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From Bush to Obama: “I can hear you”; “the rest of the world has heard you” “and the people who knocked this building down will hear all of us soon”, to one who never hears and who only talks down to people through a TelePrompter.

Obama and Bloomberg cannot put 9/11 in a box



A watching world will see on full display the utter failure of President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg during tomorrow’s 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. In trying to rewrite history, Obama and Bloomberg, in effect, try to steal from the people the true meaning of why citizens the world over will never forget what happened on that fateful day.
Revisionists of 9/11 history fail and fail miserably for the truth is it is impossible to micro manage human emotion. Mayors and presidents can issue officialdom’s never-ending proclamations and decrees. They can ban clerics and first responders from the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil. They can send out “speaking points” to which all politicians will dutifully follow; they can even ban the words “al Qaeda” and “jihad” from being spoken. While politicians of the day try to ban God from the public square, the words “God protect America” will be the most overriding ones tomorrow as they are murmured by untold millions, not just at Ground Zero but worldwide on September 11, 2011.

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The 10th anniversary of 9/11 cannot be put into a box by politicians who use the occasion for photo-ops and re-election plugs. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 belongs to decent people everywhere, who will remember it in their own way. Politicians like Obama and Bloomberg will don their most mournful expressions to greet television cameras. But millions will be looking past them to undying memories of the horror of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center. People will be remembering the heartbreaking television images of the loved ones of the innocents desperately showing their pictures at Ground Zero, and even 10 years later will still be praying for them. Even the most gullible among us know that politicians will promise anything, say anything, all to cling to power, but that their words are empty and their message self-serving. First responders have been disinvited by the politicians for only one reason: The politicians were far removed from that day ensconced in safety, while the first responders were there, risking their lives to save others. Listening masses tomorrow would hang on their every word, but ignore the shallow bleatings of soapbox politicians. No, try as you might you cannot possibly put 9/11 in a box and instruct people how to remember it. Memories of America’s worst terrorist attack never faded and are as much alive today in the watch of lonely goatherds in far-flung lands and remembered in the tiniest of fishing villages in faraway places. A lot of things changed since that fateful day on September 11, but God isn’t one of them. In one decade we went from a president who, despite his often cited failings, spoke directly to his people from Ground Zero, calling out, “I can hear you”; “the rest of the world has heard you” “and the people who knocked this building down will hear all of us soon”, to one who never hears and who only talks down to people through a TelePrompter. No matter how hard politicians work word to misrepresent it, appeasing terrorists is never the right thing to do. And no matter how they strive for eloquence of speech, outstanding American courage on September 11, 2001 came through in words that speak to the human soul 10 years later. These are words that could never be trumped. For they are the words of Todd Beamer, who will forever hold us in deepest admiration for the greatest country on earth. Those words volley down loudly through a decade of time. “Are you guys ready?” “Let’s roll!”


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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