Mark Steyn: Stop frisking crippled nuns

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 06/01/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Cyber Liberty]

Thanks!

[Amelia]

In mid-September, I wrote that what happened was a total systemic failure. But, as the memos leak out, one reason for that failure looms ever larger. Thousands of Americans died because of ethnic squeamishness by federal agencies.

Fantastic article. Thanks, Pokey78!

[Sabertooth]

What is their response to the obvious truths that PC has killed thousands of Americans and that it will do so again under Norm Mineta's policies??

• "Bush is a genius!"
• "...Secret plan to take back the Senate."
• "The pres will crucify us for doing the right thing."
• "Do you really want Hillary/Algore/Daschle for President?"
• "Bush is a genius!"
• "Disruptor!"
• "Bushbasher!"
• "Huh? What?"
• "Would you like to donate money to my campaign?"
• "Bush is a genius!"
• "Thank you for being a concerned citizen... Let me put you on hold."
• "How about that Gary Condit?"
• "Buchananite!"
• "Bush is a genius!"
• etc...

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Example three: On 1 August, James Woods, the motion-picture actor, was flying from Boston to Los Angeles. With him in the first-class cabin were half-a-dozen guys, four of whom were young Middle Eastern men. Woods, like all really good actors, is a keen observer of people, and what he observed as they flew west persuaded him that they were hijackers. The FBI has asked him not to reveal all the details, but he says he asked the flight attendant if he could speak to the pilot. After landing at LAX, the crew reported Woods’s observations to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA did ...nothing. Two of the four were on board the 11 September planes. There are conflicting rumours about the other two. Woods turned out to be sitting in on a rehearsal for the big day.

Huh? Has anyone else heard this?

[Boxsford]

Great column. Thanks for posting this. It's a keeper.

[Cyber Liberty]

One can be a Bush supporter without being a s***head. I wish I could say the same about the Bush-bashers.

[Dimensio]

Sure, he's complaining now, but when heroic airline security officers apprehend a feeble, 83 year-old nun who was trying to smuggle explosives and weapons onto a plane so that she could hijack and blow it up he'll be singing a different tune.

[Dimensio]

Huh? Has anyone else heard this?

I saw him in an interview on Fox News discussing this.

[B Knotts]

BUMP

[Sabertooth]

One can be a Bush supporter without being a s***head. I wish I could say the same about the Bush-bashers.

Each side is a mixed bag.

There are Bush-bashers who never give Bush any credit, and Bushbots who won't assign him any blame.

This thread is about the weaknesses of the Domestic Front in the War on Terror, where our national response han't been as forceful or well-conceived as it has been in the international theater.

[Cyber Liberty]

The problems we have are the results of Bush's Democrat in the cabinet, and FBI holdovers. What I will soundly criticize Bush for is not getting rid of Mueller, and picking up Mineta.

[SkyPilot]

the leggy blonde commentatrix Ann Coulter declared

Awww,, why did he have to do that! I was going to comment on what a great article it was concerning Political correctness and the lack of will to profile Arabs.....

Now I can't think......................

[another cricket]

And it did NOTHING because it was afraid of being accused of the dreaded crime of giving Arabs a closer second look.

This is not going to be a popular POV but so what.

We still have a government of, for and by the people. Unlike Europe where the government decides and the people abide our government reacts to the public opinion. That is why we still have the death penalty, no socialist healthcare and $1.50 a gallon gas.

This can be both a good and a bad thing. Ask your co-workers if they think that "racial profiling" is wrong. You will probably still have a majority that says yes. Before 9/11 the number was probably half again as large. Like it or not, they were doing what the vocal section of the country wanted.

a.cricket

[#1CTYankee]

Good Post, well written, sad but true.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I was in Madrid at the time of and for several weeks after 911. I guess international CNN didn't see fit to interview him.

[Cicero]

I'll second that. Bush's worst failing so far has been to leave the clintonoids in place all over his government.

You can be very sure that clinton never would have made that mistake in a million years.

[surely_you_jest]

Ping for the MSPL. Please add me.

[remaininlight]

Even after 11 September, we can’t revoke the central fiction of multiculturalism — that all cultures are equally nice and so we must be equally nice to them, even if they slaughter large numbers of us and announce repeatedly their intention to slaughter more. National Review’s John Derbyshire calls this ‘the reductio ad absurdum of racial sensitivity: better dead than rude’.

Last October, urging Congress to get tough on the obvious suspects, the leggy blonde commentatrix Ann Coulter declared, ‘Americans aren’t going to die for political correctness.’

[Sabertooth]

The problems we have are the results of Bush's Democrat in the cabinet, and FBI holdovers. What I will soundly criticize Bush for is not getting rid of Mueller, and picking up Mineta.

Some Democrats lke to claim that Cheney is a ventriloquist, and that Bush is his talking dummy. I don't believe this.

Therefore, I conclude that "Islam is a religion of peace" are Bush's words.

Some Democrats like to claim that Bush's foreign policy team (Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, etc.) is responsible for the successful policies and war abroad. I believe that the fundamental policy is the President's, and give him the credit.

So, when I look at the fundamental policy that allows chumps like Mineta and INS Director James Ziglar to operate to the detriment of our war effort and our country in general, to whom should I assign credit or blame?

[headsonpikes]

"...Better dead than rude."

That sums it up.