Thomas Jefferson May Have Been a Flawed Man, but his Descendant, Lucian K. Truscott IV, Never Learned the Value of the Teachable Moment

Editor in Chief, DL Mullan
Thomas Jefferson / History / Memorial
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Thomas Jefferson like many people from our past were caught up in a whirlwind of circumstances they did not know how to get out of and no matter what they did, could not control. Instead of realizing the pressure people were under during their eras, modern views are to dissect, destroy, and delete the past based on value judgements of today.

The past is to learn from. It is our history and our disagreements with the people, places, or ideals of that history should make us better people. The past is the present's teachable moment. 

Thomas Jefferson was a man, an imperfect man, whose ideals were overshadowed by the gravity of his time. Instead of holding him to that higher standard, it was he who tasked us in the present to fulfill his idealism. He knew that he was trapped by the time he lived in. 

What possible understanding do you, Lucian K. Truscott IV, have about living in such a time as he? None.

Have you ever considered that if Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves without financial support, an education, or political will at their backs that his slaves would have been worse off, even murdered? Of course not, because we have never had to make those types of decisions. 

To tear down statutes in anger or ignorance is nothing more than juvenile tantrums of an ill-informed lynch mob mentality. What is the difference in owning slaves when you are in the modern era a slave to the rage mob? Thomas Jefferson was just as much a slave to his generation as he was a slave owner. The lynch mobs in our streets are mental slaves to organizations telling them that they are the modern slave owners trying to whip the populace into conformity.

I am against any form of modern ineptness denigrating our historical figures because most of the outcry is hype. 

Thomas Jefferson did write: “all men are created equal,” but we forget to comprehend that it is our responsibility to pursue it. That ideal was not his to give. He said it was endowed to us by our creator and we are our creator. We created our past. We create our present. We create our future. 

He provided the outline. America has spent the last 244 years crawling our way up to behold that sentiment in mind and spirit. If we have not fully achieved his realization for America, then how can we be in the position to judge him by it? 

What ignorance you wrote that really caught my attention was: "A tour of Monticello these days will tell you that it was designed by Jefferson and built by the people he enslaved..."

Not everyone in your family's employ was a slave who worked at Monticello, my family did as well: 

Richard Sorrels
(5th Great Grandfather)
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Richard Sorrells was a general laborer at Monticello. He worked for Thomas Jefferson from 1769 until his death in 1773.

I have noted on my 1776 Patriot Project page. 

If you also read down the list, I have a Confederate in my past too, but unlike you I don't make the past about personal feelings of guilt or shame. I am not an ungrateful person. I view history in the context it was meant to be encapsulated: frozen, studied, and understood. 

The points in the past are the growth spurts and sputterings of a grand experiment in self-governance. Your op-ed proves America still has miles to go to fulfill our own Declaration of Independence because you judge the past with a Post Modernist flare of deconstruction. 

I view our Declaration of Independence as a challenge to be meet every moment of every day. 

That is the difference between you and I. You are caught up in the embarrassment of what you cannot change. I am using challenging times as a teachable moment. 

The Thomas Jefferson and the other historical monuments must stay. Otherwise we too are as guilty as those who preceded us. I shall not live in such regretful recompense for something I am not responsible for, but evermore hope to teach that every day we can be the betterment of ourselves and others.

Be your better self and end this foolishness. 

Source: NY Times,

Eye Witness Account of Charlottesville, Virginia

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Riots / War Memorials
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BREAKING: MILLIE UPDATES from Race Riots In Virginia!

Source: Info Wars Live

Changing the National Conversation: Political Totalitarianism of Historical McCarthyism

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
McCarthyism / Communism / Socialism
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Since the Democratic Party lost the 2016 Presidential Election, newer and bolder conspiracy theories have emerged to shock, rock, and create hysteria among Americans.

First, the Russians are coming... didn't America already do this one? The Red Scare hysteria of the mid-20th Century was headed by Joseph McCarthy: 

History Short - The Red Scare

For the Mainstream Media, this unsubstantiated Russians hacked the Democratic Party headquarters and thus allowed Donald Trump to win the Presidency has become the Red Scare fueled conspiracy theory of our time.

With the addition of the Confederate War Memorial historical hysteria, there appears in the media, politics, and public that the mass hallucination of anything dealing with the Civil War and the South is deemed domestic terrorism. 

Have Americans lost their sanity? 

History is owned by everyone, not just the people who want to sanitize our lineage. Not all history is good. Not all history is bad. History is for us to remember who we are and where we came from. History is to teach our lessons to future generations. 

America is becoming George Orwells' 1984: The Importance of History in 1984. 

When people in a society have factions removing history, not only is that a form of book burning censorship, this act is the epitome of political totalitarianism. In America, the historical McCarthyism stands:

• Pepperdine University Removing Christopher Columbus Statue from Campus
• Boston statues: Are there ones that should be toppled?
• New Orleans Begins Removing Confederate Monuments, Under Police Guard

When authorities have to remove history under police guard, then Americans know that the action is illegitimate. Charlottesville, Virginia is an example of desecrating U.S. Veteran War Memorials and trying to use the blame game to control the narrative that only racists protect history. 

Case in point that Americans have been captured by the very Totalitarianistic mindset that they have fought against:

Statues of dictators like Stalin still stand:

• Statue of Joseph Stalin to be Unveiled in Virginia
• Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Notice how Confederates are racists and terrorists, yet Stalin has free reign in the same state? 

Still believe America is a free society with access to its history? History is being demonized in order to create a reality that never existed. Without history, America becomes a microcosm feeding off a small group's collected deception.

How do Americans push back against this Totalitarian takeover of our country? 

Challenge the Mainstream Media narrative. Run for local political seats. Stand up to this historical McCarthyism before Orwell's 1984 becomes the norm. Never be violent.

Political Totalitarianism should not go undefeated. History belongs to everyone. The living are the stewards of culture and history for future generations. We need to return to knowledge in lieu of temper tantrums.  

When Americans reject the Red Scare of the Russians are coming... and realize that political totalitarianism is equal to the historical McCarthyism of removing statues, then America can be saved from the same dictatorial control that enslaved Russia and Eastern Europe for decades.

End the lies. Restore history. The past and future are in your hands.

Source: 123mehelp,

Removing Confederate Statues is Revisionist History

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Slavery / Civil War
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Listen to A Black Conservative Tell You Why Removing Confederate Statues is Revisionist History

New Orleans has removed the first of a few Confederate statues in response to criticism that the statutes are symbols of white supremacy, racism, and hatred. Opponents of the statues also say they glorify the ugly history of slavery in the United States. Workers who were tasked with the job of removing the monuments and statues had to wear bulletproof vests while being protected by police snipers as they worked at night. This was said to be a precautionary measure for their safety, but it could also be seen as a PR move to justify the removal of the structures. Some people are upset about this whole situation and the bulletproof vests may be worn to try and paint the upset people as also being violent white supremacists that would shoot someone trying to remove something they deeply identify with.

All of this screams “revisionist history.” Marxism, more specifically. To attempt to change the written history into something else more palatable to those who are either in power or those who want to assume power. The Confederate (battle) flag has often been cited in conjunction with the statues of Robert E. Lee and others as symbols of racism for a few reasons. Many of the reasons are not totally sound and could be used for the other side of the war as well. But due to prior Marxist revisionism, it appears as if only one side is mentioned in a negative way.

Robert E. Lee is said to have been a slave owner but so was General Ulysseus S. Grant, the leader of the Union Army. Nobody wants to desecrate any of his monuments. The Confederacy was said to be fighting for the preservation of slavery, but the North had slaves throughout the entire war and for a brief period of time after the war, longer than the South was allowed to keep their slaves. The Confederate flag is seen as a symbol of racism but it only existed for 4 years of slavery, while the American flag existed for around 90 years of slavery and the Union Jack existed for about 150 years of slavery before that (in North America of course.) Many of these facts are not known by the general public and more facts will continue to go unknown if the current trend of revisionist history continues. And those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.

Source: Anthony Brian Logan

Trump on KKK

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Hate Groups / KKK
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Trump on KKK: “Hate groups are not for me”

Donald Trump says he has rejected the Ku Klux Klan “from the time I’m 5 years old.” The GOP front-runner notes he does not want the votes of white supremacists, adding, “I say to myself, how many times do I have to reject or disavow?”

Source: Face The Nation

Donald Trump DISAVOWS David Duke/KKK

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

White Supremacy / KKK 
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Donald Trump DISAVOWS David Duke/KKK 
again and again and again

Donald Trump has disavowed David Duke MULTIPLE times yet MSM cannot seem to stop with their propaganda to the American Public...I can't believe MSM is STILL lying about this issue...Makes you wonder what else they are lying about and keeping from you all.

Source: Grande Directory