Schlafly: 'Reinstate the House Committee on Un-American Activities'

[Purveyor]

By Brian Tashman, RightWingWatch

Eagle Forum founder and Joseph McCarthy admirer Phyllis Schlafly is using the Boston marathon bombings as an excuse to push for the reinstatement of the notorious House Committee on Un-American Activities.

“It would be useful to reinstate the House Committee on Un-American Activities,” Schlafly wrote in a column yesterday, “so we can have a look at those in our midst who may be jihadists, dupes of violent Muslim indoctrination, or (in old Communist lingo) fellow travelers or useful idiots.”

In her column, which she titled, “Are You American 1st or Muslim 1st?,” Schlafly further argues that while it is okay to be a Christian first and American second, Muslims who put faith first should not be allowed in the country.

The Boston bombing crime shows that comprehensive immigration reform should not be only a southern border problem or even just a problem of illegal aliens. It’s also a problem of foreigners who are admitted legally but should never have been admitted, and of others admitted legally on a visa but are not tracked to make sure they depart when their visitor’s time expires, as U.S. law requires.

For starters, why would our government have admitted the Tsarnaev family whose son was named Tamerlan? That should have been a red alert because that is the name of one of the world’s notorious mass murderers, a 14th-century Central Asian warlord named Tamerlan, who killed about 17 million people.

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/schlafly-reinstate-house-committee-un-american-activities

[Xipe Totec]

1. The first person to appear before the committee should be Schlafly

For wanton disregard of the Bill of Rights.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

3. SEE THE DEVIL, IS SHE STILL ALIVE

[PatSeg]

8. Every time I see her name in the news,

my first reaction is, "She is still alive???"

[MindPilot]

15. that was my first thought too.

with the addition of several colorful nouns that would get me locked out of the thread.

[PatSeg]

16. Not only is she still alive,

but her hairstyle hasn't changed in 40 years! That is one scary, freaky woman.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Here here.

After her would be any group who has bought access into government.

[Mopar151]

2. Phyllis Schafly is a reliable belleweather

Of what NOT to do.

[AldebTX]

4. Wonder How She Would Answer

Are you an American 1st or a Christian 1st?

[LeftInTX]

5. She's another Pat Robertson

[Tom Ripley]

6. She's just filled with nostagic longings, isn't she?

[pampango]

7. More Schlafly from last November:

Beware of the Lame-Duck Session

The globalists have been plotting to use the volatility of this lame-duck session to achieve some of their internationalist goals that they couldn't get passed during the last four years. In particular, they would like to lock us into treaties that slice out various parts of our national sovereignty, a concept that they have been trying to promote as obsolete. ... The globalists could make a surprise treaty push for ratification of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (UNATT). This treaty is coming under the radar since gun control advocates know it could never pass the U.S. Senate after debate in broad daylight.

Another plan to ratify an anti-sovereignty treaty and subject us to unwelcome global regulations is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This mischievous document was signed for the U.S. by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (now famous for giving big TV time to Obama's lies about the Benghazi disaster).

The globalists desperately want us to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which was a bad idea when Ronald Reagan rejected it in 1981, and which has soured rather than ripened in its years of languishing in the Senate. This treaty cedes sovereign control over practically all the riches at the bottom of the world's oceans to an International Seabed Authority.

After ratification, treaties become part of the "supreme law" of the United States on a par with federal statutes, which gives supremacist judges the power to invent their own interpretations. The whole concept of putting the United States in the noose of global organizations, in which the U.S. has only the same one vote as Cuba, is offensive to Americans, and all these UN treaties should be scrapped forthwith.

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2012/11/06/schlafly-beware-of-the-lame-duck-session/

I thought she had disappeared from politics. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. I think the claim that she says it's OK to be Christian first may well be a lie.

Certainly, she doesn't say that in the original column, although I can't rule out her having said it elsewhere.

[Paladin]

11. Hold your breath until it happens, Phyllis. (nt)

[KatyMan]

12. I guess this:

That should have been a red alert because that is the name of one of the world’s notorious mass murderers, a 14th-century Central Asian warlord named Tamerlan, who killed about 17 million people.

would mean no Germans named Adolf should ever be let in...

[kestrel91316]

13. Awesome! And while we're at it, let's reopen the Salem Witch Trials.

[JHB]

14. She's overflowing with stupid here

1) They came as kids a decade or so ago, and didn't radicalize until relatively years later, when they were already here. So the sort of questioning she proposes would have just been badgering a couple of kids.

2) Does this mean we have to deport the graves of Sid Caesar and Caesar Romero? Should Jason Alexander make plans to flee to Switzerland? Should Kaiser Insurance be shut down as instrument of a foreign power?

[TheMightyFavog]

17. Or just deport Sid Caesar?

Last I checked, he is still alive and kicking at 90.

[JHB]

19. Oops. Must have been thinking of Soupy Sales when I wrote that.

Both comedians whose heyday was before my time, and I mixed up who passed on a few years ago.

More power to Sid, unless Phyllis has him deported.

[Javaman]

18. Okay, I'll go first!

I have a list of 20, err 60, no make that 216 republicans here that have shown to be down right colossally stupid.

Proof? Just watch fox news!

[hrmjustin]

20. Phyliis Schlafly is nuts!

It figures she would be dumb enough to say that.

[alp227]

21. OK, once Democrats take back the house in 2014 maybe K Street lobbyists can be summoned.

A Democrat-led HUAC should also subpoena:
- The Family/other Religious Right theocrats
- PNAC/other neocons who planned the Iraq War
- Jamie Dimon, Angelo Mozilo, Lloyd Blankfein, & other bankers who lobbied Congress into deregulation
- The Bush Crime Family...INCLUDING Oliver North, speaking of North...

[PD Turk]

22. good gawd

Isn't that old bat dead yet?

[spanone]

23. yea, that worked out great the first time....