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Ann Coulter Says Immigrants Will Rape and Impregnate Your Little Girls
Apparently, women are not already sexually abused in Ann Coulter's America. Maybe she needs to get out more.
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Wonder if both Huckabee and Duggars agree?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)perhaps Ann should be more worried about conservative religious wackos than immigrants.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)excerpted from the book
The Splendid Blond Beast
by Christopher Simpson
Common Courage Press, 1995
Friedrich Nietzsche called the aristocratic predators who write society's laws "the splendid blond beast" precisely because they so often behave as though they are beyond the reach of elementary morality. As he saw things, these elites have cut a path toward a certain sort of excellence consisting mainly of the exercise of power at the expense of others. When dealing with ordinary people, he said, they "revert to the innocence of wild animals.... We can imagine them returning from an orgy of murder, arson, rape and torture, jubilant and at peace with themselves as though they had committed a fraternity prank-convinced, moreover, that the poets for a long time to come will have something to sing about and to praise.'' Their brutality was true courage, Nietzsche thought, and the foundation of social order.
Today genocide-the deliberate destruction of a racial, cultural, or political group-is the paramount example of the institutionalized and sanctioned violence of which Nietzsche spoke. Genocide has been a basic mechanism of empire and the national state since their inception and remains widely practiced in "advanced" and "civilized" areas. Most genocides in this century have been perpetrated by nation-states upon ethnic minorities living within the state's own borders; most of the victims have been children. The people responsible for mass murder have by and large gotten away with what they have done. Most have succeeded in keeping wealth that they looted from their victims; most have never faced trial. Genocide is still difficult to eradicate because it is usually tolerated, at least by those who benefit from it.
The Splendid Blond Beast examines how the social mechanisms of genocide often encourage tacit international cooperation in the escape from justice of those who perpetrated the crime...
According to psychologist Ervin Staub, who has studied dozens of mass crimes, genocidal societies usually go through an evolution during which the different strata of society literally learn how to carry out group murder. In his book The Roots of Evil, Staub contends that genocidal atrocities most often take place in countries under great political, economic, and often military stress. They are usually led by authoritarian parties that wield great power yet are insecure in their rule, such as the Nazis in Germany or the Ittihad (Committee of Union and Progress) in Turkey. The ideologies of such parties can vary in important respects, but they are nonetheless often similar in that they create unity among "in-group" members through dehumanization of outsiders. Genocidal societies also show a marked tendency toward what psychologists call "justworld" thinking: Victims are believed to have brought their suffering upon themselves and, thus, to deserve what they get.
But the ideology of these authoritarian parties and even their seizure of state power are not necessarily enough to trigger a genocide. The leading perpetrators need mass mobilizations to actually implement their agenda. For example, the real spearheads of genocide in Germany-the Nazi party, SS, and similar groups- by themselves lacked the resources to disenfranchise and eventually murder millions of Jews. They succeeded in unleashing the Holocaust, however, by harnessing many of the otherwise ordinary elements of German life-of commerce, the courts, university scholarship, religious observance, routine government administration, and so on-to the specialized tasks necessary for mass murder. Not surprisingly, many of the leaders of these "ordinary" institutions were the existing notables in German society. The Nazi genocide probably would not have been possible without the active or tacit cooperation of many collaborators who did not consider themselves Nazis and, in some cases, even opposed aspects of Hitler's policies, yet nonetheless cooperated in mass murder. Put bluntly, the Nazis succeeded in genocide in part through offering bystanders money, property, status, and other rewards for their active or tacit complicity in the crime.
The actions of Nazi Germany's business elite illustrate how this works. Prior to 1933, German business leaders did not show a marked impulse toward genocide. Anti-Semitism was present in German commercial life, of course, but was often less pronounced there than in other European cultures of the day.4 Among the Nazis' first acts in power, however, was the introduction of incentives to encourage persecution of Jews. New Aryanization laws created a profitable business for banks, corporations, and merchants willing to enforce Nazi racial preferences. Tens of thousands of Germans seized businesses or real estate owned by Jews, paying a fraction of the property's true value, or drove Jewish competitors out of business. Jewish wealth, and later Jewish blood, provided an essential lubricant that kept Germany's ruling coalition intact throughout its first decade in power. By 1944 and 1945, leaders of major German companies such as automaker Daimler Benz, electrical manufacturers AEG and Siemens, and most of Germany's large mining, steelmaking, chemical, and construction companies found themselves deeply compromised by their exploitation of concentration camp labor, theft, and in some cases complicity in mass murder. They committed these crimes not so much out of ideological conviction but more often as a means of preserving their influence within Germany's economy and society. For much of the German economic elite, their cooperation in atrocities was offered to Hitler's government in exchange for its aid in maintaining their status.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Genocide/SplendidBlondeBeast.html
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Thanks, Octafish...spot on.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Edwin Black explains:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2511192
PS: You are most welcome, noiretextatique! Thank you for caring about what we are really up against and standing up in opposition.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)she might win a seat like Michelle Bachmann or Joni Ernst did. That would give her some power and that is not a good thing. The weird thing is if Hitler had been kept in his place as a bizarro crank making speeches to other weirdos like himself, there would not have been a Nazi Germany. Allowing him to seize power, which Von Hindenburg did, is what started the wheels turning.
Ann seems content to write her hateful books, because hateful people buy them and in a way she's relieving them of their money. I sometimes wonder if it's not deliberate on her part and she's laughing at them all the way to the bank.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)If ever there was a "Thought Criminal," it's Annhtraxx. because she makes people hate other people through dehumanization. The next step, for fascists, was elimination of the undesirables.
The Last Gasp of American Democracy
By Chris Hedges
TruthDig.org, Posted on Jan 5, 2014
EXCERPT...
The most radical evil, as Hannah Arendt pointed out, is the political system that effectively crushes its marginalized and harassed opponents and, through fear and the obliteration of privacy, incapacitates everyone else. Our system of mass surveillance is the machine by which this radical evil will be activated. If we do not immediately dismantle the security and surveillance apparatus, there will be no investigative journalism or judicial oversight to address abuse of power. There will be no organized dissent. There will be no independent thought. Criticisms, however tepid, will be treated as acts of subversion. And the security apparatus will blanket the body politic like black mold until even the banal and ridiculous become concerns of national security.
I saw evil of this kind as a reporter in the Stasi state of East Germany. I was followed by men, invariably with crew cuts and wearing leather jackets, whom I presumed to be agents of the Stasithe Ministry for State Security, which the ruling Communist Party described as the shield and sword of the nation. People I interviewed were visited by Stasi agents soon after I left their homes. My phone was bugged. Some of those I worked with were pressured to become informants. Fear hung like icicles over every conversation.
The Stasi did not set up massive death camps and gulags. It did not have to. The Stasi, with a network of as many as 2 million informants in a country of 17 million, was everywhere. There were 102,000 secret police officers employed full time to monitor the populationone for every 166 East Germans. The Nazis broke bones; the Stasi broke souls. The East German government pioneered the psychological deconstruction that torturers and interrogators in Americas black sites, and within our prison system, have honed to a gruesome perfection.
[font color="green"]The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism, is not, in the end, to discover crimes, but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population. And because Americans emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough evidence to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant. [/font green]
The object of efficient totalitarian states, as George Orwell understood, is to create a climate in which people do not think of rebelling, a climate in which government killing and torture are used against only a handful of unmanageable renegades. The totalitarian state achieves this control, Arendt wrote, by systematically crushing human spontaneity, and by extension human freedom. It ceaselessly peddles fear to keep a population traumatized and immobilized. It turns the courts, along with legislative bodies, into mechanisms to legalize the crimes of state.
CONTINUED...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_last_gasp_of_american_democracy_20140105
And she is laughing all the way to the bank, a cartoon of what a human could be.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)anything so why should I worry.' Fascism and other totalitarianisms will always have acolytes; are constantly an undercurrent. And like today's radical conservs, use fear and religion to gain support.
'Sheeple,' as Limburger's listeners actually are proud to be called, is an spt name -- herd 'em together, shear 'em, then wait until time is right to make a meal of them.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Damn that is sick of her. My comment isn't much better but it makes a worthy point as to the direction of her ire. Unfortunately, my direction is flawed as well. Women should know more about sexual abuse than this. Sick men from around the world are the problem. This issue knows no borders. The systemic promotion of women as objects is the problem. Ann Coulter and her evil words and misdirection of abuse is the problem.
packman
(16,296 posts)It was fear, fear and more fear. Beware the immigrant. Classic gruel for the knuckle draggers.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)the bible thumping, holier-than-thou, family values spouting closeted pedophiles and rapists in the GOP.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)Has been. Nobody cares anymore. Her last three books were on the budget shelf before the ink dried.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,367 posts)... which, of course, only proves her point.
Well, except for the "rape" part, I hope.
I tried the link, but got numerous windows popping up, so abandoned that attempt.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Odd that...
In 2010, the Justice Department reported a disturbing trend where "American child sex tourists typically are Caucasian males aged 40 or older. Such predators may be either situational or preferential child sex tourists... Some organizations estimate that U.S. citizens account for 25 percent of child sex tourists worldwide, and as high as 80 percent in Latin America."
Indeed, according to the U.S government, "imprisoned violent sex offenders were more likely to have been male and white than other violent offenders." Furthermore, in the category of sexual assault, whites made up nearly 75% of all offenders imprisoned for sexual assault vs. 23% for blacks and 3% for other races. The U.S government also found that 52% vs 44% of sexual offenders were white and black, respectively.
Almost 2/3 of sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim. 23% of rapists are an intimate. The average age of an arrested rapist is 31 years old. 42% are never married.
(U.S. Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Report, 2007)
Arkana
(24,347 posts)She's a professional political troll. Seriously. I doubt even she believes half of what she says. There's just a lot of good money in carrying water for conservatives while possessing two X chromosomes.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)She appreciates it, I'm sure.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)for awhile I am sure. she say's something and, like clockwork, every other one of facebook friends posts about it and my newsfeed fills up with OMG OMG OMG OMG . Mission Accomplished for Ann Coulter. she lives for our outrage. We feed the trolls.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Give her a high colonic and send her on a fifty-mile hike in the Mojave. I can still say that, right?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)She would have fit in well in Nazi Germany.
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