Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [106]
The incidence of citizen’s arrests came to a suspicious halt throughout the Clinton presidency—rape and perjury being deemed “personal matters” rather than “crimes”—but, strangely enough, the trend came roaring back for the second President Bush.
Liberals tried to make a citizen’s arrest of President Bush in Britain in 2001 for crimes against the planet;14 at the European-American Summit in June 2004;15 again in 2004 in Ottawa;16 and back here in the good old U.S. of A. at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York (on the grounds that he was “responsible for the misfortune of everyone who’s disabled”).17
Anti-war protesters issued warrants for the citizen’s arrest of Bush in the United States,18 in Britain (for having caused “grievous harm to thousands of people in Iraq”),19 and in Paris, where a mock arrest was made of a Bush impersonator in lieu of the real thing.20
Even after Bush left office and happiness reigned throughout the world, liberals stormed a luncheon where Bush was speaking in Alberta, Canada,21 and so many protesters threatened to derail a scheduled January 2011 Bush speech in Geneva that the event had to be canceled.
Even Bush’s advisers have been—and continue to be—threatened with citizen’s arrests, including Bush’s UN ambassador John Bolton at the Hay Festival in Wales in May 2008—years after the end of his employment with Bush.22 Bush adviser Karl Rove has been repeatedly threatened with citizen’s arrests—by the Des Moines Catholic Workers Party when he was giving a speech in Iowa,23 by a college student when he was giving a speech at Oberlin College,24 and by liberals throughout the country who show up to disrupt his book events, which are often canceled because of the liberal hordes.
Conservatives make documentaries of people talking, explaining things, arguing points. Michael Moore makes documentaries showing him trying to make citizen’s arrests or otherwise ambushing private citizens.
These aren’t just a few random nuts that might turn up on either side of the political spectrum. Otherwise, conservatives would be staging citizen’s arrests of Bill Clinton for allegedly raping Juanita Broaddrick, of Al Gore for committing fraud when he babbles about global warming in the middle of a blizzard, and of Joe Biden for “Recovery Summer.” Conservatives wouldn’t do it.
If someday, someplace in America, a conservative mob ever shuts down a liberal speaker, tries to make a citizen’s arrest, throws food at a liberal public figure, or assaults a congressional witness, it won’t be defended by other conservatives. You won’t find conservatives writing letters to the editor praising nitwits trying to make a citizen’s arrest, saying they “deserved a laurel,” as was said in the Toronto Star about the violent Reagan and Thatcher protesters.25 You won’t find a Republican U.S. attorney general refusing to prosecute Republicans captured on tape standing outside a polling precinct, making armed threats on election day. You won’t find a Republican member of Congress defending a criminal for dropping a cement block on a trucker’s head.
Liberals constantly engage in mob violence—and allegedly respectable liberals encourage the ruffians. The Guardian, billing itself as “the world’s leading liberal voice,” ran a column by the nut who tried to arrest Bolton, in which he encouraged others to make a citizen’s arrest of Tony Blair.26
It is simply taken as a given that Michael Moore and James Carville can stroll undisturbed through the most conservative parts of the country—even through the Republican National Convention!—while conservative public figures need bodyguards anywhere liberals might be.
Indeed, it’s nonstop physical confrontation for conservatives. To take an example at random: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was strolling