Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism
Sean Hannity
NY: Regan Books, 2002, 338pp. hb
reviewed by mim3@mim.org, September 2003

Dear Sean Hannity: We write to you on behalf of a communist website to say we have read your book Let Freedom Ring and would like to interview you. What follows is a series of facts from your book followed by a question for each set of facts. We are looking for a yes/no answer, as you often push people on your show. After your "yes" or "no," we will accept any other details you may add and we are happy to put your complete and unedited responses on our website with links to yours. We will accept written answers or .mp3 or some other format. Question set I: Who is the traitor? FACT: You called Johnny Walker Lindh a "traitor" who "deserves execution." (p. 22) FACT: Lindh had not attacked anyone in the United $tates and in fact Johnny Spann and the thousands of others went to Afghanistan to attack him. Lindh had been there first and had a right to self-defense. FACT: You said Clinton did not focus enough on terrorism and you pointed out attacks on embassies, the USS Cole and let's not forget the original World Trade Center (1993) bombing.(p. 13, 22) QUESTION: Knowing all this about terrorist attacks in the 1990s, by May, 2001 Colin Powell had delivered $124 million in just one year's aid to Afghanistan where the Taliban ruled. Colin Powell did more for the Taliban than Johnny Walker Lindh ever did, yes or no? Powell "deserves execution" yes or no? Question set II: More or fewer CIA "human assets"? FACT: You echoed Reagan who said Democrats "made it sound as if the chief threat to our liberties was our own intelligence apparatus."(p. 28) FACT: You spoke repeatedly for having more human CIA assets instead of just electronic and other mechanical spying. You complained when "roughly 1,000 'assets'"(p. 37) were allegedly let go by the CIA for connections to too many murderous activities. FACT: Osama Bin Laden was a CIA human asset in the 1980s and Saddam Hussein before that. QUESTION: Do you support a rule that would have cut Osama Bin Laden as a CIA asset, yes or no? QUESTION: Should someone in the 1980s have complained about CIA human assets in the 1980s to cut training and funding of Osama Bin Laden, yes or no? Question set III: Illegal immigration FACT: You say there are 8 million "illegal aliens" and 2 million who overstay their visas for a total of 10 million people in the United States.(p. 54) FACT: In the next two pages you list crimes involving three people among those 10 million. (p. 55-56) QUESTION: There would be no Irish or anyone else but the indigenous peoples in the Unites States if we cut off immigration whenever 3 out of 10 million people committed felony crimes, yes or no? QUESTION: You published no statistics comparing the crimes of legal U.S. residents and citizens and "illegal aliens"; yet you used the crimes of the "illegal aliens" to justify kicking them out, so you made an argument involving a double standard, yes or no? Question set IV: the theory of "peace through strength" FACT: You repeatedly defended the whole "peace through strength" theory and found $30 billion for intelligence too small, the weapons budget too small etc.(e.g. p. 70) FACT: The United States is the strongest country in the world. FACT: The jumbo jets did not crash in Luxembourg on September 11 2001. QUESTION: Your theory "peace through strength" was proven bankrupt when terrorists attacked the strongest instead of the weakest countries, yes or no?