The Enemy Among Us

WARNING: Ann Coulter is exceedingly bad for your health. On her best day, she’s caustic; on an average day, she’s toxic; at her worst, she’s carcinogenic. Ingesting her vile effluent in any form will cause the spirit in you to wither and withdraw.

On the day after 9/11, she spewed: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. … We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war." Ann Coulter, "This Is War"; September 12, 2001.

That’s the rhetoric of a terrorist. It’s very easy to picture some semi-demented al-Qaeda “leader” saying, “We should attack their cities, kill their people, and convert them to Islam. We bombed their buildings; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” When we become no different than our enemy – we become one of our enemies.

In her book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, and in her public appearances Coulter pretends to be a Christian voice while making public statements such as: "I think our motto should be, post-9-11, 'Rag head talks tough; rag head faces consequences.'" - Ann Coulter, Conservative Political Action Conference; February 10, 2006.

That’s a brilliant piece of commentary worthy of any blowhard kid who’s trying to rule the playground by yelling loud and often and pretending to be tough. Coulter isn’t tough, though; she’s just cold and hardened. She’s the proverbial blunt instrument that may be good for beating people about the head and shoulders, but it’s only a weapon for back-alley thugs.

I simply cannot picture Jesus standing by her as she continues to emit nothing but mean-spirited guile. Notwithstanding the cross she proudly displays around her neck, to me she represents the antithesis of Christian values. I know it’s pretentious to put words in Jesus’ mouth, but I have no trouble picturing him turning to her and saying, as he did to Peter, who thought he knew better than the Lord he professed to follow, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” That’s a harsh judgment of someone who offers the world nothing but harsh judgment.

President Bush says that we’re fighting the enemy there so we don’t have to fight them here. Well, there are enemies of freedom already among us and we need to fight them, too, here and now. Ann Coulter is a poster-child for the enemy within. People like her are a clear and present danger to freedom in America because history teaches that there is no liberty in a land where self-righteous arrogance rules, particularly when it pretends to do so in the name of God.

Get thee behind us, Ann.