The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence!! Now I’m starting to get pissed off!



https://www.theblaze.com/news/...on-national-archives

Harmful to whom? Soy boys in their momma’s basement? Maybe we should defund the national archives!

For the love of $diety

Some idiot jackwads there need to be FIRED!

Imagine yourself as POTUS, or imagine President Trump back in office.

You summon this boob to the White House immediately. You tell him you want the names of every single person involved with making this decision. "Mister President, I'll have to get back to y-"

{interrupting}

"Fine, get to it. I'll see you back here tomorrow morning, 8 AM"

Next morning:

"Here you are, Mister Presid-"

{interrupting without yet looking at the list}

"I want the resignation of every person on that list by 5 PM today, and I want your resignation as well, whether or not your name is on the list. Get to it."

{The President turns his chair around so that his back is to this silly asshole, a staffer holds open the door of the oval office for asshole to leave}

My god. So what are prospective military recruits supposed to swear to support and defend?

Will there be a trigger warning?

What if you say you don’t want to? Those documents might damage peoples’ feelz after all. National archives says they could be harmful so what leg do you stand on to say I have to?

FFS.

They're gonna trigger 'Fuck-It Mode' before long...

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) determined recently that America's founding documents may be "harmful or difficult" for some users to view since they reflect "outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions."

When will this insanity end?

Ah, so we've run out of real problems, excellent.

I want to be outraged by this, but because it was so repulsive, I actually decided to look for myself. Maybe it's buried somewhere, but I'm not seeing what the article is talking about on archives.gov:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution

edit:

digging a little deeper than those pages, I do see it here:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1667751

Now I feel justified in my outrage.

I get it there are a lot of useless people working in the DC area, its sort of like their own welfare program. I suspect they would find us not liking them and throwing them off as offensive.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Ah, so we've run out of real problems, excellent.

Long ago, or so it seems

Do we have any contact info on the Director of The National Archives?

Contact information and biographies are here: National Archives Management

Archivist of the United States
David S. Ferriero
david.ferriero@nara.gov

Biography
"The Honorable David S. Ferriero was sworn in as 10th Archivist of the United States on November 13, 2009.

David S. Ferriero was confirmed as 10th Archivist of the United States on November 6, 2009. Early in 2010 he committed the National Archives and Records Administration to the principles of Open Government—transparency, participation, and collaboration. To better position NARA to fulfill these goals, Mr. Ferriero initiated an agency transformation in 2010. The transformation restructured the organization and set goals to further our mission, meet the needs of those who rely on us, and find new, creative ways to approach the agency's work.

Openness and access drive NARA's actions in a variety of ways. The agency has embraced a number of social media tools—Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, Tumblr, and others—to reach a wider and broader audience. NARA uses this digital engagement as a two-way street. Early in his tenure, Mr. Ferriero celebrated the contributions of "citizen archivists," and he encourages public participation in identifying historical Federal records and sharing knowledge about them.

Access and protection go hand in hand, and NARA has taken steps to ensure that future generations will continue to enjoy access to Federal records. In August 2012, NARA produced the Managing Government Records Directive to modernize and improve Federal records management practices. Mr. Ferriero also instituted new security measures to deter theft or mishandling of records.

Several new facilities, designed to protect the records and improve access to them, have been opened since 2010. The George W. Bush Presidential Library became the 13th Presidential Library under NARA's administration. The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO, moved into a newly constructed building that is better equipped to preserve the millions of veterans records in its care. And the National Archives at New York and the National Archives at Denver moved to new locations. In Washington, DC, the National Archives Museum's visitors entrance was reconfigured, and the new David M. Rubenstein Gallery opened in December 2013.

Previously, Mr. Ferriero served as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries (NYPL). He was part of the leadership team responsible for integrating the four research libraries and 87 branch libraries into one seamless service for users, creating the largest public library system in the United States and one of the largest research libraries in the world. Mr. Ferriero was in charge of collection strategy; conservation; digital experience; reference and research services; and education, programming, and exhibitions.

Before joining the NYPL in 2004, Mr. Ferriero served in top positions at two of the nation's major academic libraries, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and Duke University in Durham, NC. In those positions, he led major initiatives including the expansion of facilities, the adoption of digital technologies, and a reengineering of printing and publications.

Mr. Ferriero earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from Northeastern University in Boston and a master's degree from the Simmons College of Library and Information Science, also in Boston. Mr. Ferriero served as a Navy hospital corpsman during the Vietnam War."

It seems the Fed gov has completely turned on liberty and prosperity. Khrushchev himself couldn’t have destroyed this nation as effectively as the Dem party.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
It seems the Fed gov has completely turned on liberty and prosperity. Khrushchev himself couldn’t have destroyed this nation as effectively as the Dem party.

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Let's see if they can locate that old scrap of paper in the archives, then we can get someone to interpret it for them.

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Originally posted by low8option:
When will this insanity end?

I could explain it, but doing so would likely get me cross ways with some folks who watch this board, so I think I'll just stop here.

If ever there was a case for the Sunset Law, this agency is it. I have to admit that until 5 minutes ago I never heard of this entity. There is no reason for it to exist.

Ok, I get and share the outrage, however, here is the statement. It applies to the National Archives as a whole, not to those specific documents.

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NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content

The Catalog and web pages of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide access to many millions of descriptions and digital copies of the permanent records of the United States federal government.

The Catalog and web pages contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions. In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance.

The National Archives is committed to working with staff, communities, and peer institutions to assess and update descriptions that are harmful and to establish standards and policies to prevent future harmful language in staff-generated descriptions.

So yes, it is lefty bullshit, but it does not specifically call out the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It says, in effect, "in this vast archive of millions of pages, some stuff is nasty". And I am sure that is true. Some of it is nasty.

But, this is a case of writers on the right using Saul Alinsky's method of "rubbing raw the sores of discontent" to fire up an issue, and get clicks. It is not a leftist insult aimed at the founding documents.

I'll take my beating now.