What we've got here is failure to communicate

 

The title of this blog come directly from the song by Guns and Roses called Civil War, hence the graphic here.  In a lot of my blogs I have talked about the events happening in America the last three years that are leading us directly to the next civil war.  Lines are being drawn and citizens are being divided on every single thing.  In this blog I wanted to look at what the "elite" are doing to maintain their power and grip on everyday Americans.

Lets take this all the way back to 2020.  In 2020 we saw the rise of Covid-19.  The government made the decision to lock everyone down who they didn't deem "essential." So who did they choose to remain open, big corporations, chain restaurants, weed shops, and liquor stores.  The local small to mid-size businesses were forced to shudder their doors and stop paying employees.  I thought for many months why they did that.  The conclusion I came to was the ones left open either donated to the political campaigns, were friends of the "elites" or it was a business which would aid in the destruction of people. Companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon made billions of dollars during the 2-year lock down period.  More and more Americans developed mental health issues and addiction due to the access of the "essential" businesses.  Suicide and domestic violence rates skyrocketed. This led to the idea there was a bigger plan in place.  During this same time, we saw a massive movement known as BLM.  This movement started as protests against police violence against black people.  What happened very quickly was these "peaceful" protests devolved into violent arson and attacks against white people and police officers.  We saw entire blocks of Seattle taken over by warlords and had zero ability to provide medical care or safety for citizens in that area.  That failed quickly as expected and eventually it was restored to sanity.  The racial division was radicalized by mainstream media and glorified by the same politician who pushed the lockdowns.  That went on for months and what was the end result?  Police officers being attacked and killed, minority businesses being burned to the ground, and minority communities left in ruins.  Were the elites hurt by this? No.  The people most affected were the ones those same elites encouraged to commit the violence.  This was their way of dividing us further.

After the racial divide was present the next move was to pit the vaxxed and un-vaxxed against one another.  We saw people on both sides being attacked verbally and physically for choosing to wear a mask or not.  We heard calls from leaders and media that people needed to report their neighbors if they didn't follow mask mandates to local authorities for "reeducation." We have seen the same kinds of "reeducation" happening in China with the Uyghur population and also in Nazi Germany.  The tools used by dictators and communists alike is reeducation of the masses or death.  Is that really what we want to become?  This divide crossed into Patriots vs the left.  Patriotic Americans were labeled racist and white nationalist.  It became a case of us vs them.  In the end we saw even further division of Americans.  The difference with this attempt was most Patriotic Americans are gun advocates and will not let the removal of liberties stand.  So how could the "elites" get what they want in removal of guns from these Americans? The solution is something we see to this day, glorify mass shootings and use the weapons the a-holes use against the people to push for gun control.  At first the method was to claim any AR-15 was an assault weapon or weapon of war.  The pushback was educating people of the weapons and how it was a semi-automatic meaning one trigger pull, one shot. Not the fully automatic death machines the media throws on the news nightly.

And finally, this week we saw the House of Representatives hold a committee hearing to address Hunter Biden taking money from foreign governments.  In this hearing the Republicans were asking FBI whistleblower pertinent questions about the investigation. When it was the Democrats turn each and every one of them called out Donald Trump, injustice against minorities and other far left talking points. None of what they talked about had anything to do with the matter being discussed.  Then the next hearing was about censorship in social media.  The first witness was Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy Jr.  He was called to the hearing to discuss his own social media accounts being throttled and censored. As he began to speak the representative from the Virgin Islands immediately spoke over him and refused to let him talk.  She continued to the point of the leader of the committee telling her to stop censoring his speech and let him talk!  After the hearing all of the Democrats said the same lines to media question.  They said things like "He was free to say whatever he wanted, wherever he wanted, except in this chamber" or "We were not going to let him spread misinformation" and "He was spreading lies in committee." So what do these two things have in common?  They both involve high level government officials being involved in FBI matters and censorship of opposing views.  We have also seen this with former President Trump.  The left is still committed to putting him in jail, silencing his voice and preventing him from ever winning the Presidency again.  

To conclude this blog I want to compare what I have discussed with things like Nazi Germany, Pol pot, and other communist/socialist leaders.  In each and every case the format was the same.  Divide the populace into an us vs them scenario, remove the citizens ability to defend themselves, have citizen turn in their family and friend for "disobedience" and finally remove the rights of free people to vote for their leaders. This is when a civil and free society fails to exist.  We have seen the pattern repeat throughout history and it never ends well.  I fully believe it is the left and liberals plan to make America another third world dictatorship and drive us into poverty.  That way they will be the only ones with wealth and food.  When this begins to happen, I also fully believe that the Patriotic Americans will once again rise up and say no to the tyrannical takeover of the greatest country ever in the history of the world!

The Supreme Courts Recent Decisions

 In the past few weeks the Supreme court has been on a roll making decisions on cases brought before them.  Most notably were their ruling on affirmative action, student loans and "gay rights."  So lets take them each individually!

The case involving "gay rights" was about a web designer refusing to create a website for a gay couples wedding.  The case was simple, the designer's 1st amendment right to refuse service vs "discrimination" based on sexual orientation.  So much like the baker from years ago who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding this lawsuit is utterly ridiculous.  The couple asked for a website to be created and the designer refused, enough said.  The designer has a constitutionally protected right under the 1st amendment to refuse service for any reason.  This is in the Constitution and as this court has shown they fall on the black and white of the document. There are zero "rights" heterosexual couples have that gay couples do not.  That same designer could refuse to make a website for a straight couple and I would be fine with that also.  In the end the couple could have simply gone to another website creator and gotten their site made.  They also could have put out a negative review, told family and friends to not patronize the business, etc.  This lawsuit was frivolous, and the 6-3 ruling was the right ruling.

 The next case was about cancelling student loan debt.  In another 6-3 decision they ruled the Biden administration did not have the legal standing to cancel the student loans.  This is another one they got 100% correct.  The House of Representatives is the only government body with the "power of the purse", meaning they are the only ones who can authorize matters of money and finance in the government.  My personal view is that the loans were taking out by an individual to benefit them.  Much like car loans, mortgages, etc. these people voluntarily signed up for and took the loans while agreeing to pay them back.  It is simple contract law.  I did not take the loans and my taxes should not go to pay them back.  Do I think the colleges charge way too much for degrees that people cannot find work in?  Absolutely, but once again these students chose the degree and agreed to pay the loans back.  If they chose not to get a degree in a field which had a good employment rate that is no one's fault but their own.

And finally in a 6-3 ruling the court rules that race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard and UNC were unlawful.  I agree entirely.  A college admission should be dependent on a lot of factors but one that should not be on the list is your race or skin color.  People should meet the academic standard for admissions, period.  Rather than put policies in place at the collegiate level that grant privilege to students of color we should look at improving their education at lower levels and improve them from the early years of education.  But as we have seen even the lower level schools are more concerned with pushing far left ideas of inequity and not teaching what students need to know to pass the SAT or college entrance exams.  They are teaching students in these "underprivileged" communities that without a handout they are too stupid to make it.  I heard a pundit the other day say "Without race-based policies for admission black students would not qualify for entrance into these Universities." So to clarify what he was saying was "Without getting accepted because you are black, you are too dumb to get in on your merits." That to me sounds racist as hell!  Much like when our President said "Poor kids are just as bright as white kids" the left and Democrats continue to talk down to black Americans.  They continue to convince them they are stupid and start life with systemic blocks that white kids do not, that is 100% false.  No matter what someone's race there are barriers they must overcome to succeed.  Rep Tim Scott was on the view and was discussing this issue.  His position is that black kids should look at successful black Americans as the standard not the exception to the rule, he is right.  Telling any child they will never get ahead on hard work and effort does nothing but create entitled assholes who think they need to be "given" a good life, not earn it.  Affirmative action has done more harm than good for African Americans.  

So what have we learned from the court in recent years?  For me it is the fact they are majority constitutionalist.  Meaning they go by the letter of the document and do not interpret the "grey area" in its words.  When Trump nominated the three justices, we were all told they would tow the Trump line and our country would be worse off.  The truth is they rule via the words of the document, not their interpretation and in most cases did not fall in line with Trump or his views.  They have clarified there is no Constitutional right to abortion, gay issues, student loan relief or more restrictive gun laws.  All of these rely on the direct words of the Constitution and that is the way it should be! If anyone wants to see the other ruling feel free to go to 2023 Supreme Court Decisions: Affirmative Action, Student Loans and More - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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USA, Third World Country

 The United States is a unique experiment in politics.  Our founding fathers created a melting pot for all nations and peoples to have freedom.  Through the years and election cycles we have seen mudslinging, attack ads and everything imaginable to discredit the other political opponents.  The one thing we have never seen until recently is the attempt to arrest, jail and forcefully stop a political opponent.  This is something that happens in 3rd world dictatorships and Marxist countries.  This is the tool of "leaders" who are afraid of losing power.  Ever since the second Donald Trump was elected as President the Democratic party, media and political elites have done everything in their power to impeach, arrest, harass and just make his life hell.  Even through it all he is still standing and trying to win office again!

This past weekend these same Democratic politicians and DA's indicted Trump for what they call threats to national security.  The primary focus is his retention and storage of "classified" documents (103 to be exact).  They showed pictures of stacks of document boxes they claimed contained these documents.  I think any normal person who has ever seen these boxes knows each one can contain hundreds of documents, so why have more than just one box for 103 pages?  The answer is simple, to create an image that Trump had more than the 103 pages they found.  In reality he had every right under the Presidential Records Act to not only declassify any documents he wanted but to also remove and take with him when he left those documents.  He was required to store them in a place secured to FBI standards, and they had validated he had done just that.  The news is already convicting him of crimes he did not commit.  But you know who did?  Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.  There is documented evidence Hillary had an unclassified server containing thousands of classified documents in her home.  Before she could be charged, she destroyed, with bleach, the server, cell phones and other items which contained the documents.  Joe Biden took documents out of secured areas when he was a Senator and also the Vice President.  These documents were found at every single one of his properties and in most cases not in a location secured at all.  The difference in these two cases is that the people involved were Democrats and also not allowed to remove or declassify documents!  These two cases were actual crimes!

So why is Trump now faces criminal charges?  Simple, he is a threat to the political establishment.  Their power is under direct threat.  They must stop him at any cost.  In order for them to maintain their grip on money and power he must be removed from the equation.  This is where 3rd world countries can be looked at as examples of what their plan is.  If anyone is a threat, they will be removed from the playing field at any cost.  He is being made the example for anyone else who dares to go outside the lines and try to make actual change in our system.  We as Americans cannot sit idly by and watch this happen.  We need to stand up and hold these vicious politicians accountable.  We the people must remove them from office and ensure they never sit in those seats again.  If we do not this will be the beginning of the end of our Republic and country.  I firmly believe in my lifetime good men and women will have to stand side by side and fight once again for our freedoms.  This will be the fight of our life and we must be ready.  I am not calling for violent revolution as I do believe we can legally stop this before it gets to that point, but we must be ready to stand firm to any extent or everything we hold close to our hearts will be ripped from our hands.  I for one will not stand by and watch our country fall as every other empire in the world has.  Thie country is worth fighting for and we need to be ready.

How leftist policies destroy cities

 I was reading an article this morning about a Gen Z activist in San Francisco who is documenting the downfall of the city due to the massive drug use, specifically Fentanyl.  He documents overdoses, homelessness, crime, etc. and has seem a massive increase in all as people have fled the city in huge numbers.  So what has contributed to this increase?  The answer, Liberal or leftist policies.  Legalizing drugs, allowing needle exchanges, increasing social welfare programs, encouraging people not to work by paying more in welfare than min wage and not locking up criminals.  Since I have moved back to Denver, which was once a much more conservative city, I have seen almost daily stories on the news about drug use, crime, violence, deaths in the black community, etc. Just yesterday a story about a 14-year-old black boy who committed armed robbery of a vape shop and was shot and killed by police in the alley behind it because he had a gun and attempted to aim at the cops.  a black activist was on the news saying "Police don't need to stop, question, arrest them, or anything.  They just need to be there."  Essentially saying black people in the city have the right to do anything without consequence.  That is ridiculous!  The family of the boy is suing the police and demanding millions.  Rather than look at what they may have done wrong that allowed their 14-year-old son to think armed robbery was acceptable.  

The point of this blog being these policies which decriminalize crime, encourage not working, promote drug use, etc. are causing nothing but harm.  We are a country of law and order.  Without it we will devolve into chaos and lose the freedoms we know and love.  We have seen police arrested and their lives ruined for doing the job to protect us!  Now I do understand there are some police officers abusing authority and being bias in enforcement of the law, this should be addressed and corrected.  But a vast majority of police officers are good people working hard to protect us.  At the same time criminals are made to be martyrs for minority communities.  Look at George Floyd, his situation was one of a lifetime of crime, violence and drug use.  In his case the black community created statues, said he was a pillar of his community and say he was murdered by the cops.  Neither of those two things is true.  I will go as far as to say if that community stopped making these criminals heroes, stopped them from infecting their communities and taught their children to look up to successful black people like Senator Tim Scott, Justice Thomas, or Ben Carson as heroes they might see it is possible to be successful despite your starting place in our country.  These people and many others should be placed in the media and applauded for their success.  The other issue is single parent homes.  Regardless of the color of someone's skin this is the main reason for success and failure in life.  When a home had a mother and a father the children as a majority are more successful.  

So what is the solution?  Do not have children with someone who doesn't have the same values, limit sex partners to people who will help raise your children not destroy them, instill in your kids respect for authority and good morals and have a basis of faith in your home!  Sounds simple but these few things would drastically change the face of our country.  I would also throw in a respect and pride in America!  We are all Americans, not "insert race identity"-Americans. We should unite as Americans against the world.  We have the greatest country in the world, hands down.  Until we figure that out and take pride in it we will continue to decline.  

I am not saying conservative policies would totally work either.  Both sides have issues and the solution is somewhere in the middle.  But faith, pride in country and good morals and values would solve a majority of our problems.  Police are not the enemy, law and order is not racist, Faith is not the problem, and most of all we are the only solution!  Govt cannot and will not protect or save us.  The government "We the People" not elected officials.  States should have more rights over their citizens than the feds and local communities and organizations should be providing the social welfare, not the government!  Small government and localized policies are needed.  

Californication

 

When I was growing up California was the land of bright lights and the path to fame and fortune.  It was the ideal place to live a life in a state which has amazing weather, access to beaches, and an overall easy life.  As I have grown I have seen the slow decay of this once great state.  Sure the politics in California was always somewhat left leaning but it was limited to San Francisco, Los Angeles and very few other major metropolitan cities.  In my forty-one years on Earth I have seen the spread of far left woke liberalism infect the very fabric of this beautiful place.  The picture in this blog is just one example of where I feel they have gone way off the map.  It is a picture of "drag queen" story hour at a local library in California.  In essence a man dressed in drag goes to a local library and reads books which encourage the LGBTQIA+ lifestyle and make it a normal thing.  As you can see these kids range in age from toddlers to pre-teens.  

So why am I writing this blog today you might ask.  The answer is simple, the California school names advisory committee released a spreadsheet of 42 schools in the state they wanted to rename and the reasons behind the need for change.  In the Los Angeles Times article it says "The renaming committee began its presentation with an homage to the Ramaytush Ohlone people, whose homeland is now occupied by the city of San Francisco."  They go on to explain the names of the schools the committee had flagged for removal were chosen "because of alleged associations with slaveholding, colonization or oppression."  The forty-two schools make up a third of all the public schools in San Francisco.  I wanted to highlight some of the names and why they want them removed.

The first name on the list that caught my attention was Abraham Lincoln High School.  The reason they want the change:

"Abraham Lincoln is not seen as much of a hero at all among many American Indian Nations and Native peoples of the United States, as the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to them. For instance, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 helped precipitate the construction of the transcontinental railroad, which led to the significant loss of land and natural resources, as well as the loss of lifestyle and culture, for many Indigenous peoples. In addition, rampant corruption in the Indian Office, the precursor of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, continued unabated throughout Lincoln’s term and well beyond. In many cases, government-appointed Indian agents outright stole resources that were supposed to go to the tribes. In other cases, the Lincoln administration simply continued to implement discriminatory and damaging policies, like placing Indians on reservations. Beginning in 1863, the Lincoln administration oversaw the removal of the Dine' Nation (Navajo) and the Mescalero Apaches from the New Mexico Territory, forcing the Dine' to march the "Long Walk" of 450 miles to Bosque Redondo—a brutal journey. Eventually, more than 2,000 died before a treaty was signed. Also responsible for the Dakota 38+2, largest mass hanging in US history"

In essence he was a racist.

The next name was George Washington High School.  The reason was much simpler, "slave owner, colonizer" that was it.  No further explanation needed I guess.  Lowell High School is next.  Named after James Russell Lowell.  The LA Times states "He was an abolitionist but depicted Black people unfavorably in his writings."  So again the reason, he is a racist.  Everett Middle school named after Senator Edward Everett.  The spreadsheet reasoning is "His pro-slavery stance was unpopular with his constituents."  Racist. Herbert Hoover Middle School takes the next hit.  They say "Racist President- accepting of white supremacy. While serving as Secretary of Commerce under white supremacist Wilson, he developed a campaign for exclusionary zoning (which developed into Redlining under the FHA), headed the Better Homes in America org, which pushed for the Federal government to solidify and expand existing segregation in the North and West."  

Roosevelt Middle School names after President Teddy Roosevelt, ""The Richmond School was renamed in honor of Theodore Roosevelt at a school board meeting on February 10, 1910.    Theodore Roosevelt - opposed civil rights and suffrage for Black folks. FDR -  refused to support anti-lynching bill (proposed by his wife) and other racist policies/views (including racial engineering and limiting migration dependent on race). Roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans to concentration camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. As Vox reports, “Japanese American internment is almost universally considered one of the most egregious things the United States has done to an entire ethnic group.” It took a Supreme Court ruling to release the detainees, most of whom could read, write, and speak English, and only a fraction of whom had spent much time in Japan"

You get the picture.  Here are other names on the list that I feel are ridiculous.  Paul Revere K-8, Thomas Edison Charter Academy, Garfield Elementary named after James Garfield, Jefferson Elementary, Fancis Scott Key Elementary, and several other former Presidents.  But don't think the liberals wont eat their own also on the list are Willie L. Brown Jr. middle School.  Of him they say "Responsible for much of gentrification in SF while he was mayor" and Dianne Feinstein Elementary "Manilatown, she's responsible for the eviction of a whole Pilipino neighborhood, and the police brutality, allowed police dogs to attack Filipino veteran elders. She repeatedly protected and flew the confederate flag in front of sf city hall. https://sfbayview.com/2019/04/its-true-as-san-francisco-mayor-dianne-feinstein-did-repeatedly-fly-a-confederate-flag-in-front-of-city-hall/. Even though this flag was hung before her when a Black activist took it down, she called for his prosecution, and put the confederate flag back up instead of leaving it down. Dianne Fienstien was also again same sex partnership and advocated against same sex partnership/marriage."  Both of those people are not even woke enough for the leftist mob.  

So there it is, anyone who was ever labeled racist, slave owner, colonizer, or any other label the left doesn't like must have every single instance of their names stripped from history.  This is how the left wants it.  And as we saw this summer if they don't get their way they will just tear down the statues or burn the buildings down to get their way.  If you choose to stand opposed and highlight the great works of these men and women then you are also a racist colonizing slave owner and you just refuse to admit it.  I have decided to include a link to the spreadsheet here so you can go see the reasons for yourself and decide which side of the isle you are on.  For me a look back on the good, bad, beautiful and ugly of our history helps us to remember all the strides we have taken and just how great of a nation we have become.  In todays society it is so easy to get bombarded by the name calling, accusations of racism, mockery of our founders, and those who are willing to only point out the "systemic racism" of America.  We as patriots need to stand up and push back against this or we will lose everything.  The final thing I wish to share is something I shared on Facebook and think it perfectly explains why I wanted to write this blog:

THE DAY THE POLICE WERE NO LONGER NEEDED

On August 19, 1966 - Chinese students launched a fight for social justice to fight for the rights of the oppressed in China. It was widely believed that the 'patriarchal system' in China had been created by the 1% and held down women, minorities, and the working class. The students cried out for a revolution and change, and consequentially launched the infamous Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Students put a red band around their arm to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and called for a change on old ideas that they called the FOUR OLDS. The Four Olds were: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.

The movement was supported by the Chinese media.

Mass demonstrations and looting by the students ensued.

Statues were torn down.

Chinese architecture was destroyed.

Classical literature and Chinese paintings were torn apart and burned.

Temples were desecrated.

The Cemetery of Confucius was attacked.

The corpse of the 76th-generation Duke Yansheng was removed from its grave and hung from a tree.

Wealthy homes were attacked and destroyed.

Many families' long-kept genealogy books were burned to ashes.

All of history, in short, was to be removed and replaced. This was the central meaning of Cultural Revolution: That China was going to destroy every trace of its bourgeois (privileged) past and replace it with a new culture built on the principles of Maoism and Marxism.

Communist leaders like President Liu Shaoqi were taken out of power and replaced with men Mao believed were not critical of his reign.

Public leaders who were considered to be oppressive were tried by angry mobs and vigilantes.

Three days later, August 22, 1966, a central directive was issued to stop police intervention. The police were disbanded in the city and the students formed a community solution called the RED GUARD. The RED GUARDS policed the communities and punished anyone who did not agree with their ideas. Even people that supported the movement, but had bad thoughts ("wrong thinking") could be punished.

Though many Christians supported the movement in the beginning, they quickly became the number one target of the RED GUARDS and public trials were held to condemn them to death.

Many of those that were on board with the cause of the rebellion, in the beginning, saw that it was not really what they had signed up for, but by then it was too late. The power that the Red Guard wanted had already been given.

More people died during the cultural revolution in China than any war, famine, or natural disaster in the history of man. An estimated 20 to 30 million people were killed."

This is why it is important.  You can substitute America or United States for China in this and see a very real and scary reflection of what is happening today.  Please lets love one another, unite against a common evil, and begin to show the world through example that we still are the greatest nation in the world.

How 2020 has turned into 1984

 

In America Thanksgiving means something.  For some it is a terrible day of oppression and the slaughter of Native Americans.  For others it is a celebration of our freedoms and a time for family and friends to get together and share a great meal and great memories.  But this is 1984, oh sorry I mean 2020, and as we know from all that has happened this year we can not expect anything to go as usual.  In the last month we had an election, which is still not finalized, and the hope of many was that the results would put the Covid-19 risks to rest and allow us to return to normal life, fat chance.

As Thanksgiving has drawn closer we have seen an increase in Governors flexing their political muscle and imposing their will on the citizens in their states.  In NY Gov. Cuomo got into a shouting match with a reporter about the schools closing down again despite the risk being almost non-existent to the children of the NY City school systems.  Gov Newsome in California has imposed lockdown restrictions on his citizens, closing businesses, and forcing curfews at night.  I watched a video today of the police in Los Angeles rolling down the street to "enforce" the curfew.  One officer gets out of his armored car and approaches a man in a robe on his front porch.  He tells the man to go inside due to the curfew.  The guy says something about it being his front porch at which point the officer tackles him and shouts he is under arrest for violating the Gov's curfew order.  THE GUY WAS ON HIS FRONT PORCH!  In Pennsylvania the governor put an order in place closing stores and also prohibiting alcohol sales after 5pm tomorrow.  Does any of this seem like Big Brother from 1984 is actually happening here in 2020?

You may be asking Why should I care?  Well it is simple, the governors are taking away the freedom we are preparing to celebrate!  We as Americans should have the freedom to go to a store to buy food for the celebration, booze to drink, and other supplies you may need in your home.  How many freedoms will we give up before it is to late?  Well I did see a business owner in Boston who had police come into his business and try to close him down.  They said he was in violation of the shut down order issues by the Gov.  He told them who reported him because he is lawfully allowed to confront his accuser.  They refused to answer and he then told them to leave his business and if they wanted to shut him down to come back with a warrant!  What did the cops do? They left.  They realized they had no authority to tell this guy he could not be in his business.  That is exactly how we need to handle this tsunami of authoritarian control.  

1984 was a work of fiction, 2020 is not.  We are being restricted in tiny steps more and more.  It started with lockdowns in March, then went into mandatory mask wearing, then we were told we couldn't worship at churches while thousands rioted in the streets, and now we have come full circle and lockdowns are immanent again.  If the lockdowns worked the first time why is it needed again?  If it didn't work why are we doing it again?  The answer is simple, authoritarians trying to usurp our constitutionally given rights.  They want us to Never Trust Your Own Eyes, Believe What You Are Told.

Thomas Jefferson: Anti-Slavery Founding Father

 

    When I was in school I hated learning about history.  I found it boring and not needed in our society at the time.  As I have grown older I have stood and fought for our founding fathers with an understanding they were not perfect but were intent on creating a country that was close to perfect.  Recently we have seen our founding fathers labeled as racists.  I was watching an interview this morning with Glenn Beck.  He had all kinds of amazing documents that Blaze TV has purchased and is compiling into an archive of historical documents for use in research and such.  One of the documents he showed during this interview really stood out and caught my attention, it was an early draft of the Declaration of Independence.  In the 4 page document there are a few things that I was never taught because the Declaration as I know it did not contain them.  In it Thomas Jefferson has an entire paragraph about slavery.  Here is what the paragraph states:

"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.  This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain.  Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.  And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."

So what does all of that mean?  In this paragraph he is talking about the King of England pushing slavery on the colonies in support of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.  As you can see he say the king is "violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither."  This was Thomas Jefferson saying slavery was a war with human nature itself.  He follows it by stating that the king was offering to pay slaves off with their "freedom" if they were willing to take up arms and fight against the colonist insurrection against Him and England.  

So why would I want to bring this up?  It is simple, maybe we as a society have been shown only those things which form a narrative that the educational system wants us to know.  I know my sons have in recent time discussed slavery and how evil our founders were because they supported it.  This original draft disproves all of it!  Out of the 13 colonies only 2 states refused to support that paragraph in the Declaration, Georgia and South Carolina.  The other 11 states agreed with these statements and wanted them to be a part of the document.  For a group of raving racists who hated black people this paragraph certainly does not validate the accusation. 

I had no idea.  But now that I do I have an entirely new perspective on our founding fathers.  I want to see the original documents so I can read an interpret them for myself.  This one single document has opened my mind and given me an entirely new look on history.  I hope some people read this and it makes them desire to learn more for themselves.  For reference here is the website I quoted from: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/declaration-independence-and-debate-over-slavery/

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