1. The Assault against Traditional America
Assaulting traditional American values has been the Establishments and particularly the liberals old and constant tool.
Merry Christmas!" has become Happy Holiday!" and soon it will turn into Happy Festivus!".
Another four years with a liberal president and we would have had a holiday tree re-lighting special" and not in a parody form. See VIDEO here.
The 2005 SNL clip contained also a Donald Trump spoof but whos laughing now SNL?
Liberals and RINO republicans have declared open season for the Southern values (incorporated in flags highway names and statues). After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election their actions became much more aggressive and disturbing.
2. The Flags
See here.
On July 9 2015 at the Statehouse in Columbia South Carolina the then-Republican Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill into law enabling the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse ground. The flag was raised in 1961 to protest the civil rights movement."
However Nikki quickly caved in to the liberal narrative to remove the rebel banner politicizing a local situation involving a June 2015 Charleston shooting and pushing against the will of her own constituents for stricter gun control laws. She obviously was not aware that flags dont kill people but people kill people. Nor was she aware that her state residents should have voted first on this issue. Polls released at the time found that 70 percent of South Carolina Republicans thought the Confederate flag should still be flying over the state capitol as opposed to 20 percent who agreed with the decision to take it down.
But Nikki cared more about her politically correct" persona on the national stage knowing the Mainstream Media would glorify her unilateral administrative action. At the time she put her chips on Marco Rubios (later failed) presidential nomination and was considered at one point a leading vice presidential contender. Currently she serves as the US Ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration.
Nikki thought that by using her gubernatorial pen she could remove Southern history. In her own words I would say: Bless your heart Nikki!"
In 2001 the Mississippi voters decided to keep the Confederate-themed flag by a 2-to-1 margin. See here and here and here.
Liberals used the same techniques and attempted to remove the Confederate emblem on the state flag invoking the same hate crime that occurred in June 2015 at a church in Charleston South Carolina. And again some RINOs decided to give them a helping hand (among them the Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn).
Their proposal failed in the state legislature for lack of votes ending a long line of 12 bills to either change remove or redesign the Confederate symbol from the 1894 state flag.
Mississippi has shown strong support for keeping the state flag as-is.
On January 19 2016 pro-Confederate groups (including the Sons of Confederate Veterans) held a rally in Jackson at the State Capitol arguing that removing the flag would be akin to communists rewriting history."
On November 11 2016 three days after the presidential election Confederate flags were waved during the Veterans Day parade in the Californian town of Petaluma (near San Francisco). Some of the people waving the flags were wearing Donald Trump shirts. Among the outraged viewers" was Jared Huffman a San Rafael Democrat representative. He sponsored legislation to bar sales of Confederate flag memorabilia in national parks and to prohibit Confederate memorial displays in national cemeteries. Although his bills failed in the US Senate the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs and National Parks Service were prompted to enact their own bans.
Currently there are five states that have Confederate symbols on their state flags (Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia and Mississippi) and all of them were won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
3. The Highways
See here.
In the 1910s and 1920s there was a plan for a transcontinental highway in the United States that would begin in Washington DC extend to north of San Diego California and go to the Canadian border. The project was sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy who named the roadway for Jefferson Davis the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Today there are still remaining portions of the highway in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas New Mexico California and Washington state.
In 2002 the Washington State House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill to remove Davis name from the road. A committee of the states Senate subsequently killed the proposal to rename the highway after William P. Stewart a black Civil War veteran and early Washington settler.
In March 2016 the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed a joint memorial that asked the state transportation commission to designate the road as the William P. Stewart Memorial Highway" and in May 2016 the transportation commission agreed to the renaming.
In Virginia the highway crosses the northeastern part of the state. In Crystal City (Arlington County) there was a street called Old Jefferson Davis Highway but in 2011 the Arlington County Board voted to change the name of the street to Long Bridge Drive.
Also in September 2016 the Alexandria City Council following a Virginia Attorney Generals office advisory opinion (that the city had the legal authority to change the name of the highway within the Citys jurisdiction) voted unanimously to change the name of the Citys portion of the Highway.
Counties and cities have different jurisdictions and they also have different routes to remove highway names. Consequently the name of Jefferson Davis Highway itself a portion of U.S. 1 that exceeds the city limits and which only the Virginia General Assembly can rename has remained unchanged.
Local delegate Mark Levine a Democrat thinks that its at least an open question" and considers state law as allowing Arlington officials to unilaterally change the highway name if they wish. He suggested they can simply circumvent the attorney generals opinion (who said that the same power does not extend to Arlington County) change the name unilaterally and let the chips fall where they may. If they want to change it they should and see who says boo" said Levine.
Boo!!!
In 2016 the assaults to change the name of the highway were repeated. In its annual legislative package the Arlington County Board asked the Virginia General Assembly to rename the portion of the Jefferson Davis Highway that was within the County but no member of Arlingtons legislative delegation offered any such legislation during the 2016 session of the General Assembly.
After the 2016 presidential election the Arlington County government slowed down its pressure to change the name of the highway during the 2017 General Assembly session. A name-change request was not included in the County Boards legislative package stated for approval in December 2017.
Like in the case of the Confederate flag some members of the Establishment have no interest or respect for the American traditions not in tune with their liberal progressive agendas. As a result they act and look like Pygmies hunting down elephants.
4. The Statues
See here.
There was a time when the state of Virginia and the city of Alexandria used to take considerable pride in their Confederate past. Alexandrias historic Old Town has kept a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier (also known as the Appomattox").
The statue occupies the place where a local regiment was in retreat from the city before Union troops seized Alexandria in 1861. It was erected in 1889 and owned by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and it bears the names of Alexandria residents who died on behalf of the South. The seven-foot bronze statue is the only one of a number of historic Civil War-era monuments of the city which includes also: a park the National Cemetery a memorial and a couple of houses related to slave dealings.
In 2015 the citys mayor Bill Euille wanted the statue removed because (in his interpretation) the soldiers expression was sad for losing the Civil War."
His efforts were continued by his successor Allison Silberberg also a Democrat.
On September 17 2016 the council agreed by unanimous vote after a long public hearing to seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to relocate the statue from the downtown intersection of Prince and Washington streets to a local history museum on the same corner.
Earlier in the year the Republican-controlled state General Assembly passed a bill enforcing prohibitions against cities and counties removing war memorials but it was vetoed by the then-Governor Terry McAuliffe (a Democrat) in March 2016.
The state legislature attempted to put this issue under discussion for its agenda in 2017 and 2018.
But while local councils continue to be populated with political Pygmies and pathetic epigones the times they are a-changin" as Bob Dylan would put it.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in MEDIUM.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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1. The Assault against Traditional America
Assaulting traditional American values has been the Establishments and particularly the liberals old and constant tool.
Merry Christmas!" has become Happy Holiday!" and soon it will turn into Happy Festivus!".
Another four years with a liberal president and we would have had a holiday tree re-lighting special" and not in a parody form. See VIDEO here.
The 2005 SNL clip contained also a Donald Trump spoof but whos laughing now SNL?
Liberals and RINO republicans have declared open season for the Southern values (incorporated in flags highway names and statues). After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election their actions became much more aggressive and disturbing.
2. The Flags
See here.
On July 9 2015 at the Statehouse in Columbia South Carolina the then-Republican Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill into law enabling the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse ground. The flag was raised in 1961 to protest the civil rights movement."
However Nikki quickly caved in to the liberal narrative to remove the rebel banner politicizing a local situation involving a June 2015 Charleston shooting and pushing against the will of her own constituents for stricter gun control laws. She obviously was not aware that flags dont kill people but people kill people. Nor was she aware that her state residents should have voted first on this issue. Polls released at the time found that 70 percent of South Carolina Republicans thought the Confederate flag should still be flying over the state capitol as opposed to 20 percent who agreed with the decision to take it down.
But Nikki cared more about her politically correct" persona on the national stage knowing the Mainstream Media would glorify her unilateral administrative action. At the time she put her chips on Marco Rubios (later failed) presidential nomination and was considered at one point a leading vice presidential contender. Currently she serves as the US Ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration.
Nikki thought that by using her gubernatorial pen she could remove Southern history. In her own words I would say: Bless your heart Nikki!"
In 2001 the Mississippi voters decided to keep the Confederate-themed flag by a 2-to-1 margin. See here and here and here.
Liberals used the same techniques and attempted to remove the Confederate emblem on the state flag invoking the same hate crime that occurred in June 2015 at a church in Charleston South Carolina. And again some RINOs decided to give them a helping hand (among them the Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn).
Their proposal failed in the state legislature for lack of votes ending a long line of 12 bills to either change remove or redesign the Confederate symbol from the 1894 state flag.
Mississippi has shown strong support for keeping the state flag as-is.
On January 19 2016 pro-Confederate groups (including the Sons of Confederate Veterans) held a rally in Jackson at the State Capitol arguing that removing the flag would be akin to communists rewriting history."
On November 11 2016 three days after the presidential election Confederate flags were waved during the Veterans Day parade in the Californian town of Petaluma (near San Francisco). Some of the people waving the flags were wearing Donald Trump shirts. Among the outraged viewers" was Jared Huffman a San Rafael Democrat representative. He sponsored legislation to bar sales of Confederate flag memorabilia in national parks and to prohibit Confederate memorial displays in national cemeteries. Although his bills failed in the US Senate the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs and National Parks Service were prompted to enact their own bans.
Currently there are five states that have Confederate symbols on their state flags (Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia and Mississippi) and all of them were won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
3. The Highways
See here.
In the 1910s and 1920s there was a plan for a transcontinental highway in the United States that would begin in Washington DC extend to north of San Diego California and go to the Canadian border. The project was sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy who named the roadway for Jefferson Davis the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Today there are still remaining portions of the highway in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas New Mexico California and Washington state.
In 2002 the Washington State House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill to remove Davis name from the road. A committee of the states Senate subsequently killed the proposal to rename the highway after William P. Stewart a black Civil War veteran and early Washington settler.
In March 2016 the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed a joint memorial that asked the state transportation commission to designate the road as the William P. Stewart Memorial Highway" and in May 2016 the transportation commission agreed to the renaming.
In Virginia the highway crosses the northeastern part of the state. In Crystal City (Arlington County) there was a street called Old Jefferson Davis Highway but in 2011 the Arlington County Board voted to change the name of the street to Long Bridge Drive.
Also in September 2016 the Alexandria City Council following a Virginia Attorney Generals office advisory opinion (that the city had the legal authority to change the name of the highway within the Citys jurisdiction) voted unanimously to change the name of the Citys portion of the Highway.
Counties and cities have different jurisdictions and they also have different routes to remove highway names. Consequently the name of Jefferson Davis Highway itself a portion of U.S. 1 that exceeds the city limits and which only the Virginia General Assembly can rename has remained unchanged.
Local delegate Mark Levine a Democrat thinks that its at least an open question" and considers state law as allowing Arlington officials to unilaterally change the highway name if they wish. He suggested they can simply circumvent the attorney generals opinion (who said that the same power does not extend to Arlington County) change the name unilaterally and let the chips fall where they may. If they want to change it they should and see who says boo" said Levine.
Boo!!!
In 2016 the assaults to change the name of the highway were repeated. In its annual legislative package the Arlington County Board asked the Virginia General Assembly to rename the portion of the Jefferson Davis Highway that was within the County but no member of Arlingtons legislative delegation offered any such legislation during the 2016 session of the General Assembly.
After the 2016 presidential election the Arlington County government slowed down its pressure to change the name of the highway during the 2017 General Assembly session. A name-change request was not included in the County Boards legislative package stated for approval in December 2017.
Like in the case of the Confederate flag some members of the Establishment have no interest or respect for the American traditions not in tune with their liberal progressive agendas. As a result they act and look like Pygmies hunting down elephants.
4. The Statues
See here.
There was a time when the state of Virginia and the city of Alexandria used to take considerable pride in their Confederate past. Alexandrias historic Old Town has kept a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier (also known as the Appomattox").
The statue occupies the place where a local regiment was in retreat from the city before Union troops seized Alexandria in 1861. It was erected in 1889 and owned by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and it bears the names of Alexandria residents who died on behalf of the South. The seven-foot bronze statue is the only one of a number of historic Civil War-era monuments of the city which includes also: a park the National Cemetery a memorial and a couple of houses related to slave dealings.
In 2015 the citys mayor Bill Euille wanted the statue removed because (in his interpretation) the soldiers expression was sad for losing the Civil War."
His efforts were continued by his successor Allison Silberberg also a Democrat.
On September 17 2016 the council agreed by unanimous vote after a long public hearing to seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to relocate the statue from the downtown intersection of Prince and Washington streets to a local history museum on the same corner.
Earlier in the year the Republican-controlled state General Assembly passed a bill enforcing prohibitions against cities and counties removing war memorials but it was vetoed by the then-Governor Terry McAuliffe (a Democrat) in March 2016.
The state legislature attempted to put this issue under discussion for its agenda in 2017 and 2018.
But while local councils continue to be populated with political Pygmies and pathetic epigones the times they are a-changin" as Bob Dylan would put it.
NOTE - A version of the article was published previously in MEDIUM.
Tiberiu Dianu has published several books and a host of articles in law politics and post-communist societies. He currently lives and works in Washington DC and can be followed on MEDIUM.
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