WND EXCLUSIVE
Impeachment group crashing 9/11 Muslim march
The rapidly expanding
grassroots effort to impeach President Obama is now
turning its sights on the Million Muslim March planned
for Sept. 11. Although now the march has undergone a
public-relations makeover and the organizers, the
American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC),
have changed its name to "Million American March
Against Fear."
Fear of what?
AMPAC claims," Many
non-Muslim Americans are terrified of Muslims, who are
portrayed by Hollywood and the U.S. media as fanatical
terrorists. Muslims, too, live in fear - of being
dragged off in the night to Guantanamo and tortured,
simply for the crime of being Muslim in the wrong
place at the wrong time."
What bothers James
Neighbors, the founder of Overpasses for Obama's
Impeachment, is AMPAC is choosing to make its
statement on the very day fanatical Muslim terrorists
did indeed kill some 3,000 Americans, on Sept. 11,
twelve years ago. "They could've picked any other day
of the year. There's 364 other days of the year they
could've picked, but the fact they chose 9/11 just
simply appears to be a slap in the face to America and
an insult to every American who died in attacks on
those days (in 2001 and 2012.)" "We simply could not
tolerate 9/11 being hijacked like that. It seems like
a lot of people like to hijack things in this country,
like Obama tries to hijack the word patriot for his
progressives," he added.
Overpasses had begun to
organize its own march on Washington on Sept. 9,
dedicated to bring attention to its primary mission,
removing President Obama from office. But founder
James Neighbors changed plans and called for a
nationwide protest in the streets and on overpasses on
Sept. 11. specifically to oppose the Muslim march,
after he learned of it.
What Overpass protesters
do is simple but effective. They merely gather on
highway overpasses and wave signs calling for the
impeachment of Obama or urging drivers to "honk to
impeach. WND first
reported on the booming movement in
July, and now the group claims it has mushroomed to
40,000 members across America to become "the largest
grassroots movement in the nation" in the few weeks
since it was launched in June. The group's national
website has links to Facebook
pages of groups in all 50 states, plus
Washington, D.C.
WND asked Neighbors if he
was concerned critics may try to brand his group as
bigoted for opposing a Muslim march. He said the
group's message has never been about race or religion
and members avoid any inflammatory statements. "We've
had people who've wanted to carry signs saying things
like 'Obama is the anti-Christ' and, well, that's just
not an impeachable offense." Neighbors says the main
thing is just to stick to the issues because, "It
doesn't matter what race Barack Obama happens to be.
What matters is if he's performed criminal behavior
and the precedent he has set for the future." He also
notes ". . .
. 9/11 is the day across America, people remember
planes smashing into the World Trade Center, planes
smashing into the Pentagon, and men and women willing
to give their lives in another plane, whose last words
were 'Let's Roll' before crashing into a field in
Pennsylvania."
Neighbors says, because
the hijackers of those planes happened to be Muslim,
it's left a bad impression around the nation that
Muslims chose this particular day for their march. He
says the fact four Americans were killed by Muslim
terroists in attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in
Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11 last year makes it even
worse. "I just think their complete lack of tact to
have a protest on 9/11 needs to be countered by
patriotic Americans that remember that's a day of
remembrance and sorrow and it shouldn't be
tainted."
WND asked Neighbors,
since Overpasses is combining issues on Sept. 11, what
is the message he wants America to hear?
"We are combining them,
but the impeachment message will be a bit muted on
that day," Neighbors replied. "The people who died in
Benghazi, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty,
Ty Woods and Sean never really had a proper day of
memorial," said Neighbors, blaming all the news that
followed, and all the "distractions created by Obama
right after the event," including the (since
discredited) claim the attack was caused by a video
insulting Islam.
Neighbors noted the
nation has never really stopped to remember the four
people who died in Benghazi, partially because "the
entire incident has been buried under a mountain of
scandals." "It's one year late, but it is the one-year
anniversary. Those four deserve a day where they're
respected and remembered, when people can cheer them
as patriots and cry for their loss. That hasn't
happened yet and that's what the whole point of our
protest." Neighbors says, even if people don't go out
to a highway or an overpass to protest on Sept. 11,
they can still participate in a significant way. "If
they happen to be up at midnight on that day, I just
ask them to step out on the porch with a candle and
say a little prayer for those lost in Benghazi. They
haven't been on everyone's mind here in America and
it's a tragedy that hasn't happened and our president
has allowed that. And we need to do that. I would just
ask everybody is they are not with us on that day, if
they would do this on their
own."
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