- After the World Trade Center was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists
in 1993, the country quickly chalked it up to a zany one-time attack and
five minutes later decided we were all safe again. We weren't. We aren't
now. They will strike again. Perhaps they will wait another eight years.
But perhaps not.
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- The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists
who are not already here are free to immigrate. The government has been
doing an excellent job rounding up suspects from the last two attacks.
But what about the next attack? We thought there was only one murderous
Islamic cell in America the last time, too.
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- Congress has authority to pass a law tomorrow requiring
aliens from suspect countries to leave. As far as the Constitution is concerned,
aliens, which is to say non-citizens, are here at this country's pleasure.
They have no constitutional right to be here.
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- Congress has it within its power to prevent the next
attack, but it won't. When the Sears Tower is attacked, the president is
assassinated, St. Patrick's Cathedral is vaporized, anthrax is released
in the subway systems or Disneyland is nuked, remember: Congress could
have stopped it, but didn't.
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- Pious invocations of the Japanese internment are absurd.
For one thing, those were U.S. citizens. Citizens can't be deported. So
far -- thank God -- almost all the mass murderers of Americans have been
aliens.
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- But even more blindingly obvious: There was no evidence
that the attack on Pearl Harbor was staged by Japanese saboteurs living
in California. The Japanese internment was a pure land grab implemented
by liberal politicians -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt and California
Gov. Earl Warren (later the namesake of the infamous Warren Court). The
internment was vigorously opposed by J. Edgar Hoover.
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- This time, the very nature of the enemy is that they
have infiltrated this country and pass themselves off as law-abiding, quiet
immigrants. The entire modus operandi of this enemy is to smuggle mass
murderers to our shores.
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- But the country refuses to respond rationally. Rather,
Congress is busily contemplating a series of "anti-terrorism"
measures most notable for their utter irrelevance to the threat. What precisely
would a national ID card accomplish? The hijackers were in this country
legally! A few may have overstayed their visas by a few days -- a minor
bureaucratic oversight that they surely would have remedied had they not
been about to commit suicide in a monstrous attack.
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- Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., has bravely proposed that we
take the aggressive step of asking aliens in the country to register periodically
with the government so we know where they are. That's already the law in
Germany. Several of the hijackers in this attack lived in Hamburg; they
obediently complied. The mastermind of the most vicious terrorist attack
in the history of the world, Mohammed Atta, was in Florida on a "vocational
status" visa (in order to attend flight school). Let's say Atta had
registered. Now what, Joe?
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- As the entire country has been repeatedly lectured, most
Muslims are amazingly peaceful, deeply religious, wouldn't hurt a fly.
Indeed, endless invocations of the pacific nature of most Muslims is the
only free speech it is safe to engage in these days.
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- This is a preposterous irrelevancy. Fine, we get it.
The New York Times can rest assured that every last American has now heard
the news that not all Muslims are terrorists. That's not the point. Not
all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims -- at least
all terrorists capable of assembling a murderous plot against America that
leaves 7,000 people dead in under two hours.
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- How are we to distinguish the peaceful Muslims from the
fanatical, homicidal Muslims about to murder thousands of our fellow citizens?
Are the good Muslims the ones who live quiet lives, pray a lot and obey
the law? So did the architects of Bloody Tuesday's mass murder. Are the
peaceful Muslims the ones who loudly proclaim their hatred of Osama Bin
Laden? Mohammed Atta did that, too.
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- The only thing we know about them -- other than that
they live among us -- is that they are foreign-born and they are Muslims.
The government has been remarkably tight-lipped about precisely how many
Muslim visitors we are currently accommodating, but from unofficial estimates,
there appear to be more than a million. Even if the attorney general instigated
latter-day Palmer raids, it will take years and years to investigate and
infiltrate every potential terrorist cell operating on our shores. The
investigations should not be conducted while the enemy continues residing
here, plotting the next attack.
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- It's an extreme measure, but we face an extreme threat.
It is suicidal naivete to think we can simply seal off every water supply,
air vent, food supply and crop duster from now until the end of time. We
cannot search every truck, every passenger, every shopper, every subway,
every person entering every building -- every American every day.
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- It is impossible to stop Islamic fundamentalists who
believe that slaughtering thousands of innocent Americans will send them
straight to Allah. All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations
to leave -- with the full expectation of readmittance -- while we sort
the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.
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- More benefits of the plan next week, but the beauty part
of the Terrorist Deportation Plan can't wait. There will be two fail-safes:
(1) Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens
unaffected by the deportation order can stay; and (2) any Muslim immigrant
who gets a U.S. senator to waive his deportation -- by name -- gets to
stay.
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- This is brutally unfair to the Muslim immigrants who
do not want to kill us. But it's not our fault. It is the fault of the
terrorists who are using their fellow Muslims as human shields. So far,
America's response to a calculating cold-blooded enemy has been to say,
"Excuse me, you seem to have dropped your box-cutter."
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- c. 2001 Universal Press Syndicate http://www.uclick.com/client/cap/ac/2001/09/26/index.html
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