A Vengeful Tomorrow

Adam Yoshida blog ^ | 06 March 2004 | Adam Teiichi Yoshida

[Lando Lincoln]

Frankly, I’m mystified at how anyone could have lost a relative on 9-11 and responded by calling for steps that would protect the murderers. Other than in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the only time that family members of the lost have been showcased is when one of them is trotted out to attack the Bush Administration with heavily-choreographed leftist rhetoric to bolster the cause of a courage-challenged Democratic Party.

The media has attempted to stir up a controversy over the use of 9-11 related images in the first batch of Bush-Cheney campaign commercials. This, in fact, is not the first time that they’ve done so: in the run-up to the 2002 mid-terms they tried to make trouble over a picture of Bush on the phone with the Vice President being used to raise money. The essential contention of the Democratic Party is this: 9-11 is sacred, and ought to be political. This is a novel idea coming from the same people who used the terrorist attack in Oklahoma City to attack Rush Limbaugh and other conservative radio talk-show hosts.

9-11 is the centrepiece of the Bush Presidency. It is all that our politics have been about for the past two and a half years. It is the defining moment in the political life of George Walker Bush. The Democrats know this and, for this reason, they want it taken off the table. This is absurd; it would be like the Democrats of 1864 claiming that President Lincoln could not run on the Civil War because horrible battles like Gettysburg and Antietam were “everyone’s tragedy.” The Republicans of 1944 didn’t try and prevent FDR from running on the war. In fact, the Republican candidate that year, Tom Dewey, willingly held back evidence that Roosevelt knew of Pearl Harbor beforehand for the sake of national unity.

The most interesting element of all of this is the revelation that most of the 9-11 family members stepping forward to attack the Bush ads are nothing more than a tiny splinter group. One report puts their numbers at fifty-eight. In fact, far from being normal people simply offended by the “abuse” of the memory of their relatives, they are members of a group called “Peaceful Tomorrows”, a peacenik organization that opposes any military response to 9-11. If anyone is spitting upon the memory of those who died on September 11th, it’s these fools.

More interesting still is this: Peaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Foundation, an ultra-liberal organization created in the 1970’s by an anti-war activist to channel money to radical groups. A great deal of the money which funds the Tides Foundation has come from the Heinz Foundation. Who runs the Heinz Foundation? Why none other than Teresa Heinz, the wife of Democratic candidate John Forbes Kerry.

If anyone is exploiting the dead of September 11th, it is the Democratic Party and its various fellow travellers, especially in the media. By falsely representing members of a communistic organization like “Peaceful Tomorrows” as speaking for the families of 9-11 victims, the media is wilfully and gratuitously insulting the dead.

Blood cries out for blood. The voices that counsel against taking this fight to the enemy as soiling the memory of the honoured dead of that terrible day for, by their words, they are making it more likely that those same events will be repeated, with all the attendant terror. From their silent graves the dead cry out, “Avenge us!” They do not cry, “Appease for us!”

In fact, by their actions, the members of Peaceful Tomorrows and similar groups are spitting upon the memory of those family members that they claim to love. The only acceptable, the only sane, the only moral response to September 11th is to strike out into the world and, with the avenging will of the Lord on out side, wipe those who committed or supported this act from the very face of the Earth. Humanity must be scoured of these evildoers, these subhuman monsters who can only be destroyed.

[Lando Lincoln]

You must scroll down to read this article. If someone can help me with the html command to pick out one article among many at the same address, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Lando

[BrooklynGOP]

Here's the link. On blogs, if you click on the date stamp (ie, posted by Adam at 8:07 AM ), it will give you the link for that particular entry.

[Peach]

Amazing that a presidential candidate's wife is funding an anti war group to speak out against the current president AND THE PRESS HASN'T REPORTED ON IT!!!!

[Lando Lincoln]

Thanks BGOP....it's always the easy stuff that I somehow manage to complicate!

Lando

[Muleteam1]

This issue reminds me of Sam Houston's use of a similar tactic at San Jacinto to win Texas' independence when he referenced two previous tragic events. The battle cry then was "REMEMBER THE ALAMO!" and "REMEMBER GOLIAD!" Only an enemy of Texas thought Houston's use of this tactic was degrading to the Texas men who had died at Goliad and San Antonio, and anyone who thinks it is bad to be reminded of 9-11 is an enemy of America. It's not surprising that these same people also want us to forget about the suffering and agony of Christ.

My liberal friend commented just days after 9-11 that the media should not continue to show the tragedy at the Twin Towers. My comment was that we should always be reminded, no matter how graphic the memory.

Muleteam1

[HitmanLV]

No idea about the movement to not show 9-11 images. I can see how their use should be restrained, but it's like they have been blotted from the recordbooks.

It is the single biggest attack on civillians in the USA caught as it was developing on film and video, after all.

I think showing them too much is distasteful. I think barely showing them at all is distasteful too.

[Homer1]

bump

This should appear as an editorial in every newspaper