June 16, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
“Do Away with White
People?” Pat Buchanan Writes
Friends,
The American news media with hardly
any exceptions is propagating an immense falsehood, a tremendous lie which is fatal
to what remains of the old American republic. Practically all our political leaders,
including most Republicans and establishment conservatives, have bought into
it.
America at its core, goes the
narrative, is a racist society, drenched in historic systemic racism, and the
White Man is eternally stained with the onus of that guilt. And, in fact, there
is really nothing he can do except renounce his whiteness and the entirety of
Western civilization, and maybe disappear from history, itself. Isn’t that the
implication of what we see surrounding us?
The response of those supposed “conservative”
defenders of American traditions to the fanatical tsunami of violent
revolutionary lunacy reminds me of the scene in the film “Waterloo” (1970),
when the illiterate private in the Welsh Guards who has engaged in plunder and
stolen a young pig, cautions the pig not to squeal, not to alert those around
him of his plunder (a capital offense under military rules). “Be quiet,” he
tells the pig, “and I’ll only eat half of you!”
Confronted by shrill and
seemingly overwhelming demands by a noisy nucleus of woke leftists, the
authorized conservatives and Republicans respond to the revolutionaries in the
same way: “Only kill us half-way, but please, oh please, don’t call us racists!”
In other words, let’s compromise:
you basically get what you want, and you’ll not call us that nasty name—that is,
until the next phase of the ongoing revolution against Western civilization,
when the compromise (read=surrender) process will occur all over again. Soon
there won’t be anything left to compromise for….
Has this not been the way with
those establishment “opposition” forces for Heaven knows how long? Surrender—get
killed—just a bit, and continue the desultory and disastrous retreat: voting “rights,”
gun rights, affirmative action and set-asides, same sex marriage,
transgenderism and gender fluidity, banning free speech, and so on.
The template is built on lies and
fabrications, and falsification of statistics. Indeed, is this not an example
of the “big lie” technique? Tell an untruth long enough, inculcate it into school
children and via the boob tube over decades, and soon most people will believe
it. Is this not what is happening?
Perhaps the most useful lie has been about the
death of unarmed black folks at the hands of police. Yet, we know the precise
number of those killings thanks to a detailed Washington Post database.
Here
is a summary of the Post’s reporting: “Last year, [2019] police killed 19
unarmed whites, in addition to 9 unarmed blacks….The chances of being unarmed,
arrested, and then killed by the police [are] very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests
for blacks and out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly what we would
expect from the way the media report these deaths.”
Never mind, say the social
justice warriors. Whitey is still guilty with the ineradicable stain of racism,
and not just those Confederate symbols, but all symbols to “whiteness” and
essentially to Western Christian civilization must be erased, torn down, and
smashed to smithereens. The past…indeed, history itself…must be abolished. And
so too inherited historical memory, the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the
past is to be totally inverted or effaced.
And all the while the Tim Scott’s, the Brian Kilmeade’s, the
Jonah Goldberg’s, and the Chris Wallace’s—all on Fox—whine “please, only eat
half of me!”
*****
Pat Buchanan has written a column that cries out to be read
and pondered, a column that cuts to the heart of what is occurring: the real revolutionary
passion and objective, and the abject failure of establishment conservatism to
oppose in any meaningful way the anti-white venom.
No, it’s time for citizens to organize on the grass roots
level, to re-activate gun clubs and self-defense groups, both neighborhood and
community-wide. To home school or privately educate our children. To organize
when possible our own lawful and peaceful demonstrations. And to vote out the
false conservatives come November.
This inflamed revolutionary contagion will only grow and get
worse—if we let it.
Here is Pat’s column:
Cancel the White Men -- And What's
Left?
By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday
- June 16, 2020
"Can we all just get along?" That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway. King's plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops.
In the aftermath of today's protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we hear similar calls. President Donald Trump must "reach out" and "unify the nation."
But how?
Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart by pulling down statues of the famous men of American history whom they most detest.
A second war on the Confederacy is underway, to disgrace and dishonor all who fought for Southern independence in the war of 1861-65. A second Reconstruction is being readied.
The St. Andrew's Cross, the battle flag of the
Confederate army, though seen as a banner of heroism and honor to millions, is
henceforth to be treated like the Nazi swastika. It has been already been
banned at Nascar races, where it has been widely popular. Liberals will fight
for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their
hatred of it but cannot tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the
Confederacy to show their love of it.
A second front in the campaign to cancel history is the renaming of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning and Bragg. Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision.
Third is the drive led by Nancy Pelosi and her allies to remove statues in the Capitol of any of those men of "violent bigotry" who were connected to the Confederacy.
First among them is General Robert E. Lee. Gen. David Petraeus has put succinctly the crime of which Lee is guilty. Though "West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks," writes Petraeus, "Lee... committed treason."
The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant, as official truth — that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain. It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy. To have that sole acceptable view predominate, our elites believe they must remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors.
They have, however, a problem: Where do the elites stop when the
radicals demand more?A second front in the campaign to cancel history is the renaming of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning and Bragg. Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision.
Third is the drive led by Nancy Pelosi and her allies to remove statues in the Capitol of any of those men of "violent bigotry" who were connected to the Confederacy.
First among them is General Robert E. Lee. Gen. David Petraeus has put succinctly the crime of which Lee is guilty. Though "West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks," writes Petraeus, "Lee... committed treason."
The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant, as official truth — that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain. It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy. To have that sole acceptable view predominate, our elites believe they must remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors.
If support of slavery disqualifies one from the company of decent men, does it disqualify George Washington, who owned slaves his entire life? What Washington fought for, independence, was what Lee fought for.
Lee did not challenge Lincoln's election. He did not seek to overthrow the government Lincoln headed. He resigned from the U.S. army to go home and defend the people among whom he had been raised from an invasion to force-march them back into a Union the state's chosen rulers had voted to leave.
Not only does our national capital, Washington, bear the name of a lifelong slave owner, so does the capital of Missouri, Jefferson City. So does the capital of Mississippi, Jackson. So does the capital of Wisconsin, Madison. The capital of Ohio is Columbus. The capital of South Carolina is Columbia. Both are named for now-vilified Christopher Columbus whose statue still stands outside D.C.'s Union Station.
None of these men appears, from how they lived their lives, to have shared modernity's belief in democracy, diversity or social equality. Yet, it was they who cobbled together the United States of America.
Washington led us to independence and ownership of all the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the U.S. Andrew Jackson added Florida. James K. Polk added the Southwest and California. Slave owner Sam Houston won Texas' War of independence and brought his Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.
Two of the three greatest Senate statesmen of the 19th century, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun of South Carolina, were slave owners. Both have statues in the Capitol. Do they go, too?
The newest bridge over the Potomac, like the premier dam in the TVA, is named for Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the government.
These were among the decisive figures of American history. If all are dishonored, with their statues pulled down and their names taken off cities, counties, towns, rivers, canals, bridges, buildings, highways, roads, streets and dams, then what is left?
Detest all those white men if you will, but they were the ones who created the nation we inherited.