Another American Icon Targeted and Cleansed

History has a way of repeating itself. When all reminders of a nation’s history are removed, they are bound to be forgotten, and a forgotten history among later generations, opens the doorway for repeated history. All the destruction of monuments in recent history, to include the here and now has been due to a minority of people disliking the facts behind these reminders. First it was Robert E. Lee, then Stonewall Jackson…The Confederate Flag…generic Confederate symbols. Now we are talking about Christopher Columbus, General Washington, …Thomas Jefferson…having their image and names cleansed from historical memorials.

The long arm of the Politically Correct Schutzstaffel (SS) has done it again. They have reached back into recent history, specifically the 1930’s and indicted, convicted, condemned, and removed a statue honoring the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized “God Bless America” and was a female forerunner in early television, recorded songs that today in hindsight are viewed as xenophobic. By whom, we can only imagine.

As for Kate Smith, when these PC masqueraders of indignity of the present, with respect to the past accomplish anything promoting America, as did this great singer, then we can talk. Am I implying to expurgate Ms. Smith is over the top and unjustified? Your damn right! When was the last time anyone from the rank and file of the Corps of the Politically Correct effectuated anything constructive to Make America Great? When was the last time any of these PC charlatans went to a combat zone to entertain our troops? Smith did. She donated her time to entertain troops during World War II. The PC crowd gives her no credit for that. Who’s next? Bob Hope!

Suggestion to those on the Left who embolden and use the PC righteous pawns, why not focus on efforts that will significantly help the underprivileged and marginalized. How about providing food for America's hungry, shelter for homeless vets, border security for those living on our Southern border? Meaningless imagery improves nothing. Does this not describe today’s Democrat?

Final comments follow: Can those who identify as liberal ideologues really think history can be re-written by removing statues, historical names from text books, or ignoring historicity?  "Any fool can criticize and complain, and most fools do."

Tides of Tyranny: Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafn...

Tides of Tyranny: Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafn...: Pilate thought that, by scourging Jesus, he would satisfy the mob and so be able to set Him free. This is how the weak always think: compr...

Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafness

Pilate thought that, by scourging Jesus, he would satisfy the mob and so be able to set Him free. This is how the weak always think: compromise, give in to evil to appease it. However, this only makes things worse. Does this not say something about we as a nation/people sometimes deliberate and act in order to get a particular result? Those who would inflict the pain bound His hands and brought Him to the post amid flurry of fists, jostling, and braying gawkers. His docility, nobility of soul/spirit, and disinclination to defend Himself contrasted with the pitiless, pointless, and loathing of His adversaries. How foolish an illusion that by tying His hands He would be restrained! Could He not have commanded the fetters that bound Him, “unfasten” and they would fall to the ground? 

What is extraordinary is that Jesus gave Himself up to be publicly humiliated, spat upon, beaten and scourged with a leather-thonged whips whose ends contained pieces iron and bone chips. Picture if you will, His groans, His Body writhing in agony, His flesh torn by the flagellum. This was the flesh of the God-Man! He stood, full of dignity, humble and without complaint, conversing with the Eternal Father (first person of the Trinity) within Himself. 

Can you imagine at that moment what the Son of God was thinking? Do you suppose Jesus was thinking about the blessed civilization that would one day be built on the merits of His Passion? Regrettably, I believe, Jesus foresaw that at a certain moment in time Christian nations/peoples would turn against Him and would be converted to and dominated by secularists, globalists and anti-Christian socio-political entities? Because this world would deny a personal God, it would also deny man’s personhood and individuality. 

In this trodden anti-civilization, or as some might say, syndicalists, mankind would affirm total equality, thus succumbing to enslavement in the direction of a rebellious Globalist or New World Order type dystopian rule. This dystopia would deny property, and therefore justice; would deny the family, and therefore purity; would deny religion, and therefore all that is sacred; would deny tradition, and therefore history. By inverting all values, this anti-civilization would produce substantial chaos, eminent nihility in which the former-Christian peoples would expire. This anti-civilization is the absolutism of substance, of mechanism, of obscurity, and of apostacy/atheism.

Tides of Tyranny: Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology

Tides of Tyranny: Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology: Let me begin this commentary on a positive note. Fundamentally, I acknowledge feminists’ assessment that American society has in the ...

Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology

Let me begin this commentary on a positive note. Fundamentally, I acknowledge feminists’ assessment that American society has in the past operated essentially as a patriarchy in which men dominate and to an extent repress females. Taking it one step further, I find suppression of woman specifically abhorrent among those global cultures whose religious norms or code of behaviors place womenkind in subservient, docile, self-effacing and cowering roles. This being said, my perception of debates, exchange of views, general dialogs about women’s rights inevitably or out of political necessity turn into partisan diatribes. It seldom fails that these invectives often lead some to fall into the trap of defining women and women’s issues solely in terms of procreation.

More recently a newer threat to addressing women’s rightful needs has come to the national forefront via Mainstream Media outlets, social websites, discourse and treatise. Rather than just reducing women’s needs and priorities to issues pertaining to their biological and reproductive capabilities, this radical dogma now threatens to erase biological women from the dialog altogether. The rapidly changing and ever-expanding ideology of supposed gender identity threatens to undermine women’s pecuniary, communal, and political progress in revolutionary ways. How so? Is not the term gender identity now being propagated by many progressives, politicians, secularists, and LBGTQ community activists to express an individual’s self-perception as male, female, both, neither, or something along that line or shall we say, spectrum? Has not the word gender in legal documents historically been understood to mean genetic sex or XX/XY genotype?  In addition, have not laws and policies been implemented to achieve gender equality specifically for females regardless of age? This being as it is, policies that treat people based upon their gender identity undermine decades of efforts to remedy historical and societal inequalities that disproportionally affect women and girls by benefiting any male who self identifies as a woman is contentious, problematic, and questionable. Gender identity ideology, and the scheme it demands, pose threats to Women’s Rights.

Individuals who identify as transgender, or anything else should be treated with dignity and respect and are entitled to the same human rights and protections as anyone else. However, these human rights and legal protections such as the rights to life, expression, and assembly, and freedom from infliction of pain and inhumane treatment apply to all human beings by virtue of our humanity, not because of group identification in any class identity subset. 

When America and many other Western governments and Intergovernmental Organization bureaucrats assert special rights for particular favored identity groups through new readings of decrees, laws, and treaties, they undermine the universality of human rights and the legitimacy of the human rights movement.

We as U.S. citizens must insist that Federal and State bureaucracies to include the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches and various other entities stay within the Constitutional authority granted them to safeguard fundamental rights for all men, women, and children. If not, we can only imagine what’s next.  U.S., doctors giving 13-year-old girls mastectomies, throwing 14-year-old girls into menopause, and surgically castrating 16-year-old boys. I misspoke. It’s already happening.

Tides of Tyranny: Socialism: The Rest of The Story

Tides of Tyranny: Socialism: The Rest of The Story: Does not history tell us that Socialism is a failed political and economic system? Why? Because Socialism and all that accompanies it is a...

Socialism: The Rest of The Story

Does not history tell us that Socialism is a failed political and economic system? Why? Because Socialism and all that accompanies it is a flawed system based on unsound principles that aren’t consistent with human behavior and can’t nurture the human spirit. A stagnate Cuban economy and the rapid demise of socialist Venezuela has apparently had little impact on younger Americans who think the U.S. government is a large ATM and all they need do is insert a card and money will slide out. Truth is, all these outcomes we see in Cuba and Venezuela are likely if Socialism were to replace Capitalism as our economic and political system. No if, ands, or buts about it. In both Cuba and Venezuela, the status quo is unsustainable, earning potential is limited, property rights but for a few are nonexistent, personal motivation is but abstract, national healthcare is lacking, taxes high and people are hungry, worse yet, some are starving. 

Polls and research indicate one of the top issues for Millennials and Generation Z is the national debt, rapidly approaching 25 trillion. Question? Have these same young people considered that socialist programs will significantly add to the debt? Apparently not, because to them, it seems that feelings are more important than observable results. 

Socialist policies, in one form or another, are part of the platforms of some of the announced Democratic presidential candidates. America’s new Democrat Socialists beat a hasty retreat from historic truth when confronted with historical indisputable facts as it pertains to Socialism’s failings.  Is the concept, we can’t afford it, an economic mantra accepted and taught to children/young adults by Leftist leaning elitists/academia? No! For the most part Millennials and Generation Z persons are less likely to accept as true, that one must live within one’s means. 

Woe to America, if the younger generation were to be the difference in electing Ocasio or Sanders or Pocahontas or any other number of self-proclaimed socialists to this nation’s House of Representatives, its Senate or its highest office. Ronald Reagan said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” 

Will this be the generation that fulfills his prophecy? Much is riding on the next election. It’s so important to preserve America’s Constitutional Republic, and make sure citizens understand that we need to preserve it. Remember this: Socialism is a mild word for what it is. It’s a form of extremism and government control that will take over our lives.