The “cancel culture” movement has met its enemy.
With a message of “you will lose,” several of the nation’s most prominent conservatives are warning in a new video that they will stand in the way of rioters and protesters ripping down historical statues, burning the flag, and pushing to defund police.
“They are also an ignorant mob. Period. Full stop,” said ForAmerica chief David Bozell in a new 6-minute video that heralds the Declaration of Independence and is titled, “We hold these truths: Our answer to the mob.”
The new video, previewed for Secrets, features 16 conservative leaders reading excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, talking about American history and heroes now under fire, and warning against canceling references to the Founding Fathers.
Surprisingly, it includes the late Charlie Daniels, the leader of the Charlie Daniels Band who died July 6 and often performed for conservative groups.
“You will not redefine America or frighten good, honest Americans into submission,” he said.
The video comes as mobs continue to tear down statues, from Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln. It started as part of the Black Lives Matter movement and expanded to Confederate military leaders and is now targeting George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they owned slaves, and others including former President Andrew Jackson, one of President Trump’s idols.
But missing, according to conservatives, is any perspective of the times or of the bravery the founders had to create the nation and face down British guns.
The video answers the question, “Where are the conservatives fighting back?” said one of its organizers.
Brent Bozell, the president of the Media Research Center, for example, called the Founding Fathers “the greatest statesmen this world has ever known.”
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, referencing Abraham Lincoln, added that for his efforts to unite the country and free slaves, he “paid the ultimate price.”
Tom Fitton, of Judicial Watch, focused on the destruction of history and said, “Those who would destroy or deface these statues or other remembrances of these men are criminals.”
Top radio host Mark Levin added, “How dare you disrespect our heroes and trample on our heritage?”
In fact, the government is planning to prosecute those who tear down the statues on federal property.
The unusual video, coordinated by Brent Bozell and written by National Review’s Rich Lowry, who is featured in it, also pushes back against efforts to defund the police. Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, said, “Don’t lie about the police. Don’t smear them as racists. Don’t dismiss that they have to put their lives on the line every single day with low-lives who harass and threaten them, harm them, and yes, kill them.”
Dana Loesch went after the mobs and those who beat conservatives for speaking up against the protests. “Who suffers most from lawlessness? It’s unquestionably the innocents in inner cities, caught in the crossfire of thugs, gangs, and rioting mobs. … Free speech is a pillar of a free society, and the best way to collectively seek and defend the truth. Firing or canceling those who offend woke sensibilities is grotesque, illiberal, and un-American.”
And Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, predicted eventual victory: “We live in the last, best hope of mankind, and we’re not about to lose it to a bunch of fanatics aided and abetted by a complicit media and cowardly corporations.”
Brent Bozell concluded, “You will not prevail. America will prevail. Today, tomorrow, and by the grace of God, forever.”
The transcript from the video:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Mark Levin: “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.”
Charlie Daniels: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Sen. Mike Lee: The American Revolution was an epochal human event, setting out ideals and instituting a government that has been an inspiration to people all around the globe for centuries.
Brent Bozell: The men that forged this revolution were unquestionably the greatest statesmen this world has ever known.
Dan Bogino: Thomas Jefferson penned that revolutionary document declaring independence. Government serves the people. Americans will never submit to tyranny.
Allen West: George Washington, the father of our country, won the revolution that allowed the Constitution. He guided the republic through its perilous early days, acted always with wisdom, prudence, and strength.
Sen. Mike Lee: Abraham Lincoln, the Great Liberator, saw the country through a terrible Civil War, sought to bind up and heal its wounds, pushed through the 13th Amendment ending slavery, and for it all paid the ultimate price.
Tom Fitton: Those who would deface or destroy these statues or other remembrances of these men are criminals.
David Bozell: They’re also an ignorant mob, period, full stop.
Adam Brandon: This country’s free-market system is the most incredible wealth-creation machine in history and the envy of the world.
Bongino: America has saved that world from the horrors of fascism and communism three times in the past century.
Deneen Borelli: America was built by tens of millions of immigrants of all colors and creeds desperate to come here, and America welcomed them with open arms.
Former Sen. Jim DeMint: The first thing that greeted them was that lady with the torch. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
David Bozell: This is the greatest country this world has ever known. A beacon of liberty, an engine of wealth. We are generous, just, self-correcting, fearsome when we need to be, and big hearted to a fault.
Rich Lowry: We are a good and generous people, flawed to be sure, but always striving for a more perfect union.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: When there is crisis, national or personal, we turn to America’s real heroes – our men and women in uniform overseas and our first responders here at home, our doctors and nurses, our firefighters, and most importantly, our police.
Dana Loesch: Who suffers most from lawlessness? It is unquestionably the innocents in the inner cities, caught in the crossfire of thugs, and gangs, and rioting mobs.
Lee: The police are necessary to protect the vulnerable and to keep dangerous communities from descending into chaos.
Jenny Beth Martin: Are there bad players? Of course. But don’t lie about the police. Don’t smear them as racist. Don’t dismiss that they have to put their lives on the line every single day with low-life’s who harass and threaten them, harm them and yes, kill them.
DeMint: Never, never forget that they are husbands and fathers, wives and mothers—black, white, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian-American—and overwhelmingly do a difficult job in an exemplary fashion.
West: Kneeling for the national anthem disrespects the flag, and all those who served it, including men and women who died explicitly to protect the colors.
Blackburn: Lexington, Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown.
Levin: Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Appomattox.
Daniels: Iwo Jima, Anzio, Midway, and Normandy.
West: Inchon, Way City, Abbottabad, and Fallujah.
Lowry: The men who fought and fell at such places will always live in our national memory—no matter what.
Loesch: Free speech is a pillar of a free society and the best way to collectively seek and defend the truth. Firing and canceling those who offend woke sensibilities is grotesque, illiberal, and un-American.
Lee: We love her with a passion, and will always stand with her, and defend her from enemies foreign and domestic.
Brent Bozell: So, a word directly to the protesters and rioters and the hoodlums out in force the last several weeks:
Levin: How dare you disrespect our heroes and trample on our heritage.
Brandon: How dare you rampage in our streets.
Borelli: How dare you intimidate and beat people with whom you disagree.
Bongino: Your hideous tactics match the hateful rot of an ideology that you champion.
Daniels: You will not redefine America, or frighten good honest Americans into submission.
Loesch: We want to assure you of one thing:
Martin: You will lose.
Fitton: Your vandalism and cancellations, your lies and riots will not stand.
Tony Perkins : We live in the last best hope of mankind, and we’re not about to lose it to a bunch of fanatics, aided and abetted by a complicit media and cowardly corporations.
Bozell: You will not prevail. America will prevail. Today, tomorrow, and by the grace of God, forever.
