Lydie M. Denier:
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?”
—Sai BabaWhen a person you love dies, you want to know why. At least I do. Often, it is easy to know the answer. Someone who dies of cancer in the hospital receives a death certificate stating the disease. A soldier killed in the line of duty receives a posthumous commendation explaining the circumstances of his death, and a mother who dies during childbirth has this written up in her medical records before being sent to the morgue.
When Chris Stevens died, I wanted to know why, when, how. I did not try to assess blame; I needed the answers to process my grief. Many people who have lost loved ones will understand this. I suppose that is one reason why we have accountability for death caused by criminal intent. When a loved one is the victim of a hit-and-run driver the authorities and public do everything to locate the killer and provide other details about what occurred. But when a U.S. ambassador was murdered in a remote city in the Middle East, the president did not allow that to upset his plans. Instead, he flew from Washington to Las Vegas the next day for a fundraiser. We should not be surprised then that no one has been helpful at getting to the truth about what happened to Chris Stevens and why.
In the days immediately following the attack, U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who was then serving as the ambassador to the United Nations, appeared on national television multiple times to reinforce the position that the deadly violence in Benghazi was the result of protests and an anti-Muslim video, “The Innocence of Muslims.”
In one of the interviews for Fox News Sunday, Rice said:
Based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is at present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassy, sparked by this hateful video. But soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that . . . in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution. And that it had spun from there into something much, much more violent.
We do not — we do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. I think it’s clear that there were extremist elements that joined in and escalated the violence. Whether they were al-Qaeda affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or al-Qaeda itself I think is one of the things we’ll have to determine.
Although Secretary Rice took most of the heat as the designated face of the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in charge of the compound at Benghazi and was Chris’s boss. So it is significant that Rice’s repeated appearances reinforced the following statement made by Clinton at 10:08 p.m. EST, while the attack was still going on: “Some have sought to justify the vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.” Under questioning by Congress, Secretary Clinton tried to emphasize the ambiguous words in this statement, but she never explained why she did not call a halt to Secretary Rice’s forceful and repeated reinforcement of her original explanation of what had occurred when she knew that it was simply false.
It was such a great narrative.
It almost worked, too.
Had it worked all of the people in the USA would be under DHIMMITUDE!
See, that was the point.
Muslims DEMAND the right to never be ”offended.”
Trouble is, they are so easily offended that there is no way to paint ourselves into a safe corner with them, except by accepting DHIMMITUDE.
Under DHIMMITUDE not only must you never say anything even vaguely offensive to any Muslim, but you must also PAY them!
Yeah, we call it ”protection money.”
The mob used to take over blocks in Chicago in the 1920’s and demand the Jizya, the protection money.
As long as the entire populace pays their portions of the jizya AND never offends any Muslims, we’d be OK.
Hillary claimed Muslims had a prefect right to murder simply because someone in America had published a little amateurish video that no one had seen.
Hillary basically blamed us for those deaths.
Our ”freedom of expression” was being used abusively and hurting sensitive Muslims.
We should stop speaking and expressing ourselves in such risky manners.
Elect Hillary and who knows how soon we will find ourselves under DHIMMITUDE.
Why is Obama releasing crinimals and disarming their protential victimes? perhaps maybe its to gain more votes for the Demc-RATS? just look at Virginia and California with Demac-RAT govenors
In a liberal world, like in other authoritarian dictatorships, the people come to expect to be lied to and they willingly accept the lies because the truth is probably much more painful. Finding out the truth and telling someone else about it could be unhealthy.
This is where we are headed; Obama has shown us the way.