For the top of the monument, Ezekiel created the figure of a classically adorned woman, sometimes called Lady South. This figure may be modeled after Nike who is often depicted as a statue holding a laurel wreath. Ezekiel’s figure holds a laurel wreath in one hand, the symbol in ancient Greece and Rome of peace, achievement, and honor. In his Memoirs, Ezekiel wrote, “I would like to make a heroic bronze statue representing the South, a standing figure dignified and sorrowful with her right hand resting on the handle of the plough and her left hand, extended, holding out laurel wreath, whilst her head would be crowned with a wreath of olives. On the plinth upon which she stood, I would put in relief four cinerary urns overshadowed with palm leaves. Each of the urns would have a date of the War. On the base would appear the inscription from Isaiah 2:4. ‘And they shall turn their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.’ Underneath this would be a round disk with the shields or coats of arms of the Southern states in relief. Beneath this, the circular body of the monument ought to have a high relief upon it to represent the sacrifices and heroism of the men and women of the South.”
The Naming Commission, which is now disbanded, produced a report describing inaccurately, “The memorial offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery. ‘Two of these figures are portrayed as African-American: an enslaved woman depicted as a ‘Mammy,’ holding the infant child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.” The problem with this description is that Ezekiel never wrote that he was depicting slaves, and there were many freemen during the war. The report also falsely associates the monument with the Lost Cause, which has nothing to do with the meaning behind the Reconciliation Memorial and is nowhere inscribed on it.
According to Lunelle Siegel of Defend Arlington (
www.DefendArlington.org), “
The Memorial was part of a Reconciliation movement in the country and the Arlington Memorial was the brainchild of US President William McKinley and supported by three other presidents.” In the dedication, June 4, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson, stated, “My privilege is this, ladies and gentlemen: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past, knowing, as we have shed our blood upon opposite sides, we now face and admire one another.”
In an article originally for the Epoch Times, September 27, 2023, Dr. Ann McLean and Scott Powell wrote, “The Department of Defense under Secretary Lloyd Austin continues steps toward removing the monument from Arlington….The buck really does stop with Mr. Austin. While the Congressional Naming Commission has been disbanded, they left behind legislation and law. That law, Section 370 of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, specifically exempts Confederate grave markers from the order to remove the names and symbols that honor the Confederacy from Department of Defense bases and assets. Ezekiel requested that he be buried at the foot of the monument, making it his gravestone, which should be protected by law.”
Lunelle Siegel explains, “Defend Arlington and other plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth which are pending in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The Defendants have asked the Court to dismiss the case and the court decision is pending. This is a grave marker by the Naming Commission’s own definition, and Austin should have stopped, looked and listened before ordering implemation of this recommendation.” The lawsuit of February 16, 2023 specifically says, “Defendants exceeded its statutory jurisdiction in ordering removal of the Confederate Memorial, by unlawfully disregarding Congressional direction to seek local sensitivities; unlawfully directing removal of a grave marker; an area where it has no jurisdiction; and acting in violation of NEPA, NHPA and FACA.” On September 3, 2023, Karen Durham-Aquilera, Executive Director, Office of Army Cemeteries, was questioned in an email about removing the monument, that disturbing the graves of veterans being illegal and that Secretary Austin is following an illegal order from Congress. Further, if she or any Arlington Cemetery military personnel allow a crane to damage said gravesites at the memorial that also is a violation of law, and that their apparent use of The Nuremburg Defense to follow illegal Superior Orders was invalid. She refused to answer.
The question remains, why would Secretary Austin, or whoever else is urging the removal of the Reconciliation Memorial, continue to push for this illegal act, when the public is against it?
Citing President Wilson’s support of the Ezekiel statue isn’t going to do any good, since Wilson himself has been the subject of the cancel culture–witness the renaming of the Wilson School of International Affairs at the very university he served as president (Princeton University).
So, you don’t believe in polio viruses, HIV viruses, influenza viruses, herpes viruses, etc.?
Just because of the diabolical catastrophe of COVID-19, no need to throw out the baby with the bathwater!
William, as far as I have been able to research, no virus has ever been isolated in the classical sense. If you can prove otherwise, I am open to changing my opinion.
From the amazing Jon Rapapport:
https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/viruses-never-proved-to-exist-suppressed-story
JON RAPPOPORT
OCT 31, 2023
As soon as I began writing about COVID in the spring of 2020, I made the case that SARS-CoV-2 hadn’t been proved to exist.
I then met Tom Cowan, Andrew Kaufman, and Christine Massey. I became aware of the work of Stefan Lanka. They were making a wide challenge about viruses in general:
No actual isolation; no proof of existence; instead, a parade of false claims and obfuscations from official sources.
A few years later…and the number of serious researchers who are coming to the same conclusion has expanded significantly. (You can find links to some of these researchers at Christine Massey’s Substack page )
The new work isn’t just a repetition of the original challenge to official authority. It attacks fake viruses from a number of angles. The shocks keep coming.
This story isn’t going away. It’s building.
It reminds me of the vaccine story. When I first started writing about dangerous and ineffective vaccines, in 1987, there were dozens of writers, present and past, who had covered similar ground—going back many decades. But that was nothing compared with…
The strength of that story now, in 2023, after the catastrophe of the COVID vaccines.
This is what I believe is going to happen to the fake virus story—against even longer odds. I say “longer,” because the proofs that viruses aren’t real by any scientific standard will undermine and detonate the very center of the medical cartel, which is all about germ theory.
Germ theory is marketing. The marketing of (toxic) drugs and vaccines for thousands of so-called distinct diseases, each supposedly caused by a unique germ.
When that fiction falls, the whole house collapses.
Going back as far as the beginning of the 20th century (and farther), another paradigm about disease emerged. It came to be called “holistic.” Probably not the best label. But the idea was: look at the whole body, the whole person. Look at body processes as connected and inter-related. Understand disease and health in those larger terms. Include environmental effects—basic sanitation, pollution, toxic chemicals, nutrition, the rise of the middle class out of poverty.
Something needs to be pointed out here. The holistic paradigm is a very difficult approach, in terms of making it pay off in real cures. It always has been difficult. Thousands of methods have been suggested. Many of these tend to mirror the medical strategy: find magic bullet solutions, take short cuts. Market them. Claim temporary fixes are permanent.
Treating the body and the person as a whole, taking in the mind-body connection—this is by no means a walk in the park.
Therefore, sooner or later, many people, discouraged, fall back on medical answers and germ theory.
The work of the no-virus pioneers provides an absolutely essential antidote to that surrender.
Because what are people surrendering to? The convenient fiction that viruses are everywhere, causing separate diseases. Convenient fiction was how viruses were willed into existence in the first place:
Doctors couldn’t cure their patients. So they looked for “something that was missing.” A hole in their hypotheses. And they claimed they found it.
Tiny particles no one had ever seen. No one had ever isolated. “This is the key. This is the great discovery.” It was a self-serving fairy tale. An excuse for treatment failure.
It kicked off millions of efforts to assure one and all that viruses were real. Marketing, parading as science.
Where were these viruses being discovered? In proprietary labs. No civilians permitted. Doors locked. Only the experts could understand the details of their own isolation of the tiny particles.
The particles which had been fantasized into existence.
We’re actually looking at a magic-myth story. Explorer-knights (doctors, researchers) are searching for an invisible dragon object which is crippling the population. These heroes finally corner it and isolate it and go to work decimating it and all its variants.
But the real ending to that story is now being provided by the multiplying number of independent researchers, who are proving the invisible dragon object was never cornered or identified or isolated.
Instead, the so-called explorer-knights made up, invented, fabricated the idea of the object to begin with.
That’s the magic. Sleight of hand. That’s the myth. Secret lab procedures that, when exposed, turn out to assume what they’re trying to prove. Also known as circular reasoning.
The whole story has come unglued.
For now, I’ll conclude with this analogy. A group of elite researchers claim that, 49 trillion light years from Earth, there is a flaming star the size of the Milky Way. At the center of that star, buried within a supernatural vault, there is a tiny, tiny purple man with green toes and orange hair who is causing all trouble and all destruction circulating throughout the universe. He’s there. He’s been “isolated.”
Given that incredible tale, would you expect, would you really expect there can be ANY sort of test which would prove the existence of that tiny man?
Could ANY test be produced that would be authentic?
So, in the case of the wild virus fairy tale, are we looking at proofs of existence and isolation that need to be improved, in order for us to accept them?
Or are we, instead, looking at the tiny purple man, about whose existence there are no possible proofs at all?
Because the story is so absurdly outrageous.
I’m thinking we’re dealing with the tiny purple man. And this may be the next chapter in the no-virus revelation:
The original concoction of viruses was so crazy, every so-called proof is going to be circular, mindless, and futile.
There is no there to get to.