Timothy Birdnow

One of the cornerstones of liberal revolution - indeed, any revolution - is to not just change people's minds but to make it so there is nothing to remember. In other words, they seek to erase the past. See, their ideas are predicated on no competition; everyone has to go along or they won't work, the thinking goes, and to accomplish this one must make it so nobody knows there WAS a beforehand. George Orwell illustrated that in his novel 1984 with ideas like Newspeak, a way to make it impossible to even think incorrectly by changing language. Ditto Aldous Huxley, who showed how history was carefully manipulated by sleep teaching techniques and jingles.

In fact, the Islamic world (a cult of tyranny if there ever were one) has done this sort of thing for centuries, starting with Muhammed's destruction of the idols in the Ka'ba when he took Mecca. Instead of allowing those idols to remain as historical relics and reminders of the bad old days when the People worshipped them he smashed and demolished them, an attempt to wipe them from the memory of the newly conquered people.

I wrote about this and about the Left's mini-me version of it at Canada Free Press a few years ago.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/murdering-memorials-god-and-man-in-st.-louis

Liberals hate American monuments for the same reason as the Muslims; they are a reminder that there was a time before their immaculate coming, a time when people were free and often more happy. They can't have that, so they seek to remove these reminders.

Writing in American Thinker Monica Showalter discusses the removal of Confederate memorials in that most Confederate city of New Orleans. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/the_talibanlike_attack_on_new_orleans_history.html

She is right to be concerned about it and does a decent job of criticizing the repressive liberals. But I fear she misses the point in that she fails to mention the reason for it, this attempt to impose amnesia on the American People. And, as I say, even if you think the Confederacy was the equivalent of the Third Reich (which it most assuredly was not) shouldn't we remember it so as not to repeat its mistakes?

After all, concentration camps remain preserved for our memory. But the Left knows the Confederacy was NOT the Third Reich and that there is still a warm sentiment toward it in the deep South. It must be eraseed! There can be no reminder of any alternative to the Progressive worker's paradise.

It's happening here in St. Louis as well. There have been repeated attempts to remove the confederate memorial from Forest Park, the heart of the city of St. Louis. While it has failed in the past new efforts are underway to dispose of this piece of Missouri history.

Missouri was a border state and was held in the Union purely by force. Unlike the misnamed Civil War back east, Missouri pitted people from the same state in combat over the direction of Missouri. Eventually Union troops prevailed, but not before a valiant and often vicious stand by the pro-Confederate side. We can honor both sides in that war here, and should if we are to remember who we are as a People.

But leftists never accept such things. They are sore losers and ungracious winners and when they do triumph they immediately attack their fallen foes. If they could they would urinate on the graves of their enemies.

Take what happened at St.Louis University. After the "Occupy SLU" leftists invaded the University campus SLU President Fred Pistello cut a deal to honor the terrorists with a statue. Shortly thereafter a chorus of complaints erupted against the statue of Fr. Desmet, the Jesuit responsible for converting many native Americans in the West. He was, the complaints claimed, a racist white guy and the statue humiliated the Indians, who are portrayed as kneeling before him (as any good Catholic would do when receiving the Sacrament of Reconcilliation back then.) The University removed the statue despite protests from alumni, and while it was supposed to be relocated to the University's museum it has remained in a bssement, covered with tarps. And while the University was forced to abandon (for now) the statue honoring the brave trespassers who invaded the campus (and whom the President and administration refused to simply evict) the statue honoring the University's Jesuit tradition remains hidden, a victim of the iconoclasty of leftists.

I am mindful of the Book of Daniel 7:25:

"25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."

Doesn't that sound exactly like the modern Left? They think to change times and laws. They attack, attack, attack and wear out their opponents.

And striking at the memorials, at the symbols and images and memories, is key to "wear out the Saints". It's how they roll.

We have got to stop growing so weary. They can be beaten by the very same tactics they employ. Remember they are human too (although one wonders at that some times.) If we are tired so are they. They maintain their energy because the media and academia presents an artificial image of their victories. We must disabuse them of that lie.

It can be done. We need to stand up.

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