Pious invocations of the Japanese internment are absurd. For one thing, those were U.S. citizens. Citizens can't be deported. So far -- thank God -- almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been aliens.
You know, if he were still alive, McVeigh would be seriously pissed off by that slight.
It's also wondrously sophistical. Yes, at the moment, the largest mass murder of Americans seems to have been carried out by aliens. But we kill 15,000 of each other every year. Americans are typically murdered by other Americans. Usually friends or relatives. She should get a grip.
Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.
Leaving aside the fact that she's operating from a stunning lack of evidence -- how on earth do we know that all terrorists capable of doing what was done were Muslims? it's entirely reasonable that someone like the Aryan Nations or some such group could do such a thing -- in fact, the only time anything remotely like that was perpetrated in this country, it WAS domestic.
And, of course, most Muslims in this country are native-born African-Americans. One wonders what she does plan to do with them. Presumably, forced conversion to Christianity, at the least, and execution for those who refuse to convert. It would, after all, only be consistent.
There will be two fail-safes: (1) Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay; and (2) any Muslim immigrant who gets a U.S. senator to waive his deportation -- by name -- gets to stay.
THAT is a fail-safe? To be forced to be a spy (in a situation in which most of your reports would amount to "Nobody did nothin'" -- now THAT is an effective use of people, right?) or to somehow get a senator -- who won't have a clue who you are -- to allow you to be his or her pet Muslim?
You know, the problem with Coulter isn't her policies. (Well, OK, not just her policies.) The problem is that she's so extreme that she makes other policy proposals from people look vaguely sane and doable. (Such as the secret evidence laws, for example.) While people are watching her froth at the keyboard, other stuff can possibly sneak right in.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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