A Despicable Act

A Despicable Act My dear friends, I don't know how many of you are reading this, but I pray that you are all safe and beside your loved ones at this solemn hour.

The despicable act of destruction and cowardice that was inflicted on my country, my city, my friends and my fellow citizens, is so abominable that it is beyond what I can express with mere words. All Americans at this hour and wherever they may be, are united in total outrage, anger and the desire for see swift and fierce justice brought to bear.

America is a peace-loving nation, inhabited by moral and ethical people, who built a great society on the values of tolerance and compromise. Moreover, we have an abiding respect for the sanctity of human life. Yet, we are also a nation that believes in the cause of justice, and have for this reason, come to the aid of the oppressed, the persecuted and the victimized so many times in the past when others stood by.

This time, it is we who are the victims. The whole of our country shall grieve forever as a result of this contemptible act. It shall again be, "a day that will live in infamy."

But so too should the perpetrators know that time will pass and America will set aside its grief. On that day the cowards will have wished that they could rescind the events that have transpired, for their suffering will be delivered in multiples of what our countrymen have felt.

In this dark hour of pain and despair for our country, I ask all Americans to set aside politics and partisanship. We must rally around our president and stand in solidarity as a people, as a nation. The world cannot afford a discordant United States. And for this reason, we are asked once again to put away our personal pain and suffering and think about the greater good of the peace loving and law-abiding people of the world.

I wish I could find myself in even 75% agreement with the foregoing paragraph.

Did you happen to catch CNN’s Judy Woodruff interview Tom Clancy on the evening of 9/11?

Tom brought up the subject of the CLINTON decimation of the US HUMAN INTELLIGENCE capabilities – that going all the way back to Sun Tsu, SPIES are a necessary part of the information gathering process. He mentioned that if we’d had a few spies and spooks out there in this increasingly dangerous world, we MIGHT have gotten one of them close to the perpetrator and been able to interdict the MURDER of perhaps 15,000 Americans in the incredible tragedy we witnessed this morning.

I think it’s safe to say that Clancy knows a bit about the subjects on which he writes.

Tom then tagged CNN by name as one of the news agencies that greeted Clinton’s decimation of the intelligence community with approval, continuing to say that they COULD have spoken out TO OPPOSE HIM but failed to do so. Tom’s rather clear implication was that CNN played a role in today’s catastrophe.

Judy VISIBLY RECOILED – and quickly concluded the interview. Her expression made it clear that she was NOT happy with Tom.

Clancy was RIGHT ON THE MARK and until we DO beef up those assets, it’s gonna happen again – and probably sooner than later.

And do you suppose there is some sinister significance to the fact that this happened on 9-11 (911!)? Are these people THAT sick? Don’t bother responding as that was a rhetorical question.

Let’s all pray – and shed a tear or two -- for the lost firefighters, police officers, innocent citizens and their families. Until this is behind us, we must put aside as many of our partisan differences as our principles will allow.

And we must also pray that our precious Constitution does not become one of the first victims of this SICKENING and senseless act.

THE HORROR! THE H O R R O R!!!!!!!!!!

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