Rescuing Columbus from the Savages

On the 525th anniversary of the European discovery of America, the 90-foot tall monument in New York’s huge Columbus Circle escaped damage — but only because the NYPD maintained a 24-hour honor guard during the entire 3-day holiday weekend. Police protection was needed because the violent left-wing movement known as “antifa” had announced a nationwide campaign to “deface Columbus Day.”

Statues left unguarded were not so fortunate. Around the nation in recent weeks, statues of Columbus have been toppled, splattered with paint or otherwise vandalized. In downtown Los Angeles, a Columbus statue in front of the county courthouse was shrouded in a white sheet, ostensibly for its own protection, after the L.A. City Council voted to rename the paid holiday as Indigenous Peoples Day.

The mayor of New York City, who was born Warren Wilhelm but changed his name to the Italian-sounding Bill de Blasio, had let it be known that the monument in Columbus Circle was at risk. He has appointed a commission to review the political correctness of hundreds of monuments, plaques and statues throughout the city.

New York’s Columbus monument was built and paid for by Italian immigrants in 1892, to honor the 400th anniversary of discovery, around the time the Chicago was preparing to host the World’s Columbian Exposition. Italian Americans are rightly proud of Columbus, but his voyages were actually sponsored and financed by Spain, his crewmen were Spanish, he spoke Spanish and wrote his journals in Spanish.

Americans were already celebrating Columbus on the 300th anniversary of discovery, in 1792, when a Columbus monument was erected in Baltimore. Despite the lack of Italian or Spanish people in the original 13 colonies, the English settlers recognized that Columbus’ discovery of the New World was the event that made America possible.

Our nation’s capital is the City of Washington in the District of Columbia, honoring the two men who made our country, and Columbus’s name is reflected in many other places, including two state capitals (Ohio and South Carolina). For much of the 19th century, the word Columbia was often used as an alternative to America.

As President Trump said in proclaiming the federal holiday, Columbus’ voyages “undeniably and fundamentally changed the course of human history and set the stage for the development of our great Nation.” On Columbus Day, Trump declared, “we honor the skilled navigator and man of faith” for his “courageous feat — even in the face of extreme doubt and tremendous adversity.”

What a contrast with the apologetic tone of Obama’s proclamation one year earlier, which omitted any praise of Columbus or recognition of his greatness. Instead Obama whined that “we must acknowledge the pain and suffering of Native Americans” which he said has been “marked by too many broken promises, as well as violence, deprivation and disease.”

By apologizing for Columbus as a man allegedly responsible for bringing pain and suffering, violence and disease to America, Obama was apologizing for America itself. Such ideas are far too common in our schools and colleges, where Columbus is wrongly accused of oppressing the native people with slavery, white supremacy, and even genocide.

The National Education Association, which supplies teachers to most of our public schools, adopted a resolution that “formal apologies are long overdue to the indigenous people of the United States.” The fierce campaign against Columbus is motivated by hatred for America, and will continue even if his statues survive.

It is impossible to exaggerate how great Columbus was, and how much our world depends on what he accomplished. In the 2,000 years since Jesus Christ, it would be hard to name any one man who achieved so much for the betterment of mankind.

Columbus was, first of all, the greatest sailor and navigator who ever lived up to that time, as detailed by the famous historian Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, himself a sailor who recreated Columbus’ voyages. Yes, a Viking named Leif Erikson apparently landed somewhere in Canada about 500 years earlier, but Erikson left no permanent settlement or any trace that he was ever here.

Yes, there were people already living in North and South America when Columbus came. By comparison to the European explorers and settlers, however, America’s native people lived in extreme poverty and brutality, lacking the skills that are necessary to build a civilized nation.

Yes, the European settlers brought new diseases such as smallpox that infected the native people (unintentionally, of course), but they were repaid in tobacco, which caused far more deaths among Europeans. Columbus wrote about tobacco in his journal on October 15, 1492, just three days after he arrived in the West Indies.

Among the gifts that Columbus brought to America was Christianity. Evangelization of the native people was a prime motivation for Columbus and his Spanish backers. Columbus gave Christian names to places he visited, such as San Juan (St. John the Baptist), which became Puerto Rico.

ANTIFA Is Tearing Down US Historical Monuments-—Leading Violent Riots On Columbus Day

By Capt Joseph R. John, October 9, 2017: Op Ed # 372

ANTIFA demonstrators are the violent terrorist “Foot Soldiers” for Communists; the logo on the ANTIFA flag was created by the German Communist Party. ANTIFA’s “Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement” (RAM) has been leading the coordinated national effort to deface and destroying over 350 US historical monuments.

There is a startling parallel between today’s violent ANTIFA left-wing terrorist rioters, and the brutal tactics used by the Nazi Brown Shirts, Mussolini Fascist mobs, and the Communist thugs of yesteryear. The left of center liberal media establishment, especially the San Francisco Chronicle and the Huntington Post, have been covering up ANTIFA’s Communist ideology and affiliations.

Today, on Columbus Day, ANTIFA terrorists are calling for violence and coordinating the plan to destroy statues of Christopher Columbus nationwide. The demonstration is Un-American. ANTIFA terrorists have already vandalized 5 statues of Christopher Columbus in NYC, including the larger than life statue of Columbus in Central Park.

RAM claims slavery still exists and draws it inspiration from cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal who murdered Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in December 1981. RAM is calling for revolutionary warfare within the US, saying “Our historical mission is clear, we must burn down American plantations once and for all.” That open call for violent revolutionary change, meets the definition of terrorism in accordance with 18 USC § 2331; supporting such a revolution would be treason (WND Exclusive Oct 4, 2017).

Besides leading the coordinated national effort to deface and destroying over 350 US historical monuments, ANTIFA terrorists are also targeting the beleaguered police forces across the nation. ANTIFA activists have always held a special hatred for Police Officers. The ANTIFA slogan is A. C. A. B. ; it is short for “All Cops Are Bastards.” ANTIFA recently participated in a protest in Nashville, TN against the Fraternal Order of Police. TORCH is the name for the terrorist network that coordinates ANTIFA terrorists across the nation. TORCH, explicitly compares Police Officers to “White Supremacists”.(WND Exclusive Oct 4, 2017)

Andy Zee, who is on the Advisory Board of Refuse Fascism, is the leader of the ANTIFA terrorist organization. Yvette /Yvonne Felarca, a middle school teacher, was the ANTIFA leaders of the violent Berkley riots; she was arrested for a second time for leading violent demonstrations. Sunsara Taylor, a Maoist, in the leadership of the Communist Revolutionary Party, was also one of the leaders of the Berkley riots. In August 2017, ANTIFA terrorist rioted in Charlotte, VA and violently attacked peaceful demonstrators trying to protect the historical monuments: the fake press attacked President Trump for stating the demonstrators included leftist anarchists.

Woody Kaine, a member of the ANTIFA terrorist organization, is the youngest son of Senator Tim Kaine, and was arrested in Minnesota for participating in a violent demonstration, he was wearing black and a mask to hide his identity Tim Kane, a radical leftist, was Hillary Clinton’s Democratic Vice Presidential running mate during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Violent ANTIFA terrorists, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Communist Party USA, Black Lives Matter, and other anarchists have been recruited and transported for 9 months to participate in OFA’s demonstrations, and will be transported to the remainder of the400 violent street demonstrations in 42 states that have been scheduled by OFA for the 2017 calendar year. The violent ANTIFA communist foot soldiers are being paid $25/day by Nazi-Collaborator Soros’s Tides and Open Society Foundations.

George Soros’ Tides Foundation and Opens Society Foundation are funding ANTIFA terrorists, while OFA has been including ANTIFA’s foot soldiers in its 400 demonstrations. The demonstrations are against conservative speakers on campus, and in opposition to “Freedom of Speech”. Nazi Collaborator Soros transported and paid ANTIFA Terrorists rioters, Black Lives Matter rioters, and the Revolution Communist Party rioters to go to Ferguson, MO. Charlottesville, VA and in Berkley, California. Hillary Clinton moved $800,000 from her defunct presidential campaign—to her new organization, Onward Together (OT), then OT used the funds from Hillary to support four different ANTIFA organizations.

On November 4th , ANTIFA terrorists and the Revolution Communist Party will make the jump from terrorism to initiate an open violent revolution. The largest, most violent bloody national riots are being meticulously planned by OFA to take place on November 4, 2017, because it is the 100th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In order to shock the nation. Those violent and bloody demonstrations will be staged to extend for at least 4 days, with the hope they will never end (the leaders of the ANTIFA terrorists, and the Revolutionary Communist Party have recently stated, “Americans haven’t seen anything as yet”).

The Revolutionary Communist Party leader, Bob Avakian, will join with Andy Zee, the leader of the ANTIFA terrorists, and other leftist groups to kick off a revolution in the United States on November 4, 2017. Bob Avakian, the leader of the Revolution Communist Party, wrote a pamphlet entitled “The Coming Civil War and Repolarization In the Present Era.” On November 4th ANTIFA leftist demonstrator will be transported to riot locations, and will be paid by Nazi Collaborator George Soros to revolt against the government of the United States.

Some of the participants in the revolution are Black Lives Matter, the Communist Party USA, ANSWER, Socialists, The Progressive Unity Fund, the Weather Underground, The Communist World Workers Party, the Communist Industrial Workers of the World, the New Black Panther Party, La Raza, the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, etc.

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