In the wake of the terribleness of the Charleston, South Carolina, shooting, South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. The hue and cry against the media landscape, politically correct corporations, and progressive wolves, chimed in. After that first media time period, it was clear to any thinking person that if that flag had not flown over South Carolina that the killer Dylann Roof would have turned out to be a lovely kind gentle young progressive activist. But as we all know the symbol of the confederacy made him do it.
For at least 10 years Nikki Haley walked under that flag and in the aftermath of the killings discovered it over her Republican head and demanded the removal of the flag less than a week after that 21-year-old white boy gunned down nine people in a historical African American church.
That put blood in the water and the politically correct piranhas began to gather. The mayor of Charleston, Joe Riley Jr., said that somehow if we had taken away Mr. Roof’s symbol of misguided superiority and bigotry, that hate-filled shooting would have never happened.
Addendum #1 — Never wanting to offend, Walmart pulls down all Confederate merchandise, but continues to sell the Iranian and Cuban flags. The Iranian flag was created in the wake of the Islamic revolution that brought the Ayatollahs into power in 1979, and kidnapped the American personnel at the U.S. Embassy.
Walmart is also selling a canvas featuring Fidel Castro that includes the quote, “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
All of us have read about the Taliban in Afghanistan blowing up monuments to Buddhism. We also know what ISIL and ISIS are doing in Syria, destroying what historians are calling the antiquities.
Addendum #2 — Washington, D.C. residents say take down the Jefferson Memorial and rename Washington, D.C. Dateline Atlanta NAACP says, “We can sandblast Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis from the Stone Mountain Park Memorial.”
But medieval Europeans from time to time in religious rages over numerous plagues, would go about digging up bodies thinking somehow these long dead were responsible for current tragedies. I believe that also applied to Vampires.
Addendum #3 — Memphis’ mayor literally wants to dig up a Confederate general and move him. Memphis’ A. C. Wharton has called for the removal of the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a city park. In quotes he told the press, “These relics must be moved,” as though somehow the first Grand Dragon of the KKK, would be responsible for evil today. The city of Dallas is considering removing the statue of Robert E. Lee. These people are the American mullahs.
CNN anchor Don Lemon has floated the idea of changing the Jefferson Memorial since the 3rd President of the U.S. was a slave owner. The fleur-de-lis, the heraldic symbol of the French monarchy is now being considered to be a racist symbol by Tulane University as the French were in charge of Louisiana in 1724, when a discriminatory Black Code was adopted. That, of course, is also the symbol of the New Orleans Saints. Politically correct sports owners quake in their boots. It’s been estimated there are about 200 schools in the south that are named after Confederate leaders and military members.
In California, Assembly Woman Lorena Gonzales, D-San Diego has sent a letter to the San Diego Unified School District, demanding a rename of the school that bears the name Robert E. Lee.
Progressives at the University of Texas have signed a petition calling for the removal of a statue of George Washington due to his owning slaves. Texas public schools are jumping on the bandwagon to shun symbols and dump historic figures. It isn’t just Democrats, Mitch McConnell wants the state capitol in Kentucky to remove the statue of Jefferson Davis, (how many times do you think Mitch walked past that statue?).
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue and renaming Lee Circle.
Saving the best for last, New York film critic Lou Lumenick wants to ban the motion picture Gone with the Wind, and adding insult to injury, The Dukes of Hazzard because the Confederate flag was painted on the top of the car General Lee.
Summary: It’s all been done before. In the novel 1984 Winston Smith rewrote the past so Big Brother can control the future. The Fuhrer knew how to do it, the people around Emperor Hirohito knew how to do it, and those screaming to rename Washington, D.C., know how to do it. In fact it’s already been done. It was called Stalingrad.
Welcome to the new America Sharia.
— Peter