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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty not safety."

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN
(Historical Review of
Pennsylvania 1759)

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     Osama bin Laden        Mystery Terrorist

to a visiting reporter. From War on Terror, Newsweek, November 26, 2001

"This place may be bombed, and we will be killed. We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the big difference between us."

 

"I expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory."
Another al-Qaeda terrorist? Close.
Paul Hill, former minister convicted of killiing an abortion doctor and his escort, on the eve of his execution
From Verbatim, Time September 15, 2003

     
     
     Mohamed Atta        Benjamin Netanyahu

Letter allegedly penned by him, found in his belongings after the terrorist attack.
From Time, October 8, 2001

"Everybody hates death, fears death. But only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death."

 

in his September 20,2001 remarks in the United States Congress

"...Israel (is) the Middle East's only democracy and its purest manifestation of Western progress and freedom... ."
"Thus, the soldiers of militant Islam do not hate the West because of Israel. they hate Israel because of the West..."

     
     
     Ayn Rand        Leonard Peikoff

"When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements."

 

"There are only two fundamental methods by which men can deal with one another: by reason or by force, by intellectual persuasion or by physical coercion, by directing to an opponent’s brain an argument—or a bullet."

     
     
     Graffiti        Florida Tourist
"Dear God, please save us from the people who believe in you."
A prayer scrawled on a wall in Washington DC soon after 9-11, As noted by Maureen Dowd in a column in the New York Times.
 

 from Perspectives in Newsweek, Jan 14, 2002

God as inspiration or terror: " `We were out by the pool. We were ready to take cover.' A tourist in Palm Beach County, Fla., who called police after a skywriter wrote GOD IS GREAT overhead. The pilot meant the message to be  inspirational, but it caused widespread panic because residents thought it was a terrorist threat."

     
     
    Ayatullah Ali Khamenei       Shirly MacLaine

Iran's supreme religious leader. on his country's refusal to support the U.S., from Time, October 8, 2001

"No, we are not with you, and we are not terrorists."

 

outlining her antiterrorism policy on her Web site
From Perspectives, Newsweek October 8, 2001

"Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love."

     
     
     Michael Harrison        Ayn Rand

Editor & Publisher of TALKERS® Magazine, from Let's call this war what it really is, TALKERS® Magazine 11/01

After proposing why the events after 9-11 should not be called such things as:

  • War on Terrorism
  • America's New War
  • America Strikes Back
  • America's Mission
  • Operation Infinite Justice
  • Operation Enduring Freedom

he states: ”Excuse me, does anyone in the media or government have the guts to call this ugly thing what it really is? Well, here goes: World War III. Like it or not,that's what history will someday call it."

 
"...Attila and the Witch Doctor form an alliance and divide their respective domains. Attila rules the realm of men's physical existence—the Witch Doctor rules the realm of men's consciousness. Attila herds men into armies—the Witch Doctor sets the armies' goals. Attila conquers empires—the Witch Doctor writes their laws. Attila loots and plunders—the Witch Doctor exhorts the victims to surpass their selfish concern with material property. Attila slaughters—the Witch Doctor proclaims to the survivors that scourges are a retribution for their sins. Attila rules by means of fear, by keeping men under a constant threat of destruction—the Witch Doctor rules by means of guilt, by keeping men convinced of their innate depravity, impotence and insignificance. Attila turns men's life on earth into a living hell—the Witch Doctor tells them that it could not be otherwise."
     
     
     Franklin D. Roosevelt        Silvio Berlusconi

From Time, August 8, 2005, A War by Any Other Name

”...the challenge is to come up with a name that is more accurate than War on Terror but that doesn’t sound like a graduate-level seminar. During WW II, F.D.R. asked citizens for help and was inundated with suggestions - from the “Liberty War” to “Rat Killing.” Finally, he accepted that the conflict was, undeniably, another world war. Someday we may have to do the same.”

 

the Italian Prime Minister , on his hopes that the West will 'conquer' Islamic civilization. Other world leaders condemned the remarks.
From Newsweek, October 8, 2001

"We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in  contrast with  Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights..."

     
     
     Barbara Petzing        Ayn Rand

Providence Journal, May 10, 2002

"Bob Woodward's assurance that President Bush is religious and resolute does not relieve any of my concerns about his character or intelligence. After all, so is Osama bin Laden."

 

"One does not and cannot “negotiate” with brutality, nor give it the benefit of the doubt. The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong—and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate."

     
     
     Roy Moore        Kuti Ben-Yaakiv

Alabama Chief Justice, on refusing a federal court order to remove the 5,289-pound  monument of the Ten Commandments he installed in the state Supreme Court lobby.
From Perspectives, Newsweek December 29, 2003

"To do my duty, I must obey God."

 

on getting rabbinical approval to train pigs to guard Jewish settlements in the West Bank
From Perspectives, Newsweek November 10, 2003

"According to the Muslim faith, a terrorist who touches a pig is not eligible for the 70 virgins in heaven,"

     
     
     Mahmoud Ahmadinejad    

President of Iran, at a student rally in Tehran. Two days later, after prompting international outrage, he said he stood by his remarks.
From Notebook, Time November 7, 2005

”Israel must be wiped off the map.”

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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