Friday, March 15, 2019
Excellent: Leave Confederate Statues Alone
In 1965 Texas novelist William Humphrey wrote:
If the Civil War is more alive to the Southerner than the Northerner it is because all of the past is, and this is so because the Southerner has a sense of having been present there himself in the person of one or more of his ancestors. The war filled merely a chapter in his… [family history] … transmitted orally from father to son [as] the proverbs, prophecies, legends, laws, traditions-of-origin and tales-of-wanderings of his own tribe…. It is this feeling of identity with the dead (who are past) which characterizes and explains the Southerner.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
“An American Business”
In 1821, after sailing to the proposed site of the colony at Cape Mesurado, present-day Monrovia, Lt. Robert Stockton and Reverend Eli Ayers journeyed twenty miles inland to “convince the most powerful of the native leaders, “King Peter,” to discuss terms to sell the land.
The Africans objected to the intruders and accused them of “kidnapping Africans,” and “destroying the slave trade” – the first was the African tribe’s primary business, the second the African tribe did not want to happen.
Americans were trying to eliminate the slave trade from Africa and provide repatriation for Africans freed in the US – but working against these humanitarian efforts were an increasingly complex slave trade, New England-built slave ships and cotton mills (the latter made profitable by Massachusetts inventor Eli Whitney’s invention), and New York merchants and banks hungry for profits. It is noteworthy that none of the slave ships sailed under the Confederate Battle Flag.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.org The Great American Political Divide
“An American Business”
“[In] mid-1799 Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott wrote the customs collector at Boston that “Captain Decatur of the Navy during his late cruise . . . near Cuba, met with the brig Dolphin of Boston, William White [the] Master, with 140 to 150 slaves for sale [and] procured on the coast of Africa.”
Wolcott directed the collector to “take requisite measures to enforce the law.”
And, in April 1800, the Secretary of the Navy passed along to the treasury secretary a short list, sent along by Captain Bainbridge of the USS Norfolk, of suspected slavers who recently returned from Cuban waters to Philadelphia.
With the enactment of the 1800 statute, the Navy immediately began seizing suspected slavers and sending them in for adjudication. The first three were captured in the space of a month. The sloop Betsey of Boston takes the honor of being the first slave-trading vessel captured by the US Navy.
Meanwhile, other factors encouraged the trade, among them the wide use of the cotton gin and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The former vastly increased production, and the latter moved the slave economy westward to new lands.
[After the war of 1812] the slave trade became logistically complex. The selected American-registered vessel was chartered in Cuba or Brazil by a slave dealer and sailed to Britain or elsewhere to load a cargo particularly suited for the African coast trade: cheap muskets, rum, etc.
[Often] the vessel needed to hover off the coast while the agents ashore gathered the human cargo . . . And once the Africans were gathered and the night was dark, canoes were loaded with the slaves and rowed from shore to ship. Then the ship was “sold” on the spot and became Spanish, Portuguese or Brazilian . . . [and] made passage back to the Western Hemisphere with the slave cargo.
Thus, given fast, American-built vessels; immunity from search; and growing profits, the trade was becoming an “American business.” Though it should be kept in mind that the major markets in this era were Brazil and Cuba, and rarely were slave cargoes brought directly to the United States.
By all accounts the last half of the 1830s marked a quickening of the slave trade, particularly to Cuba, fed by high prices and minimum interference from American cruisers.
The British Mixed Commission at Havana reported the arrival of 240 illegal slavers during the years 1836 through 1839, fifty-eight of which were under American colors. And it was reported that a New York mercantile house had taken in $240,000 in profits on the trade in the space of fourteen months, and that slaves had brought ten times their purchase price at Havana in the same period.”
(African Squadron: The US Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861, Donald L. Canney, Potomac Books, 2006, excerpts pp. 2-4; 21-23)
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Lindsey Graham Just Issued a FISA Abuse, Clinton Ultimatum on the Release of Mueller's Special Counsel Report
On Thursday morning the Democrat controlled House of Representatives unanimously voted 420-0 on a resolution calling for the full release of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation report.
Now that it's on the other side of Capitol Hill, Senator Lindsey Graham has a change to the resolution.
More @ Townhall
T.L.Davis Weekly Newsletter IV
Is it possible to recognize the United States of America as anything other than a fraud? Is it possible to view a bank, built of brick and mortar as anything other than a refuge for the Federal Reserve? A lie? There is no money, there is only a digital imprint of a transaction. A representation of money, of value, where there is none, but the belief, the recognition of amounts. Let that illusion, that belief, falter and the whole game is up, the whole fraud revealed.
The government is no less a fraud than that. They, having made the laws, cannot be bound by them. They, having established the nation cannot be loyal to it. They, having determined citizenship disregard it. They, having established borders refuse to recognize them. They, having sworn an oath refuse to adhere to it. The government is a game played by cheaters in contempt of the referees.
Show me one Western nation faithful to its people: is France? Is Britain? Is Italy? Is Canada? Is America? Even Donald Trump, with his make-believe wall and immigration policy is no match for the truth, that all leaders of Western nations are beholden to foreign interests, globalists or communists; no one moreso than Hillary Clinton. Voting would not have prevented anything, but made the truth more palatable.
Unlike a few years ago when I was expounding on the loss of legitimacy of the federal government, I am not virtually alone and I say “virtually” because I was not the only one, but I was targeted, defamed as a racist and placed on the SPLC radar, because then it was racist. It is no longer racist to believe that the federal government is a criminal organization, it is broadcast every night on cable news, but they are as fraudulent as the Obama Administration and continue the cover up, That Donald Trump inherited a bureaucracy that has not and cannot operate as a legal entity makes him as much a criminal as any other president dating back to Bill Clinton, including George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Legitimacy is no longer available to any president, they aren’t even the head of state in a bureaucratic dictatorship; some measly DOJ official is the acting head of government in all things, but international relations.
The bureaucracy has effected the coup and their conspirators wander the halls of NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and FOX NEWS, seeking air time to publicize the books detailing how they effected the coup and why it is impossible to launch a counter-coup.
Trump supporters need to come to grips with the fact that Donald Trump came about twenty years too late to effect change on any of the issues he was elected to resolve. The die is cast, the corruption insurmountable. The only question left is how to engage the enemy.
First, recognize the fact that there are enemies of the people and that freedom cannot be had with the current system. They are not only enemies of the republic, but of patriotic Americans personally and individually. The next president will have access to and use to effect the voting roles, who is white and a registered Republican and the carnage can begin with glowing media coverage of the elimination of the enemies of the people’s republic.
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Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder Morris Dees
Via Billy
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an activist group tracking hate groups in the U.S., announced Thursday that it has fired its co-founder and former chief litigator.
Morris Dees was ousted from the organization on Wednesday, the organization's president said in a statement. The organization did not give cause for Dees's "termination," but alluded to necessary steps being taken "[w]hen one of our own fails to meet ... standards" of inclusivity that the organization espouses.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an activist group tracking hate groups in the U.S., announced Thursday that it has fired its co-founder and former chief litigator.
Morris Dees was ousted from the organization on Wednesday, the organization's president said in a statement. The organization did not give cause for Dees's "termination," but alluded to necessary steps being taken "[w]hen one of our own fails to meet ... standards" of inclusivity that the organization espouses.
More @ The Hill
This Is Deadly Serious!
Via Herta131
If people who believe in the right to keep and bear arms, not to mention the rest of the Bill of Rights, do not wake up—and I mean NOW—to the fact that the Republican Party in Washington, D.C. (including Donald Trump), doesn’t give a tinker’s dam about their constitutional liberties, those liberties are going to be G-O-N-E, GONE! And I mean SOON!
That’s the problem when Republicans control the White House and Congress: The good people of America who would normally resist efforts from Washington to trample their constitutional liberties go dormant—which is where most of them seem to be right now.
Not since the British Crown sent troops to Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, to confiscate the firearms of the colonists has the central government in America attempted to pass laws to confiscate the firearms of innocent Americans—people who have NOT been accused of a crime, charged with a crime or people who have not even threatened to commit a crime.
We are not talking about gun control. We are talking about GUN CONFISCATION.
And who are the ones leading the charge to confiscate our guns? Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham—all Republicans.
This report nails it:
If people who believe in the right to keep and bear arms, not to mention the rest of the Bill of Rights, do not wake up—and I mean NOW—to the fact that the Republican Party in Washington, D.C. (including Donald Trump), doesn’t give a tinker’s dam about their constitutional liberties, those liberties are going to be G-O-N-E, GONE! And I mean SOON!
That’s the problem when Republicans control the White House and Congress: The good people of America who would normally resist efforts from Washington to trample their constitutional liberties go dormant—which is where most of them seem to be right now.
Not since the British Crown sent troops to Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, to confiscate the firearms of the colonists has the central government in America attempted to pass laws to confiscate the firearms of innocent Americans—people who have NOT been accused of a crime, charged with a crime or people who have not even threatened to commit a crime.
We are not talking about gun control. We are talking about GUN CONFISCATION.
And who are the ones leading the charge to confiscate our guns? Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham—all Republicans.
This report nails it:
More @ Chuck Baldwin
The Border
“United States Customs and Border Protection said a human smuggler dropped two children over the U.S.-Mexico border wall and created a diversion that allowed 10 others to cross illegally,” Rafael Avitabile reports for NBC San Diego. “The agency said a human smuggler dropped two El Salvadorian girls, ages 6 and 9, near a bank of concertina wire in U.S. territory Monday night. *According to the CBP, as agents vacated their patrol posts to respond, 10 people crossed the border illegally at another location and eluded agents.” (Can't imagine why with need fortifications......)
Athletes and Education: Mutually Exclusive
Athletes gain money when they gain attention. Just like Congressmen.
Ole Miss basketball players kneel in deference to standing for the National Anthem. Again, athletes, many of whom have an academic pedigree from high school that suggests borderline literacy, have taken a stand –oops—a kneel for something or against something. Who the hell knows why these muscle-bound morons do what they do. Let’s see. Probably they do it to get attention. Ergo, money.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Vietnam: Returning Truth to History
Via ThieuTai Tang
Should translate automatically.
*Evacuating from Nha Trang to Saigon in the last days of the Vietnam War, 1975.
*I remember a family getting off the train in downtown Saigon, crying and rushing to hug their relatives. They thought they were free at last.......
The Vietnam War ended 44 years until April 30, 2016 ( 1975-2019 ). But there are still many disagreements between the Vietnamese as well as foreigners who have participated in the war in identifying, shaping, qualifying, and quantifying this war. After the war there were many articles, books, a number of documentaries and annual seminars on the Vietnam War here in the United States, but still not agreed on the concept of the real Vietnam War. what is war, because of the intentions of different warring parties.
More @ VOA
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