Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Ray DiLorenzo —— Bio and Archives—July 18, 2020

We are at war, believe it or not, like it or not. Contrary to what the media wants you to believe, it is not Black vs. White, but Left vs. Right. Forces have been gathering and preparing for decades with the intention of destroying our country, and taking over the government. They have been doing it from the inside, knowing there was no chance for a military solution.

Political differences in America are not a new phenomenon. We’ve had our share. But, we are now living in a time when the opposition is now openly in disagreement on the very basics of what our country’s values are. The Democrat Party has been taken over by these forces and has clearly demonstrated their desire to establish a Democratic-Socialist state, a far cry from our founding. Any resistance within the Party to their agenda has now been silenced. Their hatred for our country in recent years has shocked even the hardened apolitical. Have we reached a point of irreconcilable differences? Quite possibly, but it has always been irreconcilable to the leaders on the Left. We just were unaware.

The Left insist on tearing down America

What the Left is demanding is far from where we have been. Instead of making America great again, they insist on tearing it down. They are demanding we shed our Judeo-Christian foundation. They want a new Constitution, one where rights are granted by government, not by God. All statues, monuments of our past, institutions, are to be destroyed. Even statues of abolitionists. All vestiges of our founding and history erased. They want a new country, a secular socialist state where everyone is equal and to remain so, regardless of talent or personal industry. They want the electoral college scrapped, mail-in voting installed, even though rife with fraud, or because of it. They are demanding the voting age be lowered to 16, limits on free speech, and of course, no right to self-protection. They want the end of private property, capitalism, meritocracy, everything that is uniquely American. In the interim, they are willing to shed any constitutional protection if it grants them short-term gain.

How can we survive as a nation with such disparity?

Unlike revolutions in history, there seems to be no rhyme or reason for discontent, except ignorance, lust for power, and hatred of God and country born of decades of communist propaganda in our schools and media. Our economy has been at a zenith with unemployment at record lows for nearly every American, regardless of race or gender. Wars are finally winding down, after twenty years. Taxes are relatively low. We are now energy independent. The business climate has been nothing less than exceptional. And yet, here we are.

Whether the COVID phenomenon is natural or as many call it, a plandemic, it has been weaponized and tearing our nation apart. COVID deaths are being highly inflated. As an example, many hospitals are listing motor vehicle deaths as COVID caused. This pandemic is actively being kept alive for a purpose, a very evil purpose…an undercover insurgency aided by the Deep State, a compliant media, and naive corporations unwilling to be called racist. It is all to reverse Trump’s many economic accomplishments, and put a stop to any more Trump rallies. It is to assure a Trump loss in 2020 to complete the agenda they had planned for 2016. Maybe more importantly, it will put a halt to any further investigations into Democrat insurgency and treason.

This COVID-19 appeared immediately after the impeachment failed…coincidence? At the same time, our coinage began to disappear. Merchants started asking for exact change or credit card use, better to track people’s activity…coincidence? Was the Floyd death coincidence or planned? Obama had been reseeding racism, a powerful future cover for insurrection, almost immediately after his inauguration. If Biden should win in November, I can assure everyone that COVID-19 will disappear from the front pages almost immediately.

Democrat cities are being destroyed by savage mobs. Many have forgotten why they are rioting. Bricks are being delivered, so they throw them. It’s a perverse sense of permission. Police officers are being murdered, ambushed and assaulted. Laws that assure civil order are being ignored by Democrat governors and mayors. Churches are now being destroyed or vandalized. The Left’s ‘shock troops’, Marxist organizations committed to the overthrow of our nation like BLM and Antifa, are being utilized as Democrat militia. Any loss of life, property, or livelihood suffered by Americans is deemed collateral damage.

To further the hostility and create a sort of modern witch hunt, everything has been politicized by the Left…the Constitution, healthcare, education, religion, our culture, capitalism, meritocracy, private property, home ownership…It’s all fair game. Every slight is now either racism, misogyny, white supremacy, homophobia, whatever.

How can we compromise with such brutish people? You don’t. You defeat them. Peaceful protests are fine, but everyone who is violent and a danger to our republic needs to be found and punished quickly. Every high-ranking federal employee that is deemed an insurgent should be arrested and tried. There are plenty of prison cells available since so many convicts have been released. Other federal employees should be held to their oath or removed with a loss of pension. Any political party found to have dabbled in sedition should be dissolved. Arrest all insurgent leaders in the media, education, and especially those who have financed the sedition, Black Lives Matter and Antifa declared terrorist organizations.

Time is running out to quell this madness. The inaction of many Democrat state governors and mayors has been curious, as it has encouraged many on the street to anarchy. Much should have been done by now. Have we reached the point of irreconcilable differences where divorce or civil war will be the only action? Maybe, maybe not, but it is getting dangerously close.

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—July 18, 2020

Listen up all you racists in the Land of Nod: Sleeping is now “systemically racist”!

So says Teen Vogue Magazine, well on its way for the Pulitzer Prize for All-Time Absurdity.

“I now grasp the problem I have when sometimes I just can’t get to sleep. It’s racist and my guilty subconscious is keeping me awake,”Canada Free Press cartoonist Dag Barkley signalled to his Mother Ship early this morning.

You, too, Barkley?

Before rushing off full speed ahead for the Pulitzer, Teen Vogue was best known for advocating children to have anal sex (ProjectRepublicToday, Nov. 16, 2017 ).

That December, two-time Democrat failure for president Hillary Clinton served as the magazine’s guest editor.

“Teen Vogue, in its imperishable desire to act as the spearhead for political correctness, published an article titled “Black Power Naps Is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep,” in which they plugged an artistic initiative entitled “Black Power Naps,” which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. (Daily Wire, July 16, 2020)

Shouldn’t the now Socialist Dems be going to the rescue of ‘Sleepy Joe’?

“Teen Vogue writes of Fannie Sosa and Navild Acosta, who created Black Power Naps, that they “were tired, but it wasn’t just any old fatigue. Yes, they experienced a lack of sleep, but they were specifically experiencing a generational fatigue familiar to Black people and people of color.” (Daily Wire)

“Teen Vogue says Black Power Naps is “also a recognition of the hundreds of years of sleep deprivation that Black people and people of color have experienced as a result of systemic racism, a way to pushback against the false stereotype that Black people are lazy, and an investigation of the inequitable distribution of rest.”

Slavery is a regime of stealing and extraction: Stolen wages, stolen life, stolen land, but stolen time

“Acosta posited, “We’re dealing with an inheritance of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation was a … deliberate tactic of slave owners to basically make the mind feeble. That same tactic has only evolved.”

“Sosa added, “Slavery is a regime of stealing and extraction: Stolen wages, stolen life, stolen land, but stolen time was one of the main things. We need time. We need time off; we need time out. Our ancestors never got to take a month off for holidays; they never got to take a sabbatical; they never got to take a nap. When you pile all of those together, you see the reparations that need to happen are monetary, but they’re also time and space.”

“Teen Vogue writes, “Acosta and Sosa are calling for rest as reparations. Yes, they’re looking for an ease to the many burdens that might prevent Black people and people of color from sleeping like systemic racism, socioeconomic struggle, and more.” Teen Vogue adds, “This conversation about rest is particularly pertinent now, as people take to the streets to say Black Lives Matter. If Black people keep having to fight for their humanity, how can they ever rest knowing they could be in danger?”

“Sosa said, “We are having to go out in the streets during a pandemic, expending our energy in really huge amounts in order to ask for reparations and rest and energy. It is a … double edged sword to navigate as an activist or organizer. You are putting your body on the line to reclaim it. That creates a lot of burnout. We have people who are 20, 21, they are burnt out. They need time off. They need not only to sleep, but to know their people are going to be ok, to know they’re going to be ok, to know they can take a break.”

Meantime, as cartoonist Barkley points out, “The epitome of utter craziness has finally happened. Okay, it’s been going on for some time, but now we have the winner!”

As Mother Ship responded: “Brace yourself because if sleeping is “systemically racist”, so is breathing, which is why governments have ordered the wearing of the face mask as mandatory.”

Re-posted from The Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—July 15, 2020

Abad idea whose time has come: It started when Black Lives Matter protesters began temporarily suspending their signature chants, screeches and wailings during protests to sing super talented Bill Wither’s song,’Lean on Me’—an idea that crash landed at the L.A. Times with a suggestion that the song should replace the National Anthem.

But Baby, It’s Gotta’ Be Cold Outside’ when a catchy, hand-clapping tune can replace the 206-year-old ‘Star-Spangled Banner!

“An op-ed from The Los Angeles Times raised eyebrows for calling on “The Star-Spangled Banner” to be canceled as the national anthem. (Fox News, July 14, 2020)

“imposing and fussy.”

“Contributing writer Jody Rosen began his column by slamming a San Francisco monument of Francis Scott Key, who famously wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as “imposing and fussy.”

“After noting that the Key statue had been taken down by rioters, Rosen appeared to offer a justification for the vandalism as he, too, was a slaveowner.”

Rosen authored the book ‘White Christmas: The Story of an American Song’.  How long before the revisionist culture delists the song because of its first word?

“The wave of reckoning and revisionism that is sweeping the country may have to come for the national anthem,” Rosen wrote, pointing to viral claims that “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a “racist song” that stems from Key’s poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” which invokes slaves. (Fox News)

“Rosen listed several songs that have been floated around to become the next national anthem, including John Lennon’s “Imagine,” James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” as well as other iconic American tunes like “God Bless America,” “America the Beautiful,” and “This Land is Your Land.”

“Nope, none of these songs will do,” Rosen argued. “At a moment when the United States is in the grip of multiple crises — convulsed by debates over racism and injustice, ravaged by a pandemic, with a crumbling economy and a faltering democracy — the very idea of a national anthem, a hymn to the glory of country, feels like a crude relic, another monument that may warrant tearing down. But if we must have an anthem, it should be far different than the one we’ve got now, positing another kind of patriotism, an alternative idea of America and Americanness. It would also be neat if it was, you know, a decent song, which a citizen could sing without crashing into an o’er or a thee, or being asked to pole vault across octaves.”

“The LA Times writer concluded that such a song should be Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me.”

“It’s a modest song that puts on no airs. It speaks in plain musical language, without a trace of bombast, in a tidy arrangement that unfolds over a few basic chords. It doesn’t march to a martial beat or rise to grand crescendos. The lyrics hold no pastoral images of fruited plains or oceans white with foam, no high-minded invocations of liberty or God. ‘Lean on Me’ is a deeply American song — but it’s not, explicitly at least, a song about America,” Rosen explained. “Yet it has long been a kind of national anthem. ‘Lean on Me’ is one of just a handful of songs to have reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop charts in two different versions… It is surely among the most widely sung American songs of the past half-century.”

“Rosen noted all the famous singers who have performed the hit song, like Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige, Garth Brooks, Shawn Mendes and Nick Jonas, and how the song was sung at Black Lives Matter protests across the country in recent weeks and was used as a tribute to first responders towards the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.

“What do all of these singers hear in ‘Lean on Me’? They hear a message of friendship and fellow-feeling so straightforward it may at first appear banal,” Rosen continued.

“When you bolster that sentiment, as Withers does, with some handclaps and a funky bassline, the words ring even truer. It’s a message you could build something on, a pretty solid foundation for a decent society. It can bear the load.”

“Rosen’s suggestion, however, was widely panned on social media.

“It’s almost like they’re trying to reelect Trump,” Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics president and co-founder, reacted.

“Let’s replace it with ‘Everybody’s Special’ from Barney and Friends,” Ben Shapiro joked.

“Let’s just Etch-a-Sketch everything and start the country from scratch, shall we? Saves time…” The Hill media reporter Joe Concha suggested.

“First they wanted you to kneel, and now they want to replace the national anthem. This is an erasure of our history and tradition—plain and simple,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., warned.

“There has been a cultural shift following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, a Black man, died after a White police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes.

“The television shows “Cops” and “Live PD” were canceled, “Gone With the Wind” was temporarily pulled from HBO Max and re-added with historical context. White actors have withdrawn from voicing characters of color on animated TV shows, brands like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s have been retired, and episodes of sitcoms featuring blackface have been removed from streaming platforms. And the Washington Redskins will be retiring its longtime franchise name.”

But no one seems able to read ‘The End’ after any of the above.

‘Lean on Me’ is a beautiful, hand-clapping song.  ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’, America’s much revered National Anthem.

As for BLM’ adopting ‘Lean on Me’ as its own,  nothing American can lean on BLM which only wants an entire nation to kneel to them.

“Lean on Me” at Batavia Black Lives Matter protest