Benjamin Franklin once wrote “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” Yet, Franklin might be a bit confused by his critics at the University of Pennsylvania. Anti-Israel activists vandalized his statue as a symbol of colonialism. The man who was instrumental in the Declaration of Independence against the British Empire is being denounced as an “imperial” colonizing figure. 
Franklin would likely fess up to any number of “faults” over the excesses of his personal life, but being an imperial colonizer would not be one of them. Indeed, he was estranged from his son, William Franklin (right), who was the last Royal Governor of New Jersey.
Nevertheless, the group Up Against the Occupation, or (u)PAO, posted pictures to Instagram of defacing the statue with red paint. The group called the statue “a symbol of imperial violence and colonialism.”
The red paint was meant to be a “visual reminder of the over 186,000 martyrs and the university’s complicity in genocide.” They also objected that “the University has tried to supress [sic] the student intifada, supressing [sic] Palestinian voices, all in the name of ‘campus safety.’ There are NO Universities left in Gaza. There are NO first days. The education system of Gaza has been systematically destroyed, and the genocide has only expanded.”
This is the Benjamin Franklin who noted in Paris that “It is a common observation here (Paris) that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.” That does not quite sound like a supporter of imperial colonial ambitions.
The “colonizer” accusation is reminiscent of the ahistorical objections to GW being called the “Colonials.”
Franklin was a loyal British citizen but then, like many, came to support the cause of “independency.”
He was also not an advocate of violence. This was the figure who declared “May we never see another War! for in my Opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace.”
And now for a singing Franklin to wipe away the memory of radicals defacing the statue of one of the greatest American figures in history:
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Speaking of banning disinformation. Where is Hillary when you need her?
The rule “do not allow stupid people to make important decisions” should be common sense. Here, the emphasis is on intelligence or ability to reason as the true source of merit in decision-making. Yet, it seems to be the Democratic M.O. to somehow twist and reverse that to “allow important decisions to be made by people with a specific skin color, gender, sexual orientation, or religion”. Here the emphasis is on attributes of identity, which *everyone has*, and not at all on anything having to do with merit. God help us if we somehow through inaction or complacency allow the idiots spouting this anti-intelligence to codify and institutionalize such stupidity at the highest levels of significance in decision-making.
“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.”
– Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1748
In other words, these anti-America depraved, degenerate Dunceocrats need to be beaten senseless. Not that they had any sense to begin with.
Would the people who deface a statue to the founders feel a duty to America?
Congratulations!!! Just wonderful…..
Who do you think these people with no knowledge of history will be voting for in November. I’m sure that you are proud to recognize them among your ranks.
Headline: Fed Drops 50 Basis Points
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The Fed is invalid, illegitimate, and unconstitutional.
The Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime Blob’s Federal Reserve Board makes a massive corrupt move to help Kamala “The Incompetent” Harris 47 days before the election.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 must have been immediately struck down by the Supreme Court for enjoying no legal basis in the U.S. Constitution and denying individual rights and freedoms provided to citizens by the Bill of Rights.
Just like rents, wages and prices, interest rates must be determined by free market forces, not the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” or the dictatorship of the Deep Deep State “Swamp” Regime Blob.
This is a heartbreak. The most brilliant and generous man in US history . and these brain dead zombies defame him.
Cultural Marxism
Say When
And the head of it all:
Barack Obama and the Obama Enemy Army, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
KNOW THE ENEMY (STOP SUCCUMBING IN EVERY BATTLE)
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
“If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.”
“If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Those who deface actual American statues and monuments and disparage and nullify American fundamental law and the organizations and institutions that facilitate their activities are direct and mortal enemies of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
Now, the problem is to find sufficient Americans to implement the ideology that you must be a loyal American in order to be a member of the society that elects our government – it seems that, demographically, the conservatives have dropped the ball big time on this.
“PERSONS OF INDIGENT FORTUNES, UNDER THE IMMEDIATE DOMINION OF OTHERS, AND SUSPECTED TO HAVE NO WILL OF THEIR OWN ARE EXCLUDED FROM VOTING.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“Democracy” has always been the restricted-vote republic form since inception in Greece and perpetuation in Rome and America; never has it been non-qualified one-man, one-vote.
No person under 21 years of age should ever be enabled to vote.
It is the duty of young men to fight a nation’s wars and reap benefits later.
It is the duty of women to make citizens, sufficient to defend and grow the nation.
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“[We gave you] a [severely restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin
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You couldn’t.
The Constitution “obliges” the vote to be rationally and coherently restricted by State legislatures.
Turnout was 11.6% in 1789 by design.
Voter qualifications generally were male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
BS Fake quotes. Come up with something real for a change. We enjoy hearing from the depraved IslamoCommuNazi Community, but please tell us something that is true at least once in a while to break up the tedium of your rubbish.
Wow. “no will of their own.” Prescient recognition of the Democrats. Wow.
Well the GOP seem to fall in the 3rd category. They know nothing except how to write stern letters with deadlines that are ignored by all the cabinet members who piss on the constitution daily. GOP is now the Washington Generals of Politics…paid, professional, losers. Go home and let someone else fight for America, you weak dix. This kind of crap should not stand. Ashamed to be a conservative.
Almost five years later, I don’t think there’s any way to calculate what the globalists have done to the entire Western world since their seizing of opportunity during ‘COVID’; can you imagine if Obama had done this during the Swine Flu years ago? Remember that, because you weren’t a toddler at the time who now in ‘maturity’ just runs around breaking sheet?
Make no mistake: the identical nature of the narrative is all you need to know that we are dealing with global forces that are dead set on taking away our freedoms. They did not have airplanes to visit other countries or cultures or smartphones in the Middle Ages, but – this is Feudalism, all the same, and they will not stop. In fact, it’s a weird mashup of Robespierre/Nazi Germany/20th century Communism.
Again, the only silly, stupid thing saving us was Musk taking over Twitter, and the fact that he is currently richer and better connected than they are. And folks, we are talking *globally*; this is not a uniquely American problem, but the solution is: defend your rights with every ounce of gumption you have within you. Even the ‘good kids’ in upcoming cohorts have no idea what they are dealing with. How could they? They have been gaslit since their births, and in some cases that is a measly eighteen years.
The people in question in this post would still be wearing diapers to catch their anxiety-induced oopsie poopsies if they weren’t so coddled, at this point, by their parents, by society, and by government at large who is plying them with boosheet everyday in the hope of securing their votes.
It is patently disgusting and an insult to anyone that believes in freedom, and it is coming almost exclusively from the modern, global left.
James
Why would you think that COVID was not part of their plan? Look at the timeline of how this all has happened. The first disruption was Trump, COVID was released just ahead of the election cycle to destroy the prosperity that Trump had ushered in and with just enough time for lockdowns and the introduction of mail in ballots. The result of the pandemic was to remove the segment of voters that were predominantly conservative. Older citizens that had lived through Communist wars, sons and daughters of WW2 that were never going to back these Socialist Marxist dikheads. It’s always been part of their agenda to destroy our Constitutional Republic. They just haven’t figured out how many of they’re going to have to kill to get there.
Semper Fi
Semper Gumbus
Rashida Tlaib Uninjured After Her Pager Mysteriously Explodes
https://babylonbee.com/news/rashida-tlaib-uninjured-after-her-pager-mysteriously-explodes
Spontaneously exploding Pagers and Walkie-Talkies in Lebanon.
Now you understand how the Twin Towers and Building 7 were deliberately destroyed by controlled demolition under the cover of fire caused by Jet A-1, the charges having been installed by Mossad through the “elevator maintenance” company operating prior to 9/11.
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“World Trade Center 7 building did not collapse due to fire: Report”
A group of engineers and architects is demanding the American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) retract and correct a 2008 report that concluded one of three World Trade Center buildings collapsed because fire weakened the steel supporting it in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911T) has formally filed a Request for Correction with the NIST following a new and detailed four-year analysis by a team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). It says the World Trade Center (WTC) building 7 collapse was a “near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building” and dismissed the NIST finding that heat from the fire caused beams to “walk off” their moorings. Sept. 11, 2001 is the tragedy of when two hijacked planes hit the WTC 1 and WTC 2 towers sending debris tumbling onto WTC 7. The NIST claimed that embers ignited a fire which then caused the 47-storey building to collapse on itself at 5:20 p.m., hours after the initial incident that morning. “We have filed a request for correction because the NIST report is wrong,” says Ted Walter, spokesperson for AE911T, which is a group of 3,000 engineers, scientists and architects, including more than a dozen Canadians ones, that paid US$316,000 for the study. “From an engineering perspective it is imperative to understand how and why this building came down under design load conditions,” said Walter. The study says NIST made some fundamental errors in how engineers estimated the rigidity of the outside building frame and that the heat generated by the fire did not trigger “thermal movements” at a critical base plate support. Further, the group, which includes families of those killed, asserts that the investigation is flawed and that the conclusions as to what happened must be based on “science and engineering” and accept that controlled demolition is a plausible cause. For expediency and because it was not hit by a plane, the study looked only at WTC 7 not the other two but AE911T has long claimed all three were subject to something beyond heat induced failure. “The report notes that the outside frame was more flexible than the inside framing which is where the elevator shafts were,” says McMaster University professor emeritus of civil engineering, Robert Korol, a fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering who is also one of two peers who reviewed the UAF study. “Under the conditions described, the displacement of the outside steel would have been only one inch, not the 6.25 NIST claimed and not enough to cause failure.” Further, he says, the debris from WTC 1 which fell 943 feet to WTC 7 did not attain sufficient mass to cause structural damage to the steel in that building. The bottom line, he says, is that the NIST report is flawed and of no value to future engineering or architectural learning. The Alaska report adds new momentum to long standing claims by the AE911T that all three of the buildings should not have collapsed in the spectacular and deadly manner they did. Further, and Korol underlines this, there was nothing in the offices beyond basic desks, chairs, computers and paper that would be of such a combustible nature so as to feed a fire and raise the temperature to above 1,400 degrees Celsius and melt the steel structure.
– https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2020/05/world-trade-center-7-building-did-not-collapse-due-to-fire-report
Meh, it’s the climate crisis.
Mossad is sooooo good, you “meh” (cute) its performance when you should be applauding its acumen, professionalism and competence.
Thanks for your mindless, degenerate screed, Uncurious George. We don’t hear often enough from the depraved IslamoCommuNazi Community.
Ding-Dong, Mossad calling…
Candy gram for mongo
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To Hezbollah procurement department:
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Fire Sale
Give Peace a Chance
Prof Turley quotes the uPAO as saying, “There are NO Universities left in Gaza. There are NO first days. The education system of Gaza has been systematically destroyed, and the genocide has only expanded”. Perhaps the solution to getting back to normal life would be for the residents of Gaza to release the hostages and arrest the kidnappers and murderers. Then aid can flow. Just a suggestion. It really is in their hands.
Back to normal? In Gaza, this would be the continuation of subjugation by the Israelis upon the Palestinians. Netanyahu doesn’t care about the hostages. He is more concerned about ensuring Palestinians remain subject to Israeli subjugation.
I reject your reality and sustitute my own—Svelaz-George
@’George’
Sure. Because Gaza has an ounce to do with Benjamin Franklin. You are beyond pathetic. Every single day. None of us care. Go blow. It would be a mercy at this point; do not think for a second you are changing Jack or sheet, though. Your employers are either literally flushing dollars down the toilet, or you are one of the saddest, most lonely persons I’ve ever seen in my life. Take a break from your $85 million brownstone and feed the pigeons. You are a sad, sad sack with no relevance whatsoever.
Tell us how the Israelis subjugated the Gazans post 2005?
This is in line with my question. Though Svelaz has to realize how stupid he is, he never bothers to gather the information.
When the Ottoman Empire broke up, portions of the Middle East were divided into Mandates. Some of the major countries of the time each got a piece of land, which, under specific laws, was to be divided up to become nation-states. That is how many of the countries were created and the boundaries settled. Therefore, each country created worked under the same international rules.
What happened to the British Mandate?
Time for you to respond, but you don’t. You can’t. You are too stupid to do so.
S. Meyer — “Insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different result.”
You are correct, David. Maybe Svelaz is insane. But at the same time can we call him insanely stupid?
S. Meyer — That was addressed to you.
Then, David, you are very confused. Take a warm glass of milk and go to sleep.
💊🥛goodnight David
S. Meyer, perhaps you haven’t noticed. You repeat the same paragraph over and over and over.
The confusion is not mine.
By the way I’m lactose intolerant and in another time zone.
David, the repetition is purposeful. If you are the same as Svelaz, you won’t understand. It’s time for Svelaz to defend his conflicting and outrageous claims, as this is the main challenge he needs to address.
why do democrats keep forgetting that this mess was started by hamas – when are they going to be held accountable to the world court for their egregious acts? It’s similar to kamala raising money to bail out the BLM and antifa looters – always on the side of anarchy and chaos.
Or, they can just dash across the US southern border and get a free education on the American taxpayers dime.
Pathetic
Perhaps in the future we will soon have new statues and monuments of the patriots that fight to preserve our nation.
In Other News: “Students Deface Statue of General Colin Powell for Being a ‘White Colinizer'”[sic].
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Students spray painted a statue dedicated to U.S. Army General Colin Powel, claiming him to be yet another example of imperialist white supremacist colonizers. Their social media announcment stated…
“The raycyst [sic] general and supressor [sic] of Palestinian rights is by deafen-ition [sic] a white colinizer [sic]. His name poves it.”
A history professor later posed the question “If a surname proves the content of one’s character, then what should we make of General Kurt Student, the Luftwaffe official who commanded the Invasion of Crete during the Second World War? Are all students Nazi invaders?”