That Democrats
in general—and the Biden administration in particular-- are engaged in an
attack on all things American is as plain as the arched and starched eyebrows
on Nancy Pelosi’s face.
Exhibit 1:
Kenneth Harrelson walked around the Capitol Rotunda and took pictures of “the
People’s House” on January 6th. He was indicted and charged for
doing so. Subsequently, in an unsigned letter dated June 13th, Biden’s Veterans’ Administration (VA)
informed Harrelson and his family that it would be suspending all his benefits payments
for his alleged actions during the “Stop the Steal” rally.
Reacting to the case, Joseph McBridge, an attorney for
other January 6 defendants, told the Epoch Times, “This is
disgusting. It’s completely [expletive] up. Kenny Harrelson is entitled to his
benefits. He’s merely been accused of a crime and the idea he is going
to be stripped of his military medical benefits is without question a violation
of his due process rights. That’s crazy. It’s a disgrace. It’s an absolute
disgrace. He’s accused and presumed innocent until proven guilty and his family
is certainly innocent. All of this is absolutely horrific.”
Rep. Louis Gohmert told the Times: “Somebody
knew what they were doing when they sent that letter without a signature,
without a name. That’s the kind of hiding behind a federal position you get
when you have evil, abusive, vindictive people in federal employment. They knew
what they were doing when they sent that without a signature and without their name
on it.”
The pertinent law in this case states that a veteran’s
benefits can only be suspended upon conviction of an offense. But
Democrats rarely let little things like laws stand in the way of their getting
what they want-- or punishing those with whom they disagree.
Exhibit 2: The National Archives has now affixed a warning
label on the U.S. Constitution.
Yes, the webpage of the U.S. National Archives, the one that sports
the nation’s founding Constitution, now has a “harmful language alert” for readers at the top of the page. In fact, that warning now appears
on multiple pages on the archives.org website-- and links to a page titled
“NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content.”
Exhibit 3: Fireworks displays were canceled in many U.S. cities
and counties this year, allegedly due to supply chain issues, labor shortages,
and concerns over potential wildfires. After two years of coronavirus
lockdowns, this was the third straight Independence Day without a fireworks
display for many locales. Fireworks shows were canceled
in places like Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona; North Lake Tahoe and Imperial
Beach, California; College Park and Ocean City, Maryland; Lakewood and Parker,
Colorado; and Galveston, Texas; among many, many others.
Governor Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) said the Biden administration would
again prevent South Dakota from celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks
at Mount Rushmore. After the administration rejected Noem’s permit request for
fireworks last year, the Mount Rushmore State again applied to hold fireworks at
the iconic national memorial this year. That request, too, was denied.
Noem added, “One of the reasons that they are doing that, I
think, is specific to punishing South Dakota, but they claim lots of other
reasons but they’re ignoring federal law by denying us that permit.”
Exhibit 4: The Pima County Democratic Party
wrote (in a since-deleted tweet) to promote a July 4 event titled “F*ck the Fourth,” sponsored by the Tucson
Women’s March. Except that they used a “u” instead of an asterisk. The rally, held in Tucson’s Reid Park, was to “mourn” the
U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Constitution and send the question
of abortion rights back to the states. In another post advertising the
gathering, the women’s rights group urged attendees to “Bring comfortable
shoes, water, lawn chairs, posters, and your anger.” Yeah, especially “your
anger.” Ignorant. Spoiled. Entitled. Evil.
Ronald Reagan famously noted, “Freedom is never more than one
generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the
same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our
children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were
free.”
Dwight Eisenhower once said: “Freedom has its life in the
hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and
refreshed — else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither
and die.”
John Adams exclaimed, “Posterity! You will
never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I
hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven
that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
John Adams, again, writing about the Declaration of Independence to his wife Abigail: “I am apt to believe that it
will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary
Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts
of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shows, Games,
Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent
to the other from this Time forward forever more.”
It is a long way from there to “F*ck the Fourth.” Down
a road that ought not have been travelled.
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