DNF at 80%

I'm rewording this review because some have remarked to me, with a good level of reasonability -later I'll explain because to me it isn't entirely reasonable- that I should abide strictly within the text of this book.

So, In my opinion, this book is a bad-quality pamphlet, that uses Democrat and immigrant aliens as they were an insult, that it makes out liberals and immigrant culprits of all bad things, that shows nothing more than disdain for anyone that and isn't WASP and neo-conservative and that, in general, demonizes anyone that doesn't think like the author.

It interprets numbers about Mexican immigration, Hispanic Community, Illegal inmigrants et al capriciously, twisting and or denying facts to accommodate them to her xenophobic and racist diatribe. And in that route, the author merrily contradicts herself; for example, she contradicts herself when, in a same chapter she admits that America was created by British and Dutch colonists for next saying A Nation of immigrants is not a nation. What?? What were those colonists but immigrants?

I have started several books by this author but with no one I had gotten as far as with this before quitting to them and I always approach Ms. Coulter's texts guided by a kind of morbid fascination and shock for the findings and opinions that the author elaborates.

I don't perceive as totally reasonable the comment on always strictly abiding by the text (see below), because books don't simply step out of an egg, moreover in non-fiction books; oneself doesn't often have a complete picture that allows to understand what oneself is reading if it isn't known who is the author and what that author thinks.

In this case, the ideas that the author elaborates with a little more reserve and attention in her books is exposed with more spontaneity in these declarations, in wich she's absolutely honest, direct and clear in her opinions -to give credit where it's due- and she don't use ironical shades that can lead to confusion regarding what she believes:


* "Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay." on American fans of World Cup soccer
* "There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer." on fears over the fallout from Japan's nuclear crisis, Bill O'Reilly interview, March 18, 2011
*"We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say." --arguing that it would be better if we were all Christian
* "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women. It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it"
*"If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot."
*"I'm more of a man than any liberal."
*"There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats."
*"We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals."
*"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."
*"Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties -- provided we're only talking about criminals."
*"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"
"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."
*"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
*"Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?"
(source: about.com)

I think that all what I have quoted above and the Ms Coulter's texts that I have read portray a Hate dealer. And I despise Hate dealing.

Probably I'll retry reading some other book by this autor if my hubby keeps on bringing them to me as airport souvenir, for one because he has a mischievous sadistic vein and for the other because he knows that I believe that a dose of bad soap opera from time to time is funny, clear the ideas and affirm the principles, but it will be certainly the last time that I review one of her books, it generate a kind of discussion and reactions that, in my opinion, exceed the value of her books.

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A Coulter diatribe against immigration. ( )

This book list many ill effects (crimes) of illegal immigration . As well as economic asylum granted to third world citizens. How this influx of low skilled illegal immigrants do not wish to learn the nations, language, laws or cultures. They do not assimilate. That the USA has become so politically correct as to excuse an illegal immigrant of crimes regardless of how horrendous the crime is. The author has documented how only US citizens are subject to their countries laws. How the press reporting and law when concerning illegal immigrants are granted defacto immunity or ignored completely. The book is well documented. I was amazed by the amount of rapes and crimes that have gone unreported in many cases without justice dispensed. .It seems a vast majority of violent crimes could have been prevented just be enforcing existing laws that have been on the books for years. ( )

As someone who studies crime and immigration, and the incredibly biased mainstream media that works hard to cover those things up, I was surprised by how much new information I learned from this book. For example, did you know that out of Mexico's 32 states, the age of consent is 12 in 31 of them? (It's a whopping 14 in the other one.) The most eye-opening chapter for me was the one about how much Latinos litter, to the point that many parts of our national parks along the southern border have had to be shut down to visitors due to garbage, graffiti and other vandalism. She goes hard at the evil New York Times in almost every chapter, and explains how "Mexican" (actually Lebanese) billionaire Carlos Slim, by some accounts the world's richest human, bought a large share in the struggling NYT in 2008, after which point it became a relentless advocate of mass Mexican immigration in the U.S. I was surprised by how much praise she heaps on, and shilling she does for, Israel. Does she not know that the U.S., meaning U.S. taxpayers, give $11 million to Israel per day? That's a mind-boggling $4+ billion per year.