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Report: Marine Commandant Removes Confederate Symbols From All Corps Installations
Right Journalism ^ | 02.27.2020 | Alex D.

Posted on 02/27/2020 5:59:49 AM PST by USA Conservative

History defines who we are as a nation, love it, hate it, but learn from it. Liberals have no reason to speak out about Confederate monuments.

They became even more aggressive and started to destroy Confederate monuments!

The current monuments throughout the country of both the union and confederacy layout an important time in history for our great nation, it provides the stories and timeline of what took place and why we separated as a nation.

It also reminds us of the sacrifices all Americans made, and it brings to life the African American heroes of the civil war such as John Lawson, Robert Caillox, Robert Smalls, William H Carney, Aron Anderson who was given the Medal of Honor, Powhatan Beaty, Alexander Thomas Augusta, Miles James and let’s not forget Harriot Tubman, is it really a good idea to erase our nation’s history, if we do it’s only a matter of time before great men and woman I mentioned will be forgotten.

How many of us really heard of these people, when I was a kid my mother insisted on visiting Civil War Historical places on family vacations so we would learn of the struggles our growing nation went through.

But it seems that liberals are not proud of their American history.

Yesterday Task and Purpose first broke the story that the Marine commander decided to remove all Confederate symbols from the corps installations.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger ordered that all signs of marine involvement in the Confederation be erased. On Wednesday, his spokesman confirmed this information on his twitter.

“Direct the removal of all Confederate-related paraphernalia from Marine CorpsInstallations,” posted Military Analyst B. A. Friedman on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1232839875973521408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232839875973521408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Freport-marine-commandant-removes-confederate-symbols-from-all-corps-installations%2F

Task & Purpose, referring to the words of Berger’s spokesman reported that this directive has already been sent to senior management.

“Last week, the Commandant of the Marine Corps directed specific tasks be reviewed or addressed by Headquarters Marine Corps staff,” Maj. Eric Flanagan said in an email. “Many of the tasks were published on Twitter Friday. Other tasks not published previously are mostly administrative matters.”

To date, it is not known exactly when the Marine Corps is going to fulfill this order. Additional information will be announced on Friday.

There are several military bases named after confederate generals. Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Lee, Fort Gordon, Fort Pickett (of Pickett’s Charge fame), Fort Polk. I’m sure there is a couple more.

What happens with the names of these bases?

Also, this problem is nothing new.

In 2016 Anthony Bauswell, said he was turned away because of his confederate flag tattoo. The Marine Corps confirmed that a man was told his tattoo of a Confederate flag made him ineligible to join the Marines because it violates the service’s policy on body ink.

“These Confederate flag tattoos have been denied in the past,” said Capt. Dustin Pratico, a spokesman for the 8th Recruiting District. “It’s a not new thing. This isn’t the first time that it’s ever happened. This is just one of the times it happened to catch media attention.”

It’s all by design from the left since about 50 years ago, a slow and steady process to indoctrinate our youth into adults to accept a fundamental change to our republic.

It is time to take education away from the unions and the federal government. It’s been nothing but a screw up for decades. Let’s not forget the historic moment when 5th Marines took Shuri Castle on Okinawa they raised the Confederate battle flag.

Please share this article wherever you can. It is the only way we can work around their censorship and ensure people receive news about issues that Democrats and the mainstream media suppress.


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To: Alas Babylon!
The Stars and Stripes were used by the KKK.


21 posted on 02/27/2020 6:31:25 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Confederate soldiers were not fighting to keep slavery. Have you ever read and first hand accounts of history? OTH the union started the war to “preserve the union”. It was repackaged into freeing the black man when the war became unpopular and the needed to fire up the crazies up North.


22 posted on 02/27/2020 6:34:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
“So obvious are the reasons which forbid this secession, that it is necessary only to allude to them. The Union was formed for the benefit of all. It was produced by mutual sacrifice of interest and opinions. Can those sacrifices be recalled? Can the States, who magnanimously surrendered their title to the territories of the West, recall the grant? Will the inhabitants of the inland States agree to pay the duties that may be imposed without their assent by those on the Atlantic or the Gulf, for their own benefit? Shall there be a free port in one State, and enormous duties in another? No one believes that any right exists in a single State to involve all the others in these and countless other evils, contrary to engagements solemnly made. Everyone must see that the other States, in self-defense, must oppose it at all hazards.​

Your pride was aroused by the assertions that a submission to these laws was a state of vassalage, and that resistance to them was equal, in patriotic merit, to the opposition our fathers offered to the oppressive laws of Great Britain. You were told that this opposition might be peaceably-might be constitutionally made-that you might enjoy all the advantages of the Union and bear none of its burdens. Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State pride, to your native courage, to your sense of real injury, were used to prepare you for the period when the mask which concealed the hideous features of DISUNION should be taken off.

But the dictates of a high duty oblige me solemnly to announce that you cannot succeed. The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject-my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution. Those who told you that you might peaceably prevent their execution, deceived you-they could not have been deceived themselves. They know that a forcible opposition could alone prevent the execution of the laws, and they know that such opposition must be repelled. Their object is disunion, but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force, is TREASON. Are you really ready to incur its guilt?

President Andrew Jackson nullification proclamation 1832

“But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice every- thing but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution.The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for “per- petual union,” so expressed in the preamble, and for the estab- lishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.

General Lee letter to his son Jan 21 1861

Even General Lee understood that secession was revolution. And revolution is treason.

23 posted on 02/27/2020 6:37:01 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: central_va

I understand that.

If you truly live in Central Virginia, you must have black neighbors or know some blacks.

Have you ever asked them what they think?

I taught at big Southern University. I taught adult government IT workers over a 20 year period. I’ve talked about all kinds of things when we had breaks, lunch, etc., from hunting, fishing, history, and even politics. I asked some of them, people who were as bright as you or I, not Leftists, what they thought about the CBF and I tell you that’s what they said to me.

Now, I did ask about monuments and such, and they were clearly for keeping them and their Southern history. They don’t want that gone.

But it wasn’t the war, nor the KKK for the 20s, but the Civil Rights era fight that make them see the CBF as a symbol used against them.

A lot of it is fake; rumors and such of when they were kids and heard stories about white people with the CBF lynching them and burning crosses. No one I know actually saw that (the oldest of us were little children in the 60s) but it’s a pretty thick belief.

And yes, lynching and burning crosses did happen. How are they supposed to think about that?

I didn’t say it was right, just that it is true.


24 posted on 02/27/2020 6:42:03 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: central_va

I agree with that. They saw their state as their country.

A lot has changed over the years but that what it was about to many.

The slave masters were not the Southern people, but rather the elitist democrat politicos that have been with us ever since.

Most Southern whites were too poor to afford a single slave.


25 posted on 02/27/2020 6:44:07 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: OIFVeteran
nstead of this the seceding States cried lustily,—“Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us.” Newspapers and people at the North reiterated the cry. Individuals might ignore the constitution; but the Nation itself must not only obey it, but must enforce the strictest construction of that instrument; the construction put upon it by the Southerners themselves. The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. If they had foreseen it, the probabilities are they would have sanctioned the right of a State or States to withdraw rather than that there should be war between brothers.

Chapt 16. US Grant Memoirs.

26 posted on 02/27/2020 6:47:22 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: USA Conservative

Another DUmocrat trying to scrub their racist history...

https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/patrioticsingles/messages/42080552/


27 posted on 02/27/2020 6:47:30 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: OIFVeteran

It wasn’t an illegal rebellion. You might want to brush up on history and original constitutional law. And, do you support Lincoln’s many illegal acts to suppress the south, or was that OK?


28 posted on 02/27/2020 6:48:03 AM PST by cbvanb
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To: USA Conservative

No. To the left, we’re nothing more
than inbred, religious fanatics who are ignorant, fat lazy stupid morons
who love guns & the Bible.
We also love hunting(more guns) fishing, actual good food & college football.
And that’s why they hate us.
I used to respect the Marines; or I
should say their “leadership”.


29 posted on 02/27/2020 6:50:25 AM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: OIFVeteran

Then you’re wrong.
Take down every statue of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, every signer of
the declaration & constitution, rename
every street school & remove all remaining evidence of their lives.
They planned & carried out an illegal
rebellion.
Take them all down immediately.


30 posted on 02/27/2020 6:56:59 AM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: USA Conservative

Many US Army bases are named after Confederate generals. And the names of the streets on many of the bases carry their names. What a hoot!


31 posted on 02/27/2020 6:59:19 AM PST by freepersup (BQQM!)
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To: OIFVeteran

Keep ALL US Marines off of every US Army base named after a Confederate general! This is going to get complicated.


32 posted on 02/27/2020 7:07:21 AM PST by freepersup (BQQM!)
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To: USA Conservative

Trump needs to fire this asshole NOW!


33 posted on 02/27/2020 7:08:30 AM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: OIFVeteran
And revolution is treason.

So George III was right ?

34 posted on 02/27/2020 7:11:38 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: central_va

Amazing, where was this? Lebanon, the first time, 1958?


35 posted on 02/27/2020 7:21:29 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: USA Conservative

The Stars and Stripes are next. It won’t be long before Old Glory is their target. I reference the Dimocrat debate stage as evidence.


36 posted on 02/27/2020 7:21:40 AM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: Timocrat

It’s only treason if you lose. Win a rebellion and you’re a hero.


37 posted on 02/27/2020 7:24:08 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Fireone

Certainly according to Nike and Kapernick.


38 posted on 02/27/2020 7:24:51 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: robowombat

39 posted on 02/27/2020 7:25:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

As one young man with a CSA battle flag tee shirt said to an agitated black with Malcolm X shirt, ‘You wear your x and I will wear mine. wear. I deeply resent the Malcolm Little cult and detest his vile countenance. The same for the fools who show up waving red flags some adorned with the hammer and sickle. However, people can wear or display what ever they want. If others don’t like it too bad, this is or was a free country.


40 posted on 02/27/2020 7:29:38 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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