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CULTURE 10 Monumental Hypocrisy by Dr. Duke Pesta — With the approval of Democratic politicians, radical leftists are destroying our cultural infrastructure under the guise of social justice, despite the immense hypocrisy involved.

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CULTURE 18 Tearing Down Statues of Real Heroes by R. Cort Kirkwood — Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have been tearing down what they deem to be offensive statues: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Robert E. Lee, etc.

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HISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE 26 31 The Great Emancipation by William Norman Grigg — Contrary to multicultural, politically correct purveyors of misinformation, the Founding Fathers broke with age-old practices and provided for the abolition of slavery.

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Larabell visor to the Kent Committee to End the War manufacture of American medicines, it Foreign Correspondent in Viet Nam, was a card-carrying commu- has caused the loss of thousands of Ameri- p l a z a Alex Newman nist. He died May 15, 1979 and was eulo- can jobs and up to $200 billion per year gized by the Communist Party of Ohio, and in GDP, and led to both low-quality drugs Contributors Gus Hall, general secretary of the Commu- and a U.S. national security threat. Bob Adelmann • Dennis Behreandt nist Party, USA, attended his funeral. As reported in the China newsletter, Steve Byas • Raven Clabough Tom Steele China recently “accounted for 95% of U.S. Selwyn Duke • Brian Farmer Prescott Valley, Arizona imports of ibuprofen, 91% of U.S. imports Christian Gomez • Larry Greenley of hydrocortisone, 70% of U.S. imports of Gregory A. Hession, J.D. acetaminophen, ... [and] 80% of the U.S. Ed Hiserodt • William P. Hoar China’s Corruption supply of antibiotics,” the last of which R. Cort Kirkwood • Patrick Krey, J.D. America faces two foreign foes: coronavi- are vital supplies the country must have to Warren Mass • John F. McManus rus and communism. And America faces function. China now also provides a large James Murphy • Dr. Duke Pesta Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. an enemy within: corruption. China is portion of our antidepressants, HIV meds, C. Mitchell Shaw • Michael Tennant waging war on America, and some sena- chemotherapy drugs, and medicines for Rebecca Terrell • Fr. James Thornton tors and representatives are helping, ac- high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s, diabe- Laurence M. Vance • Joe Wolverton II, J.D. cepting contributions funneled through tes, epilepsy, and Parkinson’s. multinationals, lobbyists, and drug com- The vulnerability caused by China sup- Creative Director panies to do China’s bidding. plying drugs flows down to the individual Joseph W. 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THE NEW AMERICAN • MAY 20, 2019 Inside Track Supreme Court Shoots Down Request to Halt Border-wall Construction In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled July 31 that construc- “The Supreme Court reaffirmed today that it meant what it said tion of the wall along the southern border can continue, shooting a year ago: special interest groups likely lack any cause of action down environmental concerns raised in a suit by various left- to sue the Department of Defense from transferring funds, and wing groups. the Trump Administration should be allowed to build the wall and Organizations such as the ACLU and Sierra Club had again protect our country while litigation proceeds,” the White House asked the high court to put a halt to the wall building after the said in a statement. “Borders are a non-controversial reality of justices last year allowed the White House to use military funds every sovereign nation, and we plan to defend ours.” for construction while the case is still in court. “The fight continues,” said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with Though a federal appeals court had ruled against the adminis- the ACLU’s National Security Project. “Every lower court to con- tration in June, the Supreme Court has for now handed the Trump sider the question has ruled President Trump’s border wall illegal, administration another victory for securing the American border. and the Supreme Court’s temporary order does not decide the case. We’ll be back before the Supreme Court soon to put a stop to Trump’s xenophobic border wall once and for all.” Opponents of the border wall have attempted to use environ- mental concerns to halt its progress. Environmentalists say the barrier will prevent large animals from crossing. Never mind that illegal immigration causes significant envi- ronmental damage in the form of trash, pollution, human waste, illegal campfires, out-of-season hunting, and more. For the Left, “environmental concerns” aren’t really about nature, but about furthering a political agenda of statism. In this case, they use the environment as an excuse to weaken the border and thereby pro- mote mass migration to ultimately erode American sovereignty

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Records show that left-wing billionaire George Soros is the larg- In addition, Soros has increased his lobbying spending. His est donor of the 2020 election, with $50 million spent through the D.C.-based lobbying arm, the Open Society Policy Center, to- end of June on Democratic candidates such as Joe Biden and pro- taled expenditures of $48 million in 2019, a personal record. This gressive causes such as Planned Parenthood — most of it spent was more than was spent by the lobbying shops of large corpora- indirectly through PACs. tions such as Amazon, Facebook, Boeing, or Google. This election season, Soros has largely worked through his new Another cause supported by George Soros this cycle? Mail-in Democracy PAC, created last year. The PAC’s spending last quar- voting. One of the top organizations behind the movement for ter alone was $17 million, bringing its total cash disbursements mail-in voting is the Brennan Center for Justice, based out of for this cycle to $48 million. Soros directly gave $4 million to NYU School of Law. The center received considerable financing Democratic campaigns and committees, making his combined di- from Soros’ Open Society Foundations and has been the benefi- rect and indirect donations $52 million. That’s more than double ciary of several Open Society grants, receiving over $7,466,000 Soros’ previous record of $22 million during the 2016 election. from 2000 to 2019 alone. Democrats often speak out against the influence of big money in politics. Democratic nominee Joe Biden, for example, says on his website that he will “reduce the corrupting influence of money in politics.” “We could improve our politics overnight if we flushed big money from the system and had public financing of our elec- tions…. Democracy works best when a big bank account or a large donor list are not prerequisites for office,” the former vice president’s campaign site reads. Yet Biden has had no issue accepting cash from billionaires George such as Soros. The Hungarian-born investor personally donated Soros $500,000 to his campaign, and wealthy donors in total have con- tributed $83 million to the Biden Victory Fund. AP Images

www.TheNewAmerican.com 7 Inside Track Court Orders Release of NYC Gun Owners’ Private Info The New York Supreme Court on July 20 ordered the New York anything.” He also disagreed with the NYPD that the case was City Police Department (NYPD) to provide a newspaper with a moot since the requested records exist, can be obtained, and had list of the names, ZIP codes, and license categories of all indi- not yet been provided to the paper. viduals in the city who obtained firearms licenses in 2018. Despite its clear basis in New York law, Engoron’s decision The New York Daily News — which, according to Justice Ar- is troubling. Even more troubling is the fact that the government thur Engoron’s opinion, “frequently covers gun-related political gets to decide who is allowed to own guns and whether or not a and policing issues” — has been seeking information about city gun owner may keep such information private. gun licensees since 2018. Under the Empire State’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the paper first requested the names and license types for all licenses issued between 2014 and 2017. The NYPD denied the request on various grounds, including that it “would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy” and that compliance “would be burdensome,” recounted Engoron. The Daily News took the matter to court. On July 20, En- goron sided mostly with the newspaper. He ordered the NYPD to provide the Daily News with “the name, zip code, and license category of all those to whom it granted a new or renewal license during Calendar Year 2018,” including those “who applied prior to Calendar Year 2018 but were granted a license during that year.” He did allow the NYPD to withhold the names of licensed former public employees, but still required the department to release their ZIP codes and license categories. Engoron dismissed the NYPD’s argument that fulfilling the Daily News’ request would be “unreasonably difficult,” writing

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Minneapolis Police Advise Citizens to Capitulate to Criminals The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is advising citizens Among other bits of wisdom, the department advised citizens: of the city to “Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/ “Despite all our efforts, robberies may still occur! Do not argue wallet,” in the event that they are accosted by a criminal. The or fight with the criminal. Do as they say. Your safety is most advice comes as the city is experiencing a 37-percent increase in important!” robberies over last year in the wake of the death of Minneapolis In the third precinct — where the Floyd incident occurred — criminal George Floyd, who died in police custody in May. police responded to 100 robberies and 20 carjackings in July The department’s “robbery prevention tips,” released July 28, alone. Police report that cellphones, purses, and vehicles are were circulated by KSTP-5, an ABC affiliate located in St. Paul. being stolen, and also relayed that victims have been assaulted, maced, dragged, and threatened with guns in those incidents. The Hennepin County Police and Fire monitoring account on Twitter mocked the advice and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, tweeting: “Look, another email on how to be a perfect victim in #MpsCrime just came out, but wait @MayorFrey says Minne- apolis is a safe vibrant place.” The defund and abolish the police movement has been strongly pushed by the neo-marxist Black Lives Matter organization. But actual black leaders in Minneapolis have called the plan to abol- ish the city’s police force “egregious, grotesque, absurd, crazy, ridiculous,” according the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Some black leaders in the community have lashed out at the City Council’s decision to do away with the police. Civil-rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, a former president of the NAACP’s Minneapolis chapter, complained that the council didn’t take the wishes of the city’s black community into consid- eration when they voted. n AndreyPopov/iStock/GettyImagesPlus

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Candidate Biden Sticks His Foot in His Mouth — Again “It’s easy being vice president; you don’t have to do anything.” Continuing to demonstrate his lack of presidential ability, Candi- date Joe Biden casually admitted he functioned for eight years as our country’s vice president by doing nothing.

Videotaped Meeting of Biden With Obama Proves to Be a Snooze “Compared with the pro-wrestling standards of the current president, or the electric oratory of Mr. Obama’s campaigns, it was even boring.” New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik also noted that the 15-minute video chat held by Joe Biden and Barack Obama Joe “did not break the internet, or even dent it.” But Poniewozik’s critique Biden GageSkidmore does suggest that worry about Biden’s ability exists within one of the primary anti-Trump media outlets.

UN Official Wants Action Taken Against Religions That Don’t Embrace LGBT Desires “States should adopt decisive action when religious authorities, leaders or agents infringe on the rights of LGBT persons through violence and discrimination, including hate speech.” Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Independent Expert on matters dealing with LGBT personnel and activ- ity, calls for forceful responses to individuals, organizations, and government that oppose the LGBT agen- da. He also advocates teaching young schoolchildren about homosexuality and other aspects of LGBT life.

Another Progressive Wins a Primary Race Against a Veteran Democrat “I’m a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t end in Congress. You know, I’m pretty pro- gressive myself.” Successfully winning the Democratic Party’s nomination against 16- term incumbent Representative Eliot Engel, political newcomer and middle-school principal Jamaal Bowman received endorsements from Progressives Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D- Jamaal N.Y). Engel had always been a reliable leftist and internationalist. His Bowman replacement in the House of Representatives has admitted to being a

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Planned Parenthood Removes Margaret Sanger’s Name From Its Manhattan Clinic “The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color.” Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a strongly committed eugenicist who sought to rid the United States of its black population and others deemed by her to be unacceptable. The statement given above came from Karen Seltzer, the leader of Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.

President Still Seeks to Bar Non-citizen Immigrants in Census Count “There used to be a time when you could proudly declare ‘I am a citi- zen of the United States.’ But now, the radical left is trying to erase the existence of this concept and conceal the number of illegal aliens in our country. This is all part of a broader leftwing effort to erode the rights of American citizens, and I will not stand for it.” In a move that has not been approved by either Congress or the courts, President Donald Trump directed the federal government not to count undocumented immigrants when allocating the number of House of Representatives members each state should be awarded. The president’s move will be challenged. n Donald Trump — Compiled by John F. McManus GageSkidmore

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by Dr. Duke Pesta norance was a necessary precursor to the olutionary elements that would manifest rise of the violent masses. When the col- in the Spanish Civil War, Ortega warned n 1930, Spanish philosopher José lectivization of “mass-men” into a unified that the mass-man could emerge from any Ortega y Gasset wrote The Revolt of mob was finally achieved, then the seizure social background, and that his behavior I the Masses, a prophetic work identi- of power through destruction and cultural destructive to his own culture “does not fying and defining the appearance of the erasure was at hand. represent a new civilization struggling “mass-man,” a barbaric figure whose ig- Anticipating by less than a decade rev- with a previous one, but a mere negation.”

10 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 This type of anarchist “did not care to give reasons or even to be right.” Ortega argued Ortega argued that cultivated irrationality is what set that cultivated irrationality is what set apart 20th-century fascist and communist apart 20th-century fascist and communist movements movements from what came before: “the from what came before: “the right not to be right, not to right not to be right, not to be reasonable: the reason of unreason.” be reasonable: the reason of unreason.” MONUMENTAL Ortega’s warning of this irrational and anti-rational unmaking of civilization finds its modern analog in the current riots and violent anarchy sweeping West- ern nations. Despite widespread prosper- ity, extensive social-welfare safety nets, HYPOCRISY universal access to educational opportu- nities and job training, generous benefits for unassimilated migrants, and numerous social-justice programs that privilege mi- nority populations, large numbers among the younger generations have been condi- tioned to believe, without evidence or ex- ample, that Western culture is overtly and systemically racist, misogynist, and colo- nialist. Miseducated by radicalized pub- lic schools and universities, manipulated by unscrupulous Democratic politicians, and inflamed by the anarchic rhetoric of groups such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter, these burgeoning young radicals perfectly match Ortega’s description of dangerous and ignorant mass-men; his re-

minder that they might manifest from any wikipedia/thelauraflandersshow social class is borne out by the fact that most of the violent rioters, looters, and Where she’s coming from: Patrisse Cullors, founding member of Black Lives Matter, was trained by former Weather Underground terrorist Eric Mann. arsonists are middle- and upper-middle -class white kids, supported and egged on by elite athletes, artists, entertainers, and even equality, however vaguely defined. tural and because of western imperialism, one-percenter corporate and tech CEOs. The push for ignorance and the rejection of we think of it as the only way of know- reason are not simply populist ruses, they ing.” Marshall lists her occupation as Scratch a Social-justice are a calculated strategy to accelerate rebel- “teacher, scholar, and social justice change Warrior, Expose a Marxist lion and ratchet up the violence and chaos. agent.” Her bizarre statement is yet anoth- The grinding ignorance that Ortega identi- The last decade has seen an alarming er example of the destructive ideology of fies as a condition of cultural erasure is ev- spike in the number of educators and pro- “intersectionality,” a pseudo-intellectual erywhere evident during the current icono- fessors who argue that Western math is a concept pushed in universities that argues clastic attacks on our history and shared racist construct designed to keep black and that when competing progressive ideolo- cultural values. The self-contradicting state- brown people under foot, that empiricism gies clash — as in the case of feminism ments, doublespeak, and message creep and the scientific method are inseparable and transgenderism — both should unite, from those at the center of revolutionary from colonialism and white supremacy, projecting their differences back onto the groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and that an emphasis on individualism, white racist culture that alone is respon- make it abundantly clear that the purpose of truth, and liberty is the toxic byproduct of sible for all discrimination. Effectively, the newly unleashed anarchy is not about systemic racial discrimination. Recently, intersectionality is an anti-intellectual “get black lives, racial justice, reparations, or a Black Lives Matter-supporting gradu- out of jail free card” for progressives when ate student at Rutgers University named it comes to having to defend their beliefs Brittany Marshall took to Twitter to insist in logically credible and consistent ways. Dr. Duke Pesta is academic director at FreedomProj­ that 2 + 2 = 4 only because of “western A visit to BLM and affiliate sites offers ect Academy, a classical school that offers online imperialism.” Marshall’s tweet went viral clear examples of the broader Marxist am- classes in real time for kindergarten through high during a heated discussion about racism: bitions that are at the heart of civil unrest school. “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equaling 4 is cul- in America today. One stated BLM objec-

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leaning Wikipedia, mired in controversy about leftist monopolies on editorial con- The last decade has seen an alarming spike in the trol and practice, nevertheless admits that number of educators and professors who argue that Antifa members “hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views, subscribing to Western math is a racist construct designed to keep a range of left-wing ideologies such as black and brown people under foot. Anarchism, Communism, Marxism, and Socialism.”

Actions Reveal Real Ambitions The poorly camouflaged reality that the United States is in the middle of an exis- tential struggle against socialist and Marx- ist anarchists who want to systematically destroy our constitutional republic can be observed most directly in what the rioters and protesters are doing on the ground. Ortega’s thesis that the mass-man, con- ceived in ignorance and dedicated to the proposition of anarchy, is most effective at erasing culture and cancelling civilization once he has been collectivized — once the masses have seized license to become a mob — is nightly on display in America’s Democrat-governed cities, from New York City and Atlanta, to Portland and Seattle. For a decade, many voices sounded the warning that our evolving war on Con- federate monuments, especially the so- called Stars and Bars Confederate flag, was nothing more than the culture war’s first blast at Fort Sumter. If we as a culture acceded to the idea that these images and statues were in and of themselves racist AP Images — that there could be no other interpreta- Brainwashed to believe they are victims: The message “No America without black America” tion or connotation for those symbols — was projected on the pedestal of the statue of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. then we were also conceding that most, if not all, of the symbols of our founding, tive is to “disrupt the Western-prescribed lors was mentored by Eric Mann, former- our development, and our shared cultural nuclear-family-structure requirement by ly of the Weather Underground terrorist heritage could be found similarly suspect. supporting each other as extended families group, who groomed her on Marxist/Le- For over a century, Marxists and fascists and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one ninist ideology. Cullors fondly describes have gained footholds and toppled other- another.” The related Movement for Black her early work with the Labor/Community wise free societies by seizing control of Lives (M4BL) demands the demolition of Strategy Center, a “grassroots” organiza- symbols — images that should reflect an prisons, the abolition of police, and the tion that focuses on “Black and Latino array of meanings and evoke a range of “progressive restructuring of tax codes at communities with deep historical ties to feelings — twisting and reducing them to the local, state, and federal levels to ensure the long history of anti-colonial, anti- simplistic avatars of hate, complicity, and, a radical and sustainable redistribution of imperialist, pro-communist resistance to in the case of the examples we are discuss- wealth.” M4BL further demands the “ret- the US empire.” Despite the desperate at- ing, white supremacy and “systemic” rac- roactive decriminalization, immediate re- tempts of the mainstream media to deny or ism. You do not have to be a defender of, lease and record expungement of all drug- conceal the Marxist foundations of Black or even sympathetic to, the Confederacy related offenses and reparations for the Lives Matter — and by extension BLM’s or its symbols to recognize that the current devastating impact of the ‘war on drugs’ partner in revolution Antifa (whether the flag of the United States, for instance, in and criminalization of prostitution.” association is altogether desirable to BLM previous iterations flew over slave states In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder leaders or not) — the truth is evident in far longer than the Confederate flag. Patrisse Cullors described herself and fel- the rhetoric and behavior of the groups Initially, the country was much more low organizers as “trained Marxists.” Cul- as they operate in the streets. Even left- skeptical about the kneeling tantrum of

12 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 Colin Kaepernick — mass-man trans- Nike was earned off the brow-sweat of Stony the road we trod, formed into mob leader — who made it exploited Chinese comrades. Suddenly, it Bitter the chastening rod clear that the gesture was directed at a was fashionable and edgy for mass-men to Felt in the days when hope unborn racist flag that honored an unjust nation disrespect the flag and anthem: Just do it. had died founded on white supremacy. His Marx- If statues to Confederate Generals Rob- ist-inspired attempt to recast the flag as a ert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson had to For an American minority community that symbol of racism — his Fidel Castro T- go, then so too would George Washing- aborts black babies at a staggering pace shirts and “cops-as-pigs” socks generated ton, Thomas Jefferson, and all the Found- — a constituency that has no voice in the a good deal of negative press — achieved ers who owned, or even just failed to Black Lives Matter hierarchy — it is per- only a modest cultural foothold, with a free, slaves. Because all men were not haps morbidly fitting that the NFL plans handful of players joining him to kneel equally free in 1789 — however equally to play this anthem to open the football on the field. But once Kaepernick gained created — there could be no freedom at season: maybe a sly tip of the hat to those the backing of Nike — a company built the heart of the Constitution, only oppres- many black babies sired out of wedlock on the manipulation of symbols and slo- sion. (Ironic in so many ways, with leftist by professional athletes across the various gans — the tide turned. Nike, which gets radicals supporting the fact that Christians pro leagues? rich in part on athletic shoes made in Com- are being fined huge amounts for trying In short, by allowing the Marxist Left munist Chinese sweatshops, gambled that to live their beliefs, police who are inno- to hold history and morality captive to an their significant African-American market cent of any wrongdoing being subjected absurdly simplistic, shallow, unintellec- share would respond positively to Kaeper­ to random violence and murder, children tual, and extremely ideological form of nick’s brand and image. It was a very safe in the womb who are developed enough to presentism — judging the past by today’s bet, given the obsession with athletic be born and thrive being carved to pieces standards, devoid of all historical context shoes in urban black communities, and if a mother so chooses, etc.) And because — we guaranteed that the tactics and ter- the even greater preoccupation of urban our anthem celebrates the founding ide- rain on which this culture war raged would black culture in white American subur- als of an imperfect America, it was time be dictated exclusively by the anti-history bia. Nike’s corporate sponsorship of Kae- to kneel, with calls to replace the anthem Marxists. We abandoned George Orwell’s pernick’s message put distance between with one of Woody Guthrie’s socialist caution that “who controls the past con- Kaepernick and his nasty and historically hymns about communal ownership of the trols the future” and allowed leftist radicals ignorant Marxist rhetoric. Kaepernick, land, or even the black national anthem, to implement Marxist theoretician Anto- for his part, seemed unconcerned that “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” This little nio Gramsci’s method to control society: his 20-plus million-dollar paycheck from ditty contains the following lines: “Man is above all else mind, consciousness — that is, he is a product of history, not nature.” In other words, if the cultural sta- tus quo is challenged and torn apart, a new history can be installed and a new culture instituted: socialism. And if we are simply products of random, materialist cultural forces, not nature, then that also means we are not products of nature’s God. In July, the U.S. House of Representa- tives voted to remove from the Capitol the statue of Roger Taney, the chief jus- tice who wrote the majority opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case, as well as 14 other statues connected to the Confederacy or slavery, including a statue of Robert E. Lee. Seventy-two Republicans joined the unanimous Democrats in voting out the offending statues. House Majority Leader Democrat Steny Hoyer boasted, “It’s time to sweep away the last vestiges of Jim Crow and the dehumanizing of individu- als because of the color of their skin that intruded for too long on the sacred spaces of our democracy.”

AP Images Doubtless, the Marxist presentism cited Condemning killing while honoring a killer: An un-ironic Colin Kaepernick denouncing above is the reason that politicians such as “murderous” cops while wearing a T-shirt honoring professional mass murderer Fidel Castro. Hoyer — who take oaths of office promis-

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 13 CULTURE ing to defend the Constitution and the Re- tions can be rehabilitated if not outright grace football helmets on the woke campus public it establishes — pretend that we are venerated, regardless of their racial ani- of San Diego State University. Lori Light- a sacred democracy. It was Marx himself mus. Yet to the progressive Left and their foot, mayor of the black-on-black killing who insisted that “democracy is the road uneducated drones on the streets, there is field that is Chicago — a site of black car- to Socialism.” And because Gramscian no difference between Christopher Co- nage that is never adopted as a cause of pro- historical alterations have been allowed lumbus and Hernan Cortes: the one an test or even acknowledgment from Black to become dogma, the fact that 13 of the imperfect explorer who behaved with Lives Matter crusaders — desperately 15 offending statues to be removed from remarkable restraint by his world’s stan- needed a scapegoat to distract from all that the Capitol honored Democratic politi- dards, and the other a cold-blooded con- black blood on her administration’s hands: cians has no bearing on — and requires quistador who was much closer in word over 100 shot on Father’s Day weekend no further atonement from — the Demo- and deed to the bloodthirsty Aztecs. In an alone. She decided that rather than risk the cratic Party. (Republican Louie Gohmert era of racial scapegoats who are offered up anger of the woke mobs by demanding that worked to highlight the hypocrisy through as sacrifices by bigots, Columbus has be- blacks stop killing other blacks, she would introduction of a bill that would ban the come the demonized racial scapegoat for instead preemptively remove two statues Democratic Party for having supported the crimes of all those subsequent colo- of Columbus from the Chicago landscape the Confederacy and propping up slavery.) nizers whose names the rioters cannot be in the middle of the night. All to placate Meanwhile, 50 buildings constructed with bothered to remember and who have no a vengeful mob of racial-justice warriors taxpayer funds remain that are named after statues to tear down. more concerned with bronze statuary than Senator Robert C. Byrd, the late Democrat No such harsh criticism dogs our fas- the deaths of actual black children. Mon­ and former member of the Ku Klux Klan. cination with the Aztecs, however, who tezuma’s revenge indeed. This hypocritical double standard is a once murdered an estimated 84,000 Native And if more evidence is needed to con- feature, not a bug, of the Marxist/Grams- American prisoners over a period of four firm that these marauding bands of BLM cian view of history. Those figures in his- days in their great pyramid in Tenochtit- rioters and Antifa thugs are not fighting tory who support, or whose biographies lan. The Washington Redskins have been simply for racial justice, consider the wide- can be contorted to support, the ongoing bullied into cancelling their supposedly of- spread pulling down of statues and monu- march of Marxist ideas though the institu- fensive logo, while the Aztecs continue to ments dedicated to individuals and causes that actually supported racial equity. Over the Independence Day weekend, a statue of iconic black intellectual Frederick Douglass was ripped down in Rochester, New York. If the mob had any sense of irony — or un- derstood what the word meant — its mem- bers might have been chastened to realize that their brainless vandalism occurred on the anniversary of Douglass’ speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” delivered before the onset of the Civil War. Indeed, so ignorant and indiscriminate are our mass-men mobs that they have taken to pulling down and defacing statues of abolitionists, including the monument to Matthias Baldwin outside City Hall in Philadelphia. Baldwin was a fierce critic of slavery during the 1800s and opened a school for black children. His statue was defaced with messages reading “colo- nizer” and “murderer.” In Boston, rioters defaced the Glory monument dedicated to the sacrifices of black Civil War soldiers. The monument was inspired by the film Glory — honoring Robert Gould Shaw and the black 54th regiment. This was an inconceivable instance of vandalism where

AP Images protesters for racial justice took their rage America at the crossroads: George Orwell (right) warned that whoever controls the past — the out against a memorial to black soldiers history of the country — controls the future. Radicals are embracing Marxist theoretician Antonio who died to confer such freedoms on other Gramsci (left), who called for the elimination of Christianity and morals to institute socialism. African-Americans.

14 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 to identify as both. According the influ- ential Associated Press style guide — and in solidarity with BLM causes — the AP will now in every instance capitalize the world black when referring to the race, while keeping the lower case “w” when referring to white people. When ques- tioned about the double standard, the AP replied that white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being dis- criminated against because of skin color. In a memo to staff, John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, wrote: “We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and in- justices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems.… But capitalizing the term white, as is done by

AP Images white supremacists, risks subtly convey- So this is what peace looks like? Portland’s mayor, Democratic politicians, and the legacy media ing legitimacy to such beliefs.” have regularly called the rioting, looting, and arson in Portland “peaceful protest.” It is startling that the AP can argue with a straight face that for the purposes of their style manual white people are too histori- cally disconnected and diverse to have any single culture or cultural identity. Whites are too heterogeneous and have widely dif- Even statues of Abraham Lincoln, who police to intervene, nor would she dare fering cultural experiences to allow the AP was dubbed the “Great Emancipator,” punish the iconoclasts. to see their many cultures as one. If that have also been toppled and destroyed, Angry student activists were not happy statement is true — and it would seem to while protesters threatened the Lincoln with Blank’s decision to leave the statue up. be true of almost any race of people living Memorial in Washington, D.C. In Madi- Nalah McWhorter, president of the Black in America today — then how is it possible son, Wisconsin, student mobs demanded Student Union, lamented: “For them to to unilaterally and collectively assign to the removal of the seated Lincoln statue want to protect a breathless, lifeless statue “white” people such social plagues as white on Bascom Hill. While the statue still more than they care about the experiences privilege, white fragility, and inherent white stands (for now), protesters did man- of their Black students that have been cry- supremacy? By aspiring to be scrupulously age to remove two other statues from ing out for help for the past 50, 60 years, politically correct, the AP undercuts the the Madison area, including the statue it’s just a horrible feeling as a student, as foundational (and racist) arguments at the of abolitionist Hans Christian Heg and a Black and brown student on campus.” very center of critical race theory. a generic female statue who represents The idea that McWhorter sees these two All white people and white cultural Wisconsin’s “Forward” motto. Evident- perspectives as an either/or proposition — subsets are not the same, nor have they ly, abolition and progressivism are not remove the statue or you don’t care about all participated in racial oppression. Fur- things around which BLM activists are us — is a sad commentary on the type of ther, the AP’s claim that whites have not willing to rally. University of Wisconsin critical thinking skills taught in campus experienced racial persecution is also un- Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote that she classrooms. Such myopia is very much in dercut. Just consider the racial discrimi- believes Lincoln’s legacy “should be both keeping with the creation of the next gen- nation against the Irish, Italians, and Jews celebrated and critiqued.” As heartening eration of mass-men and mobs dedicated to over various periods of American history: as it is that the chancellor offered a back- razing Western culture. Summing up the ir- For the AP, they are all racially “white” handed defense of the statue, notice what rationality and rejection of reason described subsets of a larger white culture that does she did not do. She did not offer to de- by Ortega 90 years ago, one student wag, not exist. The notion that all white people fend the statue from vandals, nor did she when asked why he was attacking a statue are the same — equally privileged, equally suggest there would be any penalties for of Lincoln of all people, responded: “Just responsible, and equally benefiting from students who took matters into their own because he was anti-slavery doesn’t mean whiteness — is a hard sell indeed if the ex- hands. As a professor in the UW system, he was pro-Black.” planations and definitions provided by the I can say with complete confidence that if Notice also the capitalization of AP are accurate. The whole scapegoating students were to go ahead and attack the “Black,” but not “brown,” in McWhor­ edifice of modern identity politics crum- statue, Blank would not permit campus ter’s response, even though she appears bles. If we take the AP seriously (never a www.TheNewAmerican.com 15 CULTURE

ments to Jefferson. In Gelsenkirchen, Germany, a 1950s-era statue of Lenin was just installed, next to a billboard declar- ing: “Give anticommunists no chance!” Meanwhile, in Russia, 10 statues of Stalin have been erected since 2009. This in a country where less than 50 percent of Rus- sian students are even aware of Stalin’s crimes against humanity. And speaking of educational malfea- sance, not only are ignorant mass-men destroying monuments, they are also nom- inating replacement statues. After remov- ing Confederate memorials in Louisiana, more than 40,000 people signed a petition to install statues of Dolly Parton and Brit- ney Spears. Actor Ben Stiller argued that a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, recently removed from the American Museum of Wikipedia/Cvalav Natural History, be replaced by a statue of Standing tall: While statues of Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, and George Robin Williams, who played Roosevelt in Washington are torn down, a triumphant statue of communist murderer Vladimir Lenin remains standing. That should tell all you need to know about the riots. the Night at the Museum films. A New Jer- sey petition with 95,000 signatures seeks to replace Columbus with a statue to Marsha Johnson, a black trans activist. Ortega understood the consequences, as good thing these days), we would have to all intents and purposes, not a race at all. well as the causes, of rapid cultural era- conclude that the derogatory term “white From that warped perspective, would it not sure. His observations offer a chilling pre- male” — as employed by social-justice be only the black race that could be held diction of what we can expect unless state warriors to mean the collective embodi- responsible for collective racial injustice, and federal governments reinstate the rule ment of all that is evil — is itself a racial being an actual unified race, capable of of law, and the American people reassert slur almost as demeaning and dehuman- speaking in one voice and acting from one their commitment to shared government, izing as the “N” word. collective will? Whatever way you wish to republican values, and the integrity of our While justifying the decision not to capi- parse it, the AP is engaging in some serious- history and culture: talize “white” — in part because that’s what ly Adolf Eichmann-grade, Naziesque verbal “white supremacists” do when daring to eugenic gymnastics. All of it lost, of course, If you want to make use of the ad- suggest that the white race exists — Dan- on the progressive pathfinders at the AP, vantages of civilisation, but are not iszewski strongly implies that black cul- smug in their Tass-like double-speak and prepared to concern yourself with the ture, on the other hand, is indeed unified by racist anti-racist manipulation of language. upholding of civilisation — you are a shared and thereby less diverse identity, done. In a trice you find yourself left a homogeneity based, in large part, on the Preserving Tyrants, without civilisation. Just a slip, and collective experience of racial oppression. Canceling Liberators when you look around everything This allows the AP to assert that genuine It’s not just what anarchists are doing that has vanished into air. The primitive “Black” culture does exist. To suggest that confirms the prescience of Ortega’s analy- forest appears in its native state, just black peoples across the world have no sis. As statues of explorers and Founders as if curtains covering pure Nature genuine differences, to intimate that there is come down — from Columbus to Wash- had been drawn back. The jungle is no significant diversity of culture, religion, ington — statues of murderous Soviet dic- always primitive and, vice versa, ev- mores, and traditions that would differenti- tators remain in vogue. The statue of Lenin erything primitive is mere jungle. n ate the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the that has stood in Caribbean, and more recently, North and Seattle since 1995 South America, is the type of thing that remains unmo- gets people canceled these days, especially lested, still resid- EXTRA COPIES AVAILABLE white employees of hyper-woke corpora- ing on a prominent ➧ Additional copies of this issue of The tions such as the Associated Press. street corner in the New American are available at quantity- For the AP, the relative lack of diversity Freemont neigh- discount prices. To place your order, visit and shared suffering qualifies blacks as an borhood, while ri- www.shopjbs.org or see the card between authentic race, unlike whites, who are, for oters purge monu- pages 34-35.

16 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 www.onyxcollection.com • 800-669-9867 (phone) 800-393-6699 (fax) 202 Broadway St. Belvue, KS 66407 CULTURE Tearing Down Statues of REAL HEROES Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters have been targeting what they deem to be offensive statues: Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Robert E. Lee, etc.

civilization of nonpareil prosperity that, 66 years after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, put a man on the Moon. Rather, we must confess to genocide, slavery, and, of course, the wreckage of a peaceful continent where tawny natives lived in peace, communed with their feathered friends in the sky and brother beasts in the woods, and warbled love calls across sparkling streams under the eye of the night. Though no historic eminence is safe from BLM’s wrath — the terrorists have even attacked statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass — five men are particularly loathsome in BLM’s book: Christopher Columbus, Father Junipero Serra, George Washington, Thomas Jef- ferson, and Robert E. Lee. They were genocidal “racists,” we are

AP Images told, who murdered and exploited the Lies matter: Across the country, radicals are tearing down statues of Christopher Columbus, so-called natives (Columbus and Serra), based on a lie told by communist historian Howard Zinn, who claimed that Columbus came to the organized a society built on slavery that new world in a “frenzy for money,” and then enslaved and began the “genocide” of the natives. has absolutely no redeeming value (Wash- ington and Jefferson), and fought to keep blacks enslaved (Lee). by R. Cort Kirkwood whom the Left began attacking years ago, BLM’s goal is that of all revolution- and now they include Jesus Christ and his aries: demoralize the historic majority hen Black Lives Matter and Blessed Mother. “Anti-racists” have be- by demonizing its heroes and ancestors, other Marxists began toppling headed or defaced statues of both. Thus and its history, symbols, monuments, W public monuments, they first did the Left reveal the ultimate target of and even flag, so the majority believes targeted Confederates and other “racists” its arson, looting, and vandalism: Western its social order is unjust and permits its to cover the destruction with the patina civilization and the Christian faith in gen- destruction. of “anti-racist” action. Not surprisingly, eral, and the Catholic Church in particular. A corrective is in order. Though these they expanded their list of long-dead en- Yet with regard to the United States, men were flawed as we all are, BLM emies to include Christopher Columbus, the widespread destruction and dishon- lies in claiming that they were unworthy est revision of history means we may of admiration. On balance, the history R. Cort Kirkwood is a longtime contributor to The no longer speak with pride of the heroic shows they were not just good, but great New American. He was a newspaperman for more oceanic exploration and settlement of the men, flaws notwithstanding, and it is that than 25 years. New World, or the creation of a unique for which we honor them.

18 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: different from what he actually said.” In rica, the Near East, and was being ADMIRAL OF suggesting they would be “fine servants,” driven out of Southern Europe. Columbus did not mean they should be As one reads the Book of Prophe- THE OCEAN SEA subjugated or enslaved, but instead tried to cies, the spirit of the Crusades stands The war against Christopher Columbus explain why another mainland tribe landed out. For centuries the Crusaders, began three decades ago in communist his- on their island to capture them. under Papal inspiration, sought to lib- tory professor Howard Zinn’s A People’s As well, Zinn convinced a significant erate the Holy City of Jerusalem from History of the United States, which falsely number of Americans to believe that Co- Moslem domination. This is the un- claimed that Columbus’ arrival at San Sal- lumbus showed up in the New World in derlying theme of the Book of Proph- vador was a dreadful genocidal cataclysm. a “frenzy for money,” as Grabar quotes ecies, but with one remarkable differ- Such was the smear’s potency that an epi- him, and that the arrival of the Spaniards ence. Columbus sought not so much sode of The Sopranos detailed the effort of destroyed forever the just, peaceful idyll the physical deliverance of the Holy Tony Soprano’s mob family to stop “Native of the innocently nude natives. Land. His aim was to extend the faith Americans” from desecrating the 15th-cen- That, too, is false. which makes the Holy Land holy.... tury Italian explorer’s memory. A Francisan tertiary, Columbus’ main As early as 1493, Columbus wrote Now, apparently, Zinn’s mendacious ac- concern, the Reverend John Hardon wrote, a letter to the Royal Treasurer of count is settled history. And so the statues was bringing the people of the New World Spain.… He wrote: “Since our Re- must come down. to Christ, and Columbus assembled a Book deemer gave this victory to our most To cite one example of Zinn’s heavy- of Prophecies from Scripture that related illustrious King and Queen and to handed distortions, the late professor dis- to himself and his discovery of the New their famous realms, in so great a honestly edited Columbus’ account of his World: manner, it is fitting for all Chris- encounter with the Tainos and other tribes. tendom to rejoice and to make cel- “They would make fine servants,” Zinn Commercial interests were certainly ebrations and give solemn thanks to quoted Columbus as writing in his diary. prominent in the minds of others. the Holy Trinity with many solemn “With fifty men we could subjugate them But Columbus had deeper spiritual prayers for the great exultation which all and make them do whatever we want.” interests at heart. It was surely part it will have and the turning of so But those words aren’t what they seem. of God’s mysterious design that Co- many peoples to our holy Faith.” Zinn deviously edited the diary, as Mary lumbus should have planted the true Grabar wrote in 2019 for The College Fix, faith in the New World at the same In other words, charity inspired Columbus’ and made “Columbus say something quite time that Islam was overrunning Af- voyage, not the search for gold or desire to perpetrate rape, slavery, or mass murder. Nor did Columbus and his successors destroy a native paradise. As Samuel Eliot Morison reported in Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Columbus and his men encountered cannibals who preyed upon the Tainos:

In the huts deserted by the warriors, who ungallantly fled, they found large cuts and joints of human flesh, shin bones set aside to make arrows of, caponized Arawak boy captives who were being fattened for the griddle, and girl captives who were mainly used to produce babies, which the Caribs regarded as a particularly toothsome morsel.

The Aztecs had a similar taste for human flesh. Spain’s exploratory project in Latin America terminated a “civilization” that organized orgies of mass human sacrifice. “The victims of these sacrifices were most frequently slaves or prisoners of war,” Hardon wrote. “Tearing out the hearts of The real New World: When Columbus landed in the New World, he encountered native tribes that living victims … was a relatively merciful enslaved, cooked, and ate their enemies. death compared to being scourged or eaten www.TheNewAmerican.com 19 CULTURE alive.” Such was the Aztec thirst Spanish authorities accepted for blood, by their own account that “Bill of Rights” for the they slaughtered 84,000 people Indians, and two years later, in four days when they dedicated when 20 Indians received a the temple at Tenochtitlan to the death sentence after a deadly sun god Huitzilopochtli. attack on Mission San Diego, Thanks to Columbus and his the viceroy acceded to Serra’s successor conquistadors, the de- request to pardon them. “Serra mons of mass murder were ex- poured out the better part of his orcised from Latin America, and life on behalf of Native Ameri- “millions embraced the religion cans having baptized over of Jesus Christ before the end of 5,000 and confirmed 6,000 the 16th century and became, like more,” Weber wrote. As well, the converted Aztec Juan Diego, he accomplished his feats with models of humility and charity.” a chronically infected leg and, Apropos of the truth about the in the end, tuberculosis. natives, Columbus did not in- Contrary to what the revo- troduce slavery to the Americas lutionaries want us to believe, or traffic in Africans. The Car- Serra’s efforts were not al- ibs and other Indians practiced ways consonant with those of slavery long before Columbus Spain’s royal authorities. “Re- set sail on his 61-day journey garding ‘cultural genocide,’” from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. Weber wrote, “such a charge And if Columbus did seek irresponsibly conflates Serra’s riches, the history shows, he did missionary work with the mis- so in the hope they would pay deeds of Spanish colonialism.” to raise an army to liberate the Wikipedia/ElCristo Serra and his priests knew Holy Land from its Muslim con- Criminal for spreading Catholicism: Marxist radicals of Black Lives life would change for the Indi- querors. Matter have attacked St. Junipero Serra, the Father of California, ans, and so therefore joined the Thus is he called the Last because he was a “white supremacist” for opening Catholic missions effort to colonize California Crusader. to civilize the Indians and bring them to the Christian faith. “to Christianize and to cush- ion what they knew would be a major cultural shock.” They ST. JUNIPERO SERRA: cism, his statues targets for destruction. tried to keep the military away from the The radicals have vandalized, desecrated, Indians, whom Serra taught to farm and APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS or destroyed Serra monuments up and build. Life was better for the Indians at the Another villain, we are to believe, is St. down the state. missions: Junipero Serra, known as the Father of Yet he was not, as we are told, a brutal California for founding nine of the many colonizer. It is sometimes assumed that the Catholic missions that grew into major cit- “Serra showed himself to be a defender Indians in California had been liv- ies such as San Diego, San Gabriel, San of the Indians’ human rights in 1773, when ing in some sort of idyllic lifestyle, Francisco, and San Luis Obispo. he journeyed from California to Mexico akin to that of Eden. Contrary to this Like Columbus, Serra’s object was City to personally present to the viceroy a and related myths, the Indians were bringing the natives to Christ and estab- Representación,” wrote Monsignor Francis attracted to the food and quality of lishing the Catholic faith in new territory. J. Weber, the author of books on the saint life that the missions provided, when And like Columbus, Serra’s heroic efforts and the archivist emeritus of the Archdio- compared to their original state. are now the object of contempt and criti- cese of Los Angeles. Nor in claiming that Indians were forced to convert and kept captive do Serra’s de- tractors fully understand — or want to un- Spain’s exploratory project in Latin America terminated derstand — how his missions operated. In- a “civilization” that organized orgies of mass human dian catechumens lived at Serra’s missions, where priests not only taught the faith but sacrifice. “The victims of these sacrifices were most also fed and clothed them. Serra and his frequently slaves or prisoners of war,” Hardon wrote. priests did not force them to accept bap- tism or the Catholic faith, Weber explained:

20 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 Freedom, as all catechisms and man- he sold those who repeatedly tried to flee harvested, particularly as it respects uals of Christian doctrine teach, is a Mount Vernon, his home on the Potomac the aged and infirm.” precondition of baptism. In addition, River below Alexandria, Virginia — he the missionary handbook Itinerario made provision in his will to free his 123 Martha Washington freed those slaves on para Párrocos de lndios, which oc- slaves upon his wife’s, Martha’s, death, as January 1, 1801, more than a year before cupied a place second only to the the Mount Vernon website observes: she died in May 1802. Bible for the friars, stated that “en- Moreover, Washington’s stature among forced baptisms shall be considered George Washington stipulated in his his troops at the end of the Revolutionary null and void.” will that elderly slaves or those who War — to which he devoted seven of his were too sick to work were to be sup- prime years as commander of American As well, a “baptized Indian freely agreed ported throughout their lives by his forces — was so great that a large part to live permanently on the mission,” and estate. Children without parents, or of his officer corps wanted to make him “monthly visits to relatives outside the those whose families were unable America’s first king. He refused, and in- missions were allowed. On the relatively to see to their education were to be stead returned home after he resigned his few occasions when an Indian ran away bound out to masters and mistresses army commission. He was unanimously or failed to return after his monthly excur- who would teach them reading, writ- elected president twice, only to leave of- sion, other Christian neophytes were sent ing, and a useful trade, until they were fice voluntarily and again return to Mount after him with a warning that chastisement ultimately freed at the age of twenty- Vernon. Every one of his successors hon- would follow if the offense was repeated.” five. Washington’s will stated that he ored that two-term precedent without a Without ignoring that neither Serra nor took these charges to his executors law forcing them to do so until Franklin Columbus nor the Spanish royal authori- very seriously: “And I do moreover Delano Roosevelt, who was first elected ties were perfect, serious observers would most pointedly, and most solemnly president in 1932. conclude that the Indians were better enjoin it upon my Executors … to The significance of Washington’s resign- off becoming and living as 18th-century see that this clause respecting Slaves, ing as commander of the American mili- Christians than living as near Stone Age and every part thereof be religiously tary, then leaving the presidency after two primitives in a primitive land — if not for fulfilled at the Epoch at which it is terms, wasn’t lost upon his British cousins. a better diet, then for the salvation of their directed to take place; without eva- “George Washington’s conduct is be- eternal souls. sion, neglect or delay, after the Crops yond all praise,” said William Petty, first “The real ground for animosity against which may then be on the ground are Marquess of Lansdowne, on receiving the Columbus is the fact that he brought the Catholic faith to the New World,” Hardon wrote, and one may safely conclude that the same is true for St. Junipero.

GEORGE WASHINGTON: Lambasting the man who made America: Even George Washington, our FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF first president, the father of our country, HIS COUNTRYMEN and the man who could not tell a lie, is a target for the radical anti-American The anti-American radicals have not activists of Black Lives Matter. Because yet besieged the Washington Monument Washington owned slaves, his name or the first president’s visage on Mount must be removed from Washington and Rushmore, but give them time. A radical Lee University, a radical law professor law professor at Washington and Lee Uni- there argues. versity in Lexington, Virginia, wants to not only drop Robert E. Lee’s name from the name of the university because Lee owned slaves and fought for the Confed- eracy, but also George Washington’s be- cause he too owned slaves. Seventy-three percent of Democratic college students polled by The College Fix would tear down the statues of slave-owning Found- ing Fathers. Whatever the failings of the man who could not tell a lie — he believed indolent or recalcitrant slaves must be punished, and TonyBaggett/iStock/GettyImagesPlus

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owned slaves, although the anti-Jefferson radicals believe they have an even larger- caliber bullet to fatally wound him: At 45 years old when he was U.S. minister to France, they argue, he carried on an af- fair with 16-year-old slave Sally Hemings, and went on to father six of her children. So Jefferson was not only a “racist,” Jef- ferson haters allege, but also a “rapist,” and a child rapist at that. The Thomas Jefferson Heritage So- ciety published The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission, which showed the Jeffer- son-Hemings tale to be false. DNA tests did not, as widely believed, connect Jef- ferson to Hemings, and other historical research showed the claims of so-called offspring and descendants of the two were also untrue. So the story remains

BackyardProduction/iStock/GettyImagesPlus what it was: a scurrilous lie and black- Condemned for not declaring independence for black slaves: Thomas Jefferson, the author mail attempt conceived by Jefferson’s of the Declaration of Independence, must be historically erased because he owned slaves enemy, James Callender, in 1801. and supposedly raped and fathered children by slave Sally Hemings — a widely believed but That didn’t stop the people who run disproven myth. Yet in his day, slavery of all races happened worldwide — condemning all. Monticello or one of Jefferson’s real de- scendents, Lucian Truscott IV, from con- ceding the lie. Grandson of a renowned World War II general, Truscott sallied portrait of Washington he commissioned Allen wrote 15 days after Washington died. forth for BLM in the New York Times from the fabled portraitist Gilbert Stuart. to explain the memorial “is a shrine to “He has left a noble example to sovereigns To us he has been the sympathis- a man who famously wrote that ‘all men and Nations, present and to come.” ing friend and tender father. He has are created equal’ … and yet never did The American ambassador to Britain, watched over us, and viewed our de- much to make those words come true. Rufus King, reported what King George graded and afflicted state with com- Upon his death, he did not free the peo- III told American painter Benjamin West. passion and pity — his heart was not ple he enslaved, other than those in the If Washington did indeed step down, “[It insensible to our sufferings.… He Hemings family, some of whom were his would] place him in a light the most dis- dared to do his duty, and wipe off the own children. He sold everyone else to tinguished of any man living,” West told only stain with which man could ever pay off his debts.” King of George III’s opinion. “He thought reproach him…. Such is Truscott’s anti-Jefferson zeal him the greatest character of the age.” If he who broke the yoke of Brit- that he would not only raze the monument Washington lived by a strict personal ish burdens “from off the neck of the but also replace it with one honoring Har- code, his Rules of Civility and Decent people” of this land, and was hailed riet Tubman, the escaped slave who ran Behavior, adapted from the French Jesu- his country’s deliverer, by what name the Underground Railroad. its. When the first president died in 1799, shall we call him who secretly and Yet, as with Washington, the single- Lighthorse Harry Lee famously penned a almost unknown emancipated his minded obsession with Jefferson’s own- paean to his old commander. “First in war, “bondmen and bondwomen” — be- ership of slaves, which few Americans, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his came to them a father, and gave them black or white, worried about until BLM countrymen,” Washington’s faithful cav- an inheritance! told them to, threatens to obscure his sin- alry commander wrote. “He was second to gular accomplishments as a Promethean none in the humble and endearing scenes But none of that matters to the Left. American and surpassing figure of the late of private life; pious, just, humane, tem- 18th and early 19th centuries who truly perate and sincere; uniform, dignified and changed the world. commanding, his example was as edifying THOMAS JEFFERSON: Jefferson listed what he thought were to all around him.” his three most significant accomplish- But perhaps more telling is the opinion of “WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS” ments on the obelisk over his grave at the Reverend Richard Allen, a former slave. As with George Washington, Thomas Monticello: He wrote the Declaration of “Our father and friend is taken from us,” Jefferson stands condemned because he Independence, which justified secession

22 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 from Great Britain and explicitly stated Northam desires to tear down the priceless accomplished in not exceeding five that God, not the state, endows us with and shockingly vandalized Lee Monument years from the time of my decease. immutable rights neither state nor govern- in Richmond. ment can abridge or take away. He also Lee owned slaves, say the angry crit- The National Park Service interprets the wrote the Virginia Statute on Religious ics, and did not free the slaves he inher- will to mean the slaves were to be freed “if Freedom, which Virginia’s General As- ited from George Washington Parke Custis the estate was found to be in good financial sembly adopted in 1786 and which an- quickly enough. Even worse, he fought to standing or within five years otherwise.” ticipated the First Amendment to the U.S. perpetuate slavery. And so Lee is a “racist Lee’s critics complain that he sought a Constitution. “No man shall be compelled traitor.” But the facts of the matter stand in court’s permission to keep the slaves lon- to frequent or support any religious wor- stark contrast to the leftist fable: In actual- ger than his father-in-law wished. ship, place, or ministry whatsoever,” it ity Lee inherited slaves, and he not only Fact is, as historian Brion McClanahan says, “nor shall be enforced, restrained, needed to pay off debts to make releasing wrote, Lee could not have freed the slaves molested, or burdened in his body or them feasible, but he was forbidden by before 1862 because doing so would break goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on ac- Virgina law from freeing them. the law. Manumission was illegal in Vir- count of his religious opinions or belief.” Custis, who died in 1857, set aside the ginia. As well, Lee “managed the Arlington Jefferson thought his third great deed sale of multiple estates, as well as the estate in an attempt to make the property was founding the University of Virginia. work on others, to pay legacies to Lee’s solvent in order to save it for his wife and Yet Jefferson did not have listed two of daughters: family after years of mismanagement.” his most significant feats outside those po- McClanahan wrote: litical and intellectual achievements. And upon the legacies to my four With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, granddaughters being paid, and my To keep Arlington and not sell it off, he doubled the size of the United States estates that are required to pay the he had to get out of debt.… To get out by acquiring 827,000 square miles of ter- said legacies being clear of debt, then of debt, he had to make the estate prof- ritory from Napoleon for the meager sum I give freedom to my slaves, the said itable and doing so required that the of $15 million. The transaction included slaves to be emancipated by my exec- Custis slaves be forced to work, either all of Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, utors in such manner as to my execu- at Arlington or on neighboring planta- Nebraska, and Oklahoma, almost all of the tors may seem most expedient and tions, something they did not want to Dakotas, Minnesota west of the Mississippi proper, the said emancipation to be do and openly resisted.… River, parts of Texas and New Mexico, and Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains. Even adjusted for inflation — $342.2 million — Jeffer- son’s remarkable real estate acquisition from Napoleon was less a purchase and more a steal. He also sent the U.S. Navy and Marines to defeat the Barbary pirate states. When the Marines captured Derna in Tripoli in 1805, the American flag flew over conquered territory for the first time. Yet because he was a man of his time and one aspect of his life does not meet 21st-century sensibilities, the stunning memorial on the Tidal Basin must be de- molished. ROBERT E. LEE: “THE MOST PERFECT MAN” The campaign against Robert E. Lee, the Confederate commander and one of the two or three finest Americans ever born, AP Images began long ago. A Boy Scout troop in Statue-worthy: Virginia’s leftist Governor Ralph Northam wants to remove the Robert E. Lee Richmond stripped Lee’s name from its statue in Richmond because Lee owned slaves (whom he freed) and supposedly fought to uniforms, title, and logo in 2003. And “perpetuate slavery” (he didn’t). In truth, Lee did statue-worthy heroic exploits and worked to now, hard-left Virginia Governor Ralph unify the country after the Civil War. www.TheNewAmerican.com 23

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A Virginia court finally pick scabs on the wounds of forced Lee to sell off portions the war, and when a penniless of Arlington in 1862 in order Union veteran showed up at to meet the final requirements Lee’s front gate, the man re- of the Custis estate and to free membered, Lee “not only had the slaves. a kind word for an old soldier who had fought against him, Lee thought slavery a “moral but he gave me some money and political evil,” McClanahan to help me on my way.” observed, although he held the Lee turned down lucrative same views on race as almost offers to exploit his name, and everyone of his time. at a Sunday service after the Lee’s detractors also claim he war, was the first congregant either ordered his slaves brutally to kneel by a black man who whipped at Arlington, a charge, had stepped forward to re- as McClanahan observed, that ceive communion. “is at minimum debatable and British Field Marshal Vis- probably a lie.” A historian who count Wolseley called Lee leveled the charge admits the “the most perfect man I ever whipping itself cannot be vali- met,” and the day after he dated, and one of the slaves who died, the New York Herald claimed to have been a victim offered this evaluation of “carried no scars from such a Lee: violent event.” Wrote McClanahan, “Lee Here in the North … we

publicly refused to answer the LibraryofCongress have long since ceased charge against him and did not to look upon him as the directly comment on it pri- Reasons are important: Contrary to popular belief, Robert E. Lee did Confederate leader, but vately, telling his son that the note lead the Confederacy to keep the institution of slavery. Rather he have claimed him as one of whole business ‘has left me wanted to protect his state from invasion from the North. ourselves; have cherished an unpleasant legacy.’ If Lee and felt proud of his mili- was so vindictive, why would it tary genius; have recounted be ‘an unpleasant legacy?’” As and recorded his triumphs as well, “Lee twice denied it happened later of a commander, I would say with our own; have extolled his virtue as in life. Whom are we to believe? Why my dying breath, let it be Robert E. reflecting upon us — for Robert Ed- would Lee lie in a private letter to his son Lee. ward Lee was an American.... in 1859 when he had nothing to lose?” Never had mother a nobler son.… Still, nothing else in Lee’s life matters. Despite that heroism, Lee’s anguished res- He united all those charms of man- History must be rewritten, his courageous ignation from the Army to fight for Vir- ners which made him the idol of his service during the Mexican War, for in- ginia, after declining the offer to command friends and of his soldiers and won stance, must be ignored. the Union Army, made him a “traitor.” He for him the respect and admiration of During the Battle of Contreras out- was not a secessionist, but as he wrote to the world. side Mexico City, Lee thrice crossed his sister, he would not make war upon the Pedregal, a lava field thought to be his home state and people: “Save in de- But the mountain of evidence in Lee’s impassable, at night. General Winfield fence of my native state with the sincere favor must be ignored, so we’re told. Scott called it the “greatest feat of physi- hope that my poor services may never be *** cal and moral courage, performed by any needed, I hope I may never be called upon The revolutionary destruction of tra- individual” during the campaign. Lee, he to draw my sword.” ditional American heroes and symbols in wrote, was “the best soldier that I ever Even after Lee’s defeat in April 1865, which we justly take pride is not an end in saw in the field.” the opinion of his contemporaries, includ- itself. It is the means to an end: the impo- ing his Yankee foes, did not change. “It is sition of a new narrative that justifies an I tell you that if I were on my death easy to see why Lee has become the em- unthinkable totalitarian regime that will bed tomorrow, and the president of bodiment of … the soldier, the Christian enforce its dogmas with a reign of terror. the United States would tell me that and the gentleman,” a Union general wrote The first step, though, is erasing our past a great battle was to be fought for on seeing Lee at the Confederate surrender and our deservedly treasured historical liberty or slavery of the country, and at Appomattox. memory. n asked my judgment as to the ability Lee reproached those who wished to

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by Steve Byas its comparable lack of resources. Besides America the beautiful: Fireworks are that, I added, the resources here had exist- part of the fun of the Fourth of July, but any years ago, I was verbally ed for generations before our nation was what Americans should enjoy most on marveling at the prosperity of even in existence, so it had to be some- Independence Day are the blessings of liberty protected by our founding documents. M the United States in comparison thing additional that has made the United with most of the rest of the world. A young States a country that millions of people college-educated woman heard my com- around the world want to come to. Without the freedom to try something ments, shrugged her shoulders, and said, In a word, that additional difference new — to innovate — mankind has gen- “It would be difficult to not be prosperous, the liberal woman did not understand is erally been consigned to live on the edge considering the vast natural resources of freedom. In the long history of the world, of starvation (if that) for most of its exis- the country.” slavery and servitude have been far more tence. Instead, the static economy result- This being the 1980s, I countered that common than freedom. This lack of lib- ing from the control by the heavy hand of the Soviet Union had at least as many, if erty for the individual to chart his own government led to little improvement in not more, natural resources than our coun- course, free from the dictates of a govern- the lives of the average man and woman. try, and not only did it lag behind us, it was ment that assumes it knows best, has been Kings and queens certainly lived better far behind Japan, a country well known for what has caused most of the world’s pop- than their subjects, but the standard of liv- ulation to suffer in poverty for centuries. ing of royalty up until fairly recent times Steve Byas is a university instructor of history and The idea that a self-described elite know would be considered poverty by most government, and the author of the book History’s best for the rest of us is what Friedrich Americans living today. Greatest Libels. Hayek rightly called “the fatal conceit.” Why is this? Perhaps more than any-

26 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 thing else, Americans are partaking of the laration of Independence. The preamble in the 19th century, “Not yet, O Freedom! fruit of what the Founders implemented — makes this quite clear — the Constitu- Close thy lids in slumber, for thine enemy a government that was restrained, leaving tion was the Founders’ effort to secure the never sleepeth.” the population to excel by pursuing its blessings of liberty to themselves and their American Founding Father John Adams own dreams, not the dreams of some king posterity. knew it would require vigilance to keep or pharaoh. As Henry Grady Weaver put Freed from the restraints of govern- our hard-earned freedom from being lost. it so well in his classic The Mainspring of ments of pharaohs, kings, caesars, and the He was dedicated to the task, explain- Human Progress, “The only way in which like, Americans were free to innovate, to ing, “I must study politics and war that men can remain free and be left in con- pursue their own happiness, rather than my sons may have liberty to study math- trol of their individual energies is to cut pursuing the grandiose schemes of an au- ematics and philosophy. My sons ought to the power of government to an irreducible thoritarian regime. It was freedom, rather study mathematics and philosophy, geog- minimum.” than slavery, that made possible what W. raphy, natural history, naval architecture, The problem is how to avoid anarchy on Cleon Skousen called “the 5000-year navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in one hand — a condition in which crimi- leap.” Before this, the standard of living order to give their children a right to study nals would simply steal the fruits of one’s of the world changed little over 50 cen- painting, poetry, music, architecture, statu- labor — and what history records as the turies. ary, tapestry, and porcelain.” norm for most societies, an oligarchical Of course, the enemies of freedom are Adams could not have foreseen all dictatorship. Solving this dilemma is what ever present to stifle the benefits it pro- of the fruits of liberty we enjoy today. the Founders managed to accomplish at duces. Because of this, citizens must con- Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Philadelphia with the Constitution of the tinue to fight those who wish to go back and all the rest were not just concerned United States. Nineteenth-century British to the times before the “revolution” of the with putting more food on the table. Be- Prime Minister William Gladstone said Founders. As William Cullen Bryant said cause of this unleashing of human inge- of the U.S. Constitution, “The most nuity and energy brought on by wonderful work ever struck off at a Americans pursuing their own given time by the brain and purpose happiness, we and our ancestors of man.” have had more time to pursue Most people are referring to the war our own dreams — whatever for independence when they reference those dreams are — and also “the American Revolution,” but as to improve our minds, practice John Adams said, the revolution was our faith, and simply enjoy life complete in the minds of the Ameri- — doing things such as taking can people before the war erupted in our kids to a baseball game and 1775. He argued that the revolution enjoying a hot dog. began when the first English colonists came to the New World. By the time The Fruits of Liberty Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declara- Whereas ruling elites saw no tion of Independence, its philosophy need to improve the daily lives was widely shared by those men who of their subjects, the progress that led the effort to secede from the Brit- resulted from this unshackling of ish Empire. the average man and woman has led to the enjoyment of indoor Government Protects, plumbing, electric lighting, air Not Gives, Rights conditioning, the automobile, “We hold these truths to be self- motion pictures, sporting events, evident,” the Declaration explained, and all sorts of pleasures that we “that all men are created equal, that take for granted today. they are endowed by their Creator This should not be a surprise. with certain unalienable rights, that As the great Austrian economist among these are life, liberty and the Ludwig von Mises said, “Free pursuit of happiness.” In short, gov- labor is incomparably more pro- ernments are instituted not to hand ductive than slave labor. The out rights as they see fit, but rather to slave has no interest in exerting protect those rights that we already Freedom’s start: John Adams contended that the American himself fully. He works only as have, simply on the basis of us being Revolution actually began with the arrival of the first English much and as zealously as is nec- humans. colonists in 1607, as the colonists — separated from the essary to escape the punishment The Constitution was written to British Empire by the vast Atlantic Ocean — began building a attaching to failure to perform implement the grand ideas of the Dec- new way of life on the foundation of freedom. the minimum. The free worker, www.TheNewAmerican.com 27 CULTURE

could make 60,000 nails per week. Obvi- ously, this lowered the cost of building a house, improving the lives of untold mil- lions in America, and around the world in the ensuing decades. The incentive to build such a machine would not have existed had Perkins been constrained to just carrying out the dic- tates of a ruling monarch or an oligarchy, or a bureaucrat in Washington, D.C., or one of the many towns across the land. While some decry the private ownership of property, it is the very concept of pri- vate property, allowing individuals to use that property as they see fit, that has al- lowed the use of those “vast” natural re- sources that existed in America long be- fore there was a political entity called the United States. Today’s politics is largely divided over how the concept of private property is viewed. On one side, in line with the

AP Images thoughts of the Founding Fathers, is the Prosperity is the result of liberty: By 1940, Americans had more automobiles than the rest of philosophy that a principal purpose of the world combined. Along with so many other material blessings, this explosion of prosperity government is to protect private proper- was mostly due to the liberty of individuals to pursue happiness, without the heavy hand of ty. On the other side, in line with far too government regulation so common throughout world history. many in our country, is the overt asser- tion that government exists not to protect property, but rather to take it from those who have created it, and redistribute it to others. Coveting is forbidden in the Ten Commandments, but for many politicians This lack of liberty for the individual to chart his own course, today, it is policy. free from the dictates of a government that assumes Of course, giving any government this type of power is not only immoral, it is it knows best, has been what has caused most of the counterproductive and antithetical to the world’s population to suffer in poverty for centuries. founding principles of this nation. It is the philosophy that kept the standard of living stagnant for most of recorded history. The Venezuelan patriot Francisco de on the other hand, knows that the more joyed around the world. It is not surprising Miranda, when his nation was breaking his labor accomplishes, the more he will that millions of people around the world away from Spain, cautioned his country- be paid.” want to live here. For example, the aver- men, “Two examples lie before our eyes: By 1890, the United States had, by far, age American enjoys about 700 square The American Revolution and the French the world’s most productive economy. By feet of living space, per person, which is Revolution. Let us discreetly imitate the 1940, Americans drove 85 percent of the somewhere between 50 and 100 percent first; let us most carefully avoid the disas- world’s automobiles, and had over half of more than the average in other high-in- trous effects of the second.” the world’s telephones. Of course, these come countries. Sadly, the history of Latin America in- astounding numbers have dropped consid- In The Mainspring of Human Progress, dicates that the model of the French Revo- erably, not because the standard of living Weaver offered the example of the com- lution has not been carefully avoided. Sad- of Americans has declined, but because mon nail to demonstrate the blessings of der still, there are many Americans today much of the rest of the world has gradually liberty. Before the Revolution, nails were who have forgotten, or never learned of, somewhat closed the gap. Still, almost 30 so expensive that older houses would be the blessings of liberty won by the prin- percent of the world’s wealth is in Ameri- burned down just so nails could be re- ciples that drove our own American Revo- can hands. trieved from the ashes, in order to build lution, and are instead looking with favor Even today, Americans generally enjoy other houses. Then, in 1795, Jacob Perkins upon the disaster known as the French a higher standard of living than that en- of Massachusetts invented a machine that Revolution. n

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The Gift of Transportation “It’s just amazing to think that a cus- Tarlton to safety. The men each grabbed An anonymous donor surprised a Taco tomer has met another person for 15 min- him by an arm and his belt to pull him out Casa restaurant employee in Tuscaloosa, utes and feels like God has told him that of the house. It was then that firefighters Alabama, with a car so that he no longer hey I need to buy him a car. I need to take arrived. has to walk to work, the Tuscaloosa News care of this man, I need to show him and While the men were scared, Harvey reported. I need to show the love of Jesus to this said he believes wholeheartedly that God A generous donor who wished to re- individual,” he commented. was with them that day. main anonymous is a frequent customer Wilkin says the kindness could not “As we’re coming out of the house, of the restaurant and became aware that have been shown to a better person. “He we can’t see anything but only thing I the unidentified employee was walking a is a great employee here for us,” he said can sit there and tell you if you believe in long distance to get to his job because he of his employee, who has been with the God, mysterious things will happen,” he did not have a vehicle. restaurant for several years, according to said. “He was there the whole entire time On June 30, he gifted the employee a CBS 42. “He’s just a great guy.” showing us the way out.” fully paid Acura. In an effort to remain Both Jones and Harvey said they anonymous, the customer left the vehicle would never have been able to live with with Rod Wilkin, Jr., the restaurant’s vice Fire Rescue themselves if they didn’t get Tarlton out. president of operations, to present to the Quick action by Tre Jones, 25, and Mar- “We really didn’t know. We were really employee. cus Harvey, 24, likely saved the life of just thinking about getting that man out In a video that was uploaded to Taco 56-year-old Guy Tarlton, whose home in of the house and getting us out of there. Casa’s social-media sites, Wilkin walked Marion, Indiana, caught fire after Tarlton We’ve got kids, so we were trying to the employee out of the restaurant and ex- fell asleep while cooking on June 21. make sure we were all going to be safe,” plained to him and the other employees Jones recalled telling Harvey he smelled Harvey said. “We never leave a man be- who came outside what he was doing. smoke before he noticed the house ablaze. hind.” “Ok, so there is a gentleman here in Jones said there were people in the front “I wasn’t even thinking how bad it town that wants to remain anonymous yard of the house recording it on their was,” Jones said. “I just knew I had to get but wants to surprise you and he has just phones. him out.” give[n] me keys to a car for you and it’s It was then that Jones began hearing Jones is hopeful the incident will serve right there,” Wilkin said before pointing screams from inside the house. “I’m like, as a teachable moment, particularly since to the gifted Acura sedan. ‘So why are you all just standing there?’” he and Harvey are young black men and “For me?” the employee responds, he recalled. Tarlton is white, and the incident took smiling. Quickly, he and Harvey ran toward the place at a time when race relations are “For you,” Wilkin affirmed. fiery home. being strained by the mainstream media’s Of the anonymous donor, Wilkin added, Jones described the experience to the divisive narrative. “He just said it’s a God thing and he wants Chronicle-Tribune. “I kicked the door “I want to say, all lives matter. Don’t you to enjoy it.” in and fire, smoke and all types of stuff judge a book by its cover,” he said. The employee’s co-workers can be blew out the house because the fire was Tarlton was flown to Lutheran Hospi- heard in the video teasing him about not so bad,” Jones recalled. “It pushed me be- tal with first- and third-degree burns over having to be hot on the way into work. cause there was so much pressure inside 30 percent of his body and was put into a Others joked the vehicle means he has the house when I kicked the door in. It medically induced coma. Had Jones and “no excuse to be late.” He responded, like forced me away from the door. I took Harvey not gotten to him when they did, “I’m never late. I’m gonna be super early my shirt off. Now I’ve got the door open, the outcome could have been entirely dif- now.” so I could hear him moaning and groaning ferent. WTHR 13 reported that both Jones According to Wilkin, the gift to his a little more louder. I told him, ‘Hold on. and Harvey have remained in touch with employee was one of the kindest acts of Here I come. Keep talking, keep talking, Tarlton’s family to check on his condition. generosity he had ever been lucky enough keep talking.’” They could not visit him in the hospital to witness, Breitbart News reported. Jones couldn’t see anything, but found due to COVID-19 restrictions. What’s more amazing, the customer Tarlton on the ground after accidently According to Brandon Eckstein, a fire had only briefly met the employee before stepping on him. It was then he attempt- marshal for the Marion Fire Department he decided he wanted to do this wonder- ed to pick Tarlton up and “scoot” him (MFD), Tarlton did not have a working ful deed. According to the company’s towards the exit, but he was heavy and smoke detector in his home at the time Facebook post, the anonymous customer kept slipping out of his hands. Thankfully, of the fire. was inspired by the fact that the employee Harvey, who initially hesitated to enter Both Jones and Harvey will be honored maintained his work ethic despite having the house because of poor visibility, found by the MFD for their heroics. n lost his means of transportation. Jones inside the house and helped get — Raven Clabough

30 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 HISTORYHISTORYPAST AND PERSPECTIVE The Great Emancipation Contrary to multicultural, politically correct purveyors of misinformation, the Founding Fathers broke with age-old practices and provided for the abolition of slavery.

Slavery in America: A group of "contraband" slaves gather for a photo at Cumberland Landing, Virginia, in 1862. Library of Congress

by William Norman Grigg Dissenting from what he called “a com- came enshrined as something of a cultural placent belief that the document is worthy consensus. It is hardly an exaggeration to This article originally appeared in the of praise,” Marshall indicted the Founding say that practically the only thing many August 28, 2000 issue of The New Ameri- Fathers for their supposed lack of “wis- American students know about George can. Will Grigg, who passed away in dom, foresight, and sense of justice” and Washington or Thomas Jefferson is that 2017, was a senior editor of The New insisted that “the government they devised both were “slave owners” and therefore American from 1995-2006. was defective from the start.” The fatal de- utterly unworthy of respect. fect in the Foundersʼ handiwork, Marshall Itʼs not just students, though. Today n a speech to a group of legal activ- asserted, was its failure to abolish the prac- many people of good will have a difficult ists on May 6, 1987, the late Supreme tice of slavery outright. This reflected “the time reconciling the principles of God-­ I Court Justice Thurgood Marshall de- prevailing opinion” among the Founders given individual rights and equal protec- nounced our nationʼs charter of govern- that blacks “were so far inferior, that they tion under the law — concepts that were ment and the framers of that document. At had no rights which the white man was given such eloquent expression in our the time, Americans were commemorating bound to respect … and that the Negro founding documents — with the fact that the constitutional bicentennial, and Mar- might justly and lawfully be reduced to the Framers of the Constitution compro- shall — who had sworn a solemn oath to slavery for his benefit,” Marshall opined. mised on the ­issue of chattel slavery. Even uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution Within a very short time, the sentiments many of those who revere the Founders — could barely contain his contempt for expressed by Marshall — which caused and cherish their accomplishments are that observance. shock and consternation at the time — be- inclined to see the Framersʼ handling of www.TheNewAmerican.com 31 HISTORYHISTORYPAST AND PERSPECTIVE

the slavery issue as a cynical exercise in expediency. That the Framers struck a compromise on slavery is indisputable. But that compromise, which reflected a sound understanding of the limitations of human nature and human institutions, was devised in such a way as to hasten the abo- lition of slavery, rather than to perpetuate the practice. The institution of chattel slavery, until quite recently, was embedded in nearly every human society. While the Framers of the Constitution drew upon the inher- ited wisdom of the ages in drafting our charter of government, their treatment of slavery represented a dramatic break with the past: By giving Congress the power to cease the importation of slaves, the Constitution curbed, and provided for the abolition of, an age-old practice that is an offense against human liberty.

Compromise and Consequence “In no matter what field of the European past we make our research,” wrote Brit- A fading institution: A Union soldier sits in front of a storefront advertising “Auction & Negro ish parliamentarian and philosopher Hil­ Sales,” in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864 (above). It was the American Founding Fathers who, in a laire Belloc in his study The Servile State, break with millennia of human history, laid a foundation for the eventual abolition of slavery when “we find, from two thousand years ago they drafted the U.S. Constitution. upwards, one fundamental institution whereupon the whole of society reposes; that fundamental institution is slavery.” Across the sweep of 20 centuries, Belloc observes, “we find no organized effort, in Britain became free, slavery was not principles of limited government under nor (what is still more significant) do we touched in the colonies, where nearly all law, they might have tried to eradicate the find any complaint of conscience against of the slaves in the empire lived. Slavery practice by decree — with disastrous re- the institution which condemned the bulk was sanctioned by the Bible and by Aris- sults. The course ultimately settled upon of human beings to forced labor.” By the totle. But, alone in a world of slavehold- by the Framers, however unsatisfactory it time of the American founding, Christian ers, Americans brought on themselves may seem to some of those who enjoy the concepts of individual worth and liberty the charge of hypocrisy, because of their blessings of their efforts, displayed great had permeated Western society to such principles and their rhetoric.” wisdom and insight. an extent that the continued existence of The Framers understood that they Slavery was the most divisive issue at slavery became untenable. (Significantly, lived in a society that was (in Alexan- the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, and the movement to abolish slavery was a der Hamiltonʼs words) “remote from the resulting compromise did permit the distinctly Christian undertaking; there the happy empire of perfect wisdom and continued importation of slaves for 20 was no non-Christian equivalent.) perfect virtue.” Unlike the utopian social years. However, as James Madison point- Although the emancipation movement engineers who believed that human cus- ed out in The Federalist, No. 38, under the was under way by the time of the found- toms and prejudices can be re-molded by Articles of Confederation, the continua- ing, slavery was still commonly practiced the power of government, the architects tion of the slave trade was “permitted for- throughout the Western world. “Ameri- of the U.S. Constitution sought to ac- ever.” While Madison and others among cans were not the only patrons of the in- commodate human nature and existing the Framers would have preferred imme- stitution of slavery at the time of [Ameri- institutions, while providing for the re- diate abolition, the anti-slavery element at can] independence,” notes writer Richard finement of justice in harmony with the the Convention had succeeded in creating Brookhiser in Founding Father, his biog- “laws of Nature and of Natureʼs God.” a framework that — if followed — could raphy of Washington. “They bought their Had they been animated by purely self- have brought to a rapid and orderly end slaves from African dealers. Though the interested motives, the Framers would a despicable practice that had existed for Chief Justice of the Kingʼs Bench had probably have given the issue of slavery centuries. As Madison explained in The ruled in 1772 that any slave who set foot wide berth; had they less respect for the Federalist, No. 42:

32 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 It ought to be considered as a great point gained in favor of humanity That the Framers struck a compromise on slavery is that a period of twenty years may ter- minate forever, within these States, a indisputable. But that compromise, which reflected a traffic which has so long and so loud- sound understanding of the limitations of human nature ly upbraided the barbarism of mod- and human institutions, was devised in such a way as to ern policy; that within that period it will receive a considerable discour- hasten the abolition of slavery, rather than to perpetuate agement from the federal govern- the practice. ment, and may be totally abolished, by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic declared,” writes Clarence Carson in Vol- actments were made in the early 1780s in in the prohibitory example which ume 2 of his authoritative series A Basic New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode has been given by so great a majority History of the United States. “In 1776, Island. In Massachusetts, the supreme of the Union. Happy would it be for Delaware prohibited the importation of court ruled that on the basis of that stateʼs the unfortunate Africans if an equal slaves and removed all restraints on their constitution of 1780 slavery was abolished prospect lay before them of being re- manumission (freeing by the owner). there.... In order to protect free Negroes, deemed from the oppressions of their Virginia stopped slave imports in 1778; Virginia made it a crime punishable by European brethren! Maryland adopted a similar measure in death for anyone found guilty of selling a 1783. Both states permitted manumission. freed Negro into slavery.” Beginnings of Abolition In 1780, Pennsylvania not only prohib- “After 1808, Congress was free to abol- The constitutional provisions that pre- ited further importation of slaves but also ish the slave trade, as it did,” writes histo- figured an end to the practice of slavery provided that after that date all children rian Thomas G. West in his book Vindicat- were explicitly acknowledged during the born of slaves should be free. Similar en- ing the Founders. While it is true that the debate over ratification. “A solid Constitution tolerated the contin- foundation is laid for exploding ued practice of chattel slavery on the principles of negro slav- a temporary basis, “it did not stand ery, in which many good men in the way of any state that wished of all parties in Pennsylvania, to abolish slavery,” continues and throughout the union, have West. “Congress could cut off already concurred,” declared the slave trade after twenty years. Federalist Tenche Coxe in a Congress could cut off the spread September 1788 essay. Noah of slavery to new states and to Webster concurred: “An imme- the western territories. Congress diate abolition of slavery would could regulate interstate com- bring ruin upon the whites, and merce in slaves. The Constitution misery upon the blacks, in the was not the problem. The problem southern states. The constitu- was the absence of political will” tion has therefore wisely left to use constitutional mechanisms each state to pursue its own to hasten the end of institutional- measures, with respect to this ized slavery. article of legislation, during the Once again, it is important to period of twenty-one years.” recognize that by devising these During the Philadelphia anti-slavery mechanisms, the Convention, Roger Sherman Framers were acting to abolish of Connecticut, who opposed a well-entrenched social institu- slavery, observed (as Madison tion. “What is significant in the recorded his remarks) that “the historical context of the time is abolition of slavery seemed to not that the liberty-loving Revo- be going on in the United States lutionaries allowed slavery to and that the good sense of the survive, but that they — even several States would probably those who profited directly from by degrees compleat [sic] it.” the institution — went so far in “Some states began to act with condemning it, confining it, and the purpose of eventually end- Library of Congress setting in motion the forces that ing slavery almost as soon as Abraham Lincoln recognized that the Founding Fathers set slavery would ultimately destroy it,” ob- independence from Britain was “in the course of ultimate extinction.” serves historian Bernard Bailyn.

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son expressed the hope that America was “What is significant in the historical context of the time is pre­paring, “under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation” of the slaves. not that the liberty-loving Revolutionaries allowed slavery Madison expressed confidence that the to survive, but that they — even those who profited Constitution would succeed in “palliat- ing slavery as a deep-rooted abuse.” An- directly from the institution — went so far in condemning other noted Virginian, abolitionist George it, confining it, and setting in motion the forces that Mason, issued a sobering warning to his fellow delegates at the Constitutional Con- would ultimately destroy it.” vention: “Every master of slaves is born a — Bernard Bailyn petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.” The same viewpoint was ardently cham- pioned by other lesser-known supporters of the new constitution. “A man who ex- ercises absolute power over some hundred fellow creatures, although he should not abuse it, cannot easily have a heart-felt sensibility of the equal rights of mankind, the moderation of a republican, and a genuine love of liberty,” wrote Federal- ist Nicolas Collin (under the pseudonym “A Foreign Spectator”) in Philadelphiaʼs Independent Gazeteer in September 1787. “This national evil must indeed be abol- ished with prudence, and by degrees; but let it be done with all possible speed.” Writing under the pen name “Crito,” Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, ex- plained how the principles of that docu- ment applied to black and white alike:

The Africans, and the blacks in servi- tude among us, were really as much included in these assertions as our- selves; and their right, unalienable right to liberty, and to procure and possess property, is as much asserted as ours, if they be men. And if we have not allowed them to enjoy these unalienable rights, but violently deprive them of liberty and Strong feelings: “There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a property … we are guilty of a ridicu- plan adopted for the abolition of slavery,” George Washington once declared, giving voice lous and wicked contradiction and to the beliefs generally held by the Founding Fathers. inconsistence [sic].

George Washington became a slave owner “A successful and liberty-loving repub- Founders’ Intent by inheritance — through his half-brother lic might someday destroy the slavery it Clearly, the intention of the Framers was Lawrenceʼs will and his marriage to Mar- had been obliged to tolerate at the start; a to set slavery “in the course of ultimate ex- tha Custis. As a planter with extensive weak and fragmented nation would never tinction,” as Abraham Lincoln observed. holdings, Washington both bought and sold be able to do so.” In his Notes on Virginia, Thomas Jeffer- slaves, and as president he was cautious

34 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 not to offend the powerful slavehold- freed­men “to perceive what are the ob- ing interests in the Southern states by ligations of freedom.” This same chal- publicly agitating for emancipation. lenge was commented upon by Booker However, Washington expressed his T. Washington, Americaʼs first widely repugnance for slavery to his closest recognized black leader. Unlike con- friends, and toward the end of his life, temporary racial grievance-peddlers, he acted upon his principled desire to Booker T. Washington — who adopted see an end to the practice. the surname of the father of our coun- One of Washingtonʼs most re- try as his own — actually experienced vealing statements on the subject firsthand the “cruelty and moral wrong came in 1774, amid increasingly of slavery.” Nevertheless, Washington brazen encroachments by the British did not share Thurgood Marshallʼs Crown. Washington warned that if contempt for the handiwork of our Americans allowed such usurpations Founding Fathers. to continue, “custom and use shall “I have never seen [a former slave] make us as tame and abject slaves who did not want to be free, or one as the blacks we rule over with such who would return to slavery,” re- arbitrary sway.” Biographer James flected Washington in his memoir Thomas Flexner underscores a criti- Up From Slavery. Writing just de- cal element of Washingtonʼs warn- cades after chattel slavery had been ing: “The final clause in this sentence abolished in the United States, Wash- reveals disgust at the behavior of the ington observed that “the ten million whites, but even more significant is Negroes inhabiting this country, the assumption that the ʻcustom and who themselves or whose ancestors useʼ which had debased the blacks Archive Photos went through the school of American would debase whites equally.” Black leader: Booker T. Washington took the name of slavery, are in a stronger and more Between the Revolution and his our nation’s first president as his own and recognized hopeful condition, materially, intel- presidency, Washington reflected the great responsibilities conferred on individuals by lectually, morally, and religiously, freedom: “To many of the newly liberated slaves,” recalled upon the need to bring about “the than is true of an equal number of Washington, “it seemed that, now that they were in actual rooting out of slavery.” “There is not possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than black people in any other portion of a man living who wishes more sin- they had expected to find it.” the globe.” cerely than I do to see a plan adopted As a youngster, Washington had for the abolition of slavery,” Wash- seen his mother “kneeling over her ington declared on one occasion. In children and fervently praying … that a conversation with his close friend one day she and her children might be David Humphreys, Washington described end remained unachieved” at the time of free.” The joy that greeted emancipation the “unfortunate condition of the persons his death in December 1799. However, was tempered by the understanding that whose labors I in part employed” as an “un- when Washington drew up his last will freedom entails responsibility as well. avoidable subject of regret”: “To make the and testament in July of that year, he made “The great responsibility of being free, adults among them as easy and comfortable provision to free his slaves outright: of having charge of themselves, of hav- as their actual state of ignorance and im- ing to think and plan for themselves and providence would admit, and to lay a foun- Upon the decease of my wife it is their children, seemed to take possession dation to prepare the rising generation for my will and desire that all the slaves [of the newly liberated slaves],” wrote a destiny different from that in which they which I hold in my own right, shall Washington. “In a few hours the great were born, affords some satisfaction to my receive their freedom. — And where- question with which the Anglo-Saxon mind, and could not, I hoped, be displeas- as among those who will receive free- race had been grappling for centuries ing to the justice of the Creator.” dom, there may be some, who from had been thrown upon these people to In a private letter sent to his friend old age or bodily infirmities, and oth- be solved.” To many of the newly liber- ­Tobias Lear, Washington expressed his ers who on account of their infancy, ated slaves, “it seemed that, now that they intention “to liberate a species of property will be unable to support themselves; were in actual possession of it, freedom which I possess very repugnantly to my it is my will and desire that — they was a more serious thing than they had feelings”; his intention, Flexner observes, shall be comfortably clothed and fed expected to find it.” “was to have the renters of his farms hire, by my heirs while they live. Freedom was indeed a “serious thing” ʻas they would do any other laborers,ʼ the for Washington, who was born into slav- blacks who had previously worked on the After Slavery ery and destitution. Would that those of us same farms as slaves.” Although he of- One of emancipationʼs greatest challeng- who have not known such trials take our fered to rent his farms on these terms, “the es, Washington observed, was educating freedoms as seriously. ■ www.TheNewAmerican.com 35 DEEP STATE

WHAT CAN BE DONE The Deep State juggernaut may be a formidable force, but it is not unstoppable.

illness or disease without an accurate diagnosis. And an army cannot begin planning to defeat and resist an enemy without first knowing who that enemy is. Make no mistake: This is a war. The first and most important thing to understand about the war is that it goes way beyond politics, economics, religion, or ideology. This is not merely a battle against bad ideas or bad people — it’s a battle against evil. In his letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul described the nature of this battle. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” he wrote after urging the faithful to put on “the whole armor of God.” In the Hebrew Bible, God through King David gives insight into the nature of the battle as well. “The kings of the earth set them- selves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,” reads Psalm 2:2, with some versions even using the word “conspire.” However, there is also good news, with verse 4 explaining, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.” In short, the forces working to destroy liberty and America are not just anti-human and anti-freedom. They are, at the core, waging a war against God Himself. They hate God, with a passion, and they hate God’s people — those who love God and seek to do His will. Understanding this is fundamental to formulating a proper response. As John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch put it, America and humanity are right now confronted with a “diabolical conspiracy.” Any sensible plan for opposing the Deep State must, therefore, first and foremost, rely on God. Recognizing the indispensible role of God in the freedom fight, Welch incorporated it into his motto for by Alex Newman The John Birch Society: “Less government, more responsibility, and — with God’s help — a better world.” Without relying on God for This article is the concluding chapter of a new book by guidance and support, any hope for victory is absurd. As the Bible Alex Newman entitled Deep State: The Invisible Govern- puts it in Psalm 127, “Except the LORD build the house, they labor ment Behind the Scenes, which is going to the printer this in vain that build it.” month. Newman is a foreign correspondent for The New Going back to Ephesians 6, God gives some crucial strategies for American. the fight ahead. Among other tactics, believers are instructed to take up the “shield of faith” that will enable you to “quench all the fiery imply knowing about the Deep State and its evil darts of the wicked.” And when going on offense, believers have a agenda will not stop it. In fact, it won’t even make a powerful weapon, too: “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word Sdent. But learning about the problem is the first step of God.” to dealing with it. After all, doctors cannot begin to treat an Biblical truth offers a most powerful weapon in this struggle. As

36 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 the enemy seeks to undermine family and education and the media, Americans today has been prepared. Of course, this book marriage, the Word of God points humani- have little understanding of the enemy or is merely a primer. It should be used in ty back in the right direction. As the enemy themselves, ensuring defeat in every battle. conjunction with other works such as seeks to redefine good and evil, again the For instance, even though polls find that James Perloff’s Shadows of Power, Art Bible smashes the lies. As the enemy seeks three-fourths of Americans recognize that Thompson’s In the Shadows of the Deep to invent infinite new genders, the absolute a “Deep State” exists, few have a solid State, G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature Truth that God created people male and understanding of what this means, or how From Jekyll Island, Welch’s Again, May female will stand forever. As the enemy deep this Deep State really goes. And when God Forgive Us, Gary Allen’s None Dare peddles tyranny, the Bible urges believers it comes to knowing who they are as Amer- Call It Conspiracy, and Dan Smoot’s The to proclaim liberty. On issue after issue, icans, again the vast majority of the public Invisible Government. A subscription to the word of God stands as a light unto the falls short. As Thomas Jefferson warned in The New American magazine is essential nations. 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant for making sense out of today’s headlines. But believers must manifest their deeply and free, in a state of civilization, it expects Fighting ignorance is crucial on so held religious convictions through their ac- what never was and never will be.” many levels. As God put it in the Hebrew tions in order to make the world we live in This gives advocates of liberty, civiliza- Bible, “My people are destroyed for lack a better and freer place. As Daniel Webster tion, and righteousness an enormous task: of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). Also in the said in 1834, “God grants liberty only to Educating the public about who we are as Old Testament (Isaiah 5:13), God warns those who love it, and are always ready to a nation, and who the enemy is. For one, about the dangers of ignorance once again: guard and defend it.” Americans must become educated about “Therefore my people are gone into cap- Regardless of our own religious tradi- their own history, their heritage, and their tivity, because they have no knowledge.” tions or the doctrinal disagreements we Constitution. Ignorance of those key ele- Clearly, knowledge is not just desirable, it may have with others, all of us can and ments is one of the reasons the Deep State is essential to remaining free. must play a role in fighting back against has been so successful in using unconsti- The John Birch Society has produced the civilization-destroyers on points of tutional government and phony history to an enormous range of educational am- common agreement. Imagine, for the sake undermine America and freedom. munition to use in this battle. This in- of argument, that Christian-style civiliza- On the other side of the equation, cludes material educating Americans tion is an edifice that has been set ablaze Americans must gain a proper education about themselves, and about the evildo- by God-hating arsonists. If it burns, liberty, on the Deep State. That is why this book ers seeking to enslave them and destroy prosperity, and more will be utterly civilization. There is no reason to re- destroyed. Children and grand- invent the wheel — see what JBS children will be in bondage, if has available, educate yourself, they even survive. Would anyone and then use those resources to really suggest that due to doctrinal educate others. Focus on getting differences, Catholics or Protes- the material to opinion molders: tants or Jews or Orthodox Chris- radio hosts, newspaper colum- tians should not join the volunteer nists, business leaders, elected fire department? The John Birch officials, legislators, sheriffs, Society is the equivalent of the community leaders, pastors, rab- volunteer fire department. bis, priests, elders at church, and In practical terms, there is more. much that must be done. Ancient Perhaps the single most im- Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, writ- portant thing average American ing in his masterpiece The Art parents can do for the cause is to of War, laid out a key point that train up their children in the way should be clearly understood in that they should go. At the very the midst of a war. “If you know least, that means ensuring that the enemy and know yourself, you they are not subjected to over a need not fear the result of a hun- decade of anti-God, anti-liberty, dred battles,” he wrote. “If you anti-family indoctrination in gov- know yourself but not the enemy, ernment schools. At this point, for every victory gained you will homeschooling, parent-led co- also suffer a defeat. If you know operatives known as “co-ops,” or neither the enemy nor yourself, godly private schools are really you will succumb in every battle.” the only option. FreedomProject These words of wisdom are es- Academy, an online K-12 school pecially relevant today. Thanks to affiliated with JBS, is a great the Deep State’s control of public tool. Working with churches and

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now in public schools. It also reveals the hidden history behind this and the ongo- Even though polls find that three-fourths of Americans ing globalization of government educa- tion under the United Nations. Finally, it recognize that a “Deep State” exists, few have a solid offers solutions: Homeschooling, private understanding of what this means, or how deep this schools, and a total abandonment of the government indoctrination system. To Deep State really goes. order, go to www.TheNewAmerican.com/ RescuingOurChildren. Quantity-discount prices are available to make distribution to parents and opinion molders economical. In addition to education, there are sev- eral other issues that represent existential threats to the continued survival of free- dom and the American Republic. The JBS has a track record stretching back more than six decades of identifying these dangers, and mobilizing the grassroots to address them. These include the effort to undermine and re-write the U.S. Constitu- tion, open borders and the accompanying mass migration, the globalist-backed rise to global power of the mass-murdering communist regime enslaving mainland China, the effort to subvert American sov- ereignty in a North American Union and a New World Order, the Federal Reserve’s usurious “monetary” system, and more. Fortunately, the Constitution contains solutions to many of these problems, if only American voters would demand that the law be enforced. For instance, sur- rendering U.S. sovereignty using “free trade” agreements or “treaties” grant- ing new powers to the feds involving the skynesher/E+/GettyImagesPlus United Nations is flatly unconstitutional. Defeating the Deep State: The Deep State is at its core a collection of globalists who preach The enormous bureaucracy that now regu- that socialistic global government — minus religious morals — is the key to Heaven on Earth. lates virtually every facet of life and the Christians can fight this false message by first living as directed by God and protecting religiosity. economy is also mostly unconstitutional, with those powers being left to the states or to the people. And the Federal Reserve parents to ensure alternatives at the local are being harmed mentally, spiritually, aca- banking cartel that is facilitating it all by level is key. demically, intellectually, and more. If more looting Americans is flagrantly unconsti- After doing the basics — protecting than eight out of 10 American children re- tutional, as well. one’s own children and ensuring they re- main in Deep State-controlled schools, it is Stopping all of this is possible. In fact, ceive a high-quality, godly education — unlikely that America will survive another with just 218 constitutionally minded helping others protect their own children generation as a free nation. It may not sur- members of the U.S. House of Represen- is crucial too. After all, if the school build- vive anyway, but without a revival of real tatives, which controls the “purse strings,” ing is on fire, to use the analogy again, education, which is only possible by getting it could all be defunded almost immedi- you would not just get your own children the children out of the government schools, ately. And in many conservative-leaning out, but would also sound the alarm and there can be no hope. districts, getting pro-Constitution lawmak- encourage other parents to rescue their To deal with this crisis, The New Amer- ers elected is not as difficult as one might children, too. And you would do it imme- ican produced a Special Report entitled think. By attending “town hall” meetings diately — so the children would be safe “Rescuing Our Children” that exposes and distributing The New American’s — while also working on the long-term the unprecedented and deeply horrifying “Freedom Index,” which grades every objective of separating school and state. indoctrination, sexualization, and dumb- member of Congress based on his fidelity In the government schools, the children ing down of children taking place right to the Constitution, this writer and local

38 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 JBS members and allies were able to raise that is still on the books purporting to ban to godly morality in this fight. As Presi- awareness in a congressional district. As the controversial plant in all circumstanc- dent John Adams put it in a 1798 address a result of this, voters there decided to re- es, the vast majority of states have nulli- to the officers of the First Brigade of the move a phony conservative and replace fied the federal prohibition by making it Third Division of the Massachusetts Mi- him with a more constitutionally minded available medically with a prescription. litia, “Our Constitution was made only for congressman. Improved understanding Some states have even ended prohibition a moral and religious people.” Without a among constituents often results in repre- of recreational use entirely, something that, return to biblical principles and morality, sentatives improving their voting records regardless of the wisdom of such a policy, America will never be free again. just to stay in office, too. is within a state’s sovereign prerogative After reading this book, it should be Activists can also turn the tide at the under the existing Constitution. Conserva- very clear that the Deep State is diaboli- state and local level, using a tool known as tives should take a lesson. cal at its core. It is evil. It is at war with “nullification.” This constitutional remedy, Ultimately, fixing the political issues God and with God’s people, as well as which was advocated by some of Amer- will not be easy. There is no silver bullet with God’s truth. But ultimately, God is ica’s most important Founding Fathers, — a fact that causes many well-intentioned far more powerful than the evil confront- including James “Father of the Constitu- activists to become frustrated and some- ing America today. In 2 Chronicles 7:14, tion” Madison, involves “nullifying” un- times support phony “solutions” that will, God promises His people Israel that, if constitutional federal power grabs at the at best, do nothing and, at worst, cause they humble themselves, pray, seek His state level. For instance, a state legislature serious damage. The politicians voting for face, and turn from their wicked ways, He or even a local sheriff could easily refuse abuses did not elect themselves. Rather, will hear from Heaven, will forgive their to enforce unconstitutional gun-control they were elected by the public based on a sin, and will heal their land. schemes from Washington, D.C. Or a state combination of ignorance and immorality. If there is to be any hope for America, could criminalize the killing of unborn In short, to remove the bad politicians and it must begin with God’s people getting on babies and order its police forces to arrest the bad policies, the electorate must be ed- their knees and praying, and then standing abortionists under state law. ucated, and it must once again support the up against the evil that has infested this Liberals have been using these tactics moral principles that made America great. land. The evil must be exposed, reproved, for years on issues such as marijuana. De- Unfortunately, many liberty activists and defeated. With God’s help, it can be spite an unconstitutional federal statute underestimate the importance of returning done. Now let’s get to work! n

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The New Gun Control Howting concludes that the Left doesn’t Gardner was able to get his pistol into his John Howting, in Chronicles Magazine on even need to change the laws to pass this left hand, and he pointed the gun over his July 22, accurately described phenomena new gun control, because they simply just shoulder, firing into Scurlock’s neck and sweeping the nation. Howting wrote about “make life a living hell for any white person clavicle area. The injured Scurlock fell to what he called a new form of gun control who defends themselves with a gun against the street, and Gardner quickly retreated to where “the left is making the consequenc- anyone with more diversity points.” his restaurant to call the cops. es of defending oneself with a firearm so Law enforcement investigated and, dire for white people that none will even based on the evidence, Douglas County want to own a gun. The mainstream right The Enemy of the People prosecutor Don Kleine told the public that is letting them get away with it by accept- On July 1 Yahoo News published a grossly there would not be any charges filed against ing the left’s narrative, that in any confron- misleading article on a case of armed self- Gardner. “There was a consensus that the tation between a white male and a non- defense. The article centered around a for- actions of the shooter were justified,” Kl­ white male, the former is always at fault.” mer Marine who owned a restaurant and eine told the media at a press conference. To support his argument, Howting cited a bar and defended himself from a looter After the Left protested outside Kleine’s recent incidents from across the country during a riot in Omaha, Nebraska, on May home, demanding action, he buckled under where white gun owners lawfully defend- 29. The Marine, 38-year-old Jake Gardner, pressure and convened a grand jury with a ed themselves but then ended up being is white, and the person who physically at- special prosecutor to review the case. prosecuted afterward. The first incident tacked him, and whom he shot, was black. Yahoo News’ biased coverage con- he discussed was the widely known case The colors of their skin was all the media tinued, attempting to smear and defame involving Mark and Patricia McCloskey in needed to vilify Gardner in an attempt to Gardner as a “racist,” based on hearsay St. Louis, who defended their home with get him prosecuted for his lawful actions. accusations and flimsy anecdotes, all of guns — by merely holding their guns at As cellphone video shows, Gardner was which had zero to do with the shooting. the ready — after rioters broke into their pursued by a crowd of looters outside his res- Yahoo News wrote over 8,000 words in- private community. taurant, backing up as the crowd approached volving random claims from people. For Howting also wrote about “Jillian and him. He raised his shirt to reveal that he was instance, one person claimed that Gard- Eric Wuestenberg, a white couple from carrying a handgun. As the crowd continued ner’s father had used politically incorrect metro Detroit,” who after exiting a restau- to advance on him, he pulled his gun from language to refer to looters shortly before rant with takeout food for their four chil- his waist, keeping it at his side. Incredibly, the shooting. Yahoo News also wrote that dren accidentally bumped elbows “with a instead of the looters being deterred, a few in the past Gardner had made a post on 15-year-old African American girl” and people from the crowd pounced on him and Facebook that was deemed “transphobic” “her mother [who then] promptly hurled tackled him to the ground. and that Gardner is a supporter of Presi- accusations of racism while filming with Yahoo News did its best to obscure this dent Trump and posted pictures of himself their cellphones. The Wuestenbergs got fact in its reporting. Yahoo News tried to with Donald Trump, Jr. in their car and began to back out but spin what happened as “peaceful protest- Yahoo News even interviewed a former members of the African-American family ers” trying to disarm a man brandishing a disc jockey at Gardner’s establishment began hitting the back of the car, which handgun, but the video speaks for itself. who claimed that Gardner was a racist be- triggered a safety feature and caused the Yahoo News even interviewed a woman cause he didn’t want the DJ playing rap car to lock up. The Wuestenbergs were named Alayna Melendez, who was one of and hip-hop music. surrounded. Mrs. Wuestenberg got out of the people recorded trying to wrestle Gard- The police investigation brought up only the car and was confronted by the yell- ner’s gun from him. Melendez rationalized one pertinent point: Gardner’s concealed- ing, cellphone-wielding black mother. At her actions to Yahoo News as an attempt carry permit was expired at the time of the this point, Jillian Wuestenberg took out to disarm a man who she felt was a threat shooting, meaning that Gardner can still be her handgun and pointed it at the black to public safety. Melendez and another charged with a misdemeanor. Surprisingly, mother, telling her to get away from their person knocked Gardner to the ground, but Yahoo News did acknowledge that the de- car — a terrifying, out-of-context image Gardner was able to fire two warning shots, ceased Scurlock had a criminal past, includ- that quickly went viral. Subsequently, the which got them to back away. ing a 2015 burglary conviction for which he Oakland County prosecutor charged Mrs. It was at that moment that 22-year-old served time in prison, as well as a rap sheet Wuestenberg with felonious assault.” James Scurlock initiated a violent attack that included multiple charges for assault. Howting then delves into how different on Gardner from behind. The video re- Sadly, a “Jake Gardner Defense Fund” the story would have been presented if the cording of the incident has a witness clear- put up on the crowdfunding site GoFund- races been reversed, noting that had a mid- ly yelling out, “It’s not worth it! Are you Me was removed by the Big Tech compa- dle-age black woman used the gun to scare stupid?” Scurlock tackled Gardner and ny. Gardner’s businesses have also closed, off a group of marauding whites, she would put his arm around Gardner’s neck. Scur- and it is unlikely they will ever reopen. n have been cheered by all sides. Ultimately, lock had Gardner’s right arm pinned, but — Patrick Krey

40 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 Media Don the “Moderate” Mask on Biden, Even as His Extremist Policies Prove Otherwise

Item: In its July 4-10 issue, with a cover story on Joe Biden called “Retro or radi- cal?” the Economist touts the potential Democratic president’s “instinctive cau- tion.” It is, asserts the London-based pub- lication, “Mr Biden’s caution that opens up the possibility of more change than a real radical would.” The conclusion of the magazine said: “It is by cleaving to the AP Images centre that he can best lead America in a Build or destroy? Joe Biden has said that Trump has done a terrible job protecting the economy, jobs, new direction.” and wealth during the pandemic and should not be president. But while Biden was for long lockdowns, Item: The leftist Washington Post carried Trump restarted the economy, and Biden’s plans equate to throwing money at every problem. a July 12 editorial entitled “Mr. Biden sets a mostly moderate economic course.” “On He also extolled Biden for his prom- one’s breath — with numbers that beggar the whole,” asserts the Post, “Mr. Biden ise to “give the auto industry incentives both belief and wallets. has managed to keep a relatively moderate to develop electric vehicles, subsidize the As it is, according to the Congressional policy course even as he acknowledged … retrofitting of millions of polluting build- Budget Office, the federal budget deficit that current crises create a ‘tremendous ings, plug abandoned oil and gas wells, was $2.7 trillion in the first nine months opportunity for the nation … an opportu- promote climate-friendly agriculture, and of fiscal year 2020. That is $2.0 trillion nity to address fundamental inequities of invest in emissions-free public transit and more than the deficit recorded during the our nation, the growing gap between the intercity rail.” same period last year. As chief executive, very wealthy and everyone else.’” Item: In a July 5 tweet, Joe Biden (or Joe would go higher, much higher: He’s Item: With an eye toward those even fur- someone on his team who actually knows already promulgated spending plans ap- ther to the left, the New York Times on how to work the Twitter machine) pro- proaching $10 trillion. occasion adapts the narrative a bit. A July claimed: “We’re going to beat Donald In mid-July, a Wall Street Journal break- 7 article (“Inching Left on Climate, Biden Trump. And when we do, we won’t just down revealed that Biden’s spending plans Woos Progressives”), the Times took note rebuild this nation — we’ll transform it.” for housing, education, and health, among of Biden’s move to “engage younger, more Correction: Some might call an assur- others, would total around $7 trillion liberal voters — and to ensure that they ance to transform the entire United States over the next decade. About $4 trillion of turn out in November.” a promise. However, when you vow that that would come from tax increases. The Item: In his Bloomberg News outlet, Mi- the debt-ridden federal government will schemes for a spree are just getting started. chael Bloomberg, the former mayor of expend multiple trillions of tax dollars in Following is a summary from the Feder- New York City and erstwhile left-wing largely unconstitutional fashion to alter alist. Later in July, writes Tristan Justice, presidential candidate, praised Biden the nation’s very foundation, that pledge for his “clean energy” plans. In a July is more accurately described as a threat. Biden unveiled a new $775 bil- 16 piece, Bloomberg said the former vice The former vice president, you see, lion proposal for government-run president “has drastically ratcheted up doesn’t want to solve problems; he wants childcare with additional taxpayer his ambition for the fight against climate to subsidize them — with funding ripped programs for the elderly. The lat- change.” out of our pockets and redistributed by a est program comes just days after Bloomberg went on: “If elected, meddling government that (even before Biden announced a $2 trillion pack- [Biden] now promises to spend $2 trillion the pandemic) was already borrowing age to ensure “environmental justice” over four years to give the U.S. a mighty nearly $2 million every minute. hashed out with Vermont Sen. Bernie shove toward emissions reductions in not Biden has ballyhooed about a “breath- Sanders’ team to pile onto the $7 tril- only electric power but also transporta- taking opportunity.” His mounting spend- lion in spending already proposed, tion, buildings, housing and other areas.” ing designs are indeed enough to take according to a Wall Street Journal

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 41 analysis. The total price tag for the ical voters, while the operative policies go that the “total contribution” of wind and Biden agenda now stands at nearly to the Sanderista wing of the party. solar to the U.S. energy mix is $10 trillion with more on the way, Some are not fooled by the moder- which is already triple what was put ate mask. Notably, consider that former about 6.94 percent and 2.7 percent forward by 2016 Democratic nomi- Communist Party USA national candidate respectively, whereas fossil fuels nee Hillary Clinton. and Black Panther Angela Davis has pub- amount for about 80 percent of total licly endorsed Joe Biden. Not surprisingly, energy. Standing alone, these num- Remember when Bernie Sanders was con- that got little media play. In mid-July, the bers do not convey either good or bad sidered too radical for most Democrats? Marxist academic and Lenin Peace Prize news. If those relative yields are the Well, the party is now promoting Sander- recipient told RT (formerly Russia Today), result of competitive forces, then re- ism, albeit without Bernie on the top of a Moscow-funded propaganda outlet, that newables represent a useful addition the ticket. Biden is the candidate who “can be most to the portfolio of energy resources. In early July, Biden’s campaign folks re- effectively pressured into allowing more But that’s not so if those numbers re- leased the 110-page “Biden-Sanders Unity space for the evolving anti-racist move- flect market distortions introduced by Task Force Recommendations”; this was ment,” her euphemism for revolutionary the use of subsidies for fossil fuels the work of six joint task forces appointed action. “Biden,” said the radical, “is far and clean energy sources. in May by the former competitors. “The more likely to take mass demands seri- goals of the task force were to move the ously.” How reassuring. And on that score, Epstein notes, cash sub- Biden campaign into as progressive a direc- On the other hand, if you want the U.S. sidies for such renewable sources “have tion as possible, and I think we did that,” economy to run efficiently, don’t look to increased in recent years, with 80 percent Sanders told NPR. “On issue after issue, the Biden-Sanders plans. They are big on, of the $100 billion subsidy coming in the whether it was education, the economy, among others, greenie favorites wind and last decade.” health care, climate, immigration, criminal solar and inimical toward the fossil fuels Meanwhile, the Biden-Sanders energy justice, I think there was significant move- that largely power the land. Eco-activists plans are about more than electricity: The ment on the part of the Biden campaign.” are enthused over subsidizing energy package even creates a new “Environmen- That is fodder for progressive voters. sources that fizzle when the wind doesn’t tal and Climate Justice Division” within the The “centrist” tag often draped around blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Department of Justice. Isn’t that uplifting? Biden by the mainstream media is a dis- Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at And, as pointed out in Axios, Biden’s lat- guise — a “moderate” facade for non-rad- Stanford’s Hoover Institution, points out est climate-change and clean-energy plan “mentions the word union more than it does the climate itself.” (More on union- ization is below.) With $2 trillion to distrib- ute, there’s also plenty of potential “green pork” in the climate plan too, as has been discussed by columnist Holman Jenkins, Jr. The plan “connects tackling climate change with the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis, while also address- ing racism,” in the words of the New York Times. Jenkins is not impressed. “Serious problems deserve to be treated seriously. If your surgeon told you he was going to address racism and the economy along with your coronary blockage, you would get off the table and run away.” This is apparently what happens when you intend to “transform” the entire coun- try with Bernie-style socialism. Biden himself has repeatedly talked about hav-

AP Images ing an “FDR-style administration” — Not quite a gentleman’s agreement: To get the votes of socialist presidential candidate Bernie parroting the fiction that huge spending Sanders’ supporters, Joe Biden had his people meet with Sanders’ people to plan his presidential and more intrusive government rescued promises. Biden took on most of Sanders’ agenda, but the media still dub Biden “moderate.” the United States from the Depression. It

42 THE NEW AMERICAN • AUGUST 24, 2020 he would look to pass national leg- islation requiring state and local governments to recognize and bar- gain with government unions. No Democratic president supported by a Democratic Congress has ever se- riously pushed this idea; it’s among the most radical proposals in a plat- form that would rewrite much of U.S. labor law, including for government workers.

Indeed, as Malanga notes, Franklin D. Roosevelt “famously observed that strikes by government workers would be ‘unthink- able and intolerable,’” while labor leader George Meany said “it is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” There are plenty of other items in the “unity” agenda promulgated by the San- deristas that would damage the economy. didn’t; the economy didn’t recover until if Mr. Biden were campaigning on These include the creation of a Civilian federal regulations and “aid” were cur- a return to fiscal probity, a sound Climate Corps and requirements to spend tailed after WWII. dollar, balancing the budget, and wildly on retrofitting cars and buildings to The Great Depression endured after the slashing the national debt, but he the government’s liking. It will take more New Deal began — and the Second New isn’t. The former vice president’s than a tax on the “rich” to fund such pro- Deal. The median unemployment rate was ambitious spending programs would grams. A study by the Competitive Enter- 17.2 percent from 1934 to 1940. More- more than offset any new revenue prise Institute reveals that the retrofitting over, unemployment did not go below from his tax proposals. The nonpar- of buildings and cars would cost the aver- 14 percent throughout the 1930s (FDR’s tisan Tax Foundation concludes the age family thousands every year. Follies: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Biden tax plan would reduce the size Many radical progressives undoubtedly Prolonged the Great Depression, Jim of the economy by 1.51% over the preferred Bernie Sanders to Biden. But Powell, 2003). long run and lead to 585,000 fewer most will support the Sanderista social- We should have learned that massive full-time equivalent jobs while low- ism in the unity agenda. For example, the expenditures and intervention are not the ering after-tax income for all in- political action executive director of the way for us to go. Biden-Sanders policies come quintiles. This isn’t a debate extremist MoveOn organization (which would simultaneously cost more and hurt between growing the pie vs. redis- backed Sanders in 2016) has acknowl- the economy. Investment advisor Philip tributing the pie; it is about everyone edged that Biden is “running on the most DeMuth, author of the Overtaxed Inves- settling for a smaller pie. progressive platform in Democratic Party tor, has explained: history,” saying his election “would cre- Some people, to be sure, would do better ate an opportunity for the big, structural If a President Biden has his way, under a Biden administration — includ- changes this country needs. MoveOn the top capital-gains tax rate will be ing certain government employees and members are proud to mobilize to support 39.6% — the same as for ordinary in- union bosses. Should his agenda prevail, him.” How nice for them. come. This could be a triple wham- it would be a bigger payday and a pay- Biden doesn’t call himself a socialist, my: cutting the estate tax exemption off for organized labor, especially public- but he is essentially running under the so- in half, eliminating the capital gains sector unions. The Biden-Sanders “unity” cialist standard — even as the mass media reset to fair market value, and then folks want to get rid of right-to-work laws call him a moderate. He also swears that doubling the capital-gains tax rate. A (currently in 27 states and Guam) and end his views are not pie-in-the-sky dreams. small step for the government, a giant secret ballots in union elections. Actually, when it comes to government in- loss for the American family. The City Journal’s Steven Malanga, a tervention and spending, it seems that the fellow at the Manhattan Institute, observes sky is the only limit. n It would be one thing, continues DeMuth, that if Biden is elected, — William P. Hoar www.TheNewAmerican.com 43 THE LAST WORD by William F. Jasper Resistance Is NOT Futile

esistance is fu- began implementing edicts tile. You will be in accordance with warnings “R assimilated.” and dictates issued by the The COVID-BLM Borg has United Nations’ World Health spoken! Organization. Constitutional Confession: I was never limits on government, the a big fan of the Star Trek rule of law, God-given rights, mega-franchise; however, the and normal activities of every entry of the Borg into a few type were suddenly, peremp- episodes of the ever-evolving torily suspended. Businesses, space opera did indeed catch schools, legislatures, and even my attention. The Borg, for houses of worship were forced those uninitiated into the trek- to close. Travel and movement kie subculture, is a terrifying were prohibited or greatly re- predatory entity of cyborg ma- stricted. Mask mandates and rauders — part organic, part quarantines were imposed. mechanical — that spread a For the first time in human reign of terror throughout the Wikipedia/ParamountTelevision history, entire economies and universe. They travel in their production systems (including “Cube,” a gigantic, planet-sized vessel, operated by their collec- food production) were, for the most part, shut down. The shut- tive hive mind, conquering all in their path: planets, civilizations, downs came despite the fact that even early on in the pandemic, solar systems, starships, and federations. Not merely conquering, it became apparent that most of those dying were elderly and but transforming — “absorbing” and “assimilating” — their vic- they would likely have died within the year anyway. And it was tims into mindless, compliant, cybernetic drones. “Resistance is evident to anyone who understood markets that the lockdowns futile,” they tell their targeted victims. “You will be assimilated.” would ruin livelihoods and kill people by the hundreds of thou- The Borg does appear to be omnipotent, unstoppable, irresist- sands worldwide from lack of healthcare, suicides, starvation, and ible. Rather than face annihilation, whole planets take a knee, bow more. At first, these “lockdown” measures were only going to before the Borg, and are assimilated. However, Captain Jean-Luc be temporary, for “the common good” so hospitals wouldn’t get Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise prove that it is possible overwhelmed. But soon we were told this Communist Chinese to resist the Borg and to avoid being absorbed into the Collective. style of totalitarian governance was “the new normal.” Refusal to Resistance by small groups fighting for right being successful assimilate into this new order, we are warned, will not be toler- against overwhelming odds is a recurring theme in classical lit- ated. “Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” erature and popular entertainment: Hobbits and the folk of Middle While still reeling from the COVID Borg attack, the world Earth vs. the Dark Lord Sauron and his mighty hordes, and the was hit with another catastrophe: a global outbreak of “spon- Jedi vs. Sith in Star Wars being just a couple of popular examples. taneous” race riots in response to the death of George Floyd, The point is, in our fallen world, truth and freedom ever have a black man, at the hands of a white police officer. Overnight, been — and ever will be — under sustained deadly assault by the the leaders of Black Lives Matter, who admit to being “trained forces of deceit and tyranny, which, in the 20th and 21st centuries Marxists,” were given command over our cities and our culture, have plumbed murderous new depths. Communism, socialism, and allowed to destroy law, order, and everything sacred. To fascism, and more recently, a revivified, militant Islamism, have many, resistance to the BLM Borg appears to be futile, as elected piled up corpses by the tens of millions, have caused tens of mil- officials, celebrities, and corporate leaders grovel before their lions more of terror-driven refugees to flee their homelands, and BLM masters and capitulate to their outrageous demands. have “assimilated” billions of souls into their hellish, Borg-like But you are not alone. The prophet Elijah, facing off against the collectives. But brave, heroic souls have repeatedly arisen to defy seemingly all-powerful King Ahab, despaired, believing himself to the assimilators and to champion the cause of freedom. Many be the last Israelite left that had not worshiped Baal, the false god of these heroes have sacrificed everything, including even their to which Ahab and his wife Jezebel offered human sacrifice. Not earthly lives, to preserve the spark of freedom that future genera- so, the Lord God told Elijah, for “I will leave me seven thousand tions might enkindle anew this celestial gift. men in Israel, whose knees have not been bowed before Baal.” The year 2020 began with an unprecedented and totally un- Not mere thousands, but millions, of courageous souls have expected global assault on freedom, the so-called COVID-19 refused to bow before the COVID-BLM Borg. Resistance is pandemic. Virtually overnight an oppressive regime descended NOT futile. Failure to resist is servile. Resistance to tyranny is on our entire planet, as national and local “health authorities” the sacred duty of every God-fearing, freedom-loving soul. n

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