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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 12, 2020 at 5:57 pm

Paul Plante says:

As we track the history of this nation in this series of essays courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, which history indeed is far from perfect, as the people who made and still make that history are and were in many cases quite far from perfect themselves, from the first Fourth of July in 1776, and the circumstances surrounding that event, this in the light Hearst Publishing’s former star political correspondent Amy Biancolli’s TWEET to her multitude of TWITTERATI on TWITTER on June 23, 2020 that “For too many people, History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it; no room for the voices of people of color,” by taking a look at the actual history taught to us as children, we can see just how ridiculous her comment about “no room for the voices of people of color” really is.

By way of background, when we American people today speak of the first Fourth of July in 1776, if we talk about it at all as other than a holiday in July where we get to drink a lot of beer, and eat a lot of hot dogs and hamburgers, and blow off a lot of fireworks, we speak of it as if that date had any real significance in our lives today other than as the date the British colonists in this country declared to the world that those people of this fledgling nation who were to become the first Americans were freeing themselves from the tyranny of a despotic English king who had abdicated Government here and declared those people out of his Protection and was at that time waging War against them while plundering their seas, ravaging their coasts, burning their towns, and destroying the lives of those people while at that same time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny he had already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation, exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Now, when Amy Biancolli TWEETS “History = What They Learned As Kids and that’s it,” that above is the history she is referring to, especially the part about “exciting domestic insurrections amongst those people while endeavouring to bring on the inhabitants of their frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

With regard to her ridiculous assertion about that history we learned as children having “no room for the voices of people of color,” which anyone who actually bothered to crack the covers of a book to learn something, as opposed to being taught to merely parrot some lines of limp drivel, knows is patent hogwash, according to that same schoolboy history we once were required to know as young American citizens, regardless of skin color, since we were all created equal according to the Declaration of Independence, by November 14, 1775, eight months before the first Fourth of July, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his famous proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway.

So much for the slaves being considered “not human.”

Staying with that history, because it is quite relevant to what has to follow if we are to truly understand the threat today this BLACK LIVES MATTER movement is to our civilized, multi-cultural society in this nation which is being divided by the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, as we will clearly see, Dunmore understood that such an act would have a wide-ranging effect, which brings us back to Democrat mayor Kathy Sheehan talking about the consequences of 400 years of “white superiority” we all have to “own,” as if we today bear responsibility for acts committed by somebody with white skin like Lord Dunmore in 1775.

As to those consequences, not only would it disrupt production in this nation, which had not yet formally rebelled; it would also feed the growing fear among the colonists of armed slave insurrections, a form of instigating terrorism on the part of Lord Dunmore.

Planters would be distracted from waging war against Britain by the necessity of protecting their families and property from an internal threat.

At the same time, Dunmore’s own force of 300 soldiers, seamen and loyalist recruits, cut off from the support of British troops in Boston, would be reinforced by black fighting men and laborers.

Word of Dunmore’s plan was known as early as April, when a group of slaves presented themselves to him to volunteer their services.

He delayed the decision by ordering them away, but the Virginia slaveholders’ suspicions were not allayed.

On June 8, 1775, Dunmore left Williamsburg, taking refuge aboard the man-of-war Fowey at Yorktown.

Over the next five months, he reinforced his troops by engaging in a series of raids and inviting slaves aboard the ship.

On November 7, Dunmore drafted a proclamation, and a week later he ordered its publication.

It declared martial law and adjudged the patriots as traitors to the Crown; more importantly, it declared “all indented servants, Negroes, or others…free that are able and willing to bear arms…”

Response from the colonists was immediate.

Newspapers published the proclamation in full, and patrols on land and water were intensified.

Throughout the colonies, restrictions on slave meetings were tightened.

The Virginia Gazette warned slaves to “Be not then…tempted by the proclamation to ruin your selves” and urged them to “cling to their kind masters,” citing the fact that Dunmore himself was a slave holder.

In December, the Virginia Convention issued its own proclamation as a broadside, declaring that runaways to the British would be pardoned if they returned in ten days, but would be severely punished if they did not.

The document began with a reminder of the penalty for slave insurrection — death without benefit of clergy — though in practice, it was used sparingly during the war.

By then, 300 black men had been inducted into “Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment,” armed, and outfitted in military uniforms inscribed with the words “Liberty to Slaves.”

By early June, however, Dunmore’s forces had been decimated by smallpox and the patriot’s defenses.

In August, the British destroyed over half of their own ships and sailed out of the Potomac, taking the 300 healthiest blacks with them.

Although probably no more than 800 slaves actually succeeded in reaching Dunmore’s lines, word of the proclamation inspired as many as 100,000 to risk everything in an effort to be free.

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That, people, is American history as it happened, and as we can clearly see, there was plenty of room therein for the voices of people of color.

So why are we then being told otherwise?

And that question brings us back to the present moment, and mayor Kathy of the lawless, violent sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling us that “because of our history,” which includes Lord Dunmore and his proclamation and those Black folks bearing arms in support of the tyrant King in England, we have to “embrace” the Black Lives Matter movement, which as a loyal, law-abiding American citizen I openly refuse to do, precisely because that movement, as we can clearly see from what follows from “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the three founders of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, is based on not only outright lies, but a perversion and distortion of our history by a confused and hate-filled young woman, to wit:

“We know that if we can get the nation to see, say and understand the Black Lives Matter, then every life would stand a chance.”

“Black people are the only humans in this nation ever legally designated, after all, as not human.”

“Which is not to erase any group’s harm to ongoing pain in particular the genocide carried out against the First Nations peoples.”

“But it is to say that there is something quite basic that has to be addressed in the culture, in the hearts and minds of people who have benefited from, and were raised up on, the notion that Black people are not fully human.”

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Who in this nation besides Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the confused founder of BLACK LIVES MATTER, was “raised up” on the “notion” that Black people are not fully human?

I certainly wasn’t, and so I am not going to embrace a movement that asks me to be ignorant of reality and to lie to myself.

Plain and simple!

So, how about you?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 13, 2020 at 6:21 pm

Paul Plante says:

And here, we have to back up a minute, as we reflect on Democrat Kathy Sheehan, mayor of the violent, sanctuary city of Albany, New York telling us that we have to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER, to ask ourselves this essential question, to wit: Which BLACK LIVES MATTER is it that we are supposed to embrace?

With the corollary: Why?

As to who or what exactly is BLACK LIVES MATTER, in a Newsweek article entitled “BLM Leader: We’ll ‘Burn’ the System Down If U.S. Won’t Give Us What We Want” by Meghan Roos on 6/25/20, we law-abiding Americans received the following warning, to wit:

A leader of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter on Wednesday said the movement was prepared to “burn down this system” if the U.S. does not work with participants to enact real change.

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it,” said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, during an interview with Fox News.

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So, is he BLACK LIVES MATTER?

Or isn’t he?

Which relevant question takes us to a Press Statement “For Immediate Release, Statement” by Kailee Scales, Managing Director of BLM Global Network, on that same date, June 25, 2020, as follows:

Today, Donald Trump attributed a quote to a “Black Lives Matter leader” on his social media.

We have traced these comments to Hawk Newsome.

Hawk Newsome has no relation to the Black Lives Matter Global Network (“BLM”) founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi — and is not the “president” of BLM or any of its chapters.

Only BLM chapters who adhere to BLM’s principles and code of ethics are permitted to use the BLM name.

The reason for this is simple: unaffiliated uses of BLM’s name are confusing to people who may wrongly associate the unsanctioned group and its views and actions with BLM.

As BLM has told Mr. Newsome in the past, and as is still true today, Mr. Newsome’s group is not a chapter of BLM and has not entered into any agreement with BLM agreeing to adhere to BLM’s core principles.

The only official chapter of BLM in New York is Black Lives Matter NYC.

BLM Global Network strongly encourages anyone interested in learning about or becoming a part of our movement to seek information from trusted, official sources — such as our BLM Global Network social feeds (@blklivesmatter), our emails, and our official Black Lives Matters website (blacklivesmatter.com) — rather than unknown or untrusted sources using BLM’s name.

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Scrolling down further after the Press Statement, it continued as follows:

Join the Movement to fight for Freedom, Liberation and Justice by signing up for updates, supporting our work, checking out our resources, following us on social media, or wearing our dope, official gear.

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Now, this is just me, but speaking as a combat veteran who went to Viet Nam, a raggedy-ass 4th-rate little country as Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson famously called it, to fight for freedom, liberation and justice, which was total horse****, if I were to join anything again, starting with a “Movement to fight for Freedom, Liberation and Justice,” I would want to know a hell of a lot more about exactly what the fight is, how it is to be waged, with what weapons to secure whose freedom, to be measured how, and who is being liberated, and from what, and justice for whom, at the expense of who else?

None of those pertinent questions are addressed anywhere in that Press Statement, which continues as follows:

Join the Global Movement

Donate Today

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Ah, yes, why do I keep forgetting that this really isn’t about Black lives actually mattering, because like in Chicago, in mayor Kathy’s sanctuary city of Albany, New York, they don’t matter at all – it’s about raising money.

It is a fund-raising operation for the following stated purposes, to wit:

We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end State-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever.

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Ah, yes, I see – end white supremacy forever.

Okay.

So how is that to be done?

SOUNDS OF SILENCE!

As to their money-making operation that will fund them so they can end white supremacy forever (why does that smack of a threat of genocide?), the Press Statement has as follows:

For corporate/foundation grants or other partnership questions, please email partnerships@blacklivesmatter.com.

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So American corporations and foundations are funding a movement to end “white supremacy forever?”

What an interesting use of corporate funds that is – funding the end of white supremacy in America forever.

Getting back to the Press Statement, it concludes as follows, to wit:

Help Us Fight Disinformation

We need to see what you see.

Black Lives Matter is a central target of disinformation and you are a key line of defense.

Report suspicious sites, stories, ads, social accounts, and posts about BLM.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/for-immedi ... l-network/

And that bit about BLACK LIVES MATTER being a central target of disinformation, when in reality, it is a source of disinformation, takes us to a POLITIFACT article entitled “Is Black Lives Matter a Marxist movement?” by Tom Kertscher on July 21, 2020, 26 days after the BLM Press Statement above, where we had the following capsule summary, to wit:

* Black Lives Matter was founded by community organizers. One of the three co-founders said in 2015 that she and another co-founder “are trained Marxists.”

* Black Lives Matter has grown into a national anti-racism movement broadly supported by Americans, few of whom would identify themselves as Marxist.

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Now, before we ask ourselves how this Tom Kertscher, a 35-year newspaper reporter, finishing that career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, now a freelance writer whose work includes fact-check reporting for PolitiFact and sports reporting for Associated Press and the author of sports books on Brett Favre and Al McGuire on July 21, 2020 knew for certain, based on facts accessible to all of us, and not just him, that BLM is “broadly” supported by Americans, few of whom would identify themselves as Marxist, let us consider the established fact that POLITIFACT is a part of something called the Poynter Institute, which institute in 2019 used various “fake news” databases to compile a list of over 515 news websites that it labeled “unreliable,” calling on advertisers to “blacklist” the sites on the list which included conservative news websites such as the Washington Examiner, The Washington Free Beacon, and The Daily Signal.

Of direct relevance to the discussion in here, after backlash, Poynter retracted the list, citing “weaknesses in the methodology,” issuing a statement, saying: “We regret that we failed to ensure that the data was rigorous before publication, and apologize for the confusion and agitation caused by its publication,” which statement was the subject of an article in The Hill entitled “Poynter pulls blacklist of ‘unreliable’ news websites after backlash” by Joe Concha on 05/03/19, where we had as follows:

The Poynter Institute has apologized for publishing a list of 515 news websites it deemed “unreliable” after backlash from readers and on social media regarding “weaknesses in the methodology” used by the nonprofit publication.

The index was compiled from “fake news” databases curated by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Southern California, Merrimack University, PolitiFact, Snopes and data designer Chris Herbert.

Publications originally on the list included the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon.

“Soon after we published, we received complaints from those on the list and readers who objected to the inclusion of certain sites, and the exclusion of others,” Poynter managing editor Barbara Allen wrote in an explanation behind the piece that was pulled off the site on Thursday.

“We regret that we failed to ensure that the data was rigorous before publication, and apologize for the confusion and agitation caused by its publication,” Allen added.

“We pledge to continue to hold ourselves to the highest standards.”

Allen said that Poynter launched the audit to test the veracity of the list and that while it felt that many of the sites “did have a track record of publishing unreliable information,” the review also “found weaknesses in the methodology.”

“We detected inconsistencies between the findings of the original databases that were the sources for the list and our own rendering of the final report,” she said in the statement.

The language in the original story also called on advertisers to “blacklist” the sites selected for the list.

“Fake news is a business.”

“Much of that business is ad-supported,” Poynter researcher Barrett Golding wrote in the report.

“Aside from journalists, researchers and news consumers, we hope that the index will be useful for advertisers that want to stop funding misinformation.”

Reaction on Twitter was swift, which included criticism from journalists whose publication were included on the list.

What a disgusting exercise in bad faith from an organization that’s supposed to be about improving and promoting journalism. Instead, they’re creating tabloid-level listicles to smear reporters without offering even a single piece of evidence. Shame on you, @Poynter.

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) May 2, 2019

It’s fine to hate the content at @DailySignal or disagree with that.

But we take journalism and accuracy and transparency very seriously, and @Poynter is smearing us by putting us on an unreliable news database https://t.co/j1frl70V5H

— Katrina Trinko (@KatrinaTrinko) May 2, 2019

– We should all now remember @Poynter has exposed itself as an agent of the left, but considering its a media organization we already knew that.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) May 3, 2019

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So much then for the veracity or lack thereof of POLITIFACT.

Which leaves us with the question of who or what really is BLACK LIVES MATTER, and why should we law-abiding white-skinned people who appear to be its intended victims as it “ends white supremacy forever” embrace it as Democrat Kathy Sheehan of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York is telling us to do?

Stay tuned as we explore that question further in here courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, the citizen’s counter to the fake news and disinformation put out by POLITIFACT and BLACK LIVES MATTER.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 14, 2020 at 6:22 pm

Paul Plante says:

So, let us American people who are being called on by Democrat Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, to “embrace” BLACK LIVES MATTER be incandescently clear with ourselves here based on this June 25, 2020 Official BLACK LIVES MATTER Press Statement “For Immediate Release, Statement” by Kailee Scales, Managing Director of BLM Global Network which makes it patently clear who BLACK LIVES MATTER is and who BLACK LIVES MATTER is not – when Democrat Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York, where Black people prove to the candid world that Black lives to them aren’t worth a damn as they gun down each other and children and innocent by-standers with wild abandon, tells us to submit, to surrender, to bend the knee in solidarity with, as she had her Black Police Chief Eric Hawkins do publicly recently to show all the candid world exactly what side she and her police chief are really on, despite any oaths either made to support the United States Constitution and the Constitution of the State of New York, and grant hegemony, i.e. leadership or dominance, especially by one social group over others, to BLACK LIVES MATTER, what she really asking us to do, as she and her police chief have done, is to grant suzerainty over our lives to three women, namely Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi – in other words, to treat those three women as superior overlords to whom fealty is due, which is what “bending the knee,” an act of submission, is really all about – an acknowledgement of inferior social status by the kneeler.

Says mayor Kathy in so many words – forget the past, the future is now, and see the new bosses, who are not the old bosses at all.

Which takes us back to Tom Kertscher and his POLITIFACT article entitled “Is Black Lives Matter a Marxist movement?” on July 21, 2020, where we have an exhibition of some real fancy tap-dancing by a Poynter Institute journalist looking to blow smoke up our ***** in order to “prove” his specious premise that BLACK LIVES MATTER is not a Marxist group just because at least two of its founders are, to wit:

Backlash against Black Lives Matter includes branding it as Marxist.

The attack has been made in recent weeks by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer; Ben Carson, Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development; conservative talk show host Mark Levin; and PragerU, which has more than 4 million Facebook followers.

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Since I too have publicly made an objection to submitting and bending the knee to BLACK LIVES MATTER based on its Marxist ideology, I would have to guess that I am part of the backlash, as well, as every loyal American should be who doesn’t want to have to submit to what equates to an incipient Black Marxist dictatorship here in the United States of America in the place of our present Republican frame of government pursuant to the United States Constitution.

Getting back to the tap-dancing by Tom Kertscher, a 35-year newspaper reporter, finishing that career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, now a freelance writer whose work includes fact-check reporting for PolitiFact and sports reporting for Associated Press and the author of sports books on Brett Favre and Al McGuire, we have as follows, to wit:

Aren’t sure what Marxism is, actually?

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And here, I personally have to answer his question by stating candidly that yes, I believe that I am very sure of what Marxism is actually, and what I believe Marxism is, to define Marxism in simple terms, is that it is a political and economic theory where a society has no classes and every person within the society works for a common good, and class struggle is theoretically gone.

That is what I believe Marxism is.

So what does our tap-dancing Tom Kertscher have to say about it then?

Well, let’s go see, to wit:

It was developed by 19th century German philosopher Karl Marx and is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism.

“Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working class people) and eventually a classless communist society,” Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford Reference say.

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And there tap-dancing Tom and I are on the same page, which brings me back in time to 1968, when I was a member of the United States Army (BOO HISS) and the Soldier’s Handbook issued to all United States soldiers at that time wherein was stated thusly on p.4 with respect to Marxism and communism, to wit:

Today, communism is the major threat to our nation.

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And for the record, when that handbook was issued to me, the Commander-In-Chief of our military was a Democrat.

So, having established thanks to POLITIFACT that Marxism is the basis for the theory of communism and socialism, and Marxism envisioned the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat (working class people) and eventually a classless communist society, which in 1968 was deemed a major threat to our nation, let’s go back to the POLITIFACT article where the tap-dancing is about to begin in earnest, to wit:

These days, Marxism usually means analyzing social change through an economic lens, with the assumption that the rich and the poor should become more equal.

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HUH?

How so, Tom?

When exactly did the definition of Marxism change then?

And how?

And why?

Other than by you changing it yourself, I mean.

As to Marxism, Investopedia gives us the following to consider, to wit:

What Is Marxism?

Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx, which examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development and argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism in favor of communism.

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Now, that is the classical definition of Marxism, so why is tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT trying to waltz us down the garden path in some different direction?

Getting back to Investopedia, we have further on Marxism as follows:

Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes, specifically between the bourgeoisie, or capitalists, and the proletariat, or workers, defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism.

Key Takeaways

* Marxism is a social, political, and economic theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class.

* Marx wrote that the power relationships between capitalists and workers were inherently exploitative and would inevitably create class conflict.

* He believed that this conflict would ultimately lead to a revolution in which the working class would overthrow the capitalist class and seize control of the economy.

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So it would logically follow that when one of the three co-founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER said in 2015 that she and another co-founder “are trained Marxists,” that what they are trained in is a belief system or ideology based on the above, not some drivel served up cold by tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT.

Taking that thought further by going back to Investopedia, we have:

Understanding Marxism

Marxism is both a social and political theory, which encompasses Marxist class conflict theory and Marxian economics.

Marxism was first publicly formulated in the 1848 pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which lays out the theory of class struggle and revolution.

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So when one of the three co-founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER said in 2015 that she and another co-founder “are trained Marxists,” what they are trained in is the Marxist theory of class struggle and revolution.

As to Marx’s class theory two of the co-founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER are trained in, it portrays capitalism as one step in the historical progression of economic systems that follow one another in a natural sequence driven by vast impersonal forces of history that play out through the behavior and conflict between social classes.

According to Marx, every society is divided among a number of social classes, whose members have more in common with one another than with members of other social classes.

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Today, the United States of America is being divided up into those who bend the knee and cleave to the banner of BLACK LIVES MATTER, which includes Democrat Kathy Sheehan of Albany, New York, and her police chief Eric Hawkins, and the rest of us who are being relegated to an inferior social class deemed the enemy of the BLACK LIVES MATTER superior social class, because to have conflict according to Marxism, you have to first have an enemy to have it with, and today, that enemy is people with white skin.

And there for the moment I will rest to let all of that sink in, before we go back to more fancy dancing by Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT who when it comes to shoveling out copious amounts of pure horse**** can tap-dance with the best of them!

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Paul Plante says:

And getting back to tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT and his “Backlash against Black Lives Matter includes branding it as Marxist,” we have further as follows, to wit:

But the movement has grown and broadened dramatically.

Many Americans, few of whom would identify as Marxists, support Black Lives Matter, drawn to its message of anti-racism.

“Regardless of whatever the professed politics of people may be who are prominent in the movement, they don’t represent its breadth,” said Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University African American Studies professor and author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.”

“There are definitely socialists within the movement, as there have been in every single social movement in 20th century American history and today.”

“But that does not make those socialist movements, it makes them mass movements,” she said.

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Which is completely beside the point because what makes BLACK LIVES MATTER “Marxist” is not who has joined it, but rather, what its stated policies are, which takes us to Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles, which are found on-line, and specifically, no. 11 on that list as follows:

11. Black Villages

We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

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And that brings us to “The Marxist Perspective on The Family,” from Revise Sociology, one of many sites on the subject, where we have as follows:

Marxists argue that the nuclear family performs ideological functions for Capitalism – the family acts as a unit of consumption and teaches passive acceptance of hierarchy.

It is also the institution through which the wealthy pass down their private property to their children, thus reproducing class inequality.

Marxism is a ‘structural conflict’ perspective.

They see society as structured along class lines with institutions generally working in the interests of the small elite class who have economic power (the ‘Bourgeoisie’) and the much larger working class (the ‘Proletariat’).

The Bourgeoise gain their wealth from exploiting the proletariat.

There is thus a conflict of interests between the Bourgeoise and the Proletariat.

However, this conflict of interests rarely boils over into revolution because institutions such as the family perform the function of ‘ideological control’, or convincing the masses that the present unequal system is inevitable, natural and good.

Something else Marxists suggest about the family (like the Functional Fit theory) is that the family type generally changes with society – more specifically, the nuclear family emerges not because of the needs of industrialisation, but because of the needs of the capitalist system.

Explaining the emergence of the nuclear family – Engels

According to Engels, the monogamous nuclear family only emerged with Capitalism.

Before Capitalism, traditional, tribal societies were classless and they practised a form of ‘primitive communism’ in which there was no private property.

In such societies, property was collectively owned, and the family structure reflected this – there were no families as such, but tribal groups existed in a kind of ‘promiscuous horde’ in which there were no restrictions on sexual relationships.

However, with the emergence of Capitalism in the 18th Century, society and the family changed.

Capitalism is based on a system of private ownership – The bourgeois use their own personal wealth to personally invest in businesses in order to make a profit, they don’t invest for the benefit of everyone else.

Marxism Family

Eventually the Bourgeois started to look for ways to pass on their wealth to the next generation, rather than having it shared out amongst the masses, and this is where the monogamous nuclear family comes from.

It is the best way of guaranteeing that you are passing on your property to your son, because in a monogamous relationship you have a clear idea of who your own children are.

Ultimately what this arrangement does is to reproduce inequality – The children of the rich grow up into wealth, while the children of the poor remain poor.

Thus the nuclear family benefits the Bourgeois more than the proletariat.

Contemporary Marxism – The family as an Ideological Apparatus

The modern nuclear family functions to promote values that ensure the reproduction and maintenance of capitalism.

The family is described as an ideological apparatus – this means it socialises people to think in a way that justifies inequality and encourages people to accept the capitalist system as fair, natural and unchangeable.

One way in which this happens is that there is a hierarchy in most families which teaches children to accept there will always be someone in “authority” who they must obey, which then mirrors the hierarchy of boss-worker in paid employment in later life.

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So, if BLACK LIVES MATTER espouses a Marxist principle or goal such as being committed to disrupting what they call the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement, is it a Marxist movement?

Or isn’t it?

Stay tuned, for more on that subject is yet to come.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 15, 2020 at 5:57 pm

Paul Plante says:

And going back for the moment to FACT-CHECKING tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT and his attempt at a defense against the backlash against Black Lives Matter because it clearly is a movement based on Marxist ideology, we have Tommy the tap-dancer saying as follows, to wit:

Many Americans, few of whom would identify as Marxists, support Black Lives Matter, drawn to its message of anti-racism.

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But is that true, his claim that BLACK LIVES MATTER draws in people with its “message of anti-racism?”

More specifically, does BLACK LIVES MATTER with its published agenda to liberate Black people and end white supremacy forever have a “message of anti-racism,” as tap-dancing Tommy Kertscher of POLITIFACT is trying to make us believe?

For that answer, let us go back to Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles, which are found on-line, and specifically, no. 12 on that list as follows:

12. Unapologetically Black

We are unapologetically Black in our positioning.

In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position.

To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a necessary prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

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HMMMMMMMM.

Sounds awful racist to me, anyway.

And it certainly comes nowhere close to being “anti-racist” as tap-dancing Tommy Kertscher of POLITIFACT is trying to make us believe, so PANTS ON FIRE and a couple of Pinocchios for tap-dancing Tommy Kertscher of POLITIFACT on that false claim.

And having “outed” tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT trying to pull our legs with that silly claim that BLACK LIVES MATTER has a message of “anti-racism,” let’s go back to his attempt at a defense of BLACK LIVES MATTER espousing a Marxist ideology and FACT CHECK it some more, to wit:

‘Trained Marxists’

In a Facebook post labeling Black Lives Matter as a Marxist movement, PragerU included a video interview with Carol Swain, a Black conservative and former professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton universities.

She said, “Now, the founders of Black Lives Matter, they’ve come out as Marxists.”

Swain alluded to Black Lives Matter’s three co-founders, who are still featured prominently on the group’s website — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

Their primary backgrounds are as community organizers, artists and writers.

Swain, though, was referring to a newly surfaced interview Cullors did in 2015, where she said:

“We do have an ideological frame.”

“Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists.”

“We are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories.”

“And I think what we really try to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many Black folks.”

We didn’t find that Garza and Tometi have referred to themselves as Marxists.

But the book publisher Penguin Random House has said Garza, an author, “describes herself as a queer social justice activist and Marxist.”

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So confronted with the obvious fact right in front of his face that Alicia Garza of BLACK LIVES MATTER has described herself as a queer social justice activist and Marxist, how is it then that tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT didn’t find that Garza has referred to herself as a Marxist?

With the facts of the matter right in front of his face, where was it that he failed to look?

And why?

What is the dude trying to cover up – the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER espouses Marxist principles?

But my goodness, Tommy, we already knew that, so your efforts to hide it from us are for naught.

And continuing on with our FACT-CHECKING:

What Black Lives Matter says

Black Lives Matter was formed in response to the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Florida.

The group calls its three co-founders “radical Black organizers.”

The project started with a mission “to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes,” the group’s website says.

“In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic and political power to thrive.”

Included on its list of beliefs is one that has drawn criticism as being consistent with Marxism:

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

A spokesperson for Black Lives Matter; Kailee Scales, managing director at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation; and the three co-founders did not reply to our requests for information.

“On one level, these are just put downs,” University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Richard Wolff, author of “Understanding Marxism,” told PolitiFact about the attacks on Black Lives Matter.

If people declare themselves Marxists, they are in effect Marxists, but “there really is no standard” of what Marxism is, “there’s no way to verify anything.”

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There really is no standard of what Marxism is?

That’s ignorant BULL****, plain and simple!

So shame on tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT for trying to give us a snow job here.

Moving right along here:

Black Lives Matter today

It’s important to recognize that movements evolve.

Noting Cullors’ declaration of being Marxist trained, “one has to take that seriously: if the leadership says it is Marxist, then there’s a good chance they are,” said Russell Berman, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its conservative Hoover Institution who has written critically about Marxism.

But “this does not mean every supporter is Marxist — Marxists often have used ‘useful idiots.’”

“And a Marxist movement can be more or less radical, at different points in time,” he said.

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And there we have some very necessary truth – the fact that Marxists often have used “useful idiots” such as all these dupes supporting BLACK LIVES MATTER today, people like tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT and Democrat Kathy Sheehan, the mayor of the sanctuary city of Albany, New York who is telling us that because of our history, we have to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER and join its ever-growing army of other “useful idiots” which is exactly what we would be if we were to heed mayor Kathy’s message to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Marxist ideology that it espouses and shame on tap-dancing Tom Kertscher of POLITIFACT for trying to tell us different!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 16, 2020 at 6:31 pm

Paul Plante says:

And before we go back to Poynter Institute FACT CHECKER “Tommy the tap-dancer”Kertscher of POLITIFACT and his claim that Black Lives Matter has grown into a national anti-racism movement broadly supported by Americans, few of whom would identify themselves as Marxist, this in the light of what recently transpired in Los Angeles, where after two white police officers were shot by a Black ambusher, a mob of savages descended on the hospital to block its entrances while chanting, “LET THEM DIE,” I would like to stand up in here as an American citizen who is totally disgusted with that exhibition of what our once civilized society is now devolving into, as the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement’s efforts to end white supremacy forever gain traction in this country with the attempted murder of white police officers, to say that I see a direct linkage between what transpired in Los Angeles starting with the ambush of the the police officers and then what happened at the hospital, none of which can be denied, given it was televised, and Black police chiefs like Eric Hawkins of the Democrat-controlled sanctuary city of Albany, New York making themselves a disgrace to the uniform and badge of authority that they wear, as well as making a joke of their oath to support the Constitution, by getting down on their knees like cowards to show their solidarity with the mobs intent on tearing down our civilized society and RULE OF LAW to replace it with rule of the jungle as we are seeing in Los Angeles, a primitive system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization, which by getting on his knees in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER and its agenda to wage war on people with white skin in this country, Eric Hawkins of Albany is putting his personal seal of approval on, with the blessing of Democrat mayor of Albany Kathy Sheehan, who I understand also took the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, as she is telling all the rest of us to do, as well, which I am personally refusing to do because I will be damned if I will bend the knee and submit to a group of white-hating racists intent of getting hegemony over us by intimidation and violence and deceit and lies.

By taking the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER and their agenda to end white supremacy forever as he did while wearing his badge, Eric Hawkins, the police chief of Albany, New York has quite literally painted a bulls-eye on every white police officer in the City of Albany, thus inviting the same kind of violence against them, and by extension, civilized society, that we just witnessed in Los Angeles.

Lines have now been drawn by kneelers like Eric Hawkins, and sides have been taken, and what transpired in Los Angeles with the shooting of those police officers and the howling mob of savages at the hospital is the world these kneelers like Eric Hawkins of Albany are bequeathing us and ushering in.

As to the oath Albany police chief Eric Hawkins swore to support the United States Constitution, Section 4 of Article IV states in clear language that the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and with respect to that, in a letter in April, 1787, to Edmund Randolph, who formally presented the Virginia Plan to the Convention, James Madison had suggested that ”an article ought to be inserted expressly guaranteeing the tranquility of the states against internal as well as external danger. . . .” stating that “Unless the Union be organized efficiently on republican principles innovations of a much more objectionable form may be obtruded.”

With respect to republican principles, they are the guiding political philosophy of the United States that has been a major part of American civic thought since its founding.

Republican principles stress liberty and inalienable individual rights as central values; and recognize the sovereignty of the people as the source of all authority in law; as well as rejecting monarchy, aristocracy, and hereditary political power.

Republican principles also expect citizens to be virtuous and faithful in their performance of civic duties; and vilify corruption.

Republican principles were based on Ancient Greco-Roman, Renaissance, and English models and ideas and formed the basis for the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Constitution (1787), and the Bill of Rights, as well as the Gettysburg Address (1863).

Republican principles include guarantees of rights that cannot be repealed by a majority vote.

Thus, in a nation based on Republican principles, there can be no “white supremacy,” because in a Republic, we are all equal REGARDLESS OF SKIN COLOR!

When the kneeler Eric Hawkins swore his oath to support the United States Constitution, which in section 1 of the 14th Amendment states quite clearly that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, that is what he was swearing to support – the fact that despite what our skin color might be, in the eyes of the law, we are all supposed to be equal.

By taking the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER and the Marxist ideology it espouses, however, the kneeler Eric Hawkins made it quite clear to all of us with white skin that we are out of his protection as the police chief of Albany, New York, and what we see taking place in Los Angeles with the howling mob of savages blocking the entrances to a hospital to deny police officers the medical treatment they required after being ambushed by a hooligan is a glimpse at our own future, and if you are white, then there is a lot for you to worry about, and God protect the white police officers in Albany, New York who have to serve under his lead.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 17, 2020 at 9:07 pm

Paul Plante says:

As an older American, one who still has a memory of what came before BLACK LIVES MATTER, my first exposure to Marxism and “communism” was back in the 1950s, and it was nothing new in this country at that time, given that Marx, in the end an idiot and loser who couldn’t hold a job or support his own family and lived off of Engels, whatever their relationship in the end might have been, wrote his Communist Manifesto in 1847, nearly a hundred years before I was born, and the first anti-Communist alarm, or Red Scare, in the United States occurred between 1917 and 1920, precipitated by the events of World War I and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia of 1917 which saw the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, topple the Romanov dynasty, kicking off the rise of the communist party and inspiring international fear of Bolsheviks and anarchists, which fear, reminiscent of today, turned to violence with the 1919 anarchist bombings, a series of bombs targeting law enforcement and government officials with bombs going off in a wide number of cities including Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, D.C., and New York City.

Given that communism was, in theory, an expansionist ideology spread through revolution wherein according to Marx the working class would overthrow the middle class, once the United States no longer had to concentrate its efforts on winning World War I, many Americans became afraid that communism might spread to the United States and threaten the nation’s democratic values.

As to threatening “democratic values,” young Americans like myself got a first-hand exhibition of that on November 4, 1956 when a spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary when thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression was viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops with thousands being killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fleeing the country.

On November 4, 1956, while the world and American children like myself watched, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, once and for all, the national uprising with vicious street fighting breaking out, but the Soviets’ great power ensured victory.

The Soviet action stunned many people in the West, although given the Marxist ideology underlying it, it really shouldn’t have.

Inaction on the part of the United States angered and frustrated many Hungarians.

Voice of America radio broadcasts and speeches by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had recently suggested that the United States supported the “liberation” of “captive peoples” in communist nations.

Yet, as Soviet tanks bore down on the protesters, the United States did nothing beyond issuing public statements of sympathy for their plight.

To this day, I remember that quite well, just as I remember the Iron Curtain, which formed the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991, the term symbolizing efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas, descending.

On March 5, 1946, in one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period given at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri , former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemned the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declared, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

In particular, he warned against the expansionistic policies of the Soviet Union.

In addition to the “iron curtain” that had descended across Eastern Europe, Churchill spoke of “communist fifth columns” that were operating throughout western and southern Europe.

Churchill’s “iron curtain” phrase immediately entered the official vocabulary of the Cold War, and in the Soviet Union, Russian leader Joseph Stalin denounced the speech, referring to Churchill’s comments about the “English-speaking world” as imperialist “racism.”

Stalin, in his turn, is remembered by people like myself and history as a butcher famous for the Ukrainian famine — known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death” — by one estimate claiming the lives of 3.9 million people or about 13 percent of the population.

Unlike other famines in history, the Holodomor was caused when the dictator Stalin wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and to punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.

In the 2018 book, Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, the author, Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University, described it as “a hybrid…of a famine caused by calamitous social-economic policies and one aimed at a particular population for repression or punishment.”

In 1929, as part of Stalin’s plan to rapidly create a totally communist economy, Stalin had imposed collectivization, which replaced individually owned and operated farms with big state-run collectives, and Ukraine’s small, mostly subsistence farmers resisted giving up their land and livelihoods.

In response, the Soviet regime derided the resisters as kulaks — well-to-do peasants, who in Soviet ideology were considered enemies of the state and Soviet officials drove these peasants off their farms by force while Stalin’s secret police further made plans to deport 50,000 Ukrainian farm families to Siberia.

According to Trevor Erlacher, an historian and author specializing in modern Ukraine and an academic advisor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, “Stalin appears to have been motivated by the goal of transforming the Ukrainian nation into his idea of a modern, proletarian, socialist nation, even if this entailed the physical destruction of broad sections of its population,” which reminds me of the goal today of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement to end “white supremacy” in the United States of America forever so as to transform the United States into their idea of a modern, proletarian, socialist nation, even if this entails the physical destruction of broad sections of our population.

As to Russia and Marxism, Marxism–Leninism was the official state ideology of the Soviet Union and other ruling parties making up the Eastern Bloc as well as the political parties of the Communist International after Bolshevisation, and the butcher Joe Stalin, a real thug, considered the political and economic system under his rule to be Marxism–Leninism, which he considered the only legitimate successor of Marxism and Leninism.

So that is the backdrop to the world I grew up in, and as a result, as children, we studied Marxism so we could understand what was going on in the world around us, and more importantly, why that was, and to understand Marxism, it was then necessary to study Marx himself, and when one studies Marx as a free American, one can only surmise that the dude was a real loser, plain and simple, as Marx’s family lived from one crisis to the next, caused most often by lack of funds, since Marx had no steady employment, and Marx himself recognised that his devotion to communism had deprived his family and ‘shattered’ the life of his wife Jenny.

As to his legacy, it is best captured in the collapse of the Soviet Union in or about 1991.

With respect to Marxist economics, which are horse**** on a stale hard roll, by some measures, the Soviet economy was the world’s second largest in 1990, but shortages of consumer goods were routine and hoarding was commonplace and it was estimated that the Soviet black market economy was the equivalent of more than 10 percent of the country’s official GDP.

Economic stagnation had hobbled the country for years, and the perestroika reforms only served to exacerbate the problem.

Wage hikes were supported by printing money, fueling an inflationary spiral.

Mismanagement of fiscal policy made the country vulnerable to external factors, and a sharp drop in the price of oil sent the Soviet economy into a tailspin.

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, the Soviet Union ranked as one of the world’s top producers of energy resources such as oil and natural gas, and exports of those commodities played a vital role in shoring up the world’s largest command economy.

When oil plunged from $120 a barrel in 1980 to $24 a barrel in March 1986, this vital lifeline to external capital dried up.

The price of oil temporarily spiked in the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, but by that point the collapse of the Soviet Union was well under way.

So much for Karl Marx, so that today, if someone like this Patrisse Cullors or Alicia Garza or Opal Tometi, the founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER were to tell me, “We do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists, we are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories,” I would consider that I was in the presence of mindless idiots and morons – ideologues, meaning those unable to think for themselves who are given to fanciful ideas or theories – adherents of an ideology, especially one who is uncompromising and dogmatic.

Given that, why would anyone who is sane and rational want to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 18, 2020 at 9:10 pm

Paul Plante says:

And as we consider the roots of conflict here in the United States of America today, those words above by Russell Berman, a professor at Stanford University and a senior fellow at its conservative Hoover Institution who has written critically about Marxism, noting the declaration of BLACK LIVES MATTER founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, by all appearances a confused young woman who told us “We know that if we can get the nation to see, say and understand the Black Lives Matter, then every life would stand a chance; Black people are the only humans in this nation ever legally designated, after all, as not human; which is not to erase any group’s harm to ongoing pain in particular the genocide carried out against the First Nations peoples; but it is to say that there is something quite basic that has to be addressed in the culture, in the hearts and minds of people who have benefited from, and were raised up on, the notion that Black people are not fully human,” of being Marxist trained, telling us that “one has to take that seriously: if the leadership says it is Marxist, then there’s a good chance they are,” take us to these words of an American citizen who was not a Marxist, to wit:

“My uniform federal attachments, and the interest I have in the protection of property, and a steady execution of the laws, will convince you, that, if I am under any bias at all, it is in favor of any general system which shall promise those advantages.”

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For the record, someone a citizen of the United States of America who has an interest in the protection of property, especially today when we see mobs of savages out there destroying property, as if it were theirs to destroy, would be considered by the Marxists as an “anti-Marxist,” defined as one who is opposed to or hostile toward Marxism, which category of United States citizens would include myself, although it does not include all people living in the country, which is one of the sources of the present conflict in this country leading us further and further towards another civil war, which will be deemed a “revolution” by the Marxists like BLACK LIVES MATTER founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.

Moving right along, we have:

“The instability of our laws increases my wishes for firm and steady government; but then, I can consent to no government, which, in my opinion, is not calculated equally to preserve the rights of all orders of men in the community.”

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That, of course, would have to be considered an anti-BLACK LIVES MATTER statement because according to its stated purposes, one of which is to “end white supremacy forever,” BLACK LIVES MATTER, which declares itself “unapologetically Black” in their positioning, is for a government not calculated equally to preserve the rights of all orders of men in the community, only theirs, which brings us next to this, to wit:

“Though I have long apprehended that fraudulent debtors, and embarrassed men, on the one hand, and men, on the other, unfriendly to republican equality, would produce an uneasiness among the people, and prepare the way, not for cool and deliberate reforms in the governments, but for changes calculated to promote the interests of particular orders of men.”

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With respect to those unfriendly to republican equality, would produce an uneasiness among the people, and prepare the way, not for cool and deliberate reforms in the governments, but for changes calculated to promote the interests of particular orders of men/women, that statement would very accurately describe those who take the knee in surrender and submission to the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, and make no mistake about that, at all.

Now, while those words above are very relevant to the times that we find ourselves in today in this highly divided and very troubled nation descending into violence, chaos and anarchy, as civilized society devolves, and while they certainly could be attributed to myself as their author, or source, those words in fact come to us from our political past as a nation, being written as they were in the political essay “Federal Farmer I” by Federal Farmer, thought to be Richard Henry Lee, 233 years ago on October 8, 1787, eleven years after the first Fourth of July in 1776 and the Declaration of Independence wherein was stated “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States,” which statement about the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States in its turn takes us to these words from BLACK LIVES MATTER, whose founders tell us “We do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists, we are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories,” to wit:

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

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Which raises this relevant question, since words have meanings, and those meanings matter greatly in the political context, to wit:

What exactly is the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement?”

Where exactly is that prescribed, because it is not prescribed anywhere in OUR United States Constitution?

And who was it that prescribed it?

Does anyone besides BLACK LIVES MATTER have a clue?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR September 19, 2020 at 10:55 pm

Paul Plante says:

As an American citizen who was born in this country right after WWII, which was a fight against fascism and totalitarian government and drone-like mindlessness, and accordingly, from the time I was young, had instilled in me those values expressed in the Declaration of Independence from the tyranny of a despotic English king, holding, as opposed to merely mouthing as politicians do, these truths to be self-evident, that all men, including women, are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and having been introduced when young, as opposed to having been indoctrinated, i.e., teach a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically, to Marxist thought, such as it could ever be called “thought,” or ideology, that system of ideas and ideals which form the basis of the economic and political theory and policy that underlie communism, I cannot escape from the idea that to be a “Marxist,” as the founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER claim to be, you have to be in fact a moron or idiot incapable of rational thought or critical thinking for many reasons, starting with the fact that Marx himself cannot be looked at as anything other than a loser and a destroyer, not a builder or creator in any positive sense of the word, which makes interesting the idea that he is a hero to millions of people in the world like the founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER.

In fact, Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history.

Revolutionary socialist governments espousing Marxist concepts took power in a variety of countries in the 20th century, leading to the formation of such socialist states as the Soviet Union in 1922 and the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

Many labour unions and workers’ parties worldwide are influenced by Marxism, while various theoretical variants, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism, were developed from them.

Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.

WHY?

AND FOR WHAT?

And who the hell is Karl Marx, anyway, that we as free people in the United States of America would want in any way to adopt any of his ideas, unless of course we hate being free and hate civilization and want to live in a dream world conjured up by Marx and Engels where everyone should contribute what they can, and everyone should get what they need, which is the exact conundrum we American children who were being taught to think for ourselves, unlike the bovine-like Germans who blindly followed the rug-chewing madman Adolph Hitler, and to question, as opposed to meekly accepting, and to watch politicians like a hawk, were presented with to work our way through, to see if any rational or logical sense could be made of it, at all.

If everyone should contribute what they can, what of those who either have nothing to contribute, or refuse to contribute?

What is to be done with them in Marxist society?

And if everyone should get what they need, where is that to come from?

And how?

And what about those who feel they need everything under the sun that there can possibly be?

Who is to provide them with all of that?

And where will they get it from?

A wish?

A hope?

A dream?

As to Marxism, above here, we have University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Richard Wolff, author of “Understanding Marxism,” telling PolitiFact that if people declare themselves Marxists, they are in effect Marxists, but “there really is no standard” of what Marxism is, so there’s no way to verify anything, which is perhaps true with respect to the ideology, given that Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that originates in the works of 19th century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Given that a method is merely a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one, we can clearly see that to begin with, there is nothing absolute at all with respect to their method of socioeconomic analysis, which dates from the early 1800s in Europe and later, England, where Marx moved after being exiled from France for his radical views.

To simplify this, because a lot of Marxism is simply hoo-doo and gobbledegook from someone who never held a real job in his life, and never produced anything but radical ideas, and got what he needed from his friend Engels, in a nutshell, Marx’s theories about society, economics and politics – collectively known as Marxism – hold that human societies progress through class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class that controls production and a dispossessed labouring class that provides the labour for production.

Now, notice the presence in there of the word “theories,” where a theory is a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

As free American children, we were tasked with considering this essential question with respect to Marxist thought, to wit: does any society on the face of the earth conform with theories about society?

Does a theory of society in Europe in the 1800s put forth by a radical thinker govern the structure of society in the United States of America subsequent to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence?

Do the views and beliefs of the thinker affect the theories put forth by the thinker?

And of course they do, and how could it be otherwise?

Consider, for example, that in 1843, Marx befriended the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) in Paris, a hotbed of radical thought where Marx became a revolutionary communist and was writing for radical newspapers.

If someone becomes a radical communist, then logically and rationally, one would have to presume that that would affect how they saw life, as opposed to say, someone like myself, who is not and does not want or desire to be either a communist, or a member of communist society anywhere on earth, and especially here in the United States of America.

As to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, he was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism, considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder of the revolutionary socialist and social anarchist tradition.

After moving to Dresden, Bakunin published his first revolutionary credo in a radical journal in 1842, ending with a now-famous aphorism: “The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”

And 178 years later, in 2020, we see in this country people believing in that very same aphorism.

Getting back to Bakunin, the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris gave him his first taste of street fighting, and after a few days of eager participation he traveled eastward in the hope of fanning the flames of revolution in Germany and Poland.

In 1848, Bakunin wrote his first major manifesto, “An Appeal to the Slavs,” in which he denounced the bourgeoisie as a spent counterrevolutionary force, called for the overthrow of the Habsburg Empire and the creation in central Europe of a free federation of Slav peoples, and counted on the peasant — especially the Russian peasant — with his tradition of violent revolt, as the agent of the coming revolution.

That is the company Marx was keeping, and from that comes the philosophy and beliefs of the founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER as to the use of political violence to get their way, which is not our way, at all, or at least mine.

And interestingly, on that note, when asked by Politifact to comment on their position that “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” a spokesperson for Black Lives Matter, Kailee Scales, managing director at Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, and the three co-founders did not reply to their requests for information.

How come, ladies?

Cat got your tongues?

Getting back to Marx, he called capitalism the “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,” believing it to be run by the wealthy classes for their own benefit; and he predicted that, like previous socioeconomic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system: socialism, arguing that class antagonisms under capitalism between the bourgeoisie and proletariat would eventuate in the working class’ conquest of political power in the form of a dictatorship of the proletariat and eventually establish a classless society, socialism or communism, a society governed by a free association of producers.

Along with believing in the inevitability of socialism and communism, Marx actively fought for their implementation, arguing that social theorists and underprivileged people alike should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic change.

So when the founders of BLACK LIVES MATTER say “We do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists; we are superversed on, sort of, ideological theories,” the ideological theories they are superversed on, sort of, are expressed right there in the belief of Marx that social theorists and underprivileged people alike should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic change.

So what socio-economic change can we then expect from BLACK LIVES MATTER and the social theorists and underprivileged people alike who cleave to their standard and carry their banner in the street as they carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic change?

Stay tuned, more is to come on that thought courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, a true grand palladium of freedom, and scourge of tyrants in this country, which brings me to these closing words from the Federal Farmer I political essay by Federal Farmer on October 8, 1787, to wit:

The fickle and ardent, in any community are the proper tools for establishing despotic government.

But it is deliberate and thinking men, who must establish and secure governments on free principles.

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So, which side will you be on then?

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Paul Plante says:

And speaking of actions having consequences, the rise of Hitler as a dictator in Germany and WWII and the persecution of the Jews in Germany can be traced directly back to Karl Marx and his advocacy of communism.

Consider that on February 28, 1933, the day after the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down due to arson, President Hindenburg issued the Decree for the Protection of People and the Reich.

Though the origins of the fire are still unclear, in a propaganda maneuver, the coalition government (made up of Nazis and the Nationalists) blamed the Communists.

They exploited the Reichstag fire to secure President Hindenburg’s approval for an emergency decree, popularly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, that suspended individual rights and due process of law.

That is the one real tangible effect produced by Marxism in my estimation – the destruction of civilized society.

Because outside of that, Marxism really has nothing else to offer.

Getting back to the real-world consequences of Marxism, the Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications.

It also gave the central government the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments.

The decree was a key step in the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.

Germany became a police state in which citizens enjoyed no guaranteed basic rights and the SS, the elite guard of the Nazi state, wielded increasing authority through its control over the police.

That is what Karl Marx and his Marxist ideology produced, which thought interestingly takes us back to America and an article in the “progressive” New York newspaper The Sun on September 6, 1880 by John Swinton, an American journalist and “social reformer” after an interview he conducted with Marx while in England, where Marx was then located after being kicked out of France, and in that article, we have as follows to consider, to wit:

One of the most remarkable men of the day, who has played an inscrutable but puissant part in the revolutionary politics of the past forty years, is Karl Marx.

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Focus on the term “revolutionary politics,” and consider that just 53 years later, the “revolutionary politics” of Marx literally set the world on fire, which outcome Marx, who died on March 14, 1883, and his coterie of communists and anarchists and general misfits would have loved to see had Marx lived long enough.

Getting back to the fawning puff piece on Marx in The Sun, we have:

A man without desire for show or fame, caring nothing for the fanfaronade of life or the pretence of power, without haste and without rest, a man of strong, broad, elevated mind, full of far-reaching projects, logical methods, and practical aims, he has stood and yet stands behind more of the earthquakes which have convulsed nations and destroyed thrones, and do now menace and appal crowned heads and established frauds, than any other man in Europe, not excepting Joseph Mazzini himself.

The student of Berlin, the critic of Hegelianism, the editor of papers, and the old-time correspondent of the New York Tribune, he showed his qualities and his spirit; the founder and master spirit of the once dreaded International and the author of “Capital”, he has been expelled from half the countries of Europe, proscribed in nearly all of them, and for thirty years past has found refuge in London.

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For all those today who hold Marx as their hero, and they are many in this nation, they should focus in on that historical fact that by 1880, Marx had been expelled from half the countries of Europe and proscribed in nearly all of them, and they should ask themselves why that was, and how that impacts or affects their own future as they embrace Marxist ideology as the wave of the future they want to embrace, just as Democrat mayor of Albany, New York is telling is to embrace BLACK LIVES MATTER, as if somehow, in some undefined and undefinable manner, BLACK LIVES MATTER holds the key to a glorious new future for all of us, including people with white skin.

Getting back to the fawning puff piece in The Sun, we have further as follows:

And is this massive-headed, generous-featured, courtly, kindly man of 60, with the bushy masses of long revelling gray hair, Karl Marx?

His dialogue reminded me of that of Socrates — so free, so sweeping, so creative, so incisive, so genuine — with its sardonic touches, its gleams of humor, and its sportive merriment.

He spoke of the political forces and popular movements of the various countries of Europe — the vast current of the spirit of Russia, the motions of the German mind, the action of France, the immobility of England.

He spoke hopefully of Russia, philosophically of Germany, cheerfully of France, and sombrely of England — referring contemptuously to the “atomistic reforms” over which the Liberals of the British Parliament spend their time.

Surveying the European world, country after country, indicating the features and the developments and the personages on the surface and under the surface, he showed that things were working toward ends which will assuredly be realized.

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And most assuredly, just 53 short years later, in 1933, when the Germans were stripped of their rights and rule of law, those ends were in fact realized, which takes us back to 1880 and The Sun fawning puff-piece, to wit:

I was often surprised as he spoke.

It was evident that this man, of whom so little is seen or heard, is deep in the times, and that, from the Neva to the Seine, from the Urals to the Pyrenees, his hand is at work preparing the way for the new advent.

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That “new advent” was called World War II, and the rise of communism in Russia, which takes us back to The Sun, as follows:

Nor is his work wasted now any more than it has been in the past, during which so many desirable changes have been brought about, so many heroic struggles have been seen, and the French republic has been set up on the heights.

As he spoke, the question I had put, “Why are you doing nothing now?” was seen to be a question of the unlearned, and one to which he could not make direct answer.

Inquiring why his great work “Capital”, the seed field of so many crops, had not been put into English as it has been put into Russian and French from the original German, he seemed unable to tell, but said that a proposition for an English translation had come to him from New York.

He said that that book was but a fragment, a single part of a work in three parts, two of the parts being yet unpublished, the full trilogy being “Land”, “Capital”, “Credit” , the last part, he said, being largely illustrated from the United States, where credit has had such an amazing development.

Mr. Marx is an observer of American action, and his remarks upon some of the formative and substantive forces of American life were full of suggestiveness.

By the way, in referring to his “Capital”, he said that any one who might desire to read it would find the French translation much superior in many ways to the German original.

Mr. Marx referred to Henri Rochefort the Frenchman, and in his talk of some of his dead disciples, the stormy Bakunin, the brilliant Lassalle, and others, I could see how his genius had taken hold of men who, under other circumstances, might have directed the course of history.

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The “stormy” Bakunin, the anarchist famous for the aphorism “The passion for destruction is also a creative passion,” we have already met above.

As to Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 – 30 June 1913) he was a French writer of vaudevilles, a type of comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets, as well as a politician who in 1880 founded L’Intransigeant in the radical and socialist interest, and for a short time in 1885–86 he sat in the Chamber of Deputies, but found a great opportunity next year for his talent for inflaming public opinion in the Boulangist agitation, with Marxist historians viewing the Boulangist movement as a proto-fascist right-wing movement, while a number of scholars have presented boulangism as a precursor of fascism, including Zeev Sternhell and Stanley Payne.

According to French historian Jacques Néré, “Boulangism was first and foremost a popular movement of the extreme left”.

As to Boulanger, he gained the support of a number of former Communards from the Paris Commune and some supporters of Blanquism (a faction within the Central Revolutionary Committee) which included men such as Victor Jaclard, Ernest Granger and Henri Rochefort.

As to Ferdinand Lassalle (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864), he was a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher, socialist and political activist best remembered as the initiator of the social democratic movement in Germany.

About Lassalle, Bertrand Russell said as follows:

“No one has ever understood the power of agitation and organisation better than Lassalle …”

“The secret of his influence lay in his overpowering and imperious will, in his impatience of the passive endurance of evil, and in his absolute confidence in his own power.”

“His whole character is that of an epicurean god, unwittingly become man, awakening suddenly to the existence of evil, and finding with amazement that his will is not omnipotent to set it right.”

Lassalle and Marx became friends during the Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Springtime of the Peoples or the Spring of Nations, which were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848 and it remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history.

Many of the revolutions were quickly suppressed; tens of thousands of people were killed, and many more were forced into exile, and when the protests were crushed, Lassalle was imprisoned and Marx fled Germany.

As to Swinton, he became involved in radical labor politics in the spring of 1874, when he addressed a mass meeting at Tompkins Square in New York City — a gathering which was violently dispersed by the police.

Following his stint as a freelancer, Swinton took a permanent position as an editorial writer for the New York Sun in 1875.

Before he left the Sun in 1883 to launch a newspaper of his own, he delivered at a press dinner the speech he is most famous for today:

“There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns.”

“You are all slaves.”

“You know it, and I know it.”

“There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion.”

” If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print.”

“I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.”

“Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.”

“If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone.”

“The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job.”

“The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary.”

“You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an ‘Independent Press!'”

“We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes.”

“We are jumping-jacks.”

“They pull the string and we dance.”

“Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men.”

“We are intellectual prostitutes.”

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Words of truth in our times today and such is history and so much for the New York Times and the Washington Post which exist to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell our country for their daily bread, and thank god we have as a grand palladium of freedom and scourge of tyrants in this country the Cape Charles Mirror as an independent press because it is out in country town of Cape Charles.

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