July 26, 2020: Founding Fathers Put Slavery on Path to Extinction by Protecting Slavery in Constitution

 

7/26/20: I swear, I’m going to keep this short. Short sentences. 

Short!

 

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“From my observation, those demonstrators – our fellow American citizens – were engaged in the peaceful expression of their First Amendment rights.” 

Maj. Adam DeMarco

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If you missed the story, Sen. Tom Cotton offered up an interesting take on American history Sunday. He’s against the 1619 Project. That initiative, backed by The New York Times, is a free teaching resource. The emphasis is on the impact of slavery and racism in our nation’s history. 

Sen. Cotton is against it. He explained his opposition: 

We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.

 

See, African Americans! Stop protesting! The suffering of your ancestors was a “necessary evil.”

Slavery - a necessary evil???

 

Get over the fact that slaves labored without pay for 246 years. The Founding Fathers were working hard for the “ultimate extinction” of their bondage. Also, don’t be mad, just because the Founding Fathers counted five of you as three white people, when determining state population. 

Don’t be mad about another century of Jim Crow laws. Don’t be mad because white people used to lynch your ancestors with impunity. Don’t be mad because many states figured out ways to keep you from voting until the 1960s. Don’t be mad because some states still try to keep you from voting today. 

Maybe pretend George Floyd is sleeping. 

Also, if you don’t like it here, you can leave. No kneeling allowed! So says former Chicago Bears coach, Mike Ditka. “If you can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country,” he grumbled last week.

 

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SPEAKING OF ASSHOLES, last week the president mocked the mayor of Portland after he was tear-gassed during a protest. That is how you support local government. Send in quasi-military forces. Don’t ask mayors if they want help. 

Also gas a wall of mothers. 

Trump described the glorious scene to Sean Hannity, another asshole in our story. Mayor Ted Wheeler, said the president, “made a fool out of himself. He wanted to be among the people, so he went into the crowd and they knocked the hell out of him. That was the end of him. So that was pretty pathetic.” 

Helpful words from the Asshole-in-Chief. 

As for those mothers, they had linked arms across a Portland street. They hoped to keep Trump’s paramilitary forces and protesters apart. Trump’s boys unleashed the gas. Well, you couldn’t put anything past this president! “The ‘protesters’ are actually anarchists who hate our Country,” he tweeted Sunday. “The line of innocent ‘mothers’ were a scam that Lamestream refuses to acknowledge, just like they don’t report the violence of these demonstrations!” 

Scam mothers!

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One does not testify against this president and thrive. 

ALSO, WE HAVE scam majors! Maj. Adam DeMarco has braved fire before, during a combat tour in Iraq. Tuesday, he plans to testify before Congress. Expect him to take “friendly fire” from the president. 

As a top commander of the Washington D.C. National Guard, he issued a statement Monday. It relates to the events of June 1. This was the day President Trump made his thousand-foot “Selma March” in reverse. That evening, peaceful protesters were driven away from the White House. Trump and a party of toadies walked one-fifth of a mile – so brave – so brave. Then Donald stood before a nearby church and hoisted his favorite book to not read in triumph. 

DeMarco’s statement makes clear. He plans to testify in keeping with his “oath to support and defend the Constitution.” He will describe the scene that night. Park Police, he noted, were armed with tear gas. He was told it was not to be used. “From what I could observe,” he plans to say, “the demonstrators were behaving peacefully, exercising their First Amendment rights.” 

He saw Attorney General Bill Barr trundle out from the White House at 6:05 p.m. and confer with law enforcement officials. Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was there. He told DeMarco to be sure National Guard troops remained calm. Milley said “that we were there to respect the demonstrators’ First Amendment rights.” A curfew was set to go into force at 7 p.m. Barr (or someone else) ordered Lafayette Park cleared.

DeMarco will testify that tear gas was used. After the mayhem subsided, he found “spent tear gas cannisters” on the street. 

Team Trump has denied that gas was deployed.

 

Maj. DeMarco will cite the example of the late Congressman John Lewis in testifying. Lewis lay in state Monday in the U.S. Capitol. 

(President Trump, petty as ever, was a “no show.”)

 

…the events I witnessed at Lafayette Square on the evening of June 1 were deeply disturbing to me [DeMarco will say], and to fellow National Guardsmen. Having served in a combat zone, and understanding how to assess threat environments, at no time did I feel threatened by the protestors [emphasis added] or assess them to be violent…

 

From my observation, those demonstrators – our fellow American citizens – were engaged in the peaceful expression of their First Amendment rights. Yet they were subjected to an unprovoked escalation and excessive use of force.

 

As the late Representative John Lewis said, “When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something, to do something.”

 

The oath I swore as a military officer, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, is a bedrock guiding principle and, for me, constitutes an individual moral commitment and ethical instruction. It is the foundation of the trust safely placed in the Armed Forces by the American people. And it compels me to say something – and do something – about what I witnessed on June 1 at Lafayette Square.

 

Like Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified in regard to Trump’s problematic phone call with the president of Ukraine, we must assume DeMarco is going to ruin his career. One does not testify against this president and thrive.