{"id":74097,"date":"2017-08-20T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74097"},"modified":"2017-08-20T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T15:16:13","slug":"washington-post-continues-assault-on-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74097","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post continues assault on Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Davidson of the Washington Post continues to attack the Department of Defense because of the names of a number of military posts which are the names of Confederate Generals. Davidson, according to his LinkedIn profile<\/a>, has never spent a minute in uniform, although he is the correct age to have been drafted during the Vietnam years, if it wasn’t for his college deferments.<\/p>\n

His piece today is entitled “Rebel base names, statues disgrace U.S. military facilities and Congress<\/a>“. I don’t know where he gets the “disgrace” adjective. I’ve been stationed at many of the bases he helpfully lists from the hate-mongering Southern Poverty Law Center which are in the South and named for those long-dead officers of the Confederacies.<\/p>\n

No help in solving the \u201crace problem\u201d comes from President Trump, who continues, appallingly, to comfort white nationalists by leveling \u201cblame on both sides\u201d for the Charlottesville violence.<\/p>\n

The Confederate tributes \u2014 base names, statues and flag representations \u2014 revere those who supported the enslavement of African Americans. The display of Confederate symbols today is an affirmation of white supremacy and black oppression. But that is not the only reason all Americans should be outraged.<\/p>\n

Even Confederate battle flag-waving racists who consider themselves patriotic should consider the treason the symbols represent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well no help in solving this manufactured dilemma came from the Obama Administration, either. In fact, those bases have existed since the First World War and the names of those bases were never a problem until this year. I wonder why.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, 33 people were arrested for committing violence in Boston – they were all on the anti-free speech side of the spectrum. They were throwing bottles and urine at the police. It sounds to me as if Trump’s charge that the blame for violence could be laid “on both sides” is a reasonable assumption. <\/p>\n

On March 25th, 1965, Martin Luther King and 50,000 of his followers ended their 54 mile march to Montgomery, Alabama under the protection of federal and National Guard troops who had more than likely been trained at some of those bases that Davidson and the SPLC named as a “disgrace”. <\/p>\n

The soldiers who trained at those bases, beat the Kaiser, defeated Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan, drove the North Koreans and Chinese back above the 38th Parallel, fought the Communists in Vietnam, liberated Grenada from communism, defeated narco-terrorist Noriega in Panama, liberated Kuwait from Saddam Hussein and they are currently engaged in the war against terror.<\/p>\n

The names of the bases where they trained, the names of the streets that they marched upon, the names of their messhalls, the statues under which they marched never factored into their commitment to the call for their duty, or the call for their lives.<\/p>\n

This feigned outrage is nothing but a tempest in a teapot. These same people never would have held President Obama to the standard that they now impose on President Trump. The names of military bases and streets have nothing to do with poverty or the lack of a decent education for young Americans – the things that should really outrage these social justice warriors. <\/p>\n

I’d remind everyone that the anti-Confederacy bullshit started with Dylann Roof, the racist fellow who shot 33 Black people in Charleston, SC in hopes that he could start a race war – the anti-free speech folks are just furthering his aims.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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