Truly, the US has arrived
I'm embarrassed to say I never bothered to read Orwell's 1984 until recently. Imagine my discomfort, considering what I've written, to come across this passage. Truly, the US has passed into this phase of depravity.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Founding Fathers? What Founding Fathers?
Are we talking about some despicable slave owners who wrote a flawed document?
Let's not forget Mao. His face was found and photographed on a Christmas tree ornament during Ogrinch's (for coal miners) first term.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/...
Here's one of my favorites:
Unless we are thorough-going Americans and unless our patriotism is part of the very fiber of our being, we can neither serve God nor take our own part. Whatever may be the case in an infinitely remote future, at present no people can render any service to humanity unless as a people they feel an intense sense of national cohesion and solidarity. The man who loves other nations as much as he does his own, stands on a par with the man who loves other women as much as he does his own wife. The United States can accomplish little for mankind, save in so far as within its borders it develops an intense spirit of Americanism. A flabby cosmopolitanism, especially if it expresses itself through a flabby pacifism, is not only silly, but degrading. It represents national emasculation. The professors of every form of hyphenated Americanism are as truly the foes of this country as if they dwelled outside its borders and made active war against it. This is not a figure of speech, or a hyperbolic statement. The leaders of the hyphenated-American movement in this country (who during the last eighteen months have been the professional German-Americans and Austro-Americans) are also leaders in the movement against preparedness.
"Theodore and Woodrow is Judge Andrew P. Napolitano’s shocking historical account of how a Republican and a Democratic president oversaw the greatest shift in power in American history, from a land built on the belief that authority should be left to the individuals and the states to a bloated, far-reaching federal bureaucracy, continuing to grow and consume power each day"
"With lessons rooted in history, Judge Napolitano shows the intellectually arrogant, anti-personal freedom, even racist progressive philosophy driving these men to poison the American system of government."
The only decent exception would be the original Limbaugh book (See I Told You So) written during the Clinton years. The O'Reilly stuff was awful to read, I made it through about half a chapter before tossing it aside.
TR ejected the colonial powers from North and South America...
as for aja we have an uneducated populas so 1984 has become real.
Now that I'm back from Tennessee to see that total eclipse, I feel all the more warped.
Me dino saw these little weird wriggly things slither sideways across the ground when the sun peeked back out.
Our history in America is rich with struggle and often isn't really "back and white", but we need to preserve it all so we can understand it all.
I like the idea of seceding from the union when the union is bad, like it is now. Preventing the dissolution of a corrupt union doesnt seem to me a "good" reason to kill the people who just want to leave.
We should leave up ALL the statues, so we can learn from history. Doesnt mean anyone has to agree with everything that was ever done, but it WAS done, and cant be undone.
Here's a true story: About ten years ago I met a re-enactor from England who did a lot of American Civil War portrayals in England. He said it was "big" over there as well as in Sweden, Norway, and Germany. I asked him why American Civil War re-enacting was so popular as England has a rich history and plenty of civil wars of its own. His reply was that most of the flags and symbols of the losers were outlawed for public display so why bother having a re-enactment if you can't do it properly. At the time I assured him that would never happen here because in America we like our history straight up and the First Amendment of the Constitution will protect the losers as well as the winners. I guess I was wrong on that one. [Side note: I have met American Civil War re-enactors from England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and - believe it or not - Russia!]
Edit add: Mega-events like 10 year anniversaries of Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chickamauga can draw American Civil War re-enactors from all over the world. I fear all that is about to come to an end.
If you care to hear the other history, read DiLorenzo's The Real Lincoln.
https://www.monticello.org/site/resea...
As to others freeing their slaves, it was on printed materials that they gave out and displayed in the museum. Not exactly "proof"
Currently, the current black culture itself has been steeped in entitlement, and I do NOT like that. Therefore, I want to stay away from those people, and its just not efficient to analyze from afar whether they are entitled or not. Therefore, I label myself a culturist, but the liberals would call me racist (incorrectly). Political correctness be damned as far as I am concerned.
Removing history means we cant learn FROM history.
Harken, though, those that plan to deceive are really not all that smart but persistent, which is why it's taken so long...the minds of men, (hebrew for human) still exists and thrives abet at smaller and smaller percentages.
I am thinking SPUK (scumbag parasitical unwashed kakistocrats) as it has a double entendre.
In the urban dictionary 2nd definition... SPUK = Any creamy, white, food sauce that gets spilled in the crotch region leaving suspicious stains. Is usually accompanied by a foul smell.
Com-on...it was way to obvious...(spuk-spu[n]k!)
Truly...that's way to good of an analogy to apply to them.
"Abraham Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862):
The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free. Yours, A. Lincoln."
You can't deny his own words.
So Jefferson could have filed a "instrument of writing" to free his slaves after all.