Sorry, the source is National Review, not Washington Times. Mods can correct.
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Seems to me the Brits have been trying to tear down Churchill for many years.
His fathers' people don't seem to like him that much.
Fortunately, his mothers' people still love him as much as she did.
;-)
Nice post. Thanks.
Now I undwrstand what’s wrong with the new Murder on the Orient Express. Certainty is now considered a vice
Because an irresolute and small-minded age applies its own neuroses backward to history, because actors love to portray internal torment, and because we fancy ourselves so sophisticated that we know the official story of the past to be a ruse, movies about important historical figures have become less inspiring and “more human,” at times even iconoclastic... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well said. Churchill is denigrated because his achievement was to defeat Fascism of every stripe in the entirety of Europe and in the West, not just the Nazis. But now as the Malthusian thought which created the Holocaust is now taken up by the nationalist socialist left, and as the left in Canada and the United States become increasingly Liberal Fascist, they define those who fought for our freedom as mere pikers. It is to laugh. The only reason they get away with it is that now most WWWII veterans are dead or in their dotage.
And we do suffer from an Alisnsky based liberal fascism which governs by political correctness and the selective enforcement of law, and rule by fiat.
( Yes, read it here: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html ),
So the liberal fascists seek to redefine history to make it more palpable, and to rein in the public who revere Churchill, and to define a political correctness to do so, as a matter of control.
Remember Obama removed the bust of Churchill from the oval office on his first day. Churchill was a racist, you see! ( Sheesh!) The Socialist left fear Churchill, his thoughts can result in their undoing.
We have had a plethora of re-definitions like this. I abhor them. The cigars Churchill smoked are cancer agents. Cowboys are broken on Broke Back Mountain. And the rest of us are to shut up?
Eff them one and all.
Join the International Churchill Society, they preserve his true legacy.
https://www.winstonchurchill.org/
Sigh. I have been looking forward to this movie for over a year. I hope this is just nit picking.
That is a powerful quote.
I’m not too keen on the other Churchill HBO movie, “Into the Storm.” Some of the same reasons as stated in the posted article.
Churchill was a great statesman. He said the truth about the religion of death and destruction. Explains why bammy sent his statue back - bammy was bringing *slam into this country.
Well, after all, it is a movie. With actors. I hope it gets the big stuff right, and is a stirring and inspiring slice of entertainment.
My mother was an Englishwoman, and lived through WWII and the Blitz, etc. (My father was a bomber pilot with the USAAF 8th Air Force, based in England, and that is where he met my mother.)
My mother said that Churchill saved England, because he stood defiant against Hitler and stirred the nation, and that his defiance was contagious, and soon the Brits in general embraced his passion and were determined to prevail or die fighting.
If Chamberlain asked for Halifax instead of Churchill on May 10 a deal would have been cut with Hitler.
“...In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.””
Winston Churchill
May 13, 1940
First Speech as Prime Minister