Tim Walz Brags About Passing Laws That Restrict Speech
Tim Walz knows better, and if he doesn’t, one might suggest a quiet evening re-reading the American Constitution.Tim Walz knows better, and if he doesn’t, one might suggest a quiet evening re-reading the American Constitution.We All Saw Clearly On Sept. 11, 2001 A Battle Between Good And Evil That Still Rages
Once again, we are in a battle too many Americans do not know we are involved in. Our culture has changed as Americans turn away from God.Are We Forgetting?: Prosecutors Consider Plea Deal For Suspected Architects Of 9/11 Attacks
Architects of the attacks of Sept. 11 may be spared the death penalty under a new plea deal being floated by the federal government.Resurfaced video shows hero TWA pilot talking about taking 'evasive action' to dodge hijacked 9/11 plane that crashed into World Trade Center
A TWA pilot needed to take "evasive action" on September 11, 2001, to "dodge" a hijacked airliner that crashed into the World Trade Center, according to a new report. An alleged resurfaced video shows the pilot and passengers talking about how close they were to crashing into one of the planes used in the 9/11 attacks in New York City that killed 2,977 people.
The New York Post recently reported, "The pilot on TWA Flight 3 took 'evasive action' twice before safely landing — first to avoid colliding with United Flight 175, which struck the World Trade Center, and then Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, according to a New York-based flight attendant who was on the crew."
The hero pilot – only identified as "George" – is purportedly seen on video giving an interview to "ABC World News Tonight" the day after the world-changing terror attacks of Sept. 11.
ABC News national correspondent Dean Reynolds asked the pilot, "You dodged one of the aircraft that hit the tower?"
"Yeah. Well, he was up there when we were coming from New York. So what we had to do was — they (flight control) were not talking to him, and he was changing his heading and his altitude, so they cleared us to deviate; however we had to stay away from him."
The pilot added, "We had him in sight — it was a nice day in New York. We were out of the clouds, which helped a lot. We just, you know, dodged him."
Passengers were also interviewed for the news segment about the near-miss on 9/11.
"I thought we were going to crash," a TWA passenger told the news outlet. "I thought the plane was going to crash."
The horrified passenger noted that the near-collision happened right after taking off, and the plane was "shaking" after it "went down and came back up."
"But it wasn't your normal taking off routine," he said. "And then you could just see a plane just bypass us really close, and I thought maybe it was a near-miss."
Passengers could see the World Trade Center on fire from the hijacked plane crashing into it.
The TWA Boeing 767 took off on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, from John F. Kennedy International Airport – just 14 miles from the World Trade Center.
The hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.
After learning that United Airlines Flight 175 had smashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, TWA flight attendants reportedly "pushed food carts up against the cockpit door to guard against a possible hijacking."
A TWA flight attendant told the New York Post that the pilot had warned the crew that "he'd be standing behind the door with an ax."
The flight attendant recounted the chilling announcement on the plane's speakers: "This is a national emergency. By order of the federal government, any plane still in the sky in 20 minutes will be shot down by friendly fire."
The TWA flight was bound for St. Louis, but was rerouted to Dayton, Ohio, following the terrorist takeover of four commercial airliners on 9/11.
Retired FDNY Lt. Charlie Hubbard was on the TWA Flight 3, and said the pilot "saved our lives, without a doubt."
Hubbard recently recalled the gut-wrenching experience on the X social media platform, formerly Twitter.
"About twenty to thirty minutes later, we nearly had a mid-air collision with one of the hijacked planes," Hubbard tweeted leading up to the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. "After the frightening, dramatic maneuver our flight crew executed to avoid the other aircraft, we were grounded in Dayton, OH."
The flight attendant told the Post that the TWA plane had a second near-collision with a hijacked 9/11 plane. The unnamed crew member said the TWA plane missed the tail of doomed United Airlines Flight 93 "by 500 feet."
Flight 93 departed from Newark International Airport in New Jersey. Terrorists reportedly planned to crash Flight 93 into a government building in Washington, D.C., but courageous passengers foiled their wicked plot. The plane ended up crashing in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Is our country REALLY on 'such thin ice that all it takes is a handful of rednecks' to overthrow democracy? Jason Whitlock rips Harris for Jan. 6 speech
When Vice President Kamala Harris compared the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and December 7 bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, she was doing more than just being ridiculous; she was also demeaning the victims at the World Trade Center and Pearl Harbor, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock said Thursday.
Whitlock played a video clip of Harris speaking from the U.S. Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 riot.
"Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them -- where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault," Harris began. "Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. And January 6th, 2021."
"For Kamala Harris to sit up there and [compare ] Pearl Harbor, 9/11 [to Jan.6] ... 3,000 people died on September 11; 2,300 people died at Pearl Harbor. One person [was killed] on January 6: Ashli Babbitt. And this idiot — who's only there to be a racial prop, is unqualified, and there to ... keep the racial division going — is analogizing January the 6th to Pearl Harbor and 9/ 11, and doing it with a straight face," Whitlock said of the vice president.
"This is a game," he continued. "Do you remember where you were on March 1, 1971, when the Weather Underground bombed the Capitol? ... This ain't the first time. There have been worse attacks on the Capitol. ... In 1983, a bunch of liberal white women calling themselves M19 bombed the Capitol. You remember where you were?"
"A group of idiots waving flagpoles, that's all it's going to take to overthrow this government and to overthrow democracy?" Whitlock added. "This country is on such thin ice that all it takes is a handful of rednecks to walk into the Capitol and the whole thing falls apart?"
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Kamala Harris slammed for comparing Jan. 6 to Pearl Harbor bombing and 9/11 terror attacks: 'As outrageous and offensive as it gets'
On the first anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol building, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech comparing the events of Jan. 6 to the bombing of Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II and the world-altering terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.
"Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were, and what they were doing, when our democracy came under assault," Harris began her address at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday morning.
Harris then recalled dark dates in American history, "Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory: Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021."
Harris said the for "extremists who roamed these halls," what they were out to "degrade and destroy was not only a building" but they were also assaulting "the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have marched, picketed, and shed blood to establish and defend."
Harris claimed that the riot exposed "the fragility of democracy" in the United States because of "the very fact of how close we came to an election overturned."
"The fragility of our democracy is this: If we are not vigilant, if we do not defend it, democracy simply will not stand. It will falter, and it will fail," Harris said.
"On January 6th, we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful," she continued. "The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos. What was at stake then, and now, is the right to have our future decided the way the Constitution prescribes it: by we, the people — all the people."
Harris applauded her fellow politicians for certifying the presidential election the night of "the violent assault" that interrupted Congress.
"Yet, the resolve I saw in our elected leaders when I returned to the Senate chamber that night — their resolve not to yield, but to certify the election, their loyalty, not to party or person, but to the Constitution of the United States — that reflects its strength," she said.
Kamala Harris equates January 6th to the 9/11 attacks and the Pearl Harbor attack.pic.twitter.com/eP8HY36apm— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1641479611
Numerous online commentators found the comparison of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to the deadly attacks on Pearl Harbor and on Sept. 11 to be completely outrageous and downright offensive.
Director of communications for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) Harrison Fields: "As the son of a 9/11 first responder & survivor, & as someone who experienced the tragedy of 1/06, I can tell you unequivocally—1/06 was NOT & will NEVER be comparable to 9/11. To hear the @VP compare the 6th to 9/11 is a slap in the face to 9/11 survivors & heroes like my mom."
Writer Josh Jordan: "Putting January 6th in the same category of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 is ridiculous. What happened a year ago was terrible, but let's not compare it to two events that killed thousands of Americans and led to wars around the world."
Author Matthew Betley: "I don’t take anything the stupendously incompetent @VP says, but comparing January 6 to Pearl Harbor is as outrageous and offensive as it gets, especially to World War II veterans who know what a real attack looks like. Shame on #KamalaHarris."
Outkick founder Clay Travis: "Kamala Harris said January 6th is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Honest question, does anyone actually believe this, even the most idoitic left winger on the planet? This is one of the dumbest historical analogies I have ever seen."
Digital strategist Greg Price: "When a two-hour riot happened at the Capitol, Kamala Harris compared it to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. When neighborhoods in Minneapolis were burned to the ground, Kamala Harris helped raise bail money for the people who did it."
Conservative commentator John Cardillo: "9/11: 2977 innocents dead Pearl Harbor: 2403 Americans dead Jan 6th: One death. Unarmed Ashli Babbitt killed by an inept Capitol cop, @KamalaHarris’s comparison is disgraceful and insults the memories of those we lost."
The Pearl Harbor attack took place when a Japanese strike force consisting of more than 420 aircraft launched a surprise offensive on the U.S. military stationed at the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Within an hour and 15 minutes, 2,403 U.S. military personnel were killed in the attack and another 1,178 were wounded. Six U.S. ships were sunk or destroyed, plus another 16 damaged. There were 169 U.S. Navy and Army Air Corps planes that were obliterated and another 159 damaged.
The death toll of the 9/11 attacks is 2,974 people – the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in U.S. history. Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, 7,052 U.S. military members and 8,189 U.S. contractors were "killed directly in the violence of the U.S. post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere," according to a study by Brown University’s Costs of War project and the Center for International Policy. The Pentagon has spent $14 trillion since 9/11. The World Trade Center Health Program – a federal health program administered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that provides medical monitoring and treatment of World Trade Center-related health conditions for 9/11 responders and survivors – found that 25% of 9/11 first responders ages 55-64 have at least one kind of cancer and 33% of the same age bracket of 9/11 first responders suffer from aerodigestive illness (conditions or diseases that affect the airways and upper digestive tract).
White House press secretary Jen Psaki went into damage control when asked about the vice president's controversial comparison.
"If we look back to some very difficult moments of our history, back in 1861, there were no Confederate flags being waved in the Capitol," Psaki said during Thursday's press conference. "In very dark moments in our history, there were not people storming our nation's Capitol trying to take over the office and even threaten the speaker of the House."
Psaki then advised that anyone criticizing Kamala Harris for making comparisons to major historical events stop making comparisons to major historical events, despite attempting to defend the vice president for doing just that.
"Instead of focusing on or analyzing comparisons of moments in history, I would suggest they be a part of solving the threats of democracy that occurs today," Psaki said.
Psaki makes excuses for Kamala Harris comparing January 6th to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.pic.twitter.com/Lh5RZyWEXK— MRCTV (@MRCTV) 1641496105
George W. Bush compares 9/11 terrorists to 'violent extremists at home' in commemorative speech
Former President George W. Bush on Saturday seemingly compared "violent extremists at home" to the Al Qaeda terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The comparison was widely reported as a thinly veiled allusion to those Americans who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
What did Bush say?
While commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, which happened during his first presidential term, Bush warned of "growing evidence" that terrorism threats do not only come from abroad.
"We have seen growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not only across borders, but from violence that gathers within," Bush said. "There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home."
"But in their disdain for pluralism, in their disregard for human life, in their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit. And it is our continuing duty to confront them," he continued.
The Washington Post reported that Bush, [w]ithout naming it, Bush seemed to condemn the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol." CNN agreed, publishing a story with the headline, "Bush alludes to US Capitol rioters when condemning violent extremists behind 9/11 attacks."
Bush delivered his speech at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Forty-four Americans — 37 passengers and seven crew members — were aboard that United Airlines Flight 93 when it was hijacked by terrorists. Those passengers and crew members bravely thwarted the terrorists' plan to fly that plane into the U.S. Capitol building or White House. After storming the flight deck, United 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
What did Bush say about the Capitol Riot?
Bush vocally condemned the events of Jan. 6, releasing a statement that called the riots "sickening and heartbreaking."
"This is how election results are disputed in a banana republic — not our democratic republic," Bush said.
"I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and by the lack of respect shown today for our institutions, our traditions, and our law enforcement," Bush continued. "The violent assault on the Capitol — and disruption of a Constitutionally-mandated meeting of Congress — was undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes. Insurrection could do grave damage to our Nation and reputation."
"In the United States of America, it is the fundamental responsibility of every patriotic citizen to support the rule of law," Bush added. "To those who are disappointed in the results of the election: Our country is more important than the politics of the moment. Let the officials elected by the people fulfill their duties and represent our voices in peace and safety."
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