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
Indeed. It's all spelled out in The Book.
HIDEOUS TO THE MAX.
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And really longer than two years. People didn’t listen.
Didn’t Barry’s ghost writer say in one of his books that if there is ever a conflict involving muslims that he would side with the muslims?
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I can’t believe it. He should have kept his mouth shut.
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IMHO, I hope Obama talks and talks and talks, ad nauseum.
There’s already polling data that shows the general populace is
started to get tired of his endless chatter.
And are catching onto his virtually Bill-Clintonesque mendacity.
Like the old saying goes:
Democrats are afraid that people will understand what they want to do;
Republicans are afraid they can’t get people to understand what they want to do.
I don’t think she means stunned in the sense of “surprised” - more like shocked, hurt, and temporarily frozen, as in stunned by an electric shock. To think that the president of the US could do this is like the final blow that brings someone to his knees.
Maybe he wanted a mosque named after him? Zero’s mosque.
“Unfortunately, that’s what the usurper wants, so its no threat to him. “
Agreed, but even if it’s no surprise it may still be necessary.
thank you for saying what I was going to write.
The man does not celebrate Christmas or Easter, he is no where but once and all he has done is suck up to Islam.
If people had been awake and not fell in his cult like status then they would know what a radical anti American racist hating whites/ Christians man he is.
I never read his books (wouldn’t want to waste my time or my fragile eyesight), but that statement sounds about right.
Public opinion doesn’t matter and then it matters a lot. Right now he is cranking up his elitism and arrogance to surmount public opinion — get that confidence buzz happening that tells you how right and special you are in spite of public disapproval — and then he will turn around and be shocked and disappointed by the low poll numbers. The elitism and arrogance is a rocket that takes him up but only to fall to earth and be like the other earthlings, subject to their opinions (and there are more of them than him). The decision to go with the Mosque was born out of his loyalty to his class (the elites) and their values rather than any concern for “his” citizens. This is just another moment of class solidarity, an aristocracy that has to stare down the rabble, the great unwashed (like the Tea Party.) Again, the greater the opposition to Obama the greater his arrogance and assurances of superiority, which means he will learn nothing and just continue to double down on his bets.
This is a no win game because Obama can’t ever be a regular American — his elitism won’t allow for it. He’ll act it out, put on a show but it is not in his heart. He is scared to be equal and regular and have people given power to be a judge over him.
and where are the rat reps on this?
will they stand with or against the people?
will THE FRIGGING MEDIA DO THEIR F-IN JOB FOR ONCE , JUST FOR ONCE INVESTIGATE, ASK, AND REPORT.
Obama wants to instigate violence so that he’ll have an excuse to implement martial law. This is why we have to hold our fire.
Well said, Ms. Burlingame!
“I’d pay a ransom to have whatever came out of Obama’s mouth on video when he first hearrd of the 9-11 attacks. Someone should ask him about that. Exactly what were his thoughts at that moment?”
That, and hundred other obvious questions the chicken-—t media has refused to ask since the socialist worm came on the scene.
This is exactly the kind of "change" that anyone voting for a Kenyan Clown named "Barack Hussein Obama" should have expected.
The Kenyan Clown, like most of his co-religionists, celebrates the attack. I fully expect that the Kenyan Clown will happily worship at this mosque.
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