This continues my efforts to
share history that does not get the attention it deserves. It usually
runs counter to the prevailing left leaning historical accounts that
dominate the nation's libraries, publishing houses, public schools and
universities, historians, politicians and the public at large. I know
most of you cannot take the time to read this whole piece in one
sitting. But I do encourage you to read bits and pieces when time
permits. You will learn historical facts and not what left leaning
revisionists historians want you to think is history. They want you to
believe what they want you to believe about both the good and bad that
is history. Some actual history is changed/altered ever so slightly,
sometimes vital history is omitted, sometimes it is what the author
wants you to think and other times history is totally rewritten.
The tragedy of this fact is what Aldous Huxley said many years ago:
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most
important of all the lessons of history." That is because as Napoleon
Bonaparte noted "History is the version of past events that people have
decided to agree upon." I would modify the quote to read "...that some
people have decided upon...". That is what has been happening for many
years to history as written by progressive historians. I urge you to
check out any items you may think are incorrect. Be aware, though, that
revised history is not true history. That means you need to check the
actual historical record versus the words of revisionist historians.
A succinct but
powerful assessment of the debasement of history being perpetrated
by progressives. Quote: "There are lots of strange paradoxes in the
current frenzied liberal dissection of past sins. One, a historic
figure must be near perfect in all dimensions of his or her complex life
to now pass progressive muster. That Jefferson is responsible for
helping to establish many of the cherished human rights now enshrined in
American life apparently cannot offset the transgression of having
owned slaves. Two, today's moral standards are always considered
superior to those of the past. Ethical sense supposedly always improves
with time...Three, the sins of the past were hardly all committed by
racist, sexist, conservative white men." http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2015/08/06/historys-complexity-should-discourage-retroactive-morality-n2035176/page/full
This is a powerful history lesson. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/american_churches_on_the_wrong_side_of_history.html
This is the best succinct
discussion of the true history of Islam I have read. Progressive
revisionist history has so distorted this history that very few know it.
If anyone does not believe this is real history they need to
avoid researching progressive revisionists history sources as
cautioned in the article. Quote: "One of the primary reasons Islamic
and Western nations are “worlds apart” is because the way they
understand the world is worlds apart. Whereas Muslims see the world
through the lens of history, the West has jettisoned or rewritten
history to suit its ideologies. This dichotomy of Muslim and Western
thinking is evident everywhere. When the Islamic State declared that it
will “conquer Rome” and “break its crosses,” few in the West realized
that those are the verbatim words and goals of Islam’s founder and his
companions as recorded in Muslim sources—words and goals that prompted
over a thousand years of jihad on Europe." http://humanevents.com/2015/10/02/muslim-history-vs-western-fantasy-the-refugee-crisis-in-context/? More detail here: http://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/onlinediscipleship/understandingislam/islamhistory0212.aspx The
1000 plus years war Islam conducted against European nations ultimately
resulted in the launching of the Christian Crusades has resumed - the
tactics are different this time but the desired results are the
same. Progressives and Obama are aiding and abetting the resumption of
this Muslim jihad against the western world. Europe is in the front
end of this Jihad and things are not going well for them directly
because they have followed the progressive mode of accommodating a hoard
of Muslim immigrants and now middle eastern Muslim refugees bent on
taking over sometime in the future.. In time the problems Europe now
face will migrate here. Obama is speeding things along.
The contributions of George
Washington to this nation are largely and regrettably ignored in today's
history books, by the public at large, academics and the majority of
politicians of all stripes. http://townhall.com/columnists/davidboaz/2015/02/22/draft-n1960139/page/full
How about taking a look at our
third president, Thomas Jefferson? He, too, gets short shrift by
current day leaders, academics, politicians and Americans of all
stripes. Wisdom like this is sorely missed. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/jeffersonian-wisdom-for-today/
Here is another item that clarifies at least two of the inaccurate
accounts of Jefferson as interpreted by latter day progressives and
their revisionist history. http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/04/02/who-was-the-real-thomas-jefferson/
Born 225 years ago Tocqueville
foresaw what would some day likely happen to the America he so admired.
He was truly prescient. Quote: "Tocqueville foresaw an “immense
tutelary power”—the modern state—which would degrade men rather than
destroy their bodies. Over time, he feared, the state would take away
citizens’ free will, their capacity to think and act, reducing them to
“a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the
shepherd.” Are contemporary China and Russia substantially
different?" http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/29/born-225-years-ago-tocqueville-predicted-the-tyranny-of-the-majority-in-our-modern-world/?
What was Lincoln's purpose in
engaging in the Civil War? What the modern progressive historians say
is not the reason. It does not fit the leftist narrative and has a firm
hold in modern day history accounts. Lincoln's purpose for those who
think they know will possibly shock them. Quote: In a letter to Horace
Greely in 1862, he wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to
save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I
could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I
could save the Union by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I
could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do
that." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/lincoln_vs_lee_how_history_is_distorted_to_preserve_legends_.html
The government does not have the
right or Constitutional authority to do this but FDR did it anyway. It
was a rip off by the government to cover itself, its interests.
Despite claims it was for the good of the country the opposite turned
out to be true. The government needed the money for what it wanted to
do. http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/nicksorrentino/2015/01/31/when-fdr-made-gold-illegal-to-own-for-everyday-people--at-the-point-of-a-gun-n1950814?
This bit of history is
instructive for those who wish to understand Russia during the reign of
terror imposed by the communists. The article is about Robert Conquest,
historian extraordinaire. He was born in Russia, reared a communist
but later rejected it and sought its destruction. Quote: "Conquest
lived to see a current U.S. presidential candidate, a senator, who had
chosen, surely as an ideological gesture, to spend his honeymoon in the
Soviet Union in 1988. Gulags still functioned, probably including some
of the “cold Auschwitzes” in Siberia, described in Conquest’s “Kolyma.”
The honeymooner did not mind that in 1988 political prisoners were — as
may still be the case — being tortured in psychiatric “hospitals.”
Thanks to the unblinking honesty of people like Conquest, the Soviet
Union now is such a receding memory that Bernie Sanders’ moral
obtuseness — the obverse of Conquest’s character — is considered an
amusing eccentricity." Think about it! Bernie Sanders is now
drawing huge crowds within progressive/ liberal/Democrat ranks. That
should tell you all you need to know about the current state of the
political philosophy of a huge number
of progressive/liberal/Democrat adherents, including our president,
Democratic candidates Clinton and Sanders among others not in the race.
By the way plenty of Republicans are progressives, too. That
Republican characteristic goes all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt. http://humanevents.com/2015/08/10/how-robert-conquests-history-book-made-history/?
This is an interesting piece
that covers dialogue about where our "rights" come from. It takes
place between the president of the Alabama State Supreme Court and CNN
news anchor Chris Cuomo. The dialogue is followed by a series of
items recounting what the founders used and considered as they
constructed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/cnn-anchor-americans-rights-do-not-come-from-god/
When this award winning
researcher got an award in Australia the mostly leftist audience was
stunned to silence. His research and writing provides detail accounts
of the damage communists and unions did during World War II in Australia
by subverting delivery of equipment and supplies to allied forces
fighting the war against Japan. Quote: "My speech, briefly outlining a
few of the instances strikes, go-slows, and sabotage that had undermined
Australia’s war effort – with the gruesomely appropriate figure of 6
million days directly lost through strikes – was heard in silence."
And, "It also made the point that the left-leaning history industry has
largely glossed over the whole question of wartime strikes, sabotage,
and go-slows." And here: "The award was a triumph for Quadrant’s new conservative publishing house. The Quadrant magazine
was founded in 1956, partly in response to the Soviet Union crushing
Hungary. The magazine has flown the flag of intellectual conservatism,
often against daunting odds, for 58 years. We got out the champagne. The
leftie luvvies did not join us." http://spectator.org/articles/61286/winning-pm%E2%80%99s-history-prize-and-upsetting-lefty-luvvies
This is an exceptional piece on the Constitution. Recommend everyone read it...well worth the insights you will gain. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/a_littlenoted_masterpiece_of_constitutional_scholarship_by_justice_thomas.html
It is disingenuous to shield the
truth from the public for political reasons. This item is a case in
point regarding the nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of WWII.
Quote: "To the victors go the spoils, and the American victors were the
ones running the war crimes tribunals and thus also determined the
content of my history text books. <<America’s Leaders Knew that Japan was Searching for ways to Honorably Surrender Months before Hiroshima>>> American
intelligence agencies, with the full knowledge of President Roosevelt’s
and President Truman’s administrations, were fully aware of Japan’s
search for ways to honorably surrender months before Truman gave the
fateful order to incinerate Hiroshima." And, "It might already be too
late to rescue and resuscitate the (mythical?) moribund humanitarian,
peacemaking America that we used to know and love. It might be too late
to effectively confront the corporate hijacking of liberal democracy in
America. It might be too late to successfully bring down the arrogant
and greedy ruling elites who are selfishly dragging our planet down the
road to destruction. The rolling coups d’etat orchestrated by the
profiteers of what I call Friendly American Fascism may have already
accomplished its goals." https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/gary-g-kohls/lies-my-history-teacher-told-me/
George Burns
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