Profiling According to Coulter

Note : Written in response to articles found in "How to Talk to a Liberal - The World According to Ann Coulter" (Three Rivers Press, New York)

Ann Coulter is the S-Word.
Not the R-word, not entirely in that sense, but the S-Word.

Ann Coulter is a Segregationist.

Segregationists like to put things in categories to make life easier for them. For Miss Coulter, it probably looks like this :

Liberal - Conservative
Republican - Democrat
Christian - Muslim
Male - Female
White - .....everything else

Miss Coulter talked about making airports safer by using the racial profiling option that was brought to the head officials in both Washington and the FAA shortly after 9/11, and there couldn't be a more valid proving ground that her view of separation is nothing more than hypocrisy at work.
But before all you Democrats out there begin to say you have my back, I have to tell you that it's not the reason that's hypocritical, it's the content and method she presents.

If Miss Coulter were to have her way, then everybody that looks like s/he was a native of a hot, arid, desert-like country, would be held up at checkpoints, searched, and escorted off planes before take off. Being a realist/paranoid-strategist, I would have to incline in agreement....to a certain degree. If terrorists are responsible for attacks on cities and people (and they are) then there should be no change in treatment for these terrorists based on skin tone, religion, or beliefs...correct ? It so happens that today's terrorists are of Muslim belief and religion, and many of them are from the Middle East, so they will definitely be looked at closer no matter what. And they, and all of you out there, will have to accept it (sorry folks, but it was 19 lads from the Middle East who drove a bunch of 300,000 ton vehicles into buildings) You cannot argue with Miss Coulter's idea - if someone came into your home and attacked your family, there would be very little of us who would say that you wouldn't want to get even and to make sure it doesn't happen again. She's merely stating that the mistakes of a few, will sometimes impact the larger group as a whole.
So if that idea is sound, and it's been definitely proven, then lets look at it on a detailed level...

...Keeping in mind that many Aero-Terrorists seem to be from the Middle East, then most Structural-Terrorists must come from the farmland of America.
If every person of Middle Eastern descent (or Indian descent, since many of them are mis-profiled) must be scrutinized at the airport, then every white person with a southern drawl, driving a pickup truck, should be examined by heavy security when walking into a large building. After all, who could forget about Tim McVeigh and his group of Good Ol'Boys ?
Yes, I know that the first bombing of the WTC was done by Islamic terrorists, but the damage they did in that incident is a firecracker compared to Oklahoma City. Before 9/11, Oklahoma City was considered the worst terrorist act to date, done proudly by citizens born and bred in America. But Miss Coulter's satiric viewpoint does not acknowledge it whenever she talked about profiling because she knows if this was the case, then everybody (including her) would have to go through the same humiliation as honest immigrants do whenever they step foot into an airport. Imagine having to be strip searched every time you entered a new building ? Everybody (including Miss Coulter) would find it exhausting, invasive, and humiliating.
...welcome to being a terrorist.....
That isn't to say that nobody else has gone through some humiliating things in the airport regardless of racial differences (Re : The woman who had to drink her own breast milk), but the realism is that Arabic people have it much worse than us all, and if the United States stands for "Liberty, Freedom, and Justice for All", then in Miss Coulter's world maybe it reads more like : "Liberty, Freedom, and Justice for All.....except if you are Arabic, Muslim, Islamic, or All of The Above....better yet, anybody who isn't remotely close to a white person....."

Miss Coulter will argue that it was because of these Muslim extremists that all three ways of the American Way must now change; they must pay the price for their actions, and that the American public has suffered enough. Isolation is the best policy. But what about the citizens of Oklahoma city ? Or the families who had to suffer with the aftermath ? We got out revenge on McVeigh just like we got it on Osama, so why don't we continue to hunt down more militia's that exist like Al Quaida ? Who's to say that another Oklahoma City won't happen again ? Shouldn't we then be searching everybody who comes into a building who drives a Dodge pick up ?
Miss Coulter will say that Muslims are encouraged by their beliefs, and that the misinterpretations of these actions in the Koran helps to fuel these extremists....and she's absolutely right. But the largest religious following in the world was responsible for the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Burnings, and the Irish "Troubles" between Roman Catholics and Protestants to name a few...and they were all inspired by one little book.

Miss Coulter is just like everybody else in the country - scared of how much everybody else hates America and what they will do. And because of that fear, there is no other way to deal with it other than to get the people who were responsible for causing it...
....and if you can't get them, then get the people who most resemble them.
It's hypocrisy at it's best. I'm sure everybody, including Miss Coulter and President Bush, is happy that the troops are fighting for, and guarding, a hypocritical "freedom".


Octavian