We Will Prevail - speech by Solicitor General Theodore Olson

Wall St. Journal ^ | Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | Solicitor General Theodore Olson

[pittsburgh gop guy]

From a speech by Solicitor General Theodore Olson to the Federalist Society on Nov. 16, 2001. Mr. Olson's wife, Barbara, was one of the airplane passengers murdered on Sept. 11, 2001.

September 11, 2001 was unprecedented in our nation's history. Our country has been attacked before. Our soldiers and innocent citizens have been the victims of terrorism before. But never before in our history have so many civilian citizens, engaged in the routines of their daily lives, who neither individually nor collectively had done anything to provoke the savage attack that they were to experience that day, been brutally murdered for the simple reason that they were Americans, and because they stood, in their countless individual lives, for all the things that America symbolizes.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Don't know if this speech to the Federalist Society on Nov. 16, 2001 has been posted on here before.

His remarks pretty much hit the nail on the head.

[glorygirl]

"Our Constitution -- always with the support of our people -- has extended its embrace to the unpopular, the unusual, the unconventional and the unorthodox. We protect not only those who will not salute our flag, but those who would spit upon it or burn it. We pledge our allegiance to a Constitution that shelters those who refuse to pledge their allegiance to it."

Big BKO bump. Wish we could drum up Ted's email address so we could let him know how fondly his wife is remembered.

[TroutStalker]

Bump.

[vacrn]

Office of the Solicitor General

950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20530-0001

I couldn't find and e-mail, but here is the address.

Barbara Olson bump.

[hchutch]

I've not seen it before.

But it's a darn good one.

[KC Burke]

bump back

[KC_Conspirator]

Thanks for the bumps.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Many good lines.

The people who killed them hate the beacon that America holds out to people who are impoverished, enslaved, persecuted and subjugated everywhere in the world.

[alfa6]

Thanks again, two good 'uns. Y'all take care now ye' here.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you so much for posting this article. The Opinion Journal, Wall Street Journal's opinion website, posted this today for non-subscribers.

Paging Clinton and Carter, paging Chomsky and Arafat, Daschle and the DNC.....

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Ted Olson's standing tall. Barbara knew how to pick 'em.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thought you might like to see this.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Thanks for the flag.

A big BKO BUMP!!!!!

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Ronald Reagan often said that "every once in a while, each of us native-born Americans should make it a point to have a conversation with someone who is an American by choice." Mr. Reagan was fond of quoting from a letter he received from a man who wrote, "you can go to live in Turkey, but you can't become a Turk. You can't go to live in Japan and become Japanese, [and so on for Germany, France, etc.]. But . . . anyone from any corner of the world can come to America and be an American."

Lump-in-the-throat BUMP for Ted and The Gipper.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You're very welcome, Luis. This administration is loaded with character and fortitude...thank God.

SG Olson's sending the terrorists a telegram, and it isn't signed appeasingly yours...

[MeekOneGOP]

[ohioWfan]

America will not lose this war because we cannot even consider that we will lose what centuries of Americans fought to create, improve and maintain. We cannot, and we will not, betray the people who gave us this glorious heritage. We cannot and will not, dishonor or wash away the memories of those who somehow clawed their way out of poverty, tyranny and persecution to come to this country because it was America, and because they were willing to risk death to become Americans, and to give their children and grandchildren the opportunity and freedom and inspiration that makes this place America. Americans could no longer call themselves Americans if they could walk away from that legacy.

HUGE Ted and Barbara Olson BUMP for VICTORY in this war against tyranny and terrorism!!

Thanks, Ragtime!

[Bryan]

bigotry \Big"ot*ry\, n. [Cf. F. bigoterie.] 1. The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
It smells like victory.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks, ohio. I may have caught a little of this speech on C-SPAN the other day...Very sad, it was, and moving.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

And there are seven million Muslims in America, nearly the population of New York City.

Clearly, about 7 million to many.