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

On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 10:01:21 -0400, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 6/1/2021 8:24 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
>
>OK then 

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