Governor Rendell said: “I will, like most of you, would never forget the morning of Sept. 1st 2013. I was sitting in the porch when a phone call came to me. It was a beautiful day much like Sept 11, 2001 in New York when terrorist attacked the Twin Towers. I couldn’t believe that people were tied up and were shot and executed in cold blood…”.
Gov. Rendell added: “As more information was coming in, grief and anger was being built up in me. Anger because our country has caused this, by failing to live up to its promises we made. By failing to do what America had always done in the past, which is to be the protector of people who were fighting for liberty and freedom and decency. We made a specific promise and we failed to live up to this promise. We failed to live up to it 6 times. This was the sixth attack which members of Ashraf were killed. We did nothing, other than to protest. We called on an independent investigation, but there never was an investigation… Our government even denied that the Maliki government had anything to do with it…”
Gov. Rendell added that in an email that the US State Department sent they said, “we continue to do all we can to meet our obligation to those in Camp Liberty to bring them out of the country to a safe place. Well if we really mean that, and they said that in the email to me, it is easy. Just get C17 after C17 and take everybody to a US military base and give them temporarily asylum… If we could give asylum to 1000 Afghani translators, and we should, because those translators put their lives in jeopardy helping American soldiers, but we never promised to do that. But if we could essentially airlift 1000 Afghani translators to the United States and give them asylum, cannot we do the same for the residents of Liberty? You bet we can. And there is no excuse not to do it…
Gov. Rendell concluded with a message to the Resistance’s European friends saying it is not only the responsibility of the United States to help these refugees, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Norway and others also have responsibility. If they take as many refugees from Liberty as Albania did, we would have this problem solved…  So it is time for the Europeans to act, it is time for the US to act and it is time for the UN to act and all of us to get this done and save the people of Liberty in the name of decency and honor and commitment we have all made to these people.