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SEPTEMBER 9,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

VIGILANCE – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  New York City is preparing for an “elevated threat environment” on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Saturday because of the recent Kabul airport bombing and increased al Qaeda propaganda, though there are currently no specific threats, officials said.  “We have developed a robust security overlay for the upcoming ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks,” Martine Materasso, chief of the NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau, said Wednesday during the mayor’s daily press briefing.  “We will be using all of our counterterrorism resources to ensure a safe event,” she added.  Those tools include explosive detection canines, uniformed police presence by the former site of the Twin Towers, heavy weapons teams, explosives detection instruments, a bomb squad at the site, license plate readers, radiological and chemical sensors and surveillance cameras.  The NYPD takes these things seriously.  I wonder if the Biden administration does.  Biden will be visiting all three 9-11 attack sites.  It will be interesting to see the kind of reception he receives. 

MADNESS – FROM BREITBART:  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says President Joe Biden is seeking to execute a plan that would give “unlimited green cards” to unvetted Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan in recent weeks.  As Breitbart News reported on Wednesday, Biden turned the fast-track citizenship for Afghans plan into a budget request to Congress.  The request asks Congress to allow Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to give green cards, and eventually naturalized American citizenship, to at least 50,000 Afghans by waiving standard vetting procedures.  Cotton slammed the request as “just another chapter in Biden’s rolling fiasco of an Afghanistan policy” in a statement.  Cotton’s office said the Biden plan would allow “any Afghans who come to the United States over at least the next year to obtain green cards, backdated to the day they entered the country, without completing the normal refugee screening or approval process” while also not counting the Afghans against annual refugee caps.  The security risk to our country is vast in such a lax process, but the political left will rejoice.  More Democratic voters.  The Dems have a remarkable capacity to benefit from any disaster.

September 9, 2021       Permalink

HOW MANY MORE DISGRACES LIKE THIS MUST WE ACCEPT? – OVERNIGHT:  Even our founding documents are under threat from the crazed militants who have infiltrated into our government.   From Fox: 

FIRST ON FOX: Members of the National Archives' task force on racism have recommended removing the "charters of freedom" description for America’s founding documents, such as the Constitution, arguing that it did not initially grant freedom for all individuals.

Approximately 800 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees from across the country attended a town hall meeting of the Archives’ Task Force on Racism on May 11, according to FOIA documents obtained by America Rising and shared with Fox News.

During the presentation, a museum subgroup recommended that NARA "retire" the term "charters of freedom" as descriptors for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.

"We should retire the term charters of freedom and remove it from our web pages, publications and exhibits because, as we learned, these documents did not result in freedom for everyone," said one presenter, whose name was redacted.

Another presenter of the same museum subgroup, whose name was also redacted, said members were tasked with recommending policies and procedures that "ensure that everyone feels welcomed, included and represented at our museums and presidential libraries."

The presenter told a story about a Black congressional staffer who took issue with the "charters of freedom" label, which currently appears on the Archives' website and in exhibits.

"It happened during a tour of the Rotunda led by the congressional office," the presenter said, according to a transcript of the event. "During this tour, the leader referred to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights as the charters of freedom, which many of us often do.

It was at this point that one of the tour members, a Black congressional staffer, turned to him and said, ‘Those are not my charters of freedom.’

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  In what way will any minority child benefit from this tearing down of our history?  We know we're not perfect.   Indeed, the preample to the Constitution calls for a "more perfect" union.  It does not assume automatic perfection.   But we also know that we're a great nation, and a major force for good in the world.  Why do so many millions, of all races, want to come to the United States?  Are they all misinformed?  Have they been watching the wrong movies?   

It is sickening to see how this nation is being torn down from within.  And the American press is so very silent.  They will pay a price.

September 9, 2021       Permalink

SEPTEMBER 8,  2021

SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

IS NOTHING SACRED? – FROM DAILY MAIL:   A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race.  The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'.  One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade.   'You can't imagine what he would have to say about it all but I'm sure he wouldn't think it was Britain's finest hour.'  Another volunteer said: 'It beggars belief that the man who saved this nation in our darkest hour finds himself cancelled in this way.'  The trust was set up after the death of Sir Winston in 1965 to help send British citizens abroad on travel scholarships known as Churchill Fellowships. Trustees include Sir Winston's grandson Jeremy Soames.  A statement on the trust's website last night said: 'Today there is controversy about aspects of Sir Winston's life. Many of his views on race are widely seen as unacceptable today, a view that we share. Shame, shame.  Of course some of Churchill's views wouldn't be acceptable today.  That's always the case with historical figures.  What is acceptable, and worthy of intense praise, was Churchill's standing alone in defense of democracy as Britain's prime minister, leading his beleaguered nation through the murderous Blitz of 1940.  His heroic stand, together with some of the most inspired speeches of modern history, prevented the collapse of freedom's cause in Europe, and gave America time to prepare.  Now we must preserve Churchill's name, under assault from the moronic precincts of the far left.

September 8, 2021        Permalink

SHE IS ONE OF THE GREAT ANTI-TERROR ACTIVISTS, AND SHE IS WORTH HEARING – OVERNIGHT:  I've heard her speak, and had conversations with her years ago, when terror was fresh in our minds.  It will be again.  From Fox: 

The sister of an American Airlines pilot killed after his plane was hijacked by terrorists and slammed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, told Fox News that she is "filled with rage" at the thought of President Biden's overtures to the Taliban throughout his withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Debra Burlingame's brother, Charles "Chic" Burlingame, was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, bound from Dulles, Va., to Los Angeles on that Tuesday morning when a gang of terrorists led by Hani Hanjour hijacked it and killed everyone aboard, plus several inside the Pentagon at the time.

On "The Story", host Martha MacCallum played clips of then-President George W. Bush in the days following the attack promising to respond to the mass murder of Americans:

"Either you’re with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime," the Texas Republican proclaimed later in September 2001.

"There’s no negotiations, there’s no calendar. We’ll act on our time," he also said that fall.

Burlingame told MacCallum that Bush's response to the Taliban – who then, and again now, controlled Afghanistan, where the terrorists trained – was the complete opposite of how Biden has comported himself on the world stage:

"Just listening to that fills me with rage," she said. "Because I can’t imagine what the soundbites 20 years from now will be from President Biden: Those [from Bush] speak to everything he’s not doing," she said.

"I believe we’re in grave danger now. This administration is now embracing a terrorist regime: The very people he's referring to sheltered Osama bin Laden, the ones that provided him a safe haven while they practiced storming the cockpits and killing the pilots."

Burlingame said pilots like Hanjour trained and practiced hijackings in Al-Farooq, Afghanistan – using animals instead of humans and ‘short-knives’ instead of box cutters."

"That regime is now in place [in Kabul]. Some of the very people involved … are the people that President Biden is calling a friendlier, kinder, Taliban," she said.

"No. They’re mullahs installed now. They have members of the Haqqani Network in their ministry: Haqqani is more vicious than Al Qaeda: They are known for brutal hostage-taking."

Burlingame predicted America is again "in trouble" and that there will be "some very dark days ahead" because of Biden's actions.

COMMENT:  No one has said it better. 

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