Brooklyn Pol Dumps Portrait of 'Old White Man' George Washington

Fox News ^ | Wednesday, January 16, 2002

[rightwingextremist1776]

Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz said he will probably hang a portrait of a black person or a woman in his office in place of the country's first president, while moving the Father of Our Country elsewhere in Borough Hall.

"I respect history . . . but there has to be a recognition that this is 2002," Markowitz said. "There's not one picture of a person of color, not one kid, not one Latin. Borough Hall should reflect the richness of our diversity."

[Bigg Red]

You know where this banning of the word "minority" is going don't you. That's a way of preparing for the not so distant time when people of European descent will be minorities. Wouldn't want to be talking about helping minorities then, would we?

I say it's time to stand up to this form of ethnic cleansing of people of European descent! This Markowitz is a Taliban; instead of statues of Buddah, he is gunning for the portrait of the Father of our Country.

[Bigg Red]

Stop Euro ethnic cleansing! Markowitz is a Taliban shooting down our portrait of GW. Can we Je$$e and $harpton to protest for us?

Seriously, we need to start fighting this sort of rubbish.

[Clemenza]

I have felt more at home in NYC than anywhere else. You can still WALK to do your shopping, go to church, etc. and you are never at a loss for things to do. Its not for everyone, but its for me. I'll take my chances and not register my firearms if I move back. :-)

[ecomcon]

I'll go along with that. (Orange, Ca.) The place I grew up made sense. Orange, Ca. was basically orange groves. Now its..its.. well, I don't know what it is now. See, the Mexicans are connected to Mexico, like you said. They have regional pride. They are not Americans.

We have been too gracious and kind. They are simply colonizing California. If we will not fight to keep California, it will become part of the Mexican hell that now exists a mere 60 miles away.

[caddie]

What a huge irony, that RATS tend to live around regions so rich in American Revolutionary events and artifacts, like, Manhattan, New Jersey, Boston, etc.

It sickens me that this t*rd probably never read an adult account of the life of GW and how miraculous his life was.

His existence, actions, and presence, at certain times, assured the founding of the United States.

Nothing is more unlikely to have happened than the founding of the United States, and nothing is as singular and as dramatic as the life of Washington to demonstrate the hand of Providence (as Washington would have said) in the founding of our nation.

What a cretin this politician is.

[Elsie]

exciting or attractive, despite having some very nice people

So... you'll take jerk people over boring and dull.

OK.

[Snow Bunny]

I agree Bigg Red we sure do !

[dfwgator]

Hey Mr. Markowitz, "Up your nose with a rubber hose."

[Clemenza]

Mexicans are doing to California what the Irish did to Massachusetts and we all know what a hell hole Mass is!

[Redcloak]

[SoDak]

You're dead-on correct. I think a clear majority of parents would agree with us, but people don't take an interest, instead thinking the schools haven't changed much since they were kids. I don't have kids, but if I do in the future, there is NO way they will be put into the public school system. it's basically a liberal factory, they churn more out every year.

[Ditto]

From the New York Post

THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN

January 16, 2002 -- ‘We're taking down the old white guys," said Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn's new beep, as he ordered a portrait of George Washington removed from his Borough Hall office.

The old white guys.

The old slave-owners, is what Markowitz means - though he lacks the courage to say so out loud.

So, 225 years after George Washington and his Continentals deftly evaded a vastly superior British army assembled on Brooklyn Heights - merely making the United States of America possible - this lightweight former backbencher from the state Senate banishes the old patriot once again.

The British were fighting a war.

What's Marty Markowitz's excuse?

He has none. A reason, yes. It's to achieve some "diversity" in the hall.

But an excuse? Not at all.

It's not hard to find an argument about which among America's founders was the greatest: They were thinkers; they were do-ers; they were individuals of vision and principle and integrity. They vested their lives and fortunes in the uniquely Western notion that the rule of law was superior to the rule of mere men.

Two-and-one-quarter centuries later, America - with all its faults and failures - vindicates their struggle.

George Washington likely was the greatest of them all. First in war, first in peace and - yes - first in the hearts of his countrymen. And that was the least of it.

For George Washington tasted power - first as general of the Continental Army, and then as the fledgling nation's first chief executive.

And he voluntarily gave it up - pre- cisely so that America would indeed become a nation of laws, and not men.

He could have had a third term for the asking; he did not ask.

And before that, in December of 1783, he could have taken permanent command of America simply by abetting an incipient revolt of recently demobilized Continental Army officers.

Unpaid for months, angry and without work or prospects, they proposed to take Congress hostage. By force of arms, they would achieve redress of their grievances.

In a barn in upstate Newburgh, Washington rose to address his officers. No stemwinder, this speech.

Reaching for his spectacles, he paused and apologized:

"Gentlemen," he said, "you must forgive me. I have gone gray in your service, and now I find myself going blind."

And the revolt was over. Never again need America fear its military.

Contrast that with the butchers and boodlers and bagmen who lead - if that's the correct term - the kleptocracies so admired by so many of those who will defend Markowitz this morning.

To hell with them. An "old white guy"?

For shame, Marty Markowitz.

Washington was the greatest of all --- by far.

[Ditto]

What a huge irony, that RATS tend to live around regions so rich in American Revolutionary events and artifacts, like, Manhattan, New Jersey, Boston, etc.

The first time I heard about this attack on Washington was when Washington Elementry School in New Orleans changed their name because Washington was a slave owner.

[rmlew]

Elsie,
I don't want to start a holy war here. However, the accounts in the NT were hardly objective. They were written, in part to differentiate Christians from Jews.
This was at a time when the Romans were represing Jews and later slaughtering them during the rebellion. The Christians chose to differentiate themselves for survival.
Later, when Christianity spread to the Hellenistic settlers in the levant and to Romans, it became useful to ensure that the Jews and not the Romans were blamed for the death of Jesus.
The truth is that the accounts are misleading. Jesus was not tried or punished according to Jewish law. Jesus was executed on Passover, when such punishments are banned by the Torah.
Assuming the Sanhedrin tried Jesus (unlikely as this is absent from Roman records), they were not acting freely. Herod, a Nabatean convert, had executed the Sanhedrin when they had poreviously ruled against him. The puppet Sanhedrin was not ruling on the Law, the Torah, or for the people. They were rulling according to the dictates of the non-Judean King who ruled at he behest of the Romans and the Hellenized settlers.
If a crowd of Herodian crooneys had Jesus killed, it is hardly the fault of the Jews of that time, much less ours.
The fact is that a Roman puppet-king had his puppet court convict a man who claimed to be the true king (and thus a threat to his and Roman rule) and handed him over to the Roman governor. It seems to me that hte guilty parties are :
1) The Romans.
2) The illegitimate Roman citizen and non-Judean king
3) The Hellenized Jews who he installed in religious positions, despite their contempt for the Torah.


I don't want to start a fight. Facts are annoying things to fundamentalists, but they remain true.

[Elsie]

Facts are annoying things to fundamentalists

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You are quite correct.......

Facts are fundamental.

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The truth is that the accounts are misleading.
So you say, but still true.

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Jesus was not tried or punished according to Jewish law. Jesus was executed on Passover, when such punishments are banned by the Torah.
This is true.

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Of COURSE He was killed on Passover: that's when the lamb was supposed to have been slain..........

NIV John 1:29
 29.  The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

NIV Exodus 12:3-11
 3.  Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb  for his family, one for each household.
 4.  If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
 5.  The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
 6.  Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
 7.  Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
 8.  That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 
 9.  Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire--head, legs and inner parts.
 10.  Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
 11.  This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.

 

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It appears that we agree.