Bringing down Robert E Lee

Even in his own lifetime Robert E Lee was the most beloved and the most hated figure to come out of the war for southern independence (Often miss labeled by the North as the civil war) Even started crazy abolitionist despised him because he was the US army officer that led the successful attack on mass murderer John Brown At Harpers Ferry.

John Brown's history of bloodshed was so well documented it is difficult to understand why he became the Christlike figure For abolitionist or for that matter modern day antifa and some members of black lives matter

Browns rampage of murder so terrorized several states that reasonable people on both sides of the slavery issue condemned him as a terrorist although he became a hero to the abolitionist much as did the author of the extremely distorted and dishonest uncle Tom's cabin

Brown like the abolitionists believed the Slaves in the South were ready to rise up and revolt against their Masters, when in fact most slaves were too Complacent 2 actually do so. in most cases those revolts that happened in the South were the result of abolitionist agitation Or those plantations where masters were particularly cruel to their slaves.

Brown Like the abolitionist had a skewed view of what slavery really was in the South based on Abolitionist literature that really had little to do with the day-to-day life of slaves such as uncle Tom's cabin or the so called and often fictionalized slave Diaries popular among northern readers

abolitionists saw Brown as a hero because he believed like they believed but they did not see the mass slaughter he conducted against innocent people in his rampage and so they saw him as their champion and he did Lee when Lee brought Brown to justice at Harpers Ferry.

artist of every ilk in that error sang the praises of Brown And condemned Lee much in the same way we see the deluded artist community of today kneeling and making heroes of people who like Brown had a twisted history.

some of the most prominent riders of that day with the exception of Hawthorne compared Brown to Jesus Christ Ann Lee to Satan.

Lee became even more of a villain in these deluded people’s eyes as the war transpired and he became the military champion of the south, they refusing to accept the fact that he despised slavery as much as they did, and was against the south’s succession until his beloved Virginia joined the rebellion.

These social justice warriors became even more infuriated with Lee when he outwitted the blood-thirsty grant right up to the moment he was forced to surrender in 1965, giving him a place among some of the greatest military strategists in the history of the world.

Abolitionists with the memory of elephants insisted Lee be hung as a traitor when the war concluded and became even more incensed when he took up the post as head of one of the south’s most prominent colleges.

For the south, Lee – who only lived five years after the conclusion of the war – became an enduring symbol of the south’s refusal to accept the dictates of the illegal 14th amendment and the reconstruction it entailed.

While the North managed to write their version of history so as to claim the south fought to maintain the institution of slavery, Lee remained a nagging reminder that the war was about self-determination, and resistance against the north that exploited the slave trade more than the south ever did.

Many of the statues that have been recently torn down by the modern-day social justice warriors were mounted at the end of the 19th century as tribute to what many southerners saw as a noble tradition. But long before 21st Century abolitionists began to tear these statues down, intellectuals in universities north and south waged a campaign against his reputation in an attempt to portray him as a supporter of slavery when he clearly was not.

No period in time has been so documented as the War for Southern Independence (as it is still called in the south) and its aftermath, although much of the more popular depictions such as the Burn’s PBS Civil War series or the New York Times 1619 Projects reflect only a northern view of that period, often distorting facts to fit the north’s justification for the slaughter of so many Americans. Even the beloved novel, Roots, is drenched in misinformation, made even worse by the recent remake of the movie.

Yet even with this massive misinformation campaign to suppress the alternate view the south provided, Lee remained untarnished – but not for lack of trying by scholars with questionable motives, and by university system north and south that has long ago adopted the northern interpretation as fact. Many of the scholars deliberately set out to find character flaws in Lee that would turn him into just another southerner in love with slavery – part of a kind of intellectual salted earth policy that would continue to grind down southern hopes for revivals much the same way carpetbaggers armed with the 14th amendment did to the southern culture.

The election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 sent shivers of dread through modern day abolitionist, who like the pre-civil war breed believe all whites – especially in the south – a racists and southern pride as a pseudo name for white supremacy, a phrase so often uttered by liberals it has become an unfortunate and dangerous chant, even among thoughtful Democrats.

Todays radicals in reaction to the Trump victory set out on a campaign to finish what their forefathers have done in their attempt to humiliate the south. These radicals sought to punish those people who supported Trump by removing all vestiges of resistance these statues symbolized. While we hear over and over how these statues offend people, the truth is they represent an unapologetic testimony to the spirit of the south that defied northern aggression even in defeat.

And once again Lee became the focus of wrath because his image remained untarnished despite a scholarly campaign behind the scenes to prove once and for all he was a racist, when history clearly shows he was not.

But the public outcry only followed decades of dedicated research by scholars determined to bring down Lee the way radicals have his statue, digging through the massive materials generated by the war and its aftermath for clues that might paint Lee in a more negative light – scholars often inventing misinformation when they could not find the smoking gun much the way Uncle Tom’s Cabin was created out of whispers of truth.

In some cases, such as one essay that depicted on the University of Virginia website is completely fabricated, making conclusions about Lee that better research show just aren’t true. But because these scholarly lies are posted on scholarly sites, these become evidence against Lee especially in regard to his position on slavery, the revolution and his position on both in the aftermath of the war. One site claimed to have a slave letter depicting Lee as forcing slaves into hard labor in order to get as much profit out of them before he was required to set them free – a conclusion contradicted even by some of Lee’s harshest critics.

Lee because the executor of father-in-law’s estate in 1857 with the mandate that he set them free within five years, something he accomplished despite the outbreak of the war – and with kindness according to several scholars who otherwise disliked Lee.

Lee didn’t just set them free; he gave each of them money in order to cover some of the costs associated with travel and relocation. A number of these former slaves even kept up correspondence with him from places as far away as Africa, thanking him for his kindness.

Lee reportedly did not own slaves of his own – although several scholars claim otherwise – but his wife’s family did.

Lee, however, did relocate some escaped slaves – a matter of controversy since favorable historians claim he sent them to another plantation where they would not be a risk of reprisals.

Some scholars have pointed to the fact that officers under Lee’s command re-enslaved free blacks and captured escaped slaves during some of the battles Lee oversaw. But even the most diehard anti-Lee scholars could not prove he knew anything about these any more than historians could prove Union Gen. Grant knew about union soldiers under his command gang-raping black women on raids in the south – although the Union Gen. overseeing the occupation of New Orleans did instruct his troops to treat all southern women as if they were prostitutes.

The single most durable monument to Lee, however, came in 1934 with the publishing of a four volume biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Freeman, a biography that elevated Lee to international stature, and further infuriated the politically-correct northern establishment determined to put Lee in his place among other racists.

But as universities became havens for liberal scholars, the effort to discredit Lee and Freeman seems to have intensified sparking a whole new wave of anti-southern scholarship and books dedicated specifically to prove Freeman wrong.

Freeman’s work drew on a dearth of information never before presented, taking 20 years to assemble, and shaping volumes so rich in detail and research that these volumes represent the most accurate betrayal of Lee, and one so positive as to stir up the wrath of Anti-Lee scholars.

Two of the most ambitious efforts to discredit Lee and Freeman came in the second half of the 20th century, “Man of Metal” and “Lee Considered.”

The author of “Lee Considered” actually professed to admire Lee and then went on to completely misrepresent Freeman’s scholarship and to make suppositions about Lee barely if at all supported by evidence. “Lee Considered” attempts to prove that Lee actually supported slavery (even though there is ample evidence to show he did not) and that Lee secretly plotted to join the confederacy at a time when Lee’s letters professed to oppose the dissolution of the Union.

The author in attempting to discredit Freeman’s work, claimed Freeman did not question Lee’s claims taking Lee’s statements as the final word on any subject, when Freeman clearly did question Lee’s claims.

What Freeman said, however, was that he would not impose his own beliefs about what historical characters thought but would rely on documented evidence to convey what Lee thought.

“Lee Considered,” however, is so loaded with the author’s assumption as to be dishonest, most of which have little or no documented evidence to support the author’s conclusions. A phrase in one sentence in one letter out of the thousands of letters Lee wrote became justification for extensive and otherwise unsubstantiated claims that Lee actually supported slavery. This conclusion by the author allowed the author to further extend his unjustified accusations to claim Lee agreed that the war was about the preservation of slavery, when Lee clearly and on more than one occasion, said the war was about the south’s ability to determine its own destiny.

“Lee Considered” went on to accuse Lee of secretly plotting to take a lead role in the military operations, this solely based on the short time frame between Lee’s resigning his military commission with the north and his accepting a commission to oversee the Confederate troops in Virginia.  There absolutely no documented evidence to support these claims either, but this does not stop the author from using his conclusions early in the book to justify even more ludicrous conclusions later on.

The available documentation shows that Lee agonized over the breakup of the union but decided he would not lead the Union army against his home state. He also clearly stated on many occasions that he was opposed to slavery and agreed with the emancipation of slaves in a timely manner.

Despite claims made by supposedly repeatable scholars (mostly selling a northern view of Lee and the war) Lee did not mistreat his slaves – and appears not to have actually owned any, but served as caretaker for those his father-in-law left him and those owned by other members of his family.

As Freeman noted, Lee had very little interaction with slaves prior to his being serving as administrator for his father in laws’ estate.

While Freeman’s admiration for Lee is unmistakable, his work relies on the most extensive volume of documents of any Lee biography before or since, delving into areas of Lee’s life no biographer bothered with before or since.

Lee was not perfect and some of the other volumes on his military career show he made some serious blunders – such as ignoring the west campaign during the war as well as things he did at Gettysburg. But these are the stuff that make up mortals.

Yet despite the rage by social justice warriors and regardless of how many of his statues they demolish, Lee’s reputation remains untarnished, an icon not just to the south, but to any lost but noble cause, a man who did not fight to preserve slavery, but for the right for the south to determine its own destiny.

Until the new abolitionists and their questionably ethnic scholars come up with real evidence to dispute Freeman’s research, Lee remains one of the great monumental figures of American history.

Nothing but the dead and dying in my little town

Friday, July 3, 2020

Jersey City has set up machines at all its municipal buildings to make sure that people who are coming in aren't dead.

“We don't want to make the same mistake we made with the nursing homes,” said one official who noted that the testing of senior citizens in nursing home and other senior buildings that started after the bodies started piling up that was a dreadful mistake.

“this official said we knew they were having a problem in Italy months earlier.

“But we thought the seniors in those senior centers were dying because they were Italian,” the officials said. “Thus, not to make the same mistake twice now we are going to make sure that when you come into a municipal building, we know you're alive.  We going to check to make sure you still have a heartbeat and that you are still breathing  -- standards we consider are two of the good classic signs that life, even if we might suspect you might be brain-dead and mumbling about tearing down statues.”

This official said the city is being proactive even though it comes six months after the pandemic hit.

“We consider this an innovation we are really proud of,” the official said. “Of course, we never stopped

tracking people in restaurants to make sure they are not dead and are relying on good citizens to report other people who might violate our rules. We simply do not have the manpower to seen police to every house to check if people are

This idea that the can protect you from death itself is one of and outgrowth of other brilliant ideas that have been generated from this administration over the last half decade – such as trying to keep people who jaywalk from getting hit by unsuspecting drivers or creating bicycle lanes to protect bike riders who would otherwise by running over pedestrians on the sidewalks.

“We admit that in the past we were so busy protecting sea turtles from unscrupulous plastic bags that we largely ignored this Public Health crisis,” this official said. “The whole idea that technology can be used effectively to detect when a person is dead is something we have not yet realized before. Technology has come a long way to saving lives now we can determine whether they are alive or dead just by having you passed through machine.

And we will assure you that when you are dead, we will know about it

The officials went on to say that the city has been vigilant in other areas.

“We made sure that you did not catch anything from the city parks by insisting you wear face masks,” the official said. “Unfortunately, we missed the fact that people who are being admitted to the hospitals for other diseases were catching it there and dying. But we managed to get enough ventilators to make sure they could breathe their last breaths.”

The new technology may prove useful in the future in preventing places like City Hall from becoming the same kind of breeding ground for disease as hospitals and nursing homes – and since the governor of the state is not likely to send sick people into city hall the way he sent them to nursing homes, the death rate in municipal buildings is expected to be very low. First responders – who were also significantly impacted by hospitals will be relieved to know they won’t face significant risk if required to respond to city hall for some medical emergency such as the mayor stubbing his toe on Frank Haig’s desk.

City officials are still investigating how they might use similar technology to check for dead people flocking into newly opened taverns – admitting only reluctantly that having locked up ordinary people for four months may have caused patrons to overreact.

“When we let people out of county jail because of the virus, we told them to go home – and we’re pretty sure they did,” the official said. “But when we told people we locked up in their homes that they could go out, they rushed to bars to get drunk. Who would have thought? What were these people thinking – that they live in free county or what?”

Prosecuting bar patrons and releasing prisoners from jail has won the city praise from Gov. Murphy.

You know if Murphy praises you, you must be doing the right thing-- although this is a little like getting praised for by Mussolini for keeping the trains running on time.

Paint it black

Thursday, July 2, 2020

What pisses me off the most about cancel culture movement isn't the fact that they are deluded  into that they somehow exclusive rights to right and wrong; it is the fact that they hate the Baby Boomers and yet have ripped off all of our ideas.

The same type of uncool middle-class kids who put on tied-dyed t-shirts back in the 1960s and said “groovy” a lot, these days put on Black Lives Matters t-shirts and take knee.

They say that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it and all that's true with this crew of morons – the spoiled middle-class brats that in our era grooved up to the Black Panthers or became fanatic bomb throwing weather-underground – seem to be repeating the same mistakes we made while somehow believing they are doing something original and are deluded into believing there are doing something socially responsible when in reality they are just pretending to be cool.

They are doing exactly the same things we did and doing things that ultimately failed.

And for some reason they think the original – and worse, they bash baby boomers who they somehow see as their enemy.

This new brand of white progressive radical can't even come up with a name that is original using “cancel culture’ instead of “counterculture” that we used.

Like we did when we emerged as “the new left” in the 1960s, the new Cancel Culture crowd deals in stereotypes, condemning any white person that opposes them as a white supremacist while claiming whites stereotype people of color – living up to that old adage about the pot calling the kettle black.

Lincoln might have freed the slaves, but since he wasn’t pro black these whackos try to tear down his statues.

The whole racist pandemic began as a kind of revenge against people who this new new left perceived as Trump supporters. Groups of fanatics pumped up on Howard Zinn and their copies of “Rules for Radicals” started to tear down confederate statues and flags – claiming that these things were offensive, but has since become a savage attack on western culture itself (thus its copycat name Cancel Culture.)

Current and historic western leaders were put to the litmus test of whether or not they supported slavery in the distant past ignoring the fact that many of the people they condemned were  those who actually worked to bring down slavery. These morons tore down statues of people based on some deluded classroom exercise by some frustrated baby boomer Professor who has been teaching them the Howard Zinn crap version of History ignoring all the Inconvenient truth such as real facts.

“Rules for Radicals” is largely a rewritten version of Richard Nixon’s book of dirty tricks in which you are allowed to lie, cheat, steal, burn or character-assassinate as long as you believe you represent “right.”

Rules for Radicals is the new Machiavellian text that says anything to be gained power is legitimate lying cheating stealing when you believe you have the moral High Ground.

The problem is that there is no “ truth.” There is no absolute right or wrong in the way they represent it, and that these people operate on the belief that they have sole access to righteousness.

When you're on a religious quest like they are, facts don’t matter, neither does it matter that the human beings they pass judgement on are much more complex than their black vs white litmus test.

They have boiled down everything to stereotypes in much the way racists did about people of color in the past – judging current and historic figures based on their belief that if they once owned slaves, once foolishly wore black face or one said something racist in rage, they are condemned as racist for their rest of their lives no matter what they have done to benefit humanity.

These cultural idiots find some moment in a person’s long life and judge their own lives by that moment, not by the total accumulation of their actions.

These cultural assassins judge you by the worst moments of your life, when you were stupid or ignorant or young, and the brand a scarlet letter of racist on your head. These so-called revolutionaries are so drunk on their own power and so puffed up with their own inflated egos, they don’t know what they don’t know, and worse, they don’t care.

The worst of these are the white dweebs and high school losers, who finally found a way to get even with all the cool kids they envied. These are the morons that find some “cool” professor or teacher who fills their heads with sawdust philosophy and then sends them out in the world to create havoc, each of these foolish white kids putting on a black lives matter t-shirt as if this somehow made them part of the oppressed class – an act far more ludicrous than painting their faces black, they actually want to be black and can’t be because they mostly are middle class kids who grew up without a clue as to what African Americans experience, who base their judgements on other white people on stereotype – calling anyone who dares disagree with them a white supremist or racist, ironically become racists in their own fashion since they are doing exactly what they claim white people do to blacks.

Of course many of the progressives who are the most aggressive appears to be suffering from this incredible painful condition called white guilt which explains why so many of them suddenly got very generous and start donating to Black colleges in other places after having grown up ignore race entirely.

There is this old concept called “projection.” a psychological condition that has its victim seeing his or her own condition in everyone else when the only person who's really suffering from the disease is him or herself and so you have all of these wackos running around screaming about racism and what's really is happening is they are really seeing their own reflection in the mirror or Plato's Shadows on the wall and assuming that other people are racist when they are in complete denial of their own racist urges.

So in a desperate attempt to prove how they are not racist they go searching for statues to knock down and force confrontations with cops or with white radicals who they always wanted to provoked -- the idea that if you cause them to react then you prove that the world is racist.

The most insightful and enlightening moments came this week when Seattle was taken over by this group of nincompoops and they got to show what government would look like if these progressives actually had their way and it somehow doesn't really differ from the world that they are complaining about.

As in every community there were murders and segregation in fact it was self-imposed segregation as African Americans choose to separate themselves even from their white allies by setting up a little village within the village into which only black people could go.

These are the people who are telling us that George Washington should not be considered great even though he created a nation that helped eventually freed the slaves. They tell us that Thomas Jefferson is flawed because he – unfortunately lived at a time when he struggled to come to a solution of slavery and had did not immediately and slavery when it was clear America would not exist if they had done so with the foundation of the country.

America would not have existed had the founding fathers attempted to outlaw slavery which is really what these Cancel Culture idiots want.

One Lunatic even complained that the Declaration of Independence was the beginning of oppression in America.

“That was the start of everything,” he said, proving just how ignorant he and many of his compatriots are about the foundations of civil rights and civil liberties, and how much the civil rights movement of the 1960s owed to the struggle these founding fathers suffered. Did they make mistakes? All revolutions do, but their revolution was based on knowledge, not the deliberate ignorance that plagues the Cancel Culture movement today.

The real sad part is that this is a disease that has infected our intellectual community, where colleges have become breeding ground for this misinformation with not mask or social distance capable of containing the spread of it.

So we see liberal institutions like Princeton disassociating itself from people like Woodrow Wilson – who like many people of his time said racist things – but who also fought the nation’s biggest pandemic while also fighting and winning a world war, and set the stage for what would become the most progressive institution in the world, The United Nations.

Instead of balancing human flaws against those deeds that benefited humanity, these radicals condemn label historic figures as racist, when they did much more to make up for this one flaw.

This new cancel culture condemns you to Eternity in hell for something you might have done in your youth or something personal flaw that you may have overcome later in life. These questionable cultural revolutionaries learn their history from fortune cookies and then destroy real history that often vindicates the people they condemn.

Of course since they are largely repeating the patterns established by the Baby Boomers the fate of these movements will largely be the same they will self-destruct in their own idiocy and it's some of the these young ignorant and naive kids start growing up to the reality that the world is infinitely more complex than their counterculture philosophy makes it and someday they're going to have to raise families and earn a living and at this point they may actually grow up. Unfortunately, they have set the standard so that in the future when people look back their lives will be judged by these stupid actions they do today.