Dishonoring 9/11

America just observed the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. That solemn day is supposed to be a time for us to remember those who died at the World Trade Center Towers, at the Pentagon, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and those who died fighting our radical Islamist enemies overseas in the years since 9/11.

Radical Islam still threatens America today. Jihadists are crossing our wide-open southern border. Radical imams are still preaching hate in many mosques.  Iranian terrorists have sent assassins to kill former Trump officials. 

But, as I noted yesterday, on this year’s anniversary of 9/11, the Biden Administration ignored radical Islam and used the day to demonize American conservatives. 

Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of Homeland Security, told MSNBC, “The threat landscape has evolved considerably over the last 20 years.” The real threat today, he suggested, is from individuals here in the United States who are radicalized by anti-government sentiment.

This is what virtually every Biden Administration spokesman said on the anniversary of 9/11, on the day that is supposed to focus our minds on the ongoing threat from radical Islam. They turned it into a day to demonize normal conservatism. 

At the same time, multiple government agencies are using the enormous surveillance powers we gave them in the aftermath of 9/11 not to fight radical Islam, but to instead intimidate their domestic political opponents and to meddle in our elections.

We saw it in the FBI’s surveillance of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. We saw it in the FBI’s coverup of Hunter Biden’s laptop. And the political interference and intimidation is accelerating. 

According to the New York Times, dozens of former Trump associates and advisers, perhaps as many as 40 individuals, have been subpoenaed or had their homes raided in recent days. 

Then there’s the story of Lisa Gallagher. The day after Biden’s horrible speech at Independence Hall (see next item), three armed FBI agents were knocking on her door. Why? They allegedly received an anonymous tip that Gallagher was on Capitol Hill on January 6th. She wasn’t there, and the FBI more than likely knew that.

This is Soviet-style intimidation!

No matter what we think about fraud in the 2020 election or any other issue, we are entitled to express our own opinions. That’s protected by the First Amendment. Opinions may be wrong, but that’s why we have free speech -- so we can debate the issues.

If we’re going to start criminalizing “wrong” statements, progressives are in big trouble. 

They told us Trump colluded with Russia. 

They’re telling us men can get pregnant. 

They’re telling us the border is secure. 

All lies!

Once again, we see how the intolerant left is trying to make debate in America impossible.