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Isolation . . .

Vindication . . .

Let’s face it folks, we who live in rural America are isolated to some extent from all that is going on in the more urban areas of America. For the most part we don’t have protests (peaceful or non-peaceful) on our village streets or town squares.

Most of us don’t have statues or monuments taken down with the threats of protests if we don’t take action.

From this little corner of the world, daily life comes and goes week after week and year after year. Yes, it does change . . . rural America would not be recognized by our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, just as urban America would be equally unrecognizable from years gone by.

Having lived in both rural and urban areas, I contend that both have positive types of living. However, with all of the “protests” and demonstrations of the past several months, it seems that we live in two different worlds right now with the urban world catching the greater part of the pain.

I like to think that living here in rural America I have a perspective that maybe those in the cities just don’t have the luxury to have.

I can relate the current state of affairs with the time of the 1920s and 1930s. During that time there was a strong effort made here in the U. S. by the Communists to transform America to that socialist standard. The “Great Depression” was used as the ‘excuse’ to make the change.

Today, “racism” seems to be the ‘vehicle’ being used to accomplish the same objective of 100 years ago . . . “socialism, or communism.”

In the 1930s the Depression was blamed on “Capitalism.” To some extent, a little bit of that was true.

Today . . . the ‘protests,’ (peaceful, or non-peaceful) are being blamed on racism and those wishing to change America to a socialistic society have raised up again.

In the 1930s the communists called themselves ‘communist,” however today the communists, or socialists do not come out to call themselves that name. Today, they seem to be called: “Black Lives Matter.” (BLM)

Those three words invoke a sympathy for those people unjustly killed or threatened by racism. They are a call to fight the crimes and injustice of racism, and a lot of people today believe that is what they are doing with all the protests. However, not a lot of people realize that there is an organization call “Black Lives Matter,” that is more than just a ‘theme’ or ‘slogan’ to promote a political point of view.

And . . . it’s been around for a little while.

In 2015, a co-founder of the organization, Patrisse Cullors, described the BLM leadership as ‘trained Marxists.’

A couple of items to consider:

* A BLM’s official website promotes the tenets of Marxism-Leninism, the guiding doctrine of the Soviet Union.

* Other socialist policies BLM advocates include resolving “economic injustice’ through the redistribution of wealth - despite communist regimes estimated to have killed 100 million people in the 20th century.

* Terry Turchie, a former FBI Assistant Deputy Director, argued that BLM wants to spark a catalyst to transform American society saying: “This is racism used as an issue to spark the revolution. It is meant and is intended to be divisive and to divide the county.”

Elimination of racism in America and in the world is a very worthwhile goal. Doing it through the promotion of communism is not a goal at all.

A O

Vindication . . .

In the middle of all the protests and violence, we get a lot of statues and memorials taken down and I received a vindication of sorts for my actions of years ago.

The tearing down of statues has gotten out of hand. I sort of understood the statues and memorials put up after the Civil War as a way to heal wounds between the two sides in the Civil War. However, no consideration to the feelings of the African-Americans was ever given.

I also believe that most people today know very little about the history of the people the statues were put up for and taking them down does little to end racism.

The removal of statues, however, is being taken to extremes. There are those who think George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus and others should also not be recognized with memorials of any kind. For example: Saint Junipero Serra, who did more for native Americans than most people know is condemned for living in the time much injustice was done to native Americans.

Now, my vindication . . .

A number of years ago I wrote a letter to the editor of the Hastings newspaper expressing my objection to what “Planned Parenthood” does and noted in the letter that the founder of Planned Parenthood, (PP) Margaret Sanger, advocated abortion as a method to eliminate “inferior” people from the American society. She was especially intent on eliminating African-Americans.

Well the editor, at the time, refused to print the letter as he thought I was wrong.

Well . . . with all the excitement raised by BLM, PP is removing their founder’s name from the New York Clinic that bears her name.

Now . . . if PP would just stop all of their abortions, we could claim some real progress has been made with the BLM protests.

A O

For you history buffs, did you know that on July 26, 1775 was the birthday of the United States Postal Service ? Also, July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment was formally adopted in the U. S. Constitution when the necessary number of states adopted the measure ensuring freedom of all former slaves in the U. S.

A O

“Spending time with children, is more important than spending money on children.” – Anthony D. Williams.

A O