Tarry here for a moment. My words shall be few and simple. The solemn rites of this hour and place call for no lengthened speech. There is, in the very air of this resting-ground of the unknown dead a silent, subtle and all-pervading eloquence, far more touching, impressive, and thrilling than living lips have ever uttered. Into the measureless depths of every loyal soul it is now whispering lessons of all that is precious, priceless, holiest, and most enduring in human existence.
Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors. The offering we bring today is due alike to the patriot soldiers dead and their noble comrades who still live; for, whether living or dead, whether in time or eternity, the loyal soldiers who imperiled all for country and freedom are one and inseparable.
Those unknown heroes whose whitened bones have been piously gathered here, and whose green graves we now strew with sweet and beautiful flowers, choice emblems alike of pure hearts and brave spirits, reached, in their glorious career that last highest point of nobleness beyond which human power cannot go. They died for their country.
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If we ought to forget a war which has filled our land with widows and orphans; which has made stumps of men of the very flower of our youth; which has sent them on the journey of life armless, legless, maimed and mutilated; which has piled up a debt heavier than a mountain of gold, swept uncounted thousands of men into bloody graves and planted agony at a million hearthstones ‐ I say, if this war is to be forgotten, I ask, in the name of all things sacred, what shall men remember? People don't speak as eloquently, anymore. Read the rest of the whole thing.
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nice catch, Bobby
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Of course, statues remembering the war should be torn down and smashed because they are offensive. When you forget history, you run the risk of repeating it.
It's appropriate this Memorial Day weekend to salute the retiring NSA director, Admiral Mike Rogers, for courageously standing up against the Obama Administration and the intelligence apparatus, risking all to blow the whistle on the illegal sharing of FISA information on the part of those working to aid Hillary and defeat Trump. A full timeline of his actions is detailed here:
November 2015-April 2016 -; The FBI and DOJ's National Security Division (NSD) uses private contractors to access raw FISA information using "To" and "From" FISA- 702(16) & "About" FISA-702(17) queries.
March 2016 - NSA Director Rogers becomes aware of improper access to raw FISA data.
April 2016 - Rogers orders the NSA compliance officer to run a full audit on 702 NSA compliance.
April 18 2016 - Rogers shuts down FBI/NSD contractor access to the FISA Search System.
April-September 2016 - Rogers continues his investigation.
September 26 2016 - DOJ's NSD Head John Carlin files the Government's proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications. The filing does not disclose the FISA Abuses. Carlin is aware of Rogers' compliance review. The 2016 certifications are scheduled for Court approval on October 26, 2016.
September 27 2016 - Carlin announces he is resigning. Mary McCord will later assume his position.
October 15, 2016 - Carlin formally leaves the NSD.
Mid-October 2016 - DNI Clapper submits a recommendation to the White House that Director Rogers be removed from the NSA. Clapper's effort fails.
October 20 2016 - Rogers is briefed by the NSA compliance officer on the Section 702 NSA compliance audit and "About" query violations.
October 21 2016 - Rogers shuts down all "About Query" activity. Rogers reports the activity to DOJ and prepares to go before the FISA Court.
October 21 2016 - DOJ & FBI seek and receive a Title I FISA probable cause order authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. At this point, the FISA Court is unaware of the Section 702 violations.
October 24 2016 - Rogers verbally informs the FISA Court of Section 702(17) violations.
October 26 2016 - Rogers formally informs the FISA Court of 702(17) violations in writing.
October 26, 2016 - The FISA Court refuses to formalize the 2016 Section 702 certifications. A complete overhaul of Section 702 processes ensues.
November 17 2016 (morning) - Rogers travels to meet President-Elect Trump and his Transition Team in Trump Tower. Rogers does not inform DNI James Clapper.
November 17 2016 (evening) - Trump Transition Team announces they are moving all transition activity to Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.
The author, Jeff Carlson, is quite obviously correct in his conclusions: "we will never understand what Rogers did for our country," and we would never have known of the spying and FISA violations without him as the intelligence community was caught unaware by the upset presidential race and was working hard to cover up its illegal conduct.
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Well Done a y! You honored your oath, one of the few during the Obama miasma.
[DAWN] IT is, unfortunately, all too easy in this country to work up people’s religious feelings and then direct these zealous sentiments in a destructive direction. The latest example of this negative trend was witnessed in Sialkot on Wednesday when a mob descended upon an Ahmadi place of worship and proceeded to destroy it. According to reports, the building in question was said to be an ’illegal construction’; however, regardless of its status, there can be no justification for the assault by a mob of hundreds, reportedly including members of the local government, political workers and seminary students. As per some reports, a local PTI leader was part of the mob; the PTI has condemned the attack, with its front man correctly saying that no one has the right to instigate violence against minority communities.
Religious issues must always be handled delicately; however, in these tense times with elections around the corner, all political parties have a duty to ensure that matters of faith are not included in political narratives. In the run-up to the polls, there will be candidates who will try and play to the gallery by raising sectarian and communal issues. In fact, some sectarian groups have formed political fronts and intend to run in the polls. Therefore, political parties, the state and the ECP must all work together to isolate such hatemongers; the ECP in particular has a duty to keep an eye on rabble-rousers. Politicians, in their parties’ manifestos as well as on the campaign trail, must promote tolerance and inclusion, instead of focusing on exclusivity and parochialism. As it is, there have been plenty of bitter exchanges between major political players, including the PML-N, PPP and PTI. Exploiting religious or communal issues will further poison the atmosphere. As for the Sialkot incident, a thorough probe should be conducted and the guilty brought to justice. The Constitution guarantees minorities freedom of worship; therefore; there can be no tolerance for such acts of violence.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
