The Rest of the September 17 Story

 As usual, major media sources -- and I'm picking mostly but not exclusively upon TV -- generally had little to report regarding President Trump's words about the country and American history when he appeared at the National Archives Museum on 9/17.

Rather than report anything positive about Trump (this is hands-down the damndest floppy-eared, one-sided activist press I've encountered in my lifetime), they "press" on with "breaking news" about such shockers as Trump's income tax reports, where even legal tax breaks somehow give the media something to chew on in its modern vacuous existence.

While some of my fellow Americans of a UFO interest ilk continue to worship Harry Reid, Hillary and Bill Clinton and John Podesta as great heroes of potential UFO "disclosure" attempts, count me out and pardon me if I focus elsewhere.

Today, I simply want to lay out, for those who may have missed them, Trump's comments, written no doubt with the assistance of the often under-appreciated Stephen Miller.  This is also available at the White House web site, of course, but after watching college mayhem and street rats at work, I thought it might be of interest to emphasize that, love him or hate him, we in the U.S. really have no other choice when the elections play out.

(A reminder:  I'm a political Independent, and if Amy Coney Barrett becomes a Supreme Court Justice I would continue to hope women are allowed to decide reproductive issues for themselves.)

Everything from this point encompasses Trump's speech:


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Remarks by President Trump at the White House Conference on American History

Issued on: September 17, 2020

National Archives Museum
Washington, D.C.

2:54 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, Mike. A great Vice President. I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History. So important.

Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character. We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world. (Applause.)

To grow up in America is to live in a land where anything is possible, where anyone can rise, and where any dream can come true — all because of the immortal principles our nation’s founders inscribed nearly two and a half centuries ago.

That’s why we have come to the National Archives, the sacred home of our national memory. In this great chamber, we preserve our glorious inheritance: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

On this very day in 1787, our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It was the fulfillment of a thousand years of Western civilization. Our Constitution was the product of centuries of tradition, wisdom, and experience. No political document has done more to advance the human condition or propel the engine of progress.

Yet, as we gather this afternoon, a radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured and precious inheritance. We can’t let that happen. (Applause.) Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy. Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “America was never great.” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the rule of law in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, establishment media, and even large corporations.

Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.

We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed.

The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.

As many of you testified today, the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It’s gone on far too long. Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.

The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies. There is no better example than the New York Times’ totally discredited 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom.

Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history. (Applause.)

The narratives about America being pushed by the far-left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries — because both groups want to see America weakened, derided, and totally diminished.

Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed. Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.

A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution. This document alleged that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking, the nuclear family, and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of “whiteness.” This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged.

Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words. For many years now, the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness. But they’re wrong.

There is no more powerful force than a parent’s love for their children. And patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country. American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at our work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square. Not anymore. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

We embrace the vision of Martin Luther King, where children are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that to happen.

Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.

That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible. (Applause.)

The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.

Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history. (Applause.)

We are joined by some of the respected scholars involved in this project, including Professor Wilfred McClay. Wilfred, please. Thank you very much. Welcome. (Applause.) Thank you. Dr. Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Peter. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. And Ted Rebarber. Thank you, Ted. (Applause.) Thank you very much, Ted.

Today, I am also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. It will be called the “1776 Commission.” (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding. Think of that — 250 years.

Recently, I also signed an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who have ever lived.

Today, I am announcing a new name for inclusion.
One of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was a patriot from Delaware. In July of 1776, the Continental Congress was deadlocked during the debate over independence. The delegation from Delaware was divided. Caesar Rodney was called upon to break the tie.

Even though he was suffering from very advanced cancer — he was deathly ill — Rodney rode 80 miles through the night, through a severe thunderstorm, from Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote for independence.

For nearly a century, a statue of one of Delaware’s most beloved citizens stood in Rodney Square, right in the heart of Wilmington.

But this past June, Caesar Rodney’s statue was ordered removed by the mayor and local politicians as part of a radical purge of America’s founding generation.

Today, because of an order I signed, if you demolish a statue without permission, you immediately get 10 years in prison. (Applause.) And there have been no statues demolished for the last four months, incredibly, since the time I signed that act.

Joe Biden said nothing as to his home state’s history and the fact that it was dismantled and dismembered. And a Founding Father’s statue was removed.

Today, America will give this Founding Father, this very brave man, who was so horribly treated, the place of honor he deserves. I am announcing that a statue of Caesar Rodney will be added to the National Garden of American Heroes. (Applause.)

From Washington to Lincoln, from Jefferson to King, America has been home to some of the most incredible people who have ever lived. With the help of everyone here today, the legacy of 1776 will never be erased. Our heroes will never be forgotten. Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and all of their soul.

We will save this cherished inheritance for our children, for their children, and for every generation to come. This is a very important day.

Thank you all once again for being here. Now I will sign the Constitution Day Proclamation. God Bless You. And God Bless America. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you.

(The proclamation is signed.) (Applause.)

Ding-Dong

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg is gone.  A friend of mine, retired from the medical profession insists, tongue-in-cheek of course, that she probably passed away weeks ago, her body yet refreshed with drugs, careful photography and a burning emotional ember of dislike for President Trump.

We can honor the person in death, but we can also condemn the radical leftist whose far-out ideas were simply bizarre and antithetical to established roots of American culture.

As tributes fly and words of gratitude cascade across the nation's most hallowed grounds, let history nevertheless not forget Justice Ginsburg's extremist views.  We'll not explore them here, for they are readily available in her writings and decisions.

Along with her demise comes the Democrats' shock realization that their influential decades of riding herd over The Court and many lower courts may soon become little but dust in the wind for years to come.

The Dangers of UFOs and Toilet Paper

Presidential elections grow ever closer and the mainstream media's hair is on fire as if both a product and manipulator of a war which ignites out of control especially every four years.  The same tired old hacks of what was once called the "new journalism" continue to grind out words and then flame out, hoping somehow to remain relevant, many of them obviously longing for a return to the days of Obama and Biden, when everything was promised and nothing much evolved except racial disparity and a suddenly very wealthy First Couple.

Funny.  As long as I've followed the UFO subject -- and that encompasses somewhere around 60 years, additionally creeping into the fifties when I was a kid -- all manner of UFO writers and investigators have peddled the theory that the government would never tell the people the "truth" about UFOs. The truth, as it flows throughout society to this very day, holds that the possibility of something or somebody else riding herd over human existence and coming and going at will across skies and borders with the performance of seemingly impossible aerodynamic maneuvers is knowledge which governments are censoring in order to avoid panic.  Panic.

Panic.

Which brings me to journalist Bob Woodward and his ASTOUNDING REVELATION picked up and cackled about by the Washington Post, Sixty Minutes and others that President Donald Trump lied, lied and lied some more to us, telling the public that Covid-19 (It's much more fun to call it what is apparently is, the "Wuhan Flu") wasn't a-l-l-l-l-l that bad -- while telling Woodward and others that Covid-19 was indeed very serious, much more serious than he stated early on.

So now the cackling media is all aflutter that Trump wouldn't just come out earlier and encourage terror in the streets by using the word, panic, as these stalwart journalists of note insist the "people" could handle the truth.

Well, yes, we should, and we deserve the truth -- but just look what happened when rumors of a new illness hit the streets and people immediately emptied out grocery stores, with a special fascination for toilet paper.

If the President had loosed the "P" word on the nation in any sense, can there be any doubt that chaos and even more craziness would rule communities all over?  What good would that do in a population already revved up and poised to explode?

I'm thinking the people of the United States would handle the "truth" about a UFO invasion a lot better than we did the Chinese virus (and yes, I currently lean toward the side of medical people versed in microbiology, perhaps not nationally or internationally well-publicized, who say the damned virus was engineered in a lab).  At least a disturbing UFO "truth" cascade would probably empty out gun stores long before folks race off to the toilet paper section at Costco.

If we generally find it ill-advised to yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater, how is it that Trump hasn't exhibited some perfectly reasonable sense in not attempting to initiate panic in the streets?

A Covid-19 panic?  Please, not.  But a UFO fact panic?  Well, we HAVE waited a long, long time for a decades-old officially certified government "disclosure" on that issue, should such an ultimate documentation beast exist.  I say go for it, long as the damned things haven't been emerging from some incompetent lab in Wuhan all these years.

Maybe some of these  journalists, likely trying to beat the clock and burn Trump's chances to a crisp before the elections they dread personally, should just sit down, cool off and eat their egg "flu" yung.

This, That and Robert's Courtroom

Trump on Veterans:  I don't care what he is alleged to have said about veterans, and by now I tend to doubt most media "blockbusters" (they did it to themselves) because there are obviously people "out there" poised to destroy him just in time for the elections.  As a Vietnam Era veteran let me say, I care about what this President does, not what he may or may not have said.  This is all bullsh** for the Democrats to eat up, and bullsh** particularly from "anonymous sources" is their favorite meal.

Something against Trump? From The Atlantic?  Really?  What a surprise.  Just sit back and watch a snowstorm of anti-Trump books and magazine articles hit the streets as November edges closer.  Few will offer reasonable alternatives which don't point hard left.

Be it Resolved:  Polls are Everything.  Except -- remember four years ago when election possibilities appeared entirely bleak for Donald Trump, according to numerous respected polls and pollsters?  The usual suspects among media watchdogs are playing the same game all over again.  Are American voters really unaware or naive enough to choose radical Marxism and a deflating old career politician over the choices we are allowed to make more freely under Trump?

Black Lives Matter:  Just what is the large corporate-style entity known as Black Lives Matter doing with millions of dollars donated, sometimes probably under emotional duress, by American businesses and individuals?

Street "protesters" enjoy warm weather:  Not only that, but a number of governors and mayors seem perfectly delighted by their presence.  We admire and treasure the intellect and judgement of noted black Americans such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Dr. Benjamin Carson, but have little regard for street trash of color or of no color currently pleasuring themselves daily and nightly by causing havoc and putting lives and property at risk.  In an era when opportunity has never been more within reach for black people in this country (and there was this sort of a black President, as I recall. . .), it is astounding that the masses prefer to remain ignorant, stupid and infatuated with common street thugs who happen to have unfortunate encounters (often self-assisted) with a teeny-tiny percentage of police officers.  This is the precipitant which causes readily-assembled mobs to burn, loot and acquire instant free TVs and hair products from trashed stores?

Robert's Courtroom Convenes and is Now in Session.  Robert ("I ain't no judge") is not an attorney, has ongoing legal issues about when he should even change his socks, but feels that if one can serve as one's own attorney in court, he should certainly be allowed to take on an adjudication role after serving as his own grand jury.  Thus. . .

Case #1:  Jacob Blake of Kenosha, WI:  Allegedly paralyzed due to police gunshots.  Did he resist the police?  Did he fail to surrender even when a Taser was employed?  Did he continue walking away from the cops, toward his car, despite orders to stop?  Did he open the door and lean in, blatantly giving the impression of perhaps reaching for a weapon?  Was there not a knife discovered in the vehicle within reach of Mr. Blake?  Did Mr. Blake also have a knife on his person during the encounter with police?  Were there previous warrants or statements regarding Mr. Blake and sexual violations, such as unwanted sexual encounters at periodic intervals with a woman which involved breaking into a home and sexually violating her in a bed as her child or children lay next to her?

The Verdict:  If even half of this is true, CASE IS DISMISSED against the named police officers of Kenosha.

Case #2:  Daniel Prude, Rochester, NY:  Deceased.  He was just "visiting," we are told.  Did he not walk down the street naked?  Was he not on at least one drug, allegedly PCP?  Did the drug and/or his own mental state cause him to spit at everybody around him, especially the police officers trying to contain him in his frenzied condition, thus necessitating the application of a spit hood over his head to protect those around him from potential infections?  Did police not act by the book in trying to keep him and the public safe?  Is his family taking to the streets and media, blaming cops when they apparently did little to control his actions?  In fact, were the police not called because somebody needed to control this wildly out-of-control man?  Did he not have his own intriguing criminal record?

The Verdict:  If even one street drug was involved, causing this person to be a threat to both himself and others, CASE DISMISSED.

Case #3:  George Floyd:  Did illicit drug use ultimately cause his death, as opposed to what rabid cop-hating media sources have been spitting out (if anybody needs a spit hood, it's the activist media)?  Not murder by police after all?  Keep an eye on this one.

The Verdict:  Too close to call, but possibly not as cut-and-dried as we were led by the nose to believe.  We'll see.

The street mobs need to blame President Trump and the police for everything going wrong in their self-engineered, pathetic lives.  Is that all they got?  Obviously.

It's not a lack of reparations, baby -- it's a fundamental absence of critical thinking.  Brain Lives Matter.  Try using 'em sometime.

A Boy Like That

At 17 years of age during the turbulent sixties I was discussing UFOs on radio talk shows and showing famous UFO photos (some later turned out to be hoaxes) to a captive TV audience.  The thought of picking up a rifle and heading toward downtown in some other city or state to protect store owners from an invading force never crossed my mind.

Looks as though times have changed.  Of what are we to think of young (17) Kyle Rittenhouse, journeying to Kenosha, Wisconsin to, yes, help protect store owners and their property, ultimately killing two men and wounding a third?

At worst, we're accustomed to teen shooters ambushing and mowing school children down by the dozens.  At best, teenagers volunteer with charitable organizations and, if so driven, obtain gun safety education by way of the National Rifle Association.  (Yes, the NRA, which we are sure the left will properly deal with just as soon as they finished destroying the Boy Scouts.)

New kind of teen in town?  A militia-scented sort of teen, harboring a social obligation -- but thankfully, not a social justice obligation -- to do something for God or country or for some long forgotten creed?

A teenager whose utmost, life-long respect for police authority directed him to Kenosha to help out, to keep stores un-torched and business owners' lives unscathed? If nature abhors a vacuum, do patriotic intentions fostered by the good who, we are reminded through allegory, generally die young, fill the darkened void caused by violent street demonstrations?

In an earlier era, teenagers had to, by necessity, do the work of adults, routinely protecting family, crops and livelihood with guns.  Because much of today's lot can usually be found whiling away senseless hours playing video games or otherwise doing nothing constructive, the emergence of a Kyle Rittenhouse is both interesting and amazing, love him or hate him.

But too perfect was this, the whole concept.  The lowest of the low stalking the streets of Kenosha couldn't tolerate the image and, thanks to the idiocy of evil-minded thugs chasing down a young man equipped with a serious-business firearm, people are dead and injured.

Videos absolutely scream self-defense, but investigations will continue until a proper conclusion is reached.  Politically attired, maybe.

To be blunt, it appears Rittenhouse managed to "bag" certain individuals who already wore some criminal activity around their necks.  Whether this was the case, young Kyle seemed to have no other option but to defend his life when challenged.  Should he have been there in the first place?  Perhaps not -- but neither should the vile street trash, many of whom were also outsiders.

Think of it:  A perceptive teenager who wants to help law enforcers because elected officials put constraints on officers who can barely do their jobs now.  Suddenly put in fear for his life, attacked by street morons, Kyle's evaluation of the situation clearly entitled him to a self-defensive mode.

Even if Rittenhouse gets through this with no criminal charges, the inevitable civil lawsuit seeking millions on the part of despicable street trash families will likely take a toll on the best of intentions.

Hard to believe:  A teen who wasn't on the streets to argue race relations, didn't apologize for being white, didn't take a knee, wasn't wearing a BLM shirt and didn't march with ignorant or agenda-saturated pod-people to demonstrate hatred of America.  Wow.

Under different circumstances, Rittenhouse and militia folk like him would raise an eyebrow or two, but if proper police funding goes away and this is our only alternative to saving culture and community, just wait and see what happens.

Jacob Blake redux:  I hold my opinion.  After watching video after video of police encounters with black folk who screw with the cops in some way, it's little wonder there's a hair-trigger response in some cases.  To get to a very bleak point -- if you don't want to be shot one, four, seven or 500 times by the police and if you don't want to become paralyzed or dead, the solution is ever so simple:  Follow lawful police commands and stop screwing with "blue lives" dedicated to saving yours, even if you're a pathetic douche bag of color or of no color who deserves exactly what you get.

Things to worry about:  When does social distancing become socialism distancing?

Public schools:  Deplorable as operated by teachers' unions fueled by Marxist values, with no regard for input from individual teachers who aren't taken with socialism.

Voting:  Google, YouTube, Twitter and sources unknown are the tech giants who reportedly have the power and the will to screw with the elections this year -- more so than Russia or the other usual foreign suspects.  As various conservatives remind us, after the last election Google officials said, in so many words, that they couldn't allow something like Trump's election victory to happen again.  This attitude, coupled with the concept of distributing mail-in ballots like chicken feed in a barn yard without proper accounting practices, breeds potential trouble for a fair election system.