Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

It is good to see everyday American's taking a stand against Liberal Hyperbole.


The sister of a pilot who was k**led in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack speaks out!


JORDAN LANCASTER
REPORTER
May 28, 2021

The sister of a pilot who was k**led in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack ripped comparisons between 9/11 and the J*** 6 Capitol r**t in a Thursday opinion article published in the Wall Street Journal.

Debra Burlingame’s brother, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, was murdered in his cockpit during a six-and-a-half-minute struggle trying to keep control of American Airlines flight 77. He was 51 years old.

In her op-ed, Burlingame called attempts to compare J*** 6 to 9/11 “profoundly disheartening” and says that the comparison minimizes what happened during the terrorist attack.

Although she recognizes that members of Congress had a frightening day when people stormed the Capitol building, Burlingame said it doesn’t compare to the roughly 200 people who chose to jump 80 – 100 floors rather than be burned to death. She tells the story of one woman who was permanently disfigured and had to spend three months in the hospital after suffering burns to 82% of her body when a plane sent a ball of fire down an elevator shaft.


“There are countless harrowing stories like this—of death, destruction and heartbreaking loss,” Burlingame wrote. “More than 3,000 children lost parents. Eight young children were k**led on the planes. Recovery personnel found 19,000 human remains scattered all over lower Manhattan from river to river, including on rooftops and window ledges. Victims’ remains were still being recovered years later by utility workers and construction crews. Some families received so many notifications of remains that they couldn’t take it any more and asked for them to stop. More than 1,100 families received nothing. Their loved ones went to work that morning and disappeared.”

The 9/11 attack shut down the New York Stock Exchange, destroyed part of the Pentagon and 16 acres of lower Manhattan, and shut down our national aviation system, she pointed out. On the other hand, Congress resumed session just hours after the Capitol r**t.

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“It is deeply offensive and sad that the brutal and harrowing memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history are being deployed by political partisans,” Burlingame said. “They are using 9/11 not as an example of what the American people endured and overcame together, but explicitly to divide, to stoke hatred and to further a political agenda aimed at stigmatizing the other party and marginalizing ordinary Americans from participating in the political process. That is the real threat to democracy.”

Burlingame argued that it should matter that the vast majority of people at the Capitol on J*** 6 did not want to k**l anyone or o*******w the government. Real terrorist attacks on the Capitol, like Weather Underground attacks in 1971, 1972 and 1975, have been “forgotten because they came from the political left.”

“We are living in perilous times,” she said. “When a modern democracy deploys forces of intimidation—whether government, corporate media or cultural institutions—to promote the ruling majority’s propaganda, it is time for good people to stand up and object. The world-changing attack of Sept. 11, 2001 shouldn’t be used, either as precedent or moral authority, to create a commission whose sole purpose is to turn a straightforward law-enforcement failure into destructive political theater.”

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Politicians will never let a tragedy go to waste. They will sleazily capitalize on it to their own benefit/agenda.
--Bob

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IDguy Loc: Idaho

Thanks for making us aware. Not surprised they’d stoop that low.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

FrumCA

Can't give enough thumbs up for this!!

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Biden calls 1*6 "the worst attack on our Capitol (or democracy) since the Civil War". I wonder what the Capitol would have looked like if American Airlines flight 77 wasn't stopped.

America is the land of the free, because it is the home of the brave.

Wuligal Loc: Slippery Rock, Pa.

Thank you for your presentation. It certainly puts things in a proper perspective. With your permission I would like to copy your OP and share it with others who do not participate on UHH.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Sure, but to be clear it is not mine, it is a reprint of an article, I gave attribution to the author at the top of the thread.

trainspotter Loc: Oregon

captivecookie Loc: Washington state

I know a woman who saw a bumper sticker that said the word Trump. She told me she wanted to follow the car around and corner the driver and yell at her for wanting more people to die in another J****** 6 event. She didn't, because she got closer to the car and the bumper sticker was saying to put Trump in jail. This hatred is a sickness.

dlwhawaii Loc: Sunny Wailuku, Hawaii

Jordan Lancaster is a reporter for the Daily Caller. The Daily Caller is a right-wing news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by now-Fox News host Tucker Carlson and political pundit Neil Patel in 2010. Wikipedia

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Absolutely ridiculous to make a comparison of the two events. That is not to say not to say the events of 9/11 and the events of J****** 6th were both not serious attacks on democracy.
One by a foreign entity motivated by design to k**l Americans, one triggered by our own sitting President to disrupt Constitutional process and o*******w an e******n.
A further comparison is not appropriate and is simply childish.

FrumCA

Are we to conclude by this post that you think it's unpatriotic and not relevant for the sister of an American hero to comment on comparisons between 9/11 and the Capitol r**t on J****** 6th? There are no words to characterize your sorry disposition.

dlwhawaii Loc: Sunny Wailuku, Hawaii

Good. Remain speechless.