#143 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday September 14)
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Good morning! VIOLENCE AND THE FLAG A week ago, I commented that the insurrectionists on January 6 of last year had no standing to wrap themselves in the flag. To suggest that they were patriotic and were, somehow, the inheritors of the mantle of American freedoms, ideals, and exceptionalism, entitled to be characterized as “patriots” is patently absurd. They were no more patriots than were Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, who also were traitors, albeit far better organized and more strategic in their execution of an insurrection.
#143 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday September 14)
#143 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday…
#143 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday September 14)
Good morning! VIOLENCE AND THE FLAG A week ago, I commented that the insurrectionists on January 6 of last year had no standing to wrap themselves in the flag. To suggest that they were patriotic and were, somehow, the inheritors of the mantle of American freedoms, ideals, and exceptionalism, entitled to be characterized as “patriots” is patently absurd. They were no more patriots than were Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, who also were traitors, albeit far better organized and more strategic in their execution of an insurrection.