Spectator: Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11

[Angus]

Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11

By Matthew Vadum on 8.24.09 @ 6:08AM

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, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

The administration's plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group's senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.

Yearwood, who uses the honorific "Reverend" before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the "Democracy Now" radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. "I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die," he said.

On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something "positive," "forward-leaning," and "productive," said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

"They think it needs to be taken back from the right," said the source. "They're taking that day and they're breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day."

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.

Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn't happy that TV's Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described "communist" and "rowdy black nationalist" who became the president's green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show. Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. The group has acknowledged that it dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.

With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media -- which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation's first black president -- to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.

"The organizing term is to 'go dark.' You don't tell the press, don't tell people you think will tell the press," said the source.

Of course, the annual commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks belongs to the entire nation, but President Obama and the activist left don't see it that way. They view the nationwide remembrance of the murder of 3,000 Americans by Islamic totalitarians as an obstacle to winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.

"When you criticize them, they are prepared to say, 'Did you want 9/11 to be another day of selling mattresses, like Presidents Day?" the source said. "They are truly trying to change the American mindset."

They view Sept. 11 as a "Republican" day because it focuses the public on supposedly "Republican" issues like patriotism, national security, and terrorism. According to liberals, 9/11 was long ago hijacked by Republicans and their enablers and unfairly used to bludgeon helpless Democrats at election time.

MSNBC's foremost left-wing bloviator, Keith Olbermann, summed up this ugly perspective the week after the Republican Party convention last year:

But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. "9/11 TM" has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without -- literally -- any visible means of support. "9/11 TM" has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation's history.

On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration's plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the "Overseas Contingency Operations."

Of this National Day of Service, Jones says little except that it will be a great opportunity "for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America."

On the same day, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Department of Energy Under Secretary Kristina Johnson and activists held a low-key press conference. At it, Yearwood said the National Day of Service will be "the first milestone" of a larger effort called Green the Block that is attempting to convince Americans that the utopian fantasy of a so-called green economy is possible without turning the U.S. into a Third World country.

"From policy creation to community implementation, the Green the Block campaign wants to see access and opportunity created for all Americans, to build prosperity and a healthier planet for future generations," Yearwood said.

At no time does anyone explain why this National Day of Service has to be held -- of all the 365 days in a year -- on Sept. 11.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/24/obamas-plan-to-desecrate-911/

[Jarv]

Anyone, like I, that had many friends die in that attack will not buy it and forever fight their attempts to make us forget.

What's next, the bombing of Pearl harbor ? Remember the Maine ?

Obama is a scumbag.

[MetalHead]

Anybody caught his act today talking so joyfully about Islam and their ramadan(so what if I mispelled?)

He goes on vacation at te beginning of Ramadan??
Barry,is there something you wish to tell us?

[SuspectCorner]

Conservative writer: Obama plans "to desecrate 9/11" (http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/08/24/911/index.html)

by Alex Koppelman / Salon.com / Monday, Aug. 24, 2009 20:30 EDT

You might think that President Obama and Congress designated Sept. 11th as a "National Day of Service" in order to commemorate the people who lost their lives in the terror attacks of 2001, and the spirit of volunteerism that followed. But Matthew Vadum is here to tell you different. In an article for the American Spectator titled "Obama's Plan to Desecrate 9/11," he says he knows what it's really about:

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, but it's not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing ....

The plan is to turn a "day of fear" that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

"They think it needs to be taken back from the right," said the source. "They're taking that day and they're breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day." ....

With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media -- which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation's first black president -- to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.

It's really not worth spending much time debunking this -- Vadum did a fine job of making the story totally unbelievable all by himself -- but it probably is worth noting that victims' families had been asking for just this kind of day since 2003 (http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94503,00.html).

Plus, check out the official Web site (http://911dayofservice.org/) set up for the day: They're asking people to come up with their own events. So if you don't want to help out at anti-American places like food banks and community gardens, you can organize your own event. I imagine even Vadum could come up with some sort of volunteer work (http://www.walterreed.amedd.army.mil/garrison/avc/VO_subpages/YRF.html) that wouldn't "desecrate" 9/11.

― Alex Koppelman

[burmafrd]

And once again ol suspect picks someone from the far left in going to Salon. And he has the nerve to squawk about Fox News?

[BrAinPaiNt]

And once again ol suspect picks someone from the far left in going to Salon. And he has the nerve to squawk about Fox News?

I don't know what is wrong with taking one article to argue against another when one article comes from a right leaning site and the other comes from a left leaning site.

[zrinkill]

I don't know what is wrong with taking one article to argue against another when one article comes from a right leaning site and the other comes from a left leaning site.

Sorry ...... but I agree with this.

[JBond]

What is the "National service day" and why does it have to be on the anniversary of the deadliest attack by Muslims in the United States? What in the hell do community gardens and food banks have to do with Islamists attacking and killing our fellow citizens?

[TheCount]

I don't know what is wrong with taking one article to argue against another when one article comes from a right leaning site and the other comes from a left leaning site.

Do you know who you're talking to? :laugh2:

[BrAinPaiNt]

Do you know who you're talking to? :laugh2:

Yes...anything that is not far right wing leaning is MSN liberal bias news sources. Which makes it even funnier that he of all people would whine about it.

[JBond]

Do you know who you're talking to? :laugh2:

How does a national service day have anything to do with Islamic terrorists killing our citizens? I am asking you because you are level headed left leaning guy and I do not understand the correlation Obama is trying to make.

[BrAinPaiNt]

How does a national service day have anything to do with Islamic terrorists killing our citizens? I am asking you because you are level headed left leaning guy and I do not understand the correlation Obama is trying to make.

http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94503,00.html

9/11 Relatives Want to Make National Service Day

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

WASHINGTON — Sept. 11 will forever be a day of grim memories, but a group of victims' relatives, nonprofit groups and marketing professionals hope to also turn it into an annual opportunity to boost volunteerism and charitable works.

One Day's Pay (search), a New York-based nonprofit, wants millions of Americans to honor those killed in the terrorist attacks by lending a helping hand to their communities each Sept. 11. The effort begins this year, and the group's goal is 30 million participants by 2010.

In announcing their plans Tuesday, organizers said they are not seeking to turn Sept. 11 into a work holiday. Nor do they expect that every American will have time to volunteer that day. But they hope people will take steps on Sept. 11 toward helping a community group with a pledge of money or time.

"It's a simple idea. All we're saying to people is, observe Sept. 11 by doing something good for someone else," said David Paine, the group's president and the chief executive officer of Paine PR, a public relations agency.

Jay S. Winuk, whose brother Glenn died at the World Trade Center (search), said the volunteerism drive "is perhaps the best thing to rise from the ashes of that terrible day. It is a simple, user-friendly action plan for helping others."

Winuk, the group's vice president, said his 20-year-old brother raced from his law office about a block from Ground Zero to lend his skills as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician on Sept. 11, 2001.

"That day he risked everything to help others, as he had hundreds of times before," Winuk said. "Glenn's remains were found six months later in the ruins of the South Tower, a borrowed medic bag by his side."

The concept for One Day's Pay, according to the group, was inspired by the courage exhibited by the passengers who rebelled against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 (search), which crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

The group's founders include Alice Hoglan of California, whose son, Mark Bingham, died in the crash.

"The purpose of One Day's Pay is to act as a vehicle for us to convert that awful negative energy that was generated that day into something truly beautiful, altruistic, constructive and uplifting," she said.

The name One Day's Pay refers to the idea of giving at least one day's service to communities each year.

Organizations working with One Day's Pay include the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network (search), Youth Service America and Citizen Corps, an office within the Department of Homeland Security that coordinates preparedness activities in communities nationwide.

One Day's Pay created a Web site to help individuals, employers and organizations make plans to help others on or around Sept. 11. More than 100 organizations have already pledged to participate this year.

Those participating are encouraged to register nonbinding, confidential pledges, which One Day's Pay will tally each year.

The group had planned to urge Congress to pass a resolution recognizing Sept. 11 as a voluntarily observed national day of service, charity and compassion. But Paine said that with the anniversary a month away, and Congress in recess, the organization is not pressing that idea this year.


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[TheCount]

How does a national service day have anything to do with Islamic terrorists killing our citizens? I am asking you because you are level headed left leaning guy and I do not understand the correlation Obama is trying to make.

What would you prefer, exactly?

[BrAinPaiNt]

What would you prefer?

Any reason to complain about Obama will work, even if unfounded and the idea was brought forward back in 2003. :D

[JBond]

http://origin.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94503,00.html

9/11 Relatives Want to Make National Service Day

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

WASHINGTON — Sept. 11 will forever be a day of grim memories, but a group of victims' relatives, nonprofit groups and marketing professionals hope to also turn it into an annual opportunity to boost volunteerism and charitable works.

One Day's Pay (search), a New York-based nonprofit, wants millions of Americans to honor those killed in the terrorist attacks by lending a helping hand to their communities each Sept. 11. The effort begins this year, and the group's goal is 30 million participants by 2010.

In announcing their plans Tuesday, organizers said they are not seeking to turn Sept. 11 into a work holiday. Nor do they expect that every American will have time to volunteer that day. But they hope people will take steps on Sept. 11 toward helping a community group with a pledge of money or time.

"It's a simple idea. All we're saying to people is, observe Sept. 11 by doing something good for someone else," said David Paine, the group's president and the chief executive officer of Paine PR, a public relations agency.

Jay S. Winuk, whose brother Glenn died at the World Trade Center (search), said the volunteerism drive "is perhaps the best thing to rise from the ashes of that terrible day. It is a simple, user-friendly action plan for helping others."

Winuk, the group's vice president, said his 20-year-old brother raced from his law office about a block from Ground Zero to lend his skills as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician on Sept. 11, 2001.

"That day he risked everything to help others, as he had hundreds of times before," Winuk said. "Glenn's remains were found six months later in the ruins of the South Tower, a borrowed medic bag by his side."

The concept for One Day's Pay, according to the group, was inspired by the courage exhibited by the passengers who rebelled against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 (search), which crashed into a Pennsylvania field.

The group's founders include Alice Hoglan of California, whose son, Mark Bingham, died in the crash.

"The purpose of One Day's Pay is to act as a vehicle for us to convert that awful negative energy that was generated that day into something truly beautiful, altruistic, constructive and uplifting," she said.

The name One Day's Pay refers to the idea of giving at least one day's service to communities each year.

Organizations working with One Day's Pay include the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network (search), Youth Service America and Citizen Corps, an office within the Department of Homeland Security that coordinates preparedness activities in communities nationwide.

One Day's Pay created a Web site to help individuals, employers and organizations make plans to help others on or around Sept. 11. More than 100 organizations have already pledged to participate this year.

Those participating are encouraged to register nonbinding, confidential pledges, which One Day's Pay will tally each year.

The group had planned to urge Congress to pass a resolution recognizing Sept. 11 as a voluntarily observed national day of service, charity and compassion. But Paine said that with the anniversary a month away, and Congress in recess, the organization is not pressing that idea this year.


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I suppose one day a year is all some can manage. Maybe if they tried every day to help others they actually may make a difference rather than a publicity stunt. That day will always be remebered for what the islamic nut jobs did to us.

[BrAinPaiNt]

I suppose one day a year is all some can manage. Maybe if they tried every day to help others they actually may make a difference rather than a publicity stunt. That day will always be remebered for what the islamic nut jobs did to us.

Well shiver me timbers...what no blaming Obama for this one>?!?!?!?!

[JBond]

What would you prefer, exactly?

Service is fine, but to try and mask what that day is really about is wrong. It is about Islam and their intolerance for anything not Islamic.

[burmafrd]

BP still tries to act like he is impartial and all that crap. Thankfully most realize that he is not. The smug part is definitly wearing thin.

[BrAinPaiNt]

BP still tries to act like he is impartial and all that crap. Thankfully most realize that he is not. The smug part is definitly wearing thin.

It will do you a world of good (http://www.drugstore.com/qxp15093_333181_sespider/fleet/enema_ready_to_use_saline_laxative.htm)

[TheCount]

Service is fine, but to try and mask what that day is really about is wrong. It is about Islam and their intolerance for anything not Islamic.

In the United States of America, you expect a day dedicated to railing against Islam?

[burmafrd]

I doubt there is a nozzle big enough for you BP.

[BrAinPaiNt]

I doubt there is a nozzle big enough for you BP.

:laugh2: Oh...you got me on that one.

But I got a fire hose enema for you.:p: ;)

[vta]

Well shiver me timbers...

http://www.ehosting.nl/fart/pics/pirates-small.jpg

[burmafrd]

Not big enough. I have worked for the government for too many years for something that small to make an impression anymore.

[BrAinPaiNt]

Not big enough. I have worked for the government for too many years for something that small to make an impression anymore.

That's why I don't like you...you complain about government spending and insurance programs but we are all paying your wages, insurance and making government bigger by employing you.

You will burn for this fake conservative...BURN I tell you.;) :p:

[Cajuncowboy]

Just like most everything else this jerk and his sycophants have done, there is always something else than what is on the surface.

Cash for clunkers was suppose to be about stimulating the economy, but it was a farce as it was only to make people move to smaller, more dangerous cars.

This is just another of the same thing.

And those that can't see it are blind and they need our pity.

[JBond]

In the United States of America, you expect a day dedicated to railing against Islam?

What are you talking about? I am talking about the nut job racist Islamic fundamentalist that want you to die. Not Islam as a religion. You and I have had this discussion before. None of us should forget why they attacked us. It is the same reason they are attacking and killing people all over the world. It is in the name of their religion. However they wish to pervert their religion is up to them, but is does not take a way from the fact that they are killing because they believe their religion justifies it.

Those who wish to forget history are doomed to repeat it. You know that. Not recognizing who and why we were attacked is akin to forgetting the Japanese attack on pearl harbor and the rise of the Nazis. You can't just pretend it did not happen.

[BrAinPaiNt]

There is a difference between forgetting history and doing something good as a nation together to help overcome a tragedy.

This excuse that just because people want to have a volunteer day (all the way back to 2003 including relatives of those lost in the event), means that we are forgetting or dishonoring a memory of a tragedy is just silly grandstanding IMO.

It was a defining moment that brought the country together as a whole even if it was just for a short time and IMO any time you can get people to come together to volunteer their time to help others is a good thing and we could use more of it. But now days too many people are to darn selfish or bullheaded and try to turn it into political BS.

But you keep on thinking it is only to besmirch the memories of those who died and to belittle something in someway...if that makes you feel better or that it will mean people will forget what happened on 9/11.:(

[JBond]

There is a difference between forgetting history and doing something good as a nation together to help overcome a tragedy.

This excuse that just because people want to have a volunteer day (all the way back to 2003 including relatives of those lost in the event), means that we are forgetting or dishonoring a memory of a tragedy is just silly grandstanding IMO.

It was a defining moment that brought the country together as a whole even if it was just for a short time and IMO any time you can get people to come together to volunteer their time to help others is a good thing and we could use more of it. But now days too many people are to darn selfish or bullheaded and try to turn it into political BS.

But you keep on thinking it is only to besmirch the memories of those who died and to belittle something in someway...if that makes you feel better or that it will mean people will forget what happened on 9/11.:(

You are wrong, but that is OK. In America we are allowed our opinions. Unless you turn me in to the SS.

There have been numerous reports that this is an effort by the administration to shift the focus and perceived benefit the republicans have from thier strong position on national defense into something they Dems can use for political gain.

[BrAinPaiNt]

You are wrong, but that is OK. In America we are allowed our opinions. Unless you turn me in to the SS.

There have been numerous reports that this is an effort by the administration to shift the focus and perceived benefit the republicans have from thier strong position on national defense into something they Dems can use for political gain.

Yes numerous reports from right wing sites...because it is that socialist Obama doing everything he can to raise the islamic people and besmirch the victims of 9/11.
Yes...it is all to take away from national defense.
:laugh2:

[JBond]

Yes numerous reports from right wing sites...because it is that socialist Obama doing everything he can to raise the islamic people and besmirch the victims of 9/11.
Yes...it is all to take away from national defense.
:laugh2:

Finally, you are catching on.;)

[Jarv]

In the United States of America, you expect a day dedicated to railing against Islam?

On Pearl Harbor day we don't give out Valentines...Or do you want to make that "buy a honda day:)"

[BrAinPaiNt]

On Pearl Harbor day we don't give out Valentines...Or do you want to make that "buy a honda day:)"

Memorial Days Sales anyone?

[TheCount]

On Pearl Harbor day we don't give out Valentines...Or do you want to make that "buy a honda day:)"

On Pearl Harbor day we bemoan the existence of the Japanese people?

[jimnabby]

Service is fine, but to try and mask what that day is really about is wrong. It is about Islam and their intolerance for anything not Islamic.
What are you talking about? I am talking about the nut job racist Islamic fundamentalist that want you to die. Not Islam as a religion.

Man, I love this guy.

Anyway, you were asking about the connection between 9/11 and a day of service. The connection that people, including the 9/11 families, are making is in the way that the country came together in the wake of the attacks, particularly people who came from all over to work and volunteer at ground zero. They want to commemorate how Americans responded to the attacks.

[Jarv]

Memorial Days Sales anyone?

Seems like they have sales for almost any day...lol.

[JBond]

Man, I love this guy.

Anyway, you were asking about the connection between 9/11 and a day of service. The connection that people, including the 9/11 families, are making is in the way that the country came together in the wake of the attacks, particularly people who came from all over to work and volunteer at ground zero. They want to commemorate how Americans responded to the attacks.

I have explained this several times and TheCount understands that when I use the term Islam in a negative connotation it is short hand for nut job racist Islamic fundamentalist that want you to die. That is very long to write out each and every time the topic comes up. Hope that clarifies it for you.

[BrAinPaiNt]

Seems like they have sales for almost any day...lol.

I could be wrong but it seems Labor Day, Memorial Day and Thanksgiving day sales are the big sales days (well the day after and so on).

I am always amazed at how many people leave home in the wee hours of the morning to "beat the crowds" only to be in the middle of the crowds...esp the day after thanksgiving.

[bbgun]

I'm surprised that people are surprised. Makes perfect sense coming from a man who believes that the root of 9/11 jihadi terror stems from "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.”

[BrAinPaiNt]

I'm surprised that people are surprised. Makes perfect sense coming from a man who believes that the root of 9/11 jihadi terror stems from "a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.”

:laugh2: :laugh2:

It's all a part of his manchurian candidate master plan.

Bwhahahaa

[bbgun]

:laugh2: :laugh2:

It's all a part of his manchurian candidate master plan.

Bwhahahaa

What's so funny? And what's with the bizarre MC non-sequitur? The point is that he never fully internalized the lessons of that dark morning, and continues to softsoap it to this day. Unless you're talking about signing up with the armed forces (and he isn't), the last thing 9-11 brings to mind is "national service."

BTW, how did I know that you'd come racing to his defense in this thread? I mean, that's sooooo unlike you. :rolleyes:

[Phrozen Phil]

Man, I love this guy.

Anyway, you were asking about the connection between 9/11 and a day of service. The connection that people, including the 9/11 families, are making is in the way that the country came together in the wake of the attacks, particularly people who came from all over to work and volunteer at ground zero. They want to commemorate how Americans responded to the attacks.

Thanks for making it clear what the real purpose of the event is. :bow:

[burmafrd]

Then why are so many America Haters involved?

[MetalHead]

In the United States of America, you expect a day dedicated to railing against Islam?

Thats a regular thursday for me.
They hate us and I hate them back.

[Jarv]

:laugh2: :laugh2:

It's all a part of his manchurian candidate master plan.

Bwhahahaa

Whatever happened to the manchurian candidate ?

[burmafrd]

In the movie he ended up shooting those responsible for him being brainwashed- at least that is what I remember of the old version with Laurence Harvey.