Posted on 12/22/2020 7:29:00 AM PST by devane617
TODAY, it’s about Lee. TOMORROW, it’s about Washington.
In fact, George Washington is already under attack. As are all the Founding Fathers.
YOU are a naive fool who must someday be dealt with just the same as the other maniacs.
But each State gets two statues. She deserves one of Virginia's two, a State that produced eight Presidents among many notable historical figures???
Talk about Democrat pandering . . .
No, I am being realistic here, sure you don’t like the idea of Robert E Lee being removed but in all honesty it isn’t changing anyone’s world here. He still lost the civil war. With him being gracious about it, was well noted in history, I will always give him that.
However Washington was a founding father of this nation and the first president. The left are maniacs and I would not be surprised that they would go after him eventually but the whole Lee thing I understand.
ELIMINATION or SEPARATION.
I think the first mistake is making it only about black people. That is baking a flaw right into the cake. Make it about everyone, or it becomes a tool of destruction.
The 24th amendment was about nothing but black people, and as a consequence it left everyone blind as to what it really meant. All it did was empower the swamp and launch the nation on a massive spending spree.
Pin the laws to natural principles, not the current outrage of the day. Shorting out natural law may yield you an immediately gratifying result, but at the expense of longer term stability and justice.
The way they attempted to solve the school equality problem was to just borrow a page from communism.
Did it actually improve black education? Were the students educated in the revised system intellectually superior to those in the old system? I'm betting not.
... DO in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, ...
See my comments in the last Chapter of the Conservative Debate Handbook.
I’ve never heard of such a proposal being discussed by any state or anywhere else for that matter. It would have the same benefit at the state level as the electoral college has at the federal level. That is, it would protect the less populated counties from being dominated by the ones with big cities. Would be tough to enact since the cities and their representatives and allies in the state power structure would fight it tooth and nail. Also would be a tough sell because “anti-democratic.”
I also point out that the only power the people of Virginia can resume is the power Virginia gave up. They can't resume people's power outside of Virginia, because that power isn't theirs.
In a Republic, by definition, the people act as the State. And certainly the people of Virginia proved they were closer to the Confederate Government in 1861, than to the Federal Government.
“We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution. Here we see the people acting as sovereigns of the whole country, and, in the language of sovereignty, establishing a Constitution by which it was their will that the State governments should be bound, and to which the State Constitutions should be made to conform. Every State Constitution is a compact made by and between the citizens of a State to govern themselves in a certain manner, and the Constitution of the United States is likewise a compact made by the people of the United States to govern themselves as to general objects in a certain manner. By this great compact however, many prerogatives were transferred to the national government, such as those of making war and peace, contracting alliances, coining money, etc. etc.” – Chisholm v. Georgia, 1793
Nor will we find-— UNTIL obamaumao “found” a Hague Court decision that somehow the US owed MONEY to Iran for an arms deal that was never fulfilled because the Iranian Theocracy of Khomeini took over the country and changed the government. As if the US in dealing with a former government (and in reality Jimmah Cahtah aided in removing the Shah, and treated him terribly)— must honor all those deals to a DIFFERENT govt. Kind of like Rothschild’s money making “sovereign debt” scam.
This has NEVER been the policy of the US... all the way back to George Washington vs. France, after the French Revolution— the incident with Citoyen Genet who demanded the US repay the Monarchic debt from our Revolution, among other things. What Levin calls current “French Republicans” are demonstrated amongs the many anti US sovereignty Never Trumper RINOS. Who were and are just fine with 152 Billion in cash going to Iran, to pay a “debt” but in reality to sweeten a nuclear deal they want to renew with Biden. Incredible.
The wiki on G
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With a Merry Christmas to all, here is, from “Adams-HBO” a marvelous scene with Washington et al and Benet, and the one time Hamilton and Jefferson agreed with each other. Washington’s great admonition against Foreign Entanglements, which our President Trump carefully deploys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5wCl3aAMEQ
It looks to me like it needs a good sloshing with whitewash
Don’t worry ... Gov Northam is putting her in as a place holder until her statue can be replaced by Ralph Northam.
The United States are plural. They do not terminate the historic value and cultural differences among the respective sovereigns outside of the limited powers granted to the Federal agency. Usurpation of functions is not a legitimate method of reform.
Because he was a white male.
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