Don't mess with a Jersey girl

We didn't lose anyone close on 9/11; thousands of others were not so lucky. Even more still struggle with very real pain, trauma, and illnesses from that fateful day. We feel belittling that pain is dishonorable, and actually mocking it is inexcusable.

In her latest book, Godless Coulter writes:

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.

And of their husbands she says:

How do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?

She dubbed these widows "harpies" and "The Witches of East Brunswick."

This past week, Kristen Breitweiser, one of the "Witches" responded with "A Letter to Ann Coulter" at the Huffington Post. It's eloquent, level-headed, and worth reading.

Coulter accuses liberals of hating America and rooting for terrorists, so Brietweiser explains her motivation in fighting for the 9/11 Commission:

We wanted the 9/11 attacks investigated thoroughly and competently so that fewer terrorist attacks would succeed in the future and more lives would be saved on the day of the next attack. … We wanted to hold the government accountable so that, going forward, our nation would be better prepared for future attacks and disasters.

Brietweiser closes with this:

Ann, I don't want to get into a debate with you. It's not because I am afraid of you or your nasty bullying tactics. I'm not going to debate you because we have many, many more important issues to deal with in our country right now.

But I will leave you with this: We live in America, the world's oldest democracy. Democracy can prevail (is that what you and your friends really fear?), but that requires hard work, as President Bush might say. Every citizen in this country is entitled to his or her beliefs, and every citizen is entitled to participate. We still have the right to speak our minds to effect change (within the parameters of the law, of course). So don't try to silence the voices of victims or anyone else, merely because you disagree with them or feel threatened by their political choices. In my opinion, your method of using intimidation and insults to "win" a debate is truly unpatriotic.

Actually, I expect that you will continue to scream and shout and smear as nastily as you want, so long as you think that that kind of behavior sells books. But we have tackled bigger bullies than you and lived through far worse circumstances than your book tour. We're not intimidated by you. We're not running away.

September 11th, 2006 Posted by Eric | no comments
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