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Wednesday October 03 08:19 PM EDT
DETAINMENT ISN'T ENOUGH
By Ann Coulter
House leaders recently rejected the Bush administration's request for
authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely. Under the
House plan, the government could hold immigrants suspected of
terrorism for only seven days without bringing charges.
Let's hope seven days is enough for the government to perform a
thorough intelligence-based investigation of a million Muslim
immigrants!
Oddly, it would be easier to deport immigrants than to detain them.
Under the Constitution, visitors to this country have no right to be
here, but they may have a right not to be detained indefinitely
without a hearing.
War is being waged on our soil by noncitizen infiltrators, legally
admitted by the INS. If Congress says the attorney general can't
detain them, we ought to deport them. (From the "not ready to move
on" file: Isn't it curious that we have room for 19 Muslim mass
murderers, but no room for an innocent little Cuban boy? In addition
to deporting immigrants from terrorist-producing countries, someone
should look into deporting every person who ever worked for the INS.)
Any senator (Teddy Kennedy) who is opposed to the mass deportation of immigrants from
suspect countries would be free to waive in as many potential terrorists as he could
sign his name to. At least then we'd have true gov
ernment accountability, rather than collective foot-dragging based on pristine
tributes to civil rights.
We won't even necessarily need to call on the fine-tuned screening procedures of the
INS. The law could simply state that immigrants from certain countries aren't allowed
to be here after a certain date, unless they recei
ve a waiver.
Admittedly, fanatics willing to launch monstrous suicide missions are probably also
going to be willing to violate a general order of deportation. But it would raise the
terrorists' transactions costs. At the very least,
noncitizen terrorists will have a tough time maneuvering around the country, becoming
pilots, getting hazardous materials licenses and generally doing the things they need
to do to nuke Manhattan.
Surely, thousands of immigrants could be waived in instantly on the basis of reliable
evidence either that they are not Muslims, or that they are the peaceful, law-abiding
variety not planning mass murder -- as opposed to
the peaceful, law-abiding Muslims who recently slaughtered thousands of our fellow
countrymen.
Among the advantages of a deportation presumption is that it would give the FBI
increased opportunities to flip Muslim immigrants to informants -- a possibility
unlikely to be lost on any terrorists looking for their own
new recruits.
A mass deportation order also ought to ease the way for "ethnic profiling." If
noncitizens from various suspect countries were under an order to leave, all security
personnel would have grounds to look for potential viola
tors of that law.
Everyone is profiling now anyway. No one talks about it, which allows liberals the
luxury of ritualistically denouncing racial profiling. Ordinary Americans aren't going
to die for political correctness. And airlines aren
't going to fly empty planes.
The facts are: (1) Nineteen male immigrants of Middle-Eastern descent recently
murdered thousands of civilians on our shores in a coordinated attack; (2) other
people answering to the same description have been apprehende
d in the country as suspected co-conspirators; and (3) according to the attorney
general, there are more sleeper terrorist cells at large that the government has yet
to identify.
Complaints about heightened suspicions toward people who fit the description of
fanatical Islamists go well beyond opposing indiscriminate hate. It is a demand that
Americans not even have their antennae up.
Focusing on men of Middle-Eastern appearance is less "profiling" than suspect
identification. It is in keeping with the standard police practice of not looking for
people over 6 feet tall when the eyewitnesses tell you th
e perp is 5 feet 2 inches. When looking for the Unabomber, I promise you -- the FBI
wasn't rousting Asians or Arabs.
As unfair as it sounds, deporting immigrants from suspect countries will actually
minimize cruelties toward vast numbers of vaguely Arabic-looking people. Although many
immigrants will be swept up unfairly, all the Sikhs,
Hindus and Arab Christians will be relieved to discover they don't scare people
anymore.
To be sure, there is a risk that mass deportations might upset the delicate diplomatic
maneuvering designed to bring the largest possible number of unsavory regimes into our
"international coalition." On the other hand, s
ome countries in the "international coalition" might be forced to conclude that the
Great Satan is smarter than they thought. This part of the plan ought to appeal to
their primitive sense of honor and boundaries.
But moreover, any sentient being has to realize that some of our "partner" regimes are
more plausibly allied with the terrorists. If we don't stop the coalition-building
soon, Colin Powell could soon be announcing a "dipl
omatic initiative" to bring Osama bin Laden into the "coalition." Having allies is
great, but let us not forget that it is ultimately our responsibility, not that of
foreigners with different interests, to defend this cou
ntry.
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10/04 Bryan: Coulter uses rhetorical tricks to manufacture support
for deportation plan
Ann Coulter's latest column continues her irrational argument in
favor of mass deportation, using what have become her staple
rhetorical tricks to manufacture support for her plan to deport
Muslim immigrants.
Coulter, whose syndicated column was dropped by the National Review
after she suggested the US should invade and convert countries where
people celebrated the events of September 11, begins with the
suggestion that we deport "a million Muslim immigrants," expanding
the target from the "Muslim visitors" and "aliens" she has previously
advocated expelling. Coulter continues:
Any Senator (Teddy Kennedy) who is opposed to mass deportation of
immigrants from suspect countries would be free to waive in as many
potential terrorists as he could sign his name to. At least then we'd
have true government accountability, rather than collective foot-
dragging based on pristine tributes to civil rights.
The sentence utilizes one of Coulter's favorite tactics: injecting
the name of a political opponent to rile up her readers. In this case
the target is Kennedy who, since Coulter's idea has received no
mainstream discussio
n, has yet to take a position on mass deportation. Nonetheless, hypothetically lining
Kennedy up against her plan invokes an emotional reaction designed to convince readers
to favor it.
Coulter justifies her position this way:
A mass deportation would ease the way for "ethnic profiling." If noncitizens from
various suspect countries were under an order to leave, all security personnel would
have grounds to look for potential violators of the la
w.
Everyone is profiling now anyway. . . . Ordinary Americans aren't
going to die for political correctness.
Coulter is, of course, correct, in that criminalizing the presence of
a good chunk of a single ethnicity automatically makes the rest of
that ethnicity suspect. But her argument that "everyone" is already
profiling based on race is not only insulting, it's a rhetorical
trick which manufactures support for her argument out of thin air.
Finally, suggesting that "political correctness" is standing in the
way of American security is another emotional trope, designed to
discredit civil rights protections without making an argument.
Coulter's appeal to emotion and fear intentionally inflames racial
tensions and serves as a graphic illustration of how pundits use
emotional incidents such as the tragedy of September 11 as an excuse
for irresponsible rhetoric.
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