On Monday, while touring the Southern Border, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke about the potential of the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba (GTMO) housing violent illegal immigrants: “It’s the perfect place to provide for migrants who are traveling out of our country … but also hardened criminals.”
U.S. Marines were flown in to erect temporary tent facilities while discussions are currently ongoing with U.S. contractors to convert the base to be able to process and detain up to 30,000 illegals. Then, on Tuesday, the Trump administration deported the first batch of illegal immigrants from America to Guantanamo Bay.
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The first flight of high-threat criminal illegals aliens has arrived at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These criminals trampled over our previously wide open border to bring violence and mayhem to our communities. President Trump has taken swift action to expel them… <a href="https://t.co/Kml8WX3kIK">pic.twitter.com/Kml8WX3kIK</a>
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This action is but the latest use of the controversial Caribbean military installation. Modern Americans know it as the austere home for middle eastern terrorists post September 11, 2001, but its history dates back to the turn of the previous century.
In 1898, in support of the island’s drive for independence, the U.S. invaded Cuba during our war with Spain. In 1901, the victorious Americans nominally recognized Cuban independence, although the U.S. still had a say in internal Cuban affairs; this agreement was formalized in the 1903 Treaty of Cuban-American Relations and then again in 1934. In return for our assistance and recognition, the U.S. extracted a permanent lease for Guantanamo Bay, and the naval base was subsequently constructed.
Guantanamo encompasses some 45 square miles of land and water, and is manned by 8,500 sailors and Marines. The bay is strategically located on Cuba’s southeastern coast. With a substantial harbor as well as two airfields, it offers our military an excellent staging area from which to patrol Caribbean waters as well as closely monitor activities in South America. GTMO also serves as an ideal winter training ground for the Atlantic Fleet. It is, in fact, the oldest overseas permanent U.S. military base.
When the communists under Fidel Castro came into power in 1959, Havana declared the base illegal and demanded that it be closed, the land returned to Cuba, and U.S. forces leave the island. These calls continue to be ignored to this day.
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GTMO took on special significance after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. U.S. operations against Islamic extremist fighters in Afghanistan and elsewhere yielded prisoners and intelligence assets who needed a place to be imprisoned and interrogated. As the Bush administration declared that GTMO as a military base on foreign soil was outside the realm of usual jurisprudence, and that those captured on the battlefield were enemy combatants for whom Constitutional protections are inapplicable, GTMO was used as a de facto POW camp. The first detainees arrived in January 2002.
At first, the Bush administration kept the detentions a secret. Eventually, however, a FOIA request filed by the Associated Press compelled the Department of Defense to admit that it was holding, at its height, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">780 prisoners</a> on the base. Among them were the most fanatical and dangerous individuals scooped up in the so-called “War On Terror” including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, widely regarded as the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks. As of January 2025, 15 prisoners remain in custody.
Given the nebulous nature of what rights prisoners at Guantanamo Bay do and do not have, the facility remains the subject of controversy. Civil libertarians declare the facility a violation of human rights, in which “enhanced interrogation” (some call “torture”) is carried out to extract intelligence. Defenders of the base and its methods offer that, as those in custody were picked up on the battlefield, yet are part of no nation or national armed force, they are nothing more than terrorists for whom Geneva Convention protocols do not apply.
But in the landmark case Boumediene v. Bush, in 2008 the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, declared that detainees did have the right to habeas corpus and other due process claims, underscoring tension between the government and civil libertarians. In writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/washington/12cnd-gitmo.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>: “To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on or off at will would lead to a regime in which they, not this Court, say &#8216;what the law is&#8217;.” 
In that vein, Democrat Presidents Obama and Biden have over the years vowed to close the detention facilities as they considered them violations of international law and civil liberties. Indeed, Obama went so far as to call it a “sad chapter in American history” during the 2008 Presidential campaign. And yet, tellingly, once in office, he allowed the prison to continue albeit with occasional temporary restrictions for review purposes. One gets the feeling that, once he was actually in the Oval Office and the books were opened to him, Obama may have had his own cathartic Richard Pryor moment, wherein the comedian famously <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txp8B4ek_kk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> how his naiveté was shattered when filming a movie set in an actual state penitentiary. “I talked to the brothers. I talked to ‘em, and thank God we got penitentiaries!”
No matter where on the spectrum one rests regarding GTMO’s necessity versus civil liberties, at the moment Guantanamo remains the only answer to what to do with the especially bad hombres once they are caught in our nets — be they in the Hindu Kush or the streets of El Paso. Like Mr. Pryor, whose eyes were opened when he saw the true nature of the men he once considered victims of an oppressive state, one must think that, its darker corners aside, Guantanamo is a necessary conditional solution when fighting evil incarnate. And it must also be considered for its deterrence aspect. One must now imagine any gangbanger wishing to cross illegally into the U.S. now, with the new sheriff in town, may cast his teardrop-tatted eyes towards GTMO and ask if that is really where he wishes to spend the rest of his days.
As with much of the whirlwind first few weeks of the Trump Presidency, there is a method to the madness. Eventually, 30,000 undesirables with no business moving within our borders will be off our streets and tossed into a prison that has seen some of the worst enemies of not just the U.S. Government but the American people pass through its barbed-wire gates.
A powerful message will be sent to those who seek to violate our national sovereignty that a prison cell in one of America’s most notorious prisons awaits should they test the resolve of this new President and those like SecDef Hegseth and others whom he has hand-picked to run this nation with him.
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Why Guantanamo Bay Is ‘The Perfect Place’ For Violent Illegals

Why Guantanamo Bay Is 'The Perfect Place' For Violent Illegals

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On Wednesday, GOP Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) reintroduced the Justice for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11</a> Act, originally introduced by Cotton and McConnell last August, to cancel any plea deals made between the Biden administration and the Guantanamo Bay inmates who planned the 9/11/2001 attacks. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) is introducing companion legislation in the House.
Three detainees at Guantanamo Bay, including alleged 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, had filed plea deals. Last week, a military appeals court ruled that the Pentagon could not reverse the deals reached by military prosecutors and defense attorneys.
The Act <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11_plea_deal_bill_reintro.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>:
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Notwithstanding the provisions of section 949h of title 10, United States Code, any plea agreement entered into by Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, or Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi for actions involving the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, and its related judgment, shall not preclude the trial of such individual under chapter 47A of such title or any other provision of law for that terrorist attack. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, or Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi under chapter 47A of title 10, United States Code, or any other provision of law for the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, a sentence of death shall be available. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of any sentence imposed on Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, or Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, such individual shall be held at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in solitary confinement; provided no contact with foreign nationals; and provided no psychological treatment except that specifically authorized by medical authorities at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay; and shall not be transferred to the continental United States or any other country. 
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“Giving a plea deal to the terrorist masterminds behind 9/11 is disgraceful and an insult to the victims of the attacks, as well at those who served to avenge them,” Cotton <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-mcconnell-lawler-reintroduce-bill-to-stop-joe-biden-from-releasing-9/11-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “These monsters should have faced justice decades ago; instead, Joe Biden has set the stage to let them go free. My bill will stop this travesty and prevent the Biden administration from replenishing the ranks of our terrorist enemies any further on his way out the door.”
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“In the wake of terrorist savagery, our obligation is to deliver justice,” McConnell echoed. “However long it takes, those responsible for September 11 deserve nothing more, and the families of their victims deserve nothing less.”
“The court’s decision to uphold the plea deal for three 9/11 conspirators is alarming,” Moran added. “In addition to the plea deal, the Biden administration continues to use its final days in power to release some of the world&#8217;s most violent terrorists from Guantanamo Bay. These men should face trial for their crimes, and Congress must act quickly to pass this important legislation.”
“September 11th is a date that will forever be seared in our national memory, especially for New Yorkers,” Lawler stated. “For the Biden-Harris Administration to have offered a plea deal without the death penalty to the very people who planned the attacks that took the lives of almost 3,000 is a betrayal of our cops, firefighters, and 9/11 victims and their families. The Justice for 9/11 Act will nullify this horrendous plea deal and prevent any future ones from being offered to those who perpetrated this heinous attack.”
“A hearing is scheduled for later this week at Guantanomo Bay, where Mohammad and two other defendants could plead guilty in separate hearings, with the death penalty removed as a possible punishment,” Fox News <a href="//FE2DFBB2-BFEC-43AE-BAEC-9AFFDA6DD542/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, adding, “The administration announced on Monday 11 Yemeni detainees, including two alleged bodyguards for Usama bin Laden, would be resettled in Oman, after being held for two decades without charges.”

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Cotton, McConnell Push Act To Bar Biden From Giving Convicted 9/11 Terrorists Plea Deals

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has lost his bid to overturn the Biden administration’s plea deals with three men accused of planning the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.
President Joe Biden’s administration reached the plea deals with the terrorists last summer, allowing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi to avoid the death penalty while pleading guilty to all charges against them, including the murder of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sept-11-plea-deals-guantanamo-austin-279abd0342a84dc2694941c07f51c6bb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Shortly after the plea deals were announced, Austin issued an order saying he would nullify them, the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/911-guantanamo-plea-bargain-austin-d1ea80cf69649927d85b638f9913c76f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing the impact of the devastating attacks and claiming that he should be the one to decide whether the defendants should get plea deals.
But defense attorneys argued that Austin didn’t have the authority to reject the plea deals, which had been approved by Guantanamo Bay’s top court. That court said Austin’s attempt to scuttle the plea deals amounted to unlawful interference in the case, according to the AP.
If he chooses, Austin can continue to fight the plea deals by appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Following Biden’s announcement about the plea deals in July of this year, multiple lawmakers criticized the decision, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calling the move “a revolting abdication of the government’s responsibility to defend America and provide justice.”
“The Biden-Harris Administration’s weakness in the face of sworn enemies of the American people apparently knows no bounds,” McConnell said, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-slam-biden-harris-administrations-plea-deal-with-terrorists-responsible-for-9-11-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “The only thing worse than negotiating with terrorists is negotiating with them after they are in custody. The families of their victims and the American people deserve real justice. In the same week that Israel eliminated some of Iran’s most trusted terrorist proxies, the Administration’s decision to spare these mass-murderers from the death penalty is an especially bitter pill.”
“Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris Administration still seeks to release other Guantanamo terrorists back into the world,” McConnell concluded. “The Administration’s cowardice in the face of terror is a national disgrace.”
McConnell was correct, as the Pentagon also announced this week it had returned Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi, a suspected Tunisian terrorist, back to his home country. There are now 14 men awaiting similar “repatriation” after being cleared as security risks, the AP reported. The Biden administration earlier this month also transferred three other men who had been held at Guantanamo without charge.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also slammed the Biden administration’s decision to remove the death penalty from the men who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
“23 years ago, America watched in horror as thousands of innocent Americans died,” Johnson said in July. “America mourned for weeks afterwards as first responders sifted through the ashes at Ground Zero, at the Pentagon, and at the crash site in Shanksville. For more than two decades, the families of those murdered by these terrorists have waited for justice. This plea deal is a slap in the face of those families. They deserved better from the Biden-Harris Administration.”

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Defense Secretary Loses Bid To Overturn Biden Administration’s Plea Deals With 9/11 Terrorists

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> Acting Director Ronald Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) got into a shouting match during a Capitol Hill <a href="https://taskforce.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/media-advisory-task-force-hold-hearing-secret-service-acting-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> on Thursday regarding the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-director-to-promise-accountability-over-abject-failure-at-butler-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assassination attempts</a> on President-elect Donald Trump and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secret Service</a> security failures.
The clash began when Fallon asked Rowe if he recognized a photo showing Rowe standing in the row behind President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and others at a New York 9/11 ceremony.
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 <a href="https://twitter.com/RepPatFallon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepPatFallon</a>: &quot;That&#39;s on the director because he started screaming&#8230;I think it was vanity project. I think he was auditioning for the… <a href="https://t.co/iEM2uawyyd">pic.twitter.com/iEM2uawyyd</a>
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Rowe, who took over as acting Secret Service director when Kimberly Cheatle resigned from the directorship amid backlash over the security failure underlying the attempted assassination of Trump, said he did recognize the photo and confirmed that it showed an event at Ground Zero. Asked by Fallon who in security is usually closest to the president for such an event, Fallon said the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the detail.
&#8220;Were you the special agent in charge of the detail that day?&#8221; queried Fallon.
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&#8220;Actually, let me address this — could you please, staff, leave — oh, no leave the one up with the circle around me. Thank you — so actually, congressman, what you’re not seeing is the SAC of the detail out of the picture&#8217;s view. And that is the day where we remember the more than 3,000 people that have died on 9/11. I actually responded to Ground Zero, I was there going through the ashes of the World Trade Center. I was there at Fresh Kills [landfill] —&#8221; Rowe said.
Fallon interrupted Rowe, shouting, &#8220;I’m not asking you that!&#8221; Rowe yelled back at the congressman, exclaiming that he was present to &#8220;show respect&#8221; for the Secret Service member <a href="https://x.com/SecretService/status/1833951244563456420" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who was killed</a> on 9/11.
&#8220;That’s a bunch of horse hockey,&#8221; Fallon exclaimed.
The heated back-and-forth continued with Rowe and Fallon accusing each other of playing politics. As Rowe claimed Fallon was &#8220;out of line&#8221; and Fallon demanded the witness not &#8220;bully&#8221; him, Task Force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA) sought to restore order and repeatedly banged his gavel.
&#8220;Do you know why you were there?&#8221; Fallon said. &#8220;Because you wanted to be visible because you&#8217;re auditioning for this job that you&#8217;re not going to get. You endangered President Biden&#8217;s life, Vice President Harris&#8217; life because you put those agents out of position. Did you have a radio with you? Did you wear a vest? Did you have a weapon? No.&#8221;
Rowe replied: &#8220;I did, sir, and you are out of line.&#8221;
After the hearing, Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1864732902040223971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Fallon about the clash.
Fallon said the shouting match was &#8220;on the director because he started screaming&#8221; and would not answer questions. The congressman later emphasized that he thought that Rowe positioned himself right behind Biden and Trump at the 9/11 ceremony as part of some &#8220;vanity project&#8221; because he was &#8220;auditioning for the job.&#8221;

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Secret Service Boss Gets Into Shouting Match With Congressman Over 9/11 Ceremony Appearance

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There is a worldview that has now become prevalent in the United States and across the West. It is actually, truly evil. It has consequences for our politics and for the election of 2024.
There is a clip that is now going around the internet of Ta-Nehisi Coates, a racial conflagrationist author who believes truly terrible things. He&#8217;s been given pretty much every award that our self-defeating, white liberals have to offer.
Over the course of his career, he has received a wide variety of awards. He was given, for example, a MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. He won a George Polk Award in 2014 for commentary. He was given a 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. He is the toast of the town. Coates is treated as though he is a moral paragon, a sort of prophet of our times.
He is treated this way by the entire media, so much so that if he is asked a difficult question, all of CBS News melts down — which is what happened last week. A reporter asked him a tough question, and that reporter then took it directly in the teeth from the CBS News brass.
But what Coates believes is actually evil, and it is emblematic of a broader worldview that has now infused large swaths of the upper elite of the Democratic Party who believe exactly what Coates believes. Huge swaths of the Left in Europe believe what Coates believes. This is a person who&#8217;s considered perhaps the leading intellectual light of the Left in the United States. His new book, “The Message” is basically just a rabid screed about how evil Israel is. Prior to that, he used the same exact worldview to discuss how evil the United States is.
But the thing that is setting people&#8217;s hair on fire is what <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1844499893442007450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1844499893442007450%7Ctwgr%5Eec21caa0f330e84180018db8dbabc0fc7dab5317%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fta-nehisi-coates-blasted-for-suggesting-he-wouldve-participated-in-october-7-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said in an interview</a> with former (alleged) comedian Trevor Noah. In it, he justifies the October 7 attacks saying that, were he Palestinian, he himself might have entered Israel and slaughtered men, women, children, and engaged in rape.
In the interview, he says:
<blockquote>I haven&#8217;t said this out loud, but I think about it a lot. Were I 20 years old, born into Gaza, which is a giant open-air jail, and what I mean by that is if my father is a fisherman and he goes too far out into the sea, he might be shot by somebody off, you know, a side of Israeli boats. If my mother picks the olive trees and she gets too close to the wall, she might be shot.
If my little sister has cancer and she needs treatment because they’re no, you know, facilities to do that in Gaza and I don&#8217;t get the right permits, she might die. And I grow up under that oppression and that poverty and the wall comes down, am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say, “This is too far.” I don’t know that I am.</blockquote>
First of all, put aside the lies, put aside the idea that Israel is somehow keeping cancer-ridden children in Gaza for no reason. There are several dozen hospitals in Gaza, most of them having been used as fronts by Hamas. Billions of dollars flowed into the Gaza Strip, and they are used entirely by Hamas in order to build up terror facilities.
But it is also true that many of the people who were slaughtered in the Gaza envelope by Hamas were people who made it their daily business to drive people with cancer from Gaza to Israeli hospitals. In fact, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was in jail and the Israelis treated him for brain cancer, healed him, and then released him.
When Coates talks about people being shot for picking olive trees, what he describes is not the case. If you get too close to the “No Man&#8217;s Land” in the border area and you refuse to obey orders, you are then taking the risk into your own hands.
All that aside, what he is saying is simply insane. He is justifying the massacres of October 7 because they are the “victims.”
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So Coates spends a lot of time justifying the unjustifiable. To understand why this matters for America, it must be understood that this is not about Israel. For Coates, it&#8217;s about something far deeper. When he&#8217;s justifying terrorism, what he&#8217;s really doing is saying that if you are a member of a victim class — a class that he, as a self-appointed prophet, gets to define — you have the right, perhaps even the obligation, to engage in full-scale violence and terrorism.
What Coates says about Gazan civilians crossing the border and engaging in rape, murder, and the slaughter of children could very easily be applied to the slaughter of white Americans under his own worldview and rubric. He&#8217;s been very clear about this. He&#8217;s not exactly hiding the ball. And this is the amazing thing: There&#8217;s nothing new here.
Jean-Paul Sartre, who&#8217;s a ridiculous communist French philosopher who has been taken seriously by liberals for half a century, wrote the exact same thing in his introduction to a book called “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon. In it, he suggests that the West should essentially accept violence upon itself from Third World peoples in order to expiate its own sins of colonialism.
That is also what Coates believes. If you&#8217;re a member of the victim class, you should be able to do violence to people who are members of the “victimizer class.” And anybody who&#8217;s a member of a “victim class,” according to Coates, has no agency. Thus, Coates believes if you&#8217;re a member of a victimizer class, you deserve violence to be done to you and your children.
This is part of a broader worldview that applies to the United States. This worldview has been taken into the bones of the Left. This used to be a fringe, crazy-town worldview. Jean-Paul Sartre was not representative of the party of, say, Hubert Humphrey in the United States in 1968.
But Coates is a lauded, celebrated, champagne-drenched intellectual in the pages of The Atlantic. He is treated as though he has something important to say.
But what he is saying about Israel is really not about Israel at all. Right in the middle of the racial reckoning, Coates published “Between the World and Me,” because after all, Ferguson happened in 2014 and this is his worldview. His big example of experiencing racism in the United States is one time he was on an elevator and someone said something to his child. And this becomes his telescoping of all of America&#8217;s racist history into an incident on an elevator in New York.
The whole book is written as a letter to his child. He writes:
<blockquote>As we came off, you were moving at the dawdling speed of a small child. As we came off, you were moving at the dawdling speed of a small child. A white woman pushed you and said, “Come on.” Many things now happen at once. There is the reaction of any parent when a stranger lays a hand on the body of his or her child. And there was my own insecurity in my ability to protect your black body and more. There was my sense that this woman was pulling rank.
I know, for instance, that she would not have pushed a black child out on my part of Flatbush because she would be afraid there and would sense, if not know, that there would be a penalty for it for such an action. But I was not out on my part of Flatbush and that was not in West Baltimore, and I was far from the Mecca.
I forgot all of that. I was only aware that someone had invoked their right over the body of my son. I turned and spoke to this woman and my words were hot with all of the moment and all of my history. </blockquote>
This is the incident that is the supposed “inciting incident” for his realization about race in America. He&#8217;s on an elevator with his child and a white woman is irritated because the kid isn&#8217;t moving fast enough — in New York, a place of the rude. He immediately telescopes all of America&#8217;s terrible, evil, racial history into this incident. It never occurs to him that maybe the lady&#8217;s just rude. It never occurs to him that maybe she&#8217;s in a hurry because she has a reason to be in a hurry.
No, it&#8217;s “all of America is racist and evil,” and you can find that out by looking into the eyes of another person and never asking them a question. Because Coates, an incredibly rich and celebrated author, is a victim, and that white lady in the elevator was a victimizer — a racial victimizer, not just a victimizer of the child by being rude, in a class sense. She&#8217;s a member of a victimizer class.
So what does that mean for Coates? It means, for example, that he doesn&#8217;t care about September 11. He actually writes this in his book. It is beyond comprehension that this country would grant the worldview of people like Coates any time of day at all, let alone make this person a celebrated author.
He&#8217;s an immoral imbecile, though that&#8217;s too kind because imbecility suggests that stupidity lies at the root of this. It&#8217;s not imbecility. It is malign evil.
In his book “Between the World and Me,” Coates writes about September 11, and the firefighters and police officers who were turned to ash:
<blockquote>They were not human to me, black, white or whatever. They were menaces of nature. They were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could, with no justification, shatter my body.</blockquote>
Now, throughout his writing he uses the term “body” because he believes, I assume, that if he writes “body” as opposed to “me,” it makes it have more import, and becomes all about the physical being of black people or something. In reality, it&#8217;s just a cheap way of trying to buy literary cred.
In an interview with <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/07/ta-nehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me.html">New York Magazine</a> that same year, the death of one particular black person at the hands of police so alienated Coates that when he watched 9/11, “slightly stoned, on the roof of his Brooklyn building,” he recalls that he felt nothing at all. “You must always remember,” Coates writes to Samori, “that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” This is the setting up of a victim class that is then justified in doing anything he feels nothing about — September 11 or otherwise.
Let me just express, if someone feels nothing about September 11, they should not be in the United States. It is that simple. They do not belong in the West. If you feel nothing about September 11 — the greatest act of evil of my lifetime — you don&#8217;t deserve to be here. You don&#8217;t deserve to be living off the fruits of the civilization that you are currently leeching off of, which is what Coates is doing. He is a scavenger and a leech on the body of Western Civilization.

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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited firefighters in Shanksville, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania</a> — as did former President Donald Trump, though at a different time — and video shows that the responses to their respective arrivals were dramatically different.
All three made stops in Shanksville at the Volunteer Fire Department after first attending memorial ceremonies at Ground Zero in New York City — and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stoystown — to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but Trump got a much more animated reception from the crowd when he walked into the building.
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According to video of their entrance, the crowd hardly appeared to notice when President Biden and Vice President Harris — who is currently running for president on the Democratic ticket — entered the room. But when Trump arrived, someone could be heard saying, &#8220;There he is&#8221; — and then the room quickly erupted in loud cheers and applause.
&#8220;The first thing we gotta do is fire Joe,&#8221; one person shouted.
&#8220;Oh, yeah, we&#8217;ll get him out,&#8221; Trump replied, prompting laughs.
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The former president reportedly stayed at the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department for about an hour, signing autographs and taking photos with the crowd of just over 100. He gave brief remarks that were interrupted occasionally with chants of &#8220;U.S.A.&#8221; and &#8220;Fight! Fight! Fight!&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://www.observer-reporter.com/news/local-news/2024/sep/12/trump-gets-warm-welcome-at-shanksville-meet-and-greet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Washington County-based Observer-Reporter, Trump was also invited by family members of Edward-Porter Felt and Louis J. Nacke III — both of whom were killed when United Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville — to attend a private memorial ceremony.
Trump won Cambria County — where Shanksville is located — with 68% of the vote in the 2020 presidential election.

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Actress Patricia Heaton, the former star of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” issued a message on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on America in which she stated that the same kinds of terrorists who wanted to butcher Americans on 9/11 now target Israel, and, by extension, Americans and all of Western democracy.
“I happened to be in New York City on September 11, 2001 with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond,” Heaton, a devout Catholic, wrote on X. “It was a terrifying experience. It’s hard to believe now that Israel is experiencing the same horrors. It needs to end.”
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In the accompanying video, she delivered this message:
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It’s 9/11 again. And here we are. The same terrorists are back in full force, this time going after Israel but really they’re going after all of us. They’re going after Western democracy. They’re going against anyone who’s not a radical Islamist.
And anyone who calls for Israel to lay down its arms, you are supporting the same people who took down the Twin Towers. You are supporting Hamas; you are being used by Hamas. If you don’t understand this, you are being profoundly naive.
It is Hamas who broke the ceasefire on October 7. It’s Hamas who murdered all those Israelis. It is Hamas who took hostages, including babies, like Ariel and Kfir Bibas. It is Hamas who puts Palestinians in the line of danger. It is Hamas who has refused — over twenty times — to sign a ceasefire deal. It is Hamas who executed the hostages.
It’s not the United States. It’s not Israel.
Please understand this: Israel has to stay in it and do what is necessary until the terrorists are eliminated. Please understand this.
God bless everyone who died on 9/11, everyone in the Twin Towers, and all the first responders. And God bless their families. And God bless everyone who’s still waiting for people to come home from Gaza.
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I happened to be in New York City on September 11, 2001 with the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond. It was a terrifying experience. It’s hard to believe now that Israel is experiencing the same horrors. It needs to end. <a href="https://t.co/UrCqfsl7SF">pic.twitter.com/UrCqfsl7SF</a>
&mdash; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1833953227403935817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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President Joe Biden got caught donning a Trump hat during a Wednesday visit with Pennsylvania firefighters, and video of the moment it happened quickly went viral.
People scrambled for an explanation — Was he tricked? Was it an endorsement? — but then a longer video of the exchange made the rounds.
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Biden was visiting with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at the time, and there was a discussion with one man regarding whether or not Biden would sign a hat.
The president obliged, signing a navy blue cap with what appeared to be the presidential seal on it, but as he handed it over, he told the man, “I need that hat.”
The man offered Biden his hat — a red baseball cap with an American flag on the bill and “Trump” in bold lettering — and asked, “Do you want my autograph?”
”Hell no,” Biden replied, prompting laughs. “I ain’t going that far.”
Biden put the Trump cap on over the hat he was already wearing, and the firefighters cheered.
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“Hey, I’m proud of you now, you old fart,” the man said to Biden.
”No eating dogs and cats,” Biden replied as the laughter died down.
The White House responded to the viral video with a statement from spokesman Andrew Bates, who said that Biden had taken the hat as a gesture to the unity that Americans had felt in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
“At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that,” Bates wrote. “As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it.”
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At the Shanksville Fire Station, <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> spoke about the country&#39;s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.
As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it. <a href="https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7">https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-pratt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Pratt</a> paid tribute to those who were &#8220;taken from us&#8221; in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and said we must never forget what happened that “fateful day.”
In a post on Wednesday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_yTOVJSN2t/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&amp;img_index=3">Instagram</a>, the 45-year-old actor took time out to remember the lives who were taken in the attack and shared several images from the aftermath of the tragedy of that day.
“September 11, 2001,” Pratt wrote along with an American flag emoji. “A day that will forever hold a place in our nation’s history. As I reflect on the tragedy of that fateful day, I grieve for each and every innocent soul that was taken from us.”
“It is our duty to remember, honor, and keep their memory alive,” he added. “Our lives were forever changed at 8:46 am 23 years ago, and we will #NeverForget.”
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The post included images of firefighters embracing while covered in dust from the collapse of Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex after al-Qaeda terrorists flew airplanes into the buildings.
Another image showed the back of a police officer sitting alone in what looked like the remains of a restaurant or bar in Ground Zero surrounded by all the destruction and rubble from the attack. Photo credit for the pictures went to “Krista Niles/The New York Times, Tyler Hicks/The New York Times.”
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To mark the 21st anniversary of 9/11, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-pratt">Pratt</a> posted a message for all those who died in the terrorist attacks — who “risked their lives for us and our country.”
“Today we remember those who woke up, kissed their families goodbye, and went to work without realizing they wouldn’t return,” the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-sends-message-to-fans-and-amazon-after-the-terminal-list-soars-to-number-1">&#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy&#8221; star</a> captioned his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/those-who-risked-their-lives-for-us-and-our-country-chris-pratt-remembers-those-who-died-on-9-11">post</a>. It included a photo showing rows and rows of American flags on a hill as he honored all those who got up that morning, answered duty’s call, and never returned home.
“Today we remember those who risked their lives for us and our country,” he added. “Forever in our hearts and in memory.[American Flag emoji] #911.”
The “Tomorrow War” star often shares messages on social media honoring members of our military who gave the ultimate sacrifice, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-pratt-continues-tradition-of-honoring-the-fallen-in-memorial-day-posts">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
“Today we pay tribute and remember all of the brave men and women who have laid down their lives in service of our nation,” Pratt captioned <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CeMSIWNpjO3/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=35bce21b-c5c9-4fd8-989e-4841cf09f3b4">his Memorial Day post</a>. “I urge you all take a moment today to remember those who fought for us. #MemorialDay.”
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The widow of a fire chief — who was killed during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">9/11 terrorist attacks</a> 23 years ago — blasted President Joe Biden for a callous and &#8220;flippant remark&#8221; about his plans to mark the anniversary on Wednesday at Ground Zero.
Joanne Barbara — widow of Gerard Barbara, an assistant chief in the New York Fire Department who died inside the World Trade Center on 9/11 — participated in Wednesday&#8217;s services but took a moment to call Biden out directly.
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&#8220;The elected officials here today show their respect and reverence to the families on September 11th—or, in our president&#8217;s words, &#8216;Do 9/11.&#8217; Quite a flippant remark.&#8221;
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&#8220;The elected officials here today show their respect and reverence to the families on September 11, or in our president’s words, &#8216;do 9/11.&#8217; Quite a flippant remark. But please remember the September 11 families live it every day, not just on the anniversary,&#8221; she said.
Biden was widely criticized for his phrasing after he spoke with reporters on the White House lawn on Tuesday, first detailing his plans to watch the ABC debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and then adding an aside about attending the 9/11 memorial in New York.
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&#8220;I’m going up to my granddaughter’s birthday in New York. Then we’re going to watch the debate. Tomorrow, I’m doing 9/11,&#8221; he said.
Biden and Harris both made an appearance at the Ground Zero memorial ceremonies — standing alongside former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee, Senator JD Vance (R-OH) — but had apparently ducked out by the time Barbara made her comments. When she called him out directly, the cameras panned to where Biden and Harris had been standing — but only Trump and Vance were still standing where they had been.

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In 2022, on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot, Vice President Kamala Harris compared the day to mass casualty events 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
Harris spoke at the Capitol on January 6, 2022, leading a day of Democrats treating the riot — which resulted in the death of protester Ashli Babbit at the hands of Capitol police — as something akin to the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York City, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
“Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them, where they were and what they were doing when our democracy came under assault,” Harris said at the time. &#8220;Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory. December 7, 1941. September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021.&#8221;
One police officer died the day after January 6 due to two strokes, and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/officer-who-responded-us-capitol-attack-is-third-die-by-suicide-2021-08-02/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four more committed suicide</a> in the months that followed.
It is unclear just how many first responders and others have died in the decades since 9/11 due to cancer and other related illnesses.
A total of 2,403 people were killed in the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
Harris also in that speech called for legislation to allegedly protect democracy, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-compares-january-6-riot-to-pearl-harbor-9-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“On Jan. 6, we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. The lawlessness. The violence. The chaos,” Harris said in 2022. “What was at stake then, and now, is the right to have our future decided the way the Constitution prescribes it: By we, the people.”
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“The violent assault that took place here, the very fact of how close we came to an election overturned, that reflects the fragility of democracy,” she added.
At the time of Harris’ speech, report and investigator Jerry Dunleavy called the vice president’s comparison “<a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1479095444907204609">ridiculous</a>.”
“Ridiculous comparisons… The Capitol riot was bad, political violence is wrong, &amp; people are being prosecuted for it,” Dunleavy tweeted. “It wasn’t comparable to Pearl Harbor (2,403 sailors, soldiers, &amp; civilians killed by the Japanese Empire) nor comparable to 9/11 (2,977 Americans &amp; others killed by Al-Qaeda). Obviously.”
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The Capitol riot was bad, political violence is wrong, &amp; people are being prosecuted for it. It wasn’t comparable to Pearl Harbor (2,403 sailors, soldiers, &amp; civilians killed by the Japanese Empire) nor comparable to 9/11 (2,977 Americans &amp; others killed by Al-Qaeda). Obviously.
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Podcast host and actor Joe Rogan also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/insane-joe-rogan-rips-kamala-harris-comparing-jan-6-to-9-11-pearl-harbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Harris for her “insane” comparison.
“This is complete insanity. Look, Jan 6 was embarrassing; it was pathetic; it was confusing to me,” Rogan said in 2022. “‘Cause there are parts of it that confused me—the parts where you have these clear agent provocateurs in the audience calling for people to go into the Capitol. … There’s video of cops opening up barriers. What is that? Why did they do that? Has there ever been an explanation of that?”

REMINDER: Kamala Put January 6 On Same Level As 9/11, Pearl Harbor

REMINDER: Kamala Harris Put January 6 On Same Level As 9/11, Pearl Harbor

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Twenty-three years ago, Americans woke up to the shocking reality that radical Islamic terrorism was a very real, and very dangerous threat.
In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attack, the United States vowed to make the world safe from those forces. For years, it kept that vow, killing Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist masterminds, diminishing Al Qaeda, and waging two wars in the Middle East to decimate terrorist networks.
But now, 23 years after the worst-ever attack on the United States, terrorism is on the rise.
In Afghanistan, President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal, which led to the death of 13 American service members, gave the Taliban power and $7 billion worth of U.S. military equipment. In Iraq and Syria, Iranian-backed militia groups continue a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/drone-attack-us-base-syria-injuries-reported/story?id=112730470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barrage of attacks</a> on U.S. military bases, often injuring personnel.
Worse than the resurgence of Islamic terrorism is Americans’ reaction.
At protests across the country, &#8220;United We Stand&#8221; has been replaced by anti-American chants. Pledges to &#8220;Never Forget&#8221; have themselves been forgotten by Americans, many of whom have <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turned 9/11 into a meme</a>, as pointed out by a 21-year-old college student who said she “genuinely forgot that not everyone thinks it’s funny now,” in an X post that<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> was favorited</a> more than 10,000 times. Others have found much to agree with in Bin Laden’s infamous 2002 “Letter to America.&#8221;
A recent poll found that almost one-third of Gen-Zers think Bin Laden’s views were a “force for good,”<a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-780061" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reported The Jerusalem Post</a>.
Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that members of this same generation sympathize with Hamas terrorists who raped, massacred, and kidnapped over a thousand Israelis on October 7th, 2023. They wear <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1826428092690088235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas headbands</a> and wave terrorist flags at protests, and harass Jewish students from the illegal encampments they’ve constructed on college campuses.
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Hamas, which killed 43 Americans, still holds seven captive. Hamas originally took eight American hostages, but last month executed<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-israeli-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-six-dead-hostages-recovered-by-israeli-forces-in-rafah" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Hersh Goldberg Polin</a> by shooting him in the back of the head at close range.
It’s unclear precisely what’s driving this rise in terrorist sympathy. But perhaps one answer can be found in the actions of Democrats and their media allies.
Biden has virtually halted former President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;maximum pressure campaign&#8221; to destroy Iran&#8217;s ability to support destabilizing terrorism in the region and instead has helped Tehran pad its coffers, allowing the regime to have access to $6 billion in a<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-hands-iran-6-billion-5-americans-freed" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> prisoner swap</a>.
The Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies have allowed 250 individuals on the terror watch list to enter the country, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-has-released-at-least-99-illegal-aliens-on-terror-watchlist-into-u-s-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional report</a> found. Under “Border Czar” Kamala Harris, the administration released 99 of them.
Harris, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-was-last-person-in-the-room-when-biden-made-decision-on-afghanistan-pullout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasted</a> that she was the “last person in the room” when Biden made his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, did not attend a memorial service for the 13 servicemen killed in Afghanistan, and then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-what-really-happened-at-arlington-national-cemetery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to use Trump’s attendance as a political attack.
At Tuesday night’s debate, moderators asked Harris if she stood by Biden’s withdrawal decision, but did not press her when she not-so-subtly dodged the question.
In Biden and Harris’s wake, the Taliban has grown stronger than ever and has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-rebukes-un-concerns-laws-banning-womens-faces-voices-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implemented</a> draconian policies against women including banning them from speaking or showing their faces in public.
Today, Biden and Harris, along with Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, are together at the 9/11 memorial. That is, perhaps, a good sign. But the fact remains that Americans’ attitudes towards Islamic terrorism would have shocked anyone who remembers how they felt on September 12th, 2001.
As the nation reflects on the 23 years since 9/11, we must ask ourselves: How will the U.S. stand against terror in the future as the younger generation’s fading memory emboldens America&#8217;s enemies?

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23 Years After 9/11, Terrorism Is Back On The Rise, With More Support Than Ever

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