Remembering 9/11 – Never Quit!

[Jake Martinez]

Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Ericka Andersen-On September 11, 2011:

“Today, we join America in honoring the anniversary of September 11, 2001, when terrorists  killed nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens. In the days after 9/11, Americans stood together as one, setting aside partisan fervor and recognized a common enemy in Islamist terrorist groups, particularly al-Qaeda. National security was rightfully restored as our nation’s highest priority.

Ten years later, Osama bin Laden is dead, delivering to victims’ families and the rest of America a bit of justice for the heinous acts we all witnessed. But one terrorist’s death does not justify returning to the national security mindset that existed prior to that day.

As Thomas Paine said, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

That notion is ever true. Thanks to important policies put into place after 9/11, America has been able to thwart at least 41 publicly known terrorist attacks. Such vigilance saved lives and will continue to do so moving forth. As Heritage’s Matt Mayer wrote days after bin Laden’s death:

“In terrorist hideouts across the globe, many men with similarly warped views are eager to become the next bin Laden. They know the path to that title [lies] in successfully attacking us domestically and causing substantial death and destruction.”

The global war on terror that began as a result of 9/11 continues, and brave men and women risk their lives daily to protect America and prevent future acts of terrorism. As soldiers return from Afghanistan and Iraq after third or fourth tours of duty, we’re reminded that a clear and present danger remains.

Unfortunately, President Obama isn’t taking the threat seriously enough. The embattled debt ceiling policy outcome proved this, delivering a bitter pill of $500 billion in cuts to our national security.

Heritage’s Baker Spring writes of the policy:

…the policy established by the debt ceiling law will strip the military of its ability to secure the vital interests of the United States. The law, unless it is altered or repealed, will do irreparable harm to the United States military.

… History has repeatedly shown that these kinds of reductions in defense are penny wise and pound foolish, because they often serve to increase the likelihood of conflict. And weakness that invites war is much more expensive than deterring our enemies by maintaining an adequate defense budget all along.

Without the necessary security, America’s position as a world superpower will begin to decline. And still, President Obama and congressional liberals press on, putting our national security in jeopardy. Defense spending is far below its historical average, while money spent on unsustainable entitlement programs eats up two-thirds of the federal budget. America’s budgetary priorities are badly mismanaged, and our readiness suffers as a result.

Heritage’s Mackenzie Eaglen writes:

“No military service has been immune from wear and tear over 10 years of constant combat and other operations. According to General Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, Jr., two-thirds of non-deployed Marines are not at acceptable readiness levels. This means they’re unable to respond to unforeseen crises if needed.”

America’s military requires the ability to respond forcefully and effectively, and it relies on Congress and the President to provide the necessary resources.

As Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg Address, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

On this, the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, it’s important to honor the victims and the heroes of that day by not only remaining on guard, but promising we will never quit this important fight until the threat no longer exists.

We ask Americans to join us in a display of unity once again. Today, we hope that every neighborhood across the nation is flooded with American flags celebrating the lives of those we lost in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania and the heroism we witnessed, while also reminding each other that the fight to prevent another attack is not over.

Please visit The Foundry to read our special page Remembering 9/11: Never Quit, where we feature articles from special guests who have shared with us their thoughts on this day. On Twitter, send us pictures of your flag flying by using the hashtag #Flag911 in your tweet to offer your own remembrances and encourage others to join with us.

We must remember how we stood as a nation with a shared purpose and intensity on September 12, 2001, and in the days following. That collective and eternal vigilance is still essential. Never quit.”

Source:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/11/morning-bell-remembering-911-ne...

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I. Official Sept. 11 memorial called Obama 'whitewash': '10 years after the 9/11 attacks, you would think we lost the war'!

Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On September 7, 2011:

“The “official” memorial on Sunday for the nearly 3,000 victims of radical Islamists on Sept. 11, 2001, will be nothing more than a “whitewash” of the enemy trying to bring America down, so another event is planned, and at that one, the truth will be told, according to one organizer.

Pamela Geller, of Atlas Shrugs and a key leader in planning Sunday’s second annual Freedom Rally at 3 p.m. at Park Place and West Broadway, told WND today tens of thousands, including first responders and members of the clergy, are expected to be in attendance.

The focal point will not be obfuscated, either, by high-sounding calls to “service” and advocacy for “tolerance,” she warned.

“If we don’t understand who wants to destroy our country, our way of life and civilization, how can we possibly be able to defeat them,” she asked.

The event is being assembled by her American Freedom Defense Initiative, and its Stop Islamization of America Program, as well as Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.

“We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom,” she said.

Back when she was being taught about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, an event that brought the U.S. into World War II and eventual victory over both the Japanese and German behemoths, she said, there wasn’t much discussion about either tolerance or service projects.

“I was taught about a resolve, a united America that by 10 years later had defeated the Japanese,” she said. “Ten years after [the 9/11 attacks] you would think we lost the war. We’ve adopted the Muslim narrative.”

The official memorial event in New York has been announced, but officials have confirmed it will not include members of the clergy and families of the first responders who died along with those they were trying to help were not invited, among other actions that leave an unwelcome flavor for those concerned about the U.S.

Geller told WND that one of the conclusions of the 9/11 commission assigned to review the attack found that a failure of “imagination” contributed to the success of the Muslim attackers.

“I posit that it’s a failure of information. What we’re clearly seeing is a whitewash of 9/11. ... Nine-eleven is not a day of ‘service.’ That’s just a way of distracting from the message, the mourning the remembrance,” she said.

She specifically cited Barack Obama, who said only days ago that “folks across the country – in all 50 states – will come together, in their communities and neighborhoods, to honor the victims of 9/11 and to reaffirm the strength of our nation with acts of service and charity.”

He noted, “In Minneapolis, volunteers will help restore a community center. In Winston-Salem, N.C., they’ll hammer shingles and lay floors to give families a new home. In Tallahassee, Fla., they’ll assemble care packages for our troops overseas and their families here at home. In Orange County, Calif., they’ll renovate homes for our veterans.

“There are so many ways to get involved, and every American can do something. To learn more about the opportunities where you live, just go online,” he said.

That message, however, is a disservice to the nation and a distraction from the real point: that Muslim radicals attacked the U.S. and the same agenda is driving nations even today to create problems for America, Geller said.

“There is an enemy who is very much at war with us. We’re in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the president never articulates why,” she said.

“I’m deeply disturbed. ... This is part of the stealth jihad, the whitewashing of Islamic jihad,” she said.

The issue is that the nation, and its centers of power, were targeted – the Pentagon for the military, New York for the financial interests and either the Capitol or the White House (apparently targeted by Flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania) for the political system. All were in the bull’s-eye of radical Islamists and such an attack needs an appropriate response, she said.

“The crew and passengers on Flight 93 ... that was the first American response [to the attacks],” she said. “A group of regular, average Americans wrestled control of the airplane. They took that plane and took it down.”

Now, she said, “People need to know there will be patriots standing at Ground Zero.”

Additional focal points will be to try to halt a project that has plans to put a mosque on the scene of one of the attacks during 9/11, as well as on an “anti-Semitic” Durban conference in the United Nations, she said.

Speakers at the really will include Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son was killed, and Nelly Braginsky, whose son Alexander died, among many others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1wOq8WPs6E&feature=player_embe...

In a WND column by Jim Fletcher, Geller explained that the circumstance of denying culpability and using soft-sounding words to describe a brutal and bloody terror attack is one step toward the Islamization of the U.S.

“Under Shariah [Muslim religious law}, you cannot insult Islam, you cannot criticize Islam, you cannot defame Islam. And so this is what you witness with the media: I mean, they will not criticize Islam or offend Islam. Now, they have no problem offending Christianity or Judaism, so whether they are aware that they are being Shariah-complaint or not, they are!”

She also reveals in her new book, “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resista... the Justice Department alone has some 14,100 documents – not just pages but entire documents – that pertain to government “outreach” to Muslims.

“This is astounding. I made a fairly narrow request, narrowed down to specific groups and carefully defined activity that the Civil Rights Division doesn’t even have direct jurisdiction over – ‘Muslim Outreach’ – and they come up with 14,100 matching documents. A knowledgeable Justice Department insider told me: ‘You couldn’t generate 14,000 pages of documents if you asked for communications with lenders or apartment or hotels as part of the Housing Section enforcement activities. There are very few things in Civil Rights that would generate 14,000 pages of anything. It has got to be a treasure trove of information,’” she wrote.

It was the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that confirmed there will be no clergy allowed at the city’s Sunday observance of the 10^th anniversary of the slaughter of innocent victims.

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the precedent was “disconcerting.”

“It is important to allow clergy to attend and take part in the memorial intended to bind the wounds of a still healing nation,” he told The New American.

The decision also drew a sharply negative reaction from members of the evangelical community.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=342493

II. How to Defend America in the 21^st Century! (Part 1)-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On August 5, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/how-to-defend-america-in-the-21st-century-p...

III. How to Defend America in the 21^st Century! (Part 2)-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On August 12, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/how-to-defend-america-in-the-21st-century-p...

IV. No Justice, No Peace on 9/11 Anniversary!-Posted on NewsMax.com- By Bradley A. Blakeman-On September 11, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Remember911/Remembering-9-11-attacks/2011/09...

V. Guess who thinks they are the victims?-Posted on WND.com-By Michael Carl-On September 10, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=343685

VI. Islam, Appeasement, and Western Suicide!-Posted on CultureWatch-By Bill Muehlenberg-On September 3, 2011:

http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/09/03/islam-appeasement-and-wes...

VII. The Administration Takes on ‘Islamophobia’: ‘The White House is giving free-speech opponents a megaphone’-Posted on National Review Online-By NINA SHEA-On September 1, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/276021/administration-takes-...

VIII. Islamic Supremacism Trumps Christianity at Ground Zero!-Posted on American Thinker-By Pamela Geller-On July 22, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/islamic_supremacism_trumps_c...

IX. Video: Herman Cain’s 9/11 Tribute Drives Liberals Crazy (Well,Crazier)!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Ben Johnson,The White House Watch-On September 11, 2011:

http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/09/11/video-herman-cains-911-tribut...

Note: May God Bless & Keep All Our Brave & Courageous Heroes & Their Families. May We Never Forget Those That Have Made The Ultimate Sacrifice & Those That Continue To Keep Us Free.  God Bless Them & God Bless America!

Video: Amazing Grace – Remembrance!

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Spitting in the Face of Everyone Murdered on 9/11!

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Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

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Should Americans Fear Islam?

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake