Sept. 11th: Never Forgive...Never Forget

Nine years ago today, on September 11, 2001, militant Islamic terrorists hijacked and flew commercial passenger airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and The Pentagon. A forth plane, Flight 93, crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa...2,977 men and women lost their lives that day. The nation watched in stunned horror and disbelief as they witnessed this act of war carried out on their fellow Americans.

And instantly, we as a nation, responded by coming together as one...with a common cause...to answer this attack. We rescued our countrymen from the smoldering ashes, we mourned as a nation as we buried our fallen friends and family, we flew our American flags defiantly and proudly...and We cried with one thunderous voice..."This Is America and We Will Never Forget." As I looked around me that day...As I looked around me in the days that followed, between the alternating tears of anguish and the overwhelming rage, I was proud to be an American. We all lost something that day. Many lost family and friends...but we all lost that deeply embedded sense of security that we had enjoyed all our lives. The country was changed forever that day.

Our government pleaded with us not to take our rage out on the innocent middle eastern people in this country...so we suppressed our rage. Our government promised to make it right and to restore our lost sense of security. Our government promised that they would investigate and identify the failures that made this attack possible and eliminate them so it could never happen again.We believed them, and we were even willing to give up our liberties and freedoms for the promise of security and a restored nation. The government took those freedoms and liberties we were so willing to give up, and in return, we got nothing. 

We did our part...we suppressed our rage...we agreed to airport security, the loss of privacy and liberty, the creation of a massive government expansion in the name of Homeland Security. All for nothing. We are no more secure today than we were on September 10th, 2001...But We Are Far Less Free. And while we watch our freedoms slip away, we also watch them handed over to the very people who attacked us that day. If we protest, they riot, burn our flag and threaten to kill us. And the government takes their side by berating us and apologizing to the terrorists for our intolerance.

 I've spent the day remembering... trying to get my head around the emotions of that day...trying to justify in my mind the idea that we must forgive and forget. We have suppressed our rage for a murderous attack on our country...on our people...on our way of life... in the name of tolerance and good will. And I have come to the realization that I can't justify...nor should I justify...forgiveness of the people who celebrated, and continue to celebrate, the murder of innocent men and women on September 11, 2001. Forgiveness is worthless and wasted when it is given to people who have no remorse for their actions. There can be no tolerance of others without an agreement to live and let live. These people...terrorists...will never agree to live and let live. So we must never forgive....and never forget.

Burning the Koran...Do Terrorists Run Our Country Now?

Rev. Terry Jones and his 50 member Dove World Outreach church want to burn Korans in protest of the Cordoba House Mosque and community center...so what? Who cares? Right? I think most "SANE" people see this for what it is...a purely ignorant and self-serving act not worth the time to read about but certainly an act of protest protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. He has the right to be a dumb-ass and his followers have a right to follow a dumb-ass.

But what started out as a protest and publicity stunt not worth mentioning has turned into an international incident and a serious threat to our national security, the security of other countries, and our men and women fighting over in the sand box. So what did the good Rev do?...He pulled his head out of his arse, lied to save face, and canceled the party! Problem solved right? Ummmm...nope...I think there are more than a few issues left to address here...Like these:

Issue One: Why was the media even covering this? I really can't decide who is more ignorant...Terry Jones or the media for covering him....it's a toss-up, I think! When I was a kid we used to make fun of "The National Enquirer" now it seems that sort of sensationalism is all that the news media is capable of producing. Of course, it could have just been a slow news day and they had nothing else to do. Good job media...you created the environment for an international incident and endangered lives by pushing a sensationalist, political, agenda.

Issue Two: Why have we allowed terrorist religious leaders, terrorist governments, and terrorist people to Dictate To Us what we do in our own country? So let me get this straight...the Muslim people all over the world are pissed off because some fool plans on burning books...they threaten to behead innocent people, burn American flags, and commit other wide-spread acts of terrorism... and the best we as a nation can do is lay down because we are afraid they might actually do it? What? Why? When did we as a nation get so weak minded? Sure, what this guy wants to do is stupid, but it is his right to do it. We have men and women all over the world who are fighting right now to protect that right. If we lay down on this we have made what they, and those who served before them, do worthless. If we lay down now the terrorists won on 9-11 and we might as well enact Sharia Law now!

Issue Three: Why has our government...once again...sided with the terrorists? What about defending The Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? What about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Does that only count if it doesn't piss off other countries, groups, and organizations? Who's side are you on, Mr. President? How about backing up the American people for a change, Mrs. Clinton. How about supporting our rights ahead of the rights of non-Americans, Mr. Holder. I guess it's up to us (The American People) to defend ourselves now. Good thing we have the right to keep and bear arms.

What started out as a bunch of nut-jobs protesting has now turned into a threat to our national security and national sovereignty. We have to decide, as a nation, if the rights guaranteed to us by The U.S. Constitution  are truly worth standing up for. I think the media should examine itself and start being responsible. I think the government should be careful not to become the enemy of the people. And I think We The People should reassert our authority and sovereignty once again. But that's just me! 




In case ya want one of your very own to read...or burn!