John R. Houk, Blog Editor
Posted July 4, 2020
Since I am fairly convinced the Mainstream Media either
failed to show the Trump speech at Mt. Rushmore or selectively vilified the
speech with twisted lies, I am showing the entire Independence celebration
speech given on July 3 at the foot of Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota.
THEN I am showing the video (I recommend FULL SCREEN)
of the Mt Rushmore fireworks unsurprisingly vilified by the MSM. If you live in
a Dem Party totalitarian location where COVID-propaganda cancelled fireworks, you
can watch the Mt. Rushmore Freedom Fireworks.
THEN I’m cross posting a MeWe group that borrows from Breitbart
exposing MSM lies
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Posted by Global News
1.8M subscribers - Jul 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized protesters who have
been trying to tear down various statues of Confederate leaders and other
historical figures during a speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening.
The president warned that demonstrations over racial
inequality in American society threatened the foundations of the U.S. political
system, calling it a "left-wing cultural revolution" designed to
"overthrow the American revolution," and claimed that children were
being taught in school to hate the country.
An estimated 7,500 people were in attendance, many packed
into an amphitheatre despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees
being offered masks but many not wearing them.
Trump also announced he would sign an executive order to
establish a "national garden of American heroes" filled with statues
of notable historically significant figures. The garden is expected to include
Wilbur and Orville Wright, Jackie Robinson, - the first African-American to
play Major League Baseball, Harriet Tubman - an abolitionist known for rescuing
approximately 70 enslaved people using a network of anti-slavery activists
known as the "Underground Railroad", and former Supreme Court justice
Antonin Scalia.
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Posted by KELOLAND News
4.91K subscribers - Jul 3, 2020
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THE UNSCRUPULOUS NATURE OF THE MSM TODAY.
Posted by IbackAmerica USA
7/4/20 (about 10:00 AM)
At MeWe Group American
Resistance Outpost
Lies deceit and half-truths they spew against our
country. They are the main characters attacking our country backed by the
DEMOCRATS in their lust for control. They would see this country burn if they
can't REGAIN power. We all know that is not the DEMOCRATIC way, it’s
the Saul Alinsky way and the Democrats are knee deep into their playbook. Say
the word President Trump and will rid this country of these haters of freedom.
These people have no idea of the bear their poking. When our silent majority awakens,
the enemies of this country along with the Fake News organizations will fall,
and fall hard. God Bless this great country and this President who would make a
stand on behalf of the people.
CNN Laments ‘Dark History of Mount Rushmore’s Sculpture’
Ahead of Independence Day Celebration
HANNAH BLEAU 3 Jul 2020
CNN joined the establishment media effort to “cancel” Mount Rushmore, lamenting the “dark history” of the sculpture and criticizing President Trump — who is set to deliver a speech at the historic landmark Friday night — for defending “racist monuments.”
“The dark history of Mount Rushmore’s sculpture itself takes center stage with Trump’s visit,” CNN’s Betsy Klein wrote in a preview of the event not labeled as an opinion piece.
“The President, who has stoked racial animus since he first
entered the political arena, has moved to defend racist monuments in the face
of nationwide protests over the treatment of Black Americans,” Klein continued,
noting that Friday’s Independence Day celebration was planned prior to the
widespread civil unrest.
CNN’s grievances appear to be in lockstep with the New York Times, which published an article this week highlighting controversies with the historic landmark — from its location on “Indigenous land,” to the sculptor’s purported ties to white supremacy, to the presidents depicted on the American icon itself.
Like the Times, CNN quoted Nick Tilsen, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and leader of the Indigenous activist group NDN Collective, who ultimately wants the monument closed and the land given to Indigenous people:
Indigenous people and my ancestors
fought and died, and gave their lives to protect the sacred land, and to blow
up a mountain and put the faces of four White men who were colonizers who
committed genocide against Indigenous people — the fact that we don’t, as
Americans, think of that as an absolute outrage is ridiculous.
Klein noted that two of the presidents on the landmark were
slave owners and effectively dismissed Abraham Lincoln, despite his historic
role in signing the Emancipation Proclamation:
Two of the four presidents carved
into the mountain in South Dakota, Washington and Jefferson, were slave owners.
And though Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Tilsen notes that his
legacy, for Native Americans, is a dark one. He approved the executions of 38
Dakota natives in Mankato, Minnesota (though he commuted the sentences of
hundreds of others in the same incident).
Lincoln, Tilsen said, “was a mass murderer, a colonizer — ordered the biggest mass hanging in the history of the nation. So he was not one of our heroes. He’s not somebody — he was an enemy of our people, of Indigenous people, and it’s important that we have a reckoning with the true history of this nation.”
Klein also mentioned the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, who had
been tasked with Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorial Carving — the “largest
high relief sculpture in the world” depicting Confederate
President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee, and Thomas J. “Stonewall”
Jackson.
“Before Mount Rushmore was even considered, Borglum was working on Stone Mountain, Georgia, a Confederate memorial,” said Tom Griffith, Mount Rushmore Society board member.
“I think more than the ideology, but more practically, he was affiliated with the Klan to raise money for this Confederate memorial,” he told CNN.
CNN went one step further than the Times, also mentioning the “environmental risk” of holding an Independence Day celebration at the landmark:
Pine beetle infestations in nearby
forests were the cause of concern when the fireworks were discontinued. These
infestations can kill trees, which increases their flammability risk and, in
turn, poses a potential wildfire hazard. Fireworks increased the risk that a
fire would ignite.
The efforts to effectively cancel Mount Rushmore come as
activists demand the removal of historic monuments and statues in cities
nationwide in the name of racial and social justice. Notably, several of the
monuments activists have targeted are unrelated to the Confederacy. Vandals in
Charlotte, North Carolina, targeted a
World War II memorial while demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin, toppled a
statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg — an immigrant who died fighting against
slavery.
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) has defended Mount Rushmore, calling it a symbol of “American exceptionalism” — not of “white supremacy.”
“Each of the presidents were picked for a specific reason,” Ravnsborg told Fox & Friends on Friday. “President Washington, for obviously the birth of our nation, President Jefferson for the growth of our nation, President Lincoln for the development of our nation, and Teddy Roosevelt for the preservation of our nation.”
“This is a symbol of American exceptionalism, and I believe that there’s no way of white supremacy,” he continued.
“That obviously has been a dispute over the years since the time about 1876,” Ravnsborg said of claims of America stealing native land. “But that case has actually been litigated to the United States Supreme Court.”
“We are sympathetic to their feelings on the issue, but I do believe that it was not meant to desecrate the land but to honor America and honor our state of South Dakota,” he added.
Despite the mounting complaints, the Independence Day event is slated to kick-off Friday night. Roughly 7,500 are expected to attend the festivities, which will feature fireworks, a flyover, and remarks from the president.
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