Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist,
You do not know me. But I am on the lookout for you. You are my enemy. And I am yours.
I am John Doe.
I am traveling on your plane. I am riding on your train. I am at your bus stop. I am on your street. I am in your subway car. I am on your lift.
I am your neighbor. I am your customer. I am your classmate. I am your boss.
I am John Doe.
I will never forget the example of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.
I will never forget the passengers and crew members who tackled al Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.
I will never forget the alertness of actor James Woods, who notified a stewardess that several Arab men sitting in his first-class cabin on an August 2001 flight were behaving strangely. The men turned out to be 9/11 hijackers on a test run.
I will act when homeland security officials ask me to “report suspicious activity.”
I will embrace my local police department’s admonition: “If you see something, say something.”
I am John Doe.
I will protest your Jew-hating, America-bashing “scholars.”
I will petition against your hate-mongering mosque leaders.
I will raise my voice against your subjugation of women and religious minorities.
I will challenge your attempts to indoctrinate my children in our schools.
I will combat your violent propaganda on the Internet.
I am John Doe.
I will support law enforcement initiatives to spy on your operatives, cut off your funding, and disrupt your murderous conspiracies.
I will oppose all attempts to undermine our borders and immigration laws.
I will resist the imposition of sharia principles and sharia law in my taxi cab, my restaurant, my community pool, the halls of Congress, our national monuments, the radio and television airwaves, and all public spaces.
I will not be censored in the name of tolerance.
I will not be cowed by your Beltway lobbying groups in moderate clothing. I will not cringe when you shriek about “profiling” or “Islamophobia.”
I will put my family’s safety above sensitivity. I will put my country above multiculturalism.
I will not submit to your will. I will not be intimidated.
I am John Doe.
(by Michelle Malkin)
The “John Doe” movement is a response to the calculated attempt, by means of the lawsuit filed by the so-called “Flying Imams“, to intimidate all Americans against reporting suspicious, potentially terror-related activities. Recent events in Great Britain highlight the absolutely essential role of a vigilant citizenry in the national defense- a citizenry vigilant and protected from fears of spurious, malicious lawsuits. British law enforcement and security services reportedly knew nothing about this plot beforehand.
Does the manifesto strike you as a little “over the top”, a bit strident or extreme? Maybe too much time has passed since 9/11 and, as is only too natural, we have become complacent in response to our success in preventing any followup atrocities, and the apparently hapless incompetence of recent terrorist failures. That is a mistake. There is nothing to indicate any change in the intent and will of the Islamist terrorists to carry out additional atrocities, and it is suicidally foolish to imagine that all their strike teams will continue to be inept.
The John Doe Manifesto is really only a dramatic restatement of what the first Director of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, said in the immediate aftermath of 9/11: “We’re all air marshals now”. Read it.
“If you see something, say something.”
UPDATE: ALERT- JULY 19TH. House Democrats attempting to strip John Doe protection from homeland security bill. (Washington Post)
UPDATE: Shocking- Dems strip “John Doe” protection from bill. What American citizen, in the aftermath of 9/11, could ever have imagined this? What argument can possibly have been made against it? WHAT IS GOING ON? See Washington Post articles for July 19 and July 20th.
Congressional switchboard- 202/ 224-3121. You can make a difference.
UPDATE: Following the passage of the Homeland Security Bill with the John Doe protection successfully re-instated, CAIR announces, essentially, “So what?” Threat of lawsuits to continue unabated. “You WILL bend your neck, infidel!”
“Terror in the Skies” – the disturbing case of Flight 327.
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Non-Vigilant Cluelessness at the White House
American-Islamic Forum for Democracy- a responsible alternative.
Love your website John. The John Doe Manifesto is an important piece of work. St. John Cathedral just keeps amazing me with the caliber and talent of its members. It was a conversation with Leesa yesterday at the Feast, that made me realize that your own blog which you modestly mentioned in passing is a website. I’m not too smart about these things. So when I asked you (twice!) about Glory to God blog, I rudely did not ask you about your own website. Please forgive me. Now what I’ve looked at it, I’m so glad. WOW. What a wealth of good info. and good writing. I am looking forward to getting my husband’s reaction to your John Doe Manifesto. Although he and I basically agree about politics, I have trouble talking to him about politics. But I know he will resonate strongly with the John Doe Manifesto, as do I. Am enjoying Bright Monday at home, playing on the computer, listening to Ancient Faith radio. Looking forward to thanking you in person for this good resource. – Deb
Thanks for exposing me to the manifesto… I’d not seen it before, but wonder if it would fit on a t-shirt! I’m going to MM’s blog now thanks for the link!