In response to congressional votes to repeal the 1993 law regarding homosexuals in the military, followed by the White House proclamation that June is “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Equality” month, Center for Military Readiness President Elaine Donnelly issued the following statement:
“Last week, Democrats knew they would lose the vote if it took place later in the year, after the Pentagon’s review. President Obama crafted a backroom deal so that he could deliver on his campaign promises to the doctrinaire LGBT Left. A sufficient number of lawmakers fell for the Repeal Deal, which was signed by President Obama’s budget director and passed off as a ‘compromise.’ Allowing only five minutes of debate for each side, House liberals did the president’s bidding and rushed the vote to repeal the 1993 law, Section 654, Title 10, mislabeled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT).”
911 – A TIME TO REMEMBER
By E.W. Jackson Sr.
Sept. 11, 2009
We will never forget 9-1-1. We must not. Eight years ago just before 9 a.m. on that fateful day, I was about to leave the house for a meeting when the telephone rang. It was my daughter calling. When I answered the telephone she said, “Are you watching the news?” I told her I was about to leave. She said, “Turn on the news.” When I did, there were the World Trade Towers front and center on our big screen TV. Smoke was billowing from one of the buildings. The first plane had already hit. Americans were already dead.
I cannot remember doing anything else that day although I’m sure I did. I didn’t go the meeting. I cannot even remember what it was. Time stood still. I sat there watching as the second plane hit and the horrible news continued to unfold. I watched live as each tower fell, and the smoke engulfed Manhattan like a mushroom cloud. I remember seeing the bodies fall as people jumped from the towers. I remember hearing the estimates of lives lost slowly become confirmations reaching into the thousands. I remember the heroic actions of police and firefighters who ran toward the danger as others desperately and wisely ran away from it. It was an unspeakable horror committed by some of the most despicable people who ever lived. It was an act of war.
Some Americans would rather forget that it happened. I cannot and will not. When you boil it down, America is a family. Our family has been attacked. The attackers are people who mean to destroy us. For the protection of our family we cannot forget that we have a duty to destroy them first. They are evil. They are terrorists and they deserve whatever it takes to forever end their ability kill innocent people. That may mean imprisonment for life, including indefinite detention. It may mean death on the battlefield or execution. These outcomes are appropriate justice for those who would kill our family members and destroy our way of life.
Unfortunately, we have a President who finds it politically and psychologically impossible to utter the words “Islamic Terrorists” or “War on Terror” or “Radical Islam”. How can we fight an enemy we are afraid to identify? How can we fight a war we refuse to acknowledge? Never in the history of mankind has appeasement of an enemy accomplished anything but the enslavement or destruction of the appeasers.
When we determine to fight this evil with every resource at our disposal, we honor the memory of those who lost their lives. Some were surprised by evil and never had an opportunity to do anything but die. Others like the police, firefighters, people who chose to jump rather than burn, the brave passengers of United Flight 93, made the decision to give their lives to save others and protect their country. All of them were ours: family members, friends, colleagues and fellow citizens. They were not black or white. They were Americans.
We must not allow their memory to be dishonored with subliminal or overt suggestions that it was all somehow our fault. If only we were nicer. If only we were not so prosperous and powerful and Christian and Jewish and free, we would not have been attacked. We have no intention of becoming less prosperous, less powerful, less Christian, less Jewish, or less free, and we do not apologize.
We may be on the precipice of a more defining moment than 911. Iran is moving full speed ahead with development of nuclear weapons. Their genocidal anti-Semitism warns us that they will try to use those weapons against Israel. If they will use them against Israel, they will use them against us. They may use terrorist surrogates against us, but we will know the source.
Are we going to sit back and leave Israel twisting in the wind until she is attacked? If Israel acts preemptively for her own protection and survival, will we stand by her without equivocation? What we do in the present crisis – and it is a crisis, even though this President is not treating it as such – will say to the world and to history whether we truly remember 911 and take to heart its lessons. If we are weak and vacillating, we will be cast on the dung heap of history as a once great nation which fell because it forgot and refused to stand up against its enemies and stand by its friends.
Let us never forget!
E.W. Jackson Sr. is a national radio commentator for Radio America and USA Radio Network. He is also President of STAND (Staying True to America’s National Destiny). www.standamerica.us. Email: stand@standamerica.us