Did Patrick Henry decry the death of law enforcement?
A local protest group is assembling in my city in a park where Nathan Bedford Forrest, a democrat, made a famous speech in the 1870s bringing blacks and whites together for the first time. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are buried at this site.The park and statue have been there since 1905 and once part of an historic Victorian and post-Victorian neighborhood and city park.
The park itself is historic in my mind—it is the only one remaining of several that were here prior to the 1920s. Most of the houses and neighborhoods became blighted or were razed by urban renewal groups in the 1950s.
They are decrying the removal of the statue using the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech of a Republican, Patrick Henry, who lived a century before Forrest.—one of the Founding Fathers of our nation— concluding with “What do we want? Liberty! When do we want it? NOW! (are we still slaves?)— then target the police declaring “What do we want? DEAD COPS when do we want it? NOW! There is no one to riot with but the police. Most of the signs being held are against Donald Trump, a left-leaning republican and former democrat, depicting him as a KKK leader and Adolph Hitler and the reason the statue must come down.
This is the most disconnected montage of unrelated events, movements, history, slander, and hysteria—it hardly seems real—much less that anyone could make these “connections.” But this drive seems to be sweeping the country— George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and even slave-abolisher Abraham Lincoln (in a Chicago demonstration and vandalism) are not exempt.
Whereas there IS truth in that Patrick Henry was against slavery, I don’t recall his famous speech demanding dead cops. Today, Donald Trump is actually seen as a White Supremacist / KKK leader (about 30% of his family is Jewish)—last week he was going to put us at risk of Nuclear Holocaust for “threatening North Korea”
Can anyone make any sense out of this? Did Patrick Henry really demand an overthrow of local law enforcement?
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