History is such an easy thing to shred, change, or disfigure.
In
Animal Farm--an Orwellian fantasy of disturbing predictive accuracy, a farm "rebellion" leaves a group of pigs in charge of an animal led government. The pig's power is to be guarded by a set of rules, written on the barn. Because the animals are ignorant, and because they do not remember the past, the pigs are able to slowly alter the rules to take more and more power, eventually placing themselves as the ultimate dictators of the farm animals, and removing the freedom of other animals. It it interesting to note Oswell's argument--that freedoms are lost not in one brutal blow to mankind, but in a slow poisoning of our values and history.
I follow with some interest the caretaking of our national memorials and historical sites for a similar reason. It seems to me that those who would destroy freedom would be hard pressed to do so if all around us are the reminders of the prices we have paid to stay free. That is why I was surprised to find read
this article in the Wall Street Journal.
It seems that our history is being changed.
(A note here. The memorial is run by private donors, as was pointed out by Riley.The president is not directly responsible for it, and it is not, thankfully, administered by the government.As such, I have removed wording that would have directly blamed the current Administration for the incident.)
Now, I am not entirely convinced that our world is bent on the destruction of the American system, but it does make me wonder what exactly he is up to when Stalin makes it onto the D-Day memorial. A few reasons that this never should have happened:
1) Stalin atrociously killed millions more than Hitler in a brutal campaign to bring communism, which is dynamically opposed to democracy, to Russia
2) The Russians had nothing to do with D-Day. In fact, Russian troops never even touched the beaches of Normandy--ever--much less in 1944.
3) This is a monument to Honor the people who fought and died to protect the freedom of America. Stalin spent the years of his life following WWII trying to destroy that freedom here and abroad.
4) He's not American, and he was only an Ally because of convenience.
Yet despite this and other glaring reasons this should not have even been considered, there it is, a statue of Stalin, standing in the middle of the D-Day memorial next to some of the greatest and most heroic leaders of that era. To me, this is a warning sign.
Liberals, including the Obama Administration has always shown an odd contempt for the great leaders of that war. not long after Obama's entrance into the White House,
Winston Churchill quietly slid from his place of honor there and into a storage compartment on Dover Street, but the addition of Stalin to the D-Day memorial is a tacit rewriting of the History of D-Day. It worries me that we could loose our history so subtly. It worries me more that the man we have elected to the greatest seat of power in the free world is erecting tributes to one of the greatest oppressors of that same world. My only hope is that there is still some of old
Benjamin and Clover among us, and that they will speak up in time to protect this land I love so deeply.
P.S. I've found that
this blog is is also a great post on this idea.
Stalin bust Photo Courtesy of Jill Nance/the News Advance
All Animal Farm Photos Courtesy of http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca
As promised in a previous entry, I have continued to research the Lawsuit filed by (most) of the states and am now prepared to begin a several part review of the suit's merits. The suit is a short and simple 23 pages of litigation, which compared to the massive 2400+ page Health care monstrosity we have all been striving to grasp is a breeze. there are a lot of complicated legal questions being addressed, however, and it may take a while to work out all of the questions and standings. But it is coming, I promise. (hopefully before I leave at the end of June, though.)
I have to give a shout out to my governor. Jan Brewer has been dealing with a democratic attorney general who, apparently is not too fond of coming out against the party establishment in a lot of things, and Jan has done a terrific job at holding his feet to the fire in AZ.
