A Republican congresswoman has really managed to stir the puddin'. North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx made a speech on the House floor, and in that speech she said that people have more to fear from Democrat healthcare legislation than from terrorists. She says that it is the greatest threat to our freedom. Foxx said that she believes "we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."

Well durned if I didn't say pretty much the same thing my own self just last week! Smart gal, that Foxx lady.

The MUSLIM terrorists targeted people. They killed 3000. We fought back. The loss of the 3000 people will be mourned forever by friends and families and will be remembered by Americans. America, however, recovered. This country will survive the ISLAMIC terrorist attacks.

It may not be so for Obama-PelosiCare. A government takeover of our health care system will do more than the Islamic terrorists to cause permanent damage to our Republic. The amounts of money we will have to borrow from China and Europe to fund this takeover will be a burden on generations of Americans to come. You can't say that about the Islamic terrorist attacks. The terrorists didn't rob tens of millions of Americans of their sense of independence. ObamaCare will. The Islamic terrorist attacks did not permanently reduce the quality of health care in the United States. ObamaCare will. The Islamic terrorist attacks did not destroy health care innovation in the United States. ObamaCare will.

Virginia Foxx is right. The Islamic terrorists can only dream of harming America the way the Democrats takeover of health care will.

A Connecticut man wants the words "Killed by Muslim terrorists on November September 11, 2001" on a plaque memorializing his son. The town of Kent says "no way." What is the problem with the truth here? Holocaust memorials make references to Germans. Memorials at Pearl Harbor make reference to the Japanese. The town just wants the memorial to say that his son "passed away." Muslim terrorists did this .. say it like it is.

We've been real fortunate here. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been getting the job done. Here are some quick links to several ISLAMIC terrorist plans to kill innocent Americans.

Plot to bomb an office building in Dallas. This MUSLIM goon actually tried to push the button.

Here we have men taking pictures on a Philly subway.

In Illinois we have a man who took the name of Talib Islam arrested in a plot to bomb federal offices.

Here we have two men targeting the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia.

So far, so good. The trouble is, the ISLAMIC terrorists only need to get lucky once, and many Americans will be dead.

OK .. so we caught a bunch of these MUSLIM maniacs before they managed to actually kill hundreds of Americans. But is that really a good thing? I'm really worried about something here. Just how did we get the information that led to these arrests? Did we take someone into custody who knew of the plans? If so, how did we get the information from them? Let's cut to the chase: Was anyone tortured to get this information? Was anyone deprived of sleep? My God! I sure hope not. You don't think they poured water on someone to make them think they are drowning, do you? It's all well and good that we can capture these MUSLIM murderers before they kill more Americans, but it's just not worth it if someone loses a little sleep or gets wet. We need to get our priorities straight here.

Today marks the 8th Anniversary of the attack on the United States by ISLAMIC terrorist goons. Now why do I capitalize the word ISLAMIC? Well, listen to the news coverage today. Sure, you'll hear plenty of mentions of the terrorist attack .. but somehow you don't hear the words "Muslim" or "Islamic." It's been 68 years since Pearl Harbor .. but to this day it is still referred to as the "Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor." Well guess what - as was the case with Muslims in 2001, not all Japanese were behind the attack on December 7, 1941. Still, it's the "Japanese attack." Well .. it was the Islamic attack on America eight years ago ... and we need to remember that. Islamic radicals are still dedicated to the idea of destroying our country or our culture .. this is threat we cannot ignore.

Now ... just to turn the clock back .... The following are my program notes as they appeared on the Internet on September 11, 2001. Obviously the notes about the ISLAMIC attack were added after the notes were first posted. I'm sure most of the links for the reading assignments no longer work ... but it's a look back at what was happening eight years ago today:

These are my thoughts from the Nuze on 9/11/01.

TERRORIST ATTACK!!!

Foreign enemies have finally brought warfare to American soil. Both of the World Trade Towers in New York City have been destroyed, as has World Trade Building No. 7. The Pentagon in Washington DC has been attacked. Another attack was attempted on Camp David. Four, possibly five commercial airliners have been hijacked -- their passengers and crews killed. It's an all-out terrorist attack on freedom, on liberty and on the United States and all of its citizens .. with 10,000 possibly dead.

Boortz returns to the air at 9:00 a.m.

By now I'm sure you know the story. America, liberty and freedom have been attacked. Both of the World Trade Towers have been destroyed. Thousands of lives have been lost. Some estimates put the dead in New York City at 10,000 souls. Direct attacks against the American government have been staged. There was an attack on Camp David which failed, an attack on the Pentagon which succeeded.

For now Americans are, or should be United. No matter who you voted for in 2001, George W. Bush is now YOUR president and he needs your prayers. The decisions that will be made in the coming hours, days and weeks are horrendous beyond your comprehension. U.S. Air Force fighter planes are now circling New York City and Washington DC. US Navy warships are on their way to New York and the National Guard has been called forth to help in rescue attempts.

This is an attack on freedom, liberty and on all of America and all Americans. It's also an attack on tall civilized nations throughout the world. The questions are almost too numerous. Who did it, of course, and how does America retaliate? What actions can be taken to prevent similar attacks on other targets in New York and other cities?

I was in Texas when JFK was assassinated. Within hours people were attacking those they felt to be responsible -- people who weren't responsible at all. It's time for Americans to absorb as much information as possible, to pray, and to reflect. Then it will be time for us to support our leaders in the actions they take to address these attacks, and to make sure they never happen again.

We'll see you on the air at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Updates anytime.

The WSB newsroom in action:

Scott Slade is delivering constant updates on the terrorist attacks.

Forefront to rear, News Director Chris Camp directs the staff while Veronica Waters and Mike Kavanaugh (R.I.P) prepare the latest reports.

Random talking points on the terrorist attacks ...

We will need a unified response. An international response. There are civilized nations - and there are nations that are not civilized, nations that have no place in the international community. These nations need to be isolated - and, if they continue to present a threat, removed.

Its time for America to show strength. Part of true strength is a thoughtful but forceful response to this terrorist action. The response should be defined and strong -- forceful enough to make any other potential terrorists, or those who would harbor them, think very strongly about the consequences of their actions. Two simple steps. First, get it right. Second, respond.

Any nation who supported, protected or harbored the people who are responsible for the attacks on America - those nations must be dealt with strongly.

This was a well-organized and initiated attack. It went flawlessly. Not one set of hijackers failed to reach their goal of seizing American airliners. It is not the act of any small, poorly funded terrorist group.

One of the principal protectors of terrorists - of Osama Bin Laden and his ilk - would be Afghanistan. If the Taliban is behind this. If Afghanistan is complicit. If Osama Ben Laden, protected by Afghanistan, is responsible --- then the government of Afghanistan must be dealt with..

Budgets for American intelligence services have been decimated over recent years, starting with Carter. One has to wonder, if those budgets had not been savaged, would this have happened?

Virtually all of the hijacked airplanes were coast to coast flights. Why? Because they had full loads of fuel, that's why. Flying bombs.

I have spoken many times of the pitiful level of competence of those people who man our airport security checks. Don't we now know for an absolute certainty that our system of screening passengers and their luggage is completely inadequate? When it comes to protecting me on a commercial flight, I don't want to depend on people who's only viable second career choice would be cooking French fries. We have seen a total and complete utter failure of the security system protecting our nation's airports.

Did you know that American Airlines was recently fined by the FAA? The reason? Poor passenger screening.

Manhattan is littered with women's shoes. Why? Women trying to flee the scene of the terrorist attacks were abandoning their high heels.

Barbara Olson was reported to be on the hijacked airliner which crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara Olson is the wife of Solicitor General Ted Olson. She's also the woman who wrote the book "Hell to Pay," a rather unflattering portrayal of Hillary Clinton.

Heard today on MSNBC ... Andrea Mitchell saying that "It would be a challenge for a less articulate president to rally the country." Now that quote isn't exact ... but the "less articulate president" was there. It is time for the nation's leftist media to abandon this "Bush is a dummy" campaign.

We've all see those videos of Palestinians dancing in the streets. Ugly? Yeah, it's ugly. But put it in perspective. Those are kids, teenagers. They have no real concept of what America is, who Americans are or what has happened here. For some of the older ones you saw on television --- if you were to put them on an airplane and fly them to New York to see the bodies, the burned, the injured ... they would be horrified. Horrified not only at what they saw, but at their very own demonstrations of glee. Those aren't the people we need to blame. In a sense they're victims too.

You have to ask ... would this tragedy have happened today if America had shown the resolve to rid the world of Saddam Hussein in 1991? Shows of weakness or timidity invite actions of this type. Bullies love to pick on big guys who won't fight back.

I wonder of the hideous cowards who launched this attack on innocent American civilians have any idea just what they have done and the almost certain consequences of their actions. Were they fooled by the apparent dissention in American political life? If so, that will turn out to have been a fatal error. Someone is soon to learn that you don't screw with Americans or America. We may argue among ourselves -- but we are perfectly capable of binding together to respond with dangerous resolve against terrorists who attack us on our own soil.

There were other items today on Nealz Nuze -- though they hardly seem important at the moment. Here they are if you want to have a look.

President Obama has finally decided to take the reins and steer this healthcare debate. Next Wednesday he is going to address a joint session of Congress. This will be the first address to a joint session of Congress since President Bush gathered the clowns together after the 9/11 ISLAMIC terrorist attacks.

Clearly, Democrats in Congress haven't done all that great of a PR job when it comes to selling their healthcare plan. The hope is that PrezBO still has enough star power left to muster some support. Is he going to advocate a government option? Probably not. At this point, too much is riding on the success or failure of healthcare reform - the remainder of Obama's presidency, for example -- and a government option seems absolutely doomed for failure. That's a good thing because the government option was merely a not-so-suave way of getting to single-payer, and single payer means absolute government control.

There's that word again! CONTROL! My guess is that whatever you hear from Mr. Government next week, control of your health care will be hidden in the details. This, after all, is the goal. At the end this is all an exercise aimed to making sure that Democrats never lose control of the congress again. To get that sort of a grip on power they need an inseparable grip on you. Controlling your access to and paying for your health care would do it. So ... onward.

As soon as Obama plays his cards we'll get back into the game.

By the way ... did I mention that the 9/11 attackers were MUSLIMS?

Is there a connection? Why yes! There is!

Just yesterday we learned that Obama's Attorney General, the ethically-challenged Eric Holder, is appointing a special prosecutor to go after the CIA agents who saved American lives by using somewhat harsh interrogation techniques against Muslim terrorist detainees. Never mind that both Obama and Holder had made earlier promises that they would not pursue a vendetta against these operatives. That was then, and this is now ... and now the uber-left is demanding some sort of legal action against the Bush Administration for what they view as the horrors of the Bush years. After all, "we won," so why can't we prosecute the losers? The political bloodlust of the left must be assuaged!

In the midst of all of this I want to remind you of something. During the election last November a group of Black Panther goons stood outside of a polling place in downtown Philly. They were wearing paramilitary costumes and were carrying nightsticks. As white voters would approach this polling place these thugs would yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

Well .. this happened to be against the law. One former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the liberal Village Voice called the episode "one of the most blatant forms of voter intimidation I've ever seen." So here comes the Justice Department. The BUSH Justice Department. At the beginning of January a civil lawsuit was filed against the New Black Panther Party and three of its goons for violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. None of the defendants would even file a response to the lawsuit. Perhaps they knew that they had nothing to worry about.

And so it came to be!

Just what do you think happened to this action against the Black Panthers? Why, it was dismissed! Eric Holder allowed these goons to walk. Lawsuit dismissed. One defendant was told that he could never carry a weapon within 100 feet of a polling place again .. the other three walked away.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is Obama's Attorney General. He will permit Black Panther thugs to intimidate white U.S. Voters, but if you work for the CIA, and if you're charged with the responsibility of discovering information on future terrorist attacks against our people - if your job is to save American lives instead of intimidate white voters - you had better lawyer up. Eric Holder is coming after you with guns blazing.

Elections have consequences. Black Panthers walk. CIA operatives get put under investigation.

Another goodie from the White House. Let's see how you feel about this one.

Barack Obama has decided that the task of interrogating terrorists and terrorist suspects should be left up to the White House, rather than the CIA. Obama has created an "elite team" of interrogators that will question suspects in accordance with the Army Field Manual. The name of the unit will be the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. The unit will be overseen by the National Security Council, which gives the White House direct oversight. The rules are that all interrogation of terrorist suspects must be interrogated in compliance with the terms of the Army Field Manuel. Does that tell you enough? Well ... here's more. This means that if you catch some Muslim goon who you absolutely know is involved in a plot to kill a few thousand innocent Americans; and if you are dead-on certain that this individual has information on the details of this plot, but he refuses to talk ---- we cannot deprive him of any sleep or play loud music to encourage him. Loud music and sleep deprivation are, I suppose, defined by Team Obama as "torture."

Is anyone keeping a scorecard here? First we learn that the White House is going to seize control of the 2010 Census. We know that this is so the census can be politicized and the numbers of people prone to vote Democrat can be inflated. Now we learn that the Obama White House is going to have its own Presidential Unit for Safe Suspect Interrogation.

Interesting acronym there.

It turns out that it is true .. the Obama administration has been reading Miranda rights to detainees that are captured and held abroad.  But apparently this isn't new, according to ABC's Jake Tapper.  The Bush administration did so as well "to preserve evidence for a potential prosecution."

 

Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller says, "While there have been specific cases in which FBI agents have Mirandized suspects overseas, at both Bagram and in other situations, in order to preserve the quality of evidence obtained, there has been no overall policy change with respect to detainees."

 

I disagree with the policy, whether Bush's or Obama's.  If the world is so sure that these Islamic goons have Geneva rights, let's give them those rights.  Under the Geneva Convention enemy combatants dressed in civilian clothes can be summarily executed.  No Miranda rights necessary.  "You have the right to stand up against this wall.  We have the right to put a slug in you.  Stand by for your rights."

One out of every seven detainees that are freed from Guantanamo Bay ends up returning to terrorism. This according to the Pentagon. But Barack Obama wants to close up shop in Guantanamo Bay. Our government can't figure out what to do with the remaining prisoners. Doesn't all this make you feel so warm and fuzzy?

Change you can believe in? Housing terrorists in the US instead of Gitmo. How's that work for you?

The headline from the Associated Press reads "5 Miami men convicted of Sears Tower attack plot". Read the story here ... then click back.

There ... did you notice anything. Though at the end of the story you'll see some references to al Qaeda .. nowhere in the story are these men identified as Muslims; and yes .. they were all Muslims. Another story identified them as "members of an apparent militaristic religious sect", but not Muslims.

Radical Muslims can rant all week long about their intentions to kill as many Americans as possible and to bring destruction to our shores, but for heaven's sake we simply cannot identify these people for what and who they are. That would just be oh so insensitive and offensive, wouldn't it?

One of the first acts of Obama's administration was to begin the process of shutting down Guantanamo Bay. No one had actually thought about what to do with the prisoners - where to put them, how to try them - but the order to shut down Gitmo nonetheless. Now lawmakers have unveiled a bill to pay for military and diplomatic efforts. It costs well over $90 billion. One of Obama's requests that was not included in the bill was $50 million to relocate prisoners from Gitmo. Democrats in the House decided that they just weren't going to include it. They have no idea what to do with the prisoners, so the plan will go unfunded until further notice.

Don't worry though ... the money could be transferred at a later time, and without a vote that promises to be politically challenging.

I have two great suggestions for relocating the prisoners. Haiti or Berkeley. You choose.

One of Barack Obama's first acts as president was to close down Guantanamo Bay within one year. Now just two weeks later, we get this from Obama: he is worried that the detainees freed from Gitmo are going to return to a life of terrorism and attack the United States.

Oh, so now you tell us! What was your first clue, Mr. President? Funny how the responsibilities of the actual office will override campaign rhetoric, isn't it?

And yet Obama says that he closed the prison because it was a matter of upholding US values and law.

Last week, Barack Obama signed an executive order to shut down Guantanamo Bay within one year. One can only hope that he did this, not to pander to his moonbat base, but with a real plan of how to handle the current detainees. As he signed the executive order, we got word of a former Gitmo detainee who returned to al Qaeda in Yemen. Now we get word of two more terrorists released from Gitmo who have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website. The Defense Department says that as many as 61 former Gitmo detainees have returned to their life as terrorists after being released.

Perhaps the strongest message to come from Obama's speech was his remarks about the peace-loving religion of Islam. Obama said:

"We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you....

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West--know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."

Good stuff ... especially that "we will defeat you" line. Now, how do we do that by pulling our troops out of Iraq before victory is assured? Just wondering.

Unless you spent the weekend in a six-pack or you don't watch anything except Entertainment Tonight or Sabado Gigante, Muslim terrorists were at it again last week.  The Muslims went to Mumbai (f/k/a Bombay) India and managed to murder perhaps as many as 300 people.  Eyewitnesses say the Muslims were specifically targeting American, British and Jewish travelers (i.e. whites) in those luxury hotels.  Typically, the media simply referred to the killers as "terrorists" throughout the siege.  Sorry, but "terrorist" is only half a word.  Until experience and reality teaches us differently, the first half of that word is either "Islamic" or "Muslim."

Apparently there were ten Muslims involved in this attack.  One has been captured.  His name is Azam Amir Kasab.  He's 21-years-old.  He's from Pakistan.  Who knows how many he killed - but when he was captured he started pleading for his own life.  He says that these attacks had been planned for months.  All of the men involved were trained in marine warfare.  Their main objective was to "target whites, preferably Americans and British."  Spare the Muslims.  There are accounts of hostages who had to prove to the terrorists that they were Muslim by reciting passages from the Koran or dropping their pants to see whether or not they were circumcised. 

This is our reminder that Islamic radicals are still out there, still capable of mounting sophisticated attacks, and still desirous of killing as many Americans as they possibly can. 

I do have a question though.  I thought that once Barack Obama was elected the world would love us again?  What went wrong?  Do we have to wait until he's sworn in?  Well, we'll see how that works out. 

By the way .. I did some Internet searching.  I found a few stories about prayer vigils for the Mumbai victims of Islamic terrorists --- but none held at Mosques.  Not surprised, frankly. 

Another change that we can absolutely expect from an Obama administration is how to handle Guantanamo Bay. Well, Obama apparently knows how to handle it - close down the sucker. But then the question is ... what do you do with the lowlifes that are there?

Under an Obama plan, hundreds of imprisoned terrorism suspects could face criminal trials in the US. Others would be released. And some of the cases which carry highly classified information may end up going to a new court, designed by Obama advisors, which would be equipped to handle sensitive national security cases. You heard it, a new court system.

Here we see Obama running into some realities that he couldn't admit to during the campaign. If you bring these Islamic goons into this country they are immediately vested with full Constitutional rights. This means that if you put them on trial for their barbarism they get full rights of discovery .. the right to look into the government case, investigate and cross-examine the witnesses against them, file discovery motions and the rest of it. Our security operations will be greatly jeopardized and hampered by this nonsense ... but Obama has an irresponsible campaign pledge to fulfill. Let's see if he suddenly gets smart on this one.