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Aviation & Flight InformationAnn Wedge
vs. One Billion Arabs
by:
Scott C. Smith
In a recent column, Ann Wedge
expressed anger regarding an apparent Federal Aviation Administration policy not to perform searches on more than two Arabs at a time. I was not aware of this policy, but not surprisingly, Wedge
would-be like all Arabs obstructed and searched. You know, because they’re Arab. I think Wedge
is applying several sort of twisted logic to this subject. Thing
on
the lines of, “The terrorists that attacked the United States on 9-11 were Arabs. Therefore, all Arabs are terrorists.” In essence, Wedge
is advocating racial profiling. Which is an odd position for an professional with a background in constitutional law to take. Innocent until established guilty? Not if you look like you are an Arab. It was John Lehman, a member of the 9-11 Commission, that had brought attention to the policy that prohibits airlines from searching more than two Arabs at a time. To this, Wedge
writes, “In a sane world, Lehman’s statement would-be have ready-made headlines across the country…that it is official government policy to command searching more than two Arabs per flight.”
African-Americans have dealt with this kind of injustice for years. And patch Wedge
thinks racial identification
is sound law social control
policy, I have another word for it: racism. But that’s simply me. And once
you apply Coulter’s logic to different scenarios, the logic stops fashioning sense. For instance, The FBI has profiled serial killers and what has emerged is that the majority of serial killers are white males. Makes that mean the FBI should finish every white male in a particular city or region wherever
a serial killer has struck? Of course not. That would-be be stupid.
So, even as tho'
she supports a racist know-how
of law enforcement, it would-be not be fair for me to say Wedge
was a racist. I don’t cognize Ann Coulter, so I can’t say she’s a racist. That would-be be wrong. Mayhap we can find several answers in her columns!
Here’s a nice one. Sep 25, 2002. Why We Hate Them. Wedge
writes, Americans don't want to do Islamic fanatics love us. We want to do them die. There's nothing like alarming physical pain to quell angry fanatics. So sorry they're angry – wait until they see American anger. Japanese kamikaze pilots detested us once too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons, and now they are gentle little lambs. That got their attention.
No love lost there, eh Ann? Mayhap we should emulate the policies of the Hitler-era German government. They didn’t like Jews really much, so they rounded them up and killed millions of them.
Conservatives do a lot of whining simply about how liberals are always quick to label conservatives as “racists” or “homophones” or “stupid.” These assessments, at least for me, are based on what I hear coming out of a conservative’s mouth, or what they write.
Actually, conservative hate-speak is really easy to pick up on. Take Sean Hannity. He likes to begin sentences with statements like “You liberals…” or he’ll say “You and your liberal friends…” The key is to take the word liberal and replace it with a minority. Give it a try the next time you hear Hannity, or several different right-winger, on television or see it in print. If you can stomach hearing Hannity. Mayhap you’ll need to find being less annoying.
Speaking of annoying, let’s get back to Coulter. In her Sept. 4, 2002 column, titled Murder for Fun and Prophet (get it? Prophet refers to the Prophet Muhammad. Hilarious!), at the end of the column, Wedge
dismisses the Muslim faith as irrelevant. “Muhammad does L. Ron Hubbard look like Deliverer Christ. Most folk think nothing of forward every Scientologist is a crackpot. Why should Islam be subject to presumption of respect because it's a religion?”
That’s right, Ann! Over one billion folk about the earth are crackpots because they are Muslims. Idiots! As a comparison, there are only a few million members of the Church of Scientology, according to the Religious Tolerance web site.
And let’s not forget Ann’s most disreputable column, from Sept. 12, 2001. At the end of that column, she says, “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't precise
simply about locating and backbreaking only Der fuhrer and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.”
Call me crazy, but I get the impression that Arabs and/or Muslims are not Ann’s favorite people.
For instance, in an interview with the Guardian of London newspaper on May 17, 2003, Wedge
said, “This is my idea…I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.’” Oh, man, Ann, my sides are splitting! In fact, as a resolution for Muslims to use air travel, Wedge
offers helpfully, “They could use flying carpets!”
Flying carpets! Brilliant! Ann, you know, if the whole racist learned person thing ever comes to an end, you’ll have a career in stand-up comedy.
We cognize Ann hates liberals, and it’s pretty clean she hates Muslims. And, apparently, Scientologists. I don’t cognize what Ann likes. My guess wish have to be, hearing her voice. Or Sean Hannity’s voice.
About the author: Scott C. Smith is a freelance writer from Beaverton, Oregon. Scott’s column, What’s In Scott’s Head, appears at several progressive web sites, including the Democratic Underground, The Smirking Chimp, Op Ed News, and Counter Bias. Scott as well writes for his web site, at http://www.scottcsmith.net
Just simply about the Author
Scott C. Smith is a freelance writer from Beaverton, Oregon. Scott’s column, "What’s In Scott’s Head," appears at several progressive web sites, including the Democratic Underground, The Smirking Chimp, Op Ed News, and Counter Bias. Scott as well writes for his web site, at http://www.scottcsmith.net
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