Center honors heroes at Freedom Flame Award Dinner
The Freedom Flame Award recognizes individuals who have exemplified the ideals of freedom, democracy, economic opportunity and international strength to which the Center for Security Policy is committed.
The Award acknowledges the past contributions of its recipients while serving as a reminder that the goals for which they have worked so valiantly require the continuing, unflagging efforts of those who follow in their footsteps.
On Tuesday May 22, at an elegant New York City dinner, the Center bestowed the 2012 Freedom Flame Award to the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, former Attorney General under President George W. Bush, and presiding judge in the successful prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman (the "Blind Sheik") and nine other coconspirators convicted of the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
The prosecutor in that same case, Andrew C. McCarthy, had the honor of introducing Judge Mukasey:
Mr. Mukasey’s acceptance speech was an eloquent assessment of the threat from the doctrine of jihadist Islam from the 1993 World Trade Center attacks to the present day, providing a systematic analysis of the enemy’ ideology:
The 2012 event saw the inaugaration of a new honor, the Freedom’s Shield Award, which was bestowed to Major General John K. "Jack" Singlaub. He is one of our nation’s most storied and accomplished military officers. His service in the United States Army from 19431977 included an assignment with the Office of Strategic Services that involved parachuting into occupied France to work with the Resistance to support the Allied invasion. Other highlights of General Singlaub’s extraordinary career include: a role as a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency; uniformed leadership positions in, among other places, Vietnam and South Korea; and assisting President Reagan in defeating Soviet Communism’s proxies in Latin America.
Finally, Center President and CEO Frank J. Gaffney, Jr presented the Terry Elkes Sacred Honor Award for philanthropy in the service of national security. The 2012 award went to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for its tireless commitment to freedom and the American experiment. The Foundation has done incalculable good by promoting limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, intellectual, and cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas, institutions and liberties.
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