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Debra Burlingame: 9/11 Families Stunned by President's Support of Mosque at Ground Zero
Stop the 9/11 Mosque ^ | August 14, 2010 | Debra Burlingane

Posted on 08/14/2010 5:44:54 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America

Statement of Debra Burlingame, Co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, in Response to President Obama's Remarks about the Ground Zero Mosque

911 Families Stunned Presidents Support of Mosque at Ground Zero

New York, NY, Aug. 14 -- Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America's heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.

Muslims have worshipped in New York without incident both before and after the attacks of 9/11. This controversy is not about religious freedom. 9/11 was more than a "deeply traumatic event," it was an act of war. Building a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero is a deliberately provocative act that will precipitate more bloodshed in the name of Allah. Those who continue to target and kill American civilians and U.S. troops will see it as a symbol of their historic progress at the site of their most bloody victory. Demolishing a building that was damaged by wreckage from one of the hijacked planes in order to build a mosque and Islamic Center will further energize those who regard it as a ratification of their violent and divinely ordered mission: the spread of shariah law and its subjugation of all free people, including secular Muslims who come to this country fleeing that medieval ideology, which destroys lives and crushes the human spirit.

We are stunned by the president's willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11--a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished. No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country's loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace.

We will honor the memory of our loved ones. We will protect our children, whose lives will never be the same. We will not stand silent.

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9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, Co-founders Debra Burlingame and Tim Sumner, www.911familiesforamerica.org, Contact: media@911familiesforamerica.org


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911conquest; 911conquestmosque; 911mosque; 911victorymosque; debraburlingame; groundzero; hussein; iftar; islam; jihad; jihadinthewest; mosque; obama; obamajihad; obamamosque; palin; politics; terrormosque; treason; victorymosque; wot
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To: Girlene
At this point I'm past caring why he (or any Dem) does what he does.

I just want them all destroyed politically and financially.

I know it's unlikely, but I'd love to see a line of Dems do the “perp walk” in leg irons and hand cuffs!

81 posted on 08/14/2010 7:21:08 AM PDT by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

82 posted on 08/14/2010 7:22:09 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (Obama is a man-caused disaster..........)
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To: Darkwolf377

You got it in a nutshell!


83 posted on 08/14/2010 7:22:27 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: Iron Munro
This kind of political chicanery disguised as budget cutting is always a prelude to eliminating officers who are loyal to the country and their oath of office, and replacing them with others who will be loyal to their benefactor - in this case Obama.

That's possible. He certainly has been doing a lot of that lately. I'm not sure he's got to completely neutralize the military in order to take over, though. One of the great virtues of our army is that it has never been a separate political force and simply follows orders. So I think it would be hard for many military people, even those not sympethetic to Obama, to reject any order he might give them.

However, I suppose it could happen, and he would certainly be trying to eliminate in advance anybody he thought might be a problem this way.

84 posted on 08/14/2010 7:25:09 AM PDT by livius
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To: Sergeant Tim

He’s a Muslim who hates America. Why is anyone surprised?


85 posted on 08/14/2010 7:27:07 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Me too. Either deport Obama or put him in jail.


86 posted on 08/14/2010 7:27:33 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: subterfuge

Seeming, what should be normal activity for foreign travelers turns into terrorism, Americans have been ambushed for their trust and generosity;

Unraveling 9-11 Was in the Bags

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/Homeland+Security/1282349?pageNum=3

“These guys left behind a paper trail,” he said. “They had bank accounts. They rented cars. They had to show what they were doing in the United States. We investigated 9/11 from day one on the assumption that there might be a criminal prosecution.”


87 posted on 08/14/2010 7:29:44 AM PDT by Son House (The Bush Tax Cuts Produced Better Results Than All The Democrat's Stimulus Bills Combined.)
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To: jimbo123

We Americans need to have our own Lepanto. And soon.


88 posted on 08/14/2010 7:30:39 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (To annoy a conservative, lie to them. To annoy a marxist lib, tell them the truth.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

I hope the 911 families all hit the campaign trail this summer and fall ...and help put some Americans into DC


89 posted on 08/14/2010 7:31:05 AM PDT by mo
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To: Sergeant Tim
President O is Carter on steroids....I said this before the election and the President has yet to let me down.....The only major difference is where President Carter was a naive idiot....I believe President Obama knows exactly what he is doing....

The ignorant masses are awaking to a nightmare of their own creation and asking why and how.....well.....they should have listened to us gun owning Bible clinging fanatics....it wasn't hard to look to the past to see the future.....what a mess....
90 posted on 08/14/2010 7:32:32 AM PDT by PigRigger (Donate to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org - The Troops have our front covered, let's guard their backs!)
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To: reagan_fanatic

I would like to see his agenda nullified in November when hopefully, we can elect more conservative, God-fearing, truly patriotic representatives. But it’s possible we will still wind up with the same or similar Congress. And as I said, it’s also possible we could wake up one morning to some form of martial law.

My preference is for a peaceful rebellion. But if we can’t neuter this man’s agenda by peaceful means, it will be time for war. That scares the krap out of me.

Guess I’ll have to get over my fear of firearms, get armed and learn how to shoot.


91 posted on 08/14/2010 7:33:41 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: paulycy
That’s the key trigger of a Second Amendment Solution. If he goes full Dictator on us we’ll have war. It’s as simple and sad as that, I think.

Yep, the Second Amendment is the reset button.

92 posted on 08/14/2010 7:35:25 AM PDT by Vor Lady ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." JFK)
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To: The Comedian; Quix

Ping to post #3.


93 posted on 08/14/2010 7:35:55 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Others may not bJungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: Girlene
murder mosque
94 posted on 08/14/2010 7:37:02 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (The most daunting challenge for Zero as POTUS is fitting all the speeches in between vacations.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

Testimony of Dale L. Watson, Executive Assistant Director, Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Division, FBI
Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
February 6, 2002

“The Terrorist Threat Confronting the United States”

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/watson020602.htm

The second category of international terrorist threat is made up of formal terrorist organizations. These autonomous, generally transnational, groups have their own personnel, infrastructures, financial arrangements, and training facilities.

They are able to plan and mount terrorist campaigns on an international basis, and several actively support terrorist-related activities in the United States.

Extremist groups such as Palestinian Hamas, the Irish Republican Army, the Egyptian El-Gama Al-Islamiyya (IG), and Lebanese Hizballah have supporters in the United States, though the activities of these U.S.-based cells revolve primarily around fund-raising, recruiting, and low-level intelligence gathering.


95 posted on 08/14/2010 7:37:08 AM PDT by Son House (The Bush Tax Cuts Produced Better Results Than All The Democrat's Stimulus Bills Combined.)
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To: fatnotlazy

pure unadulterated evil. No doubt.


96 posted on 08/14/2010 7:43:04 AM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: fatnotlazy; All
This, along with Moochell's obscene trip to Spain, is just another thumb in the eye to all Americans. There is no better way he could show his complete contempt for America and Americans that that vile trip followed by this deliberate obscenity.

The astounding thing about both is they appear to be acts of a man who does not even care about ordinary political sensibilities and seeing his party win in November. The only logical explanation for both the trip and this action is psychological: he bears a deep, absolute, total and utterly virulent hate for America and Americans that he will act out even if there's a serious doubt whether he can politically get away with it. He is an utterly evil, profoundly dangerous man.

97 posted on 08/14/2010 7:43:51 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: LongElegantLegs

Marine Corps ping.


98 posted on 08/14/2010 7:44:25 AM PDT by Vor Lady ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." JFK)
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To: Sergeant Tim; ohioWfan

I don’t mind being contrarian when it seems unavoidable, like now.

This thread’s many comments against Debra’s use of the word “stunned”, as well as a couple of comments suggesting she probably voted for Barack Obama, is one of those times, IMHO.

She is speaking for the organization of 9-11 families. Not speaking for herself as an individual in isolation from others. In that sense her use of the word “stunned” represents the group. There are undoubtedly people among this group who are stunned by how far Obama went. These folks haven’t necessarily followed this man’s background to the extent we have or Sean Hannity, etc, have. They have been so wrapped up in dealing with this horrific event ever since it happened...some of them were probably liberals and even some moderates or conservatives were so preoccupied with their issue they could have missed the depth of this man’s depravity.

She should not be attacked, nor should it be hinted that she voted for Obama when such is not demonstrable.

Do not turn on her or the families. Bring them in and encircle them in your arms of love and patriotism.

Good grief, people.


99 posted on 08/14/2010 7:44:59 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck -)
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To: houeto

THX. Will check it out.


100 posted on 08/14/2010 7:45:49 AM PDT by Quix (C THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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