Dakota Beacon

When I was a kid, I heard of motorcycle gangs roaring into a small town and leaving it in shambles, its people terrorized, some of them assaulted, even murdered.  Back in those days it was something every decent citizen dreaded.  My only knowledge of it was second-hand, of course.  I lived in a town too large to be overwhelmed and treed by a motorcycle gang.  

Today we have Black Lives Matter, a treacherous traveling circus that tag-teams with Antifa and whatever other clubs can gain the financial support of our country’s enemies - people like George Soros and other fellow travelers.  But in the case of BLM and company, incredibly, they seem to enjoy the support of local do-gooders.  Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization, led by “trained Marxists” and “trained organizers”.  They are our Bolsheviks, in other words.  BLM comes to town wherever they hear of a protest by local citizens.  In other words, they are the flies and maggots, the local protests are merely the rotting melons.  When they move on they leave a swath of destruction in their wake, perhaps even injured or dead people.  Why do we allow this?

This business of tearing down statues is nothing if not a carbon copy of Hitler’s book burning.  When a new totalitarian dictator takes the stage he generally finds it convenient in terms of silencing his opposition, if the entire history is wiped out.  It is even better if the young adult population has been brought up in ignorance of their country’s history, or have been indoctrinated in a warped and twisted version of it, void of truth.  This little “uprising” we are witnessing didn’t just happen this summer.  This has been in the planning stages for years - decades.  Our children have, for some three generations now, been trained from kindergarten on to hate our country and to feel shame in being “American”.  Maybe you thought school was just boring old Dick and Jane and a bit of confusing new math.  Uh-uh.  

This is a slow-motion campaign to defeat a nation which had proven to strong in battle and too successful economically and too free and pleasant for most people to live in, with high standards of living even while supporting many other less successful nations - some of which today gloat when we struggle with problems, some of which boast that they are doing better than we.  Taking down such a nation is not an easy task and not done quickly.  The forces determined to do so have been willing to take the long view, the slow and steady

As to Dick and Jane, I used to believe the invention of these ghastly little readers, soul-destroying, agonizingly boring as they were, were nothing worse than a system of enslaving kids (and their subsequent adult selves) to whatever could be said in a vocabulary of 200 words, holding them captive to the whole series of books by the grasping publisher.  Now it seems more as though this manner of containing the kids’ reading abilities and channeling them was part of a means of controlling what they learned.  And eventually that would be Howard Zinn, a man who hated America, who urged unlawfulness on a generation:  “The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.”  It was only natural and to be expected - Zinn (1922-2010) was an unapologetic Marxist.  “Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.”  This is the stuff our kids have been hearing, day after day after day.  Oh, and this: “ If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

Given this context, is the self-loathing of our current adult generation and our children in the least surprising?  But there’s more.  Maybe you knew a World War II veteran, maybe you lived through World War II.  If so, you might remember the little sacrifices which were a part of life on the home front - rationing of everything from sugar to gasoline, coming on the back end of a devastating dust bowl and economic depression - and worse, the loss of loved ones, husbands, fathers, brothers, best friends, uncles and nephews among others.  One might well have asked, what was it for?  What did we gain?  It wasn’t a war of aggression, we didn’t seek to expand our claim to anyone’s land.  We went to war when Pearl Harbor was bombed.  We fought for the next four years alongside those opposing Hitler’s Nazis.  When it was over, Europe had been decimated by bombing, its infrastructure destroyed and its agriculture neglected - people were not only left homeless but also hungry.  In Japan we saw the same.  Knowing the folly of piling starvation and deprivation on top of defeat - which contributed hugely to the rise of Hitler in the aftermath of World War I, our country, having seen no battle on our land, was uniquely able to step in and supply relief both to our erstwhile allies and to our former enemies.  

The Marshall Plan was hugely expensive but only the beginning.  America did much to support and rebuild a war-torn Europe.  We did not seek reparations - we did what we could to restore Europe as well as Japan, the intention being to help them to peacefully go forward and build their futures.  What territory did we acquire?  The odd island in the South Pacific?  Guam?  But to hear Zinn tell it our kids got a very different perspective.  The lessons our kids have learned are that America fought in World War II only because our “main interest was not stopping Fascism but advancing the imperial interests of the United States.”   And the Marshall Plan?  The enormous effort on our part to help restore the ravaged nations of Europe?  Oh, that was “to creat[e] a network of American corporate control over the globe.”  But this is what we should expect from a communist, which Howard Zinn unapologetically was.  

Zinn’s poison was the curriculum in American classrooms since 1980.  He and his henchmen had their work cut out for them - because in 1980, Americans went to the polls and elected one of our most beloved presidents from the right - Ronald Reagan, to his first term, who went on to be immensely successful.  This is, then, 40 years of the Zinn doctrine being taught almost exclusively to our kids.  Do you still wonder why our college students overwhelmingly support defunding our police?  Why they support throwing out capitalism in favor of socialism?  I have said this many times before - there is no more important work you can do than to personally check on what is going on in the public schools.  It is unfortunate that people think they no longer have an interest in the schools when they don’t have children in them.  Those children will vote in 15 years, they will run the country in another 20.  It matters to everyone.  

The tradition from which this doctrine grows is that of Stalin, who controlled every form of media and attempted, with considerable success, to control everything the people of Russia could learn or say, from that of Hitler, who ordered books burned in massive bonfires, from modern-day China, where people are surveilled so closely that they dare not speak with anyone from the “outside” (or even a cab driver), and are even tightly controlled when they are abroad.  

It all began with limiting our kids’ ability to read and went on to ban various books, such as Huckleberry Finn and others, and substitute the propaganda of Zinn and his fellows in the movement.  Today we have the revolution in full flower - complete with the hammer and sickle, right along with the slogans of those who hate America, sprayed across our monuments to fallen heroes, the statues of those not favored by the mob, mostly unknown to the mob, in fact.

We need our history - not just the “good” history, but all of our history, and we need our statues and memorials.  We need to stop tearing down the visible links to our past.  If we have a statue of Columbus and a child asks, “who is that?” we can sit down with him and tell him the truth as best we can and encourage him to study it.  If we have statues of people who did great things but were not perfect, we can teach our kids about them.  We can teach them to admire great art.  

It is regrettable that Trump is playing games with this - waiting so that people “learn a lesson” about his enemies on the left.  While he twiddles his thumbs, irreplaceable history is being destroyed - when he finally decides the time is right for him it may be too late for us.  At the very least the statues and monuments on federal property must be defended against this mindless attack by the mobs, directed from the wings by our nation’s enemies.  Soon we will see Arlington’s graves defaced.  Will that do the trick?  Will that bring about some attempt to restore order?  Or will we let this go until we can no longer stop it?  We have a First Amendment to peaceably assemble.  Perhaps our communities need to require that such assembly take place indoors.  That is in no way a restriction of free speech.

The people of our cities where this destruction has been on-going ought to consider holding their elected mayors and city councils accountable personally for the costs.  And we had better undertake the difficult task of educating young people.  It is just as bad to allow them to be used as pawns in a communist take-over as it would be to introduce them to meth.

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