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
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!
You got it in a nutshell!
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.
He’s a Muslim who hates America. Why is anyone surprised?
Me too. Either deport Obama or put him in jail.
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.”
We Americans need to have our own Lepanto. And soon.
I hope the 911 families all hit the campaign trail this summer and fall ...and help put some Americans into DC
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.
Yep, the Second Amendment is the reset button.
Ping to post #3.
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.
pure unadulterated evil. No doubt.
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.
Marine Corps ping.
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.
THX. Will check it out.
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