DANGER - The GOP tries to spin away the loss in Virginia

Danger Will Robinson Danger

The GOP right-wing is delusional as they try and explain

away their loss in the Virginia Governor's race
to pro-Obamacare candidates.

A 2014 Wake-up Call  -  The GOP is in serious danger.  The Right miscalculated that Obamacare would magically win elections for them.  So the Virginia GOP nominated strong cultural Conservative candidates that did not play well with the voters.

With the election of a Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe, Republicans have lost seven of the past eight statewide, top-of-the-ballot races, including those for Governor, Senator and President reports the New York Times.

Republican Ken Cuccinelli was far behind in 29 polls in a row.  The voters were never happy with the GOP nominee.

But yesterday Rush Limbaugh and other right-wingers ignored the culture issue and were trying to spin the defeat in Virginia as the fault of those "evil" establishment Republicans.  Never mind that the Republican Governor's Association alone poured nearly $8 million into the race.  But it is traditional to blame the other guy for your troubles.

Sorry, but Rush's thinking is delusional.  At the peak of Obamacare madness on every news show the GOP took it in the shorts based on the candidates the party nominated.  No more, no less.

Did Rush and company think the socialist Democrats were just going to roll over in fear of an Obamacare voter reaction?  No it does not work that way.  The Commies fundraised like crazy and campaigned viciously against the GOP candidates. 

The GOP candidate for Governor went down by about 2.5 points and the candidate for Lt. Governor went down by almost 11 points. . . . both were defeated by pro-Obamacare candidates.

But of interest is the race for Attorney General where not that much money was spent.  The race was a tie (see below) and again there was not an anti-Obamacare reaction by the voters that the Tea Party Conservatives hoped for.


A 2014 Wakeup call
Pro-Obamacare candidates ran strongly in
statewide Virginia races.



Recount in the Virginia Attorney's General's Race

 

Down ticket voting where not as much money is spent helps show what the people are thinking.  With all the anti-Obamacare, anti-Democrat healthcare news the voters split 50-50.  That split should be a wakeup call to the GOP.

 

Mark Obenshain (R)	1,099,422	50.0%
Mark Herring (D)	1,099,136	50.0%

100% reporting

The Virginia attorney general’s race is headed for a recount, and the deadlocked contest is likely to be all but frozen in place until Nov. 25, the earliest date when a new tally can be formally requested, state election officials said Wednesday.

As of noon Wednesday, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg) was clinging to a 481-vote lead over state Sen. Mark Herring (D-Loudoun), with 2.2 million ballots cast, according to unofficial figures from the Virginia State Board of Elections.

Local election boards on Wednesday will begin examining “provisional” ballots — cast by voters who did not present legally acceptable ID or who may have come to the wrong polling place Tuesday. The boards must finish certifying their counts by Nov. 12 reports the Washington Post.

The State Board of Elections is scheduled to certify the entire count Nov. 25. Only then can the trailing candidate ask for a recount, according to board spokeswoman Nikki Sheridan.

A Republican Collapse
Republican Earl Walker Jackson, Sr. (above) lost the Virginia Lt. Governor's race in an almost 11 point landslide.  Jackson is a good man and a patriot, but facts is facts.  When given the opportunity to support an anti-Obamacare cultural Conservative the voters of Virginia went Democrat.
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Ralph Northam (D)      1,208,198      55.3%
E.W. Jackson (R)            975,660      44.7%
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Like my Mama used to say, "It is what it is."  The Rush Limbaugh talking heads can try to spin this, but here at the peak of Obamacare madness and press coverage an anti-Obamacare candidate was soundly defeated. 
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What message does this send for the 2014 elections?

 

Rush Spins a Defeat
Rush got the anti-gay rights cultural Conservative and intensely anti-Obamacare candidates he wanted.  The voters said no.  We want the pro-Obamacare candidates.
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Nimble as ever, Rush tried to pass the blame from his candidates over to the "evil" establishment GOP.  The Republican for Governor alone spend over $18 million not counting spending from other pro-GOP groups.  But the Democrat was the better candidate raising some $54 million.

By comparison, Republican Bob McDonnell had raised $21 million at this time in the 2009 race while Democrat Creigh Deeds had collected $16 million.  (McDonnell won with 59 percent.) McAuliffe’s almost two-to-one fundraising lead translates into one very important thing: lots and lots more ads.
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Los Angeles Times - Virginia Candidate Spending.

Chris Christie for President?

Establishment Conservatives vs. Social Conservatives.

The Two Republican Parties

• A huge GOP 22 point landslide in deep blue New Jersey.
• While over in Virginia the socially Conservative Republicans manage to lose Governorship by 2.5 points and Lt. Governorship by 11 points. 
• Both the Establishment and Constitutional wings of the GOP need each other if anything resembling a Republic is to survive this wave of radical Obama Marxism.

By Gary;

I know it is a tad early, but how about a Chris Christie / Marco Rubio ticket in 2016?

Let's bottom line this  -  The GOP desperately needs to take blue states or the Presidency will be forever out of their reach.  New Jersey is blue and Florida is rapidly turning blue.  Thus the Christie-Rubio ticket with the added bonus of appealing to Hispanic voters.


If the GOP does not win the White House soon
the Supreme Court could become 7 to 2 Democrat.
Then you can kiss the Republic goodbye as
a liberal court rubber stamps Big Government.

Yes.  I can hear the anger now from all you true believers out there and all the usual RINO attacks.  And I agree with you. 

But you can't win an election in deep blue states with candidates that play well in rural Texas.  It just ain't gonna happen.

Christie also knows how to successfully knife fight down in the gutter with the Democrats.  He will not take any crap from them, and the Right needs a street fighter not a "thinker".

Libertarian on Social Issues  -  The two strong socially Conservative candidates at the top of the ticket lost in Virginia.

Neither Christie nor Rubio have the image of hardline religious Conservatives.  That plays well with young and middle age voters in blue states who want government out of their lives.

The Federal Courts  -  With lifetime appointments the courts have enormous power to shape society.  Comrade Obama has already appointed two Supreme Court Justices and numerous members of the lower courts.

Even Big Government loving Conservatives like the two Bush Presidents have redeemed themselves by appointing judges like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.  It would be far better to have Christie appointing judges compared to a President Hillary Clinton.

2016 is a long way off and anything can happen.  But the Right needs a blue state fighter at the top of the ticket or you can kiss the Republic goodbye.



The Real Enemy
With the re-election of Governor Christie the 2016 campaign for President begins.  I think the time is here for every non-Marxist Presidential candidate to moderate their tone toward each other.  No more talking crap by Christie about Rand Paul or right-wingers ripping on Christie.  We may not like each other, but we are allies. 
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The real enemy of American liberty is a very powerful and united Marxist Democrat Party that wants to transform the nation into a Venezuelan People's Republic.

The Republicans are totally screwed.
It is all about the electoral college and the Republican Party has been kicked out of school.  It is in danger of being a permanent minority.
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The crown jewel of the electoral college is California. Once Republican, the GOP has lost the Golden State to the radical Left.  And in the last two elections the GOP lost the key states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida to the Leftists.
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The Right needs to find the correct candidate to break into the blue states and re-capture the White House.  Is it Christie?  Time will tell.  If the GOP fails you will soon see an all-Democrat Supreme Court ruling in favor of every leftist law and endless Executive Orders coming from the White House establishing a People's Republic.

 

White Democrat refuses to shake hands with Black Republican

Republican E.W. Jackson, left, and Democrat State Sen. Ralph S. Northam,
candidates for Virginia Lt. Gov.

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Democrat Racism

White Dem Lt. Gov. nominee refuses to shake hands with Black GOP opponent

Virginia Lieutenant Governor candidate Ralph Northam (Socialist Democrat - VA) refused to shake hands with his Republican opponent, EW Jackson during an on-air appearance in Hampton Roads, VA last week. 

Jackson appeared on "Mornings on the Mall" on WMAL in Washington DC Monday morning and I asked him about the incident:

"It was insulting, but, on the other hand, I thought it was consistent with the way he behaves. Because, this spot he's been running, saying that I believe that a child born with birth defects is born that way because of their parents' sin is just a damnable, palpable, despicable lie. I don't believe that. I never said anything like that. And it's that kind of dishonesty that, to me, says this is not the kind of person that needs to be holding state-wide office. Not shaking my hand really just confirmed that. "

Ken Klukowski has a report detailing reaction from black civil rights leaders over the insulting snub reports Breitbart News.

Dr. Alveda King—the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and one of America’s most prominent and respected civil rights leaders—said in a statement to Breitbart News:

I was saddened to learn today that Lt. Gov. candidate Ralph Northam refused to shake the hands of his opponent E.W. Jackson at the end of a television debate.  I am deeply burdened by the loss of civility in politics today. 

As one who has been elected to office as a Democratic Georgia State Representative, served as a Republican presidential appointee and who has often voted as an Independent, I have often said that we would all be better off without the political squabbles that tend to divide us. Refusing to shake hands with your opponent in front of a television audience takes the loss of civility to a new low. I would hope that his refusal to shake hands had nothing to do with the color of his opponent’s skin. 

In a troubled economy, people are looking for leaders who can bring everyone together to solve the problems that confront us all. It is my hope that in these last hours of the race, Ralph Northam will recognize his inappropriate behavior and offer an apology to E.W. Jackson and to all those he hopes to represent.

Dr. King’s reference to skin color is because Northam is white, while Jackson is African-American.

Ken Blackwell from the American Civil Rights Union—who has been elected to public office more than a dozen times and also received presidential appointments and Senate confirmations to several federal offices—also offered his reaction exclusively to Breitbart News, saying:

The Founders of the American republic understood that democracy only works when both sides can at least be civil to their opponents. Virginia voters need to decide if that disqualifies Ralph Northam from being lieutenant governor of the Old Dominion.  

Republican Earl Walker Jackson, Sr. is a Marine Corps vet, a Christian
minister and lawyer in Virginia.

Purple PAC makes a media buy for Libertarian in Virginia Governor's race

A Libertarian With Campaign Money

• The Purple PAC plans to spend at least $300,000 promoting Sarvis’s candidacy with TV ads.
• The Purple PAC was launched in 2013 to promote "purple" candidates - "red" when it comes to economic policy, "blue" when it comes to social policy.

The Purple PAC, a ”Super PAC” launched earlier this year, announced that it is making a significant ad buy promoting Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis for governor of Virginia.  The ad will run from Thursday, October 24th, through the end of the election in media outlets across the state.

“Both the Republican and Democratic candidates are right about each other,” said Edward H. Crane, president of the Purple PAC.  “Ken Cuccinelli is a socially intolerant, hard-right conservative with little respect for civil liberties.  Terry McAuliffe is a big government liberal with little respect for economic liberties.  Both have been engulfed in scandal.  Fortunately, Robert Sarvis offers an alternative, an agenda grounded in free markets and social tolerance,” reports Uncovered Politics.

In a press release announcing the media purchase, Crane noted that a majority of Virginians — 59 percent, according to a recent poll — describe themselves as fiscally conservative and socially tolerant.

“It’s time that the two major parties made room for those voters — a majority of the electorate — or risk losing them altogether,” he said.

“Robert Sarvis is running surprisingly well in Virginia despite having little money to spend and no exposure in the gubernatorial debates,” continued Crane, a former national chairman of the Libertarian Party and founder and president emeritus of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank.

“A strong showing by Sarvis will tell the political class that purple voters cannot be ignored or taken for granted lest campaigns be put at risk.  And there’s no better set of campaigns to put at risk than the desultory campaigns of Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe.”

Crane, who serves on the board of the Center for Competitive Politics, told the Washington Post that Purple PAC plans to spend at least $300,000 promoting Sarvis’s candidacy.

The 30-second television spot can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/77629652

According to its latest filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Purple PAC had raised $575,000 as of June 30th.  Its two largest contributors were Kentucky horse breeder Richard Masson and CATO board member and options trader Jeffrey S. Yass, managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group.  Masson and Yass, a longtime libertarian financier, had each contributed $250,000 as of that semi-annual filing.



 Terry McAuliffe (D) and Ken Cuccinelli (R)
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The voters like real choices on their ballot.  But the big money business and union supporters of the two major Virginia candidates for governor have spent almost $50,000,000 to tell the voters that they have only two choices.  Nobody gives huge contributions for nothing.  Naturally these big money backers will want pay back in one form or another from the state treasury.
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In recent history some voters have bucked the big money trend to buy politicians and elected third party and independent governors in states such as Alaska (see below), Connecticut, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Maine.
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See more at Third Party Officeholders in the United States.

 

William F. Buckley
Conservative Party Candidate for New York Mayor

Cuccinelli is far from the best choice for Virginia



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Columnist George Will supports Cuccinelli but he also understands Libertarian Sarvis.

Here is some of Will's column:


When William F. Buckley, running as the Conservative Party’s candidate for mayor of New York in 1965, was asked what he would do if he won, he replied: “Demand a recount.”

Robert Sarvis, Libertarian Party candidate for governor of Virginia, will not need to do this.

William Buckley won only 13.4 percent of the 1965 mayoralty vote, but he energized a growing constituency and legitimized the practice of voting outside the confines of traditional political choices.

Five years later, the New York Conservative Party’s U.S. Senate candidate — Buckley’s brother Jim — was elected with 38.8 percent of the vote in a three-way race.

Third-party candidacies are said to be like bees — they sting, then die. Still, Sarvis is enabling voters to register dissatisfaction with the prevailing political duopoly.

For the full George Will column go to:  Washington Post

The Eternal Question

Every two years it is the same question.  Do I vote for what I believe in?  or do I cast my vote for someone I don't like in order to stop another guy that I dislike even more?
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In 1965 not enough people voted for 3rd party William F. Buckley.  But only five years later piss off voters elected Conservative Party candidate Jim Buckley as a New York Senator.

Results  -  1970 New York Race for U.S. Senate

US Senate - New York - General election results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Lane Buckley	2,288,190	38.95
	Democratic	Richard Lawrence Ottinger	2,171,232	36.96
	Republican	Charles Goodell	1,178,679
	Liberal	Charles Goodell	225,793
	total	Charles Goodell	1,404,472	23.91
	Communist	Arnold Johnson	4,097	0.07
	Socialist Workers	Kipp Dawson	3,549	0.06
	Socialist Labor	John Emanuel	3,204	0.06

See more at:  Senate election in New York, 1970

 

Libertarian Banned from Virginia Governor's Debate - Free Elections do not Exist in America

Libertarian Robert Sarvis, center, Republican Ken Cuccinelli, left,
and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, right.

Freedom is Banned in America

The corrupt Elites decide that the voters are not allowed

to listen to the Libertarians or other parties.

• New Virginia Poll - - - -
• Democrat Terry McAuliffe 46%
• Republican Ken Cuccinelli 39%
• Libertarian Robert Sarvis 11%

More Freedom in Russia?  -  Something serious is wrong in America.  The Parliament in authoritarian Russia consists of four different political parties.  While back here in the good old USA the same two parties "magically" win 100% of all elections.

This has not always been the case.  The U.S. used to have free elections and was a multi-party Republic.  But no more.  Through corrupt fundraising and discriminatory election laws the major parties work overtime to prevent anything that might remotely look like a free election.

Libertarian Robert Sarvis has been banned from the final candidates’ debate in the Virginia governor’s race, one of the co-sponsors said.

With the voters angry at the GOP and the Democrats, the Libertarians have risen to 11% in the polls.  That is a threat to both entrench parties and their corrupt money backers.

Sarvis, who is running as a third-party candidate in the Nov. 5 election, has become a wild card in recent weeks as his rising numbers in public polls appeared to reflect a distaste among voters for either major-party candidate.

WDBJ (Channel 7) of Roanoke, which is co-hosting the Oct. 24 forum with Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, said on its Web site that Sarvis did not meet the required threshold of public support as reflected in recent polls before Thursday’s deadline reports the Washington Post.

"Corruptus in Extremis"
The two major parties and their lackeys ban smaller political parties from public debates.  But when the
smaller parties are doing well in the polls the big boys work extra hard to get them kicked off debates.

As a third-party candidate, Sarvis needed to draw support from at least 10 percent of those surveyed in major independent polls, as tracked by RealClearPolitics.com, over the past three weeks before the debate.  Naturally these are "required" percentages are totally made up numbers set by the entrenched major parties.

Sarvis issued a statement late Thursday criticizing a decision given a “patina of objectivity” but actually “designed to exclude.”

“A decision made two weeks in advance of the debate, an eternity this close to Election Day, based on an average of polls released over a three-week window effectively anchors us to the lower numbers of older polls, even though our numbers continue to rise in every poll,” Sarvis said in the statement. “I am disappointed, but not surprised.”

He added that his campaign, a “breath of fresh air” for Virginians, would carry on.

Also see Washington Examiner.

Banned from the 1996 Debates
In 1992 the voters were really pissed off.  Along comes independent Ross Perot who was allowed to participate in the Presidential debates and received nearly 20% of the nation's vote.  A 3rd party Perot received the highest percentage of the vote since Theodore Roosevelt's 27% in 1912.
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Perot goes on to form the new Reform Party to compete against the corrupt and entrenched major parties.  Come the 1996 elections the Democrats and Republicans see a threat to their lock on power and banned the Reform Party from the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.  Ban the candidate of a party that got nearly 20% of the vote!!!!
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Behind closed doors the "major" parties (and their whore media allies) decide for you what political thought you are allowed to listen to.  After all, too much new information might make you think for yourself.
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(Reform Party of the United States of America)

Feds scan workers & children like sheep



An early big government tracking system.
Holocaust survivor Sol Lurie shows his
Nazi Concentration Camp tattoo.

The American Sheeple

Big Brother mandated programs from schools to workplaces

that scan you and track your every move.  And the Sheeple

bleat, "We obey our Masters."

A Pennsylvania mining company sued by the federal government on behalf of a worker who refused a biometric handscan because he believes in the Bible's mark of the beast prophecy, said on Thursday that it supports religious freedom.

The Federal Equal Opportunity Employment Commission filed a lawsuit against Consul Energy Inc, stating that Beverly Butcher Jr. had worked at the company's coal mine in Mannington, West Virginia, for more than 35 years, until he was required to use a biometric hand scanner to track his hours.

Consul, with headquarters in Western Pennsylvania, was accused of discriminating against Butcher, who repeatedly told mining officials that using the scanner violated his Evangelical Christian beliefs, given his view of the relationship between hand-scanning technology and the mark of the beast in the New Testament's Book of Revelation, the lawsuit said reports Reuters News.

According to the Christian Bible, the mark is implanted on the forehead or right hand and symbolizes allegiance to the antichrist.

Though alternatives to hand scans were found for two employees with missing fingers, the EEOC claims Butcher was forced into early retirement because no provision was made for him.

"The focus is on whether the employer can provide an accommodation without incurring an undue hardship," Philadelphia EEOC regional attorney Debra Lawrence said in a statement.

The company on Thursday declined to comment on the lawsuit but said it did its best to accommodate religious beliefs.

"In appropriate cases we make reasonable accommodations to address any conflict with sincerely held religious beliefs," said company spokeswoman Lynn Seay in a statement.

EEOC District Director Spencer Lewis, Jr. said the company violated Butcher's civil rights when "they obstinately refused to consider easy alternatives to their new hand-scanning time and attendance system to accommodate Mr. Butcher's religious beliefs."

Neither Butcher, whose age was not immediately known, nor EEOC officials were available for further comment.


See our article Student Expelled for Refusing Location Tracking RFID Chip.

Gov't Bribing School Children With Candy

To Wear RFID Chip

Steve and Andrea Hernandez of Spychips.com who talk with Alex in-studio about San Antonio area High School honor student who has refused to wear a school mandated RFID tracking beacon around her neck because doing so conflicts with her religious beliefs.

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Big Brother is Bipartisan
The endless and insane 1984 Police State programs are eagerly and fully funded by
the Democrat Senate and the GOP House of Representatives.

Secret Service spied on political rallies.

 

Big Brother is Watching

License plate readers used to record those

who attend political rallies.

What could possibly go wrong?  -  The Big Brother Police State is now using license plate scanners to compile lists of the names and addresses of supposedly free citizens who attend political rallies.

It would be wrong to think that our Lords and Masters in the Imperial capitol of Washington might misuse that information to crack down on political dissent.

The U.S. Secret Service requested that state police use one of its automated license plate readers at the entrance to the Pentagon to capture and store the plate images as an extra level of security for the inauguration, which was attended by an estimated 1.8 million people.

The same was requested for the political rallies.

Virginia State Police recorded the license plates of every vehicle arriving from Virginia to attend Barack Obama’s first inauguration in Washington in 2009, as well as those at campaign rallies three months earlier in Leesburg for then-candidate Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin reports the Virginia Daily Progress.

 

The license plate readers requested for the political events “would detect any stolen vehicles attempting to enter the outer perimeter of the event and possibly allow for some record of attendees in the event that a serious [incident] occurred,” a state police sergeant wrote in a 2009 letter that outlined some of the department’s uses for the license plate reader technology.

 

Up until a February legal opinion issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the collection and dissemination of license plate reader data, state police beginning in 2010 had stored the images of roughly 8 million license plates — some for as long as three years — on a server in the department’s data center at state police headquarters in Chesterfield County, said state police Sgt. Robert Alessi, the department’s statewide coordinator for the program.

 

But the department says all of it was purged in early March, after Cuccinelli advised that collecting and storing such data in a “passive manner” that is not directly related to a criminal investigation would be in violation of the state’s Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which recently published a national study on the privacy concerns of law enforcement use of license plate reader technology, criticized the gathering of such data at political rallies and the inauguration, and said that Virginians should be outraged by the state police’s recording of 8 million license plate images.

 

Judge Napolitano on license plate cameras

 

 

 

The ACLU said the collection of license plate reader information presents a threat to citizens’ privacy that, if left unchecked, will allow police and government agencies to build databases on the movements of millions of Americans over months and even years. Attached to police cars or mounted along roadways, the scanners can identify vehicles almost instantly and collect records on every license plate they encounter.

 

“We don’t think this type of passive collection of information should be used, and there isn’t any reason to do it unless you’re going to store the data for some future use,” said Claire Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia.

 

Gastañaga called the recording of license plates of vehicles driving to political rallies and Obama’s inauguration from Virginia “pretty astounding,” even if it was done with the best intentions of enhancing security.

 

“It’s a situation where you’re collecting a lot of information on a lot of people to potentially use if something bad happens at some unspecified future time and some unspecified situation,” she said. That line of reasoning, she said, “would justify a camera on every street corner recording all of our movements at all times, because it would be expedient to be able to have that to refer back to if there’s a bank robbery there two years from now.”

 

 

NAACP: "Take down Robert E. Lee's painting."

An American Hero Wearing Blue
Robert E. Lee at age 31 in 1838, as a Lieutenant of
Engineers in the U. S. Army.

NAACP - Take down Robert E. Lee's painting. 

Yes, do it, but put up the painting of his hero father, General

Light Horse Harry Lee in its place.

The president of an NAACP branch in Florida has petitioned members of the Lee County Commission to take down a painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee, calling the former Confederate leader a historic symbol of racism.

The painting of Lee has been up since 1929.  So one could say that the NAACP is looking to create an issue just for the sake of creating an issue.  Be that as it may, personally, I have no problem with taking down Lee's painting.

Sorry to any readers from the South, but Lee was a traitor and an oath breaker.  He swore to protect the Constitution and instead raised armies to kill those who kept their oath to the Constitution.  One can debate if Lee is a symbol of racism or not.  But there is no doubt he was a traitor.


Fellow Virginian Winfield Scott wanted Lee to
command the Union Army.  But Lee chose
to break his oath to the Constitution.

Lee County was named after the general in 1887 — 22 years after the Civil War wrapped, the Fort Myers News-Press said.

But James Muwakkil, of the Lee County chapter of the NAACP, said the painting, which has hung in the county commission’s meeting room for years, divides the community.

“That painting is a symbol of racism. It’s a symbol of divisiveness, and it doesn’t unify Lee County. It divides Lee County,” Mr. Muwakkil said in a letter, the News-Press reported.

County Commissioner Larry Kiker said the commission would have to hold a public meeting on the issue.

“I would be looking for thoughtful conversation based upon the historical value and why it was put there to begin with, mainly because I don’t know too much about it,” he told the News-Press reported.

The painting hails back decades. The county’s commissioners in 1929 asked Virginia lawmakers to help them get a portrait of Lee, the paper reported.

(Washington Times)

An American Traitor Wearing Grey
The fact of the matter is Lee took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.  He chose to break his oath and actively general a rebellion that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans who remained loyal to the Constitution.
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Lee's painting should be taken down and replaced with that of a real hero, Lee's father, General Light Horse Harry Lee.

A Hero Wearing Blue
General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III
Federalist Party Congressman, Governor, Father of Robert E. Lee

Henry Lee  -  The painting that should be

hanging in Lee County.

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What would Robert E. Lee's father have thought about his son actively making war against the very nation and Constitution he and fellow Virginian George Washington created?
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With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Lee became a captain in a Virginia dragoon detachment, which was attached to the 1st Continental Light Dragoons. In 1778, Lee was promoted to major and given the command of a mixed corps of cavalry and infantry known as Lee's Legion, with which he won a great reputation as a leader of light troops.
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It was during his time as commander of the Legion that Lee earned the sobriquet of "Light-Horse Harry" for his horsemanship. On September 22, 1779 the Continental Congress voted to present Lee with a gold medal—a reward given to no other officer below a general's rank—for the Legion's actions during the Battle of Paulus Hook in New Jersey, on August 19 of that year.
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Lee was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was assigned with his Legion to the southern theater of war. Lee's Legion raided the British outpost of Georgetown, South Carolina in January 1781 and helped screen the American army in their Race to the Dan River the following month.
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Lee united with General Francis Marion and General Andrew Pickens in the spring of 1781 to capture numerous British outposts in South Carolina and Georgia including Fort Watson, Fort Motte, Fort Granby, Fort Galphin, Fort Grierson, and Fort Cornwallis, Augusta, Georgia. They conducted a campaign of terror and intimidation against Loyalists in the region, highlighted in Pyle's Massacre.



Battle of Yorktown
Henry Lee was present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
 

Henry Lee and his legion also served at the Battle of Guilford Court House, the Siege of Ninety-Six, and the Battle of Eutaw Springs. He was present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
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During the infamous Whiskey Rebellion, Lee commanded the 13,000 militiamen sent to quash the rebels.
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On July 27, 1812, Lee received grave injuries while helping to resist an attack on his friend and fellow Federalist, Alexander Contee Hanson, editor of the Baltimore newspaper, The Federal Republican. Hanson was attacked by a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican mob because his paper opposed the War of 1812.
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Lee and Hanson and two dozen other Federalists had taken refuge in the offices of the paper. The group surrendered to Baltimore city officials the next day and were jailed. Laborer George Woolslager led a mob that forced its way into the jail, removed the Federalists, beating and torturing them over the next three hours.  Lee was left partially blinded after hot wax was poured into his eyes.
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All were severely injured, and one Federalist, General James Lingan, died.