Burnt Orange Report

Ann Coulter and the Socialists

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

Ann Coulter is doing her little shindig tonight on campus (you'd need a pass to get in which are out now). University Democrats has agreed not to protest because it serves us little purpose to do so. In most cases, after the reporting is said and done, it hurts the protesting organization's credibility and the firing lines in the campus paper are not kind.

Of course, even with our efforts to limit any disruptive action, leave it to the International Socialists on campus to create some. An e-mail follows...

As most of you know, Ann Coulter will be speaking tomorrow, May 3rd, in the LBJ School Auditorium on UT Campus. Ann Coulter is a notorious right-winger who is intent on purging the US of all immigrants, Arabs, and the left in general. We, as progressives and leftists, need to be there to counter her racist lies and make it known she is unwelcome at UT or in Austin. The plan for the protest is as follows:

Meet at 6:45pm at the fountain just south of the LBJ Library (see this map)
The ISO will bring signs and banners, but feel free to bring whatever signs or displays you wish.

Protest outside the entrance to the LBJ Auditorium from roughly 7:00 to 7:45, we will be chanting and trying to engage possible supporters and bring them into the protest.

We want to get as large a crowd as possible, so please tell any friends or organizations you are involved in or have contacts with. This is a golden opportunity to stand up to the right and make a statement for peace, justice, and equality.

In solidarity,
Matt K. and Jon B.
International Socialist Organization

PS: For more information e-mail mattkorn@gmail.com or bougiej@gmail.com; or call Matt at 914-9226 or Jon at 799-3861.

Some of Coulter's gems...

-- Her anti-Muslim rant after September 11:

"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."

-- Her admiration of McCarthyism and her call for a new round
of intimidation against liberals and the left:

"The myth of "McCarthyism" is the greatest Orwellian fraud of
our times. Liberals are fanatical liars, then as now. . .
McCarthy was not tilting at windmills. He was tilting at an
authentic communist conspiracy that had been laughed off by the
Democratic Party."

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once
again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We
need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically
intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be
killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright
traitors."

Her call for more racial profiling:

"Like many of you, I carefully reviewed the lawsuits against
the airlines in order to determine which airlines had engaged
in the most egregious discrimination, so I could fly only that
airline. But oddly, rather than bragging about the charges, the
airlines heatedly denied discriminating against Middle Eastern
passengers. What a wasted marketing opportunity! Imagine the
great slogans the airlines could use:

"Now Frisking All Arabs -- Twice!"
"More Civil-Rights Lawsuits Brought by Arabs Than
Any Other Airline!"
"The Friendly Skies -- Unless You're an Arab"
"You Are Now Free to Move About the Cabin -- Not So
Fast, Mohammed!"

--Her immigrant bashing (characterizing the INS as too
lenient):

"Foreigners were relentlessly staging raids on our border,
which was defended by a hapless bunch of incompetents[LINK] at
the Immigration and Naturalization Service."

--Her threats against everyone who disagrees with her
politically (beyond the fact that anyone who considers the NY
Times to be a raging leftist paper has got some serious
issues):

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the
New York Times Building."