BLM Mob Once Again Swarms St Louis Couple’s Home…Harassment’s So Bad They Boarded Up Their Home

Wayne Dupree
"This is not a protest - these people are not political - this is harassment and intimidation by the BLM Mob"
"Protesting a politician or a celebrity or some other public person who has massive influence is one thing…but to target American citizens for no other reason than harassment and intimidation is quite another.
"That’s exactly what’s happening to the St. Louis couple who were forced to defend their home with guns last week when the BLM mob broke down their privacy gate and trespassed on private property and threatened to kill them, their dog, and burn down their house.

"Again, these people are not political figures or celebrities.
"These are average American citizens and they should not be subjected to this type of torment and mob-intimidation.

"What exactly is this mob “protesting” anyway?
How can people be safe in their homes when even the press demagogues them? Defend your home and they will write things like this about you:

"Couple points guns at peaceful protesters in St Louis, US"  "A white couple came out of their house, pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in their neighbourhood."

Why is there no national outcry? Don't expect Hollywood people to condemn all this until they see that it would be fashionable. Have any TV talk shows spoken out against this?  Have CNN or MSNBC  spoken out against the mobs? I think you will see how these media people call the rioters a "merry caravan". I still wait for signs of disgust in civilized America.  TD

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Lessons we can learn if we look back to July 4, 1863

Grant enters Vicksburg

The Hill    "This year’s July 4th celebrations will be different than years past as our country continues to battle through the COVID-19 pandemic. There are some lessons we can learn if we look back to July 4, 1863, to the Vicksburg victory and Abraham Lincoln’s letters on July 13, 1863, after Grant’s victory and on July 14 to General Meade, the victorious general of the Battle of Gettysburg. These two letters have much to teach us about character and leadership which can and should be applied today. 
"On July 4th, 1863, the Union forces were victorious in the Battle of Vicksburg, a crucial turning point in the Civil War. Control of Vicksburg, Miss., meant control of the Mississippi River, which would allow for the transportation of men and supplies. 
"Additionally, Union control of Vicksburg divided the Confederacy in half. Commenting on the importance of Vicksburg for victory in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln had said that “Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket.” After several unsuccessful attempts to capture Vicksburg, General Grant commenced a siege of Vicksburg on May 25, 1863, which lasted for six weeks until the Confederate forces, led by General John Pemberton, surrendered on July 4. 
"During the time that Grant was waging war on Vicksburg, the historic Battle of Gettysburg was taking place. Fought for three days, from July 1 to July 3, General George Meade, who had taken control of the Army of the Potomac just three days earlier, defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s forces. " . . .

Updated: CNN slights Mount Rushmore as 'monument of two slaveowners' after extolling its 'majesty' in 2016

First this: Trump's finest speech -- and a press that beclowns itself in boiling hate

. . . "Ted Cruz easily took down this CNN pinhead:

Your network is literally arguing to tear down Mount Rushmore. And claiming that murderous, raping anarchists are a peaceful “street festival.”

And, don't forget, a "merry caravan"

CNN slights Mount Rushmore as 'monument of two slaveowners' after extolling its 'majesty' in 2016   "A CNN reporter on Friday described Mount Rushmore "a monument of two slaveowners" situated on stolen land ahead of President Trump's visit to the national monument.
"Grabien founder and editor Tom Elliot tweeted a clip of the report by correspondent Leyla Santiago in which she discussed Trump's planned remarks.
" 'President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans," she said. "I'm told that, uh, he'll be focusing on the effort to 'tear down our country's history.'"
"In 2016, however, a CNN reporter described Mount Rushmore as a "monument to four great American presidents" while narrating a story about a visit to the monument by then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
 "This is our country at it's very best," Sanders said at the time. "What an incredible achievement."
"The unidentified reporter's voice can be heard talking about the "majesty of the moment." . . .

Update: Elaine Krewer posted The American Catholic:

Meanwhile, Insty points out that only 12 years ago (2008) Obama visited Mount Rushmore while on the primary campaign trail and none other than Jim Acosta of CNN pondered whether Obama’s visage would ever appear on the Mountain. To which Obama replied that he wasn’t sure there was enough rock up there to accomodate his large ears. 🙂 In 2016, Bernie Sanders visited Mount Rushmore and declared it a great and wonderful example of American accomplishment. But that, of course, was so four years ago….

Call to remove statue of explorer who brutalized Native Americans ignites firestorm in Tillamook County

Call to remove statue of explorer who "brutalized Native Americans" ignites firestorm in Tillamook County

Helen Hill

. . . "Stories of Gray’s interactions with other tribes along the coast are similar. In Tillamook, in sight of where his statue now stands, he turned his cannons on the Natives who were rowing out to the ship. For many years following the incident, present-day Tillamook Bay was known as “Murderer’s Bay.' ” . . .
Called by that name not for the natives killed, but because of the murder of the young crewman trying to get his sword back. The incident is described in this account by those who were there and witnessed first hand what took place. Source pending:

Ms. Hill documents other evil deeds done by Gray but in light of the log recorded by Lady Washington's diarist that refutes the modern-day account, all other of Hill's items are in question. I have to feel history mal-education has been a major cause for the destruction of America's treasured memories around our nation today. TD

Bruce Catton: The Civil Warrior

HistoryNet. 2017: 
"Through his pioneering histories of the Civil War, it was said, Bruce Catton “made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace.' ”

. . . "Soon Catton went east to try his hand with the Boston American. But the experiment didn’t last long, as the American was a Hearst paper, and Catton quickly acquired an aversion for “this business of nagging some poor family for pictures of the victim.” He retraced his steps and joined the staff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Catton would later credit his editors there for demanding accuracy and clarity in his writing, just as covering Cleveland’s ethnic communities gave him an insight into human nature and values.". . . 

Catton

"After leaving government service, Catton turned his attention to the conflict that had been on his mind since childhood. His first attempt at a book on the Civil War took the form of fiction—an effort ultimately abandoned as a false start. He later destroyed all his attempts at fiction, saying that he didn’t want to embarrass his descendants. 
"Newspaper work is not good training for novelists,” he told an interviewer, “but it’s very good training for historians.” The reporter and the historian, he pointed out, gathered information by similar methods: talking to eyewitnesses, reading their letters and diaries, and digging tenaciously for facts. He found those regimental histories to be good sources for the experiences of the men who did the fighting as opposed to those of the generals behind the lines.
"With his first Civil War history manuscript in hand, Catton faced the problem of getting it published. “Finding a publisher when you’re unknown is one of the most hopeless jobs in the world,” he recalled. Everywhere he was met by the same refrain: Civil War books didn’t sell. Finally, though, at the urging of George Braziller, an influential independent publisher, Doubleday agreed to take it on.
"PUBLISHED IN 1951, MR. LINCOLN’S ARMY OPENED with a description of the return of the Army of the Potomac from Major General George B. McClellan’s unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign. Early in the narrative, Catton observed:

From first to last the Army of the Potomac was unlucky. It fought for four years, and it took more killing, proportionately, than any army in American history, and its luck was always out; it did its level best and lost; when it won the victory was always clouded by a might-have-been, and when at last the triumph came at Appomattox there were so very, very many of its men who weren’t there to see it. . . .

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