Newsweek, and many others, think "Crazy" Pete Hegseth is "Now Boarding the USS Idiocracy" for reconsidering naming a Navy ship after Harvey Milk. While I agree the Department of Defense should have better things to do with their time, I don't think they're completely off base with this one. If anything - like the subject of America and Israel - Harvey Milk inadvertently directs our attention to the parameters Americans are deceitfully putting around the truth, to keep history hidden under layers of propaganda. Check out Milk's bio in The Daily Mail:
Milk served four years during the Korean War before being discharged due to questions about his sexual orientation. He went on to become the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and was assassinated in 1978.
What's not to love? Clearly, if the U.S. Navy wants to honor Milk - purely for his military service - then fine, have at it. Only a bigot would say otherwise.
But, the issue is, there's more to Harvey Milk than his four years in Korea. Much more. And it's NOT good. And the main problem is, as Michael Bellefountaine wrote in 2013, "despite all the exhibits and memorials of Harvey Milk throughout San Francisco,...none of them acknowledges Milk’s relationship with Jim Jones and Peoples Temple."
As bad as that oversight is, it gets even worse. While beginning to write this post, I immediately identified a huge incident in Milk's life story that appears to have been wiped from the internet's narrative: the night Harvey Milk bombed his own camera store and blamed heterosexuals for it. Google's AI says "Based on the search results, it seems there might be a misunderstanding or a connection being made that is not supported by the provided information."
Yeah, because it's been expunged, like a Soviet secret under Stalin. I found one passing refrence to it in a City Journal article:
During his successful run for city supervisor, for instance, Milk’s camera store was the object of a glass-shattering attack by low-grade explosives. Milk blamed singer Anita Bryant, the outspoken opponent of gay-friendly legislation. “Years later friends hinted broadly that Harvey had more than a little foreknowledge that the explosions would happen,” biographer Randy Shilts noted. One friend explained to Shilts: “You gotta realize the campaign was sort of going slow, and, well . . .”
That speaks not only to the character of Harvey Milk but also that of his defenders. Actor Sean Penn said of Hegseth, “I’ve never before seen a Secretary of Defense so aggressively demote himself to the rank of Chief PETTY Officer.” Penn said this, shamelessly, without ever having acknowledged the "True Story" he made about Milk's life was, both, blatant propaganda and largely a fabrication. Like the City Journal quote, above, Penn portrayed Milk's 1975 campaign as "successful" - and it was - but only because Milk stole the election. Here's the New York Times in a Dec. 17, 1978 article, "Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds":
Determined to help elect politicians friendly toward his People's Temple, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered what former temple members say was an organized campaign of fraudulent voting practices that included importing busloads of illegal voters to cast their ballots in this city's 1975 municipal elections.
Among those named by some of Mr. Jones's former followers as recipients of his political support were Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, both of whom were shot and killed in their City Hall offices three weeks ago, allegedly by an enraged former city official.
That was NOT in Sean Penn's movie. There's also allegations of child sexual abuse, rape allegations, and more. Like the cult's mass murder in Guyana. Which brings me to one of the reasons I'm writing this post: Many Americans are living a lie, based on a manufactured culture, that few want exposed. A manufactured culture that's turned Harvey Milk - at best, a People's Temple associate - into someone admirable, to suit an agenda. An agenda that not only disrespects history, but the dead, who demand we wrestle with the truth.
And the truth is, Harvey Milk's participation in the Peoples Temple gave Jim Jones more credibility, political clout (Jones was rewarded with an office) and led, at least, 900 people to their deaths. How can we possibly hope to understand our time - when allegations of Democrat Party voter fraud in 2020 are still alive and well - if we aren't even allowed to know the Democrats not only did it, but got away with it, before? And, just like now, no one knew how it was done - until someone decided to confess. So we live a lie. And it's not the only one I can say this about.
Because even Joe Rogan doesn't wanna break through this bullshit.
