The 9/11 hijackers were motivated by HATE alone. Period. And we as Americans commemorate this anniversary with solemn and sacred remembrance of those lost, as well as the heroes that arose that day, and a time to reflect on the fact that there are indeed people who wish us harm for being a free society. We are a nation that allows its citizens the liberty to reach whatever attainable levels of success that they aspire to, allowing people to be whom and what they want to be, as well as the right to live within the law and worship as they see fit. And we reject the liberal statist’s ‘change’ cast onto our exceptional nation, just as we defy a foreign entity that would force its radical ideology on a free people. So what the hell is wrong with these Leftists who couldn't find it in themselves to declare this anniversary one of memorialization and reflection, heroism and mourning, but instead politicize the solemness of this commemoration with a declaration of ‘national service’? Our own President and First Lady…
How working a soup kitchen honors those lost on 9/11, can only give one yet another glimpse of how out of touch this president is with the evil we faced on that grave day, the general concept of how Americanism lifts us, strengthens our resolve, and on a more base level, simply understanding the grief. Likewise, his cohorts in Big Media and Big Labor so profoundly don’t get it either.
Rather than join Americans in memorializing this occasion, Paul Krugman shamefully used his ability to editorialize as a tool for division, offense, attack and conspiracy. His New York Times rant, confirmed what Krugman really thinks about 9/11, saying what happened after 9/11 “was deeply shameful,” attacking Giuliani and Bush as “fake heroes” and his media colleagues for “lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity,” over the liberal assertion that this attack was used as the sole justification for going into Iraq, never mind Hussein’s terrorist support and the interconnectivity of radical Islam throughout the Middle East. Then Krugman contemptuously concludes, “The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” He confirms his own intolerance by disallowing comments to his post, “for obvious reasons.” Cowardice, perhaps?
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka echoed Obama’s tact, or lack thereof, reflecting on “doors that were opened,” not because of the shear professions of the selfless heroes, but by insinuating that unionization fueled the unity and solidarity shared between its members and regular folks on that fateful day. Doesn’t Trumka make this assertion that the union is necessary with pretty much every speech? Remember Labor Day? Nonetheless, Trumka goes on to pit union workers against those of us who are simply asking for smaller government and less intrusion in our daily lives, a concept shared by, yes, even some union members, Mr. Trumka. Then the usual leftist conspiratorial paranoia leaps out, attacking wealthy CEOs, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, the Koch brothers, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the American Legislative Exchange Council, asserting that all of these push open “the door to hate,” and that the only thing that can save us is unionization’s support of free, yet unattainable pensions for all, along with collectively bargaining for ‘retirement security’. He even manages to mix in “the costs of hatred in ill-thought wars, in shameful attacks on immigrants and our LGBT neighbors...the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords…the racism that has found overt and covert expression since Barack Obama began his run for office—from outright declarations of people who said out loud they would never vote for a black man to the ridiculously persistent obsession with our president’s birth certificate.” Trumka continues by attempting to obfuscate what conservatives know Obama’s “hope and change” is really about, and concludes his 9/11 message with another union call to arms: “Brothers and sisters, friends, I hope you will join me in marking this solemn anniversary by committing to redouble your activism on behalf of America’s everyday working heroes. We will rise or fall together.”
Nice 9/11 message, huh?
The unveiling of the long-awaited National September 11th Memorial, as well as the dedication and opening of the Flight 93 National Memorial, finally provided family members and friends of those lost in this atrocity an opportunity to properly mourn and heal. You’d think that any and all would set politics and ideology aside for one day at this time of national remembrance, but that would prompt one to acknowledge that these guys actually understand compassion and don’t just throw that word around lightly, like so many others in their lexicon.
