oped:
The total chaos we are seeing now is being perpetrated by the
Progressive Party...the new name for CPUSA...they have infiltrated and
taken over the DNC as well as Federal Appeal Courts and the school
systems including most Universities...they have dumbed down the students
making them useful idiots.(protestors/rioters)
What needs to be
done is educate the electorate on the truth "Facts are a Bitch" it makes
the looney left melt like the "Wicked Witch" in the classic film..."The
Wizard of Oz"
Here let me help you:
https://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2015/05/things-race-baiters-dont-want-you-to.html
https://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2013/02/barry-barack-obama-is-new-anthony.html
by:
Martin Lioll
The removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee was the flashpoint that
brought white supremacists to Charlottesville, Virginia, and reignited a
national debate over Confederate monuments. But what do most Americans
know about the Confederate general?
Not enough, says George Rasley, editor of Conservative HQ —
especially racists want to use Lee as a symbol of white supremacy and
liberals want to see him erased from American history. In a Conservative
HQ n op-ed titled “
Misusing Robert E. Lee,”
Rasley argues that both sides in the debate over Lee’s legacy miss that
he opposed slavery and helped end the Civil War before it turned into a
bloody guerrilla war.
Knowing Lee’s place in history is important, particularly as the left
seeks to use him as a symbol of division. Progressives know that Lee has
many defenders — and they also know that conservatives who stand up for
Lee’s memory can be falsely painted as apologists for slavery and the
old order of the Confederacy.
Yet, few involved in the debate actually know Lee’s complicated history.
Offered a position as the commander of the Union forces, Rasley
points out, “Lee refused the command on the grounds that he was a
Virginian and owed his first allegiance to the state he believed was a
sovereign entity with the right to stay in or leave the Union as it saw
fit. He would, he said, not make war on the Union, but he would defend
the state of his birth.”
However, when Virginia seceded,
the general
felt his sympathies residing with his home state. “I shall never bear
arms against the Union, but it may be necessary for me to carry a musket
in the defense of my native state, Virginia, in which case I shall not
prove recreant to my duty,” he said.
As for his feelings on slavery, Rasley notes that “(w)hile Lee espused
the paternalistic attitudes many Nineteenth Century Americans felt
toward Africans, it certainly wasn’t because he believed slavery was
just.” In fact, what Lee said about slavery may surprise a number of
people who aren’t familiar with Lee’s views on the matter…
“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not
acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political
evil,” Lee wrote back in 1856, in a
letter written in response to a speech given by then-President Franklin Pierce.
Lee’s views on race may not be ones we entertain today, but few if any Americans — even those that we rightly hail as
heroes
of the emancipation — held opinions we consider appropriate on the
matter. As for why he fought for the South, Lee simply believed the
United States was, as Rasley says, “an association of sovereign states
that could, if they chose, leave it or dissolve it.” After all, as the
Declaration of Independence notes, “whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Lee believed
his state — and the rest of the South — was simply following the tenets
of
one of our founding documents.
However, Rasley argues that “it isn’t what Lee did before and during the
Civil War that makes him such an important figure in American history —
and one that should be honored — it is what he did
after the Civil War that earned him the memorials erected to his memory and a place in history that should be honored by all.”
“When Lee surrendered at Appomattox he also signed a parole document
swearing upon his honor not to bear arms against the United States or to
‘tender aid to its enemies.’ Lee’s surrender and his immediate parole
were essential in preventing the Civil War from continuing as a
destructive guerrilla war that would have continued to rend the country
indefinitely.”
Lee spent his retirement as the president of Washington College in
Virginia (which would be renamed as Washington & Lee) and would urge
reconciliation between the North and the South. In his public letters,
he urged “all should unite in honest efforts to obliterate the effects
of war and to restore the blessings of peace.”
Does this sound like the kind of man who would urge belligerent white
nationalists to violence over a statue of him? Does this sound like the
kind of man who would tolerate those who would give succor to the
enemies of the United States in the reprehensible, intimidatory way that
the vomitous cretins who held aloft the flag of Nazi Germany in
Charlottesville this past Saturday did? Does this sound like a man who
would support domestic terrorism?
No. You may not agree with the decisions that Robert E. Lee made or
the views that he held, but let us remember that he spent the rest of
his life atoning for the war and his views weren’t just his own but
those of his era. He was a man who was opposed to slavery and wanted to
bind the wounds that the war caused.
The liberal media wants to make Lee the avatar of the
abominable rabble that
descended upon Charlottesville and left three people dead in its wake.
What they hope America never hears is who he really was.
Yes, some racists and bigots are in favor of keeping Confederate
monuments. Nobody is denying that. We believe they are in the minority.
The vast majority of people who want to want to keep these statues wish
to honor our history and the men who played a part in it. Let us all
turn away from the despicable ideologies we saw on display in Virginia
this weekend — but let us also not let the media pretend that those
ideologies are what the debate over
Confederate monuments is about.
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Bobblehead
Lincoln Memorial vandalized with red spray paint.
