Defending American History July 27, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: 1619 movement, 1619 Riots, antifa, BLM, confederate statues, Dr. Robert Owens, Grant, If we don’t stand for something, Lincoln, Portland, Seattle, Teddy Roosevelt, we will fall for anything.
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Every revolution seeks to distort, tarnish, and destroy any sign of the positive accomplishments of the society they seek to replace. During our own Revolution, our ancestors tore down statues of George III and melted them down to make bullets and cannons. Therefore, it’s no surprise that during the current Democrat led revolt the military wings of the party, BLM and ANTIFA, seek to desecrate and destroy the monuments raised by generations of patriotic Americans celebrating our shared culture.
The first cases of this iconoclastic frenzy was aimed at heroes of the Confederacy. The fact that they were slave owners is used as justification for their fall from the pedestal. The same logic is applied to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others among our most prominent Founders and Framers. Christopher Columbus is attacked for the crime of bringing Western Civilization to the Americas. All of this has blazed across our screens.
Now they are coming for President Lincoln because though he was anti-slavery for his entire public career and even took a bullet in the head because he freed the slaves, he wasn’t pro-black enough for BLM. And they have spread their attack to include General Grant who smashed the South and Teddy Roosevelt who built the Panama Canal and introduced America as a world power. Where will it end? It won’t until every vestige of the original American culture is eradicated, and statues of Marx, Field Marshal Cinque, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Malcolm X, and Nancy Pelosi fill every town square. Make no mistake about it, this is not a crusade for social justice, this is a revolution to replace the old America with a new America.
While Democrat leaders in Washington and around the country cheered the rebels on as the next step in their attempt to reverse the election of 2016, Republican leaders mostly stood silent wringing their hands afraid to do anything for fear of being labeled racists. You’d think by now they would know that whatever they do they’ll be labeled as racists by the Deep State, its media propaganda arm, and their black shirted bullyboys in the street. In stark contrast President Trump has stepped into the breach.
Defining the situation and clearly describing the rebels our president said, “They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters. It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country.” And clarifying his approach to justice in these cases of revolutionary vandalism by saying, “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!”
In recent weeks we have seen rioters senselessly deface and destroy historical sites, monuments, and statues.
- Rioters have defaced and torn down monuments and statues honoring some of the most important figures in our Nation’s storied history.
- In Portland, mobs tore down statues of our Founding Fathers–George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
- In San Francisco, rioters tore down a statue honoring Ulysses S. Grant.
- There are even calls to remove statues of Abraham Lincoln in Boston and Washington, D.C.
- A statue of Hans Christian Heg, who died fighting for the Union Army during the civil war, was torn down in Wisconsin.
- These monuments memorialize the history we all share as Americans, and they deserve to be defended for future generations.
The George Floyd/1619 riots have now become the most destructive and expensive period of rebellion and mayhem since the Civil War. Millions perhaps billions of dollars’ worth of property has been destroyed. Thousands of businesses, many black owned, have been burned, looted, and closed ending the personal dreams of entrepreneurs and making their years of sacrifice and hard work fruitless. If this lawlessness is allowed to continue it’s only a matter of time until America as we have known her is toppled from her pedestal along with Columbia and Lady Liberty.
However, we can praise God that President Trump is fulfilling his duty to defend the life, property, and rights of the American people.
- President Trump will not tolerate the rampant violence and destruction that has occurred over the last 5 weeks.
- Left-wing extremists are rioting, looting, and calling for the destruction of the United States system of government.
- Through mob intimidation, these violent extremists are attempting to impose their ideology on the law-abiding citizens of this country.
- Some State and local governments are failing their citizens by not distinguishing between peaceful protest and violent chaos.
Using the power of his office President Trump is not wringing his hands he is putting his hand to the plow and working to save our heritage from the ravenous wolves of revolution howling in the night. Our President is taking action to defend our Nation’s historical monuments, statues, and memorials.
- President Trump has signed an Executive Order that ensures that any person or group that destroys or vandalizes a monument, memorial, or statue is prosecuted to the fullest extent.
- United States law authorizes a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment for the willful injury of Federal property.
- The Executive Order also directs that those who incite violence and illegal activity are prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.
- State and local law enforcement agencies that fail to protect monuments, memorials, and statues will be subject to the withholding of Federal support.
- The Attorney General will take all appropriate action against individuals and organizations found to have participated in unlawful acts—related to rioting and the destruction of Federal property.
- The Federal Government will ensure personnel are available across the Nation to assist with the protection of Federal monuments, memorials, statues, and property.
As his actions begin to take effect the President tweeted, “These arsonists, anarchists, looters, and agitators have been largely stopped. I am doing what is necessary to keep our communities safe and these people will be brought to Justice!”
Is America perfect? No there’s nothing on this earth that’s perfect except for the love of God in and through Jesus Christ. But even when we paint the picture, warts and all, America is still the last best hope of humanity for freedom. Have we made mistakes, committed sins, and fallen short of God’s command to love the Lord our God with all our heart and soul and to love our neighbor as ourselves? Of course, we have. However, America is still the most noble experiment in self-rule and liberty in world history.
Now is the time for all good citizens to come to the defense of their country. We’re being assaulted from within. The time to stand up for what we believe is here. If we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything.
Keep the Faith. Keep the Peace. We shall overcome.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Renewing Recovering Restoring Rebuilding July 20, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: 2020 election, Dr. Robert Owens, Immigration, Joe Biden, Masters of the Universe, Trump re-election
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Make America Great Again Again! He did it once and he can do it again. By taking the shackles off the American people and our economy President Donald Trump in three short years led us from the doldrums of Obama’s New Normal to the greatest economic boom the world has ever seen. Record growth, record unemployment, and corporations returning from overseas by every metric America was taking off like a rocket. Then came the Social Security Flu and the plandemic. Then came the outrage in Minneapolis and the 1619 revolution.
Like a one-two punch these twin catastrophes have America reeling on the edge of the abyss. The Democrat Party is all in with BLM and ANTIFA. They cheer as the outrages and demands grow into the shrill cries of America-as-we-have-known-her hating revolutionaries on the barricades of autonomous no-go zones. Labeling anyone who gets in the way of their takeover as racists, these black shirted thugs operate as the military arm of the socialists attempting to remake America in the image of their revered Cuba and Venezuela.
Most Republicans shake in fear of the broad-brush ad hominin attacks of the democrats who identify as journalists. In stark contrast to this toothless and despicable abdication President Trump boldly stands almost alone trying to rally the forces of civil society in the face of anarchy and rebellion. The rising crescendo of attacks, accusations, investigations, and who knows maybe even another manufactured impeachment debacle fall like hammer blows. Never has one politician stood up under such a relentless daily attack.
Think about it. If Hillary had won where do you think we would be right now? If the socialists manage to drag Old Joe and whoever they really want to be president over the cheat-by-mail finish line where do you think we will be in a year from now?
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Our President is sounding forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat.
President Donald Trump staked out some major positions of his re-election campaign during a powerful speech in the Dream City Church in North Phoenix at an event organized by Students for Trump and Turning Point Action. In this speech our President didn’t equivocate or evade. He forthrightly addressed the big issues of our times outlining major themes of his America First Agenda: immigration, China, big tech censorship, Democrats push for voting by mail, and the radical left’s war on America’s heritage and monuments.
To thunderous applause he said, “This is a choice of two futures: the left’s vision of disunity and discord or our vision of equal opportunity and equal justice. We will never cave to the left-wing and the left-wing intolerance. We will never surrender to mob violence, and we will uphold American freedom, equality, and justice for every citizen of every background,”
The president pointed out that we are engaged in a relentless fight against a radicalized left. And that they use their almost complete control of the media, entertainment, and academia to suppress free speech saying, “Anyone who dissents from their orthodoxy must be punished, canceled, or banished. Democrats have embarked on a mission to tear down existing American traditions and institutions, no matter what the cost. We’re not going to take moral lectures from the same left-wing ideologues who oppose school choice, who support deadly sanctuary cities, who want to defund our police – defund and abolish our police. Think of it: Defund and abolish is now their theme.”
The illegal efforts to destroy and deface America’s monuments and statues by the 1619 rebels shows how much they want to fundamentally change everything about our country.
The President said, “They’re tearing down statues, desecrating monuments, and purging dissenters. It’s not the behavior of a peaceful political movement; it’s the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants and people that don’t love our country.”
Turning to the Democrat push for universal mail-in voting which amounts to changing the rules in the middle of an election year, without any reliable vetting procedures in place the President observed, “This will be, in my opinion, the most corrupt election in the history of our country.”
Not one to leave foreign policy out of his equations President Trump reminded the crowd that previous leaders allowed China to rip off the United States. He is the first president in decades to stand up to the communist behemoth. Warning that, “A vote for Biden in 2020 was a vote for China. They get in, China will own this country” the President brought his audience to their feet.
Immigration wasn’t forgotten in this speech either as the President pointed to the progress on the wall on the southern border and his curtailing of visas in favor of American workers. He thundered from the podium, “We took historic action to block the entry of foreign workers into our nation. We believe that companies should hire American workers and American students first.”
The Masters of the Universe tech giants didn’t escape President Trump’s target as he warned of their efforts to censor the free speech of anyone who doesn’t toe the Liberal-Democrat-Socialist line. “As everyone knows, they’re using their enormous power to silence conservative voices. You know that. It’s not even close. I don’t even think they’re hiding it anymore,” he said.
The president spoke about the righteous defiance of those who made America free in the first place and who stood up throughout our history to keep the light of liberty alive. He repeatedly urged Americans to keep the fire of freedom burning. Noting that we are in a spiritual battle the President said, “It’s the same spirit that compels each of you to stand strong against the dull, mindless, soul-crushing conformity mandated by far-left pundits, professors, and liberal politicians. They’re taking our country in the wrong direction.”
Seeing his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, as merely a straw man, a cat’s paw the left are exploiting to regain the power they lost when he was elected President, Trump noted, “If ever he became President, this country would be a mess. They would rip down everything … He wouldn’t call the shots. He would have nothing to do with it. The left would only lock him in the Oval Office so they could do as they pleased.”
Some see the election of Donald Trump in 2016 as nothing less than a miracle. Whether the President believes that or not I don’t know. Keeping his remarks to a more secular turn the President attributed his surprise election to the fact that Americans weren’t happy with the way the country was headed under former President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden. Looking directly into the cameras he said, “I’m only here because of President Obama and the job he did, and Sleepy Joe Biden and the job that he didn’t do. People were very unhappy. The fake news doesn’t report it. There was tremendous dissent, tremendous anger.”
What does all this mean to us? Those of us who support President Trump must soldier on. We may have relatives and friends shun us. We will see our standards, goals, and beliefs disparaged daily in the media. We may face discrimination and reprisals at work, at school, and at home. But we cannot waver. We must do all we can to preserve truth, justice, and the American way.
As Thomas Paine told us at the beginning of the American experiment when we dared to face off against the most powerful country in the world, “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
Our Future Belongs to Patriots Not Globalists July 13, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: Dr. Robert Owens, fair trade, Globalism, MAGA, Trump’s UN speech
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On September 24, 2019 in the U.N. General Assembly: the seedbed of globalism, President Trump gave a major address charting a prosperous future for countries the world over, which is one built on the empowerment of citizens and respect for national sovereignty.
Standing in the spotlight of attention from the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media and staring down the glares from the New World Order fanatics our President zeroed in on the basic problems that have been seeping out of the UN and festering around the world for generations. He didn’t equivocate. He didn’t pull any punches, stating boldly, “Globalism exerted a religious pull over past leaders, causing them to ignore their own national interests.”
Under the Bush-Clinton-Obama CABAL, before the miracle in November that gave us President Trump, our leaders like many others around the world, spent the bulk of their time and energy catering to the opinions of fellow global elites. Lost in the shuffle of this groupthink, in-crowd popularity contest were the interests of the hard-working, over-taxed, and under-appreciated people who built this country and keep it going.
Our jobs were outsourced as the globalist insiders and their cronies became richer while everyone else’s incomes stagnated or declined. They thought they had the skids greased as they shoved us into their New Normal. They didn’t think anything stood in their way least of all that forgotten man, the American voter.
Then after only three years of President Trump working tirelessly to Make America Great Again we became the world’s example of the success a country can experience when it starts focusing on the good of its own people instead of the social engineering of the statists and the bottom-line of the multi-national corporations.
After briefly re-counting the previous record of managed decline our president pointed to his agenda of pro-growth, pro-worker policies such as historic tax cuts, deregulation, and trade reform. Driving home the evidence of the power of these reforms President Trump said, “Wages are rising. Incomes are soaring. And 2.5 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty in less than 3 years.”
Throughout his speech, the president urged the assembles leaders to apply similar approaches to the problems in their own countries. All of President Trump’s ideas have one thing in common: They put the interests of American people first. He spent his moment on the world stage to urge other leaders to abandon the failed attempt to forge a one-world UN dominated dystopian machine and instead let the invisible hand of enlightened self-interest create a better future for everyone.
America’s blue-collar billionaire believes that building a better future starts at home not in the collective hearts of multi-national tribunals and organizations. This is an easy to understand message President Trump has sought to encourage his fellow world leaders to embrace ever since his stunning victory in 2016. He insists if others would follow the American blueprint: Putting their own citizens first instead of catering to the rich and famous while standing up for their own sovereignty prosperity will follow.
As the president outlined in his speech this agenda includes:
- Fighting unfair trade: Old trade deals that outsourced our jobs are being thrown out, replaced by fair ones—such as the NAFTA-revamping USMCA—that give our workers a level playing field.
- Protecting individual freedoms: America is leading the way in promoting liberty as a human rights issue throughout the world, including championing the economic role of women in our societies.
- Shutting down dangerous open-border advocates: Unprecedented action is being taken to stop illegal immigration and put an end to human smuggling once and for all.
- Holding Iran accountable: President Trump called on fellow world leaders to join America in standing up to Iran, the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism.
- Promoting a free Western Hemisphere: America stands with the people of Venezuela, and the events taking place there should remind everyone that socialism ultimately leads to poverty and authoritarianism.
Hitting the nail on the head and summing up the beliefs and aspirations of millions President Trump said, “The future does not belong to globalists the future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors, and honor the differences that make each country special and unique.”
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The Lessons of History July 6, 2020
Posted by Dr. Robert Owens in Politics, Politiocal Philosophy, Uncategorized.Tags: antifa, BLM, disband the police, Dr. Robert Owens, George Floyd protests
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Empires rise and empires fall. They usually don’t end with a bang. They end with a whimper.
Revolts become revolutions when those sent by the authorities to put them down instead join the revolt. Is that what we’re beginning to see as police and National Guard troops kneel in submission before BLM and ANTIFA? Many who railed against those who kneeled for the playing of our national anthem now kneel before those who showed their contempt for America. Are the reins of power about to slip from the limp hands of the descendants of the Minutemen, the Grand Army of the Republic, and all the heroes who won the wars and enforced the peace? Are the cultural, financial, social, and political structures we’ve known all our lives about to be upended?
Many readily admit they agree with everything Trump is doing and has done. They acknowledge his policies led to the greatest economy the world has ever known and prosperity like we haven’t experienced since we all liked Ike. And yet many of these same people say they won’t vote for him again because they don’t like the tone of his tweets or the combative manner in which he returns fire to the daily verbal broadsides from the democrats who identify as journalists.
As you watch the blue cities burn and the blue leaders bow ask yourself, “For whom the bell tolls?” Is the answer inevitably, “It tolls for thee.” And if it is, what then shall we do? Sit on our hands, quarantined in our homes, wearing our masks, watching in disbelief as thugs take over the streets, as the police are disbanded, waiting for Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Sanders, and the rest of the millionaire plutocrats to raise the red flag from the White House?
If our fleeting moment upon the world’s stage as uncivil as it is, has become a civil war this November we will arrive at Gettysburg. A climatic moment that will decide in which direction the war will flow. Looking ahead, knowing there will be many casualties physical, political, cultural, and societal it might be the perfect time to recall the words which frame the actual Battle of Gettysburg for all students of History:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Will freedom survive? Or will our Republic like the Romans before us morph into something completely different? Instead of an empire we may become a dictatorship of the proletariat where those who dole out the equal shares paraphrase the haunting statement from George Orwell’s Animal Farm … “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
If the blues sweep the board in November, we may all end up singing the blues.
Those who don’t learn the lessons of History are doomed to repeat the mistakes of History. Those who do learn the lessons of History are unfortunately doomed to watch everyone else repeat the mistakes of History.
Hunkered in the bunker. Waiting for the rain.
Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens or visit Dr. Owens Amazon Page / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
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