Columbus Day … once a day of civic remembrance, is now just another paid holiday at our expense for federal and state and local government and public school loafers.
It is now ground zero for some social justice weenies who want to deface the great captain’s statues.
When I was young, the only statues in danger of defacement were those on college campuses.
Rival schools’ students would paint, say, Tommy Trojan, in their school colors.
Now a bunch of spoiled children are wanting to vandalize statues of Christopher Columbus. Some have already been defaced. (Columbus statue in Central Park, NYC, is below and right.)
Like it or not, Columbus made it possible for permanent European settlement in America. Like it or not, Europeans settled the Americas and their descendants born in the Americas organized them into the societies we have today. That’s historical fact, not fiction.
Columbus and his men sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in wooden ships using navigational tools no more complex than a quadrant and an astrolabe. He kept a log and timed his voyage with a sandglass. And he could read star positions to guess his position at night. The average social justice warrior, at least one who owns a car, couldn’t find his way across town without a GPS.
Columbus’s voyage wasn’t even the most important event in Spain’s calendar that year. In January 1492, the Catholic rulers Fernando and Isabella and their soldiers smashed Moslem resistance at Granada and forced the Moors to return to North Africa. Ending the bloodthirsty and predatory occupation of Spain by Moslems that lasted almost eight centuries brought peace and unity to Spain.
New York police supposedly are guarding Columbus’ statue in New York. Maybe members of the Mafia are monitoring other statues so they can treat the disrespect of the First Italian with the severity they decide it deserves.
This follows on the heels of the Confederate statue controversy.
The desire to remove Jeff Davis’ and Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statues are rational. One ran the Confederacy; the other ran the KKK and massacred black soldiers.
But Silent Sam and other statues which show the average Rebel soldier should absolutely stay up. Like it or not, more than half the white men in the states of the Confederacy – about 1.5 million men – served in its rebellious army. Those statues represent Everyman in those states who left family and home and served in a war the evil and dumb politicians of those states started. Their bravery accounts for why the Civil War lasted so long. My ancestors in blue and about 2.8 million other Union soldiers needed four years to put them down.
Re-enactments of Civil War battles and the Old West are heritage, not hatred. The Yanks (including 200,000 blacks in uniform) and Rebs and cowboys and Indians and Buffalo Soldiers were tough.
We treasure American Indian memorials today even though many tribal nations were at war with the United States. And there is a monument in San Diego County, California that commemorates the victory of Mexicans and Spaniards over Americans at San Pasqual. It happened. We lost that day. Both sides’ men fought bravely. The monument belongs.
If there is any monument we should destroy, it is the monument we allowed the Japanese to put up in the Aleutian Islands to remember their dead. They sneak-attacked us and seized Alaskan islands. They murdered tens of millions of Asians and forced many thousands of women to service their troops sexually. To quote Harry Truman after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “Screw the Japs.” Melt that monument into bullets for our military. The social justice punks are nowhere in sight on that issue. They are too busy affirming draft dodgers and sex offenders like Bill Clinton.
We don’t fail to honor the service of American men, even in the Balkan wars, although Bill Clinton wrongfully decided to have thousands of Serbs murdered after he was outed receiving oral sex from Monica Lewinsky. One could argue our men were in the wrong because the Serbs were fighting Moslem aggression. Friends of mine who served in that fiasco did not want to kill the Serbs, and they were disgusted by our Moslem “allies.”
Some argue the monument to Ulysses S. Grant in New York should come down. The agitators flunked history. Grant won the Civil War, which allowed the outlawing of slavery. But New Yorkers weren’t fond of Grant when he was alive. A very low proportion of New York City residents served in the Civil War, and draft riots in the Big Apple in 1863 were so severe that Union soldiers who had just fought at Gettysburg had to quell the rioters. New York City was pro-Southern and mostly Democrat during the war; their leaders hindered the draft and other pro-Union work during the Civil War. Those are historical facts too.
Maybe Ulysses and Julia Grant should come home to the Midwest if New York City’s ingrates want them and their memories gone.
Why can’t Bill and Hillary be buried east of the Mississippi River? Unfortunately they’re not dead yet.
The social justice weenies want Andrew Jackson’s statue in New Orleans gone. Again, jealousy. Or maybe (how do I say this without vulgarity?) envy of his masculinity. Jackson and Creoles, Kentuckians, Southerners, blacks and some reputed pirates protected the Crescent City from British invasion and looting. In the process, they killed half the redcoats sent against them, and killed the general who led them.
DC was not so fortunate. The Brits burned the White House four months earlier. The feds fled. But Dolley Madison and the servants and slaves of the White House spirited away George Washington’s portrait, the dies and plates used to make U.S. coins and paper money, and some important government records. Dolley’s heroism and charm is why the great Zachary Taylor, speaking at her funeral, called her the “First Lady” of America.
Some scumbag spray-painted the statue of Padre Junípero Serra in front of San Fernando Mission in L.A.s’ San Fernando Valley this year. Father Serra protected American Indians from the harshest aspects of Spanish rule, and integrated American Indians into Hispanic society.
Some inbred scumbag even spray-painted social justice gibberish on the beautiful golden bronze statue of Joan of Arc in New Orleans this year. Not a single feminist complained. Guess they were too busy servicing Harvey Weinstein. Joan and her men lifted the siege of Orleans in France, the city our own Big Easy is named after. She is the patroness of New Orleans.
Joan of Arc Statue, New Orleans. Photo courtesy of Maid of Heaven.com
Some Chicago pinhead, whose mother may be unsure who his father is, defaced and set fire to a statue of Abraham Lincoln earlier this year. This, after some loser or losers defaced the Lincoln Memorial in DC. No good deed goes unpunished.
Destroying history is robbing Americans of their heritage. Then charlatans can rush in and make ridiculous claims. Like President Obama did when he claimed Moslems helped build America. Yep, Abdul Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Habeeb Beauregard fought in the Civil War. And Mohammed and Clark explored the West.
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
On October 7 this past Saturday, more than one million Poles traveled to the boundaries of their nation to pray the Rosary for the protection of their nation. Why?
On October 7, 1571, outnumbered Spanish, Italian, and Croatian sailors and soldiers under the command of Don Juan of Austria defeated the Moslem Turks in the sea battle of Lepanto off the Greek coast. It was the last great sea battle between galleys. Pope Saint Pius V attributed the victory to the praying of the Rosary, and he chose October 7 to be Our Lady of the Rosary Day on the Catholic calendar.
The Poles and other Eastern Europeans are muscular Catholics, not sissy kumbaya Catholics. 99 and I attend Mass in Eastern European ethnic parishes when we can for this reason. They defended Europe from the Mongols and Moslems. The Poles and other Eastern Europeans lifted the Moslem Turk siege of Vienna in 1683. The Poles fought the Nazis and the Communists. When they were expelling Swedish invaders in the mid 1600s, one of the bishops of Poland fired a cannon at the Swedes.
Poles pray Rosary at eastern border of nation. Photo by Wojtek Radwanski.
During World War Two, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said the Poles were like Christ, crucified between thieves. FDR’s leftist bedwetter functionaries contacted Bishop Sheen and demanded he not attack the Communist Soviet Union as they were our allies. Bishop Sheen replied he would call the Russians the good thieves.
Poland’s faithful Catholics ignored the social justice ravings of Pope Francis, who wants Europe to let in so many Moslems that it becomes Eurabia. They prayed for the protection of their land. They know what it is like to face oppression.
So do the Hungarians, the Lithuanians, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Croatians, and the Slovenes (Melania’s people); these nations are historically Catholic. So do the historically Orthodox Christian Serbs, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and Macedonians.
It is no co-incidence the people and leaders of these lands are reaching out to fellow nationalist and promoter of European and American civilization Donald Trump. Their patriots and our patriots have the same God and Nation and Family mindset.
Prayers can help other Christian societies as well. America is mostly a Protestant society. Who besides atheists and jihadists would argue God doesn’t listen to Protestants’ and Jews’ prayers when they reflect His will? Washington prayed regularly at Valley Forge. Zachary Taylor declared a day of fasting and prayer during an epidemic in 1849. Taylor also postponed his inauguration for a day because the day fell on a Sunday. He believed people’s prayers were more important than politicians’ power. (Compare this to how LBJ crudely took power while poor Jackie Kennedy, spattered with JFK’s blood and all cried out, watched in shock.) Abraham Lincoln set up Thanksgiving as a national holiday. And he said America should try to be on God’s side instead of assuming God was on America’s side. These great men were Protestants.
Back to Columbus. When he presented some American Indian captives in chains to Fernando and Isabella, Queen Isabella became enraged. “Unchain them!” she demanded. “These are my subjects, not slaves!”
Those who criticize Queen Isabella should remember she fought Moslems who used treachery and murder against her people. Queen Isabella was harsh on enemies of Spain. She was also harsh on rapists. She had them executed, sometimes by fire. What good parent wouldn’t want a person of Queen Isabella’s mindset in charge of prosecution of those who molest children?
What historical figure is without flaw?
Only Jesus Christ. And He was crucified by the jealous.
So, now that I’ve meandered thru history, what should you take away from today’s post?
Simply these:
A nation whose people forget their history are condemned to repeat it.
A nation whose people turn their backs on God will get His assent in keeping His helping hands away from them.
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