Posted on 01/16/2002 10:25:10 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
Seriously, we need to start fighting this sort of rubbish.
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.
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.
So... you'll take jerk people over boring and dull.
OK.
THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYNJanuary 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.
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.
Facts are fundamental.
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