Pamela Geller, WND weekly column: America’s choice: Freedom or submission

UPDATE: Obama won. And America, land of the free, home of the brave, died tonight.

"America's choice: Freedom or submission" WND, November 6, 2012

Exclusive: Pamela Geller reviews ways Obama has 'not been on our side' in terror war

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The 2012 election was a referendum on America’s fundamental
principles. America is at an historical crossroad. Would America vote
for freedom or submission? Would Americans vote for the preservation of
the foundation of our very existence, individual rights, or irrevocably
surrender to thugs and statists and revert to the European failed model
our Founding Fathers fought so hard to escape? Deadlines require that I
file this column before the election – but by now we all know whether
America has been taken off life support or has rallied to fight for the
first moral government in the history of man, that has made this the
greatest country the world has ever known.

We are at a tipping point in history. The core question before us in
the Obama vs. Romney election was whether we would pull back from the
edge of the abyss and preserve and defend the unprecedented American
idea of individual rights and freedom, or succumb to the apathy and
intellectual laziness that has infected the body politic.

Not only was defeating Obama and his gang critical to the
preservation of our unalienable rights guaranteed under the
Constitution, it was also essential to national security. In
Afghanistan, for four years he has pursued attempts to partner with the
anti-human Taliban, despite the fact that the death toll in Afghanistan
under Obama far exceeds that of all the Bush years combined, and the
fact that the Taliban’s savagery and brutality toward girls and less
devout Muslims is monstrous.

Almost immediately upon taking office, you may recall, Obama went on the original apology tour
of the Muslim world, inviting the then-banned and outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood to his submission speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009. He then
set out to dismantle the “special bond” the United States and Israel
have shared since the re-establishment of the modern state of Israel. He
has never visited our most steadfast and true ally in the Middle East
since being elected, despite multiple trips to the region. His
contemptuous treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, a stark
contrast to his warmth toward Palestinian jihad President Mahmoud Abbas,
was only the most visible symbol of what has now become a four-year
campaign to undermine Israel and promote the Palestinian jihad.

Obama’s betrayals didn’t end with Israel. It wasn’t enough that he
abandoned Mubarak, our 30-year ally in Egypt, the first Muslim country
to make peace with the Jewish people despite the Jew-hatred mandated in
the Quran. It wasn’t enough that he threw our great friend and ally out
with both hands, a man who for all his undeniable faults was the most
liberal of reformers in the Muslim countries in that region. With the
Muslim Brotherhood victorious, what did the leader of the free world do?
He threatened to withhold all U.S. aid to anyone who tried to stop the
Muslim Brotherhood from taking power. And now they are firmly in power,
thanks to Barack Obama. He had been working with the Brotherhood early
on in his presidency, having invited the then-banned and outlawed group
to his submission speech at Al Azhar University in June 2009.

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But even that wasn’t enough. He also abandoned Eastern Europe when he scrapped our anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Russia started war gaming, and in response, Obama brought the missile
defense shield program in Eastern Europe to an end. He deserted our
Eastern European allies in an “appalling appeasement of Russian
aggression and a willingness to sacrifice American allies on the altar
of political expediency.” He left our best friends defenseless in the
face of an increasingly aggressive Vladimir Putin. And what did Obama
get for this? The egg on his face was, as always, carefully scrubbed
clean by an agenda-driven enemedia.

And there is so much more. As Doug Ross has pointed out, Obama is – among many other things – the lawless president: the first one to sue states for enforcing laws Congress had passed. He is the president of America’s Decline: He has presided over America’s loss of its status as the world’s largest economy. He has put an end to our space program, instead directing NASA to work on making Muslims feel good about themselves. He also defied Congress and sent $200 million to the jihad terrorist group Hamas.

“60 Minutes” reporter Lara Logan recently told the truth to a very influential gathering – that a “major lie” was “being propagated” by Obama
regarding our defense against jihad terror. Logan’s remarks to an
influential group of “1,100 movers in government, politics, media, and
the legal and corporate arenas” was an eye-opener to those who were
drinking Obama’s and the enemedia’s Kool-Aid. Logan was open and frank
about what the real situation is – and remember: Logan has lived in and
among these devout Muslims and has bravely told the truth about the
threat to the U.S. in general and our troops in particular.

Above all, she identified Obama’s greatest failure and betrayal: his
refusal to acknowledge the root causes of the jihad against America in
Islamic teaching: “If you fail to identify the ideological component to
this fight, if you fail to identify what your enemy is really fighting
for, if you lie about who they really are, I don’t see how you can
possibly have the right strategy.”

Even worse, Obama continually welcomed Islamic supremacists and
Hamas-tied Muslim Brotherhood activists into the White House. My worst
predictions, outlined in my book “The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America,”
have been far exceeded by the enemy in the White House. Muslim
Brotherhood groups – whose stated goal is “eliminating and destroying
Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by
their hands and the hands of the believers, so that it is eliminated,
and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions” – have
for four years now had absolute access to the White House. Embedded
infiltration is complete. Is it any wonder that freedom’s defenders are
so attacked, demonized and rendered radioactive?

This is nothing short of a coup made possible by a seditious administration. The White House visitor logs
make it clear why Obama’s DoJ scuttled the prosecution of these same
Muslim Brotherhood groups named in the largest terrorist-funding trial
in our nation’s history, the Holy Land Foundation trial.

How deleterious has the influence of devout Muslims and Muslim
Brotherhood proxies been in the Obama White House? The president of the
United States aided and abetted the genocide of non-Muslims in Muslim
countries worldwide: The slaughter of Christians in Egypt after Obama
supported the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood there is a stain on
American history. Obama’s subsequent silence on this genocide was
unspeakable. And in 2010, Obama’s Muslim adviser Dalia Mogahed succeeded
getting a meeting between Obama and the Maronite patriarch of Lebanon
canceled. According to the Lebanese paper al Nashra, in working to get
the meeting canceled, Mogahed was “heeding a request by the higher leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. …”

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Dalia Mogahed was the first veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. Mogahed explained
that her duty in this post would be “to convey … to the president and
other public officials what it is Muslims want,” and claimed that the
majority of Muslim women around the world associated Islamic law with
“gender justice.” Mogahed was also assigned to the Obama Department of
Homeland Security’s advisory council, serving with other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.


And all this has consequences. The Hezbollah drone that invaded
Israel recently was a result of Obama’s failure to recover the American
drone the Iranians downed. Obama gave Iran the drone technology.
He rejected numerous proposals to retrieve the “lost” U.S. drone.
Obama’s decision not to retrieve one of our most important cutting-edge
weapons in the war on the global jihad was an attack on America. The
commander in chief was not on our side. Think about that.

Worst of the worst was Libya. We now know that Ambassador Chris
Stevens warned in emails about the rise of “Islamic extremism” in Libya
and even wrote about seeing “the al-Qaida flag” in Benghazi, months
before he was murdered by those same Islamic jihadists. Then
communications came in real time as the attack was going on, begging for
help. Obama’s response? He told CIA operatives to “stand down” rather
than help Stevens and his team when they were attacked. Then he began to
lie to cover for the jihad and blame our freedom of speech for the
attack on our embassies in Egypt and Libya. The administration did this
even though they knew for a certainty within 24 hours after the attack in Libya that it was a jihad, planned for weeks beforehand.

The choice on Tuesday was between freedom and slavery, individualism
and collectivism, and America and the global jihad. It was the choice of
whether the United States would commit suicide, or live to breathe the
sweet air of freedom another day.