Posted on 08/24/2009 11:06:56 AM PDT by kristinn
Matthew Vadum, writing in today's American Spectator, blows the cover off Barack Obama's plans to hijack the observance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by turning it over to the radical leftist Lennox Yearwood of the politically well-connected Hip Hop Caucus.
This news has been hiding in plain sight, but got lost in the battle this month over nationalized health care, so Vadum has done a great service by bringing this to our attention.
Vadum's piece has been picked up by Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit.
This article is intended to fill in some big pieces of the picture about what this means. Such as Yearwood calling the war on al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to 9/11, "immoral" (Huffington Post, March 20, 2009) and the Air Force accusing the reservist (a 2nd Lt.) of being a threat to national security.
Yearwood is a Marxist who works closely with other leftist terrorist supporting groups including the ANSWER Coalition, and Code Pink.
Yearwood and his anti-American allies have been working to bring about America's defeat in the war on terror. They have used the war to propagandize their broader leftist agenda. To that end, they have cynically allied themselves with Muslim terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism against America.
Obama's White House is no stranger to this crowd. One of Obama's top fundraisers and donors was Code Pink co-founder and Osama bin Laden sympathizer Jodie Evans. (The mainstream media steadfastly refused to investigate Obama's ties to Evans during last year's campaign.)
Vadum ends his article with this rhetorical observation: "At no time does anyone explain why this National Day of Service has to be held -- of all the 365 days in a year -- on Sept. 11."
The answer is found in the anti-American, terrorist sympathizing ideology of Barack Obama and his leftist base. Turning the observation of 9/11 over to the anti-American left is akin to turning over the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to the Ku Klux Klan.
Yearwood has formed a group called Greening the Block whose policies echo the 'no blood for oil' mantra used by the anti-American left to undermine America's effort to win the war on terror. Here's a video from October 27, 2007 of Yearwood speaking at a 'No War, No Warming' rally led by Code Pink at the U.S. Capitol. Yearwood accuses the U.S. of waging war "to steal the oil from the Middle East" (isn't that what bin Laden says?)
The annointing of Lennox Yearwood is a signal to our enemies that Obama sides with them and not America on September 11. Cloaking this in green propaganda and community service is a cynical ploy to undermine America on the home front. We're a long way from the country we were on September 12, 2001. God help our troops on the battlefield.
More background on Lennox Yearwood:
Yearwood's bio from his blog at the ACLU:
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. is the President of the Hip Hop Caucus. In 2004 he was the co-creator of the Vote Or Die! campaign with P. Diddy, and served as Russell Simmons’ Political and Grassroots Director. He was also the Executive Director of Hip Hop Voices a program of Voices for Working Families at AFL-CIO. Rev. Yearwood is a nationally recognized activist and community organizer, known in particular for organizing for justice in response to Hurricane Katrina and for his fierce opposition to the war in Iraq.
Yearwood is represented by the liberal Democrat front group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government. (a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7309">CREW.
Yearwood also serves on the board of Progressive Democrats of America:Progressive Democrats of America is a grassroots PAC that works both inside the Democratic Party and outside in movements for peace and justice. Our goal: Elect a permanent, progressive majority in 2008. PDA's advisory board includes seven members of Congress and activist leaders such as Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Thom Hartmann, Jim Hightower, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood. For more information, see: http://pdamerica.org. Jodie Evans is also a leader of PDA.
Yearwood is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War (he did not serve in Iraq). He was a 2nd Lt. in the Air Force Reserve.
In the face of political pressure, the Air Force backed down on kicking him out of the reserve for conduct "clearly inconsistent with the interest of national security."
I always want to smack those crooked baseball caps off their heads...doubly so for this creep. Hip Hop Circus is more like it...
“Man, they just let anyone into the Air Force. Sign up and you’re in. Want to be an officer? Sure! Sign here!”
I did 28 years in our Air Force (retiring in 2004). It wasn’t always that way.
Spread this video around...right around 2:00 he talks about his treacherous “sermons” while in the AF.
~5:30 he talks about meeting Cindy Sheehan and how she inspired him.
~7:10 “...so we can stop this fascism and this craziness called America!”
http://schema-root.org/people/political/activists/hip-hop/lennox_yearwood/
Oh hell, I remember after it happened people saying it served as a reminder to brush our teeth, eat plenty of vegetables and make sure we drank enough water.
Incredible.. but not surprising in the Age of O.
I remember the French brothers’ documentary, and the firefighters in the lobby of World I discussing their plan for rescue - and every so often that horrid sound of something hitting the glass outside.
I play their documentary every September 11th.
NEVER FORGET.
Hmmm... isn’t that right out of the musslemen playbook too? Like converting St. Sophia into a mosque and putting that damn dome on the rock over the temple?
It really seems to be completely against 0bama’s nature to appoint an actual PATRIOT to posts such as these. Decades of attending “church” at the Trinity UCC with the likes of Jeremiah Wright leading the gang.. er.. flock, along with hanging closely with Ayers and Dohrn had a permanent effect on him. What ****ing gross error it was for America to elect him.
bump
Hey, now - WAAAY overgeneralized.
Colonel, USAFR
Doubt it will ever happen. Too many ‘jobsworths’ in the upper levels.
Why do we let the left wing take over this country?
Sadly, I am in NO WAY surprised by this.
Disgusted, but NOT surprised...
I will not, in any way, get involved with this leftist crap, and I will ignore who does.
To: kristinn
Of course the Flight 93 memorial in PA is a giant crescent facing Mecca. A solemn memorial for the Muslims who sacrificed so much on 9/11.
All of this is happening before our eyes. As a script for a Hollywood movie it would never get picked up — too ludicrous. No one would believe that any of this could happen in real life.
” I have a good one. Lets get an Al Qaeda sympathizer and give him the role of coordinating the country’s memorial to 9/11!”
“No way, no one will ever believe that.”
“Sure they will. After we sell them on destroying jobs is good for the economy and paying taxes is patriotic, they’ll eat it hook, line and sinker!”
“HOoohohohohohoh.....I’ve got another good one! Lets have every nominee be a tax cheat, all of them!”
“Bwahahahahaahha....good one! Oh and to top it off, lets have the guy we get elected president not be an actual citizen but never have to prove otherwise!”
Sadly if you look into it hip hop caucus is for real and this fool Yearwood is linked to Van Jones- 0bama’s czar and a documented communist.(See my last posts for links)
Last night, for some reason, I was plagued by a series of nightmares. I thought I woke up this morning. Apparently not.
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