File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0109, message 198


Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:14:48 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: National Review  on Empire


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      "Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport
      harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers...We know who the
      homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right
now."

      "The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we
      welcome them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in
      discriminatory racial or 'religious' profiling."

<methadonekittie-AT-disinfo.net> posts:
our comrades at the national review have done it again!  another
_well-reasoned_ and _logical_ op-ed piece.  i especially like the paragraph
at the end that starts with:

  "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
Christianity."

 http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml
This Is War:  We should invade their countries.
Ms. Coulter is also a syndicated columnist
September 13, 2001 9:05 a.m.

Barbara Olson kept her cool. In the hysteria and terror of hijackers herding
passengers to the rear of the plane, she retrieved her cell phone and called
her husband, Ted, the solicitor general of the United States. She informed
him that he had better call the FBI - the plane had been hijacked. According
to reports, Barbara was still on the phone with Ted when her plane plunged
in a fiery explosion directly into the Pentagon.

Barbara risked having her neck slit to warn the country of a terrorist
attack. She was a patriot to the very end. This is not to engage in the
media's typical hallucinatory overstatement about anyone who is the victim
of a horrible tragedy. The furtive cell phone call was an act of incredible
daring and panache. If it were not, we'd be hearing reports of a hundred
more cell phone calls. (Even people who swear to hate cell phones carry them
for commercial air travel.)

The last time I saw Barbara in person was about three weeks ago. She
generously praised one of my recent columns and told me I had really found
my niche. Ted, she said, had taken to reading my columns aloud to her over
breakfast.

I mention that to say three things about Barbara. First, she was really
nice. A lot of people on TV seem nice, but aren't. (And some who don't seem
nice, are.) But Barbara was always her charming, graceful, vebullient self.
"Nice" is an amazingly rare quality among writers. In the opinion business,
bitter, jealous hatred is the norm. Barbara had reason to be secure.

Second, it was actually easy to imagine Ted reading political columns aloud
to Barbara at the breakfast table. Theirs was a relationship that could only
be cheaply imitated by Bill and Hillary - the latter being a subject of
Barbara's appropriately biting bestseller, Hell to Pay. Hillary claimed
preposterously in the Talk magazine interview that she discussed policy with
Bill while cutting his grapefruit in the morning. Ted and Barbara really did
talk politics - and really did have breakfast together.

It's "Ted and Barbara" just like it's Fred and Ginger, and George and
Gracie. They were so perfect together, so obvious, that their friends were
as happy they were on their wedding day. This is more than the death of a
great person and patriotic American. It's a human amputation.

Third, since Barbara's compliment, I've been writing my columns for Ted and
Barbara. I'm always writing to someone in my head. Now I don't know who to
write to. Ted-and-Barbara were a good muse.

Apart from hearing that this beautiful light has been extinguished from the
world, only one other news flash broke beyond the numbingly omnipresent
horror of the entire day. That evening, CNN reported that bombs were
dropping in Afghanistan - and then updated the report to say they weren't
our bombs.

They should have been ours. I want them to be ours. This is no time to be
precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this
particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in
the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like
Barbara Olson.

We don't need long investigations of the forensic evidence to determine with
scientific accuracy the person or persons who ordered this specific attack.
We don't need an "international coalition." We don't need a study on
"terrorism." We certainly didn't need a congressional resolution condemning
the attack this week.

The nation has been invaded by a fanatical, murderous cult. And we welcome
them. We are so good and so pure we would never engage in discriminatory
racial or "religious" profiling.

People who want our country destroyed live here, work for our airlines, and
are submitted to the exact same airport shakedown as a lumberman from Idaho.
This would be like having the Wehrmacht immigrate to America and work for
our airlines during World War II. Except the Wehrmacht was not so
bloodthirsty.

"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every
single time there is a terrorist attack - or a plane crashes because of
pilot error - Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose
whatsoever.

The airport kabuki theater of magnetometers, asinine questions about whether
passengers "packed their own bags," and the hostile, lumpen mesomorphs
ripping open our luggage somehow allowed over a dozen armed hijackers to
board four American planes almost simultaneously on Bloody Tuesday. (Did
those fabulous security procedures stop a single hijacker anyplace in
America that day?)

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport
harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to
assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who
the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only
Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed
civilians. That's war. And this is war.

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From: <swerve-AT-mail02.onetel.net.uk>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: National Review on Empire


> impressive piece of misinformation that mastermind of the red
> brigades stuff. they tried there hardest to pin that on him,
> even getting the CIA in to 'analyse' the tape of the call
> about moro. unfortunately it was shown to be pure
> fabrication. and the italian state needed to reactivate laws
> that had been brought in by mussolini (and never binned, as
> is the case with so much of still existing laws in italy) in
> order to keep him inside. in the end the best they could do
> is get him for 'moral responsibility' and 'incitement'
> (though his writings!) to armed insurrection against the
> state - yes, that's right, the same state that has been shown
> to have been planting bombs around the country from around
> the late '60s to the late '80s (thanks to investigations
> carried out by the italian state itself in the '90s). hey
> shit, who needs facts when you got the media.
>
> then again, i guess you guys know that. amazing what idiocy
> people are still able to get away.
>
> Ps. i'm sure this wasn't sent by someone who sympathises with
> the opinions expressed. thanks for that. its always good to
> know to what level the functionaries of capital sink.
>
>
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