Dear Editor:
I simply wanted to state that Ann Coulter's presence on our campus and in our community is unwelcome. In several of her most recent comments to the public such as: "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," Miss Coulter seems to be advocating fascism over democracy. Her comments do not facilitate the free exchange of ideas that a healthy democracy depends upon. Certainly, they do not seem to respect the decisions of those citizens who are the ultimate check against tyranny and choose to speak out against war or government actions that seek to oppress and impose injustice upon the domestic and international public. Those of you who were waving flags a while back need to realize that this is what it means to be American.
Miss Coulter, quite simply, is a hate monger. The hatred that she espouses is not something that we as a community should support with our time or our money. We should follow Martin Luther King's rich example of showing nonviolent resistance to those who hate and seek to maintain the injustices that internalized hatred ultimately causes (and that Miss Coulter obviously believes should be imposed upon the American people and the international community). We should respond with respect, and we should speak unwavering truth to the lies and oppressive hatred that she propagates.
Those conservatives who consider her a leader and a spokesperson of conservative beliefs should ultimately reject Miss Ann Coulter and persons like her, who simply seek to profit off of conservatives by spouting hatred and ignorance. For those who say she is a champion of your beliefs, I strongly encourage you to seriously reconsider the morality that you claim belays them. I also encourage you to stop voting, because the fascist state that you support when supporting Miss Coulter, and conservatives like her, is entirely contrary to whatever claims of democracy you believe in. Orphan Annie, please go home.
Joel R. Landry
junior, economics and political science
Published on 11/17/05; 12:24:44 PM
