Topic: The Statists' appropriation of the meaning of 9/11

[Pandora]

It is no secret that New York's Mayor Bloomberg has decided not to ask clergy of any religion to be part in the tenth anniversary ceremonies at Ground Zero.  A cross section of responses from both religious and secular sources shows that most people are shocked or at the least scratching their heads in wonderment at Bloomberg's decision.

Bloomberg said that government "shouldn't be in the business of picking" one minister or religion over another.  That being true, it raises two simple but important questions.  The first is, who asked him to pick?  Is Mr. Bloomberg the Mayor, or is he New York's pastor?

The second question should be whether he has considered asking the families of 9/11 victims if they want clergy to be present and to offer prayers. The ceremony is not about the government and it has never been.

The "government" and its operators always make everything about the government, it is from whence it promulgates to people their absolute need for it.

As for excluding clergy, there's no mystery about this.  At all.  Bloomberg will not exclude muslim representatives from being present, but recognizes there's no way in hell people will accept their participation; it would be an outrage.  The only option open to Bloomberg at this juncture is to make the ban all inclusive.

So, what we're left with is a travesty.

Speaking of travesty, Duh Wun and his merry band of thugs intends to follow through with his 2009 plan for restructuring how 9/11 is remembered and "honored".  From his "WEEKLY ADDRESS: Observing 9/11 with National Service", per Gateway Pundit:

This September 11th, Michelle and I will join the commemorations at Ground Zero, in Shanksville, and at the Pentagon. But even if you can’t be in New York, Pennsylvania or Virginia, every American can be part of this anniversary. Once again, 9/11 will be a National Day of Service and Remembrance. And in the days and weeks ahead, folks across the country—in all 50 states—will come together, in their communities and neighborhoods, to honor the victims of 9/11 and to reaffirm the strength of our nation with acts of service and charity.

In Minneapolis, volunteers will help restore a community center. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, they’ll hammer shingles and lay floors to give families a new home. In Tallahassee, Florida, they’ll assemble care packages for our troops overseas and their families here at home. In Orange County, California, they’ll renovate homes for our veterans. And once again, Michelle and I look forward to joining a local service project as well.

There are so many ways to get involved, and every American can do something. To learn more about the opportunities where you live, just go online and visit Serve.gov. Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

This plan to desecrate the memory of 9-11 and turn it into a socialist day of community service is nothing new.
Matthew Vadum at The Spectator reported on this back in 2009:

    The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

    This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service ....

[AlanS]

It is no secret that New York's Mayor Bloomberg has decided not to ask clergy of any religion to be part in the tenth anniversary ceremonies at Ground Zero.  A cross section of responses from both religious and secular sources shows that most people are shocked or at the least scratching their heads in wonderment at Bloomberg's decision.

Bloomberg said that government "shouldn't be in the business of picking" one minister or religion over another.  That being true, it raises two simple but important questions.  The first is, who asked him to pick?  Is Mr. Bloomberg the Mayor, or is he New York's pastor?

The second question should be whether he has considered asking the families of 9/11 victims if they want clergy to be present and to offer prayers. The ceremony is not about the government and it has never been.

The "government" and its operators always make everything about the government, it is from whence it promulgates to people their absolute need for it.

As for excluding clergy, there's no mystery about this.  At all.  Bloomberg will not exclude muslim representatives from being present, but recognizes there's no way in hell people will accept their participation; it would be an outrage.  The only option open to Bloomberg at this juncture is to make the ban all inclusive.

So, what we're left with is a travesty.

Speaking of travesty, Duh Wun and his merry band of thugs intends to follow through with his 2009 plan for restructuring how 9/11 is remembered and "honored".  From his "WEEKLY ADDRESS: Observing 9/11 with National Service", per Gateway Pundit:

This September 11th, Michelle and I will join the commemorations at Ground Zero, in Shanksville, and at the Pentagon. But even if you can’t be in New York, Pennsylvania or Virginia, every American can be part of this anniversary. Once again, 9/11 will be a National Day of Service and Remembrance. And in the days and weeks ahead, folks across the country—in all 50 states—will come together, in their communities and neighborhoods, to honor the victims of 9/11 and to reaffirm the strength of our nation with acts of service and charity.

In Minneapolis, volunteers will help restore a community center. In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, they’ll hammer shingles and lay floors to give families a new home. In Tallahassee, Florida, they’ll assemble care packages for our troops overseas and their families here at home. In Orange County, California, they’ll renovate homes for our veterans. And once again, Michelle and I look forward to joining a local service project as well.

There are so many ways to get involved, and every American can do something. To learn more about the opportunities where you live, just go online and visit Serve.gov. Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

This plan to desecrate the memory of 9-11 and turn it into a socialist day of community service is nothing new.
Matthew Vadum at The Spectator reported on this back in 2009:

    The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

    This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service ....

I'm shocked. OK, not really. Nothing about a prayer for the victims or survivors anywhere in either column.

[Alphabet Soup]

The one that has no business there is Bloomberg...

[Libertas]

I guy I met several years ago has a grandfather in NYC who is a bigshot who mixes with the PTB's there, used to tell me what a great buy Bloomberg is.
 

I lit him up one time, not as viciously as I could, basically outlined my evidence supporting my assertion that he is a pompous opportunist and a progressive jackass.

And Obama highjacking 9-11 to create a proglodyte celebration day?  How sickeningly predictable.

Both he and Bloomberg are cut from the same cloth, just different textures, but both are diehard progressives and both need to be sh*tcanned ASAP!

I've had it with all these losers!  I doubt much can be done about Bloomberg, too many stupid people there and no backbone to challenge him.  What should happen is a mass of Christian clergy and their supporters crashing the event.  A Selma-like demonstration of freedom.  But it won't happen, not there, perhaps not anywhere, ever...

Obama's sickening declaration can be rescinded by a new president, and that can't come soon enough.

[LadyVirginia]

Despite BO's efforts, 9/11/2011 will fall on a Sunday.

 

[Libertas]

Despite BO's efforts, 9/11/2011 will fall on a Sunday.

 

Fitting.

Just screams for spontaneous acts of Christian assemblies on public grounds, doesn't it?!

[LadyVirginia]

Despite BO's efforts, 9/11/2011 will fall on a Sunday.

 

Fitting.

Just screams for spontaneous acts of Christian assemblies on public grounds, doesn't it?!

Yes, it does.  Hmmmm......

[BigAlSouth]

I say we remember September 11, 2001 for what it was. The most successful attack against Americans by an enemy of the State, Radical Islam, since Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

Who is with me?

Hey Obama and you Progressive sell-outs to Islam: Just cause you don't believe it, that don't mean it ain't happening.

[charlesoakwood]

 

[Libertas]

Hell, I don't even need the word radical in it to be for it!

[charlesoakwood]

Appropriate this:

(Herald Scotland) — AMERICA’S most controversial imam – the man at the centre of the storm over plans for the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York last year – flew into Edinburgh yesterday to tell the Festival of Spirituality and Peace that greater integration between Islam and the West depends on the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of the UK and the United States as well as Muslims adopting the culture of their host countries. ...

[Pandora]

 "as well as ... ", as in "as IF".  Fcking taqqiya liars.

I don't want to be "integrated" with islam, haji.  Get lost.

[AlanS]

"as well as ... ", as in "as IF".  Fcking taqqiya liars.

I don't want to be "integrated" with islam, haji.  Get lost.

Can I get a AMEN!!

[LadyVirginia]

AMEN!

[RickZ]

"as well as ... ", as in "as IF".  Fcking taqqiya liars.

I don't want to be "integrated" with islam, haji.  Get lost.

Muslims integrate like the Borg integrate, that is, not so much.

[Libertas]

I want to disintigrate them!

 

Damned takkiya POS's!

[charlesoakwood]

Assimilate, we must assimilate.

(MEMRI) — Following are excerpts from a statement by Egyptian cleric Dr. Salah Sultan, founder of the American Center for Islamic Research, Columbus Ohio, which aired on Al-Jazeera Network on August 26, 2011:

Sallah Sultan: As someone who has studied Islamic law, specializing in Islamic jurisprudence, I am calling to kill the [Israeli] ambassador, not just expel him. Our sons were killed in our country, on our land, and our sons are being killed in Gaza by an occupying enemy. Brothers and sisters, the genuine rulings of Islamic law can no longer be silenced. I am prepared to confront any Islamic scholar who says otherwise. etc tce cet

[Libertas]

That bastard should have his rotten head on a pike as a warning to other would-be infiltrators what awaits them.  Vlad Tepes knew how to deal with this ilk.