Ann Coulter: BUSH PAYS HOMAGE TO THE FETISHISTIC RITUALS OF LIBERALISM

Yahoo ^ | Wed Jun 19, 7:01 PM ET | Ann Coulter

[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.

[ArneFufkin]

Thank you, but we just don't think you're going to work out as Ms. Coulter's spokesperson. Good luck,

[ArneFufkin]

Everybody knows! Nobody trusts Arab-American Muslims. I don't. They're not stepping up and decrying our mass murder ... they're being "profiled" and "targeted". Victims all.

Wouldn't it be nice, if Zogby and the rest of these ubiquitous apologists and meelymouthers organized a memorial march of only American-born Muslims through Manhattan on September 8 or whatever date that Sunday is. Americans, Muslim born Americans honoring the dead. Not for any apology or acceptance of blame. For the trust of the rest of us. What a bonding and nice thing that would be, New Yorkers of every stripe would join them after three or four blocks and it would be and absolutely heart wrenching and bonding experience. Zogby doesn't have that level of humanity or care. The American Muslims will stay neutral, and that's not gonna make it. Neutral is enemy.

[pyx]

So you think Bush should encourage racial profiling?

Yes.
Its a standard investigation tool.

If I am looking for a 6 foot 6 inch basketball player, I am going to racially profile tall black men. It doesn't mean I am going to overlook a Larry Bird when he comes along but I am going to profile tall blacks.

Likewise, if we are looking for a airplane hijacker/terrorist, we should profile Arab males between the ages of 18 and 45. That doesn't mean we should overlook suspicious white, orientals and blacks but we should profile Arabs.

The ability to discriminate information is a GOOD THING.
Not doing the obvious (profiling Arabs) in order to avoid the possibility that my political enemies might call me names and to conform to the Politically Correct crowd's demands, is a deriliction of duty and responsibilities.

In short, PC will and has cost lives.

[dixie sass]

No problem Endeavor, misinterpretation of the written word is the norm, not the exception. We all interpret things generally alike but still differently from others. My reference was to Conservatives as a whole and the Party in general.

Critisism is good for the soul (at least that's what my momma said). It helps to keep us on our toes and aware. The President is no different. I admire President Bush but am also aware that he is not perfect and like all men, make mistakes.

President Bush is a good man trying to do a hard job to the best of his ability.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Cretin. Moron. Idiot.

Son? Son!

[Twodees]

Oh yeah. Bush certainly should order that racial profiling be used in all security procedures and investigations by feds. You sound as though you buy the liberal BS about profiling being bad somehow. Racial/ethnic profiling is simply sound security/police work.

[Texasforever]

I love watching you people writhe like scorpions stinging your selves to death. It is quite a sight.

[Twodees]

Wow, now you've discovered LSD. Seek help before you snap and kill us all.

[Texasforever]

Na double D I just enjoy watching the eternally Pi$$ed off getting pi$$ed on and there is not a single thing they can do but keep reaching for towels.

[Twodees]

You're hallucinating again, mexicoforever. Nobody is pissing on me, I'm not writhing or stinging myself and you're not going to believe what the real conservatives are doing outside the viewing range of your narrow little window slit. You'll get a little taste of it this fall when the elections roll over you.

I know you fantasize about seeing all the evil Americans rounded up and put in camps, but we're not going to let that happen. Do another few thousand mic's and dream on.

[Papa Cannabrew]

I think if you look at what Ann is writing and compare it to what the President has said, you will see a disparity.

The disparity is pretty clear in other places. The supposition about a lack of Arab terrorist attacks prior to September 11, for instance. Didn't some try to blow up a subway station in Brooklyn? And what was that thing with the Millennium bomb plot? (One might also wonder about the assassination of Kahane in NYC - - not an American target exactly, but it happened in America.)

[Uncle Bill]

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