LTC Allen West, Hundreds of Veterans warn of threats to Constitutional values and freedom
LTC ALLEN WEST AND HUNDREDS OF VETERANS RELEASE STRONG PUBLIC LETTER WARNING OF THREATS TO CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES AND FREEDOM
As former members of the U.S. military who have proudly served our nation, we write to express our support for Constitutional freedom and liberty and our concern for our country as many powerful forces seek to bring Socialism and Marxism to our land.
When we agreed to serve our country, we pledged to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. During our active-duty service, we did just that.
Today, although no longer active-duty warriors, we are still bound to this pledge and believe we are ethically obligated to protect our country. As such, we put our nation’s leadership on notice. We believe the hard left turn toward Socialism and Marxism endangers our citizens and the future of this great nation. Although a difficult step to take, we believe this step is necessary for us to continue to demonstrate the integrity and moral courage our oath requires.
• We are disgusted by the dismantling of the rule of law in our great country. We never thought we would see the return to Vietnam-style disdain for public service. Unfortunately, this disregard and disrespect is corrosive and will lead to dangerous situations for citizens and law enforcement. A revolving door for criminals and a two-tiered justice system that offers up different penalties based on the viewpoints of the accused must end.
• It disturbs us to see the erosion of fair and honest elections. Civilians doubt that our electoral system accurately reflects the will of the people. Current servicemen and women struggle to find clear instructions on how they can execute their own constitutional right to vote and doubt their ballots will be counted. We reject efforts by those who seek to avoid fair and honest elections by deeming commonsense voting measures “racist.” The gold standard in voting, recognized throughout the world, is in person, with identification, yet politicians are seeking to end this in the U.S.
• We oppose the politicization and ideological purging of our military. The focus of our military should be on training, readiness, and defense of our Nation, not leftist cultural “wokeness”.
• We decry the assault on our constitutional rights through censorship of written and verbal expression and we point out the complicit arrangement between private corporations and those in power to present only one point of view. Never did we think we would see the day when our media resembled Pravda.
• Bureaucratic abuses that have led to business and school closures and excessive lockdowns should not be tolerated by the American people. We do not get our rights from the CDC, the FDA or from private corporations. And, as such, we will not tolerate Soviet-style internal passports or anything resembling the Chinese social credit system where citizens are monitored and controlled, whether that system be carried out by the government or by their cooperative partners in the private sector.
• We stand with Israel and call upon all Americans to continue with the Mideast peace initiatives, the “Abraham Accords” and oppose re-engaging in the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons is not in the interest of freedom-loving individuals. We believe it is in the self interest of all Americans to oppose this deal.
• We must continue our efforts for energy independence. We believe it is in our nation’s best interest to reopen the Keystone Pipeline and focus on regaining U.S. jobs and protecting the national security interests provided by energy independence.
• The perforation of our southern border is a lifeline for terrorists, drug cartels and human traffickers. The current administration’s position on open borders and illegal immigrants places our nation at risk from a health, economic and safety perspective. As a sovereign nation we have a right and a duty to protect our borders.
• We oppose the establishment of cooperative relations with China as we believe the Chinese Communist Party is focused on global militaristic and technological domination. It is currently amassing weapons to stage a takeover of Taiwan. America is bound by the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty which protects Taiwan from invasion by the People’s Republic of China. Our cooperation with China is at odds with our signed alliances and is not in American self-interest. We must focus on preventing Chinese expansionism and protect our nation from attacks on our infrastructure by securing our gas pipelines and electric grids from penetration.
We call upon the American people to join us in opposing the advancement of socialism by holding public officials accountable in the public square and the voting booth. We must elect local, state, and federal candidates who will always act to defend our Constitutional Republic.
The survival of our Nation and its historic values, liberty and freedom are at stake.
Signatures:
LTC Allen West (ret.)
Stealing History
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” — Sir Winston Churchill
We are facing a new Marxism in America. Marxism’s original purpose was socioeconomic division and revolution. Today’s Marxism in America is focused on racial division and it manifests itself in disconcerting premises such as Critical Race Theory (CRT). I find it interesting that now, in response to the backlash against CRT, the progressive socialist left is denigrating people for not wanting history to be taught about slavery.
What a bunch of bovine excrement! But, leftists in America do not just want to revise history, but eliminate it . . . and actually steal it as part of their grand design, as our aforementioned quotes allude to.
So, let’s have that discussion on the history of slavery from a political party perspective, which is sure to enrage leftists.
In 1854, the Republican Party was established — some say in Michigan, others in Wisconsin — on a singular platform issue. That singular issue was the abolition of slavery. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, something that truly upset the Democrat Party, the advocates of slavery. It was after the Battle of Antietam, and with the counsel of Frederick Douglass, that President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the Confederate states. I find it very interesting that it was the cancel culture leftist mob that tore down the statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY, last year. I guess that Black life doesn’t matter.
It was President Lincoln, a Republican, who pushed for the 13th amendment to our Constitution, which ended slavery in America. That constitutional amendment was vehemently opposed by the Democrats, along with the 14th and 15th Amendments giving citizenship and the right to vote to former slaves. As a matter of fact, the very first Congressional Black Caucus was Republican, with seven Black Members of the US Senate and House.
This past Saturday was Juneteenth, remembering June 19, 1865, when Blacks in Texas finally learned about the Emancipation Proclamation, in Galveston, because of Union troops. I found it very interesting that the political Party that opposed ending slavery is now trying to steal history and take credit. Then again, those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Consider this, the largest state Republican Party in America, the Republican Party of Texas, was established on Independence Day of 1867, in Houston, by 150 Black men. Yes, 150 Black men who had just learned two years prior that a Republican president had indeed honored the platform of the Republican Party and abolished slavery. What was the Democrat Party’s response? Well, they created the Ku Klux Klan to suppress the vote and intimidate Blacks into not voting.
It’s rather comical to hear today’s progressive socialists of the Democrat Party screaming about voter suppression and “Jim Crow 2.0.” After all, the policy we know as Jim Crow was created and implemented by the Democrat Party, along with poll taxes and literacy tests. Am I the only one who finds it absurd to compare having a picture ID to vote with the well-known voter suppression practices of the Democrat Party?
How about that little political theater by ol’ Joe Biden in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to remember the murderous rage of white supremacists and destruction of Black Wall Street? Funny, Joe forgot to tell everyone that it was the Democrat Party behind that vicious attack. Nor does Biden remind people that he eulogized his former Senate colleague, Robert “Grand Wizard KKK” Byrd from West Virginia. Yeah, the same Joe Biden, Democrat, who referred to Black men as “predators.” And, the same Robert Byrd who, with other Senate Democrats, participated in the longest filibuster in US Senate history, against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Yeah, that same Civil Rights Act that was enabled by Senate Republicans, led by Everett Dirksen.
Republicans have always stood for the emancipation and economic empowerment of Blacks in America, but that history is not taught, and it is being stolen. Today, instead of physical bondage, the Democrats have instituted the policies of economic bondage, and enslavement. They have turned inner cities into new plantations, based upon economic dependency and servitude. The crop to be harvested today is no longer cotton, but votes. These new plantations are rife with the devastation of fatherlessness, rampant killing of Black babies in the womb, rise of gangs, lack of quality education, and small business entrepreneurship . . . all controlled by the Democrat Party. And, in many cases, the new overseers of this economic plantation are those sellout Blacks placed into power by the Democrats to keep them on the plantation. If you escape? Well, as Joe Biden said, “you ain’t Black” if you were confused about voting for him.
Have you ever asked yourself how long it has been that the Black population in America has been stuck at 13 percent? We ain’t growing because Mr. Charlie and Missy done convinced blacks that killing our children in the womb is a right, by way of a white supremacist and racist named Margaret Sanger, who referred to blacks as “undesirables” and “human weeds.” Funny, the most pro-life President in America was not Barack Hussein Obama . . . it was Donald Trump.
The lowest Black unemployment rate in history was not through the policies of Obama, but Trump. Support to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were not under Obama, but Trump.
It is time that Republicans stop sitting around idly on defense and watching their political history be stolen by the real racists, the purveyors of systemic racism, and the implementers of the soft bigotry of low expectations, the Democrat Party.
To the Black community in America: if you are a registered Democrat, knowing their history, then you are truly, as Drill Sergeants say, “dead from the neck up.” If you want to know more about the Black community and conservatism, along with the history and failures of the Democrat Party, read a book called “We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.” No rational, intelligent, and competent Black America should be a member of the Democrat Party, unless you see yourself as a perpetual victim and suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
But the bottom line is simple. If you are Black and a member of the Party of the Jackass . . . well, they are exploiting you for being a dumbass.
The Emancipation of Blacks and the abolition of slavery is part of the history of the Republican Party in America. The original and continued enslavement of Blacks is the legacy of the Democrat Party.
I would be doggone happy to debate any progressive socialist, including the idiot Marxist founders of Black Lives Matter. The question to them is simple: which Black lives?
Steadfast and Loyal,
LTC Allen B. West (Ret.)
June 21st, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 21, 2021
For further information, contact:
Committee to Support and Defend at 202-660-1628 or
Tracey.Miller@theacru.org