Archive for September 11th, 2005
Patterico has Galloway on Tour.
Saddam supporter George Galloway is going on tour, and will be making a stop in Los Angeles on September 22. (Here is some background on Galloway generally, and here is some background information from Clint Taylor on some of Galloway’s apparent lies to Congress.) I am considering going — to heckle, hand out leaflets, ask embarrassing questions, and/or generally make a stink. Anyone else interested?
P.S. Armed Liberal is interested in handing out leaflets. He says the crowd will be thick with Hollywood types. Jane Fonda might speak, and so might Sean Penn — fresh off his heroic rescue efforts with his personal photographer and his tiny, leaking boat.
This guy is a real MORON.
Flap will be there to protest this SCUM.
If anyone else wants to go…….e-mail Flap or Patterico.
The information is here:
Los Angeles, CA
Thursday, September 22, 7pm
George Galloway, MP, speaking with
Michel Shehadeh, LA 8, National Council of Arab Americans
Pablo Paredes, US Navy petty officer who refused to ship out to Iraq, served 3 months hard-labor for his anti-war stand
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Contact GallowayTourLA@yahoo.com, nca-la@arab-american.net, or 310-404-1739 for more info
Co-Sponsored locally by: KPFK 90.7, US Labor Against War (LA); Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA); Addicted to War-Frank Dorrell; ANSWER LA; Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools (CAMS)
Tickets are $12, available througn:
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 raq war protester Cindy Sheehan (R) speaks to the media outside the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco, California, September 9, 2005. Sheehan, who says her focus now will be Congress, met with staff of Senator Feinstein to discuss the war in Iraq.
The ASSociated Press has Sheehan criticizes Feinstein on war.
Cindy Sheehan, who led anti-war protests at President Bush’s Texas ranch last month, criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s refusal to support an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
The Vacaville mother, whose 24-year-old soldier son was killed last year in Iraq, brought her anti-war campaign to San Francisco, where she met with the California senator’s state director before speaking to supporters and reporters Friday.
”If she is a strong leader, and if she’s strong about bringing the troops home, we will support her,” Sheehan said. ”If she is not, we will withdraw our support from her.”
She said Feinstein’s reasons for supporting the occupation in Iraq were ”very bogus.”
Ok and Senator Feinstein what are your policy disagreements with President Bush and the Bush Administration?
The Democratic senator was in Washington, D.C., on Friday, but would be willing to meet with Sheehan if asked, said Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman.
Feinstein ”has had major disagreements with the way the war has been carried out” but believes immediate withdrawal ”would lead to civil war,” Gantman said.
And DiFi what are your SPECIFIC major policy disagreements? Would you please articulate these for the voters of California.
Remember, when Sheehan was in Crawford, Texas, not one mainstream Democrat politician supported her.
Even Howard Dean, Democrat National Chairman, who ran as an anti-Iraq War presidential candidate last year did not come to her support – in any way.
Is it because Sheehan is exposing the Emperor Wearing NO Clothes?
Or is it the Democrats have no policy disagreements with the President……just moronic noise to help win elections?
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ABC News has Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks.
In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
“Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, God willing. At this time, don’t count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion,” the tape warns. “We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators.”
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief William Bratton better get busy.
American intelligence officials believe the man who appears on the tape to be Adam Gadahn of Orange County, Calif. Last year, Gadahn delivered a similar taped communiqué for al Qaeda. That tape was later deemed authentic.
On the new tape, delivered to ABC News, Gadahn’s message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne.
But, the Mayor has issued a response……a fairly weak one and where is William Bratton, LAPD Chief?
In response to the threats against their city, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the city’s police department released a statement this morning. They admitted to Los Angeles being a target of terrorism, but said there are no known, credible threats against the city and labeled the tape an instrument of al Qaeda propaganda.
“The statement broadcast this morning on Good Morning America should come as no surprise to anyone. The statement was meant to instill fear, and fear is the most important weapon the terrorists possess.”
With all due respect, Mayor, you and your police chief better show us Angelinos MORE.
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Posted by Flap in Terrorists
 People gather at the footprint of the north tower of the World Trade Center as a U.S. flag is hung from the World Financial Center in New York September 11, 2005. Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Families of the victims placed flowers in two reflecting pools at the site of each tower.
Reuters has US marks 9/11 anniversary with march, silence.
Four years after the September 11 attacks, the United States briefly shifted focus on Sunday from its latest disaster — Hurricane Katrina — to memorials for victims of the hijacked-plane strikes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
n Washington, President George W. Bush and most of his Cabinet observed a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of the attacks that claimed more than 2,700 lives.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, sounded a somber note.
“I wish we could say … that this is a time for peaceful remembrance, that we were gathering today to commemorate a danger that had long since past,” Rumsfeld said. “… But we cannot. The enemy, though seriously weakened and continuously under pressure, continues to plot attacks and the danger they pose to the free world is real and present.”
At Ground Zero in New York City, brothers and sisters of the thousands killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center tower read out the victims’ names to a hushed crowd of several hundred.
“Again, we are a city that meets in sadness,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “We are all linked to one another in our common humanity.”
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, praised as a unifying leader after the 2001 attacks, told the group, “All of you here today who lost a sister or brother should know that their loved one helped to save the spirit of our nation on the day of our greatest attack.”
NEVER FORGET:
Michelle Malkin has an outstanding series of posts and links here.
And these little angels, too.
Don’t forget the man who knew.
Don’t forget the heroes who fought back.
Don’t forget those who sacrificed.
Don’t forget those who warned.
Don’t forget those who celebrated.
Don’t forget how the killers came and how their successors follow.
Don’t forget those who died before we woke up.
Please don’t forget how to remember.
(And how not to…)
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A moment of silence.
They still are plotting to kill us. (Background: All about Adam Gadahn.)
The al Qaeda training manual.
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Other 9/11 anniversary bloggers/resources…
The September 11 Digital Archive
Winds of Change
Mudville Gazette’s tribute to Rick Rescorla
Little Green Footballs (scroll down on the left for slideshows and 9/11 stories)
NRO’s 9/11 archives
PoliPundit: We will not forget
Cox & Forkum pays tribute to the FDNY
Michele Catalano: I still think about it…
Rand Simberg: A history of two wars
Glenn Reynolds is marking the anniversary by going to the gun range. Looks like we were on the same wavelength.
Technorati Tags: September 11, Rudy Giuliani, President Bush
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