Re: Dem Officials Cooking Up Plan to Obliterate Memorial Above Grave of Confederate, Unearth the Deceased Officer

On 6/1/21 5:17 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 05:05:32 -0500, David Hartung
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/1/21 4:46 AM, Blue Lives Matter wrote:
>>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 21:05:26 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Blue Lives Matter <andy_franklyn@I_aint_woke.org> wrote in
>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 16:31:07 -0500, David Hartung
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/31/21 3:35 PM, Blue Lives Matter wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 15:32:14 -0500, David Hartung
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 5/31/21 12:45 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> David Hartung <[email protected]> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:[email protected]:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-officials-cooking-plan-oblitera
>>>>>>>>>> te-me morial-grave-confederate-unearth-deceased-officer/
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>> Democrats in Virginia are set to dig up the remains of a
>>>>>>>>>> Confederate Civil War general and tear down a memorial as the
>>>>>>>>>> American left continues its campaign to rewrite history.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The city of Richmond, Virginia, is currently finalizing plans to
>>>>>>>>>> disinter the remains of Gen. Ambrose Powell “A.P.” Hill and to
>>>>>>>>>> tear down the monument that honors his life. WRIC-TV reported
>>>>>>>>>> that, under the orders from city officials, including millennial
>>>>>>>>>> Democratic Mayor Levar Stoney, Hill will be dug up and erased
>>>>>>>>>> from the city’s collective memory.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A committee right now is looking over the logistics of that, and
>>>>>>>>>> is working with descendants of Hill regarding where to relocate
>>>>>>>>>> his remains. [...]
>>>>>>>>>> Hill is being canceled 136 years after he was shot through the
>>>>>>>>>> heart by a Union soldier on April 2, 1865 — just weeks before the
>>>>>>>>>> end of the Civil War. By all accounts, Hill never owned any
>>>>>>>>>> slaves and never supported slavery. He simply felt compelled to
>>>>>>>>>> fight for Virginians during a time when many Americans were more
>>>>>>>>>> concerned about their neighbors and their individual states than
>>>>>>>>>> their loyalty to the nation as a whole.
>>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This is a key point, Loyalty to the national government rather
>>>>>>>>>> than to the state was still a developing concept in 1861.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>          When Hill graduated West Point
>>>>>>>>> he swore an oath of loyalty the US
>>>>>>>>> Constitution, not his state.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And he properly resigned that commission when he decided that his
>>>>>>>> loyalty properly belonged to the state of Virginia.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually, he never swore an oath to the Constitution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Check your facts:
>>>>>> https://history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html
>>>>>
>>>>> My understanding is that their was no swearing in at West Point
>>>>> graduation and the oaths were when the officers were sworn in to the
>>>>> state militia.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      You are, as usual, wrong.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm)
>>>> that I will support and defend the Constitution
>>>> of the United States against all enemies, foreign
>>>> and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
>>>> allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation
>>>> freely, without any mental reservation or purpose
>>>> of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully
>>>> execute the duties of the office on which I am
>>>> about to enter, so help me God."
>>>> https://tinyurl.com/48wbc98r
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hollowhead imagines West Point rules were the same back before the
>>> Civil War.
>>
>> Holman does that sort of thing often.
> 
> Here's a page that gives some history of the oaths of US officers:
> 
> https://history.army.mil/html/faq/oaths.html
> 
> I'm sure Hollowman did not bother researching the history. His
> references, when he gives them at all, are very often a mile wide and
> an inch deep.

Yeah, I posted that yesterday, he has seen it and has ignored it.