Besides tacitly approving the prosecution of CIA interrogation operatives in the face of direct evidence that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques saved American lives, and the subsequent CIA director Leon Panetta’s profanity-laced tirade aimed at the White House, we now learn that Obama is planning on hijacking the meaning of 9/11. I guess the apology tour was not enough. After all, wasn’t 9/11 our fault? If you listen to our President, it sure seems like it. From Sweetness & Light (emphasis mine):

Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy. Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at our airports. We must reexamine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks. And we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction.

We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

Directly from the White House blog comes Green the Block. I spare my readers the nausea of listening to Van Jones. Just jump to around 6:30 in the video to hear for yourself. The blog post reads (emphasis mine):

“From policy creation to community implementation, the Green the Block campaign wants to see access and opportunity created for all Americans, to build prosperity and a healthier planet for future generations,” said Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. of the Hip Hop Caucus. “The first milestone for Green the Block will be on our National Day of Service, September 11, 2009, where we will organize Green the Block service events around the country in coordination with the President’s initiative, United We Serve.”

More background from The American Spectator:

The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry.

This effort to reshape the American psyche has nothing to do with healing the nation and everything to do with easing the nation along in the ongoing radical transformation of America that President Obama promised during last year’s election campaign. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.

The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus, and Liv Havstad, the group’s senior vice president of strategic partnerships and programs.

Yearwood, who uses the honorific “Reverend” before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested. After Democrats took back Congress, the rowdy activist was handcuffed outside a congressional hearing in September 2007 when Gen. David Petraeus was to testify. Yearwood told the “Democracy Now” radio program that he wanted to attend the hearing to hear Petraeus give his report. “I knew that when officers lie, soldiers die,” he said.

On the Aug. 11 call, Yearwood and other leaders kept saying repeatedly that they wanted 9/11 to be used for something “positive,” “forward-leaning,” and “productive,” said a source with knowledge of the teleconference.

The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.

“They think it needs to be taken back from the right,” said the source. “They’re taking that day and they’re breaking it because it gives Republicans an advantage. To them, that day is a fearful day.”

A coalition including the unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change and about 60 far-left, environmentalist, labor, and corporate shakedown groups participated in the call. Groups on the call included: ACORN, AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Community Action Partnership, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, Friends of the Earth, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Mobilize.org, National Black Police Association, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, National Council of Negro Women, National Wildlife Federation, RainbowPUSH Coalition, Urban League, and Young Democrats of America.

Color of Change is the extremist racial grievance group that isn’t happy that TV’s Glenn Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, the self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist” who became the president’s green jobs czar after jumping on the environmentalist bandwagon. The White House may be behind a push to destroy Beck by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show. Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. The group has acknowledged that it dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.

With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media — which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation’s first black president — to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.

“The organizing term is to ‘go dark.’ You don’t tell the press, don’t tell people you think will tell the press,” said the source.

Of course, the annual commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks belongs to the entire nation, but President Obama and the activist left don’t see it that way. They view the nationwide remembrance of the murder of 3,000 Americans by Islamic totalitarians as an obstacle to winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.

“When you criticize them, they are prepared to say, ‘Did you want 9/11 to be another day of selling mattresses, like Presidents Day?” the source said. “They are truly trying to change the American mindset.”

They view Sept. 11 as a “Republican” day because it focuses the public on supposedly “Republican” issues like patriotism, national security, and terrorism. According to liberals, 9/11 was long ago hijacked by Republicans and their enablers and unfairly used to bludgeon helpless Democrats at election time.

MSNBC’s foremost left-wing bloviator, Keith Olbermann, summed up this ugly perspective the week after the Republican Party convention last year:

But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. “9/11 TM” has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without — literally — any visible means of support. “9/11 TM” has made possible the greatest sleight-of-hand in our nation’s history.

On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration’s plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operations.”

It is a shame only 14 Republican’s voted against this bill. Don’t forget to read Senator Jim DeMint’s principled summation on the Senate floor addressing the trouble with government-backed volunteerism in the previous link.

This bill is disgraceful and I find it a hard pill to swallow that a number of Republican’s voted for it, knowing the impact it would have on that hallowed day. I have to believe they were either unaware of the consequences or felt the day would never lose its meaning for most American’s. This is still a liberal initiated project and, as the above analysis indicates, they know full well what they are doing. However, I will never forget and neither should you.

Remember 9/11. WARNING: Graphic Content of 9/11 attack. Includes images of jumpers.

Remember what our enemy is capable of. WARNING: Graphic Images of Beslan School Attack

Remember. WARNING: Graphic Content and very disturbing images of the beheading of Eugene Armstong.

In case you forgot Obama, let me remind you – there is a War on Terror, terrorists are bad, we need the CIA to protect us because you sure the hell aren’t, and 9/11 is a day of mourning, remembrance, and resolve. No matter how much you wish it were not so, there is nothing you can do about it. In this, you have no power – you can’t wish away reality. Got the picture yet? If not, keep on trucking down the road your on, because I love watching those poll numbers drop. What was that you said about empathy for terrorists again? Sorry, but I have no intention of showing empathy with the likes of the monsters that visited this horror upon us. If you wish to parade your brand of impotence for all to see, be my guest. I said you would be another Jimmy Carter and you are. Make no mistake, we know you have the power to stop the re-branding of this day. I suggest you use that power. Now.

Send this on by using the ShareThis button below. Remember those who have fallen. Remember those who protect us. Remember our enemies are still out there. Remember that liberals put us all at risk with their policies of appeasement and ivory-tower navel gazing. Remember.

In other news and opinion:

Oof: 57% now oppose war in Afghanistan. This is directed to those 57%. Maybe you need to watch the videos above. But so what, it was only 3,000 or so people right? And don’t mind those soldiers who died protecting you. Nothing to see here, move along.

And wouldn’t it be great if Afghanistan turned into a terrorists haven again? Then they could take their time and casually plan and execute another attack; because Obama sure as hell is not going to stop them. He might blow kisses at them while pummeling our CIA into the ground, but that’s about all your gonna get from the Messiah. And wouldn’t it be great to be talking to your loved one on the phone as they bid you a tearful farewell with one final “I love you” escaping from their lips before their untimely death because you helped provide political cover for Obama to showcase his impotence for all to see? That is, if you’re loved one is lucky enough to have the time to make that call. Hell, I’d be so proud to be a part of this I would be telling the story for years.

57%? Really?

Peter King on Holder’s CIA investigation: “You wonder which side they’re on”

AmSpec: Why did Democrats choose 9/11 as the national day of service?

WTC 9/11 Memorial Beam Returns As Reminder of Those Americans Who Started Torturing Terrorists That Fateful Day

Sick: Gadhafi wants to pitch a tent in New Jersey

Morale at CIA Plummets as Panetta Makes a Bad Situation Worse

Emperor Misha I on the re-branding of 9/11. Language caution, but I don’t have to tell his readers that.

Marine who went nuclear on Democrat: “The swastika is on their own arm”

Environmentalists green-washing 9/11

The Beslan attack: 5 years later. Oh, I’m sorry, I must have forgot. The enemy of the West is the CIA, not the Jihadists. My bad.