For Who Will Record the Truth…

 

…in these days of Darkness? Who will write down, for others to read, exactly what happens? Who will write the History of events in all the turmoil? Who will record exactly what is said, and meant, by President Donald Trump? How will posterity know exactly what kind of President he was, when the recorders are those who despise him, and despise those who elected him? When the video record of rallies and press conferences is edited to make the President look foolish, or crazy.

For who will record the Truth, when the Owners of the Internet are publicly removing accounts of the President of the United States, and those who support him?  Who will record the Truth in these coming Days of Digital Darkness?

Who will record the Truth, when even those who call themselves “conservative” devote an entire magazine issue to hatred of the candidate? Who will provide the true descriptions of events that shake the world? We are living through a momentous time, when Government decrees that Society will Stop in its tracks, to prevent the spread of a thing that is so small, so invisible, that the people will only know it by its deliverance of illness and death. We are living in a difficult moment, when we are subjected to writings by a so-called “press” who devotes itself to denigration of the President, even when he does what is obviously necessary to preserve the Nation.

Who will write the History of these Days of Hurt, Darkness, and Death? We need to tell the Truth, about the actions of the Elected National Legislators who, instead of working on behalf of the Voters who elected them, work to investigate, and undermine, the duly-elected President. We need to write, and preserve the Truth about these days. Witness, and write about what you see. Write your History with that outdated tool, the Pen, on that outdated medium, Paper, since digital records will be consigned to the Memory Hole, sooner rather than later.  History depends on You.

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  1. JennaStocker Member
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    Great post. I hope when this hysteria washes out, people don’t forget how many millions lost their livelihoods and lives disrupted by a narrative driven by a spiteful group of “journalists” and pundits based in NYC, who never see life beyond the city’s borders-nor do they seem to care. I hope we don’t forget how easily and quickly a fear-peddling group of politicians and their lackeys in the media turned a nation of rebels into neighborhood snitches who would rather live in a police state than a liberality. But after the deaths fall far short of the millions predicted & modelers pack their bags, this will be memory-holed and the next big freak out will be upon us. But Ricochet was here! And god willing we won’t forget.

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  2. Rōnin Coolidge
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    JennaStocker (View Comment):

    Great post. I hope when this hysteria washes out, people don’t forget how many millions lost their livelihoods and lives disrupted by a narrative driven by a spiteful group of “journalists” and pundits based in NYC, who never see life beyond the city’s borders-nor do they seem to care. I hope we don’t forget how easily and quickly a fear-peddling group of politicians and their lackeys in the media turned a nation of rebels into neighborhood snitches who would rather live in a police state than a liberality. But after the deaths fall far short of the millions predicted & modelers pack their bags, this will be memory-holed and the next big freak out will be upon us. But Ricochet was here! And god willing we won’t forget.

    I’m a day late and a dollar short here, but “true that.”

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  3. Ray Kujawa Coolidge
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    A very good illustration of the legitimacy of concerns about correctly reporting the truth of history is today (January 8-9, 2021) playing out for all to see. President Trump’s tweet, shortly followed by his Twitter account, have been deleted and suspended permanently respectively following allegations that he incited violence that was brought about in the Congress by infiltrators who were permitted to enter the building by policemen who were visible standing with their backs to the wall not offering any resistance. The president’s video including encouraging his supporters to be peaceful, not to play into our opponents hands. These videos and messages have been forwarded to Parler, which until this afternoon was the number 1 free app on the Apple App Store. But first Google and now the App Store have ceased permitting customers the ability to download the Parler app on the smartphones, using this false narrative as justification. Parler is not nominally a conservative site (it is still avail in web browser form, but I was able to download and begin using it yesterday on my iPhone). It appears to be targeted with shabby justification. But the message is, they have the ability because of cooperation with multiple large entities who at least for the moment do not want their names trashed, to contain at least partially the spread of conservative counter-narrative news and will try to stop us any way they can. We can try to stay ahead of them by moving stories wherever we can as fast as we can, but it really bespeaks of the need to record an account of the true history of these events in a secure and permanent manner. After all, the digital platforms that we share our news on is only as secure as the digital infrastructure and servers (and backup) are permitted to be kept running. Who is to say our sites won’t be declared to be an enemy of the people, our servers seized and sites shut down. Non conservatives access would be affected as well if this happens. (an of course, we will get the blame)

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  4. ThomasMcGowan Inactive
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    JennaStocker (View Comment):

    Great post. I hope when this hysteria washes out, people don’t forget how many millions lost their livelihoods and lives disrupted by a narrative driven by a spiteful group of “journalists” and pundits based in NYC, who never see life beyond the city’s borders-nor do they seem to care. I hope we don’t forget how easily and quickly a fear-peddling group of politicians and their lackeys in the media turned a nation of rebels into neighborhood snitches who would rather live in a police state than a liberality. But after the deaths fall far short of the millions predicted & modelers pack their bags, this will be memory-holed and the next big freak out will be upon us. But Ricochet was here! And god willing we won’t forget.

    I agree, and HOPE no longer can they, the powers to be or not, to be, no longer enlist and insist our young and old, to die, bleed, lose life and limb with their false praises and attributes of Freedom of Expression, so stated in the U.S. Constitution.

     

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  5. Ansonia Member
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    Thank you, RushBabe49,

    You’ve said,  a thousand times better than I ever could, what’s on my mind.

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  6. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    This is a reason why I buy hard copies of non-fiction, especially history.  I have a Kindle with 150 books but they are all fiction and I will not mind if they are deleted or edited without my knowledge or permission.  I cancelled my Amazon nPrime membership which I had paid since it was introduced.  That was in response to their action against Parler.  I doubt it will bring Bezos to his knees but I felt it was necessary.  I have not checked to see what the effect of my cancellation has had on other Amazon connections.

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  7. RushBabe49 Thatcher
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    I always buy physical books, and so does Ray. Every surface in our house is piled with books. 

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  8. Goldwaterwoman Thatcher
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    RushBabe49: Who will write the History of these Days of Hurt, Darkness, and Death? We need to tell the Truth, about the actions of the Elected National Legislators who, instead of working on behalf of the Voters who elected them, work to investigate, and undermine, the duly-elected President. We need to write, and preserve the Truth about these days. Witness, and write about what you see. Write your History with that outdated tool, the Pen, on that outdated medium, Paper, since digital records will be consigned to the Memory Hole, sooner rather than later. History depends on You.

    History is written from the perspective of the victors. Presently, those victors populate positions of influence in our universities and in the MSM. The chance of a sympathetic view of our side in the history books of the future is slim and none. I hate to write this, but I feel it’s a fact. When Churchill said, “History will be kind to me as I intend to write it,” he wasn’t just whistling Dixie.

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  9. Goldwaterwoman Thatcher
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    RushBabe49 (View Comment):
    I always buy physical books, and so does Ray. Every surface in our house is piled with books. 

    When I walk into a house with no visible books, I immediately think they aren’t very deep thinkers and are probably narrow minded. Too many people think their education is over after they receive the diploma when the reality is that it’s just the beginning. 

    As for physical books, I no longer buy them preferring the IPad where it’s possible to make the font as large as weak old eyes can easily read. That said, I still have my hundreds of books collected over a lifetime as they are old friends who introduced me to worlds I never knew existed.  The book that changed my life, “The Little Princesses,” was given to me when I was eight years old by an English aunt. Written by Marion Crawford, who had been a governess to Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret when they were young, the book made me want to know more about the British royals and influenced my decision  to minor in English history. I still have that book 68 years later.

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  10. CarolJoy, Thread Hijacker Coolidge
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    Wonderful bit of writing. You covered so many of the high and low points.

    And consider: as a pre-schooler living in the days of McCarthyism, one of my favorite little “Golden Books” involved a tall tale. It was about a king who hated how babies had round heads. He contrived a method to turn each baby’s head square, and for a while it seemed like his demonic plan would work.

    The small book ended with the idea that Nature would not go along with this idea. A new baby was born in the Kingdom, and this infant had the round head. The reader  assumed the king then soon gave up.

    Around the same time frame, someone finally stood up at the House of UnAmerican Activities Committee and loudly stated “Have you no Shame!” and the McCarthy movement then ended.

    From Wikipedia: Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy‘s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he famously asked McCarthy “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.

    I hope to live long enough to see the wheels come off this latest insurrection of the USA, by the totalitarian takeover of our media, combined with the worst of American protest movements, that is, AntiFa and BLM. The insurrection culminated in a peaceful takeover – through fraudulent election activities, and any who doubt  that need to watch the youtubes of Jovan Pulitzer, election integrity forensic examiner.

    On January 6th, The insurrection then went on to involve a group of AntiFa who were given the keys to the US Capital building, although some legit Trump protesters did show up there as well. This latest activity has now captured the headlines, with shrieks of “Off with his head” so attempts are now underway to have Trump impeached for his riot incitement. (This effort against Trump is going on even though in a speech lasting over an hour, Trump urged his loyal supporters to continue to hold fast for a while, he made no attempts to incite violence.)

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  11. Ray Kujawa Coolidge
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    MichaelKennedy (View Comment):

    This is a reason why I buy hard copies of non-fiction, especially history. I have a Kindle with 150 books but they are all fiction and I will not mind if they are deleted or edited without my knowledge or permission. I cancelled my Amazon nPrime membership which I had paid since it was introduced. That was in response to their action against Parler. I doubt it will bring Bezos to his knees but I felt it was necessary. I have not checked to see what the effect of my cancellation has had on other Amazon connections.

    You will still be able to purchase things on Amazon as I have for years when there is no other seller, but you will pay normal instead of discounted rates. Occasionally, some newer blue rays I had been interested in were not being made available if you weren’t on Amazon Prime. I was lucky enough to find it somewhere else. But they keep trying to push their service with big buttons that sometimes make it easy to click the signup by mistake. I’m not on Amazon Prime, but I did get a delivery in a box at least once that looked like it was the AP service.

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