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BY TONY SALIMBENE
Hope everyone had a safe, great, although
loud, Independence Day weekend!
I’ll try to pass on info from CB 10, our
Department of NY and anything of interest
to the vets of the amazing Bronx over
the summer.
If anyone needs help, don’t be shy, we
should have post “teams” info by now so
we can reach out and help each other. We
are all we have.
Remember to try to fi lter through the
B.S. and follow common sense emergency
procedures. You know: this is not a drill!!
Masks, distancing, simple hand washing.
I had occasion to play those tunes I
used to play in Albany, at a new fl ag pole
by me with a few Sons. Of course, I used
(stole) a few snippets from our Legion
manual and made a nice little July 5th
ceremony actually. Hope over the weekend
you folks took a moment for a prayer
and salute too, maybe a new fl ag?
Commercial: Remember, if you
purchase a fl ag from National Emblem
catalog or online, a portion goes
to support Legion programs, especially
needed in these troubled times!
My other friends out there reading
this, you don’t need to be a member,
just Google search National Emblem
Sales (thank you.)
Until next time: Sorry to say, don’t
let you guard down. Distance and
wear a mask, please.
BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
There are times in the
course of history when sanity
gives way to madness and evil
prevails. The Spanish Inquisition,
the Salem Witch Trials,
the aftermath of the French
Revolution, the rise of Nazi
Germany, Stalin’s reign in the
Soviet Union, Mao Tse Tung’s
Cultural Revolution and the
murder of Cambodians by their
Khmer Rouge communist government
are prime examples.
We are in the midst of such
a period within the United
States. The national debate that
was once framed by Democrats
against Republicans, liberals
versus conservatives, has been
reduced to contention between
reason and madness.
Irrational forces, when confronted
with truths that contradict
their warped worldview,
respond with hatred and
violence, seen on the streets of
many cities and catered to by
politicians greedy for votes and
corporations who have the misguided
belief that the majority
of Americans condone or agree
with the vandals.
Even questioning the beliefs
of the rioters has become dangerous
in what is rapidly becoming
a post-free speech era.
In great centers of learning,
professors and students that oppose
progressive dogma are silenced.
This problem has historical
antecedents. During the Inquisition,
debating the motives of
the clerics branded one as a heretic.
Arguing against claims of
sorcery in Salem meant you had
to be a witch. The Nazis burned
books and the Soviet government
sent you to the Gulag, if
they didn’t just kill you.
We are starting to see that
today. If one asks how America
suffers from systemic racism
when there is not a single existing
law, regulation, or government
procedure that tolerates
discrimination, it means
you are a racist, according to
the left. Objecting to Antifa’s
annoying habit of beating innocent
bystanders, attacking
the police, and destroying
neighborhoods means you are
a fascist. Bring up the fact that
attacks on statues of the Massachusetts
54th, an all-Black regiment
that fought to end slavery,
or of Benjamin Franklin,
a staunch abolitionist, or General
U.S. Grant, who led Union
forces to victory in the war to
set men free, and you will, of
course, be branded a bigot.
Attacks on the innocent
characterize such dark periods.
We are seeing this in Atlanta,
where a police offi cer
who sought to justifi ably arrest
a convicted child abuser who
was stopped for driving drunk,
a repeat offense, was assaulted
by the perpetrator who stole
the offi cer’s taser and fi red at
him. The police man did precisely
what he was supposed
to do and fi red back. In the aftermath,
in the madness and
hatred perpetuated by the current
climate, the offi cer is being
prosecuted for murder, and
the child abuser criminal is eulogized
as a martyr.
The destroyers are now
moving on to demands that depictions
of Jesus be burned.
In universities, all progress
from the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,
and so forth are
obscured or condemned. That
reality is a true indication of
what the left is all about. It’s a
revolt not against a particular
governing system. It’s a revolt
against logic and honesty.
Socialism goes hand-inhand
with all this. For over a
century, in just about every inhabited
continent, this concept
has been tried. Consistently, it
has failed miserably, leaving
fi nancial devastation and shattered
lands in its wake. Innocents
are killed, imprisoned, or
shattered for life. Yet a growing
movement within the nation
seeks to impose it. But facts,
empirical studies and reality
itself are frowned upon in the
current climate. Simply making
a statement backed up by
hysterical emotion wins the
day.
There is a profound difference
between past periods
of madness, and that which
has currently affl icted America.
The United States is this
planet’s true engine of human
rights, prosperity, and safety
from the massive military
might of evil nations. Should
America fall, a new dark ages
lasting hundreds of years will
be upon us.
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What has Black
Lives Matter accomplished?
They allowed
their cause to be politicized.
Politicians are pointing
fi ngers at each other
trying to gain a political
edge, do you really
think they care? If they
truly cared they would
have solved the problem
years ago. Career
politicians are jumping
on the movement now,
why? Think back to all
the previous demonstrations,
what changes
were made?
What has Black Lives
Matter accomplished? It
allowed ANTIFA and
their thug followers
to burn and loot many
family owned businesses
in the Black
communities all under
the name of BLM. The
picture of the Black
woman standing outside
her store crying because
her business was
destroyed, she’s Black,
doesn’t her life matter?
It allowed gutless politicians
to allow lawlessness
in order to pander
to BLM. It allowed donations
to the BLM movement
to be funneled to
political parties.
What has Black Lives
Matter accomplished?
Statues that stood for
years are being torn
down in the name of
BLM. Do you think BLM
wanted Fredrick Douglass’
statue torn down;
do you think they really
felt Columbus was
a threat to their movement?
Once again used
by the extremist who
could care less about
Black lives.
What has Black Lives
Matter accomplished. It
allowed the leftist to demand
the defunding of
the police. Once again,
the politicians misread
the will of the Black
community. They want
meaningful change;
that doesn’t mean the
majority of Black Americans
don’t want police
presence. The police are
the only thing standing
between the people and
drug dealers and gang
bangers. What makes
people think that Black
Americans want anything
different than the
rest of America? That
thinking is racist.
What has Black Lives
Matter accomplished?
A bunch of disenfranchised
privileged white
young people that have
no idea what it means
to be Black speaking for
Black America. Telling
them what politicians
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