These are the words from John Wayne, a true American icon, the Mans Man.

The Hyphen, Webster’s Dictionary defines,
Is a symbol used to divide a compound word or a single word.
So it seems to me that when a man calls himself
An “Afro-American,” a “Mexican-American,” “Italian-American,”
An “Irish-American,” “Jewish-American,”
What he’s sayin’ is, “I’m a divided American.”
Well, we all came from other places,
Different creeds and different races,
To form a nation…to become as one.
Yet look at the harm a line has done–
A simple little line, and yet
As divisive as a line can get.
A crooked cross the nazis flew,
And the Russian hammer and sickle too–
Time bombs in the lives of Man;
But none of these could ever fan
The flames of hatred faster than
The Hyphen.

The Russian hammer built a wall
That locks men’s hearts from freedom’s call.
A crooked cross flew overhead
Above twenty million tragic dead–
Among them men from this great nation,
Who died for freedom’s preservation.
A hyphen is a line that’s small;
It can be a bridge or be a wall.
A bridge can save you lots of time;
A wall you always have to climb.
The road to liberty lies true.
The Hyphen’s use is up to you.

Used as a bridge, it can span
All the differences of Man.
Being free in mind and soul
Should be our most important goal.
If you use The Hyphen as a wall,
You’ll make your life mean…and small.
An American is a special breed,
Whose people came to her in need.
They came to her that they might find
A world where they’d have peace of mind,
Where men are equal…and something more–
Stand taller than they stood before.
So you be wise in your decision,
And that little line won’t cause division.
Let’s join hands with one another…
For in this land, each man’s your brother.
United we stand…divided we fall.
We’re Americans…and that says it all.

‘Nuff said.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO EVERYONE ACROSS THIS INCREDIBLE COUNTRY

AND TO THOSE THAT DON’T CELEBRATE THIS WONDERFUL DAY…

(PATTING THEIR LITTLE WARPED HEADS)

IT’S OK CHILDREN…I REALIZE ALL THE HAPPINESS AND PRIDE IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY ALONG WITH THE NOISE OF CELEBRATION IS REALLY, REALLY ANNOYING AND DISTRESSING YOU, BUT SOMEDAY YOU’LL GROW UP (WE HOPE) AND LOOK BACK ON WHAT YOU TRIED TO DO AND SAY TO YOURSELF “WAS I REALLY THAT MUCH OF A DUMBASS?”

PASS THIS ALONG

The WHO has admitted they lied when they claimed China reported the covid-19 outbreak. The result was it was allowed to escape and spread, be it intentional or unintentional (something I personally seriously doubt).

This pretty well proves that the virus was here well before it hit the headlines. Some people, like me, saw the warning signs in minor news articles talking about a pneumonia-like sickness taking hold in Wuhan. President Trump was not slow to react. When he was finally given the information he reacted quickly and properly. The problem was he was informed too late and even then with wrong and/or false information. If anyone is to blame, it’s the UN worshiping sycophants in our government.

Anyone care guess how many times America, along with some of very close allies, has been screwed over by the UN, directly or indirectly? I have always been a firm believer in the saying “US out of the UN, UN out of the US.” They hold us in such high disregard, let them move somewhere else. We could use the real estate for something much better.

Lately they have been making noise about how we should be getting on board with some of their liberal, globalist ideas and directives. Did you know that when US troops are tasked out to a UN mission they are not under the control of their Commander in Chief?

Additionally groups (*cough* BLM *cough*) here in this country are advocating for UN intervention in our country. UN Blue helmets on American streets forcing UN guidelines and mandates on American citizens. An organization that puts countries run by dictators and despots on committees responsible for investigating human rights violations, that’s who I want to put my trust in. In summary, we are in this covid-19 mess primarily because of the UN, not the President. And one more thing to think about, doesn’t it seem like these various “protests” seem to have cropped up pretty fast and appear to have been rather well organized so soon after the virus crippled our country?

Tomorrow has the probability of being a major turning point in the madness that is sweeping our great country. Tomorrow is the day we celebrate our independence from Great Britain and the beginning of our ability to dictate our individual future.

Anyone who doesn’t think tomorrow will be filled with violence and destruction lives in a dream world. What started with the senseless, tragic, horrific death of George Floyd has gone beyond that to a single minded effort by socialist, communist, and anarchist groups to dismantle and destroy America and turn it into a collection of mob ruled fiefdoms run by power hungry individuals, of all colors, who are no better than third world dictators. Any dissent, any voice that speaks contrary to what they say is right is quickly silenced by any means necessary. In other words, they want slaves and peons, not free people.

Many people are beginning to believe this is the start of what will turn into a civil war. Not a war between states but a war between philosophical beliefs and views, or worse, a race based war.

One of the biggest organizations guilty for the current situation is the BLM movement. They are guilty of colorism, which is defined as discrimination based on skin color. It is a form of prejudice or discrimination based on skin color. I defy any follower of the BLM movement to deny this. Every time someone challenges the movement by claiming all lives matter equally they are accused of being a racist and destroyed. By the very action of attacking anyone who says all lives matter the BLM followers are explicitly implying, if not outright saying black lives are more important than any other. The movement cannot afford truth to take hold.

When some liberal icon who’s been rabidly showing their wokeness and ‘heartfelt support’ for the flavor of the moment has their past actions of stereotyping people or culture, performing in blackface,  brought up today they publicly flog themselves, beg forgiveness, say they’ve grown, learned and have moved past it, they are forgiven by their sycophants and held up. Why doesn’t the same standard apply to our country’s history? We, as a nation, have learned from our past, which is why it’s important to preserve it, not destroy it. We have looked at our actions and used that knowledge to make ourselves a better nation.

Is there racism in this country? Yes. Is it “rampant”, “institutional”, “wide spread”, as some try to make it seem? No. If BLM was honest, they would be looking inward as well. Is all the blame there? No. But the entire problem is not one group as they would have you believe. If the truth came out, the upper leadership of BLM would have nothing to keep them in power.

We are in a battle where the final prize is the soul of America. Like the Civil War (or will it soon be called the First Civil War?) this is going to form a new America, assuming it survives as a united country.

Sta unitum nos, cadunt non divisit

Alan Marshall

People are asking how we managed to get to this point. How did things degrade to this level? It happened mostly due the apathetic attitude that crept into the majority of the American people.

The education system was slowly infiltrated by socialist/communist actors going back as far as the 60s. I can remember back in my biology class in high school, our teacher was advocating the ZPG (Zero Population Growth) movement, calling for families to only be able to have 2 children in order to prevent overpopulation. Oh, by the way, that’s the current policy BY LAW in China. He even worked on recruiting students to attend meetings and rallies. Folks, I’m 67 years old so that should give you a perspective as to how long this has been going on.

Fast forward a decade or two. Schools began a slow, methodical move away from teaching the three Rs, actual history, geography, and non-aligned social studies to a more indoctrination oriented mode. They began adding non-essential social based classes. Teachers were allowed to inject their own personal political opinions and views without repercussions. Then the push for Common Core, a national education standard. In essence this is an attempt to nationalize the education system removing it from local control. Local meaning the people it impacts most, the children and their parents who would no longer have a say in what happens in their tax payer built and operated schools.

It had already taken a major foothold in the colleges and universities across the country, and has, like untreated cancer, spread and taken over body academia.

The American education system is the open window for communist/socialist/anarchist indoctrination of the young people in this country and has been for many years. We have allowed education and indoctrination to go hand in hand throughout the system. Two of the best tools for encouraging this have been the system of tenure and teacher unions. Nothing short of murder or child molestation will get a teacher fired, and even then I wonder if those will work. Teachers pulled from classrooms are not fired. They continue to be part of the system, get paid as before, continue to get benefits, but don’t teach. In some cases they just sit in an empty room yet still get paid. Your tax dollars and tuition payments at work folks.

This sort of sedition and, in my personal opinion, child abuse will continue until the American people stand up and take back control of the education system at the local level. Also it requires the complete elimination of the Federal Department of Education. Care to try to count how many Presidential candidates have promised to do that?

Oh and here’s another interesting point about that department…it was created by a DEMOCRAT President, Jimmy (Good Old Boy Peanut Farmer) Carter, who also was responsible for doing major damage to the Armed Forces, another standard Democrat tactic.

We are watching the systematic disassembly of OUR country. And it is being quietly encouraged by leftist, radical socialist (Democrat) elites, celebrities, politicians at all levels (Democrat AND Republican), and outside forces using big money to finance all of the above.

We do have a few that have stood up and spoken out. Check out my newest hero…

https://www.theblaze.com/news/older-woman-gets-in-leftists-face

And this Sheriff in Clay County Florida…

https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-sheriff-deputize-gun-owners

These are the people that should be on every news feed across the country but won’t be for that very reason. ‘We cannot allow this sort of thing to get out. It might start a countermovement that will reverse our progress in the destruction we accomplished so far.’

I saw the following quote, “1984 was a novel, not an instruction manual.” I would beg to partially differ. For these anti-American seditionists it IS an instruction manual. And so is Animal Farm. I highly encourage everyone to read or reread these books. You also need to get your children and grandchildren to read them. But don’t stop there. After they read them, talk about them. Educate them using factual history, not the half-truths and omission riddled pabulum being force fed in the government run propaganda centers we are FORCED to pay for with hard earned money taken by force under the threat of imprisonment, aka taxes.

Earlier I said this is being encouraged by politicians, both Democrat and Republican. New Alert…the Senate Armed Services Committee, who passed the amendment calling for the renaming of Army posts named after Confederate officers, is a majority REPUBLICAN committee. That amendment would not have passed without at least one Republican vote. By the way, read the amendment, it doesn’t just rename posts; it goes way, way further. President Reagan used to be a Democrat, but switched parties in the 60’s. When asked why he left the Democrat Party he said “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me.” Maybe it’s time for a new third party, say a Constitutionalist Party who’s platform is based on the Constitution on both the National and State levels, so that frustrated, disgusted, disillusioned Republicans can switch to. After all, if the Socialist BLM movement can do it, why can’t Conservative Americans (notice it’s all inclusive with no color specificity on membership) do it as well.

Speaking of reading bills written by our “elected representatives”, look deep into those bills. A large number of them, when written, will include verbiage somewhere in there that EXEMPTS THE PEOPLE ENACTING THE BILL!!! That’s right, it applies to us, the unwashed masses, but not to them. Also, those clowns have the power to vote to give themselves pay raises. And I’ll bet you don’t know that all they have to serve is one term of 2 or 6 years, depending on which chamber, and they get LIFETIME benefits. Military veterans have to serve 20 years or get mutilated to get anything, and even then we have to fight tooth and nail to get it and keep them from cutting what was promised. Theirs don’t get cut and probably get increased regularly. And again it’s not just Democrats doing this, Republicans are guilty as well.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again. This national situation has degraded to the point that we are quite literally tittering on actual, physical revolution the like of which was last seen in this country in 1776. What else would lead to record gun and ammo sales?

This is a repost from the blog of scott-harris.blog.

I highly encourage others to check it out

A Black Lives Matter leader told Fox News on Wednesday evening that if they are not given what they want then they will “burn down” the system.

Hawk Newsome, head of Black Lives Matter for Greater New York, part of the neo-Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, made the remarks in a combative interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. Threats like this are allowed because of weak politicians who are more concerned about staying in power than the good of the Country.

Will the communist BLM along with Antifa “burn it down?” My prediction is that they will try to do it no matter the outcome of the election in November. Why? You may ask. Well, the reason is that these groups along with their financial backers want a new country. Mr. Newsome went on to say,  “I just want black liberation and black sovereignty, by any means necessary.” What do you think that means? Do you think this is going to happen by means of those “peaceful” protests the liberal media and the DemocRATS keep telling us about? Not a chance!

The groundwork for this uprising was laid long ago by those that hate the USA. President Obama stirred the pot causing more dissention between the races than anyone before him. When Donald Trump won the 2016 election, Obama and his fellow ‘RATS like Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, and Schiff, threw gasoline on the fire that had already been ignited. How will this end? Sadly, I don’t think it will be peaceful.

an·ar·chy

noun: anarchy

1. A state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.
2. Also see “Democrat run cities”

Ok, the 2^nd definition was mine, but can anybody argue it isn’t true? The adults have either A. checked out, or B. don’t give a happy rat’s hindquarters, or C. (and this is my choice) have theirs and don’t give a flip about anybody else.

I just saw a news item saying that gun sales for the month of June set a record. Dealers are running out of stock. (BTW anybody know where I can score a Remington 870 tactical 3” with ghost ring sights?) And ammunition is getting harder to find. Stores are rationing what they have. 9mm and .223cal./5.56mm is almost impossible to find. .40 and .45 caliber is very difficult. Shotgun ammo and .22 caliber is still easily available, but for how long. Is it possible we are approaching a time where rifle, pistol, and shotgun ammunition will be more desirable as a means of exchange in place of cash?

What is driving all this fear? You’d think they are afraid law enforcement won’t be able to protect them from roving mobs of sub-human animals that might be running rampant through big cities, and will eventually move out from there. You’d think they’re losing or have lost confidence in their ironically labeled “elected representatives” and those that laughingly call themselves civic leaders.

If it wasn’t such a seriously dangerous situation for everybody, watching these spineless, gutless, diaper wetting clowns that have managed to weasel their way into power make contortionists jealous with how they twist and bend to try to please anyone who whines that they’re offended, scarred, insulted, or have a full nappy and want it changed.

The losers here are common sense, logic, the American way of life that people have fought and died for, and the future of our children and grandchildren. And the biggest culprit is the apathetic populous who “didn’t have time to get involved”.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.”  Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”  From where I see it, the grasp we have on it is, at best, very tenuous.

To paraphrase the biblical quote, so as you sow, so shall you reap.

Alan Marshall

I am about to bring the unholy wrath of the ultra-woke, radical leftist, Marxist, socialist/communist, lawless, Democrat backed mobs down on my head (like I really care), and I want your help in doing it.

We have seen the destruction of statues because of what they represent.  We have seen historical places, religious and non-religious, desecrated and vandalized. We have seen people, communities, and businesses threatened into accepting one point of view and if they refuse they are attacked both verbally and physically. They were forced to accept someone else’s views and words as truth regardless of facts, or the absence thereof.

Now the question and the answer that is going to create a firestorm. Am I talking about the Taliban and ISIS or am I talking about BLM and Antifa and their minions? Am I comparing these roving mobs of looters and anarchists to the Taliban and ISIS? Before I answer I invite you to look at what’s happening in that festering sore they call CHAZ/CHOP/CESSPOOL or whatever.

But to answer the question about making a comparison…YES! Show me the difference between them, their tactics and there ultimate goals!

One difference I will concede between the two…one has not racked up a large body count…yet.

And before those of you out there that support the looting, burning, intimidation, sedition, and lawless behavior by trying to call them “protesters” and “victims”, I am prepared to back up my comparison with photographic evidence and numerous eyewitness reports.

Having the inconvenient truth thrown into your face really sucks, doesn’t it.

Now, as for how those of you out there that are willing to help show what these individuals truly are and what their goals are, I would ask you to post this letter to your social media accounts. If you do, feel free to credit it to me in order to avoid backlash against you and yours. Also feel free to add whatever comments you wish.

To the mouth-foaming, rabid haters that will call me everything but a child of God, I want to repeat…I don’t care about your reaction. And I have two words for you…BRING IT!!!.

Oh and you might want to check NC General Statute § 14-51.2.

God save this great country.

Alan Marshall

I am about to create a stink that will make an open septic tank smell like a field of roses, but from a personal belief standpoint I have to address it.

During a discussion on the status of Confederate statues, General David Petraeus referred to Confederate generals like Lee, Bragg, Longstreet and others as traitors. At that moment I lost much respect for him. After he made that statement, a few others began using that reference as well.

Many of these men had fought in conflicts side by side with other senior officers that would later become their opponents during the Civil War. The reasons for the action of secession were many, and I do not agree with some of them, but before you call these men traitors let me remind you of something…

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Sound familiar? It should. Another group who were labeled traitors drafted this document and sent it to King George decades earlier. The difference is, they won.

Just so my position is known, I have done research on my family history. I discovered that my family has a long history of involvement in government as well as the military at very high levels. I am descended from several individuals who were commissioned officers in the Revolution including a founder of the Culpepper Minutemen, the first organized militia raised to confront the British. I am also descended from John Marshall, the 4^th Chief Justice of the United States.

My family had a strong presence in Virginia which means they sided with the Confederates when that conflict began. I am related to James K. Marshall who commanded the 52^nd NC regiment and at one point took command of Pettigrew’s brigade after Pettigrew was wounded at Pickett’s Charge before he was killed at the wall.

I also discovered that I had a relative who was a Battalion Surgeon for the 3^rd Delaware Infantry. So, it appears I have ties to both sides.

From what I can find, my family has been involved in every military conflict since the founding of this country. Needless to say, I am very proud of my military heritage. That being said, when anyone refers to members of the Confederacy as traitors, I take that as a personal insult to my family’s sacrifice for this country. In my opinion, because of my family history, you are referring to me and my ancestors like General George C. Marshall (the Marshall Plan), my uncle that died on a Japanese hell ship as a prisoner of war, and my two grandsons currently serving in the Marines and Army, as descendants of traitors. Be glad dueling has been outlawed.

The Civil War had many causes. Slavery was a big one. And while I consider slavery an abomination and a stain on the history of this country and mankind in general, remember that those that fought for the Confederacy were fighting for their beliefs, principles, and a desire for self-governance without interference from others that would force them to accept their beliefs and principles, be they right or wrong. (Again, sound familiar?)

President Lincoln’s main reason for his actions was to preserve the United States as a unified, whole nation. As he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”, and he was right.

To refer to the those of the Confederacy as traitors is insulting and wrong. They were not betraying the country; they were following an earlier example by wanting to form their own nation.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Alan Marshall