Posted on 11/19/2023 7:47:10 AM PST by Rummyfan
Free Press founder/editor Bari Weiss has posted the text of her Federalist Society Barbara K. Olson lecture “You are the last line of defense” together with video at The Free Press. Weiss’s lecture runs to some 4,000 words, but nothing in it is superfluous. Nothing is expendable. Events have not superseded it. The message remains urgent. Here is an excerpt taken from the top of Weiss’s remarks:
Some Israelis were literally disappeared on October 7—burned at such high heat that volunteers are still sifting through the bones and the remnant teeth to identify them. But we know that more than 200 people are currently being held hostage by Hamas and that more than 1,400 were murdered in those terrible hours. Among the dead are some thirty American citizens. There are at least ten Americans among the hostages.
All of which is why the immediate analogy the world reached for was to 9/11.
As with 9/11, the terrorists caught their victims by surprise on a clear blue morning.
As with 9/11, the spectacle and the savagery were the point.
As with 9/11, the terrorists notched points on their sadistic scoreboard, taking from us not just precious lives, but our sense of our safety and security. They changed something within us.
The difference between 9/11 and 10/7—two massacres of innocent people, symbols to their killers of Western civilization—was the reaction to the horror.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Actually the difference in the reaction of 10/7 to 9/11 was that the people FILMED the reaction on 10/7 and so it couldn’t be covered up by the media and the government.
There is a difference between 10/7 and 9/11.
Then I didn’t know what I know now.
After 9/11 committed by Al Qaeda with a leader who was a son of Saudi Arabia the US military was deployed not to conquer Saudi Arabia but to conquer Afghanistan and Iraq nations that make a sandwich of Iran.
Sunni Islam anchored in Saudi Arabia the home of 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.
The US troops presence in large numbers could not be sustained forever but the war could be continued by luring Bin Laden’s followers into fighting in places like Libya and Syria.
The Syrian Civil War started in 2011 a US-Gulf Arab-Deep State operation a death trap for Al Qaeda sympathizers continuing warfare ultimately aimed at Iran not the nations Al Qaeda’s followers came from.
But this notion of “international terrorism” or “international extremism” was adapted to create the notion of “domestic terrorism” or “domestic extremism”.
And traps were laid in Nevada in 2014, Oregon in 2016, Charlottesville in 2018 and the ultimate trap at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
I’m not being gaslit again fooled into supporting an agenda that violates the Constitution of the United States with suppression of free speech labeled as promoting terrorism.
The government spying apparatus in this country also unleashed by 9/11.
I’m not against Israel fighting Iran but I refuse to be gaslit against Iran as bad as its government is.
The USA needs fiscal reordering and a reordering of liberty seriously the foreign entanglements not important to me.
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a must read
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