GOD BLESS AMERICA

Tom & Marilyn Walls
Coram, Montana

An open letter to a terrorist: (author unknown)

Associated Press WIRE: 09/18/2001 3:37 pm ET

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THE former president held the woman tightly in his arms and let her
pound out all the tears and the rage on his shoulder.

Another woman approached and collapsed in a wailing heap on to his chest.
He clutched her to him, lowered his head, and whispered words of comfort in her ear.

A small boy stood beside him, looked up in awe, and the big man pulled him towards his stomach.
He patted his head, looked down with pity in his eyes and gave the lad a look which said he
represented all that mattered now.  The future.

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September 17th, 2001 - New York. The U. S. National Federation of Architects (USNFA) today unveiled an artist's rendering of a new concept for the New World Trade Center.

The design features a 240 floor central tower flanked by towers that range in height from 110 floors to 180 floors. This would more than triple the amount of floor space in the old World Trade Center that was plane-bombed on September 11th, 2001. The USNFA released very few details. USNFA spokesman, Birdie Fingerhut stated that the USNFA voted unanimously to release the artist' rendering at this time because they believe it will be motivational to the American People and to the world.

Copyright, 2001. Rooters International Press Service

"We have imagined ourselves invulnerable and have been consumed by the pursuit of ... health, wealth, material pleasures and sexuality," Robertson wrote in a three-page statement issued Thursday by his Christian Broadcasting Network.

"It (terrorism) is happening because God Almighty is lifting his protection from us," said Robertson.

Robertson is host of CBN's "the 700 Club," a religious television program viewed by 1 million Americans daily. He founded the Christian Coalition and unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.

In the statement, Robertson said he was filled with compassion for victims of Tuesday's attacks, and called for a religious revival in America. "We must come back to God as a people," Robertson wrote.

Robertson said Americans have insulted God by allowing abortion and "rampant Internet pornography." He also chided the U.S. Supreme Court for, among other things, limiting prayer in public schools.

"We have a court that has essentially stuck its finger in God's eye," Robertson wrote. "We have insulted God at the highest level of our government. Then, we say, 'Why does this happen?"'

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The Advocate

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force issued a statement Thursday responding to antigay remarks made earlier in the day by the Rev. Jerry Falwell on the Christian news show The 700 Club. When host Pat Robertson asked Falwell to comment on Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., Falwell went on a tirade, naming all the groups he deems responsible for setting the stage for such an event to happen: "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this...throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle...all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

NGLTF executive director Lorri L. Jean issued a statement that read, in part, "The terrible tragedy that has befallen our nation, and indeed the entire global community, is the sad byproduct of fanaticism. It has its roots in the same fanaticism that enables people like Jerry Falwell to preach hate against those who do not think, live, or love in the exact same way he does. The tragedies that have occurred this week did not occur because someone made God mad, as Mr. Falwell asserts. They occurred because of hate. It is time to move beyond a place of hate and to a place of healing. We hope that Mr. Falwell will apologize to the U.S. and world communities. Our hearts go out to the victims of this week's tragedies and their friends and family members."

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Commission warned Bush
But White House passed on recommendations by a bipartisan, Defense department-ordered commission on domestic terrorism.

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By Jake Tapper

Sept. 12, 2001 | WASHINGTON -- They went to great pains not to sound as though they were telling the president "We told you so."

But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year.

Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh.

31 January 2001

Executive Summary of U.S. Commission on National Security Report

A bipartisan commission set up to evaluate the current national security climate and propose changes needed to meet new threats has issued a report that calls for major changes in governmental structures and processes.

Included in the report released January 31 by the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century are a proposal for a new, cabinet-level National Homeland Security Agency that would combine the Federal Emergency Management Agency with several other agencies, and a prescription for recasting a "crippled" State Department and the Department of Defense.

The 14-member commission, headed by former Senators Gary Hart (Democrat, Colorado) and Warren Rudman (Republican, New Hampshire), includes other former legislators, Executive Branch officials, military leaders and representatives from business, academia and the news media.

Following is the text of the executive summary of the 140-odd page report: The complete report can be accessed at www.nssg.gov.