Hello Ward 3, and the rest of Westfield.
I promised myself to focus locally, or at worse to state issues, but this past week has left me no choice but to respond. You would expect that the President, and now the Gov. of Maine would have some sense of American history. Either they are ignorant of it, or producing alternative facts or faked news?
Anyway: Why take on Gen’s. Lee and Stonewall, and not Washington and Jefferson? Washington, and Jefferson helped to create our form and structures of governance. They fought to defend and establish our nation. Lee and Stonewall attacked and fought against The U.S., and wanted destroy our form of government. It would be like Texas putting up a monument to Santa Anna after defeating him in the Mexican War, or Hawaii a tribute to Togo for WWII, or any American putting up statues of Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin to celebrate WWII< and the Cold War. Americans versus self-declared enemies of the U.S.
The South created themselves as a new nation, and attacked the U.S., and lost. The motley Northerners defeated them. And, as a Class based nation, the Confederacy oppressed other White Americans as well. Why popular in the South? When the rich own the land that you work (tenant farmers) and when you are told that, what little social status that you have is threatened, you fight to defend what little you have. Especially if that had been the way of it for 50 years of social conditioning to it.
As for us, Massachusetts, the monument to the dead Southerners on Georges Island, keep it, but put next to it the listing of the 1,000’s of Union soldiers who were starved, abused, and whose wounds went untreated; lived and suffered in terrible conditions at places like ANDERSONVILLE! Because they were Americans.
Lastly, do we really want Neo-National Socialists to take over our country? A one party dictatorship that demands total obedience to the State and that controls every aspect of our lives? Real Americans need to say no, and those that defend them have betrayed us, our nation, and our nation’s founding and fundamental principles. And, for the naïve National Socialist oppose both Democracy and Republican forms of government.
Sorry for the rant, but when attacked, we, New World Real Americans cannot stand by, as the Germans and Italians did and let them do it, and watch them destroy our nation as they did in Germany and Italy.
Your former Ward 3 City Councilor, Veteran, and lifelong believer in citizen responsibility and authority, Brian Hoose [email protected]
