NYC & West Coast 9/11 firefighters unite at tribute documentary; How have they (and we) evolved to protect us since 2001?

World Trade Center Twin Towers

WTC Etching at NYFD W. 48th St Firefighter Memorial Park 

In 1994, November Productions' filmmaker Kevin Dornan created a multimedia tribute to firefighters from various parts of the United States. New York was the first location for the filming, and Dornan met with firefighters from across the city before choosing Mike Weinberg. Over the course of several days, Dornan recorded, both on film and in still photography, the life of a firefighter. 

The project was discontinued after Dornan finished shooting New York. 

Dornan only learned that Mike was killed at the 9/11/01 World Trade Center attack six months later. Dornan completed "Liberty, Courage, and Hope: The Portrait of an American Hero" as a tribute to all the first-responders whose lives were taken in rescuing victims of al-Qaeda's attacks. 

What had originally been intended as a celebratory documentary of living American firefighters-is now a bittersweet remembrance of a brave soldier. 

The movie trailer was not available at press time, but here is a memorial montage to Mike Weinstein. 

From the varied depictions of the everyday life of a firefighter to the now-fateful final dialogue, this film, now narrated by Alec Baldwin,  is one to be viewed as its own inspirational portrait.

"We as a nation need to heal, and by having even one story of hope and bravery can keep the memory our heroes with us forever," writes Mr. Dornan.

The Museum of Tolerance held the West Coast premiere of "Liberty, Courage and Hope: The Portrait of an American Hero," followed by a question-and-answer session with director Kevin Dornan on September 11th, 2014. 

NYC Fireman Michael Lynch, a colleague of Weinstein flew to L.A. (in his first 9/11 since 2001 outside NYC) to participate in the event. Joining them was Lynch's colleague from Los Angeles, L.A. County Fire Chief Craig Fleetwood.

Firefighters and rescuers from Los Angeles flew on the first flight permitted during the 9/11/01 FAA ban on airplanes. Here they talk about their involvement in and reactions to the film.

In DemoCast's video interviews from the event filmmaker, Dornan, discusses his attitudes about the project and its meanings.  FF Lynch relates how 9/11 is commemorated differently for firefighters and their constituents in New York over time.  Chief Fleetwood Lynch explains how firefighter first responders participate in pre-positioning and allocating emergency equipment- in coordination with federal and local counter-terror intelligence- to make resources available where they might be needed, such as conspicuous public terror-target events. 


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In-depth interviews at the West Coast premiere screening of "Liberty Courage and Hope" a film about the lives of firemen, and the death of Michael Weinstein, found dead beneath a fire truck at World Trade Center in 2001. Kevin Dornan is still completing national distribution arrangements for the documentary. Details can be found on www.LibertyCourageAndHope.com/."

Tribute to American values & military families on Veterans' Day - L.A.'s Forest Lawn

Acknowledging those who ensure today's freedom- military servicemembers and their families.  Ceremony staged at Hollywood's Forest Lawn cemetery- last Veterans' Day - November 11. 



Chelsea Chavez sings "America the Beautiful,"
Senior Pastor Mike Coopersmith, Our Savior Church, Palm Springs, California
Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Pauley, US Army,  spokesman, Wounded Warriors Project.

Protest at Qatari Consulate in L.A. over US privilege to jihad-abetters

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Doha on August 21, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ PPO / THAER GHANEM  via Times of Israel)

In a recent report appearing in the UK-based Telegraph, both Qatar and Kuwait were singled out for openly, and even avidly, aiding fundraising efforts for Islamic State/ISIS terrorists who are currently engaged in fierce clashes with the Syrian army alongside Israel on the Golan Heights. (The Algemeiner 9/7)

Qatar and Turkey are accused of taking over as the main foreign patrons for Hamas after Iran and the Sunni organization had a falling out three years ago - over its support for rebel fighters seeking to dislodge Tehran's ally, Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Qatar hosts Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and has pledged $400 million in infrastructure funding for Hamas. ("Congress goes after 'frenemies' Turkey, Qatar" in al-Monitor 9/9)

Arlan Mitnick organized Qatar Consulate protest in LA

In Beverly Hills, California, an ethnically-diverse group of Christians, Jews, a Hindu Sikh demonstrated against the Obama administration's enabling Qatar's influence - which they feel contradicts America's foreign policy interest to defeat the Islamist groups which persecute non-Muslim peoples, like the Coptic Christians of Egypt and the Jews of Israel. The protest was held outside the Qatar Consulate in Beverly Hills on Sunday, September 7th. Many passing cars honked their horns in solidarity with the protestors

Civic-activist Ted Hayes condemns Obama's embrace of Qatar

Amit Katz: 'Block $11 Bil arms from terrorist hands via Qatar'

Lyric drew flags of peoples Qatar's jihadist funding oppresses

"The Qatari Consulate pays ISIS to kill us all" writes May

Defending freedom involves fighting tyranny with our lives, US & Israel veterans tell Persians

Speakers at Veterans Day troop gift-wrapping event pose with Iranian-American 30-Years After leaders. 

Hy Arnesty, Jewish War Veteran and Chairman, Cemetery and Burial Committee for the Los Angeles National Cemetery addresses 30 Years After at Sephardic Tifereth Israel Synagogue.

IDF wounded-warrior, Ronny Weinreich's Veterans Day address to Iranian-American 30-Years After


American-born oleh, Ronny Weinreich (www.RonnyW.com), discusses his I.D.F. service and the price our servicemembers pay to maintain our free society. He explains Victor Frankel ("Man's Search for Meaning") notion why the Statue of Liberty ought rightfully be called the "Statue of Responsibility."

Freedom through strength - L.A. ceremony acknowledges those who served in all branches in all times

What price freedom? Veterans Day since WWII reflect & display defenses from Civil War though modern times - at L.A.'s Forest Lawn November, 2011 in DemoCast original video report.



Veterans from World War II (Pearl Harbor through the present) discuss the need and price of defending democracy against tyranny and repression. Veterans' Day cermony and expo held at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, Friday, 11/11/11.

NYC Mayor Ed Koch dies on Daniel Pearl's yahrzeit- revives concern about democracy's needed vigilance against Islamism

NYC Mayor Ed Koch (Photo: NY Daily News)

ED KOCH, the voluble three-term mayor who helped bring New York back from the brink of fiscal ruin in the 1970s and came to embody the city with his wry, outspoken style, has died at the age of 88 of heart failure in NYC.

As mayor from 1978 to 1989, the forceful, quick-witted Koch, with his trademark phrase "How'm I Doin?," was a natural showman and tireless promoter of both himself and the city.

New York writer Pete Hamill said in a 2005 discussion of Koch's legacy, "Here was a mayor who was a combination of a Lindy's waiter, a Coney Island barker, a Catskill comedian, an irritated school principal and an eccentric uncle.  He talked tough and the reason was, he was tough."  

In The Algemeiner, Dovid Efune says: 

Mayor Ed Koch (Courtesy: Vanity Fair)

It was only three weeks ago when he (Mayor Koch) told me in an interview that he felt President Obama had betrayed Israel with his nomination of Chuck Hagel. “Frankly, I thought that there would come a time when he would renege on what he conveyed on his support of Israel,” Koch said, adding, “it comes a little earlier than I thought it would.”

We published Koch’s articles nearly every week, and it was clear to me, just by the sheer volume of those which focused on Israel, that the Jewish State, and his Jewishness for that matter, were topics that were very close to his heart.

“Why would you expect Israel to cooperate in its intended lynching?” he asked recently in a passionate letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron. He viciously defended Israel’s right to self defense and called out those who displayed hypocrisy in their dealings with Israel on a regular basis.

“I’m of the belief that the leaders of the Jewish community have to do more to make Jews aware, young Jews aware, of the importance of Israel,” he told me in another interview late last year.

It is therefore noteworthy and fitting to point out that besides the ‘Hear o Israel’ prayer, the only other quote that Koch has engraved on his tombstone is the final statement of Daniel Pearl, the Jewish journalist who was kidnapped and beheaded while in Pakistan investigating Al Qaeda back in 2002.

“My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish,” reads the defiant etching, attributed to “(Daniel Pearl 2002, just before he was beheaded by a Muslim terrorist.)”

Koch explained that “the sense of justice that Judaism teaches” was the reason he elected to have the words “He was fiercely proud of his Jewish faith,” etched on the gravestone he prepared for himself. ...

How befitting that the day of his passing, Feb 1st 2013 comes 11 years to the day after the brutal murder of Daniel Pearl, that icon of Jewish pride. They will forever share a yahrzeit, and in many ways a legacy." 

That Mayor Koch died on Daniel Pearl's yahrzeit draws deserved attention to Pearl's legacy- and the Islamic supremacism which so threatens the West and Judaism. 

Photo courtesy Hiram 7

The late Christopher Hitchens was honored to present the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA.  He consoled Daniel's surviving parents Judea and Ruth Pearl from the last scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt.  He only lived until he was a man that which no sooner had his prowess confirmed.  In the unshrinking station where he stood.  But, like a man, he died.  Your cause of grief must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."  

Mr. Hitchens then warned about anti-Semitism- particularly within Islam- as the precursor warning of fascism and tyranny. 

"Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny, fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people alone, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilization- and has to fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad.

Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college - the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people have been reported from all over Europe, today as I'm talking. And we can only expect this to get worse. And we must make sure that our own defenses are not neglected.

Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this pest, by its right name. To make unceasing resistance to it. Knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving, some of the time (at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it!"

Mayor Koch's public service  is remembered in this WABC TV News obituary:

In an interview conducted in 2007, Former Mayor Edward I. Koch reflected on his life and political career, and talked of how he would like to be remembered.


Asked by reporter Tim Weiner: "How do you want to be remembered?" Mayor Koch replied, "I want to be remembered as being a proud Jew who loved the people of the City of New York. And did his best to make their lives better."  

A documentary about his life opened just prior to his demise.  Glenn Whipp writes in the L.A. Times:

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch died the same day a new documentary about his life and legacy opened in New York.

"Koch," which will open in Southern California theaters beginning March 1, offers evidence that the combative mayor had mellowed little in his later years. Filmmaker Neil Barsky conducted extensive interviews with Koch in his Manhattan apartment in 2010 and early 2011, where the former mayor, who ruled New York from 1978 to 1989, spoke of his controversial time in office, offering no restrictions on subject matter or time.

Here is the trailer:


The N.Y. Times reviews "Koch"



Asked by reporter Tim Weiner: "How do you want to be remembered?" Mayor Koch replied, "I want to be remembered as being a proud Jew who loved the people of the City of New York.  And did his best to make their lives better."

Amazing Kreskin predicts more terror until Americans adapt war-footing mindset against Islamist ideology

The Amazing Kreskin offers advice to maintain stability of America and Western civilization- recognize the subversive nature of the Islamist Holy War against democracy - and prepare for a long-haul to defeat it, socio-culturally domestically and militarily. Speaking exclusively with DemoCast from his Las Vegas Riviera showroom (where his show, incidentally includes no politics) he continues to wow audiences performing extraordinary feats of mentalist entertainment Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7pm, with a 4:30pm matinee on Saturdays. Come see the legendary mentalist and prophetic American patriot. For tickets call Riviera box office toll free 877.892.7469.

There's something rotten in Sweden - legislating to boost cultural Jihad over Swedish culture

"Scandalous constitution passed in Sweden" by Cavatus

The new Swedish constitution was passed in the Swedish parliament last week.  A conclusion of the three most important items is:

Membership in the EU is from now constitutional. A withdrawal will imply yet another change of the constitution, which is more complicated and takes longer time (one voting before and one voting after a general election).

The multiculturalism is from now constitutional. It is now imperative to financially support ethnic, cultural and religious groups with the taxpayers’ money. A disastrous policy is cemented.

The significance of the Swedish citizenship is undermined when foreigners are broadly placed on an equal footing with Swedish citizens and thus enjoy the same rights. On top of this there will no longer be any insistence on Swedish citizenship for positions of sensible nature, which implies that foreigners are allowed to have the positions that are structurally important for the society.

Western Civilization activist Pat Condell observes how Swedish liberals have legislated away their national identity to accommodate misogynistic, anti-Semitic, thuggery from Muslims.

Pat Condell video: "The purpose of the mosque at Ground-Zero is to rub 9/11 in America's face"

Pat Condell's website

http://www.patcondell.net/

Mischief in Manhattan
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Mischief+Manhattan/3370303/story.html#ixzz0wcZNOGAS

Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q5BW20100827

Muslim Brotherhood connection to the mosque?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545180/201008261900/Mosques-Saudi-Patron.aspx

Ground Zero mosque's Muslim opponents
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2131/the-ground-zero-mosques-muslim-opponents

Muslim opponent of mosque reports threat
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/17/15053976.html

Bloomberg makes Dubai a hub
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081029/BUSINESS/302158245/1005

Bloomberg's office in Dubai to expand its activities
http://www.dubaichronicle.com/business/media/bloombergs-office-in-dubai-to-expand-its-activities-14826

Mosque developer. Where did he get the money?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-profiles-sharif-el-gamal-developer-of-ground-zero-mosque/

Christopher Hitchens on the imam's support for the Iranian theocracy.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264770/

An Iranian connection to the mosque?
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-iranian-connection-to-the-cordoba-house-ground-zero-mosque/

Imam won't condemn suicide bombing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-robinson/ground-zero-mosque-leader_b_695861.html

Imam boasts "Obama's historic Egypt speech came from me"
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010082511451/us/islam-in-america/911-mosque-imam-boastsobamas-historic-speech-in-egypt-came-from-me.html

President Obama's Ramadan message
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-ramadan-message.html

Speaker Pelosi extends government censorship about Islam
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/speaker-pelosi-extends-government-censorship-to-the-public-101366259.html

Sam Harris - Silence is not moderation
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/sam_harris/2010/08/silence_is_not_moderation.html

Journalists have bad case of 'Americaphobia'
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/08/27/dan-gainor-ground-zero-mosque-islam-american-associated-press-journalism/

Muslims Against Sharia
http://www.reformislam.org/

Woman Against Shariah
http://www.womenagainstshariah.com/

PETITIONS AGAINST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop911mosque/
http://tool.donation-net.net/public/act4a/SignUp/enter.cfm?dn=1097&source=2013&id=172206&commid=32797082&CFID=9191266&CFTOKEN=80387078

PETITION AGAINST SHARIA LAW IN BRITAIN
‪http://onelawforallpetition.com/onelaw/onela300.php?nr=40155035

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Far-leftism advisory: 11-year old boy exposes school-marm's leftism; Soviet emigrants describe life under socialism, value of American liberty

ACT! for America's San Fernando Valley Chapter July meeting, organized by Chapter Leader Nancy Bonus, video features: 11-yr-old school boy, Sam Besserman, who exposed his middle-school teacher's imposing her non-curricular, leftist agenda over the classroom- published in an article in American Thinker, "A Conservative Kid Tries to Survive in California School."



Emigrants from the former Soviet Union express their experiences in the socialist, statist system, and their concern observing how statism is growing under Pres. Obama's administration.