Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Voice of the Dead


While US ambassador Chris Stevens, two former Navy SEALs, and another American were consumed in the conflagration of the US consulate in Benghazi on our day of infamy, America did nothing. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta conferred from the start of the seven-hour attack, but a contingency of jet fighters and Specter AC-130 gunships based nearby were not committed. Retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen commenting on the paresis: "They stood and they watched and our people died.”

This is reminiscent of another day of long ago, but when the voice of the dead was not secreted away:

Commandancy of BexarFebruary 23rd, 3 o'clock PM, 1836
To Andrew Ponton, Judge and Citizens of Gonzales: 
The enemy in large force is in sight.  We want men and provisions.  Send them to us. We have 150 men & are determined to defend the Alamo to the last. Give us assistance. 
W. B. Travis
Col. Commanding
P.S. Send an express to San Felipe with news night and day. - Travis 

Commandacy of the Alamo, BexarFebruary 24, 1836
To the People of Texas and All Americans in the world
Fellow Citizens and Compatriots 
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country. Victory or Death. 
William Barret TravisLt. Col. Comdt.
P.S. The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves. -Travis

On March 3, 1836 in his final communiqué Travis writes: "... if my countrymen do not rally to my relief, I am determined to perish in the defense of this place, and my bones shall reproach my country for her neglect.... All the citizens of this place that have not joined us are with the enemy fighting against us. Let the government declare them public enemies...."

To All Americans in the World


There was a day when General Sam Houston "ordered" that the Alamo Mission be set to the torch. Yet the remnant of the “First Company of Texas Volunteers” under an azure blue flag emblazoned with the words “God and Liberty” would not "STAND DOWN." In the days that followed 26-year-old Lt. Col. William Barret Travis with a nondescript contingency of 20 Army Regulars, cast his lot with those preferring to "die in these ditches than give up to the enemy."


Commandancy of the Alamo Bejar, Feby. 24, 1836
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World
... I am besieged, by a thousand.... The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword.... I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid.... If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country − Victory or Death.

William Barret TravisLt. Col. comdt.
P.S. The Lord is on our side....

On March 3, 1836 in his final communiqué, Travis writes "... if my countrymen do not rally to my relief, I am determined to perish in the defense of this place, and my bones shall reproach my country for her neglect.... All the citizens of this place that have not joined us are with the enemy fighting against us. Let the government declare them public enemies...."

On September 11, 2012 retired U.S. Navy SEAL Senior Chief Petty Officer Tyrone Woods like Lt. Col Travis in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, came to the aid of his compatriots in the Benghazi mission. He would not "STAND DOWN." When his countrymen would not rally to his relief, he perished, his bones reproaching his country for her neglect.


The words and the acts of the righteous have a legacy. At dawn on the first of March, responding to Travis' plea, Lt. George C. Kimble with his "Immortal 32" fought their way into the beleaguered mission, never to leave. Unbeknown to the besieged defenders, that night in Washington-on-the-Brazos, delegates were frantically preparing the final draft of The Texas Declaration of Independence. The following day declared, "Here a Nation was born." Four days later at dawn, the Alamo's defenders ratified it with their blood.


Within four fortnights, the Texan militia came to the aid of their "fallen" brethren charging Santa Anna's far superior forces, to the rallying cry "Remember the Alamo!" The slaughter that hardly lasted twenty minutes was "frightful to behold", an overwhelming defeat for the merciless Santa Anna who was later found cowering among the multitude of prisoners. That evening peace had come to the commonwealth of Texas.


What is the legacy of Benghazi? As coming days threaten the "Death" of America, will we "STAND DOWN" or shout a rallying cry? Taking no prisoners of those who make "lies" their refuge, and by their "silence" make a prisoner of Truth? There is but one choice that honor demands, Truth! 
" − Victory or Death."

Monday, October 22, 2012

The Ultimate Physical Presence

As Mitt was recreating the art form of presidential debate, the media's "Incarnation" into whom they had breathed and would continue to breathe "the breath of life" even as the debate progressed was standing in the background. Then for one brief moment there was a pause in video enhancement. It was as if some homeless man had wondered onto the set... Then I realized this was the resident of the most prodigious house in America.

One day the world will see a "man" with the ultimate physical presence “the man of sin," “the son of perdition,” “the lawless one,” sin his predominating quality 2 Thessalonians (cf., 2:3-8). Without regard for the law of God “[H]e shall think to change the times and the law …” (Daniel 7:25), he will deceive those who love not the truth.

Although Obama's greatest desire is to be this man, even Mitt has make it obvious that the persona of his opponent is but ludicrous impersonation of the ultimate physical presence of "the one yet to come."

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Benghazi


Benghazigate

Frank Gaffney in an October 22, 2012 column "The real reason behind Benghazigate" explains the dynamics and logistics of the media-complicit cover-up now known as "Benghazigate":

The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have now taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the "opposition" in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, the leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group....
Once Qaddafi was overthrown, Chris Stevens was appointed as the ambassador to the new Libya run by Belhadj and his friends.... It now appears that Amb. Stevens was there [Benghazi] - on a particularly risky day.... for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime's stocks to the "opposition" in Syria.... known to include al Qaeda and other shariah-supremacist groups....
Obama literally raced to the cameras to take credit for killing al-Qaeda notable Osama bin Laden just hours after his body bobbed beneath the wake of the USS Carl Vinson. On a sequent campaign event, he reminded his admirers: "I promised to go after al Qaeda and bin Laden, and we did it," and during the final presidential debate he took credit for having "decimated" "Al Qaeda's core leadership."

Yet, evidence now suggests that the administration was concurrently coordinating a covert "fast and furious" "gun-running" operation aiding the very terrorist organization it claimed to have decimated by killing Osama bin Laden.


A “consulate” in Benghazi

Aaron Klein (WND senior staff reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief) in a 10/16, 2012 column chided America's journalistically challenged media regarding their persistent reference to U.S. "consulate" in Benghazi. He also notes that U.S. officials not only failed to correct the misconception, but subtly subordinated it. Klein further reminds us that the State Department website lists no consulate in Benghazi.

The U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, actually served as a meeting place to coordinate aid for the rebel-led insurgencies in the Middle East, according to Middle Eastern security officials. Among the tasks performed inside the building was collaborating with Arab countries on the recruitment of fighters – including jihadists – to target Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
The distinction may help explain why there was no major public security presence at what has been described as a “consulate.” Such a presence would draw attention to the shabby, nondescript building that was allegedly used for such sensitive purposes.
Since the mission was attacked last month, countless news media reports around the world have referred to the obscure post as a U.S. consulate. That theme continues to permeate the media, with articles daily referencing a “consulate” in Benghazi.

Islam-Sensitive Foreign Policy

Robert Spencer in a October 15, 2012 column in PJ Media explains in part the White House and State Department failure to acknowledged what was really happening that night in Benghazi i.e., four years of Islam-sensitive foreign policy and the lifeless sodomized body of Chris Stevens:

The Obama administration is approaching full meltdown over the steady stream of revelations concerning its inaction and lies over the massacre of Ambassador Chris Stevens and other U.S. personnel in Libya....
Speaking about the Libyan revolution in March 2011, Obama warmly praised the dawning in Libya of “the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and the ability of the Libyan people to determine their own destiny.” After providing military aid to the anti-Gaddafi rebels despite evidence of their al-Qaeda links, the administration–whether the call really came from the White House or the State Department or both–had every reason to ignore the request from Benghazi for more security, and to pretend that the whole thing was just a spontaneous uprising over a video, not the carefully planned September 11 jihad attack that it proved to be.
To have acknowledged what was really happening would have been to admit that the Allahu-akbaring mob besieging the Benghazi consulate was nothing remotely close to a responsible citizenry enjoying their rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and self-determination. It would have been to admit that the jihad against the United States would not be turned away from its goal by hearts-and-minds gestures, even if those gestures included the removal of a brutal dictator. The people of Benghazi were no more inclined to welcome the Americans as liberators–and Ambassador Stevens had attempted to play exactly that role, sneaking into Libya during the most difficult days of the uprising and doing everything he could to aid the rebels–than were the people of Iraq when Saddam Hussein was toppled....