Dr. Livesey \u2013 The flag evidently spots the house for them.\u00a0 Hadn\u2019t we better lower it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Captain Smollett \u2013 Lower the flag?\u00a0 Strike my colors?\u00a0 Not I, sir! \u00a0We\u2019ve little provisions but plenty of powder and ball.\u00a0 And by heaven sir, this spot is England!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As the scene ends, we see the English flag flying in the sky.\u00a0 The scene shifts then to the ship Hispaniola where the pirates are lofting the Jolly Roger (pirate skull and cross bones flag) on the main mast.<\/p>\n Other than the relevance to Smollett\u2019s personality as a veteran English naval officer I never thought about what that line \u201cthis spot is England!\u201d could mean to me.<\/p>\n Maybe it was the whole Nike\/Kaepernick\/Betsy Ross Flag insult.\u00a0 The idea that Leftists are making a point of methodically attacking all the traditional and familiar symbols and characters from the past and trying to eliminate them from the public square.\u00a0 Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, even a popular entertainer like Kate Smith was attacked and the cowardly sports franchises like the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Yankees caved into ginned up outrage from social justice warriors who don\u2019t even like sports and banned her version of \u201cGod Bless America.\u201d<\/p>\n What this tells me is that we need somewhere or some thing where we can say \u201cthis spot is America.\u201d\u00a0 We need somewhere that we can go with our children and grandchildren and talk to them about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and even Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson and say this is the history of your country.\u00a0 We need books and movies and art that talk about who we are and how we got here.\u00a0 And it needs to be written by people who actually love this country not by those who hate it or at best are ashamed of it.<\/p>\n Now, by all rights, the whole territory of the United States should be that place.\u00a0 But just like in Treasure Island the pirates have occupied much of what should be America.\u00a0 Whole areas of the country like the Northeast and the West Coast are firmly under the control of people who hate America with a passion.\u00a0 In those areas there is no public place or even private venue where it\u2019s safe to be an American. \u00a0In fact, in some places like California and Oregon the local government will allow antifa thugs to assault anyone who espouses a patriotic sentiment publicly.<\/p>\n For that reason, on-line venues can be very useful to satisfy the desire to socialize with other Americans on home ground.\u00a0 That is why I have this website.\u00a0 That is why I say the things I do.\u00a0 That is why I read the various sites and news sources. It gives us a public square where we can talk and share information and try to reach a consensus.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s not enough.\u00a0 Not by a long shot.\u00a0 We need to get our government to stop helping the enemy.\u00a0 President Trump is helping in several ways but we\u2019re not even close to turning things around.\u00a0 The recent decision about the citizenship question on the census form shows that we\u2019re still battling against the fake conservatives on the Supreme Court.\u00a0 President Trump gave us two votes for our side but with Roberts\u2019 awful decision it\u2019s plain to see that the Bushes\u2019 endless shadow of bad decisions is still coming back to haunt us.<\/p>\n We need the Federal, State and local governments to be forced to respect the First and Second Amendments and stop persecuting Americans who exercise these rights.<\/p>\n And we have to recognize that many public and private institutions (schools, social organizations, social media, financial institutions and corporations) are hopelessly biased against conservatives and hostile to the normal America that we knew.\u00a0 As has been said a million times before we will need to build and support replacement institutions that won\u2019t make us feel like strangers in our own land.<\/p>\n
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