It has been four days since the terrorist attack in San Bernardino
and finally the President has scheduled time to address the nation. His address
will be at 8PM EST tonight, Sunday, December 6, 2015. Out of pure frustration,
I have dreamed up the address that I would like to hear. Here is my dream …………..
My fellow Americans, this past Wednesday our nation was brutally
attacked by a couple of cowards that sought to gain glory by creating a sense
of fear that our freedoms are no longer our inalienable right. They used the
very freedoms they assailed to perpetrate their act of cowardness. I apologize
for not speaking to you sooner. I should have made this address on Wednesday
night.
Whereas many if not most Americans believed that this cowardly act
was in fact terrorism right from the start, I thought it best to make sure of
the facts first. I originally believed that it could just as easily have been
an act of workplace violence as it could have been terrorism. I did not want to
jump to conclusions and tar the reputation of the perpetrators when they very
well may have just been disgruntled people. I jumped to conclusions in the
past; as in the Cambridge Massachusetts case where I incorrectly stated that
the police had acted stupidly; and in the Trayvon Martin case where I stated
that if I had a son that he would look like Trayvon. I should not have prejudiced
those cases before the facts were known and I did not want to do that again.
I have contemplated my delay in this particular case and have
concluded that this was a case where my quick response was necessary and that I
failed in this regard. Fourteen Americans were killed and another twenty-one
were wounded. I should not have worried about the reputation of the
perpetrators. Even if they were just disgruntled people, they were cold blooded
murderers. To be honest, I was also afraid of tarnishing the Muslim faith but I will discuss that in a few minutes. The nation deserved to have a President similar to the French
President who took quick, decisive actions to assure the French people that its government was responding with every possible resource to determine the extent
of the ongoing threat and to mitigate that threat. Once I realized my failing
in this regard, I contemplated other things that I am going to change in order
to regain you confidence.
First I am not going to be passive aggressive towards the men and
women that protect us every day, the police of our great nation. I have been
silent for far too long on this and have allowed some in our society to criticize
and even demonize these protectors of law and order. I do believe that people
of color have suffered past injustices in our society but I also believe that
our society has taken extraordinary steps to address these injustices. Today,
a person of color has all the opportunities that our great nation makes available
to all its citizens. We as people of color need to take advantage of the opportunities
that have been made available to us. We must not point the finger of blame at
anyone else if we fail to do so. Black lives do matter but that is because all
lives matter; black, white, yellow, brown and blue. There are some bad
policemen and we must be vigilant to identify them and remove them from their
positions of authority. If necessary, we will bring them to justice. But we
must stop demonizing all policemen. At this time of crisis and increased
terrorism, we need our police. The very police that are now needed the most
have been demoralized because of my lack of support. I hope that this
statement reinforces to every man and women in blue that they have my full
support and backing and they have the full support and backing of all law
abiding Americans. At this time, we need you. We need you to be proactive
without worrying about being second guessed.
To people of color, I am not abandoning you. I realize that there
are still pockets of racism in our society. There always will be. We must deal
with it while recognizing the progress we have made and the opportunities we
have gained. With these opportunities, we must now achieve. The achievement of
one person of color will aspire ten more. We must pursue this path of individual
achievement that will grow into a community of achievement. That is how we will
eliminate the inequities that some now see. In the meantime, thank your local
police for keeping you safe.
Next, I have to address my obsession with the Muslim faith. I have
previously related my wonderful childhood memories of the beautiful call to
prayers that I experienced as a little boy in Indonesia. I have gone out of my
way to be the champion of the minority and that has included people of the
Muslim faith. I will continue to be such a champion, but I now realize that my
engineering of the English language is not helping. Many Americans refer to the
terrorist threat we are facing as radical Islamist terrorism. I have fought any
such identification as I feared that it would incorrectly portray all Muslims
as terrorists. Upon self-reflection, I realize that this is wrong. Every group
of our society has bad elements. We all realize that one bad Christian does not
equate to all Christians being bad people. Likewise we must realize that a
group of bad Muslims does not equate to all Muslims being bad people. The San
Bernardino female terrorist pledged her allegiance to the Islamic State. The Islamic State is using a perverted form
of the Islamic faith to recruit terrorists. If our enemy calls themselves
Muslims, we must also call them Muslims – radical Muslims. To this end,
from this point forward I will address the war we are now facing as a war
against radical Islamism. I will also direct my entire administration to do
the same. We must identify the enemy we are facing it we are to defeat it.
To people of the great Muslim faith. I am not abandoning you. I
wish to eradicate the horrific violence that people perpetrate while fraudulently invoking
the name of your great faith. Furthermore, I need you to stand with me and all
Americans and denounce the radical Islamists as fraudulent postulators of your
faith. All Americans must stand with the good people of the Muslim faith as
fellow American citizens. As this is a global war, we must also stand with the
good Muslims of Syria, Iraq, Libya and wherever else radical Islamists threaten
and harm our fellow citizens of the world.
Finally I now realize that my delay in addressing this festering
radical Islamist movement has, and will continue to cost American civilian
lives. It was my hope that engaging the radical Islamist world with an olive
branch rather than with a riffle would stop the radical Islamist attacks against
freedom. The attacks in just the past few weeks, Paris, Turkey, San
Bernardino, have proven me wrong. We are now under a full-out assault from
these radical Islamist terrorists and I must inform all Americans that these
attacks will become more frequent and more violent until we remove the scourge
from which this terrorism stems – radical Islamism.
The San Bernardino attack is the threat we will face in the
homeland. A lone wolf or a handful of lone wolves that live in despair and are
somehow touched by the call to radical Islamism. These individuals must seem
insignificant to themselves and they must believe that their affiliation with
radical Islamism gives them eternal meaning and rewards. I have allowed the
image of radical Islamism grow to the point that these lost individuals believe
they are teaming up with a cause and even a state that will eventually rule the
entire globe. They believe that their act of terrorism will contribute to this
end goal of world domination by radical Islamism. My delay in eradicating radical
Islamism from the world has allowed this aura of radical Islamism dominance to
rise and to persist for far too long. Along with the rise of the Islamic State
has been the rise of lone wolves around the world that are now ready to strike
us.
We must eradicate radial Islamism by destroying ISIS on the
battlefield, take their territory, eliminate their sources of funding, and kill
them. We must show the world that goodness will prevail over evil. This will
eventually stop the radicalization of lone wolves. However, in the short term,
the large number of lone wolves that already exist will lash back at us. We
will not only be fighting radical Islamism in Syria, we will be fighting them
here at home too.
To protect Americans, I am ordering a full out military campaign
to eradicate the Islamic State. I will be coordinating our military actions
with our Arab and NATO allies. I am declaring a state of emergency in the
homeland just as President Hollande did in France. This will allow law enforcement
to more thoroughly and quickly hunt down lone wolves. I am directing the joint
chiefs to develop plans for military raids into Libya, West Africa and all
other hot spots of radical Islamism. America will cause the radical Islamists
to run like rats and to be squashed like roaches. We will create a world where
there will be nothing aspirational about radical Islamism.
My fellow Americans, you too must participate in the war against
radical Islamism. If you see something say something. We cannot allow political
correctness to prevent us from using our common sense that can prevent terrorists’
attacks. Unfortunately, my poor example of over-done political correctness
resulted in citizens being afraid of saying something prior to the San
Bernardino attack because they were afraid of being stigmatized as anti-Muslim.
We are in the battle for our existence, forget about political
correctness.
Americans that are licensed and qualified to use firearms should
be prepared to use them. If you are at the scene of a terrorist attack, you can
respond immediately. The police will come, but never in time.
Together with our Arab and NATO allies, we will defeat radical
Islamism both in their homeland and here in our homeland. We will make the
world a safe place again.
Thank you and God bless America.
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Okay, it’s just a dream but I bet you’re dreaming it too. The
nightmare is that the President has another thirteen months left in office.
Imagine how much worse things can get in thirteen months. If the President does
not recognize radical Islamism as the existential threat that it is – he should recuse himself as President. The existential threat is actually the President’s
blind spot with regard to radical Islamism. With leadership we can defeat
radical Islamism. Can we wait thirteen months for leadership?
