You know ... I hate to say it, but I can actually agree with Coulter when she mercilessly derides some of the things the FAA and Department of Transportation are doing to make air travel "safer". I would agree that some of them seem peculiarly pointless.
Just when you think that perhaps her previous call for a crusade was just immediate reaction to events, that perhaps her brain has returned to something resembling rationality, she does just manage to sneak her real agenda in: All 19 hijackers in last week's attack appear to have been aliens. As far as the Constitution is concerned, visitors to this country are here at the nation's pleasure. Congress could pass a law tomorrow requiring that all aliens from Arabic countries leave. (More on that next week.) Congress could certainly pass a law requiring all aliens to get approval from the INS before boarding an airplane in the United States.
Just remember, the country is only here for the non-immigrants. (The fact that, unless you're an American Indian, EVERYBODY is descended from immigrants being one of those things that just sweeps past her, no doubt.)
And purely as a matter of law, unless Congress plans to repeal the parts of the Constitution regarding rights of association, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and a few other things, I don't believe that they can require all aliens to get approval from the INS to simply board an aircraft. (Mind, this isn't likely to stop them from trying.) I'm quite certain that INS wouldn't want the responsibility of monitoring such requests. And how do you handle emergency requests due to death or disease? Federal bureaucracies are not remotely configured to move quickly.
I can hardly wait for the "More on that next week" column. The naked bigotry and racism will be just wondrous to behold. (And just when the National Review's editor had apologized for her last column -- if "apology" is remotely the right word for Mr Lowry's response. It certainly does put the agenda of The National Review right out there for all to see, doesn't it?)
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why are you down on her for pointing out the obivious ?
they were all alien were they not ?
at what point will this pc insanity end ?
they were :
all aliens
nobody is saying that all aliens or all middle eastern men are bad, but the refusal to acknowledge that middle eastern islamic young men make up a an extrememly high percentage of of the indivduals doing these bad things around the world is just ridicules
that kind of thinking leads us to the current situation in or airports where we are searching blonde headed children and blue haired grannies
the questions is why ?
can you say leftist liberal politically correct culture
Posted by not_rabbidly_liberal @ 02/21/2002 05:04 PM CST
all middleeastern men
(i'd like to say all muslim, but that would be an assumtion, although an assumtion with a high probability of accuracy)
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