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9/11: Islam Comes Out Of The Closet

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As I write this, those astonishing, gut-wrenching moments after the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York had just begun.  Personally, I was almost home after being told that morning’s meeting had been abruptly cancelled and I should not come into the office but instead return straight home and await further word.

Like for so many of us, the horrors of the next hour unfolded within the confines of my television screen; this was the stuff of which movies are made but the relentless news reports turned our world upside-down and pounded home the realization that while this was the stuff conjured by twisted, hateful minds, there would be no escape by turning off the television.  This was our new and surreal reality.  The ancient war between Christian and Muslim had come out of the closet and the cheering in the streets of the Middle East at the deaths of so many innocents could naught but seal the fate of modern Islam for all who cherish liberty.

Today, as memories that always lurk just below the surface needfully come to the fore, I cannot imagine America’s fate had the current administration been in place.  While it is true that GW had many faults, on 9/11 he stepped up in his role as leader of the greatest nation ever known to mankind and the comfort he provided then remains even now.  It was not in him as an American patriot to bow to the tyranny that Islam hides behind a guise of religious clothing; it was not in him as an American patriot to blame America for her strength, her wealth, her goodness born of allowing people to live freely.  And on that day he represented Americans as we would properly be represented:  with liberty and justice for all under the rule of law, not the rule of man.

There are many who will write with more eloquence of the events of this day; many will be the tears shed yet again as we attempt to heal a wound that can never be healed.  Many will speak of the loss of American innocence on that awful day but I would put forth that our innocence was already long gone by 9/11 and instead it was on that day as the Twin Towers fell in New York that those fundamental things that would make the United States a force to be reckoned with back in 1776 began to rise in a national consciousness willingly beaten down by the selfish lies of the progressive liberal ideology.  That we had so lost our way we elected an inexperienced, unvetted socialist as president in 2008 and filled Congress with communist sympathizers was our healing crisis; much like when an abscess finally bursts and the putrid pus becomes visible so has the antithesis to the dreams of the Founders reared its ugly head and now rushes along out in the open, hell-bent on destroying our lives.

In November 2010 we took a first swipe at that sticky oozing.  If we would truly honor those who died on 9/11, particularly those on United Airlines Flight 93 who looked the evil that is Islam in its eyes over the fields of Pennsylvania and chose to sacrifice themselves to protect the rest of us simply because they believed in an America as put forth by the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, we will dig out the core of the abscess in November 2012 and thereby begin proper restoration of the Republic.

God bless all of those who died on this day in 2001.

God bless the United States of America.

9/12

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I think almost everyone in America remembers where they were the morning of September 11, 2001, a day that will forever be known simply as “9/11”.  Whether in an office, our home, our car, our school – anywhere we were – the horrors of that day are forever etched in America’s collective memory.

What is thought of less often, though, is where we were on the morning of September 12th.  That day dawned just like any other day, yet even though that dawning came with a sun covered by the deep, ugly shadows of what so many had always thought of as the impossible, America awakened stronger than she had been in some 200-odd years.  By that dark and smoldering dawn’s early light She was deeply united, resolute and firm in Her resolve against the enemies of freedom.

It has only been a few years yet, unbelievably, politicians are starting to dumb down what happened on those two critical days.  The current administration is blatantly attempting to usurp its reality and the need for remembrance and turn it into some weird distortion of “service”, solely in furtherance of its dangerous ideologies.   

I find this not only audaciously crass, but abhorrant.  It is through reverent remembrance of the reality of 9/11 that we honor those who started out that fateful day – just like they started any other day – without realizing it would be their last.   Through reverent remembrance of the reality of 9/11 we honor those who willingly sacrificed their lives trying to save others as buildings collapsed and planes crashed; whether they wore a uniform or not, each and every one of them is forever a hero.

By remembering the reality of 9/11 – that America was attacked in blind hate by those who would destroy Her simply because of Her freedoms – we honor every one of the 2,966 people who died that day.  And as we work our way through the memories, at the end we will find ourselves back once more at the morning of 9/12, the morning when we stood together in our tears and our pained confusion but certain of one thing:  America was still standing and we, the people, would not let her go down without a united fight.

 Remember, America.  Remember.

The 9/12

The 9 Principles

1. America Is Good.
   
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
  God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
   
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
  Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
   
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
  Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
   
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
  Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
   
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
  Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
   
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
  Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
   
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
  On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
   
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
  Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson

The 12 Values
* Honesty
* Reverence
* Hope
* Thrift
* Humility
* Charity
* Sincerity
* Moderation
* Hard Work
* Courage
* Personal Responsibility
* Gratitude