June 20, 2013

Coulter: The Immigration-Domestic Snooping Nexus

From Human Events:
COULTER: AVOID THE NEED FOR SPYING USING ONE NOT-SO-WEIRD TRICK
By: Ann Coulter

Well, of course the government is spying on Americans! Look at the havoc caused by American citizens engaging in terrorism. 
There’s “American citizen” David Coleman Headley, who conspired with Pakistani military officers to commit the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that left more than 160 people dead. 
Headley’s ancestors served under Gen. George Washington — no, I’m sorry, Headley was born “Daood Sayed Gilani” in Washington, D.C., to a Pakistani father. Like your typical American boy, he enjoyed TV’s “Happy Days” and murdering innocent people in terrorist attacks. 
There were the 20 “American” men from the Minneapolis area who joined a terrorist group in Somalia in 2008. I knew the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party would cause trouble one of these days! 
No, wait — wrong again. We invited these foreign terrorists to immigrate here after the collapse of Somalia’s government in 1991. (And what a great deal for America that was! I’m so glad Obama’s doing it again with Syrian rebels.) 
These hardworking Somali immigrants produced — in the words of The New York Times — “the first known American suicide bomber”! Go U.S.A.! Who could have guessed that Shirwa Ahmed would be America’s first suicide bomber? (My money had been on a guy named “Jim Peterson.”) 
In addition to the first suicide bomber, the other American citizens who joined the terrorist group included Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, Abdiweli Yassin Isse and Mahamud Said Omar. 
If you can’t trust “American citizen” Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax, what Americans can you trust these days? Or to quote Sen. Bob Casey, the mentally disabled Democratic senator from Pennsylvania: “It’s really disturbing — Americans becoming radicalized.” 
Then there were the six “New Jersey men” who plotted a terrorist attack on the Fort Dix military base in 2007. Using rocket-propelled grenade launchers, they estimated they could kill at least 100 soldiers. ...
The New Jersey men were named Mohamad Shnewer, Serdar Tatar, Agron Abdullahu, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka. Four were from the former Yugoslavia, one was from Turkey and one was from Jordan. All were illegal aliens. 
But we needed them! As Marco Rubio’s staff recently told The New Yorker, American workers “can’t cut it.” 
If the government can spy on Cherry Hill’s Mohamad Shnewer, how can we draw the line at Fox News’ James Rosen and CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson?
... Now we have to spy on Americans because of all the imported Tsarnaevs and Zazis. We have created two huge problems where none existed before — domestic terrorism and government spying — all to help the Democrats win elections by changing the electorate. 

As well, there are all sorts of other important interest groups who benefit from the Tsarnaevs and Todashevs being in America. Look at the growth in the budget and mysterious powers under the command of four-star general Keith Alexander, head of CyberCommand. If you are a politician, who knows what dirt he's got on you ... so, going around making Ann's argument that we need to cut immigration so we can spy less domestically just might get Gen. Alexander, who likes his black budgets big, unhappy with you. Most politicians have guilty consciences, so they'd rather make sure Gen. Alexander is a happy camper.

25 comments:

wren said...

Either she is crossdressing as you or you are crossdressing as her.

I feel that I've read that article before, right here.

Whiskey said...

Steve, American Politics are now blackmail proof. If a certain Senator came out as gay tomorrow, after being caught in bed with a boy, even an underage one, he'd be an American hero. Hailed for his heroism by all the media. Cruising to reelection by a massive margin.

Kim Kardashian is apparently America's most popular woman. A family member underwent a procedure on Monday, fairly minor, and her nurse (an Asian lady) was so excited to hear about Kardashian's giving birth. That tracks with the mags on the supermarket checkout counter (about 75% of revenues comes from such sales, and covers generate retail sales). There seems to be a law that one member of the Kardashian clan must be on the cover of every magazine.

Anthony Weiner could be the next Mayor of New York. Mark Sanford is again in politics, this time as an elected Congressman. John Edwards is likely to get elected again.

There is no shame, no behavior so taboo, that it would end a career. So there is no possibility of another J. Edgar Hoover. Because there is no shame. At least for famous, important people.

The danger is for ordinary people, being targeted en masse, by various criminal, foreign, or domestic political/bureaucratic operations. Don't like a political movement, your spy agency can give you the key leaders by node analysis and your IRS can make their lives so miserable, in tandem with the FBI, OSHA, EPA, etc, that they have no time for political leadership. If criminal syndicates can make billions out of credit card fraud, imagine the blackmail possibilities, if they can just bribe one of 4.8 million with security clearances, let alone hack in.

Joe Average might have his marriage and career end for patronizing Craigslist prostitutes, but a big shot will just go on Oprah or the View admitting his "sex addiction" and be hailed for his "bravery."

Anonymous said...

Hopefully the Anne-Steve coalition will win out in the end. BTW,I heard her repping you on Prager yesterday.

Chris Anderson said...

Ann Coulter has become Steve's megaphone. Bless her.

She also gives credit to you, rather than just stealing your stuff. In other words, she's not a pussy.

Hunsdon said...

Whiskey said: If a certain Senator came out as gay tomorrow, after being caught in bed with a boy, even an underage one, he'd be an American hero.

Hunsdon said: Your poverty of imagination is stunning, Whiskers. It's the pictures of the Senator in bed with a boy, who turns up dead. It's the coke that turns up at you and your mistress's weekend retreat. Go sell it somewhere else.

Dennis Dale said...

Imagine what Hoover could've done with Big Data

Harry Baldwin said...

It's the pictures of the Senator in bed with a boy, who turns up dead. It's the coke that turns up at you and your mistress's weekend retreat.

And, of course, that kiddie porn that turns up on your hard drive after the authorities confiscate your computer. Still plenty of ways to ruin anyone that the PtB need to ruin.

Coulter has been amazing lately. She's the only "must-read" columnist out there these days.

Regarding Hoover, what makes you think he was any more conniving and unscrupulous than the folks in the Obama administration? Don't sell them short. Among other things, I don't think Hoover hated this country.

Matthew said...

It strikes me that the essence of elitist totalitarianism is the notion that systems trump people - that you can create a "system" - in politics, in business, etc. - that is good enough that you don't have to care much about the quality of people you throw into it. The system is idiot-proof, and the people are all just cogs; and a country is not defined by its people, but by the system that governs it - that "credal nation" bullshit we've been hearing about for so long.

That's what we have today - you have no right to distinguish people based on ethnicity, race, or gender, or the traits which tend to characterize such groups. Throw 100 million Anglo-Saxons, or Chinese, or Mexicans, or Somalis into the "system" and, according to the left, they should all wind up roughly the same.

The totalitarians aim to create a system that makes individuals irrelevant.

Jeff W. said...

Drudge has linked to a good article about NSA's shakedown racket.

"Top judges, generals, politicians wiretapped"

(My alternate title: "How the Surveillance State Got Enough Money to Hire 854,000 People as Was Estimated by the Washington Post in 2010.")

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/20/bush-era-nsa-whistleblower-makes-most-explosive-allegations-yet-about-true-extent-of-govt-surveillance/

This is one reason I am not much afraid of them. In the Soviet Union or East Germany, they used to get you for bad-mouthing the dictator.

Over here, they're more in it for the money. I don't see how they can get much money out of me, so I expect they'll leave me alone if I don't rat them out or mess with their budget.

Semi-employed White Guy said...

Hoover himself was a smear victim with that cross-dressing meme.

I would bet he was just another icon of traditional America that had to be taken down by the usual bagel-loving suspects.

McGillicuddy said...

Ann has come out of the closet.

There is no shame, no behavior so taboo, that it would end a career.

Getting caught hanging out here might do it.

Anonymous said...

The obvious question is who controls the NSA?

Charlesz Martel said...

"You can't have open borders and a welfare state."
Milton Friedman
"You can't have open borders and civil liberties."
Charlesz Martel

Charlesz Martel said...

What's interesting about Coulter that she used to deny the reality of race, because she was worried about being censored apparently. Now that she is speaking the truth, she might actually be able to wake up more people. One can only hope. She is about 30+ years late to the party, unfortunately.

Dr Van Nostrand said...


What's interesting about Coulter that she used to deny the reality of race, because she was worried about being censored apparently. Now that she is speaking the truth, she might actually be able to wake up more people. One can only hope. She is about 30+ years late to the party, unfortunately."

I dont recollect Ann ever being shy about indulging racial stereotypes in order to prove a point.
I love Ann ,her writing is terrific and I guffaw once when reading one of her columns.
She knows her American history and Constitutional Law. However she is quite lost when she comments on foreign countries.
Then she slips in narrow Sean Hannityesque provincialism -French are cowards,Germans are closet Nazis and the like

Anonymous said...

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/coulter-u-s-finished-if-amnesty-passes/

Anonymous said...

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/orson_welles_hated_woody_allen

dearieme said...

"She knows her American history and Constitutional Law": golly. I was under the impression that all that most Americans know of American history is the indoctrination they received at school.

Dr Van Nostrand said...

golly. I was under the impression that all that most Americans know of American history is the indoctrination they received at school."

an odd comment.what is your point?
Ann is isnt like "most Americans" for sure

Rick Sanchez and Jason Richwine said...

Whiskey: "There is no shame, no behavior so taboo, that it would end a career."

So we're about to be forgiven?

Titus Didius Tacitus said...

Charlesz Martel: "She is about 30+ years late to the party, unfortunately."

In a society where antiwhiteism is a part of the compulsory education system, it was inevitable that a lot of people would be late to the party.

David said...

Matthew's comment is excellent.

Anonymous said...

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AMac said...

"The Long War Journal" provides granular coverage on topics such as Iraq, Afghanistan, jihadism, and international terrorism. They present relevant facts; readers can draw their own conclusions.

For instance, among close observers there isn't much doubt about the allegiances of most Syrian rebels. (Hint: they aren't secular in their orientation.)

This recent article, Spain uncovers al Qaeda network for Syrian jihadists, illustrates that the immigration/Salafism/anti-terrorism connection is not unique to the U.S. -- European countries have been dealing with the same issues. Here, Spain's outcomes are as poor as those that Coulter discusses in her piece.

Per Steve: in a world of amnesiacs, few notice such things, and nobody cares.

Mr. Anon said...

"Matthew said...

It strikes me that the essence of elitist totalitarianism is the notion that systems trump people - that you can create a "system" - in politics, in business, etc. - that is good enough that you don't have to care much about the quality of people you throw into it. The system is idiot-proof, and the people are all just cogs; and a country is not defined by its people, but by the system that governs it - that "credal nation" bullshit we've been hearing about for so long.

The totalitarians aim to create a system that makes individuals irrelevant."

Exactly right. Well said. The notion that one only need have the right system in place and the people who staff it are irrelevant, is one of our most pernicious modern false pieties, and is helping to ruin western civilization.