In the Spirit of Jefferson Davis (part one)

 

In the Spirit of Jefferson Davis

 

Part one.

 

A January 6th, 2021, text from Stephanie Grisham to her boss, then-First Lady Melania Trump:

 

“Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness & violence?”

 

Melania Trump’s reply (complete text):

 

“No”

 

At this point, if you still support Donald Trump, if you continue to espouse mythologies about a stolen election, if you describe the Jan 6th Insurrection as anything except what it was -- a violent, incompetent, attempted Coup (technically an “Autogolpe”) -- then your heart has gone black with the stain of Treason. You have no love for this Country, its Constitution, or its People. You’re a resentment-driven thug, a coward, and a bigot.

 

Too many of us are deliberately turning their eyes away from mountain of evidence that a violent, neo-Confederate, philosophy, has achieved near-dominance over one of our two political parties, Hell-bent making sure the personal freedoms and democratic functions will become radically different in Texas vs. Vermont and, at the same time, are gearing up for further violent insurrection.

 

I see major alleged-news outlet FOX refusing to air the Congressional Hearings on Trump’s Treason during prime time, more than 100 of Trump’s minions winning Primaries, excuses being made for those who committed violence, and endless deflections by those upon whom rests the primary responsibility to take actions to preserve our Republic.

 

The January attempted Coup was only practice, the storm is still coming, and our Nation’s enemies will learn from their mistakes and hone their skills. Full-scale Civil War threatens now as badly as it did the year of that other famous act of Confederate-inspired violence in this Nation’s Capital building -- the 1856 attempted murder of Senator Charles Sumner.

 

Sumner, a fiery opponent of both Slavery and Sedition, was nearly beaten to death with a silver-headed cane brandished by slavery-loving Representative Preston Brooks, and this was done in public, on the floor of the Senate Chamber. Brooks was assisted by Representative Laurence M. Keitt, who threatened two Senators who tried to stop the attack by waving a gun at them.

 

The full-scale Civil War that this violence anticipated, and would ultimately kill more of our people than all other of our Wars combined, would break out less than a decade later. How the institutions and people of the USA responded to the outrage might have encouraged the coming holocaust, because though the facts were never in question, there was a profound disinterest in holding the wrong-doers accountable for their sins.

 

Neither Brooks nor Keitt were punished by the members of the Federal legislatures, they weren’t criminally prosecuted, and both were re-Elected. Brooks and Kiett’s supporters mocked Summer, claiming he was a coward faking his injuries. Canes similar to the one used in the assault sold like hot-cakes among the supporters of Slavery, and were often emblazoned with the words, “Hit him again.” Towns and districts on Virginia, Florida, and Georgia were quickly renamed in Brooks’ honor. When full-scale Civil War broke-out, Keitt proudly donned the Traitor’s Grey uniform and took to the field to kill more Patriots, all to preserve the profits of Slavery; he died during his first battle. Brooks had died of natural causes before the outbreak of the War.

 

Is it really any surprise that the Confederacy’s mad dreams took hold? We had already telegraphed that their actions faced no consequences, and this had to be a key reason why the Traitors concluded that they could get away with further acts of evil, despite the fact that the Republic for which we stand could put more men into the field than the Traitors could, that the Traitors were faced a world-class industrial-power while they began the war without cannon factories, or an adequate railroad system, and had only tenuous international support, which quickly evaporated.

 

And I see it happening again now.

 

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