Confederacy was not treasonous, Larry Johnson? — stupidity's bell peals loud

© 2020 Peter Free

 

13 July 2020

 

 

Theme, today

 

Stupidity really is the enemy.

 

 

I make the mistake of reading moronic counter-opinion blogs more than I should

 

Below is an example of No Brains Walking.

 

I quote it because it so perfectly represents this nation's widespread, combative refusal to educate itself.

 

 

In the following extract . . .

 

Larry C. Johnson — who has carefully scrubbed his background from anywhere that I can easily find — attacks General and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Mark Milley.

 

Admittedly, General Milley can be critiqued on multiple, arguably substantive, grounds.

 

Larry Johnson's criticism of him, however, is (definitionally speaking) inarguably wrong:

 

 

Gen. Milley has weighed in on the subject of military bases whose names are associated with the Confederacy. He also adds some value judgements, presumably his own, regarding Confederate Officers and soldiers:

 

 

“Like the country it serves, the U.S. military is fighting an internal battle against racism, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Thursday, but old names and symbols of that enemy are present and strong enough to sow poison.

 

“Divisiveness leads to defeat,” Milley told the House Armed Services Committee.

 

“There is no place in our armed forces … for symbols of racism, bias or discrimination.”

 

The Civil War was an “act of treason,” he said. The south’s military leaders betrayed their nation profoundly, and still, many military installations bear their names, according to Milley.

 

“It was an act of treason at the time against the union, against the stars and stripes, against the U.S. Constitution, and those officers turned their back on their oath.”

 

 

I am unlettered in the details of the War Between The States [admits Johnson].

 

I would have thought however that the treason charge is unsupportable.

 

I think it is plain now that Miley is explicitly supporting BLM [Black Lives Matter] and the revolutionaries.

 

© 2020 Larry C. Johnson, General Milley Is off the Reservation — Trump's Chief of Staff takes a knee before the BLM and the Democrats, Anti-Empire (13 July 2020)

 

 

Where to begin?

 

Let's start with Mr. Johnson's apparent inability to read (or even to find) definitions.

 

Article III § 3 of the United States Constitution says that:

 

 

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

 

 

That is exactly and indisputably what the seceding Confederacy did, when it tried to militarily solidify its destruction of the United States as an entity.

 

 

Not content with exposing himself as unable to interpret simple English

 

Johnson goes on to criticize General Milley for wanting to keep the United States Military intact and undivided.

 

General Milley's effort to keep our Military Forces solidly of the same unified perspective is, Johnson implies, a revolution-supporting act.

 

 

Consider the full scope of what Johnson has just said

 

Johnson maintains that:

 

 

the Confederacy did not defy the Constitution

 

when it did exactly what the document explicitly prohibits

 

and

 

General Milley does sin against the Founding Document

 

when he holds precisely to its intent and directives.

 

 

Quite an insightful intellect you have, Mr. Johnson

 

Your mother would (I'm sure) be supportively proud of you.

 

On the other hand, God only knows what the more competent among your teachers what would think of such intentionally manifested witlessness on your part.

 

 

Why this example of unembarrassed obtuseness is important

 

Larry Johnson's unreasoning bias is identical to those displayed by both of America's two (brain-killingly partisan) political parties.

 

Neither pays any attention to evidence and rationally applied Reason.

 

Speaking to both sets of these fools is a waste of time and energy. They have, virtually unanimously, abandoned the "sapiens" in our species designation.

 

Both sets of predatory dopes prefer to wander off into the Forest of Vacuously Undisciplined Emotions.

 

 

One wonders what comes next for us

 

An ant hill comprised of ruinously squabbling insect-minds?

 

 

The moral? — If one is "unlettered in details" — as Johnson admits he is . . .

 

. . . one should (for the sake of Homo sapiens the world round) gracefully avoid rendering one's lazily unreasoned — and stubbornly unexamined — opinions.

 

As I have said before, the best thing that could happen to humanity is the appearance of a deadly virus that eliminates the high proportion of the willfully brain-deficient among us.

 

I still bemoan the disappearance of the Pleistocene's saber-toothed cats. Humankind's intelligence took a metaphorical dive after they left.