ruling: "Fines and Suspensions! Fines and Suspensions!"
Tell us all EXACTLY how Bush goes about this; since you seem to be aware of some method that is not known to the rest of us for ridding the government of CAREER employees, do tell us how it's done.
No messing around now; post the EXACT procedure and laws/rules that allow Bush to fire ANYBODY he wants to from the administration.
I'm glad you understand this and are delighted by the work.
I need help. The headline is provocative and zesty! But I couldn't make the link. Could you please summarize for me what in the article (1) linked George Bush to any Liberal "ritual" or fetish and (2) had any direct action of George Bush after the third presidential debate?
Now, if you can't rearticulate the arguments she presented that supported that Headline, then this article is a piece of crap. And, you are a dishonorable troll. I'd hate to think that about you, but when somebody posts a thread and has no interest in the story but thinks the headline is damning and demeaning .... that is increasingly annoying me.
I think this article was written under duress.
Talk-show host Hugh Hewitt is indubitably right when he says [I'm paraphrasing], "The Democrats just don't get it. From the top down there's not a one of 'em who can be trusted with the defense of this country."
So putting private citizen Al Gore through a security screening at an airport ... as the law demands ... is a homage by Bush to the "Fetishistic Rituals of Liberalism". What the H is she babbling about? So it wasn't really Bush ... it wasn't really even Bush's Transportation Department ... it was a Security guard doing his job and following the law in an American airport. That was a pathetic and torturous link to the President. By the way, what is construed as any fetish or ritualism - identified with Liberals - associated with an airport security checkpoint that screens citizens for weapons betwen the ticket area and the gates? That's an unusual process, I've only been doing it since 1983 or so. It's contrived, alarming nonsense.
Second, Robert Mueller stated that the official policy of the FBI is to not racially profile any specific group of Americans. It is! OK .... so what? You don't think it's happening as a field prerogative out in the real world? By professional cops, some of the best in the world, determined to waylay Muslim mayhem and murder? Of course it is, is he going to say that to Feingold? Does Feingold know it's happening, and appreciate it? Yes on both counts.
The rest is about Feingold and bad jokes about Gore and .... what a Freeping disaster this thing was.
More manure on the FR heap.
Linda, we NEVER posted fraudulent crap about Buchanan or Keyes in 2000. We didn't need to, we SUPPORTED someone. The dishonesty on Free Republic is no longer alarming, no longer angering, it's like a bunch of Commie propagandists. Spouting nothing. What do these people get out of jumping on a wheeless bandwagon? They look like jackasses. They are jackasses.
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