Last week Friday, sleepy, creepy, Uncle Joe put the kibosh on President Trump's planned “National Garden of American Heroes."
In an executive order of his own, Biden abolished the Trump-formed task force to create the new monument, which was to have featured sculptures of dozens of American historical figures, including presidents, athletes and pop culture icons, envisioned by President Trump as “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live....Davy Crockett, Billy Graham, Whitney Houston, Harriet Tubman and Antonin Scalia," among others. No site was officially selected and the garden was never funded by Congress.
ALSO REVOKED
Trump's June 2020 order that called for the federal government to “prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law” acts of vandalism and destruction to statues on federal property.
IN THE OLD LINE STATE
On Tuesday, calling it a "relic of the Confederacy, "Governor Larry Hogan finally signed the bill to remove Maryland My Maryland as the State Song.
We still do not understand why the Governor, having so quickly signed over 200 bills from the legislative session, waited so long to sign this last one?
A replacement state song has not yet been chosen.
Please call Governor Hogan at 410-974-3901 to express your disappointment.
IN THE OLD DOMINION
King George County leaders punted on a protest to the County's Confederate monument saying that tey nwill take it up in June because they've been busy with other pressing matters such as the next fiscal year's budget and filling a key vacancy.
IN THE SUNSHINE STATE
Duval County voters chose to change the name of five schools while keeping the names of three others. The schools that voters chose to keep the names are:
- Kirby-Smith Middle School
- Jean Ribault High School
- Andrew Jackson High School
Meanwhile, the schools that voters chose to change the names are:
- Joseph Fineagan Middle School to Anchor Academy
- Stonewall Jackson Elementary to Westside Academy
- Jefferson Davis Middle School to Westside Middle School
- J.E.B. Stuart Middle School to Westside Middle School
- Robert E. Lee High School to Riverside High School
For the past several months, local activist groups have urged Duval County Schools to change the names of schools that are named after controversial historic figures, most notably leaders of the Confederacy.
“Our goal was to give our community a voice in this process," Superintendent Diana Greene said. "Constituents have participated in dozens of meetings, and now thousands have shared their voice through this balloting process. My job is to synthesize all of this input and bring the recommendation that I feel is best for our schools, our community, and most important, our students.”
That is CODE for her intention to recommend to the Board that the names of ALL schools be changed regardless of vote outcome.
Greene will be making official recommendations on May 25.
Greene's recommendation will be discussed at the June 1 school board meeting. That meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
IN THE TAR HEEL STATE
Work to demolish and remove a 75-foot-tall stone obelisk built to honor a Confederate leader will begin soon in Asheville as barricades have been placed around the Vance Monument ahead of that demolition work.
IN THE BLUEGRASS STATE
The debate over a Confederate statue goes from the Daviess County Fiscal Court room to a judge’s courtroom as lawyers representing the county and the state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, made their case during a hearing this afternoon.
Today’s hearing centered around the Kentucky UDC Chapter’s motion for a restraining order keeping the statue from being moved by the county until ownership can be decided. The chapter’s lawyer, Nicholas Goetz, says his client made payments when the monument was built in the early 1900s, and the group made a partnership with the fiscal court during that time.
Fiscal court lawyer Mike Lee says the current state UDC chapter doesn’t own it, claiming the current group was formed in 2019, after the one who was involved in building it was dissolved nearly five decades ago.
“They claim they are a successor to a recent entity that ceased operations in 1970. That’s a period of 49 years,” Lee countered.
The current fiscal court decided to move the statue off of courthouse grounds last year. Two museums in owensboro were recommended as potential sites.
Judge Lisa Jones told lawyers she’s reviewing evidence, but it could be several weeks before a ruling is made.
CROSSING STATE LINES
Police in Alabama have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the bizarre theft of a Confederate monument that was taken from an Alabama cemetery and found in Louisiana.
Selma police charged Jason Warnick with theft in connection with the mysterious disappearance of the chair-shaped monument, Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said Monday.
An attorney for Warnick said he denied being involved with the theft, "Mr. Warnick categorically denies any involvement with the theft of this memorial art installation and intends to defend himself and his reputation vigorously."
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NON HERITAGE NEWS EFFECTING THE SOUTHLAND:
The murder of patriot Ashli Babbit is no different than any other police murder. So why do the Capitol Police refuse to release the cops name? And why is the media not asking for it?
Worse, the media has not only failed to ask for a name but has diverted all attention away from his murderous crime. The foreign newspaper The Sun even spit on Ashli’s grave by releasing a clickbait headline “Who shot Ashli Babbitt, the woman who died at the Capitol?” but refusing to even name the officer involved in the heinous killing in the entire article.
Why is the DOJ not investigating?
REDPILLED Media has uncovered evidence confirming through self-incriminating Facebook posts that Special Agent David Bailey is a Brazilian immigrant who has pledged his allegiance to the deadly Black Lives Matter movement — even going so far as vowing to murder Trump supporters.
VIDEO FOOTAGE OBTAINED OF LOUISIANA MURDER
Two years after "authorities" refused to release it the Associated Press obtained video of Louisiana State Troopers captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a man as he apologized and attempted to surrender.
“I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene can be heard telling the Troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.
The 2019 arrest outside Monroe, Louisiana, is the subject of a federal investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greene’s case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.
Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-old’s death. Troopers initially lied to Greene’s family claiming he died on impact after crashing into a tree. Later, State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with Troopers and died on his way to the hospital.
Only now in the footage obtained by the AP from one Trooper's body camera can the public see for the first time some of what happened during the arrest.
The 46-minute clip shows one Trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf---—."
Greene wails “I’m sorry!” as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f---—- hands behind your back!” Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.
Instead of rendering aid, the Troopers leave the heavyset man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.
“I hope this guy ain’t got f------ AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.
After a several-minute stretch in which Greene is not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.
In many parts of the video, Greene is not on screen, and the trooper appears to cut the microphone off about halfway through, making it difficult to piece together exactly what was happening at all times. At least six troopers were on the scene of the arrest but not all had their body cameras on.
“They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned," Greene's mother, Mona Hardin, said Wednesday. “He didn't have a chance. Ronnie didn't have a chance. He wasn't going to live to tell about it."
An attorney for Greene’s family, Lee Merritt, said the footage “...the length of it, the sheer brutality of it...He apologized in an attempt to surrender,” Merritt said.
Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the contents of the video but argued the Troopers’ use of force was justified — “awful but lawful,” as ranking officials described it — and did not open an administrative investigation until 474 days after Greene’s death.
“Police departments have got to stop putting roadblocks up to information that is, in the public’s eye, questionable. They have to reveal all that they know, when they know it,” said Andrew Scott, a former Boca Raton, Florida, police chief who testifies as an expert witness in use-of-force cases. “It suggests that you’re hiding something.”
While noting Greene “was not without fault” and appeared to resist the troopers’ orders, Scott said dragging the handcuffed man facedown by his ankle shackles was “malicious, sadistic, completely unnecessary...That should never have never happened,” he said. “You’ve got the guy completely compromised. He’s not hurting anybody.”
Charles Key, another use-of-force expert and former Baltimore police lieutenant, questioned the troopers’ decision to leave Greene unattended, handcuffed and prone for several minutes, calling the practice “just dead wrong."
SUPPORT THE POLICE? BECOME THEIR VICTIM
News is finally leaking about the horrendous treatment Jan. 6 patriots have received in prison. Conservative Dinesh D’Souza called it “a system for torturing Trumpsters.” These non-violent American Patriots, doing nothing more than exercising a Constitutional right to approach their Government for a redress of grievance, were shot, tear gassed, beaten, and violently arrested by the same police they so strongly "supported." Now, in Federal detention they are subjected to solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day. D’Souza, in fact, claims that all of the arrestees are in solitary confinement.
Patriot Ryan Samsel charged that guards at the Washington, D.C. jail beat him so severely that they dislocated his jaw, broke his nose, and left him with seizures. “This is unjustified, and the way that these guys are being treated is completely unreasonable; it’s wholly unconstitutional,” Samsel’s attorney, Steven Metcalf, said. “It doesn’t matter what these guys are being charged with. All of these guys are still in pretrial detention; they have not been convicted of any crimes. And this is what they’ve been forced to endure.”
When are good, honest, patriotic, God-fearing, freedom loving people going to get it into their thick skulls that the police do not exist to protect and serve you! The police exist to protect and serve the government and to be the tyrant's "muscle."
Go ahead, support the police if you must. Just don't be surprised when you become their next victim!
MORE REVOKING BY SLEEPY CREEPY UNCLE JOE
This week a Biden order revoked former President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at social media companies' censorship policies.
Another Biden order revoked Trump's December 2020 order to brand all U.S. foreign aid with a single “logo that embodies the values and generosity of the American people.”
Biden also took aim at a Trump proclamation that required immigrants to prove they would be covered by certain health insurance plans within 30 days of entering the U.S. or prove they could cover medical costs.
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Al Benson, Jr., is the Editor of the Copperhead Chronicle.
In addition to writing for Southern Patriot and other publications, he is a member of the Confederate Society of America and the League of the South.
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I am glad I do not live in the state of Oregon. It is beginning to sound more and more like the state on the East Coast that my family and I managed to escape from decades ago now. The political climate there was so far to the left you could cut it with a knife. That’s not to say there were not good people there. There were, and are. But the good folks there that were patriotic and had genuine concerns about the direction their state was headed in were a minority.
It seems that Oregon is headed the same way. Though I’ve been there, I never lived there so I can’t comment on that aspect of it.
But I read an interesting article by Dr. Joseph Mercola on https://articles.mercola.com that I felt was worth commenting on. Dr. Mercola’s article observes: “Bill Gates, who co-funded the startup of the imitation meat company Impossible Foods, now insists synthetic beef is a necessary strategy to address climate change. Gates wants Americans and other Western nations to switch to a diet of 100% synthetic beef. Coincidentally, Oregon is now proposing a ballot initiative for the 2022 general election that would effectively ban most meat sales and consumption in the state.” This initiative is called Initiative Petition 13. If passed, this initiative will turn Oregon into a “sanctuary state for animals/”
Dr. Mercola’s article observes this would be done by “…removing exemptions for good animal husbandry practices, criminalizing the raising and slaughtering of food animals and reclassifying traditional animal husbandry practices such as artificial insemination as ‘sexual assault…Forcing people to cut or eliminate beef consumption is part of the climate agenda.” It would seem that it is also good for Bill Gates imitation meat company. Cattle ranching has been one of the mainstays of the economy in Eastern Oregon. If this horrendous initiative is passed what will that do to the ranchers in Eastern Oregon? Has anyone even bothered to ask that question? I sincerely hope the people in Oregon have a concern for the ranching community in their state because once that is lost it will never return .But, then, that may be the real name of the game–pretending to be a concern over “climate change.”
Dr. Mercola notes that: “As you may have heard, Bill Gates has been buying up farmland across 18 U.S. states through various subsidiary companies. In all, he now owns about 242,000 acres of farmland. He’s also a longtime promoter of GMOs and recently started calling for a complete transition from meat to lab-grown meat and other fake and unnatural food sources, such as a protein-rich microbe found in a Yellowstone geyser. Seeing how Gates always promotes solutions and industries that he has financial investments in it’s not surprising that Gates insists synthetic beef is a necessary strategy to address climate change..”
And Gates doesn’t want those in America and other countries to just cut down their intake of natural beef. He wants natural beef gone altogether and replaces with a synthetic substitute. You have to remember that this is the guy who had a project going to try to cut the amount of sunlight the earth received to aid in “climate change” and this during one of the coolest Spring seasons my part of the country has ever had. I can’t speak for the rest of the country but it has been cool this Spring in North Louisiana. We don’t need less sun here this year, we need more!
Thankfully, this one Gates project seems to have been cancelled–for now. I think this man has a god complex. He is unable to create the world in six days like the Lord did in the beginning so he is going to try to recreate it in his own image in six years or less.
And the ranching and farming industries in Oregon and the rest of the country are in his crosshairs so they need to be aware and concerned with his far out agendas because they will affect them, and not for the good. Cattlemen’s and farmers associations need to be aware of Bill Gates’ plans for their way of life because he aims to change that whether they like it or not.
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THE GREAT BULL OF THE RIGHT |
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Mark C. Atkins is a 6th generation native of Henry County, Tennessee. He and his wife of thirty years have six children and direct a small K-12 classical Christian school.
He is the author of Women in Combat, Feminism Goes To War, with foreword by Major General Patrick Henry Brady, USA (Ret).
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The Common Man, or the Mob, or the Masses may be thought of as a great Bull; simple but possessing irresistible power. The Bull will go where he wishes, and if you stand in its way you will get trampled. If you wish to ride and direct the Bull, then what it believes and wants is of supreme importance.
In the case of the Common Man on the Right, or the Great Bull of the Right, whatever he is today is the product of a decades long gestation that was a reaction to an American Left that only came into clear view some time after WWII. The rise of the Left was especially surprising to the Great Bull of the Right because it challenged assumptions that were centuries if not millennia old. Furthermore after our victory in 1945, the U.S. appeared to have finally and permanently united the country after the catastrophe of the Civil War eighty years before. Also by then we had seen the final absorption of the mass of immigrants that had come to the country during the interwar years.
At that point we all agreed that America was the Home of the Brave, the Land of the Free, and One Nation Under God. Or at least that was what the Great Bull of the Right thought.
But the depth of the Cultural Revolution of the 60's shocked this Great Bull, and as a consequence the modern American Right was born and has been growing ever since. Both growing and deteriorating at the same time in the toxic environment that has been popular American culture since the 1960's.
I posit that the great take away of 2020 is the sudden increased awareness of the Great Bull of the Right of 1) the nature of the modern American Left and 2) that he may be facing an existential threat to all that he loves and that he wants his great-great grandchildren to love. He is now much more willing to consider the roots of the problem and solutions. Just as importantly he is ready to take the yoke and trample, if only someone will lead him.
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Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic and social behavior that all countries understood.
The supply of money governs inflation. Print it without either greater productivity or more goods and services, and the currency cheapens. Yet America apparently rejects that primordial truism.
The United States is more than $28 trillion in debt — about 130 percent of the country’s annual gross domestic product. The government will run up a $2.3 trillion budget deficit for 2021 after a record $3.1 trillion deficit the year before.
The Biden administration still wants to borrow more — another $2 trillion in new social programs and “infrastructure.”
In the crazy last 100 days, the price of everything from lumber, food, and gas to cars and houses has soared. Yet many interest rates are still stuck at or below 3%.
Jobs are plentiful; workers are not. Is it a surprise when government handouts discourage the unemployed from taking a pay cut to go back to work?
After being freed from 13 months of quarantine, Americans are splurging. But this huge pent-up demand is causing shortages.
Producers fear the Biden administration’s loose talk of higher taxes, greater regulation, and cutbacks in energy development.
Are the old principles really obsolete? Should we be printing money while expanding government debt? Is it wise to keep interest rates close to zero and to discourage employment, production and thrift?
This dangerous behavior used to ensure inflation, followed by ruinous stagflation.
After George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, some U.S. cities slashed police spending. Police response times have slowed in many places, perhaps because officers are worried about being fired for using force.
The result? In major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, homicide and violent crime rates have increased by double digits.
State and local governments believed they were exempt from primeval laws of deterrence that warned when criminals assumed they would not be caught and punished, then they committed more crimes.
The same dangers of ignoring unchanging human nature apply to foreign policy.
Aggressive opponents such as Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia expect that the Biden administration will ignore their brinkmanship.
They assume the administration will cut American defenses. And Biden sounds to them more critical of Trump's foreign policy than of America’s enemies. Why not take previously unwarranted risks?
So, Russian troops predictably mass on the Ukrainian border. China steps up its harassment of Taiwan. North Korea launches more missiles, Iran hazes U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf. And now, rockets from Gaza pour into Israel.
Apparently, the Biden administration did not believe that dictatorships and theocracies would interpret its virtue-signaling as a weakness to be exploited rather than as magnanimity to be returned in kind.
The old dictum of the Roman writer Vegetius — if you want peace, prepare for war — was just too much of a downer to take seriously.
In the old days, the greater the impediments to crossing a nation’s border — walls and the enforcement of laws — the less likely was illegal immigration. Here too, the Biden administration apparently rejected the ancient warnings.
Stopping construction of the border wall, promising amnesties in advance, and damning the tough enforcement of the previous administration have only led to more illegal immigration.
Refusing to call the chaos at the southern border a “crisis” did not mean it was not a disaster.
Wisdom of the ages also warned that humans’ first allegiance was to their own tribe, as defined by race, ethnicity, or religion. That existential danger is why multiracial nations always wisely sought to tamp down tribal differences and to emphasize common ties of citizenship and transcendent common interests. Otherwise, a diverse country ended up like Lebanon, Rwanda, or the former Yugoslavia, where tribal feuding turned bloody and barbaric.
Yet for three months, the Biden administration has emphasized racial differences rather than our melting-pot commonalities. It has stereotyped America’s white population — hardly uniform in terms of class and ethnicity — as somehow uniformly enjoying unearned privileged and acting systemically racist.
Amid such talk, the danger is that racial tensions will increase, hate crimes will spike, racial demagogues will dominate, meritocracy will vanish and tribal solidarity will replace it. And the ancient idea of America will unwind.
When an arrogant present dismisses the wisdom of the past, then an all too predictable future becomes terrifying.
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This week's Old Camp Meeting Time radio show, Dr. Ed preaches three messages from God's word.
Special Music is from the Hyles-Anderson College ladies ensemble and The Hylander Singing Men.
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In this week's TBR Radio Presents: The Dixie Heritage Show, Dr. Ed shares President Ronald Reagan's farewell address, given from the Oval Office in January of 1989. The purpose being to demonstrate the change in tone and tenor of the political climate during the last three decades.
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In this 73rd broadcast of TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour, Dr. Ed shares a 1965 interview where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press." Also shared is a second interview with Dr. King just months before his assassination. The purpose is to show the difference in how the media covered MLK and his social unrest in comparison to how they cover BLM and the social unrest it causes. Also notice that Dr. King's response and tone, unlike the modern day activists, was civil. Unfortunately, the "civil" discourse is completely lost today.
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Dr. Ed is a pastor, college president, historian, the author of over 40 books, an in-demand public speaker, and the host of three radio shows.
He is an active lobbyist, tirelessly petitioning city, county, state, and federal officials on behalf of our Southern monuments and heritage.
He started Dixie Heritage in March of 2015.
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Long ago forgotten are my reports from 2017 and 2018 of making several trips and conversations with cabinet-level persons in the Trump Administration. I did not discuss what exactly we were working on because I did not want for that discussion to hasten opposition to it. I knew opposition would eventually come but was hoping that we could at least get a few steps in before it began. I also did not want to "out" certain politicians who I knew would support the measure if not forced to have to do it openly.
Now that sleepy, creepy Uncle Joe has taken the actions that he has this week I can speak freely about what we were working on as the idea is now something that, as of this week, we have completely stopped work toward.
The "Garden of American Heroes" was actually my idea. Well, sort of. I had proposed that the current National Sculpture Garden on the Capitol Mall was a monstrosity and that the current "sculptures" either be replaced entirely with the monuments being taken down across the country. Or, at the very least, that the monuments, as they were removed, be added to the existing Sculpture Garden.
An undersecretary to Secretary Chao, who also happens to be Senator Mitch McConnell's wife, took interest in the project and was helping me make the rounds.
My hope was that when we could not prevent a monument's removal that at the very least we could provide it a new home in the nation's capitol and by doing so establish the Trump Administration as a friend to our history and heritage.
The President liked the idea. How and when it was morphed from our original proposal to the "Garden of National Heroes" and how and when the absurd names started being added to the list in place of our true heroes is uncertain. We made some effort to appeal to the President to reconsider the original proposal but that did not happen.
Also, while news reports are that a location was never selected, which is officially true, we were told that President Trump was planning to erect his "garden" in South Dakota near Mount Rushmore. A place where, unlike on the Mall in D.C., literally nobody would ever see it.
But that South Dakota location, as much as we would have preferred the Capitol, may have had its own advantage. mainly, less opposition, and the possibility that cooler heads would prevail and agree to relocate the monuments to a federally protected home out sight could be the path of least resistance compromise. But we quickly discovered that cooler heads are not allowed to prevail in the Joe Biden Circus.
There were good people in the National Park Service wanting to provide a home and protection for our monuments. Joe issued his order this week specifically to prevent them from daring to attempt such. And so the project is and a few others are now dead. Even the monuments at Gettysburg and icons such as the Jefferson Memorial are no longer safe.
Still, we regroup, and the fight continues.
Deo Vindice!
Dr. Ed
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