By Ann Coulter
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Do liberals have any arguments for their idiotic ideas
besides calling their opponents "racist"?
The two big public policies under attack by the left this
week are "stop-and-frisk" policing and voter ID laws. Democrats denounce
both policies as racist. I'm beginning to suspect they're getting lazy in their
arguments.
Stop-and-frisk was a crucial part of the package of law
enforcement measures implemented by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani that saved the
city. Under David Dinkins, who preceded Giuliani, murders averaged about 2,000
a year. There were 714 murders in New York the year Giuliani left office.
Continuing Giuliani's policing techniques, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's New York
had only 419 murders last year.
Just during his first year in office, Giuliani's policies
cut the murder rate an astonishing 20 percent. That first year of his
administration was responsible for 35 percent of the crime drop nationwide from
1993 to 1995. The New York Times hailed this remarkable achievement with an
article headlined, "New York City Crime Falls but Just Why Is a
Mystery."
It was mostly black lives that were saved by Giuliani's
crime policies. By the end of his administration, the Rev. Calvin Butts,
liberal pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, was comparing Giuliani to
King Josiah of the Bible, who "brought order, peace, the law back to the
land." The black minister told The New York Times, "I really think
that without Giuliani, we would have been overrun."
About the same time as the Rev. Butts was comparing
Giuliani to King Josiah, Richard Goldstein of The Village Voice claimed he felt
less safe in New York under Giuliani. It was the ravings of a madman, like
saying winter is warmer than summer. But now, Goldstein's ideas are being
delivered from the federal bench by Judge Shira Scheindlin, who recently held
New York City's stop-and-frisk policies unconstitutional.
Yes, Democrat Bob Filner can pat down his female
employees, but cops can't pat down suspected criminal
Liberals wail about guns, but how do they imagine police
get guns off the street without going to high-crime neighborhoods and stopping
young men acting suspiciously? Giuliani's policing policies, including
stop-and-frisk, reduced gun homicides in New York by 75 percent within five
years.
It is precisely the fear of being caught with a gun that
induces young hoodlums not to carry them. The word gets out: Don't carry a gun!
It's not worth the risk.
Of course cops don't find many guns anymore! That's
because they're doing stop-and-frisk.
By liberals' logic, the government should stop doing meat
inspections because it turns up so few cases of contamination these days,
anyway. We can also drop the metal detectors at airports. How many people does
the TSA actually catch trying to sneak guns onto airplanes?
Have liberals polled the elderly black residents of
high-crime neighborhoods on stop-and-frisk? As soon as the word gets out that
it's now safe to carry weapons, spray paint, drugs and stolen goods again, criminals
will rule the streets and the elderly will, once more, be confined to their
homes. As Martin Luther King said, crime is "the nightmare of the slum
family."
But liberals don't care about the innocent black victims
of crime. They don't care about citizens being prisoners in their own homes --
as long as it's not in their neighborhoods. The important thing is to
self-righteously preen about racism.
When a policy that has saved thousands of black lives is
attacked as "racist," the word has no meaning. At this rate, liberals
will be claiming that peanut butter sandwiches are racist -- except that
wouldn't be as crazy.
Voter ID laws don't actually save black lives the way
stop-and-frisk policies do, but it's not clear how such laws hurt them. I
suppose the argument is that by allowing Democrats to steal elections, they can
pass all those laws that improve black lives immeasurably, like promoting trial
lawyers, gay marriage, abortion and amnesty for illegals. You know, the
Democratic policies that really enhance black lives.
The claim that modern voter ID laws are a racist
Republican plot to prevent minorities from voting is complicated by the fact
that, in 2011, such a law was enacted by the overwhelmingly Democratic Rhode
Island legislature and, in fact, was pushed through by black Democrats.
Despite the pleas of national Democrats who realized
their cover was being blown, the state senate's only black member, Democrat
Harold Metts, sponsored a voted ID bill. He said he'd heard complaints about
voter fraud for years, telling the story of one poll worker who encountered a
voter who couldn't spell his own last name.
A black legislator in the House, Anastasia Williams,
complained that when she showed up to vote in 2006, she was told she had
already voted. Another time, she saw a Hispanic man vote, go to the parking lot
and change his clothes, then go back in and vote again.
If white liberals are so concerned about black votes
counting, why don't they ever vote for black representatives in their own
congressional districts? Black Republicans are always elected from majority
white districts: Gary Franks, J.C. Watts, Tim Scott and Allen West.
But black Democrats apparently can get elected to
Congress only from specially designated minority districts. How come white
liberals won't vote for a black representative? Can't a black person represent
Nita Lowey's district?
Democrats do nothing for black Americans except mine them
for votes, which they do by telling tall tales about racist Republicans.
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