by Ann Coulter
If Muslim men had decapitated three Syrian children in Baltimore, do you think you would have heard about it? The Baltimore Sun tidied up the executions, calling them “slashing deaths.”65 How about: The slashing death of James Foley at the hands of ISIS?
Some Mexicans practice “Palo Mayombe,” a primitive voodoo religion found throughout Latin America that holds that human sacrifice brings magical powers. The upside to their belief system is that practitioners will confess right away to committing heinous dismemberments because they believe they are invisible.66 Americans in New Jersey and Texas have been dismembered by the cult.
Is an American citizen more likely to be murdered by a Muslim terrorist or by a Mexican? According to CNN, twenty-nine Americans have been killed in Islamic terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11.67 I don’t know why they excluded 9/11, so by my count, it’s 3,029. In fact, let’s round it up to four thousand to cover the last several decades. According to the GAO’s extremely conservative figures, Mexicans alone—forget other immigrants—have murdered a minimum of twenty-three thousand Americans in the last few decades.68
WHO’S WRONG: US OR ISRAEL?
If this were happening in Israel, forget a fence—Netanyahu would be bombing Mexico. We don’t have to do that, but can’t we at least build a fence? Instead of prosecuting border guards who shoot and wound illegal aliens—as President Bush did—Netanyahu would stoutly defend the agents, saying, “We didn’t choose this.” And if the agents killed any illegals, he’d dismiss the casualties as “telegenically dead Mexicans.” Israel may have gotten its immigration policies from us, back when America was a country that defended itself. President Dwight Eisenhower put a general in charge of the INS, who proceeded to round up and deport illegals in an operation dubbed “Operation Wetback.”
If this country were Israel, 80 percent of the country would be cheering a military offensive on our southern border.69
HBO’s Bill Maher would be saying of our southern neighbors: “Americans have three hundred forty-nine Nobel Prizes; Latin Americans have sixteen. That seems like kind of a big advantage for Team America.”70 (It’s worse than that. Excluding the humanities prizes, all of South and Central America combined—with a population of nearly 450 million—have won only five Nobel prizes, compared with well over three hundred Nobel Prizes in the sciences for Americans.) Maher would place the blame for violence on the border on illegal aliens themselves, saying, “If it’s your father, your brother, your uncle who’s smuggling drugs, guns, humans, and counterfeit goods into the United States, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect Americans not to retaliate?”
Howard Stern would denounce radio callers bleating about the alleged humanitarian crisis on our border, explaining: “The median income in the United States is $29,000 and the Mexican median income is $3,000. But the Mexicans are mad at the United States. Instead of being mad at the f***ing drug cartels running their so-called country, who are raping the country, taking all the aid that the United States actually gives to them. That they’re not angry with. They’re angry at the U.S.” He’d point out that the United States and Canada are the only real democracies on the continent. Erupting in a volcano of expletives, he would say: “Americans get enough s*** all over the world. They get s*** on all the time. We won the Mexican-American War in 1848. We are the indigenous people of that area. I’m sick of the bulls***.”
The above actually was said—but it was said about Israel and the Palestinians, not the United States and Mexicans.
The harm done to the United States by Mexicans is considerably greater than the harm done to Israelis by the ineffectual Palestinians. In the July 2014 conflict, Palestinians fired more than four thousand rockets into Israel.71 In all, their bombs killed six civilians, including one Thai national. “Barrages of rockets from Gaza,” the New York Times reported, do little damage because Palestinians are using “largely futile homemade rockets.”72
Americans are always asked, What would you do if rockets were being fired from Mexico into Texas? The answer is: Absolutely nothing. My question is: What if instead of a few thousand Palestinian criminals in Israel,73 Palestinians were committing hundreds of thousands of crimes against Israelis—murder, rape, drug trafficking, violent assaults, robbery, drunk driving homicides, and burglary? That’s the equivalent of the minimum number of immigrants committing crimes in large parts of America.
The U.S. government admits that at least 351,000 criminal immigrants were incarcerated the United States as of 2011—the vast majority of them Mexican.74
According to the GAO, five jurisdictions alone—New York City; Los Angeles County; Orange County, California; Harris County, Texas; and Maricopa County, Arizona—are incarcerating more than 110,000 criminal illegal aliens.75 The total population of those five counties is 28 million, or about three and a half times the size of Israel. The illegal alien crime wave in those parts of America, therefore, would be the same as thirty thousand Palestinians, Jordanians, and Eritreans in Israeli prisons. In fact, however, in 2012, Israel was incarcerating a total of only eighteen thousand prisoners of any type.76
The GAO also reports that each arrested illegal alien had committed an average of twelve offenses—or 1.32 million crimes in those five jurisdictions.77 Illegal immigrants’ most common offense was drug trafficking, except in New York, where it was murder.78 Based on the GAO’s estimate of offense types committed by criminal aliens, that would amount to approximately 2,750 drug arrests of immigrants in Israel, 5,500 motor vehicle violations, 2,750 assaults, 800 rapes, and 400 murders.79 In fact, there were only 124 murders in Israel in the first eleven months of 2013, according to the U.S. State Department.80 And remember: The GAO was only counting illegal aliens. We have no idea how many legal immigrants, anchor babies, refugees, asylees, and naturalized citizens were incarcerated in these five counties.
IS IT GOOD FOR THE AMERICANS?
If Israel had our open-border policies, it would be overrun with Palestinian, Jordanian, and Eritrean criminals. If we had their policies, the only criminals in America would be the guys you see on Cops. There would be about seven hundred thousand people in American prisons, instead of 2 million.
Jews forthrightly ask: Is it good for the Jews? Why can’t Americans ask: Is it good for Americans? We’re the only nation on earth that specifically seeks out immigrants whom we have to help—even those who commit heinous crimes against us. How about asking our politicians: Who’s wrong—us or Israel? Chuck Schumer? Marco? Governor Christie? Hey—where’d everybody go? If any American politician thinks Israel is pursuing an inhumane immigration policy, America has the influence to stop it. I happen to think Israel’s policy is perfectly sensible. But Democrats don’t. Rick Perry doesn’t. Jeb Bush doesn’t.
Like Israel, we reached a “two-state” solution with our neighbor, but Mexico refuses to accept that settlement. Our boundary with Mexico was established in 1848; Israel’s boundaries with the Palestinians were first established in 1948 and modified in 1967. Our neighbors are at least as troublesome as Israel’s, but instead of lobbing impotent rockets across the border, they commit murder, child rape, vehicular homicide, narcotics crimes, assault, and arson in this country on a staggering scale. Far more Americans are murdered by Mexicans, per capita, than Israelis are murdered by Palestinians.
Could we move Israel to our southern border? They know how to defend a country.
SPOT THE IMMIGRANT!
CASE NO. 1 | FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
LET’S PLAY “SPOT THE IMMIGRANT!”
In 1998, three adolescent girls in Fresno ran away from home, then changed their minds when they had gotten about thirty miles away. They called an acquaintance to pick them up, and on the way back, he stopped to see a friend at a motel. When the girls entered the motel room with him, they were seized by two dozen men, ranging in age from fourteen to forty-five, who proceeded to gang-rape the girls over the next several hours.
Now, try to guess the ethnicity and immigration st
atus of the perpetrators based on these representative excerpts from the single New York Times article on the gang rape:
New York Times
May 1, 1998
Gang Rape of Three Girls Leaves Fresno Shaken, and Questioning by Don Terry1
FRESNO, Calif., April 27—On the edge of this working-class city, along a highway not far from the vineyards and the strawberry and cotton fields on some of the richest farmland in the nation, as many as 20 men and boys crowded into a motel room three weeks ago for what the police said was a night of rape.
The setting: Working-class farmland. Maybe the rapists were farmers?
What happened on the night of April 6 has shaken many people in this central California city of 450,000 residents. But Fresno lost its small-town innocence years ago, in what the current Mayor, Jim Patterson, called an explosion of crime.
I wonder what happened “years ago” to account for Fresno’s loss of “small-town innocence” and “explosion in crime”?
“Everybody is hurt by this,” said Mayor Patterson. “This is one of those God-awful things that could stigmatize a community.”
The rapists must be longtime Fresno residents for the attack to “stigmatize a community.”
The authorities kept the attack quiet for two weeks while they investigated and tracked down suspects. But over the last several days, as the arrests began, the assault has been front page news here.
The rapists are probably part of the “old boys network”—otherwise why would the police keep the case so hush-hush?
Last Friday, a 24-year-old man was picked up at his home and a teen-ager was taken into custody at his high school, bringing the total under arrest in the attack to five adults, the oldest 31, and seven juveniles. The police are hunting for three to five more suspects.
So we know the rapists included a “man,” “adults,” and some “juveniles.” They must have no other relevant identifying characteristics, such as “football players” or “members of the Rotary Club.”
“We’ve had gang rapes occur before but not of this magnitude,” said Lieut. Jerry Davis, the commander of the city’s crimes-against-persons unit. “The crime itself is bad enough, but this was directed at children. It’s mind boggling.”
The police’s minds are boggled. The rapists must be boy-next-door types.
A rally is planned on Friday at California State University here to show support for the girls and to demonstrate to the community “that this could be your daughter, that this could happen to any of us,” said Kathryn Forbes, a lecturer of women’s studies at the university.
This could happen to “your daughter.” The rapists are definitely plain vanilla Americans.
But everyone, from Fresno’s Mayor to rape counselors, agree that what happened here could have happened anywhere, perhaps in a fraternity house or in a basement in a predominantly white suburb like Glen Ridge, N.J., where a group of high school football players sexually assaulted a mentally retarded teen-age girl with a bat and a stick in 1989.
Wait—why are we talking about a fraternity gang rape? And how did a decade-old sexual assault of a mentally disabled girl in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, come into this? Was the Duke lacrosse team involved?
Bernard Lefkowitz, who wrote a book about the assault in Glen Ridge, Our Guys (University of California Press, 1997), said: “For a lot of boys, acting abusively toward women is regarded as a rite of passage. It’s woven into our culture.”
For some reason, the Times is going on an extended exegesis about a freakishly rare sexual assault on a mentally handicapped girl, in another state, from the 1980s. It was sick, but it was more an abuse-of-the-mentally-disabled case than a rape case, since the girl, who was their age, didn’t object.
Woven into Fresno’s subculture are gangs, and the police report on the attack linked some suspects with one called the Mongolian Boys Society. There are a multitude of ethnic gangs here, including a white supremacist gang called the Peckerwoods.
Why is the Times talking about a white supremacist gang? Is the “Mongolian Boys Society” a white supremacist gang?
Martha Moreno, 13, said she had not been surprised by what happened because too many boys “think girls are their slaves.” . . . “It really scared me when I heard about what happened,” she said. “It makes you think anything can happen to you. But I still tell boys, I’m not a slave.”
I have no idea what that little vignette illustrates, but neither the victims of this gang rape nor their assailants had names like “Martha Moreno.”
The surprise ending—which Times readers WOULD NEVER BE TOLD—was that the Fresno gang rapists were Hmong immigrants, as were their victims. Over the next year, about three dozen Hmong men were indicted for a series of gang rapes and forced prostitution of young girls in the Fresno area, including the gang rape that reminded the Times of high school football players in New Jersey a decade earlier.2
Apart from a random reference to the “Mongolian Boys Society,” the only hint that the Fresno gang rape was entirely an immigrant affair was this passage: “Ms. Eager, the director of the Fresno rape center, said people had called her office asking if the girls had been wearing sexy clothing or if they had done something to provoke the attack. One man called to say that because the girls had walked into the motel room, it was not fair to call it rape.”
Only on Lifetime TV for Women, would an American man call the prosecutor to ask if child victims of a gang rape were wearing “sexy clothing.”
Why does the public have to search for clues in a news story? News is not supposed to be a suspense novel. The Times knew, so why not tell us? Instead, it deliberately hid the truth by launching into a pointless reverie about a 1989 rape in Glen Ridge, nonspecific “fraternity rapes,” and a “white supremacist gang” in Fresno. Never did the Times inform its readers that the Fresno gang rape was committed by Hmong, nor did the Times provide the names of the suspected rapists—not through their arrests, indictments, pleas, and convictions.3 Everyone else was named—law enforcement officials, the mayor, rape crisis counselors. Why not the perps?
The media would sooner publish the names of rape victims than the names of their “diverse” rapists. Gang rape is a strength! Wait, did I get that right?
Eventually, twenty-three Hmong were indicted in the Fresno child rape, which sounds kind of newsworthy to me. But only two newspapers and one TV network informed the public that the rapists were Hmong: The St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota), the Washington Post, and CNN.
Why would a newspaper in Minnesota report on a gang rape in California, you ask? Only someone in the news business could be expected to notice, but a rape epidemic has been sweeping through all the Hmong hot spots in America: Fresno, California; St. Paul, Minnesota; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Boulder, Colorado; and Detroit, Michigan.4 And that’s to say nothing of the sudden appearance of polygamy, opium use, and animal sacrifice.5
After another Hmong rape in Fresno, the Times sympathetically explained that in Hmong culture, “no” means “yes.” In that case, a twenty-three-year-old Hmong man kidnapped a coed from her dorm room, took her to his parents’ house, and raped her. Oozing with cultural understanding, the Times noted that this was how the Hmong propose marriage. How does a woman decline the offer? Hang herself? According to a lawyer quoted by the Times, the American witnesses to the girl’s abduction had simply misunderstood her “ritual protests” and called the police. Apparently, the rape victim didn’t understand either, inasmuch as she filed rape charges. The Times’ article about the rape was titled: “Asian Tradition at War with American Laws.”6
A few years after that, in 1988, a Hmong immigrant kidnapped a young Laotian woman from her Fresno office and forcibly raped her. The American judge sentenced the rapist to only 120 days in jail after his lawyer said that, in Hmong culture, if a woman doesn’t fight her rapist with sufficient ferocity, the rapist and victim are considered married.7 (Note to Hmong: You might want to put this on your Match.com profile.)
In 1991, Hmong immigrants in Colorado purchased a fifteen-year-old girl from her Hmong parents in Fresno for $8,300, not including shipping. The girl was taken to Colorado, where she was sexually assaulted by the family’s twenty-one-year-old son. Happy birthday, Son! She escaped by slipping a note to a neighbor that read, “I’m not his wife. They force me here and I want to go back to Fresno.” (You know someone’s being held prisoner if they return voluntarily to Fresno.) When the police showed up, the Colorado Hmong were indignant, saying they had paid good money for the girl and announcing that the purchase of teenaged brides was “a custom among members of their ethnic group.”8
In 1996, it was a multicultural fantasy camp when Dominican immigrant Judge Ramona Gonzales9 presided over the criminal trial of Hmong immigrant Sia Ye Vang. Convicted of habitually sexually molesting his stepdaughters, aged ten and eleven, Vang faced up to eighty years in prison. Instead, Judge Gonzales sentenced him to . . . English lessons! Perhaps she’d found a new treatment for sex offenders.
You need a new hobby. How about learning English?
You think that will stop these cravings, Doc?
It’s worth a try!
The child molester’s lawyer had argued that sex with girls is accepted in Vietnam, the defendant’s native country.10 Had I been there, I would have pointed out, We’re not in Vietnam.
In 1999, nine Hmong men pleaded guilty to luring four teen and preteen girls from Wisconsin to Detroit, where the girls were held captive and repeatedly gang-raped.11 In 2003, a group of Hmong men took turns raping young girls “to see whether their small bodies were large enough to accommodate adult customers.”12 In November 2011, a Hmong woman helped a Hmong man rape a sixteen-year-old girl with a beer can, brutalizing the girl so badly that her blood soaked through two blankets and a carpet. The unconscious girl had to be airlifted to the Mayo Medical Clinic.13