One of the lawyers for Nick Sandmann released this video related to the incident on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Mr. Wood does an excellent job in exposing the lies of Nathan Phillips and those of the mainstream media.
A week or two ago we heard that lawyers representing Nick Sandmann and some other students of Covington High were contemplating legal action. The contemplation is over and the first steps have been taken. A team of seven lawyers have sent document preservation letters to 54 entities on behalf of the boys. These entities include: the Diocese of Covington, the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Kathy Griffin, Elizabeth Warren.
I say good for the boys and their attorneys. Let the left-wing lemmings squirm, those who rushed to throw high school kids under a bus because they wore MAGA hats and didn't offer grovelling obeisance to some activist fraud who banged drums in their faces. That goes double for the Catholic dioceses and their cowardly prelates.
Nathan Phillips, the activist who accosted Nick Sandmann, is touted as a "native American elder" and a Vietnam Veteran. Regarding the latter title, Phillips has not acted to dispel that misconception. Had the press done some research and some basic arithmetic, they would have known it was impossible for Phillips to have served in Vietnam. Right below this paragraph I will post video that shows copies of his service records; the video makes plain that while Phillips did not claim outright to have fought in Vietnam, he really expended no effort to correct the media's spin. Indeed he most likely found it quite useful.
Phillips was born February 22, 1954. In order for him to enlist at the age of 18, he could have done so no later than Feb 22, 1972. He would have had to undergo basic training, a 13-week process. After that, he would have gone onto the School of Infantry, another 8 weeks. We're talking approximately 5 months before he would have been ready to deploy to a combat situation: that is, July-Aug 1972. At that time, the Marines were being withdrawn from Vietnam; the last troops left Vietnam in March of 1973. It's inconceivable that he would have gone to Vietnam as the bulk of US troops were leaving. So much for that schtick! Boys and girls, can we say "stolen valor"?
Phillips is quite adept at street theater - and video too, for that matter. Here is an article that details some of his chequered past; be sure to watch that Skrillex video for some insight into his various attitudes.
Mr. Phillips was a busy little bee that weekend. After he wreaked havoc at the Lincoln Memorial (a feat that could still have bloody consequences), he attempted to barge into the Mass being held at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception the following Saturday's Mass at 5:15, all the while chanting and drum-banging. Security guards had to lock the doors to keep the Phillips mob from disrupting Mass. I pray that neither Wuerl nor Rossi will throw the Shrine guards under the bus for keeping that mob from disrupting Mass, but given the lack of moral conviction and courage of today's prelates, one cannot be too sure. Will Phillips try to claim that he was surrounded by mean security guards? I wouldn't put it past him. But the truth is, he and his cabal are the real terrorists.
President Trump, to his immense credit, has come to the defense of the Covington students. Isn't it sad when we start to expect more charity and justice from our secular leaders than from our shepherds? It sickens me to see that the Diocese of Covington and the Archdiocese of Baltimore saw fit to basically grovel before Phillips. Foy and Lori played the feckless cowards. We must hold them accountable.
Here is my open letter to Covington High School. Begin letter
Dear Principal Browe, if there was anything that disgraced
your school over the past few days, it is that wretched “apology” that you now
have on your website. You immediately start off by condemning the actions
of your students at the March for Life. To your miniscule credit,
you do promise an investigation, but should not your investigation have
preceded your apology and your immediate condemnation of your own
students?
I would hope by now that you would have looked at the
plethora of videos of that incident. They clearly show Mr. Phillips and
his friends approaching your students. Then Phillips proceeded to get
within inches of your student’s face while chanting loudly and beating his
drums. In other words, Phillips accosted your student; yet you hold your
student to blame. Under the circumstances and given his age, I believe
your student showed remarkable restraint. Your student, Nick Sandmann,
who had the drum shoved in his face, has released his statement. Have you
read it?
I’ve no doubt that this “apology” was nothing more than a
groveling attempt to cower from politically correct harping by the media.
I regret that your local bishop has decided to join in the braying for the
heads of these young boys. Will you be prepared to issue another apology,
this time to the students whom you wronged? I trust you are aware of the
gravity of slander, and that is what you are committing against your students.
Should you be so foolhardy as to expel the boys, I hope that
their families avail themselves of all legal recourse and sue your school for
the maximum amount possible. It is your conduct thus far that calls into
question your claim to be a Catholic institution.
I hope that by the time you see this email, that
you will have reconsidered your actions and the injuries that you have
inflicted on your students.
End of letter I will advise when I get a response (as if that will happen!)
The young man has released a statement to CNN to give his perspective. I link to it now.
Tomorrow I will also draft an email to the Covington diocese. Their site remains down but here is their contact information.
And that is just what the administration of Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky is making of this. I refer to the viral video clips going through the internet that portray students from that school, attending the March for Life, to be racists. That groveling apology simply went up too quickly for any reasonable person to believe that the administration actually investigated the matter before they bad-mouthed their students and threatened them with expulsion.
There are other clips that tell quite a different story. They show the school group on the steps of the Lincoln Monument as they await their bus. In the rather long one below, you'll see that Nathan Phillips, the so-called "harassed Native American", approaches their group while banging his drum (about one hour into the clip). He and his friends plow right through them and pick one young boy to target. Phillips gets within inches of the boy's face while chanting and drumming. The boy remains motionless and looks at him; since when is that "harrassment"? If anyone was harassed, it's the boy who now is unjustly threatened with expulsion.
Now watch this one. Who is uttering racist screed in this one?
The guy telling the boys to "go back to Europe" has his camcorder at the ready. How convenient! By the way - please notice that the boys eventually left (presumably to get their bus).
I linked to Covington Catholic High School above. In the lower part of that main page is their contact information. No doubt the left is flooding them with demands for the blood of the boys. We need to issue a few of our own demands, too. We need to demand that they actually examine all the facts, that they retract their wimpering apology and show their students how real men handle these situations. Lord only knows that the Covington administration is failing to demonstrate that.
NOTE - While the school principal's email has "disappeared" from the school site, it was published on facebook. Here it is: browe@covcath.org. Let 'em have it!
I truly hope that if these boys are expelled and kicked to the curb as politically correct sacrificial lambs, that their families avail themselves of all legal recourse and sue that school to the whazzoo.
PS - If these videos "disappear", I've taken the precaution to download them. I suggest that all do the same.
PPS - I'm a little confused. Despite that "apology" on their webpage, their facebook page indicates that the school is standing behind its students. Now I'm hearing this page may be fake, as the school may have taken down their real page.
