In today's New Jersey Herald, Democrat candidates Matteson & Trish made one of their most foolish arguments to date, claiming that the Hank Williams Jr. band logo was the "most symbolic visual of slavery." Once again, these argumentative and nit-picky schoolmarms demonstrated their complete lack of understanding and common sense.
Are they really so dense that they do not understand that there are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history? According to the United Nations and other international agencies, there are upwards of 45 million or more people enslaved today across the world and millions within the United States.
Recently, the Democrats attended a campaign rally at which they displayed a banner with a symbol of that enslavement -- the Islamic crescent -- along with the wiccan symbol signifying the triumph of evil. Islamists continue to believe in the enslavement of non-Muslims and Islamic countries are among the biggest offenders at turning a blind-eye or even officially condoning slavery.
Legislators like Senator Steve Oroho and Assemblyman Parker Space are leading the fight against modern slavery. They have proposed the Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Act (S-2928/ A-4503). Senator Oroho is considered a national leader -- up there with Ashton Kutcher -- in the fight against modern slavery.
The most "symbolic visual of slavery" today -- in 2017 -- is probably the flip-flops some appear to like so much, made with slave labor and sold with an enormous mark-up to willing American consumers. There are a host of products and services that Americans use that depend on enslaved victims. Then there is the sex trade -- including Internet porn -- that some Americans can't seem to live without. Look there for slavery today.
Again and again, Matteson and Trish have demonstrated their insensitivity to the real problems of today. They appear to live exclusively in the bubble of the one-percent and that is a big problem for average working people in Sussex, Warren, and Morris counties.
Does the rise of a neo-Nazi movement in America indicate that we are failing to teach history in our schools? Or are we teaching it in too simplistic a fashion, as a kind of sci-fi story with poorly-written characters that are too clearly good or evil?
We like our history served up to us plain and unequivocal. Give us gods and monsters or give us no history at all!
But history is complex, and within each soul of us there exists the potential for both good and evil. So beware of history served up like an old western -- with cardboard cutout figures wearing black or white hats. It is too easy, and explains nothing.
Within the lifetimes of most Americans, the Taliban went from being "freedom fighters," battling the Soviet Union, to the enemy harboring Osama Bin Laden. As always, Hollywood tried to shape history and made movies to glorify them...
But we forget this as we forget everything that is uncomfortable. We want "goodies" and "baddies" -- gods and monsters -- and we want to leave it at that.
The Taliban provides an interesting lesson in the attempt to erase history. They are monument destroyers. They wish to forget the past, erase it, and behave as though it never was:
It seems they have something in common with this crowd:
Here in America, there are those who want to cleanse the past from memory too, as the Turks have attempted to do with regards to the Armenian Holocaust. The difference between how the Turks and the Germans accept their respective pasts is instructive and should hold a lesson for America.
Last week, we wrote about the need to remember, when Assemblyman John Wisniewski joined Democrat candidates Kate Matteson and Gina Trish at the former Camp Nordland in Andover Township, New Jersey. We noted that it was a member of the local political establishment back in the 1930's, Newton lawyer William Dolan, who handled the land transaction that granted an American Nazi group control of the land that became Camp Nordland. Mr. Dolan was then the sitting State Senator of Sussex County, a Democrat, at a time when each county had one state senator.
According to a scholar at the University of Michigan, "New Jersey Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, Republican of Sussex, noted that New Jersey State Senator William Dolan, a Democrat, had aided the Bund in buying Nordland and that the Democratic Township Committee of Andover had granted Nordland a liquor license."
According to historian and author Warren Grover, Camp Nordland in Andover Township was incorporated in March 1937. Fritz Kuhn, the American Fuehrer himself, was one of the eight trustees of Camp Nordland. When the camp formally opened in July, State Senator Dolan was introduced by the American Nazi Bund's New Jersey Bundesleiter, and he greeted the "swastika waving" crowds.
Dolan was a political enemy of Franklin's Alfred "Bike" Littell, who went on to take his place as State Senator and to serve as Senate President. Littell, whose education at Princeton University had been interrupted for service in an artillery regiment in World War I, went to war with the American Nazis. Alfred Littell was the father of Senator Bob Littell, father-in-law of NJ Republican Party Chairwoman Virginia Littell, and the grandfather of Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose.
Wikipedia notes: "Camp Nordland was a 204-acre resort facility located in Andover Township, New Jersey. From 1937 to 1941, this site was owned and operated by the German American Bund, which sympathized with and propagandized for Nazi Germany in the United States. This resort camp was opened by the Bund on 18 July 1937. In the years before the Second World War, the Bund held events at the facility to encourage pro-German, pro-Nazi values—many of these events attracting over 10,000 visitors. On 18 August 1940, it was the site of a joint rally with the Ku Klux Klan... While much of its history and notoriety has faded over the last 70 years, many local residents of Sussex County still refer to the area as the 'bund camp.'"
Here is a short video that provides something of a history lesson for Assemblyman Wisniewski and the Democrats:
The writer Sinclair Lewis published a satirical novel in 1935 called, It Can't Happen Here, two years before it did happen here -- right here, in Andover Township, New Jersey. It is high time for the Township to acknowledge that history -- as a warning against an ideology that sent so many millions to their deaths.
It was one heck of a venue for Assemblyman Wisniewski and the Democrats' to choose. Especially given their party's history in establishing the camp.
Maybe the Assemblyman can propose a resolution to memorialize what happened in New Jersey and the attempt here to normalize Nazism? Lest we forget...
Along with Sussex County Democrat Party boss Leslie Huhn, Democrat Assembly candidates Kate Matteson and Gina Trish are big supporters of the Women's March organization. As reported in the media, the Women's March this week "honored" cop-killer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur).
Referring to the notorious cop-killer, who murdered a New Jersey State Trooper in cold blood, as a "revolutionary" whose words "inspire us to keep resisting", the far-left Women' March organization issued a statement "celebrating" Ms. Chesimard's birthday.
The Save Jersey blog reported on this:
Joanne Chesimard, the Black Liberation Army member hiding in Cuba after murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973, has long eluded American justice and vexed New Jersey public officials as well as the public at large.
Donald Trump made headlines in June by spiking the Obama-era Cuba deal and citing the case of Chesimard (a/k/a Assata Shakur) as one of the reasons.
Eyebrows were therefore raised on Sunday when the far-left Women’s March’s social media accounts CELEBRATED the notorious cop-killing fugitive’s birthday:
“I think you guys accidentally left out the part where she shot a police officer in the face, escaped from prison, then fled to Cuba in this post,” responded one Facebook user.
Now we all know where Republican Assemblyman Parker Space stands on cop-killer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur). He wants her extradited back to the United States to face trial for the murder of a police officer. Assemblyman Space backed that up by co-sponsoring a legislative resolution (AR-111) to urge Congress and the Administration to make that happen.
We haven't heard from Democrats Matteson and Trish.
Earlier in the year, the Democrats did make their voices heard when Assemblyman Space suggested that drug traffickers who sell to minors suffer the maximum penalty under federal law. The Democrats cried and asked that we think of the drug traffickers, not of the children being poisoned. Then they suggested that to do otherwise was somehow "racist." Ridiculous!
But what can one expect from Democrat one-percenters? They inhabit their cozy bubbles and have no experience of how most of America lives. They look upon average Americans using the crudest of stereotypes.
So we are very interested in hearing what party boss Huhn and candidates Matteson & Trish have to say about the Women's March honoring a cop-killer.
Sussex County Watchdog
