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Edited on Wed Jun-14-06 11:49 AM by tjwash
I actually read her book "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" and came to the conclusion that she really isn’t a very good author. Her prose is nothing but the use of ridiculous and fabricated points, while talking down to the reader as if to say that if you see her hate filled diatribes for what they are, you "simply aren't smart enough to get it."
But that's not why I am writing this. No one seems to have mentioned the 800 pound gorilla in the room about her book "Godless." She attacks 9-11 widows as "witches" who have "been shamelessly profiting from their spouses deaths."
So, let me get this straight then. In her little world, it's shameless and disgusting profiteering. Yet, she is completely missing the irony, that she is guilty of the same profiteering she accuses them of, only a hundred fold. In her case, the profiteering is at the expense of those who will forever be scarred by the death and horror that they incurred during a senseless and preventable tragedy. She’s profiteering at the expense of the people who were actually touched by the tragedy, and actually incurred a loss and pain that will never disappear. I don't know what world she lives in, but to most rational people, that's a hundred times worse than anything she could dredge from the depths of that diseased soul of her's, to accuse anyone else of.
What’s appalling to me, is not these neo-con shills like her doing all of this so effortlessly, as much as the very PRIDE that they take in it. These disgusting, neo-con vultures jumped on the 9-11 dead years ago and picked the corpses clean. Ann Coulter discovered that there was still a little rotting marrow in the bones left to suck on. HOWEVER. I will absolutely fight to the death to allow these people to talk, write, and speak their mind, no matter how disgusting their prose is. Why? Because unlike them, I'm an American, and I happen to think that freedom to speak ones mind is a pretty darn good thing. Unlike the "authors" that write garbage like she does, and are vocal proponants of censorring people, oevrturning civil rights legislation, and regulating the internet, I prefer the good old fashioned first amendment of the constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The thing that gets missed in the shuffle and amidst all the arguing and posturing, is that Ann Coulter is merely a symptom. Much like Zarqawi was nothing more than a symptom of Middle Eastern terrorism, Ann Coulter is merely a symptom of our domestic disease of hate, bigotry, and intolerance. You remove or silence one, and a hundred more are waiting in the shadows, chomping at the bit to take their place. The disease will continue to march merrily along, until we get to the root of the problem; undoing generations of programming, that have taught us, and our children to hate something, simply because they are somehow "different than us", or "not our kind." It's also the oldest trick in the book, and used by the ruling classes ever since before the Pharaohs ruled in Egypt. Simply find a small, insignificant difference among the population, and find a way to get everyone to hate it. That way the masses don't have the time to notice that the ruling class is getting rich on the common man's blood and sweat, taking away their rights, and sending their children off to die in far off lands to expand the empire. It's a simple principle, that happens to work extremely well.
Let them talk. Let them rant. Let them hate and vilify people. That's all they have, and all they have ever had. Hatred as the glue, that holds the neo-cons together. I don't want to censor them. I prefer to use their prose against them instead, and show the world how ignorant and spiteful as an ideology that they really are.
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