{"id":31462,"date":"2017-08-31T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31462"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:43:20","slug":"common-sense-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31462","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Has Left The Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/31\/splc-says-army-bases-are-confederate-monuments-that-need-to-come-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article today about the latest target of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Southern Poverty Law Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (SPLC). The group has totally lost all sense of reason.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared three of America\u2019s largest Army bases <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"List of monuments and memorials of the Confederate States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_monuments_and_memorials_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Confederate monuments<\/a> \u201cwith the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed\u201d if activists don\u2019t \u201ctake down\u201d the Army bases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The SPLC included <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fort Hood\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Hood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Fort Hood<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Texas\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.0,-100.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=31.0,-100.0 (Texas)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Texas<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fort Bragg\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Bragg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Fort Bragg<\/a> in North Carolina and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fort Benning\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.3661111111,-84.9691666667&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=32.3661111111,-84.9691666667 (Fort%20Benning)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Fort Benning<\/a> in Georgia on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/news\/2017\/08\/15\/send-letter-its-time-take-down-confederate-monuments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list<\/a> of 1,500 \u201cConfederate monuments\u201d that the SPLC claims could inspire more violence like what happened in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Charlottesville, Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.0299,-78.479&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=38.0299,-78.479 (Charlottesville%2C%20Virginia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Charlottesville, Virginia<\/a> last month.\u00a0All three bases are named after <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Confederate States Army\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_Army\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Confederate military<\/a> leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The list makes no mention of renaming namesakes of Confederate monuments; taking the monuments down is presented as the only option. The recent leftist campaign against Confederate namesakes and monuments has included a willingness among some <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/16\/woman-who-destroyed-durham-confederate-statue-is-a-pro-north-korea-marxist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far-left actors<\/a> to destroy government property to accomplish their goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the SPLC is so unhappy with American history and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal government of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_government_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">American government<\/a>, why don&#8217;t they take their organization elsewhere? Nothing they are doing is improving the atmosphere of division and hate that they say they are combating. In fact, it can be argued that this &#8216;anti-hate group&#8217; is creating hate and division.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>At the same time that the SPLC is waging its campaign against Fort Hood, approximately 400 American soldiers stationed at the base are down in Houston\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kdhnews.com\/military\/fort-hood-soldiers-head-to-houston-for-harvey-relief\/article_6834c002-8cd5-11e7-a92f-17ae7f6289e6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helping<\/a> victims of Hurricane Harvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the SPLC doing to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller posted an article today about the latest target of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The group has totally lost all sense of reason. The article reports: The Southern Poverty Law Center has declared three of America\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11065,11063,8611,11064,810,5482],"class_list":["post-31462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-confederate-military","tag-confederate-momuments","tag-fort-benning","tag-fort-bragg","tag-fort-hood","tag-southern-poverty-law-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31463,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31462\/revisions\/31463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}