So many of our days cross over meaningful moments of history. Some well-known and debated, some lost in the distant mists of time. This past week 3 consecutive dates marked 3 different events on September 10th, 11th and 12th that caused America to change forever.

 

9/10

Charlie Kirk. This past Thursday was the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a troubled left wing hate monger. His assassination is the culmination of the violent, intolerant and criminal left-wing culture that has been growing like a malignant cancer over the last couple of decades. The rise of professional organized, coordinated and well-funded left-wing groups that travel nationally to riot and create mayhem began around 2012. It was a response to the success of the Tea Party movement which arose to restore and defend the Constitution and the rule of law. Occupy Wall street was a counter to us and also served as a dress rehearsal to check out the level of backlash to their lawlessness and to get a feel for how the lawlessness would be covered and if the Democrat controlled cities would provide cover for their actions. The lack of outcry in the media and the suspension of law enforcement provided by Democrat controlled cities signaled to the left that they could be as lawless as they wanted without fear. The Occupy Wall Street success ushered in Antifa and BLM as major domestic threats. The looting, rioting and intimidation escalated to killing innocent people. In 2020, 66 people were murdered or died as a result of the rioting during that summer of love of “mostly peaceful protests”.  The random murders escalated to assassination of targeted leaders. Now the left openly celebrates the killing of innocent people with whom they disagree. From insurance executives, to Republican Congressman practicing for a charity softball game, to multiple assassination attempts against President Trump, they continue to grow that mob mentality for power and control. A year after Charlie Kirk’s killing, the left openly on social media celebrates the killing of Charlie Kirk who is a young father and a man of good faith. From our great national leaders down to the local leaders and groups, the left has become very comfortable in eliminating voices. I know from personal experience that these left-wing groups are organized and well-funded and have repeatedly attack and disrupt tea party events going back to 2012 and this practice continues to this day. Charlie Kirk assassination is a terrible tragedy. The left’s embrace of fascism, death and destruction is a clear and present danger to all Americans. Charlie Kirk’s murder and the many on the left who celebrates it, is a testimony that we may not ever bridge this divide between us and them until we bring justice to each and every one of these deranged and dangerous people in response to their lawlessness.

 

9/11

It was said that we must never forget. In 25 years since the act of terror, the one place that should have never forgotten now has voted in a radical Communist Muslim Mayor who celebrates that idea of an Islamic Intifada on a global scale. If New York can forget…The brutal killing of almost 3,000 innocent people was not done because the terrorists were all male, or that they were poor or because they lived in a certain region of the world. No. This evil act was perpetrated because of Islam. Islam provided the moral and spiritual purpose for this act. It is the Why they did what they did.  Islamic religious leaders had no Islamic basis to condemn this act, but long before the 1st plane flew into the tower and to this day, many Mullahs have praised this act as in accordance to the Koran in keeping with the history of Islamic conquest since Mohamed.  So now 25 years later, we are facing people who do not want to put in our history books that 9/11 was an act of Islamic terrorism. And during this campaign season, we have record numbers of Muslims and democrats who are not Muslim running for office who openly blame the US for 9/11. This can only happen if increasing numbers of Americans forget what actually happened, who was actually responsible and the reason for 9/11.

From the threat of being placed on some terrorist list, to being patted down and having our privacy accosted like a criminal to board a plane to being subjected to an increasingly intrusive surveillance state under the patriot act, we are a different people from the America that was 9/10/2001. The fears that mushroomed from the evil of Islamic terrorism that was on full display that fateful and tragic day, are very real and the safe guards, God knows, was a reasonable response at the time for the Islamic threat we faced. Even with the Patriotic Act’s sun set clauses, sun set clauses that always are approved because the threat has remained imminent and real, it remains a hard and serious thing to trade away our Constitutional protections forever for safety’s sake.  Ben Franklin once said, A society that would sacrifice their freedom for security, forfeits both and deserves neither.

 

9/12

The brutal murder of Ambassador Stevens and several other Americans in Benghazi who came to his aid despite stand down orders from Obama. Benghazi represents one of the most despicable crimes ever committed by a President and his cabinet in our 250-year history. It overflows Watergate in corruption. It blows away the blue dress. It even over shadows the Tea Pot Dome scandal. Benghazi. An evil from its corrupt beginning to its bloody end. Almost as great a scandal was the media’s full court press to suppress the details and the depth of the Benghazi crimes by Obama. It began with the illegal transfer of arms to Muslim terrorist groups fighting the Syrian dictator al Hasad. The arms were being transferred through Benghazi to these varied terrorist groups fighting against al Hasad of Syria and also Qaddafi of Libya. And these actions violated not only American laws but international laws as well. Well, it was discovered that missiles used to shot down American aircraft in Afghanistan had serial numbers that would trace it back to these illegal operations.  So what is a corrupt administration to do. If our troops were killed by weapons provided illegal by Obama, even the corrupt press may not be able to white wash the truth. But Obama had in his pocket an obliging media to provide cover to do what he needed to be done. So Ambassador Stevens, who has been in the middle of these operations, was sent to retrieve the weapons. He knew all the incriminating secrets. So Obama ignored his pleads for security and then ordered him to Benghazi to be brutally murdered by Muslim terrorists in an organized and funded operation sanctioned and provided cover for, by Obama and Clinton. It took 13 hours for this to play out more than enough to mount rescue operations and intervene. So the stand down orders to our military forces looks very suspicious and indefensible. The media provided cover when the ridiculous cover story of Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous uprising due to a YouTube video. When this was brought up in the debate between Obama and Romney, the “moderator” stepped in to affirm the deceptive White House version. In the ensuring months, the Obama armed terrorist groups would form ISIS. Obama even ordered released their most dangerous leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi from custody in Iraq. He would become a powerful successful general that would lead to the torture and death of thousands of people across the Middle East. Great Evil. In so many ways, this was the time when America deliberately crossed over from being a flawed force for good to a deliberate force for evil.  It’s this evil something that this nation remains purging even now 2 decades later.

 

So on September 10th, we have the culmination of the left’s assassination culture with the killing of Charlie Kirk.

On September 11th, we have the horrors of the Islamic attack on our financial heart in New York, our military center at the Pentagon and the last plane was to go to the Capital to destroy our government center which was prevented by a brave group of heroes that took down that plane in the fields of Pennsylvania.

On September 12th, Obama allowed the murder of our Ambassador, engaged in delivering arms to Muslim terrorist. This event set in motion an America that armed and supported the creation of ISIS and all the tragic horrors, deaths and loss that followed.

All of these events were terrible and scarred our nation. If we can take solace in any of these tragedies, it would be that notion that whatever does not kill us, makes us all stronger still and in many ways, we have survived these terrible things and have emerged much better and stronger after all is said and done.

 

With Thoughtful Offerings,

Nelson Velez
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