About deleting history

If we remove hateful symbols, we become historical revisionists like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China during its Cultural Revolution, and the Islamic State.  We become destined to repeat the sins of the past, because we deprived ourselves of the ability to remember them.  Steve Postal*

A Story About Deleting History  "My guess is that most of the people bringing down monuments are caught up in a rage and have not thought through just exactly what they are doing.   

"After all, why would anyone bring down a statue that honors the Confederate soldier as just happened in Durham, North Carolina?   

"We can disagree about the war, but can't we honor the men who were drafted or volunteered to fight?  Isn't that what The Vietnam Memorial is about?     

"Speaking of deleting history, Cubans have a lot of experience on the topic. The entire story of Castro's Cuba has been one chapter after another about the elimination of names, photos, or even monuments.     

"Let me tell you the story of Carlos Franqui, who passed away in 2010:

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"Franqui could not take it anymore. He eventually parted ways when Fidel Castro was forced to support the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia to maintain his annual subsidy. So Franqui managed to get out and spent the rest of his life as an enemy of the regime.

"And then Franqui was deleted from Cuban history and photos. His image was erased in various photos with Castro, as we can see in this example. First, there is Franqui in the back and then there is no Franqui in the photo.

"His role in the "revolution" was deleted and there was no more Carlos Franqui as far as the regime was concerned.  

"And that's what happens when you delete history. You deny future generations the whole story."Silvio Canto, Jr.

*Those who try to erase history  . . . "In August 2015, ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baalshamin (Ba’al, for short) in Palmyra, Syria.  From ISIS’ perspective, the Temple was a pagan symbol of hate and an affront to Islam.  The Temple dates back over 2,000 years, dedicated to the Canaanite god Ba’al.

"If anything, it would have been more fitting if the Jews, not ISIS, decided the Temple of Ba’al’s fate.  Well before the advent of Islam, Canaanites were archenemies of the Hebrews.  But if the Temple of Ba’al still stood today, the Jews would likely have favored its preservation, much like they painstakingly excavate Canaanite artifacts and structures across Israel (see here here here andhere for some examples).  The Temple of Ba’al was a priceless and unique window into the past, a glimpse into the early influences on Western civilization.  Now the world can’t see it.  ISIS took that possibility away from us." . . .

Something rotten in Charlottesville

Cartoons from The Daily Gouge:

Democrats renew calls for Trump impeachment after his Charlottesville response   "Clueless dems should look up how impeachment works."; Lucianne.

Something stinks about Charlottesville   "Evidence is turning up from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Breitbart and others, that this character, Jason Kessler, who organized the suspicious and supposed Alt-Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. that blew up in everyone's face, is a cunning lefty holdover from the Occupy Wall Street movement and a former Barack Obama supporter.  I smell Soros money, sabotage, and Democrat dirty tricks here." . . . Russ Vaughn

When Liberals Club People, It's With Love in Their Hearts

Thank God Donald J. Trump is our president, and not Mitt Romney, not Marco Rubio and not that nasty woman. 

Ann Coulter  . . . "With any luck, we'll unravel Fields' motives faster than it took the Obama administration to discern the motives of a Muslim shouting "Allahu Akbar!" while gunning down soldiers at Fort Hood. (Six years.) 

"But so far, all we know is that Fields said he was "upset about black people" and wanted to kill as many as possible. On his Facebook page, he displayed a "White Power" poster and "liked" three organizations deemed "white separatist hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A subsequent search of his home turned up bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. 

"Actually, none of that is true. The paragraph above describes, down to the letter, what was known about Micah Xavier Johnson, the black man who murdered five Dallas cops a year ago during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. My sole alteration to the facts is reversing the words "black" and "white.' " 

"President Obama held a news conference the next day to say it's "very hard to untangle the motives." The New York Times editorialized agnostically that many "possible motives will be ticked off for the killer." (One motive kind of sticks out like a sore thumb to me.) 

"In certain cases, the media are quite willing to jump to conclusions. In others, they seem to need an inordinate amount of time to detect motives. 

"The media think they already know all there is to know about James Fields, but they also thought they knew all about the Duke lacrosse players, "gentle giant" Michael Brown and those alleged gang-rapists at the University of Virginia. 

"Waiting for facts is now the "Nazi" position. 

"Liberals have Republicans over a barrel because they used the word "racist." The word is kryptonite, capable of turning the entire GOP and 99 percent of the "conservative media" into a panicky mass of cowardice. " . . .

Trump gets it

As President Lincoln once said of the much-vilified General Grant, "I can't spare this man; he fights!".

"Mark Jarrett  "The violence in Charlottesville, and the tearing down of Robert E. Lee's statue there and in Durham, has made me angry and unhappy.  I, like many Americans and Southerners of my generation, have seen the tremendous progress in racial harmony.  I remember the bad old days and do not want to return there, but I also do not like attacks on my ancestors.  Then I listened to President Trump's remarks yesterday from Trump Tower.  Brilliant.

"Trump jumped to the chase.  He gets the progressive mind.  He asked, "Will you tear down George Washington's statue next?  Do you like Jefferson?  He was a slave owner.  Will you tear down his statue, too?  You are changing the history and changing the culture."  Finally, we have a leader who fights back against the tyranny of the culture-changing socialists.

"Trump understands that these actions are warm-ups.  The progressives are tearing down Confederate statues, and they arekicking and spitting on the memorials to the dead because they cannot yet kick and spit on President Trump and his voters.  If they could imprison Trump and deport his voters, they would do that and not worry about statues.  They are lashing out where they can.

"Progressives want a socialist society cleansed of traditional values.  To get power, we, as a country, must reject our heritage of freedom and embrace Marxist values of state control.  That is why they fight so hard to control the teaching of history and why they denigrate the ideals and values of the Founders and the pioneers.

BLM Founder – White Speech Is Hate Speech, No First Amendment Rights

Rick Wells

"The agitator for criminal rights obsessed with racism who started the Black Lives Matter hate group was kicked out of her home when she was 16 by her parents. Her Wikipedia page says it was because she’s a lesbian, something her parents objected to, but it likely had more to do with the huge chip on her shoulder and the matching mouth.

"The name of this skin color obsessed individual is, as unbelievable or fitting as it might be, Patrisse Cullors. She’s a fulltime agitator so she’s right at home on CNN complaining about people who produce, work for a living and don’t believe in communism as an acceptable alternative to the Constitution and individual liberty.

 . . . "In her special edition of the Constitution, the First Amendment text is a little longer. It contains an exclusion for hate speech.

"In her Hoodrat Translation it reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof – unless it’s whitey hate speech.” Whitey hate speech is a concept that wasn’t defined by or likely even known to the founding fathers at the time the Constitution was written, another testament to their genius and ability to anticipate future situations." . . .

MSM, Democrats, And Police Continue To Award Antifa Thugs A 'Rioters Veto'

John Nolte

"The only horror we should have witnessed Saturday was bigots holding Tiki torches circling a statue."

"My opinion is not the popular one but what I saw in Charlottesville Saturday is what President Trump saw — hate, violence and bigotry from "many sides." And when you are the President of the United States attempting to do the most important thing, which is to restore law and order, what you cannot do is be seen as taking sides, even if doing so will appease the MSM and those in the GOP who foolishly seek to appease the MSM.

"Trump singling out or in any way calling special attention to the white supremacists would only embolden the left-wing supremacists in the Antifa movement, the group that might have been responsible for the outbreak of violence Saturday.

"No, what I saw Saturday was the equivalent of the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks, the National Socialists (Nazis) vs. the Communists, naked evil vs. naked evil. A pox on both.

"What a lot of other people also saw on Saturday, though, and this includes members of the national media, is police officers standing idly by as violence within their line of sight went unchallenged. From Pro Publica:" . . .

Lost in this mess is the disturbing fact that Antifa successfully repeated this tactic less than 24 hours later in Seattle — but not against neo-Nazis, against everyday Americans expressing their support of Trump!

comicallyincorrect

Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt

The Daily Wire

"Social justice warriors are never satisfied. If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. After demanding that southern states take down statues of Confederate figures, the activist Left is now targeting an iconic American president featured on Mount Rushmore.

"On Monday, more than 200 SJW zealots held a protest inside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to take down the supposedly “racist” statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt. The protest’s organizers, NYC Stands with Standing Rock and Decolonize This Place, also called for Columbus Day to be renamed Indigenous People’s Day.

“ 'A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted,” pontificated the group of protesters in a statement. “The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.' ”

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The John Duarte Trial Is Starting And You Should Pay Attention

Hot Air

. . . "In addition to distorting the meaning of “Waters of the United States” beyond any reasonable definition, this case is also challenging the use of the phrase, “normal farming practices.” Stop and think about that for a moment. The act of plowing a field is not, in the eyes of some in our government, considered a normal farming practice.

"Duarte’s lawyer is trying to get the fine dropped to one dollar rather than a figure in the millions since Duarte was already found guilty. But that won’t matter anyway because he’s going to appeal as soon as this is over. It’s more of a matter of principle than the actual money (though I’m sure the farmer could use that also) and a question of whether or not there is any sanity or common sense left in the federal government or the judicial system. Sadly, unless there’s a way somebody in the Trump administration can derail this, his appeal would be going to the Ninth Circuit, which means he’s pretty much already lost because, well… the Ninth Circuit." . . .

EPA and Army Corps seek to rescind clean water rule 

The good EPA; not the Democrat EPA that seeks to rule every corner of our lives.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers released a proposal on Tuesday to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule, the latest move by the Trump administration to unwind environmental regulations put in place under former President Barack Obama." . . .

Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab

" 'Right now, the law says that the Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all navigable water," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Western Caucus and an opponent of the bill. 

" 'Well, this bill removes the word 'navigable,' so for ranchers and farmers who have mud puddles, prairie potholes -- anything from snow melting on their land -- all of that water will now come under the regulation of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency," he said. 

"Barrasso said the federal government's one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work in the west where the Rocky Mountain states have gone even further than Washington to protect land, water and the environment.

" 'The government wants control of all water -- that also means that they want control over all of our land including the private property rights of people from the Rocky Mountain west, the western caucus and the entire United States," he said." . . .

 

CNN: Hell No, We Won’t Run Trump’s New Ad

Hot Air

. . . "Exit question: Trump’s campaign deliberately baits the media in its ads hoping that it’ll get CNN or MSNBC or one of the broadcast networks to reject them, right? Controversy draws an audience; this ad has nearly a million views on YouTube already, thanks in part to CNN rendering it taboo. No one understands how this works better than a media manipulator as practiced as the president."

Muslim Mafia joins war on Confederate memorials

"Urging all governments to remove any symbols of Civil War South"

WND

"An Islamic organization founded in Washington, D.C., by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamasis entering the controversy over Confederate monuments, urging all state and local governments to remove any symbols of the Civil War South.

"The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is offering to help facilitate the process, providing a template resolution to be introduced by public bodies such as state legislatures, city councils and school districts.

"CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a plot to fund Hamas, was designated by a Gulf Arab state as a terrorist organization. CAIR has sued the authors of a WND Books exposé, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” which documented the group’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood." . . .

CAIR wants every state and town to remove all names honoring 'white supremacists' after Charlottesville

(perhaps it would also be appropriate to remove all names honoring the fake god of islam, its false prophet, and its followers following the 9/11, Orlando, San Bernardino and Boston islamic terror-castings)

Muslim organization wants every state and town to do this after Charlottesville  . . . "America’s largest Muslim civil rights organization is asking state and local governments across the country to remove or change the name of anything named after Confederate sympathizers.

"Nihad Awad, national executive director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, told the Daily Caller on Monday that doing so would be a “fitting response” to the deadly domestic terror attack that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia." . . .

Stop this purging of America's history!

Removing Confederate symbols will hurt Democrats  By Silvio Canto, Jr.

. . . "These symbols are not racist.  They represent a big chunk of U.S. history and heritage for lots of Americans.  It does not mean that we support segregation or the way black Americans were treated.

. . . "As we've read since election day, many Democrats want to change their party so that it appeals to more people between New York City and the California border.  It's hard to see how removing Confederate statues is going to do that.  I think it will be a huge burden on Democrats trying to get votes.

"Also, this is exactly the kind of issue that could generate huge turnout in typically low-turnout midterms." . . .

How are Democrats going to win congressional districts in the South or West or defend red states?  It will be tough with candidates who believe that Robert E. Lee statues should be removed.

Woman protester, 22, who pulled down Confederate statue in North Carolina is arrested and could face PRISON - as Democrat governor vows to remove all 'anti-American' Civil War monuments from his state  . . . "Takiyah Thompson, 22, was taken into custody on Tuesday by Durham County sheriff's deputies shortly after protesters held a news conference at North Carolina Central University where she identified herself as the person who climbed a ladder to the top to tie a rope around the monument before the crowd tore it down on Monday." . . .

Vandals scrawl ‘F–k law’ on Lincoln Memorial  . . . "A preservation crew is working to remove the graffiti without damaging the stone on the historic memorial, officials said.

"The Lincoln Memorial overlooks the Capitol building and National mall. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to contact US Park Police." . . .

Four Perspectives On Removing Confederate Monuments   "There are four main schools of thought as it pertains to the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces:" . . .
"There is a fourth set of Americans who, while they may agree with those who want Confederate monuments removed, they also worry about what comes next."
. . . 

"This set of people are concerned that the removal of Confederate monuments is only the beginning of a slippery slope, the end of which will be the sanitizing of great swaths of our history. 

"As of now, it appears the movement to pull down Confederate monuments is gaining steam. Where it goes next remains to be seen." 
 Howard Zinn and his pupils will be proud.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain

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Trump vs. the Norks: Could this be a red line as it should be?

North Korean military presents plan for Guam strike  . . . "Kim's comments, however, with their conditional tone, seemed to hold out the possibility that friction could ease if the United States made some sort of gesture that Pyongyang considered a move to back away from previous "extremely dangerous reckless actions." This might be difficult as the United States and its ally South Korea plan next week to start annual defensive military drills that the North claims are preparation for invasion." . . .

Rich Terrell

North Korea backed down Monday from a threat to fire missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a North Korean state media report cited by the Wall Street Journal.  . . . "Trump was roundly criticized by politicians from both parties and by the media for his responses to North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches, and to news that the regime could miniaturize a nuclear warhead. Trump threatened “fire and fury” and declared that U.S. military plans were “locked and loaded.” His critics, including former Obama administration National Security Adviser Susan Rice, accused him of escalating the situation. Rice even suggested appeasement: “[W]e can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea.”

"However, Trump’s method of one-upping Kim-Jong-un’s belligerent rhetoric seems to have worked, as Trump cast himself as even more unpredictable than the infamously impetuous tyrant. He also pressured China diplomatically to squeeze North Korea, which also worked: the Chinese suggested last week that they would not defend North Korea if it attacked the U.S., as long as the anticipated U.S. retaliation did not actually try to end the regime itself."

Of course he was criticized by Obama Democrats; standing up to bullies is the last option they will consider. People who are ashamed and embarrassed over their country find no price to defend it worth paying. TD

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Sec. Mattis Issues Warning, North Korea Decides Not To Launch Missiles At Guam

. . . "Secretary of Defense James Mattis issued a strong warning to North Korea Monday: “If they shoot at the United States, I’m assuming they’ve hit the United States. … If they do that, then it’s game on.”

“ 'You don’t shoot at people in this world unless you want to bear the consequences,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.

"Soon after Mattis issued his warning, state-run North Korean media outlet KCNA reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had inspected his military’s plan to launch missiles at Guam and discussed the possibility of a strike with his top commanders." . . .

Kim, you drive a hard bargain so I'll turn this over to "Mad Dog" for his advice if you don't mind.