We don't need a society of vandals

When demonstrations triggered by the death of George Floyd spread to Philadelphia, vandals defaced a statue outside City Hall of an old white man. They spray-painted the words “colonizer” and “murderer” on it. But the statue was of Matthias Baldwin, a 19th-century businessman and abolitionist.

Baldwin was a vocal opponent of slavery decades before the Civil War. He founded a school for poor black children and paid the teachers’ salaries for years. He also advocated voting rights for black people well before the enactment of the 15th Amendment. None of this spared his likeness from today’s Jacobins.

Nor was the Baldwin episode an isolated case. Boston protesters painted graffiti all over the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, including the phrases “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “Police are Pigs.” Yet that memorial honored the men who comprised the first blacks to fight in uniform for the Union Army during the Civil War. Their heroism was captured in the 1989 film “Glory,” for which Denzel Washington won an Oscar. In Philadelphia, too, vandals defaced the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, with the graffiti “Committed Genocide.” Overseas, Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square was defaced and then covered for its protection by a large metal box. The British government cannot be confident that the nation can celebrate the leader who, more than any other, stood up to fascism.

The debate over symbols of the past is legitimate, but what we have are indiscriminate attacks on all elements of our shared history. Today’s vandals are not really attacking evil; they’re attacking the past. It’s one thing to argue against honoring the Confederacy either because it fought against the United States or because it fought to preserve slavery or both. It’s quite another to destroy things simply because they date back to a time you cannot remember and cannot be bothered to find out about. The first is a reasonable argument; the second is nothing but malignant violence.

Debates over removing monuments should happen in public, overseen by elected officials. When the debate is given over to the mob, you get the sort of general vandalism that we see now. Taking down statues of Confederates is different from targeting those of America’s founders, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves but are celebrated for other achievements in the nation’s founding and for the advancement of liberty.

Wanton attacks on symbols of the past are partially rooted in ignorance. Given how much schools and colleges focus on racism in America’s history, it’s no surprise that the mob assumes any old statue it sees must be of somebody irredeemable. The trend also fits the concept seen in other revolutions from the French Revolution to the Khmer Rouge of trying to erase the past and starting over from Year Zero. Today’s street vandals call the police “pigs,” but who are those displaying porcine ignorance, and who behave most like the pigs of “Animal Farm,” making no distinction between innocence and guilt?

In a civilized debate, people can discuss the nuances of who we choose to honor and who, because fellow citizens want to honor them, we should accept in the interests of reconciliation and national unity. Such a debate would recognize that history is messy and that some people who achieved great things were also deeply flawed. It would also provide an opportunity for all sides to feel heard and make any decisions more sustainable. Lawlessness short-circuits this process, which is part of the extremists’ purpose.

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You Learn More By What the News Does Not Say

Every bit of this article speaks the truth and is documented facts. I am surprised The Star Democrat Newspaper published this. Read it for your self and see for your self, it is the truth. Thank You Rick Kollinger For this article.

2020 is certainly turning out to be an extremely odd year. Just when you think the Democrats have run out of impeachment ploys, and the economy is booming, and black unemployment is at record lows, a pandemic hits the country. Coronavirus, or the “Chinese Flu” as President Trump likes to call it. It was either developed in a lab in Wuhan or it comes from eating infected bats or monkeys.

This sent the country into a tailspin with estimates of one million deaths and a giant recession. People were quarantined to their homes and if you went out, you had to wear a mask and practice “social distancing.” Stores were shut down except for essential services like liquor stores, gun shops and Walmart. People who did venture outside were accused of being murderers.

Finally, a story came along that surpassed the Corona Frenzy. George Floyd, a long-time criminal, who had done five years in prison for armed robbery, was arrested by police in Minneapolis for trying to pass a counterfeit 20-dollar bill. While he was in custody a tape showed a cop with his knee on George’s neck for eight minutes. It was a shocking video. The cop was fired and charged with second-degree murder. Which brings up the question: how does an armed robber get a job as a security guard?

Since then the other three cops involved have also been charged with murder. The problem is — as we’ve seen in the past — snippets of video don’t really show the whole story. The video of the Rodney King beating was shocking, but not so much so when the opening clips were shown and it was evident that nothing was going to stop King.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has admitted that the charges may change once the cops get “high-priced lawyers” involved.

You’ll remember that Freddie Gray’s family in Baltimore received a huge sum of money before any of the cops held responsible for his death ever went on trial. The cops were found innocent in every single case.

Right away the Floyd case was characterized as a “racist assault” by a white cop on a black man. I haven’t seen or heard anything to indicate that the cop had racist intentions, and statistically, black men are far more often killed by other blacks or black cops. But, no matter. That doesn’t make for as good a story.

So, from there we went to New York where protests broke out, and looters broke into expensive stores, destroying them. The cops, under orders from Mayor Bill de Blasio, were told to lay off, and they did. Interestingly, I know a lot of high-end stores were burglarized, but I never heard of a Dollar Tree being targeted. Three hundred cops were injured during the melee.

The protests soon spread to other cities with the White House under direct attack in Washington, D.C. This was all done in the name of “past inequities.” Black Lives Matter is one of the groups behind these shenanigans and although they claim to be peaceful, every time they show up, cops die. Maybe it’s just a strange coincidence.

They led a peaceful protest here in Easton in which one woman chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot.” This is the slogan made famous in Ferguson, Missouri, when a 300-pound thug tried to attack a policeman. He never said it. No one ever heard him say it. It was just made up. Never mind.

Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and New York, the politicians are considering “de-funding” the police departments and putting the money into social services. So, the next time you need a cop in the middle of the night, call Social Services, and set up an appointment.

The nice thing about today’s media is that those sorts of things never have to be “walked back.”

Open Our Country

To those calling it selfish and reckless to reopen our country, to the ones who compare the reopening of our country and the people who are dying from CoVid 19 to abortion and blaming preachers, pastors, and government officials (mainly Trump) for not crying out against reopening this country is so unbelievable. You want a shutdown but you expect your garbage to be picked up, expect stores to be open with food supplies, expect farmers, people who process our foods, to generate our food, expect Amazon to deliver your packages while you sit at home, and be safe. You expect the delivery driver to leave it on your doorstep. You want your Cable, and telephone to work, electricity to stay on,  mail to be delivered in any kind of weather, the doctors and nurses to be there when they are needed, the police to keep doing their job of keeping you safe. The idea is some people want to be safe while others put their life and health on the line to protect them. It is a sad situation. There is nothing patriotic about making trip after trip to Walmart and other places to get whatever you need while screaming to keep the country locked down. With common sense, we can go back to a more normal life. We can catch this virus or any virus at any time. We take a risk every day. If you choose to stay home then do it. That is your choice. Most Americans do not want to see our country crumble. If our country goes down the tube because we are locked down then it will only open the door to many other illnesses and problems which will take far more lives than the CoVid 19 virus. I'm just wondering if all this crying against opening the country back up is mostly politically motivated with just a little bit of hate added in.  I do not put my trust in Trump, the Democrat or Republican parties, Nancy Pelosi, or any other political leader. It is in God I put my trust. Politics should have nothing to do with this pandemic but as you read between the lines with some of the letters to the editor in different newspapers you will soon see it does. If you think the shelves in the supermarkets are bare now you had better be prepared because if this country does not open back up there will be no supermarkets.

WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY

It was reported at the school board meeting that the teachers in Dorchester County, Maryland reported 43 assaults on teachers by the students during two months ending in October. This did not include the ones that were downgraded to disruptive behavior. It was also reported that some students also would not drink water during the school day because they were scared to go to the bathroom. Does terror rain in our schools? This makes one ask how many more assaults have taken place in the Dorchester school system the following two months until this report in the Banner. There has been an ongoing problem in the Dorchester school system with the students and their behavior for over two years now. We can read about them in past issues of the paper. When I was in one of the high schools over two years ago, I saw with my own eyes the disrespect and manners of some of the students. The solution by the ones in charge of the school board and the ones in power want more police in the schools, more programs to stop the violence and misbehavior. All this will never stop what is going on in our schools. I have said time and time again the correction must start in the home and not in the schools. The correction of the children must start at home and let the schools educate our kids and in that order.  How kids act out in school is for the most part how they act out at home and if they get away with it in the home it is just brought over into the schools. When most of us did wrong in school we had something waiting for us when we got home and it was not what we wanted. If parents of these kids will not teach them right from wrong and hold their kids accountable for their deeds in school then the parents must be held accountable and it will soon stop. Let the parents pay the price through the court systems. This has gone on for a couple or more years now and it is getting worse. If something soon does not take place to put a stop to this then some teacher or student is really going to be seriously hurt or worse. There is no room in our schools for violent behavior or disrespect. Police walking the halls, new programs, and other ideas have been put into place over the past few years and for the most part with no success. That success will come when parents of these unruly kids take charge in their homes and do the right thing. The lack of discipline in the home shows in the schools, on the street, and in other public places. There are kids in the school system who want to learn, are well disciplined, and are wanting to learn but are hampered by these kids that are out of control. There are some parents now who worry about the safety of the kids until they get home from school and there are other parents who could care less. Some parents send their kids to school because they want them to receive a good education and there are other parents who send their kids to school because it is the law. Until the parents stand up in the home and make their kids do right our schools will never be no better. What will it take for people to see this? Parents do your job and make not only our schools a better place but also the community as a whole. 

The Hate That Will Destroy America

The first American president I can remember since I have been born was Harry Truman. Since then there has been a list of them that have campaigned and were elected to serve the American People. Some never did much while others did a fairly good job. It is never easy making decisions as president of a county like the United States because there will always be those who will disagree and work against the president. But the problem that I see hear with President Trump is not only do people work against him but he is hated. When he was campaigning for the presidency he was hated and after he won he was hated even more. The politicians in Washington did not believe he would be elected. The Democrats and even some Republicans hate Trump because they see him as an outsider. A very big concern for career politicians who want the same old status quo, in other words, the same old existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues. These politicians say they believe in the rule of law which is supposed to govern our land but their actions are far from it. They obstruct ICE and law enforcement. They reject our immigration laws and now they are talking about the rule of law during the impeachment hearings as if they abide by it. They do not believe in the rule of law." They come from sanctuary cities that nullify federal law and they support those cities. They need to read and become educated in the Constitution of our great land. They do not believe in the rule of law which is the principle that all people and institutions in the United States are subject and accountable to, also the law of the land, that it is fairly applied and enforced. Most of the politicians go against the law of the land and try to govern by arbitrary decisions made by some of the government officials. They want to govern by their personal whims rather than the rule of law. Most politicians want what fattens their bank account and the prevailing agenda that will keep them in office. The truth of the matter is they want absolute power with no regard for the rule of law that has governed our land for years. 

For nearly three years the main focus of the Democrat Party, because of their hate, is to belittle and criminalize Trump or other people that he has nominated for an office under his presidency. It is called hate. The big issues of our country have been bypassed by congress because of their hate for Trump. Trump takes no money from the government for a salary but donates it where it is needed. He does not swim in the Washington cesspool and he caters to nobody except the best interest of the American people. He is hated so much that after this impeachment hearing has been dropped it will be something else. On and on it will go until the end of Trump's second term. Then who or what will be Next. Think hard on that one! There is a great percentage of people now who hate this country.  They hate the laws, the Judo Christian beliefs this country is founded on, and basically, they hate everything America stands for. They hate the flag, the president, police officers, the armed forces of this county, Christians, and everything America stands for. Ronald Regan once said this and it is the truth: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Never in my lifetime have I ever seen this country filled with so much hate.

Why did God let that happen?

Every time there is a shooting in some public place ,whether it be in a shopping center, church, Walmart or our schools, we can always hear somewhere in the crowd or gathering “Why does God let that happen?”

So why does God let that happen? When you have lived a long life, as I have, and have seen the many changes take place in our country, it sure is a no-brainer to understand what happened to God. For decades and then some ,we have been telling God to get out of our schools, our government and our lives. So he has done just that, and now we can see clearly what we have. How can we expect God to give us his blessings and his protection if we tell him to leave us alone?

We did not want prayer or Bible reading in school anymore, and then we listen to a guy named Dr. Spock, who said, “We should not spank our kids because we might damage their self-esteem." We believed him, and now look at what is happening. We have kids that do not know right from wrong, they have no discipline, some have no conscience at all. A conscience that would stop them from killing other kids in school.

Some of you will not get this at all and others may call me a whack job, or a Bible thumper, but I have to tell you like it is: We reap what we sow. We cannot turn our backs on God and then wonder why our country is going to hell in a handbasket. It is so funny how we will believe most newspapers but never God’s word. It is strange how some newspapers will not print an article like this, and when they do print the article, how most people when they see the word “God” they will pass over the article because they want no part of it.

If we want this country to return to its former glory, we must stop the suppression in our schools and public places of God’s word. The trouble is we are worried more about what people think than what God thinks. Before we can make America great again, we need to call on the one who can deliver us out of the deep trouble that we are in.

America is Spinning Out of Control

In my 73 plus years on this earth, I have seen a lot happened to our country. For decades we have fought communist aggression around the world. Brave men died on the blood-stained battlefields to fight that aggression. Many have come home from the wars with medical or mental problems they will live with the rest of their life, some living on the streets as homeless and others living in veteran homes while illegal aliens cross over the border and are given everything for their needs at taxpayers expense.

 Most in Congress are turning their heads because the real truth is they want the illegals here so they can vote. And they are well on their way to getting it. This is all part of the overall picture to make America a communist (socialist) country. The sad thing is they are well on their way to doing just that. Look at the sanctuary cities, for example, These cities have defied federal law and have opened their arms and what money they have left to the illegals while their own homeless sleep on the streets and the problem is so bad porta potties are being brought in. We have illegals killing people only to be sent back to their country for them to come back again some two or three times committing other crimes. And the beat goes on.

Our nation has become so corrupt we no longer know right from wrong. We can kill unborn babies in the mother's womb and call it legal, but to kill certain animals it is against the law. Since the beginning of time, God has created us male and female but now we have a third checkbox, on most forms of identification, for the ones who can not figure out what they are. There are ones that on any given day can think they are of the opposite sex and go into the other gender's bathroom because in this country the law has said it is now okay to do it. I am sorry but what we have here is a twisted mind. It is a sad day when movie stars and football players can command an audience by the words they say or the knee they bend out of disrespect. They are nothing like the actors and sports stars of years ago who stood up and fought for this country.

While our country is going downhill really fast we have a do-nothing Congress that hates the president so much they will do anything and everything to get him out of office. From day one this has been their primary goal instead of the really pressing issues of our country. These congressmen should be allowed to serve only two terms and then they have to go instead of making a career and big sums of money out of being a politician. 

We must place part of the blame on the preachers and pastors across this country. Maybe not all of them but most of them. It is now all about the money and the big congregations. Corruption has not only overtaken our country but it has penetrated our churches also.  You cannot sing "Oh How I Love Jesus on Sunday" and support a political party that promotes abortion on Monday. You cannot preach Adam and Eve from the pulpit on Sunday and through the week bless Adam and Steve. Our churches, as well as our country, have become corrupt. 

Lastly, we have Major newspapers in our country that we depend on for the truth calling a leader of a terrorist organization an austere religious leader when in fact he was a murderer who beheaded people, buried people alive, kidnapped people and made them slaves, and the list goes on. America is spinning out of control.

Communist Goals for America

Albert S. Herlong Jr. who was a Democrat Congressman from the state of Flordia warned of the socialist-communist agenda infiltrating the American school systems. On January 10, 1963, he read into the Congressional Record, the list of Communist goals for America and I agree with every word he has said. He said this over 56 years ago when there was not all the chaos in our country with the things listed here by the congressman. This was a Democrat speaking not a Republican or an independent. But an honest American who spoke the truth and how true is every word he spoke. The Congressman warned of the socialist-communist agenda that was then starting to infiltrate our schools. Please go to the source listed at the end of this article and read it for your self.  Here is what he said; 

• Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. 
• Control schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and the current Communist propaganda.
• Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks. Control student newspapers.
•  Infiltrate churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion (i.e. "social justice, liberation theology")
• Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch"
• Discredit American culture.
• Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and divorce.
• Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Source  (Vol 109, 88th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, pp. A34-A35)

Since the reading of this in Congress in 1963, our country has done just about 180-degree turn in just about everything that is important to the American people. Our schools are in such bad shape we have to have police officers patrolling the halls, for the most part, to keep kids in line. But the politically correct term is to call them resource officers. We can no longer say anything about Adam and Eve in school but now the new norm is Adam and Steve which is being taught as a normal, natural, and healthy way of life. Some of the children do not know if they are a boy or girl so we have created a number 3 on drivers licenses and birth certificates to help them out. We have liberal professors in our colleges teaching socialism along with their brand of liberalism. We have babies in the womb being murdered and our government upholds the practice while punishing people that kill certain species of wildlife. Where is this country headed to? We have cities called sanctuary cities that defy the federal government and give illegals a place to live and all they need to survive while the homeless and veterans live on the streets in tents. There is so much hate between the elected officials' nothing will ever get done to better this country. This nation is headed down the broad road of destruction with increasing speed. 

A Comment To Far

This is a response to an article by Donald Rae in the Star Democrat.

Donald Rae and his “ammunition kill people” article don't make much sense. Where does he get his logic? I have to disagree with his article. I do not disagree with him personally, because as Americans we have that right to form our own opinions. But his article I certainly do not agree with. Where do people come up with these ideas? The ammunition has to be put in a weapon and the weapon must be operated by a person for it to go off and kill or wound somebody. You can put a rifle on a porch with ammunition in it and the mailman can deliver mail, The garbage man can pick up the mail, the paperboy can bring you the newspaper, and the neighbor can come over, but the bullet remains in the gun, the gun remains on the porch and there it will sit until it is unloaded and carried in the house or until someone picks it up and uses it. I do not advocate leaving a loaded gun on the porch but only as an example to the reader. A lawnmower will not cut the grass by its self, most cars will not go down the road by their self, a bow with an arrow is no good if there is no one pulling the string on the bow back and releasing it. A knife will not cut someone unless it is in the hands of someone. The point is a person must put a bullet in the firearm and aim it and pull the trigger before it will go off. We must put the effort of this great issue into perspective. It is the person behind the gun and the ammunition in the gun that is the problem. We have two types of people behind those guns and ammunition. We have an honest citizen who uses his firearm for sports, hunting, and home defense as well for the defense of our country if need be. All the ammunition in my 60 years of hunting that I have put into a gun has never gone off unless I pulled the trigger. Then there are the people who have evil in their hearts for their fellow man. The government can take all the guns, ammunition, close all the gun and ammunition factories down but there is still that person who has in their heart to kill, murder, maim, and hurt their fellow man. As I have said before in other articles,  "Evil does not obey laws." 

Racist and Deplorable

According to the liberal Democrats, that’s who I am, in accordance with the left and how they define a racist who they say are deplorable. I always thought that racist were people who did not like you because of the color of your skin, your religious beliefs and because a person did not march to the beat of their drum. None of the listed are anything I support or believe in. But I am still called a racist.  So here’s the list of why I am called a racist: (1). I support the president. (2). One does not decide to just move into someone else’s property (be it a country or a home) just because you want to. There are procedures. What is wrong with doing things the right way? (3.) Critical of Obama; now I support Trump. Oh, by the way, to set the record straight, I have issues with Donald Trump also. But he is my president and I will support him. These are just a few examples and illustrations to explain my racist label. I am a conservative; therefore, I am an enemy to be shut down, harassed, bullied, reputation ruined, etc., because I dare to have a different view on the issues. Conservatives I know do not go to protest at private homes with families inside or do they hares harass officials and families in restaurants nor celebrate the death of a decent man, for example, Tony Snow. When you think about it I should worry that there is a certain segment of people in this country that would not be against imprisoning opponents who do not believe like they do or even worse. When you are willing to destroy for the sake of power, there is something terribly wrong.

From letters to the editor in the Star Democrat. 

The Squad

The old Democrat Party was far too conservative for today's Democratic Party. I read in a local newspaper that "The Squad" brings an energetic style & vitality to the Democratic Party. How wrong the writer of the article was. That goes to show you that you cannot believe everything you read in a newspaper or hear reported to you over the TV. Vitality is the state of being strong & active; in other words, changes that will bring renewed vitality to the party. Here is what "The Squad" advocates and wants brings to the Democrat party: Open borders, doing away with ICE, anti-Semitism, anti Israel, who is this country's  staunch ally, abolishing private health insurance, vastly increasing taxes, eliminating college tuition, doing away with capitalism — a free ride for everyone. 

They incredulously compare the situation at the southern border to concentration camps, which is not only totally disrespectful to Jews in America and throughout the world but is patently obnoxious and absurd. "The Squad" always neglects to look at the facts, as they are too busy grandstanding. Pursuant to a request by Congress last year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that illegal aliens in the United States generate more in costs than services to federal, state and local governments combined, in the billions. It's also documented that in 2018, approximately 30% of those charged with serious crimes in custody were illegal aliens. Now let the squad explain this.

The Squad brings the Democratic Party anything but vitality. They bring disruptiveness, divisiveness, and a total lack of accountability to everything they say. Will this be the new Democrat Party in the future or better yet will this be the new America? If the squad has their way there will be no more land of the free.