The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 8-24-2017

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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 8-24-2017
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The Patriot Post® · The Hater Chronicles, Domestic and Foreign

By Mark Alexander · Aug. 23, 2017 · https://patriotpost.us/alexander/50915

“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” –Thomas Jefferson (1808)

As our longtime readers know well, your Patriot Post team works tirelessly to “Support and Defend1” Liberty. Because we operate on a very tight budget, both in terms of manpower and financial resources, our content and quality would suffer if we were short-staffed for many weeks throughout the year to provide individual leave time. Thus, as our team needs a break from the rigors of relentless publishing deadlines, we pause our operations for a week in August to provide R&R time with our families.

However, a few of us remain on station2 to keep watch, and always being one of those, I wanted to share a few observations about events this past week.

Unless you’ve been marooned on a Pacific island for the last 10 days, you’ve likely been deluged with mainstream media hysterics about the domestic political hatefest between anarcho-fascists and anarcho-socialists3 in the otherwise idyllic town of Charlottesville, Virginia.

In the wake of that event, I noted, in the same 24-hour period as the Charlottesville riot, there were nine people killed on the streets of Chicago – just an average Saturday night. (Indeed, this past weekend there were even more assaults, but since those black lives don’t matter as political fodder4 for the Demo/Leftmedia propaganda machine5, it’s unlikely you heard about that.)

Of course, Democrats and their Leftmedia outlets portrayed the “counter-protestors” as all-American youngsters doing their civic duty to oppose hate. But these anarchists are the epitome of haters6 – and they are in much larger numbers than the fringe racist elements.

Despite the Leftist howls about Donald Trump’s condemnation of both the hate factions7, one of the nation’s most noted liberal protagonists, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, says that the Left should not embrace those trying to “tear down America.”

Dershowitz implores his fellow Democrats: “Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left sensorial organization… They use violence. Just because they are opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments, should not make them heroes of the liberals. … Doing what Stalin did, just erasing history and rewriting it to serve current purposes does pose a danger. And it poses a danger of education malpractice. I’m a liberal, and I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard-left radicals, just like it’s the obligation of conservatives to speak out against the extremism of the hard right.”

Regarding education malpractice, another Harvard professor, Harry Lewis, former dean of student life, has filed a motion to protect students’ “right of free association” on the Harvard campus, insisting that the university not “discipline, penalize, or otherwise sanction students for joining, or affiliating with, any lawful organization, political party, or social, political, or other affinity group.”

Indeed, as Dershowitz noted, the catalyst for that Virginia hate-confab was, ostensibly, the removal of a historic statue of one of that state’s first sons, Robert E. Lee – the Left’s latest Stalinist stab at rewriting American history8.

Before defacing and tearing down statues9 became the latest Leftist fad, Virginia’s carpet-bagging Clintonista, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-NY), characterized the Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues on Richmond’s Monument Avenue as “parts of our heritage.” After Charlottesville, McAuliffe re-characterized them as “flash points for hatred, division and violence.”

Of course, it’s McAuliffe and his ilk who are the “flash points for hatred, division and violence.”

Speaking of “New Yorkers,” the latest Leftist to jump on the race-bait10 freight train is New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Apparently, he’s found some Lee and Jackson statues to remove from the Empire State. Perhaps he should pick up a history book – New York is named for one of the most notorious slave traders in history11, the Duke of York. Better tear down that Big Apple, Andy.

And speaking of race baiters, it turns out that Barack Obama12, who has stoked the fires of racial hatred13 for the last eight years, is the direct maternal descendant of slave owners. (Oops.) Hard to erase that history, though references to Obama’s family ties to slavery are sparse because, again, that doesn’t fit neatly with the Left’s race-bait political narrative. (You certainly won’t hear CNN’s Anderson Cooper mentioning Obama’s sordid family history, lest Obama might remind Cooper, the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, that his family also owned slaves! Of course, CNN has enslaved a lot of public opinion as well!)

Of course, the Democrat Party14, founded by slave-owner Andrew Jackson, still promotes the statist policies which have enslaved mostly poor black folks on urban poverty plantations15 for generations – more than were ever enslaved on Democrat agricultural plantations – and they are dying equally violent deaths.

There were many examples of collateral fallout from the protests, which serve to illuminate the absurdity of both hateful factions.