Stonewall Jackson’s Commissary
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 

“The battle of Gettysburg will, no doubt, rank as the turning point of the war though perhaps it may better be called the breaking point of the South’s resources. For months our men had been on rations such as no troops ever campaigned on and did a tithe of the work ours were called on to do. Corn meal and damaged bacon were the staples, often so damaged that to live on them inured disease. Medicines, chloroform especially, had got so scarce that small operations as painful as great ones were done without it. Much of that which was used was of such bad quality that it was used as only a choice of evils.
 
Delicacies for the sick were unheard of. They lived on damaged bacon or lean beef or went hungry. Clothes and shoes were scant and insufficient, except for those which were taken from our friends, the enemy. Overcoats would have been almost unknown but for them, though for that matter we would have fared badly for everything but for their contributions. Certainly half our muskets and two-thirds our artillery were forced contributions from them, while [General N. P.] Banks, who commanded United States troops in the [Shenandoah] Valley in 1862, was better known as and better deserved the title of [Stonewall] Jackson’s commissary than as commander of his troops.
 
The state of affairs would appear to give compelling reasons for the much-criticized advance into Pennsylvania. With our railroad lines worn out, our ports blockaded, and the field of operations stripped by both armies, and burned and desolated by the enemy, who at last openly declared that their policy would be, as Sheridan later boasted, to leave the country so that a crow flying over it would have to carry his rations, the capture of arms, clothing, medicine, and even food, which earlier had added to our comfort, now came to be a necessity.
 
It looked easier to go to the enemy’s homes to get it, and to leave our poor people a chance to rest and to gather together the fragments left them.”

 

Response to Response to Timothy Manning ;-)
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: From: missourah_rebel@yahoo.com
 
Timothy,
 
Your "rant," as you put it, is in the very words that many of us use day to day. We are tired of being on the defensive; we are tired of being picked targets, if you will. We are sick of being maligned for what our ancestors did or did not do. We are tired of being tired.

/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS: Excellent thoughts by both gentlemen. Can't disagree with any. I would merely like to remind you all that when you send one-third or more of your blood, sweat and tears to the tax rats every April 15, you are giving the yankee 666-beast its natural fodder and in many ways canceling out the good work you do for the Southern cause all year. The income tax is the rope they hang you with, the shackles they progressively clamp on every aspect of your anatomy. Most strangely, in all the discussion of how oppressed Southerners are, what we're going to do to get free, and how we're going to run our reborn homeland, there's very little said about this whole subject.
 
All this goes for not only the IRS but your state DoR. All state governments across the land are outposts of the Beast. They exist to suck your blood and figure out new ways to peonize and disenfranchise you and your family. Think I'm indulging in hyperbole, poetic license, or stretching things a bit? If you don't know the tax rats for what they are -- admittedly suave, impeccably mannered rats -- I fear you’re still stuck at square one in your liberation process.
 
Quitting is easier than most people have any idea. I haven't paid in over 20 years with little friction. In fact, if folks knew just how essentially Southern tax freedom was, they'd jump for joy and realize all over again IT'S STILL ALL IN OUR FAVOR. One more time, what was the Big Bang of the USA's birth? A tax revolt -- under ridiculously benign conditions compared to today's crushing burdens and oppressive, ubiquitous mind-messing.
 
A blessed few patriots know the simple 100% Biblical and Constitutional truth of tax freedom. When the others get to heaven they're going to learn how good it could have been HERE, NOW, and kick themselves for being too busy earning money to stop and learn how to save money and freedom.
 
There will be no seceding of political jurisdictions until the people secede from the IRS. No threat, no dirge, no jeremiad from the noisy ex-yankee. Plain fact.

 

Take the Lead!
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
To: rick.boswell@gmail.com
 
Well, Rick, if you don’t see the Grand Old Flag flying very much in your little area of southern Alabama, then I guess you’ll have to do what I did – start flying it yourself and take the lead!
 
Of course, I chose the First National rather than the Battle Flag for two reasons: first, it was the first flag of the last Republic on this continent and secondly, it was John Singleton Mosby 43rd Battalion’s flag. Both of those reasons were good enough for me.
 
And given that I live in southern Noo Yawk (Long Island), I am probably takin’ a bigger chance flying The Colors than a good ol’ Alabama boy like yourself! :D
 
Val Protopapas

 

One Man's Opinion
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
One Man’s Reply to “Rebel flag should not represent heritage“
East Tennessean Online Edition
 
http://media.www.easttennessean.com/media/storage/paper203/news/2009/10/29/Sports/Rebel.Flag.
Should.Not.Represent.Heritage-3817372.shtml

 
A brief response to your article “Rebel flag should not represent heritage”:
 
Definitions taken from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.; 1981)
 
BIGOTRY: Obstinate and unreasoning attachment to one’s own belief and opinions with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
 
IGNORANCE: A lack of knowledge, either in general or of a particular point.
 
PREJUDICE: Unreasonable predilection for or objection against something; or an opinion or leaning adverse to anything without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge; or an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics; or an opinion or judgment formed beforehand or without due examination.
 
I am reasoning from the premise that your article was written from your lack of knowledge rather than from deliberate malice, Mr. Smith. I am always glad to impart knowledge, especially upon a subject near and dear to my heart.
 
The correct name for the flag you address in your column is “The Confederate Battle Flag.” (There were many hundreds of unit flags that Confederate units served under, but the “Southern Cross” is the best-known.) It was never the national Flag of the Confederate States of America – it was a soldiers’ flag.
 
“Why are so many Southerners donning the Confederate flag?” you ask. I shall gladly answer that question for myself. I honor the various Confederate Flags because they represent the latest and greatest attempt to return to the form of government begun in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence and continued in 1787 with the United States Constitution: A Federal government as the agent of the State governments, given certain limited powers by the States. I especially honor the Confederate Battle Flag because its design harks back to the Flag of Scotland, whence my ancestors came.
 
To how many Southerners did you put your question before you wrote your article, Mr. Smith?
 
You also ask “Is it acceptable for one person to use a symbol if it has been used - or is being used - to signify hatred?”
 
I call your attention to http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm. You will see there thirty-seven pictures of Ku Kluxers with the thirteen-stripe United States Flag. You will also see seven pictures of Ku Kluxers with a cross.
 
Reasoning from the premise that Ku Kluxers practice hatred, I ask you your own question, Mr. Smith: Is it acceptable for one person to use the United States Flag or the cross if it has been used - or is being used - to signify hatred?
 
You appear to have an unreasonable objection against the Confederate Battle Flag, an objection formed without just grounds, before sufficient knowledge, and without due examination; and an irrational attitude of hostility directed against those who display that Flag. Moreover, you appear to have an obstinate and unreasoning attachment to your belief and opinion with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon
Gilmer (Upshur County) Texas

 

Charging the Cannon's Muzzle
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“When we got close to the enemy’s line, we found a great many men lying down. I saw a stand of colors held upright by a [Yankee] color bearer who was lying flat on his face. I rode to him and jerked it out of his hands. He at once jumped up and demanded them back, saying in reply that he would take them in if the colonel, and he pointed to him lying near, would go on. I rode over to the colonel and punched him in the back with the flag staff. He jumped up, but when I told him to take the colors and lead his men [as prisoners]…he set to shaking as if in a chill, and suddenly broke off in a run to the rear.  I shifted the flag to my left hand and riding up to him, struck him on the head with my sword; but it turned and the flat of it struck him hard enough to knock him to his knees. He cried out but ran on some thirty yards, when he jumped in the air and fell, apparently dead.
 

General Hood…said that he was about to charge the battery which was sweeping the level beyond the ravine, where we had just broken the enemy’s first line, and suggested that I join my men to his right. I did so, and we charged across the plateau about four or five hundred feet. When I got within a few feet of the guns, I marked a gunner fixing his lanyard into the friction primer. I made a run to cut him down before he could fire, but he was too quick. When I was not over ten feet from the muzzle the gun went off. The shot struck my right arm, crushing it and tearing it off at the shoulder. When it hit me, it seemed to knock me up in the air and spin me around two or three times, though I suppose that was imaginary, and then dashed me down with a force than knocked all of the breath out of me.
 
When I came to, I found my arm wrapped around my sword blade in a most remarkable manner. I sat up, but almost immediately everything went dark, and I supposed I was dying. After some time I regained consciousness and unwound the fragments of my arm from my sword blade, which I got back into the scabbard. I succeeded in stuffing my arm into the breast of my coat, got to my feet and started to the rear, using the flagstaff as a support.”
 
(The Haskell Memoirs, Govan and Livingood, editors, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960, pp. 32-34)

 

Undoing the Evils of the New England Slave Trade
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The idea of the “colonization” of free Negroes was not new, for as far back as 1817, the South and the North, both felt it was best for the whole country that they should be colonized. Before the period of Negro servitude had ended in most of the North Atlantic States, societies for the purpose of colonizing them were organized; and in the South in 1817 this plan had the earnest support of W.H. Crawford, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, John Tyler, James Madison, James Monroe, and other leading Southern men, who were slave owners.
 
In 1856, General Tyler wrote: “The citizens of the Southern States since the adoption of the Constitution, have emancipated two hundred fifty thousand Negro slaves. Assuming the average value of these slaves to have been five hundred dollars, the citizens of the Southern States have contributed one hundred and twenty-five million dollars towards emancipation. 
 
“And when we consider that in almost every case of individual emancipation at the South, a sum equal to the value of the slave has been invariably given to him to enable him to purchase a home for himself, and in addition to this the immense sums contributed to the “Colonization Society” by others, we do not exaggerate the sum voluntarily bestowed in this way by the South, when we set it down at two hundred and fifty million.
 
“This immense sum has been paid not by a rich public treasury, but by private families who lived by labor of slaves they surrendered; not with the slightest hope of pecuniary emolument, but from no other possible motive than quiet and conscientious sentiment.”  (DeBow’s Review, December 1856)
 
(Authentic History Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1877, Susan Lawrence Davis, American Library Service, 1924, pp. 292-293)

From: Timothy D. Manning, tmanning1@triad.rr.com
Date: October 29, 2009

Dear SPS Friends,

Often when Chuck Demastus at SHNV posts something I have written I receive emails with helpful and often excellent observations, encouragement and sometimes very thoughtful questions from SHNV readers.  This is very encouraging to me and I am sure it is to others who receive such affirmation and support while they are seeking to correct many of the mistaken notions so many people have about the South, our culture and our Christian faith. Below is a link to SHNV and a message I posted on his site this week. If you subscribe to his service (it's free) you will find that his readers (I call them the email Tigers) are great at supporting and encouraging each other as they seek to educate and go after media sources, schools and politicians who commit gross heritage violations against our South and our culture. If you like this site (no, I am not getting paid for this) send the blurb and link below to your friends.

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There are those times when it becomes tiresome being the sore thumb of the whipping boy who is always being attacked by some northerner or reconstructed Southerner who has bought into the propaganda of our now agnostic socialist empire. We get publicly and professionally injured at times while doing the best we can in our various locales speaking out as the lone voice of a Southern Christian agrarian viewpoint in todays PC socialist society. The sad part is that this society has been growing in its level of hostility toward us and our practice of seeking God's will in our lives and seeking to honour the practices and traditions that have preserved the Christian faith through the centuries. I know that there are others out there who feel like we do but have not wanted to have or start trouble at their schools, jobs, towns or churches by appearing to be intolerant of the evil around them. To some measure all of us succumb to this "to-get-along-go-along" temptation.

During the 1860's the United States sowed the wind and now we are reaping a monstrous whirlwind in the total breakdown of  western civilisation. Even our own Southern folks have been heavily reconstructed and derascinated through mandatory attendance in government schools and the omnipresent, prevalent and dominate media and entertainment industries. Our enemies spend billions of dollars every year in an effort to force this nonsense down our intellectual throats. They go so far as to "test-market" their ability to get us to watch, listen, buy and participate in their life degenerating activities. They obviously have no lives of their own, they just want to influence and control our lives.

Like Jefferson Davis in his defense of secession he stated that the South just wanted "to be let alone."

These efforts have proven so successful that many of us no longer know how to think and act as "free gentlemen and ladies." There are reasons why the common use of terms like "ladies and gentlemen" are largely out of use in the United States; instead, we are all referred to by the Deep North unisex term "guy", even worse is "you's guys." (By the way, I had only just met the woman who was to become my wife when I immediately concluded that she certainly was no "guy.") Guy was a common unisex term in the Deep North when their populations were often referred to as "the land of the long haired men and short haired women", a euphemistic phrase for homosexuals. Southerners used to react with mild amusement to the use of guys and considered the term inappropriate and in poor taste. Can you imagine General Robert E. Lee introducing his staff as "a fine group of guys"? I have seen this term used by Sons of Confederate Veterans camp commanders and at reenactments by well-meaning but partially reconstructed Gentlemen.

Our States no longer enjoy having a working or philosophical paradigm of what a free and independent society even looks like, sounds like and acts like. And, when we vote for one of these self-serving slime-balls it usually only serves to encourage them in their continued destruction of what little remains of a western Christian social and civil order.  And, yes, I do regret the 30 years I spent working for Republican political campaigns. For years I was proud that both my parents worked in the White House from the beginning of the Reagan administration until about five years ago. I have learned to fear the foolishness of any person who promises to change America.  A far finer work would be for them to promise to restore constitutional government as envisioned by the U.S. Founders at the national level.

I have come to believe that "voting does indeed matter", but for different reasons than I had been taught in high school. Our voting is used against us and our convictions about our constitutions. We find ourselves nearly always voting for the lesser of two (three, four or five) evils. Most assuredly I will not vote again for any Republican or Democrat no matter what their promises may sound like. The post-election performance of our "representatives" repeatedly demonstrates that they exercise too much power, too much deceit and too much secrecy, far too little conscience, too little integrity, too little honesty and simply cannot be trusted.

The system is too big, too corrupt and broken beyond repair. It exercises a highly developed and sophisticated form of fascism that is far beyond the fondest dreams of even Mussolini. Government this big and this wealthy never works to preserve or establish American thinking about freedom and liberty.  We must give up our sense of uniquely "American exceptionalism," "American supranationalism", American thinking that "might makes right", American "divine destiny", and that "bigger is better" so we must be united. (Noah entirely failed to be united with his community who could not swim long enough to escape God's reach.)

Nearly every Southerner knows that "union" is not won at the point of bayonets or at the receiving end of cannon fire or established by the might of overwhelming military power. People in our country are now politically successful who campaign against the time honoured and established principles of God's Ten Commandments. We have learned that a great many of the members of American churches did not recognize a communist when they saw one and voted for him.  What would have been a "no brainer" a hundred years ago is now readily accepted as the new political orthodoxy.

I hear such popular "conservatives" as Rush Limbaugh pandering socialist totalitarian solutions to socialist-created political and cultural problems. And, yes, I am regrettably "reconstructed" but I have the timidity to believe that I am growing less so each month. A person cannot help being affected by modernity's wretched egalitarianism after years of indoctrination in their schools, seeing almost nothing but their sick social points of view and demented and immoral practices overtly loaded and paraded into nearly every form of public "entertainment", and having the actions and changes of governmental policies and the subsequent report of the "news" media regarding these changes tainted and poisoned by these Marxist scabs. And, no, I did not intend for this to sound like a rant when I started this note.

SHNV, Chuck and his readers are to be numbered amoung those rare persons who can still hear the faint and distant drums of our fading civilisation and march to its beat instead of the chaotic and deafening clamour ever present around us. I truly do appreciate your encouragement. I know the painful and discouraging experiences which befall so many of us everyday, but I also know God can open new windows when the devil slams doors in our faces. There are very few people who even come close to knowing what you, the new and rising South, know. I cannot help but believe God still has much for all of us to do in this regard. He will help us find a way.

((The above letter is an edited version of a personal letter I wrote to one of our great Southern gentlemen and warriors who works daily to defend Southern history and culture, Gary Walker. Gary writes and lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Keep up the good work Gary!)) Many of SHNV's writers and readers are warriors working and witnessing in an intelligent manner to everyone they can reach.   Many of these folks have paid a severe price for their efforts. Our children are hassled at school and talked down to by their political inferiors.  Our adults are hassled on their jobs and often forced to watch films and go through training and take CEU's (Continuing Education Units) so that they will not offend the offensive egalitarians. I lost a $100,000 a year job as a hospital administrator after I retired from teaching because I would not remove a Virginia SCV license plate from my car after an NAACP activist nurse complained. She registered no complaint about my management or administrative practices.

SHNV is touching the lives of many important people.  The work SHNV writers, phoners, readers and talkers do to promote the truth (spiritual, cultural or political) is very very important. We must not give-in, we must not give-up and we must not compromise on such critical matters as those this site addresses and considers and makes sincere efforts to resolve. We must find ways to not just react to those stupid attacks that are so insulting.  We must find ways to take the battle to those who are an enemy of truth, freedom and liberty.

Keep up the good work!
 
Deo Vindice.

Timothy D. Manning, M.Div.
Executive Director
Palmetto Heritage Foundation
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From: "Craig Maus", csacommand@windstream.net
Date: October 28, 2009

Dear Confederates & Patriots (bcc herein),
 
What is the logical conclusion a people must draw when the Government they elected cannot be trusted beyond another day?
 
Further, what measure's must a people then undertake to remove the cloak of deception that has been wound around them & fashioned much like a 'Jailor's Shroud', that now permits this same Government to advance & elevate  themselves further at the expense of its people?
 
Folk's, today's sad event's at the hands of the Federals are NO less the same than ALL those many 'events' that presented themselves prior to 1860 when the first of our Southern Sovereign's seceded.
 
I hope that y'all can 'connect the dots' between then and now and finally come to the realization of what we Confederates have been saying ALL ALONG-"There is NO difference. The Federal 'Baby' that was officially baptized in 1865 and has grown into the incarnate Beast of today."
 
The South saw it coming LONG AGO and wanted NO part of it!  The manipulative unfairness that the Federal Zealots of that time were posturing for was more recognizable & identifiable, as this nation was fresh out of its infancy culminating in & with our victory over England only 75 years earlier.  In short, the Federals THEN, were unable to pull the 'wool over the eye's' of a young nation, as they have been able to over these last 145 year's.

 
And since the Constitution had YET to be compromised as it has to date, the legal & justified guards that were written into it that allowed ANY SOVEREIGN (STATE) and her State Citizen's (NOT FEDERAL Citizen's as they have made YOU NOW), were able to LEAVE if such a pestilence were to ever visit itself upon this nation!
 
That was this Voluntary Union's 'insurance policy' against deceit, demagoguery and human weakness that the Founding Father's realized when the Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution was written.
That was the 'People's Rider as well as Each State's', should this Government ever exceed its Constitutional authority!
 
That is why 13 State's seceded and for the SAME reasons as today---only the Fed's have legitimized their current standing by manipulating & extending their Legislative Authority which the Judiciary is forced to uphold.
Thus, they have 'insulated' themselves so well over the last 145 years that virtually ALL connections between then and today have either been erased through omission or 'revised' according to their guidelines.
Their Federal 'Department of Education' further insures their perpetuation through the indoctrination of OUR children within their Federal School System....thus resulting, including their teacher's, to believe & teach that the so-called American Civil War was fought entirely over a single issue- SLAVERY!
 
The magnitude of that LIE has allowed the Federal's to go un-challenged while simultaneously taking us all on their march into 'Their Sea of Oblivion'.  Using social re-engineering as THE divisive element within all this, they have built themselves their 'Tower of Babylon',  using the backs of every man, woman and child in this Nation, NO MATTER the race, colour or creed of your being, to accomplish the means though which their ultimate ends would be satisfied & realized.
 
They have applied the tactical maneuver of Conquering through Division and the Amendments that were drafted and written into Law AFTER the Civil-War's conclusion is where the cancerous root of today's origin lay's.
 
And sadly, it has ALL EVOLVED into everything that they are doing to YOU and YOURS today and, AGAIN, in the Name of Social Order & Welfare!
 
Can YOU NOW understand what we have been saying ALL ALONG?   Can YOU NOW understand why we wanted outa of this Hegemony of Demagoguery called Federalization?
 
It was NEVER about Slavery...it was ALL about them becoming the Federal Overseer they have become and the Simplicity of Freedom as it relates to EVERY Individual within this Country... the VERY SAME and identical reasons why we REVOLTED against King George & England- IDENTICAL!!!
 
It has been said that "when Lincoln freed the slaves, he merely made slaves of us all." PerhapsNOW, y'all can 'connect' the relevancy & profoundness of this statement?

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
> I want y'all to ask yourselves a question- Would you vote for ANY individual who said the following NO matter the level of government or office they were seeking (local, state of federal):
 
A) " To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I choose my friends carefully.  The more politically active black students.  The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and the structural feminists & punk-rock performance poets. "      Personally, I would say that the person who said this has an alarming agenda to say the very least and is one that I do NOT share. In fact, I would consider it to represent everything this country does NOT believe in or is about.....but that is my deduction.
 
> Who said it ?  But wait, there is more:
 
B) " ...one of the, I think, tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement was, UM, because the Civil Rights Movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political & community organizing... and activities on the ground that ARE able to PUT togetherTHE Actual Coalition of POWERS through which you bring about Redistributive Change. "

Now if I am a hard working guy & struggling to keep a roof over the head of my family and me, I'm thinking that I have elected politician's to PREVENT this warped thinking from ever finding itself into Law that would, in effect, take what little I have and give to whomever.  That is NOT what an elected official should ever be thinking of much less the fact that he or she has NO right to do that! Giving is a personal & Christian thing but it has NO basis or dominion in Law or Government. That kind of thinking is vague & ambiguous but allows for such governmental indiscretion that can only lead to subversion and corruption at the highest level. NO Government, particularly ours, was ever given any license to do that!
 
> Who said it- but wait, there's even more:
 
C) " We are 5 days away from Fundamentally Transforming the U.S.A "  - At this point, personally, if I was 'anyone', I'd be saying what in the hell is going on here? What is all this Transformation and Redistribution stuff, not too mention these Coalition of Powers. Who are these guys? Hell, I'd be running them outa town. What are they running for? Certainly NOT for anything serious in this country!
 
....but that's what I would be asking I suppose if I weren't a Confederate.  But as a Confederate, and having never allowed myself to become Re-Constructed, 'dot-connecting' combined with a passion for accountability & responsibility, as was instilled within me from my parents and their parents before them, I have ALWAYS questioned any kind of Government 'ruling' that would allow them the ability to over-ride my basic rights and freedom's.
 
Questioning is our most inherent and fundamental patriotic right AND duty....but then again, I also began to read the History Books that were denied me in school and 'this guy' who was saying A, B & C,  along with his entire LEGION , was pretty much predicted by those Patriots who said, 'We're the hell outa here'----- you know, the same one's who left peaceably by RIGHT and who realized that TODAY would be the eventual result & consequence should they lose that war----  and that was in 1860!
 
> Most of you have received my many communiqués over the years- the latest of which included my on-going 'Eve of Destruction' series- You know, the ones that dealt with the inter-relationship and design regarding the: Banking Crisis and how this would lead to the 'Stimulus', 'Son of Stimulus',Tarp and the impact it would ALL have on each and every one of us when the 'dollar' is finally compromised. They also included indictments involving the Czar's, Geithner, Van Jones,  Wright's & Mark Lloyd's of the world, and of course ACORN!

There's an entire LEGION  of this ilk who has given life to this bunch through FEDERAL APPOINTMENT.....LIKE------
Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Dodd, Frank, Kerry, Kennedy, Specter, Clinton & Feinstein to name but a FEW- why HELL, there's a whole boat load, ER excuse me, HOUSE & SENATE full of them- The RepublicRats et al !
 
And while we continue to fight their war's, pay their salaries, lavish them with grandiose pensions and excellent private health care through our Tax Dollars, they re-direct our sweat to whomever, wherever and however.... while we receive the residual pittance for our labor much like Charles Dickens's character, 'Oliver', who is remedially scalded for humbly asking, ' a Little MORE, please. '
 
By the Lord Eternal, what in God's name exists that anyone cannot see or deny that which they are doing?
 
Anita Dunn, another appointee intent on " Transforming " this country- you know, the White House's Communication Director, recently said this and in a church NO less-
"....the 3rd lesson & tip comes from 2 of my FAVORITE political 'Philosopher's'- Mao Tse Tung & Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the 2 people that I turn to most... "
 
Folk's, this is the White House's Communication Director saying this!  She considers Mao Tse Tung  to be a 'political philosopher' !!!!!!!  A 'political philosopher' !!!!!  A man who probably was responsible for more deaths than Josef Stalin,  who many agree killed or exterminated more than 24 MILLION PEOPLE!  It is said that Mao did old Joe one better, like 30 million plus!  These 2 men make Hitler look like a piker.
 
She and these many, many others is what is CONTROLLING & INFLUENCING, with your tax money, YOU, YOUR CHILDREN and attacking everything & anything that was once the very under-pinning's and corner-stone's of  The American Republic!     
 
This is what and why the Southern Confederacy LEFT!  They SAW and understood the full potential of what awaited them if the folly & demagoguery of the Federal mindset was allowed to go un-challenged....AND even then, they left LEGALLY & PEACEFULLY as WAS THEIR RIGHT UNDER THE 10th AMENDMENT of the Constitution.

WE did NOT invade them....THEY INVADED us and we fought to protect ourselves and therein, along with current events, et al, is the ENTIRE HISTORY- PAST & PRESENT!
 
Oh yes- who made those above outrageous statements - A, B & C? ......why y'all should know that-  He's none other than the president of YOUR country, the U.S.A-
Barack Hussein Obama!
 
Some 50 million wanted his Change and chose once again to ignore the obvious and decided it was easier to look the other way and vote for him!  Well, you got his change, and more!
 
50 million voted for him?????  The Federal Union, I would submit, is BEYOND repair and hope!  We MUST separate if we hope to survive.
 
Let those who wanted that CHANGE and those who think they can 'GIVE it to THEM', GO THERE WAY and let us go ours.  I have NO doubt that we 'yahoo's' will do just fine.

They are on a Road to Oblivion from which there is NO return!  World History has shown us this.
Its an Un-Holy venture into the Land of Darkness and we need to get the hell outa here......AGAIN!!!
 
A)- Stated in his book- " Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and INHERITANCE! "
B)- Stated on CHICAGO Public Radio, 2001 !
C)- Stated, as noted, right before 'The Beginning of the End'- 5 days before OUR " Transformation Began "........
 
But what do I know, I'm just an old dis-illusioned Confederate, so THEY claim, who is unable to communicate anything other than racism, hate and has NO understanding of anything because I'm nothing more than a Yahoo incapable of any worthwhile substance.....you know, the same whose 'jib' was cut and fashioned after Lee, Jackson, Jefferson, Washington, Forrest, Beauregard, Henry and so many, many other's who my parents said I should fashion myself after!
 
I'm proud to be associated with them and as equally proud NOT  to be associated with the likes of ANY of the current ilk who comprise that Cesspool on the Potomac in Washington, DC.  They remain the DeFacto Government here in the South and once more I will say:
 
God Save The Christian South, For So Goes The Christian South, So WILL Go This Nation!
Deo Vindice!
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!
For God, Family and The Confederacy,
Craig Maus
humble president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations
Staunch Supporters For The Restoration of the Legal DeJure Government of the South- The Confederate States of America and her Respective State Sovereigns.
 
www.deovindice.org
www.CSAGov.org
 
Will YOU Join Us Now?
 
PS- Because of a computer glitch, some may be receiving these communiqués who may not 'appreciate' them.
If you are among them, advise and you will be deleted.
  
 

The GAR Must Not Be Represented
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“The…celebration of the birth of the American nation---was held in Philadelphia in 1876. An occasion so completely engaging the attention of the country and participated in so widely drew forth much discussion in the South. Some Southern leaders opposed their section taking part; they still felt that the country was not theirs and that it might be less than dignified in themselves, and lacking in respect for their heroic Revolutionary ancestors, to go to Philadelphia and be treated as less than equals in a union which those ancestors had done a major part to found.
 
Former (South Carolina) Governor Benjamin F. Perry saw in the Centennial an effective way to drive home to the country the similarity of principles of the rebellion that became the Revolution, and the rebellion that became the “Lost Cause.” “This Centennial celebration of the rebels of ’76 cannot fail to teach the Northern mind to look with more leniency on Confederate rebels who only attempted to do in the late civil war what the ancestors of the Northern people did do in the American revolution…It shows a want of sense as well as a want of principle, and a want of truth, to call the rebels of 1776 patriots and heroes, and the rebels of 1861, “traitors.”
 
Only one contingency would induce a Virginian not to take part. The Grand Army must not be represented: “It would be the death’s head on the board; the skeleton in the banquet hall.”
 
(The History of the South, Volume VIII, E. Merton Coulter, LSU Press, 1947)

 

Lowest Element of the Plunderers
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“I well remember the night when the news came that Lincoln was probably elected. I with a party other college boys went to Hunt’s Hotel [in Columbia] where several speeches were made. Among the speakers was F.J. Moses, a prominent lawyer from Sumter, who in a most violent secession speech hoped the report of the election was true, as it would sweep away the opposition of the weak-kneed and hesitating, like his valued and timid friend, Wade Hampton.

 
Moses lived to be a prominent member of the infamous carpetbag government that wrecked the State from 1868 to 1876. He was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, while his son, F.J., Jr., was for years the leader in all the worst thievery and corruption, winding up as Governor.
 
Neither father nor son ever went in the army. His “timid” friend, Wade Hampton, entered the war and his history is a large part of that in the next four years. His next appearance was when the State called him in ’76, when the carpetbaggers and their allies were turned out, the Moses, father and son, being among those deposed at that time. Justice Moses rendered honest decisions, which were of great benefit…His son was to the last allied with the lowest element of the plunderers, and led a vigorous fight in their own party against D.H. Chamberlain, who refused to sign the commission of the younger Moses as judge, a position which he sought only for the opportunities it would give him to sell [court] decisions.
 
“[D.H.] Chamberlain, who was [South Carolina’s Reconstruction] governor from 1874 through 1876, took the ground boldly that the younger [F.J.] Moses and W.J. Whipper, both of whom had been elected judge, were unfit and that he would not assent to their being put on the bench to disgrace it. Chamberlain’s course was one of the first steps toward a better state of things, and it was a heavy blow at the Reconstruction party, whose only bond was plunder. It made a most effective break in their party, which cared nothing for success except as it meant free plunder. They considered Chamberlain’s efforts to make their party honest and decent as a blow at the only liberty they valued, License.
 
Chamberlain was one of the few men of character and education who came South after the war. Even they believed that Northern thrift and economy would reap rich harvests from the development of the South’s great natural resources. They did not realize the insuperable difficulties of working with labor which for generations had been irresponsible chattels, whose one idea of freedom was license, whose foresight never looked beyond the needs of the day, and who could not realize that with the power to govern themselves had come the burden of supporting themselves, the helpless children, the old people, who had been cared for as well as controlled.
 
Some of the Northerners thought that they could direct the ignorant, grateful Negro, even making rich profits while elevating the former slave. But they either gave up in despair, losing all they had put in, or went with the crowd and made profit of their intelligence in a division of plunder.” 
 
(The Haskell Memoirs, Govan & Livingood, editors, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960, pp. vi-viii)

 

Gates book on Lincoln'
 
From: regenstein@mindspring.com
 
Here is an interesting review of the book by Obama pal Henry Louis gates, the Harvard Prof, who insulted the policeman who investigated the suspected break in at his home.
 

 
The book observes that Lincoln, Our Greatest President Ever, felt blacks were inferior to whites, wanted to return them to Africa, etc.
 
What if one of us had said that?
 
Lew Regenstein

H-Net Review Publication: 'Hardeman on Lincoln'
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Review&month=0910&week=d&msg=icZL6tR32LSULUBnZXqyfA&user=&pw=

The holy cost of genocide
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
To: Shaun May, <smay@bwfcom.com>
Brotman-Winter-Fried Communications
Re: your mass-mailer "CONGRESSMAN BRAD SHERMAN CONGRATULATES SIKHS FOR JUSTICE ON THEIR JUSTICE CONFERENCE: NOVEMBER 1984 SIKH GENOCIDE"
 
cc. Sikhs for Justice, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118
support@sikhsforjustice.org
Pannun Law Firm
75-20 Astoria Blvd, Suite 170
Jackson Heights, New York, NY 11370
gpannun@pannunfirm.com
 
Greetings, Shaun. I’m glad to hear that someone in the fedgov is willing to stand up for verified (!) innocent (!)  victims of genocide, but fear Rep. Sherman’s priorities are out of order.
 
On principle I deplore verified (!) instances of genocide everywhere, which for the past century, of course, means most notably communism’s attempt to wipe out humanity and eradicate Christianity. But also on principle I feel every country’s main focus regarding genocide should be on the cases that it itself has perpetrated, either on its own people or others -- and on any actual (!) genocide committed upon itself.
 
In ameriKa’s case, the fedgov is generations behind in giving recognition to the main (!) genocide on its vast, sprawling criminal record: the so-called American Civil War. And until Congress is willing to admit to at least that geopolitical rape/murder and deal meaningfully with its unending legacy of tyranny and violence, I’m afraid neither Brad Sherman or anybody else in government has any business sending a letter like this.
 

 
You laugh? I wouldn’t. A country that treats innocents as the yankees treated the Confederate States of America will do anything to anybody. And the record shows that the “Civil War” was merely target practice for bigger, more mindlessly vast assaults.
 
It’s bad enough that Babylon-on-the-Potomac committed such horrors on its own former citizens in the 1860s, but it’s surely mind-numbing how that entity has continued the abuse on a more limited, better-camouflaged scale since, the evil of it building in a crescendo of global tyranny and brutality for most of the past century – witness its present “wars” on innocent women and children in the Greater Middle East.
 
At least in the “Civil War” Babylon-on-the-Potomac had only 19th-century munitions with which to decimate the South. Now it uses “depleted” uranium to permanently ruin environments and cause miscarriages and ghastly birth defects in them for the rest of time. Now, THAT is genocide – in an age that supposedly avoids nuclear war as the most heinous thing possible on earth!
 
Yes, the War of Northern Aggression is the only genocide or “holocaust” with which Babylon-on-the-Potomac should concern itself until it comes clean and makes such restitution to the South as remains possible. There are other ameriKan genocides waiting in line, from General Sherman’s post-War drive to ethnic-cleanse the plains (a program that lasted via other diabolical means well into the 20th century) through the fedgov’s 1898 assault on peaceful Spain, its 1899 rape of the Philippines, its gross exacerbation of two world wars and perpetration of the so-called Nuremburg Trials, up to (among others) its fomenting of anti-Southern bigotry and dispossession today.
 
These matters all fall under the Genocide Convention itself, but strangely, the “kinder gentler” ameriKa the first President Bush proclaimed has only gotten more murderous, now indeed being sworn to the slashing of world population to a fraction of its present size.
 
I wish the Sikhs well in their informational campaign, but candidly, I don't think they have any business operating in New York City – especially if the justice they seek has anything to do with ameriKan taxpayers.
 
Thank you, Shaun.
 
Nelson Waller, M.Mus.

Atheist activist slams the South
 
From: mikectuggle@att.net
 
Gentlemen,
 
Here's the offending attack:
 
http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2009/10/27/league-of-the-south-denounces-myself-charles-johnson-for-picking-on-racist/
 
And here's my response:
 
http://www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/10/atheist-activist-slams-south.html
 
Let him have it.
 
Mike

hawthorneheritage.org
 
From: dewey@barberandcompany.com
 
Compatriots,
 

The battle against the discrimination of our Southern children and for freedom of speech is continuing at Hawthorne High/Middle school in Hawthorne, Florida.
 
On August 28, 2009  principal Veita Jackson-Carter unilaterally and without cause imposed a ban on the Confederate Battle Flag at Hawthorne High/Middle School. In doing so, she violated the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and denied freedom of speech to her students.
 
After many emails and phone calls from Southern heritage supporters and various transparent attempts by Veita Jackson-Carter to put a good face on this blatant discrimination, Carter continued her ban of all Confederate symbols at Hawthorne High.
 
Since that time Dixie Outfitters has built and launched a web site dedicated to exposing Veita Jackson-Carter's bigotry to the world. This site will act as a center for all those who oppose Veita Jackson-Carter's ban.
 
We invite you to visit hawthorneheritage.org and join the fight for our Southern children who are proud of their family, ancestors and heritage.
 
Best Regards,
 
Dewey W. Barber
President, Dixie Outfitters

The Hunley II – Commentary by Frank Gillispie 10/23/09

Some time back, I acquired a copy of an unpublished manuscript written by my great uncle Ace Argo entitled, "The Heirs of Peggy," and written in the 1950's as near as we can tell. No copy I've seen has a copyright date on it. It contains a number of interesting stories about the lives he and his relatives experienced. There are probably a hundred or so copies spread among various family members. What follows is Chapter 8 from that manuscript.

Chapter 8 chronicles the tale, as told to Ace Argo by his father (my great-grandfather), William David Argo. He is known as "Dave" in the story. To the best of my knowledge, the story is authentic, however, I understand by way of Uncle Ace that some of the family names were changed because at the time it was written, a number of the participants or their close relatives were still living.

My great grandfather was a devout Christian and southern abolitionist. He and his siblings rejected an inheritance because it had been earned with slave labor. Some areas of the book contain terms that are no longer politically correct and would be deemed offensive by today's standards.

It is shared here as a tribute to my ancestors and the people of the South. I believe it illustrates their humanity and fallibility, the tragedy of war, but most importantly, their patriotism, loyalty, dedication and ingenuity.

From The Heirs of Peggy by Ace Argo, ca. 1950.

Chapter Eight - Huntley II

By spring of sixty—four, the war was bearing down on everyone in the south. Food was scarce and some items such as coffee were unobtainable except for the little bit that trickled back from, the front. During lulls in the fighting, soldiers of the opposing armies would meet secretly between the lines and sugar, tobacco, and rice would be swapped with the Yankee soldiers for coffee. When the boys would come home on furlough, they would bring a little coffee to dad and mom or to the wife. Some was brought in by blockade runners, but the price on this was prohibitive to any but the rich. There was a shortage of almost all drugs, especially quinine, and epidemics of typhoid fever raged.

Confederate commissary wagons would pass through the country, escorted by a patrol of cavalry, and a percentage of everything on the farm in The way of food would be taken and sent to the front. By year sixty—four, one third of everything edible was being requisitioned. People began to resist and many would drive their best cattle and hogs to the back fields or hide them in the swamps. Cured pork such as hams, shoulders, and side meat were removed and concealed in caves along the creek banks. There were complaints that much of the foodstuffs collected never found its way to the front. This was true, but usually it was due to a lack of transportation.

There was much concern that the slaves would rise in rebellion and the Patteros, a sort of vigilante group, were on patrol almost every night. Any slave caught out at night without a pass from his owner was lashed and trotted home. Most of the people had guns around their homes but there was little ammunition. No powder, shot or caps were used for hunting. What little was available was reserved for emergencies. Game became very plentiful, and to those resourceful enough to improvise traps and snares, it helped to augment their dwindling food supply.

Wounded soldiers and those home on furlough reported that the army was short of almost everything; food, clothes, ammunition, and especially in manpower, Battle losses had been heavy the year before and sickness was taking a still greater toll. Desertions and defections had also increased. General Grant had been put in charge of The new Army of the Potomac and everyone knew that he would soon move south with the largest and best equipped force ever to take the field in this country. Lee would have to oppose him with less than half as many men and very inadequate equipment.

Up to this time the attention of the people around Anderson had focused on the northern front for most of their men folks were serving in that theater. The hostilities there were several hundred miles away. But in the spring of sixty—four, General Sherman moved out of Chattanooga and headed south toward Atlanta. General Johnson checked him at Kennesaw Mountain but was unable to hold him and Atlanta fell. Immediately, attention turned to the west. Atlanta was scarcely more than a hundred miles away, and no one knew which way the Yankee army would turn from there but feared it might be east. A Home Guard unit had been organized consisting mostly of youths sixteen and seventeen and men who had lost a limb in the war but could still handle a gun to some extent and provide leadership and stability. They were drilled by a one—armed sergeant and commanded by a wounded captain home from the front. Their duties were mostly to guard supplies and be ready to quell any uprising of the slaves, if such should occur. Dave enlisted along with the first group and did duty until the end of the war.

The Guard seemed to function somewhat as the National Guard does today, the boys working most of the time and doing duty one or two days a week. It was probably exciting and eventful enough, but compared with what was going on elsewhere, it seemed pretty tame to Dave. He remembered the amusing incidents more than the serious ones.

They were grinding sorghum cane for syrup making with a mule pulling a beam ‘round and ‘round for power. Someone galloped up yelling at the top of his voice. "The Yankees are coming, the Yankees are coming!"

Everyone scattered with members of the Guard heading for their headquarters to assemble and arm themselves and others headed for home. One excitable old man jumped on the mule hitched to the syrup mill, popped spurs to him, and galloped around and around until one of the Guard boys ran up and stopped him and headed him for home.

The Guard assembled and marched out of town toward the west, taking along their supply wagon. By nightfall they were on the banks of the Savannah River at Browns Ferry, had bivouacked for the night, and posted sentries. The captain had inquired along the way. Ho one had seen any Yankees, but the ferryman reported that he had an arrangement with a family across the river to signal him if any showed up by hanging garments on the clothes line in a certain way. The signal had been out since early morning and he had not operated the ferry all day.

One of the sentries was posted near the supply wagon where they had eaten their supper and had fed the horses. In the early morning hours, Dave had relieved this post and was on duty there. It was quiet, nothing happening at all except that a pine rooter hog kept nosing around the wagon. Dave chased him away half a dozen times but he kept coming back. Finally he lost his temper and took a shot at the troublesome pig, wounding it, and it started squealing at the top of its voice. The shot and the commotion in the dead of the night was too much for the inexperienced boys of the Guard; they panicked and ran off into the woods. It took the captain half an hour to get them all back together and restore order. When he did he was raging, both at Dave for shooting and at the men for running.

When it was light enough they found a bateau and three men went across the river to look around and talk to the people who had hung out the signal. It was all a mistake. The lady of the house was sick and had hired a colored woman to do the wash. She had hung a union suit on the line in such a way that it formed a perfect "Y," the prearranged signal.

Before the mistake was discovered and while everyone was believing that a Yankee patrol was in the area one of the boys casually remarked, "I’ll bet they are looking for that submarine Thad Wehunt is building." When the excitement was over the captain called the young man aside and inquired further about the supposed submarine because, to his knowledge, Thad Wehunt had lost an arm in the fighting around New Orleans and had been discharged from the Navy. The young man told him That Wehunt was indeed building a sort of half—submersible craft right on his father’s farm along the Savannah River, and which he hoped to float dawn The Savannah when The river was at flood and attack the Union fleet lying off the river’s mouth, and at Fort Royal. The captain had heard nothing of this project but decided that if such a craft was really being built, it would become the duty of The Guard to protect it. So he picked Dave and two others who had mounts and set out for the Wehunt farm to investigate, sending the troop back to town in charge of the sergeant.

None of The family was at home. The captain looked around a little but noticed no signs that anything unusual was going on around there. Then one of the boys who was familiar with the place commented, "I wonder why they moved that old fodder shed? It used to set up here by the barn. Now it is down by the river, and it has been lengthened."

They rode down there and noticed signs of much activity around it. The doors were tightly closed and locked, and there were no cracks that anyone could see through.

The family owned a few slaves and soon one of them, a big, burley fellow, came down and wanted to know what they were doing nosing around there. The captain introduced himself and The boys but made no mention of what They had heard, "We have business with Mr. Wehunt," he explained.

"Mr. Wehunt and his son went into town early this morning and should be back soon now. Make yourselves comfortable and I will get you all a cup of cider. But you must go back up to the house. Marse Thad don’t want nobody messing around his fodder barn." And The big man led them back up The lane.

The father and son arrived an hour later, but at first they were non—committal and would tell them nothing about any boat project. But when the captain explained that he was there to offer the services of the Guard to help in any way possible, the younger man relented and told them the story.

Thad Wehunt had won an appointment to Annapolis Naval Academy and was there for two years before the war broke out. Shortly after the incident at Fort Sumter he left the Academy, returned to South Carolina, and enlisted in the Confederate Navy as a lieutenant. At the Academy he had majored in Naval Design and Construction, and The Confederates made use of his training to assist in the design of the Huntley, the world’s first workable submarine. The vessel successfully attacked and sank a Union warship but went down with it, so the project had to be put down as a failure. Lieutenant Wehunt was transferred to New Orleans and assigned to a small ram Boat. When Admiral Farragut successfully attacked the small Confederate fleet above New Orleans, Wehunt’s ram was among those destroyed. It was broken in two and the after section remained afloat with the lieutenant and several others staying aboard.

The admiral’s flagship came alongside and he called to them to surrender and he would send a boat to take them off. The lieutenant refused rescue and began to berate the admiral as a "damned traitor to his country" because Farragut was a native of Tennessee. The admiral then ordered him shot and the bullet shattered his arm, which had to be amputated later. Farragut then called to him, "Why don’t you damned fools surrender? Don’t you know the war is over?"

"Only the first phase of it is over," the wounded lieutenant replied. "The second phase begins here, and when it is over you will not have a warship afloat."

During his convalescent period, Lieutenant Wehunt used his right hand to draft the design of a new and revolutionary war vessel embodying a modification of the submarine principle combined with the ability to ram. He presented it to his Admiral and he thought it had great potentials, but the South did not have the money and materials to build one, so the lieutenant was thanked for his efforts and given his discharge.

But his interest continued, and after he arrived home he modified the original design to a more crude form that could be made of wood, a material readily available from his father’s sawmill. He sent the drawing to the Admiral. He believed it had possibilities and promised to give him as much help as possible and restored him to duty status.

The ambitious lieutenant set to work, using a few trusted slaves and a few of the young men thereabouts who were too young for military service. His boat was to be called, The Hunley II, in honor of the men who had lost their lives on the first submarine which he had helped to design.

Thad’s father walked with a heavy limp. He had been a railroad man for many years until he was injured in a wreck and had to retire. He believed that through his connections with the shop where the people knew him well he could obtain most of the bolts and rods that would be needed in the construction of the Hunley II.

Thad pledged them to secrecy, then took the group down to the shed and explained the construction and what he had in mind to accomplish. Dave was tremendously impressed and years later could give a minute description of the boat, mostly from memory, but he also had made a few sketches.

The Hunley II was to be forty—eight feet long and eight feet wide in the center. It would taper to a point at each end, much like a large canoe. It would flare slightly at its flat bottom and would be eight feet deep.

The heart of the boat and its ramming power would be in its massive keel, a piece of timber eighteen inches square and fifty—four feet long, extending six feet forward of the boat proper. To this projection was to be attached a cast iron ramming head. The hull would be double—planked with one inch boards to within three feet of the top, but the last three feet would be six inch oak timbers, hewed to the contour of’ the boat, and it would be decked with oak crossties, a supply of which they had on hand at the mill.

Unlike the Hunley I which was propelled by its crew turning a huge crank, the Hunley II would have a power plant. Their saw mill was powered by a steam engine using the upright type of boiler. This boiler was to be used in the boat and would furnish steam for four engines, turning four propellers, two in the conventional stern position and two forward. The boiler could not supply steam to operate these four engines continually, so the designer intended to use only the two stern engines for normal cruising and to use all four when a short burst of speed was needed, and to pull clear of a vessel that had been rammed.

The boat was expected to draw about two and one—half feet of water in the "high" position, and portholes along each side would provide light. There were compartments fore and aft that would be flooded before going into action and the vessel taken down until only two feet of its structure was above water. This would put the ramming head six feet below the surface, and an eighteen inch hole in the side of a wooden warship at that point would be enough.

It was to be a triple—threat craft. In addition to its ability to ram it was to be armed with two cannon, one fore and one aft, and these could be raised into firing position by a system of windlasses and a portion of the deck would be raised with them. It was hoped that with its low profile and great speed it could be brought in under a warship’s guns and fire solid shot into its sides at the water line with little risk of damage from return fire.. A crude periscope would provide vision when the guns were in the "up" position.

For its third threat, two heavy rings protruded from the sides near the stern. From these, "drag mines" would be towed. Workable mines had been developed by that stage of the war and the South had a few on hand. It was believed that these could be altered to put the detonating rods forward. Ironclad warships, which could not be effectively attacked by ramming or cannon fire, would be targets for drag—mine attack. The lieutenant’s plan was to come up behind a moving iron clad with a mine in tow at the end of a one or two hundred yard rope, run past it and across its bow and drag the mine beneath it.

Another unique feature Dave remembered was that the vessel was to have giant Eye—bolts near each end, reaching from the deck down through the keel. With these the craft would be lifted by two railroad cranes working from each end, loaded on a flatcar, and transported quickly from one seaport to another.

But why build it here, three hundred miles from the sea? The lieutenant’s answer made sense.

"It is the only place I can build it. No government funds or materials are available, and if they were I probably would not be able to get the approval of the proper officials, for I am only a lieutenant. The Admiral, though sympathetic and cooperative, nevertheless regarded it as a "hair brained" project. But he agreed with me that hair brained projects were about all we had left. And who can tell, this one might just work, and if it does the blockade can be broken, for we have ample materials to build more.

Plans were to take the boat down the river to Savannah during one of the many winter floods which occurred regularly in that country, practice on the half sunken ships in the estuary there until his ramming technique was perfected, then attack the Union warships at night just before dawn so there would be light to get back into harbor. If successful to any degree, he would then move on up and attack the fleet at anchor at Fort Royal.

Construction was already under way. A large virgin pine that stood on a rise of ground above the shed had been cut, the fifty—four foot log rolled into place by muscle power and hewed to shape by hand axes, for it was much too long to be handled by their small sawmill. The fodder shed had been dismantled and rebuilt over it. The bottom was completed and the sides were in process of being raised.

But a tragic ill wind blew against the endeavor and the boat was never completed. If it had been, who knows? The entire story of the War Between the States may have had a different ending.

Both the Wehunts reasoned that certain essential metal materials should be acquired before further effort was expended. These would include; the ramming head, three more engines and four propellers. Friends in The navy at New Orleans had promised to get the propellers from sunken boats and ship them to Augusta. From here and there they gathered enough scrap iron to make the ramming head and prow. The material was loaded into the wagon and the senior Wehunt started on the four-day journey to the foundry in Augusta.

Thad knew that the river was navigable for tugboats and barges as far up as Augusta, but from there to their place it was unknown to him. Water was low at that time of year and all navigational hazards would be visible, so on The same day his father left with the wagon of scrap iron he and Big Tobe, a trusted slave, left by boat to float to Augusta and chart the stream.

They never made it. Mr. Wehunt stayed with relatives in Augusta for Three weeks, hoping and praying, then gave up and donated the scrap iron to the war effort and came back home, a bereaved, discouraged, and beaten man.

No one knows what happened but most likely they both drowned while attempting to negotiate one of the many rapids. Tobe was a good hand with a boat but had had no experience in handling one in fast water, for the river near the Wehunt farm was relatively smooth.

There was no one to carry on with The project, so after a few months it was dismantled, The big keel timber was cut into shorter lengths and sawed into lumber.

Months later the badly decomposed body of a negro man was found entangled in some muscadine vines in The river just below Calhoun Falls, and was thought to be that of Big Tobe. But the body of Lieutenant Thad Wehunt was never found that anyone around Anderson ever heard of.

In this work of limited vision, recognition is only given to those who try and succeed. What a pity that those who give such effort to noble projects and fail through no fault of their own are not also appropriately recognized and honored.

Originally published at www.frankgillispie.com/scvcamp1526/id16.html

Copyright © 2009 by Frank Gillispie

On The Web:   georgiaheritagecouncil.org/site2/commentary/gillispie-hunley2-102409.phtml

 

Gettysburg chief reassigned over explicit images
 

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park told a newspaper he is being reassigned because U.S. Interior Department investigators discovered that he used his federal computer to view sexually explicit images.

John Latschar will begin Monday at the Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, Md., as a special assistant to the National Park Service's associate director for cultural resources.

Park service spokesman David Barna would not say why Latschar had been reassigned, calling it a personnel issue, but Latschar told the Evening Sun of Hanover he is being reassigned because of his misuse of the federal computer.

Latschar told the newspaper that "there's no excuse" for his behavior. He said he was "going through some rough personal and professional times" from 2004 to 2006, when he used his computer to search online for the images, which he said were like those found in a Playboy magazine.

Latschar didn't immediately return a message left by The Associated Press at his Gettysburg park office. Latschar, in an e-mail to park employees obtained by the AP, apologized but did not mention the images.

"As I say goodbye to all you good folks, I would like, once again, to offer you my heartfelt apologies for what has happened," Latschar wrote. "My greatest sorrow is the embarrassment I have brought upon my family, my friends, and you — my former employees — of whom I have always been so proud."

In his new job, Latschar will make the same $145,000 a year salary as he did while running the 6,000-acre historical Civil War site, Barna said.

Latschar began working at the park in south-central Pennsylvania in 1994 and clashed repeatedly with preservationists.

The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General investigated anonymous allegations that Latschar had committed misconduct and engaged in criminal activity during his stewardship, but said last month that it had found no evidence to back up the accusations.

The Washington Post reported Monday, however, that the inspector general's public account did not mention another finding: that investigators found that Latschar used his computer to view thousands of sexually explicit images.

Mary L. Kendall, the department's acting inspector general, declined to say why the discovery of the images was left out of the report, the Post reported.

The park was the scene of a bloody three-day battle in July 1863, a major turning point of the Civil War that hastened the defeat of the Confederate Army. It now draws more than 1.4 million visitors a year.

In recent years, the park also has been the center of hot debates involving its preservation and nearby development.

Investigators looked into claims of fraud in connection with the park's new $103 million museum and visitors' center, built and operated by the private, nonprofit Gettysburg Foundation. The inspector general's report acknowledged that the agreement between the park and the foundation makes for a controversial partnership, but it said investigators uncovered no evidence of fraud.

It also detailed how Latschar had agreed last year to take the $245,000-a-year job as the foundation's president. Latschar subsequently changed his mind after meeting with federal ethics officials.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press.

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Church, school, community leaders talk about race after Confederate flag incident

October 23, 2009
Amanda Memrick

It will take cooperation from both the community and the schools to conquer racism, local leaders say.

Gaston County Schools Superintendent Reeves McGlohon, the Rev. Benjamin Hinton of Tabernacle Baptist Church, community activist John Barnette and former school board member Jennifer Davis met Thursday to talk about respect for diversity both inside and outside of schools.

“I think there is a tendency to think that this issue that North Gaston (High) has faced in these past weeks was unique to North Gaston, and that’s not true,” McGlohon said. “It’s not just a school problem. If we’re going to make sure that we all respect diversity, it’s something that we’re all going to have to work at in our schools, our churches and throughout our community.”

Two weeks ago someone taped up a Confederate flag on the school’s flag pole. The next morning three students — one black, two white — received five-day suspensions for a verbal argument. Barnette, serving as family spokesman for one of the suspended teens, said last week the argument occurred when two white students wearing Confederate flag shirts told the black student to take off his President Barack Obama T-shirt. All of the students are now back in school.

McGlohon said the group was in the process of forming plans over the next few weeks to get started in the right direction. Students and parents will also be involved in deciding how to address the issue, he said.

The group will meet again next month to look at ways to educate students, teachers and staff from not only the school perspective but the community perspective, said Hinton.

Hinton said he understands the pride that some feel about their heritage, but need to be mindful of what kind of reactions the Confederate flag might spark in others.

“To me, that’s ignorance right there. To me that’s dishonoring their history and their heritage,” Hinton said. “I can respect the historical heritage of those Confederates who fought and died. Their blood, sweat and tears were just as valuable as the slaves that lost their lives.”

Hinton said the faith community needs to be at the forefront of diversity discussions.

“I think we need to take the lead, both the black pulpit and the white pulpit,” Hinton said. “We’re going to have to take the lead in preaching and teaching and demonstrating.”

But it’s not going to be easy.

“How do you change a mindset? It’s going to take re-programming almost,” Hinton said. “Some of it’s never going away. We can’t change everybody. Until the hearts of people change, the community won’t change.”

It’s going to take everyone’s help, Hinton said.

“We’ve made some strides but we still have a long way to go,” Hinton said. “What we don’t need to do is turn back the hands of time.”

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MOTHER OF ALL FALSE FLAGS

By Andrew C. Wallace
October 23, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

This was written for the misinformed Black and White victims living under Fascism in the inner cities; and for those who have been screwed out of everything, and will join them in that soon to be much worse living hell. The Inner Cities are “Marxist Utopias” set up for the profit and power of your elected officials who are Parasitic Traitors to you and to the Republic. Both Democrat and Republican Officials are Progressives, that is Marxists, Communists and Fascists, who take orders from the Super Rich Elite owners of large corporations, the media and most of the world.

Warning, Political Correctness is a restriction of Free Speech and is not to be found in this paper. My creditability depends on truth, I encourage you to question my facts, but you cannot do that by using information from politicians or the media. “Am I therefore become your enemy because, I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16.

The Inner Cities are “False Flag Operations” because average White Americans, who mostly don’t have a clue as to the underbelly of the toxic propaganda being spewed in them are taxed to support them; and are falsely blamed for their existence .The real perpetrators of hell in the inner cities are your elected Progressive, mostly Black Traitors and related Parasites who prosper from your misery, while wanting you dead. You will turn on these lying oppressors when you learn the truth.

If most Americans were Racists, Obama would not have been elected; and Federal and State governments would not be spending one dollar out of seven on means tested welfare for one third of the American population, most of whom reside in the inner cities. Means tested welfare spending is $28,000 per household of four, for a total of 714 Billion dollars, 5% of GDP, which means that two thirds of American households are paying $6,720 a year to support the less productive one third. Social Security, Medicare, Police, and Education are additional costs not included in the preceding. Facts from Robert Rector, Special report #67, The Heritage Foundation.

Brian Riedl of The Heritage Foundation just reported “that our Federal Government will spend $33,880 per household in 2009, the highest level in history adjusted for inflation which is $8,000 more per household than last year. $18,277 per household of the $33,880 will be in taxes and the remaining $15,630 will be debt”. This is impossible to sustain and will quickly result in recognized Bankruptcy and abject poverty for all Americans, except for the Traitors who did the looting. Worthless paper money will not pay for benefits.

Oh, how we are being screwed, let me count the ways. Your fascist government allowed corporations, with the eager support of unions, to employ low skilled foreign born workers for cheap wages to take our jobs. Taxpayers are forced to subsidize these exploited workers, most of whom are illegals, in the amount of about $900 for each American household, (based on Heritage Foundation figures) which are also included in the preceding Brian Riedl figures. Each illegal head of household costs American taxpayers about $25,000 a year after deducting any taxes paid.

Most Racists are the 95% of Black Inner City residents who have been misled to vote for the same Progressive Officials who are responsible for their deprivations and want them dead. It is sad reality, but a large percentage of inner city residents have been taught to blame and hate the White man by Marxist Parasites, such as elected officials, school teachers, ministers of black liberation theology, community organizers like ACORN, labor unions like SEIU, AFL-CIO, and organizations like The Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, Rainbow Coalition, et al. These organizations and people are responsible for preaching hatred of our country, White people and the economic system that allows those so inclined to escape poverty, if they can survive the crime, and overcome the mismanaged and ineffective schools run by their own people. White racism does exist by the Elites, government officials and by those born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they are also equally prejudiced against poor Whites. Many average white people do harbor resentment because of perceived preferential benefits for Blacks, and for crime rate in the Black community.

If the Marxist System advocated by Traitors you support is instituted , you will lose what you have and end up with less than nothing; because a productive society will no longer exist to subsidize mismanagement, theft and crime in the inner cities. This is an absolute economic and historic fact.

It must be strongly stated that the Treason by Progressive Usurpers in our government who pass and enforce unconstitutional laws is a national problem; as is the reality of a totally corrupt judicial system. All of these Traitors are going to jail if they are lucky. This treason would have been impossible without the corporate owned propaganda media , which refuses to this day, to tell the truth contrary to the intent of the Constitution resulting in a largely uninformed and misinformed population. Thank God for the Internet and Talk Radio.

Cong. Jim Clyburn, third ranking House Democrat, and black caucus member, admitted that he repudiated his solemn oath and was a Traitor to our Constitutional Republic; when, as reported in Star Parker’s column, “he was asked where the Constitution gives the federal government authority to regulate health care delivery, Clyburn replied, "There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do." Clyburn pulled no punches that our Constitution, which is the basis of his authority, is irrelevant to him.”

The greatest political awakening in our lifetime was the Massive Protest March by both White and Black Patriots to the nation’s capital on 9-12-09 which demonstrated to Patriots and Fascists alike that rule by Unconstitutional Corruption and Treason was going to end.

This incredible, first time ever, Protest March on Washington of upwards of Two Million unpaid Patriots is representative of a Massive Grass Roots Rebellion by a majority of the people which cannot be defeated. But, we are also in imminent mortal danger because the Traitors are now like cornered rats; and may resort to the MOTHER OF ALL FALSE FLAG events in a dangerous last ditch gamble; pitting their misinformed inner city Black victims against informed patriots who mostly did them no harm. This would allow the Elites to have their enemies decimate each other, which is part of their ultimate goal.

Another, among many possible False Flag events would be to secretly offer amnesty and other benefits to the illegals to expedite their ethnic cleansing of both poor blacks and whites as they are already being allowed to do. Remember that the Progressives have been trying to kill poor Blacks and Whites for the better part of 100 years. Where do you think Hitler got many of his ideas? For documented details click here.

Hilary Clinton proudly proclaimed that she was a Progressive and was recently awarded the “Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award.” ”Sanger was a proponent of eugenics and initiated the Negro Project to infiltrate the black community to initiate abortions resulting in fewer and fewer black people.”

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "Frankly I had thought that at the time [Roe vs. Wade] was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of “ Reported by Jonah Goldberg, 7-14-09, latimes.

Pastor Stephen Broden reported that “14 million Black babies have been womb lynched since 1973 which is over 37% of all abortions . The history of Planned Parenthood and its goals to eliminate black folk is common knowledge among blacks in the pro-life movement. It is well documented that Margaret Sanger sought to exterminate the black race here in America and across the world.”

Pastor Arnold Culbreath added that “abortion remains the leading cause of death in the Black community.”

Professor Carol Swain said “As a Christian, I believe that nations will be judged on the basis of how they treat the most vulnerable among them, and that "We the People" will be held responsible for the collective actions of the leaders whom we elect.”

Forget right and wrong for a minute, and just realize how taxes from those aborted 50-60 million babies of all races, could have saved your Medicare and Social Security from bankruptcy.

Your mostly Black Elected Officials from the inner cities sold you out to their Elite, mostly white bosses, for power and luxury, just like the Blacks who sold their own people into slavery in the first place. Your members of Congress were bribed to vote for Amnesty, Worker Visas, Free Trade, Open Borders, Benefits for illegals, and Massive Payoffs for Banks, Insurance Companies, Auto Companies, Unions and assorted Looting, this is how and why we have all been screwed. We call this Treason.

There would be no more Unemployment, and Wages would go up, if you had the Testicular Fortitude to force your officials to obey the Constitution; by closing the borders, and deporting every illegal in sight, while using whatever deadly force is required. This would end the ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods by illegals who are killing and driving Whites and Blacks out.

You are damn right, if you say I am anti-illegal, they are our enemies who take our jobs and are responsible for either the murder, killing, rape, molestation, or robbery of millions of Americans; while our government refuses to perform their constitutional duty to stop the invasion and deport the illegals. The Progressive Officials you elected allow this for their share of profits from drugs and cheap labor. I dare you to contest these facts, or to call me a racist?

I fear that the Fascist Traitors who have so much to lose will have their Acorn and Union Thugs attack the average White or Black Patriot. This has already started with Union Thugs supporting Obama by attacking old men at the town hall meetings. These attacks were deliberate, knowing that old men realize they can’t win a fight, and rather than being stomped to death, would have no choice but to kill the attackers giving government an excuse to declare unconstitutional Martial Law.

Bray like a Jackass, if you don’t understand now, that Your elected officials support Illegals, Amnesty, Worker Visas, and Free Trade which allows corporations to exploit foreign born workers while firing Americans. A NBER study found that 40% of unemployment of Black males was due to foreign born workers. The corporations and your elected officials get rich while leaving you without a pot to pee in. . Most of us have our roots in the Inner Cities and the only way you will get us back is to bury us there.

Many of you in inner cities like New York are also being deprived of your Constitutional right and obligation to protect yourself from criminals and a rogue government with firearms. If you think our Communists and Fascists are less ruthless than others like Hitler and Stalin, who killed millions, and won’t kill you, think Waco and Ruby Ridge. The only reason to deprive citizens of firearms is so government can take your freedoms and do with you as they please. Firearms reduce crime. The police have never been responsible for protecting you, that is your Constitutional Responsibility. Demand your rights to keep and bear arms so you can defend yourself and family.

You don’t need to be an economist and attorney, to know that government printing of money and looting on such a large scale, while destroying the private capitalistic job creating economy is unconstitutional; resulting in abject poverty and Fascist slavery for all of us.

Most of our officials and judges at every level of government are corrupt. Obama refuses to meet the constitutional requirements to be president, and not one single official or judge, had the courage to enforce the constitution, but that will change. The Patriots in this country, both Black and White, will stop the Fascist Treason of our elected officials and take back our country by throwing them out of office. Arm yourself with the truth by verifying what I have written and join us in our fight for survival.

The Elitists who control the Traitors in Corporations, Foundations, Media and Government are now known; and would be well advised to be guided by Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

© 2009 Andrew Wallace   

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Ole Miss changes football fight song to discourage "South will rise again" chant

School alters wording to drop offensive lines

By Shelia Byrd, Associated Press
Posted October 23, 2009

JACKSON, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi has shortened one of its fight songs to discourage football fans from chanting "the South will rise again" during part of the tune, which critics say is an offensive reminder of the region's intolerant past.

However, some fans have continued to recite the chant at the end of the song, "From Dixie With Love," despite the change made last week at the chancellor's request. The Ole Miss band performs the medley before and after games.

Earlier this month, the Ole Miss student government passed a resolution suggesting the chant be replaced by the phrase, "To hell with LSU."

Dan Jones, who became Ole Miss chancellor in July, said he asked the school's band director, David Wilson, to modify the song to support the efforts of the Associated Student Body.

He said he has received complaints from alumni that the slogan is offensive.

"The fact is, the phrase 'The South will rise again' is not part of our tradition or spirit, and it is inconsistent with the university's values and what Ole Miss stands for -- a great public university with a focus on the future," Jones said in a phone interview Thursday from the campus in Oxford.

The modified version of the song ends abruptly before the chanting phase starts. It was first played Saturday at Ole Miss's homecoming game against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but that didn't stop some fans from chanting.

Brian Ferguson, 26, head of the Colonel Reb Foundation, said he views the university actions as an attempt to silence students.

"I think it's a big to-do about nothing. There were very few people other than the students who knew to say it," said Ferguson, whose organization works to preserve traditions at Ole Miss. But Ferguson agreed that the chant really isn't a tradition.

"If the students get fired up and upset enough about it, they're going to continue to say it. Our biggest fear is that that's going to lead them to eliminate 'From Dixie With Love,' altogether."

The song blends the Confederate Army's fight song, "Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," according to Peter K. Frost, a visiting professor of history and international studies at Ole Miss.

The school has worked to erase its image as a bastion of the Old South, which was solidified in 1962 when James Meredith's admission as the first black student led to a bloody standoff.

The university six years ago decided not to have an on-field mascot during sporting events, getting rid of the long-standing Colonel Rebel, a white-haired old man who carries a cane and resembles a plantation owner.

At the time, school officials had said they needed a more athletic-looking mascot. The teams are still called the Rebels.

Sophomore Cortez Moss, director of communications for the student body association said the organization is trying to explain to students why the phrase is offensive.

"You take back on that slave mentality," said Moss, who is black.

"I know the South won't rise again and the South can't rise again."

2009 The E.W. Scripps Co.

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Predicting an Expenditure of Uncounted Millions
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The Washington Peace Conference could be said to have failed because of a lack of compromise. The victorious Northern sectional party, the Republicans, was now in control of the federal machinery and patronage and an ability to dictate terms.  Commodore Stockton (below) was prescient in his prediction of how the Black Republicans would seduce the North into a war of conquest over their sister States to the South.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
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Predicting an Expenditure of Uncounted Millions:
 
“[Washington Peace Conference] Debate focused mainly on slavery and its extension, and on constitutional arrangements designed to maintain political power. [James B.] Clay [of Kentucky], for example, found “slavery but an incident to the great question of the balance of power between the different sections and different interests.” [James A.] Seddon [of Virginia] talked bluntly of “the acquisitive disposition” of Northerners,  of their greed for land and for office. “The great class of protected interests at the North,” he said, “….joined with the land-seekers to secure power.”
 
The bitter clash between Seddon and [George S.] Boutwell [Massachusetts] on February 18 demonstrated the emotional impact of the argument over slavery and its extension. “We hold our property, yes, our property in slaves…We feel that in…the protection of the African race, we have a mission to perform, and not a mission only but a right and duty…In all this time we have contributed far more to the greatness of the North than to our own. Yet all this time we have been assailed, attacked, vilified and defamed, by the people of the North…Your people thought they were doing God a service in signing a petition…for the mercy to John Brown and his ruffian invaders of our soil. And when these men met the just reward of their crime…they were looked upon as the victims of oppression, as martyrs to a holy and righteous cause.”
 
Boutwell replied…”Massachusetts has made war upon slavery wherever she had the right to do it….The North will never consent to the separation of the States…if the slave States will…faithfully abide by their constitutional obligations, and remain in the Union until their rights are in fact invaded, all will be well. But if they take the responsibility of involving the country in a civil war…but one course remains to those who are true to that Government.
 
“We are earnest in our determination to have our rights under the Constitution defined and guaranteed,” said J. Dixon Roman of Maryland. “Our safety, as well as our self-respect, requires this.”  [Commodore Robert] Stockton [of New Jersey] called upon Republicans by name, urging them to give up the [sectional Republican] Chicago platform “to save your country.” Stockton listed the inducements “with which the Republican leaders would seduce the North into fratricidal war”:  “The expenditure of uncounted millions, the distribution of epaulets and military commissions for an army of half a million of men, the immense patronage involved in the letting of contracts, the inflation of prices and the rise of property which would follow the excessive issue of paper money, made necessary by the lavish expenditure;---these, indeed, are the enormous bribes which the Republican party offers.”
 
Seddon…insisted that “Virginia will not permit coercion”---a position which Lott M. Morrill of Maine interpreted as “an attitude of menace.” “It gives aid and comfort,” he said,” to those who trample upon the laws and defy the authority of this Government.”  At this point Stockton shouted “Silence sir!” and “rushed toward Senator Morrill with violent and angry gesticulations.” “We will not permit our Southern friends to be charged with bad faith…! No black Republican shall…”
 
(Washington Peace Conference, Robert G. Gunderson; Antislavery and Disunion, 1858-1861, J. Jeffery Auer, Editor, Peter Smith, 1968, pp. 385-389)

 

Get the lead out -- let's talk
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
RE: They Can't Push Us Around Forever
Tennessee calls on other states to fight the power.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/cant-push-us-around.html
 
State launches boycott of 'unconstitutional' federal laws
Urges 49 others to join in combating government's 'abuse of authority'
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113606

/\/.\/\/. COMMENTS:  Help me out here, folks.  One hears endlessly about such resolutions and challenges, which at least shows the states'have a pulse once again after 164 years lying cold and prostrate. But so far it's all on paper, correct? I personally haven't heard of any state actually abolishing federal gun dictates yet ---are gun purchasers not in fact being required to fill out those forms and jump through those hoops any longer in (for instance) Montana? Talk is cheap, paper is a penny a sheet.
 
I'm hoping someone will bring news to the contrary -- that the strike is already happening somewhere to some extent.  It's certainly great that a Southern state is now declaring and even leading -- yankees have too often taken the lead on these issues.
 
Let's have some discussion about exactly what is needed to get this job done. I'm assuming that state politicians are showing vital signs because Congress has proven public enemy number one re guns and everything else.  All it would take is a critical mass of states -- more than half, at least -- to start stiffing the feds on their gun dictates, and there would be nothing for the fedgov to do. Of course its next chess move would be to penalize the "ringleaders" of the movement, even the governors, either by quietly killing them or openly jailing them, levying crushing fines etc.
 
The fedgov will stop at nothing, absolutely nothing, to keep its bastard power. But people power, properly ranged, is still the unstoppable force.
 
Comments, news, corrections please. This is a major development which could be the beginning of the beginning for a resurrection of states' rights. Thank God for the politicians in MT, TN etc. who *have* stood up!

 

Another Lincoln Myth bites the Dust/"Was Abraham Lincoln an animal rights advocate?"
 
From: regenstein@mindspring.com
 
You know, it's a funny thing, whenever anyone researches some alleged act of Sainthood by Lincoln, it often turns out to by a myth, or at least, undocumented by any reliable evidence.
 
here is an excellent and very scholarly essay by Mike Hudak,  a respected animal protectionist refuting the myth that Lincoln was a great lover of animals. If only other scholars would objectively research and write about Lincoln, we might have a more accurate historical portrayal of him, instead of the near-deity he has become.
 
--Tom DiLorenzo's book "The Real Lincoln" is a good example, as is a new, thoroughly documented and highly recommended expose of Lincoln's administration, "Lincoln Uber Alles: Dictatorship Comes to America," by John Avery Emison, published by Pelican.
 
I have long appreciated and enjoyed Mike's essays on public land grazing, as I did this expose of Lincoln's alleged humane tendencies, and have written Mike to tell him that
 
"Lincoln is probably the most revered & most misunderstood and overly praised, figure in American history, at least prior to Obama.
 
There are numerous myths about his presidency, some of which you repeat in this essay.
 
For example, Lincoln did not directly ‘free the slaves," though his war did eventually have this result.
 
But in his Emancipation Proclamation, he carefully drafted it  to avoid freeing any slaves, carefully excluding the slaves being held in the North and the border states (whom he could have freed), and applying it only to "the states in rebellion," over which he of course had no authority.
 
Thus, the Proclamation, while an effective PR stunt, did not free the slaves.
 
If you consult Tom DiLorenzo's book, The Real Lincoln," or Emison's "Lincoln Uber Alles," you will see that Lincoln is not quite the  near deity he is invariably portrayed as being.
 
He  rather governed in a somewhat tyrannical fashion, closing down newspapers, jailing editors, expelling from America a Congressman who criticized him, expelling "the Jews as a class" from Union occupied territory, waging war against civilians, burning southern cities, homes, libraries, courthouses (Columbia SC, Athens, ALA, Atlanta, & most everything between it and the Atlantic ocean), destroying agricultural areas like the Shenandoah Valley to cause starvation of civilians, & carrying out a cruel war of near genocide against the Native Americans (the so-called Indian Wars fought against the Plains Indians and other tribes, waged largely against helpless old men, women and children in their villages).
 
You may not have heard of some of these atrocities and war crimes, because they do not  appear in the history books or the Scriptural writings, articles, TV shows, and seminars on Saint Abraham. But I would be happy to refer you to authoritative sources or send you additional information/documentation of these facts.
 
Your essay is very impressive and scholarly, in contrast to the sloppy, worshipful, inaccurate writings that characterize the Lincoln Cult that has constructed out of fabricated "facts" a graven image for us to worship mindlessly.
 
Thank you again for your invaluable work on grazing and public lands, you area true scholar devoted to The Truth.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Lewis Regenstein

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Was Abraham Lincoln an animal rights advocate?
 
For several years claims have circulated that Abraham Lincoln (yes, THE Abraham Lincoln) was an advocate for animal rights and a vegetarian. Recently, having examined the evidence for and against these claims, I've reported my findings in the essay:
 
Abraham Lincoln: Vegetarian and Animal Rights Advocate?--A Review of the
Evidence."http://mikehudak.com/Articles/Lincoln_AR_090930.html

 

 

John Larkschar's Porno
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
 
Dear SHNV Friends,
 
Most of you have, no doubt, by now read the news about John Latschar, the Superintendent of the Gettysburg National Military Park, losing his "top" position but not his salary or job.  A memo was leaked by the Department of the Interior stating, "Latschar viewed 3,456 sexually explicit images while at work." Latschar has admitted guilt but also said some of the Inspector General s conclusions were flawed. The only "flawed" element in the event was that Latschar "got caught."
 
This should not be too surprising since Latschar headed a park that honours a United States military force that officially established houses of prostitution for its military forces at tax-payers expense. The United States Government under orders from Abraham Lincoln pimped for women of the north and the South to provide sexual services for soldiers fighting and occupying our Southern States. The U.S. even provided medical physicians to visually inspect "the whores" twice a week for lesions around their sexual organs that would indicate the presence of VD.  In spite of these precautions U.S. military personnel in some areas experienced VD rates at 25%-50%. There is an excellent book titled (I believe) "Sex and the Civil War" that gives a graphic and most depressing but informative account of this aspect of the conduct of the war by the United States.
 
The Christian heart can take no real joy in the fall, foolishness and stupidity of the wicked. All of mankind have feet of clay, both male and female. The devil rejoices when we do evil as well as when he can get others to know that we have done evil instead of being dedicated to the performance of duty and God's will. By demoting the "public" position of this worm it falsely gives these people the illusion of the Department of Parks and Recreation as taking a stand on higher moral ground.
 
In this case I might be tempted to rejoice if a public evil had been lessened or eliminated or some harm repaired. I am unable to see the downgrading of John Latschar, Supt. of the Gettysburg Battlefield Park, as any kind of a victory for our side.  Likely as not he may well stay at the same pay level. Now, he may only have a more convenient venue for the practice of his private vice.  As a pastor, college/university/hospital chaplain and Professor of Theology for over a period of 40 years I can understand where it might seem that there is some good in this for us.  The real possible good here is that maybe this is an event in Mr. Latschar's life that might turn his face toward the God of all truth, historical and moral; however, he is not manifesting any symptom of repentance at this time.
 
The one thing truly most sad and condemning about agnostic "America" is that after taking out this insensitive and ignorant jerk (Forgive me, but I am doing the best I can in my choice for words here.) is that having taken him out of his position the story told by the park service will not be improved. This may be the real lesson, if there is one, to learn from this experience. The lesson is how degraded a large population of people can be when they universally reject a life of devotion to God and doing His will. Taking out the "Top Dog" (not an inaccurate term for this event) will only reveal that there are others with his same perspective that are yapping at the heels of the leadership of the Department of Parks and Recreation to take his place and promote their sick and specious views and accounts of this period of human misery corporately inflicted by the unbelieving and ungodly on a Christian republic.
 
Deo Vindice.

Timothy D. Manning, M.Div.
Executive Director
Palmetto Heritage Foundation
3018 Charleston Highway
Cayce, South Carolina 29172

 

 

THERE IS A GOD!!!!!
 
From: wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
 
http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_13613398?source=email
 
If this isn't an example of "Divine Intervention" I don't know what is?! If you made a list of the top 100 guys who have stuck it to Southerners over the last 20 years, John Latschar, Supt. of the Gettysburg Battlefield Park, would at least have been ranked in the top 50. As superintendent of the most active "Civil War" battlefield park in the country, he has had the opportunity to influence nearly 2 million visitors per year since 1994.
 
He and I have crossed swords several times in the past, most recently, in 2007, when the new Gettysburg Visitor Center opened up. After visiting that center and being overcome with nausea, I wrote a review of my experience and sent it to Latschar. One thing I questioned, and still continue to question, was, how were so many former slaves, largely uneducated, found fit to hold political office and positions of responsibilty? He wrote me back with one or two examples of black men holding office who could actually read and write. I replied to him with a deluge of examples of black men holding public office who clearly could not find their butts with both hands. That was the last I heard from him.
 
Today, a friend of mine who lives in Gettysburg sent me the link to the above newspaper story. Like me, she's a died in the wool Confederate who, unfortunately, happened to be born in the north. Maybe it's "Divine Intervention", or "Divine Retribution", maybe it's simply an example of a guy who's too stupid to realize that if you're going to surf porn sites you'd better do it at home instead of at work?
 
I keep looking at the "Evening Sun" webpage and I keep rubbing my eyes, thinking perhaps that someone is playing a practical joke on me. I have clicked on the link a half dozen times and it still comes through. Guess it's not a joke?! In any case, what goes 'round, comes 'round. Score one for our side. One Yankee down and a whole bunch more to go!
 
Bill Vallante

 

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From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“In one matter [of antebellum views of democracy] there was a definite reactionary movement. This was the issue of free Negro suffrage. Virginia and North Carolina joined Maryland and Kentucky in taking from the free Negro the ballot he had theretofore possessed. In like manner, all new States of the period, North as well as South, denied suffrage to free Negroes. The action of the old Southern States was paralleled by that of the Northern States. Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania took the ballot from the Negro. And New York in 1821 limited Negro suffrage by requiring that he possess a freehold valued at two hundred and fifty dollars over and above all indebtedness. Hence only five of the Northern States granted equal suffrage to Negroes.
 
Whether or not Jefferson, Mason, and other Revolutionary proponents of natural rights philosophy intended to include Negroes in the statement “all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights” is a debatable question, but in actual practice the American people had decided by their constitutional provisions that Negroes were not included in the political people. From the very day of the Declaration of Independence the race problem had caused the American people to make an exception to the doctrine that “all men are created equal.”
 
(Fletcher M. Green, Democracy in the Old South, paper written for the 1945 Southern Historical Association presidential address. The Pursuit of Southern History, George Brown Tindall, editor, LSU Press, 1964, pp. 186-187)

 

The Hunley II
 
From: frankgillispie671@msn.com
 
Are you familiar with the story of the Hunley II?  I found this story in an unpublished family history by my great uncle Ace Argo  It is Chapter 8 in the book.  I have posted it in the Camp 1526 web page that I am hosting.  Go to http://frankgillispie.com and click on the link to SCVcamp1526.
 
Oh, and enjoy the music
 
Frank Gillispie
Adjutant
Madison County Greys Camp 1526

 

Mississippi State Flag not allowed at Camp Stryker in Iraq
 
From: csaford@hotmail.com
 
Sample of letter sent to both Senators and Congressman Taylor
 
Carl D. Ford
Attorney at Law
P. O. Box 52
Laurel, MS 39440

October 21, 2009
 
Senator Roger Wicker
Washington City
RE: E-Mail Concerning Mississippi Flag
Dear Senator Wicker:
 
Please read the enclosed E-Mail that I received today. Please investigate. If true, what in the hell are you going to do about it? If not, why not. If you say there is nothing you can do, then why in the hell are you up there? AREN’T YOU REPRESENTING THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI?
 
So at the very least, the son of a bitch should be court-martialed.
 
Obviously, the flag contributed by Congressman Childers is the federal flag and not the Mississippi state flag.
 
Sincerely,　
 
Carl D. Ford
CDF/hb
enclosure

Tympel Turner Blansett: Mississippi Flag in Iraq
 
My brother-in-law is a member of the Mississippi National Guard 858th Horizontal Construction Company. He and 150 other local men and women are on active duty in Iraq for a 13 month tour. Barry and his unit just recently began sleeping inside, rather than in tents, as they replaced a Kentucky unit that had occupied the base where they are stationed. It is a very proud moment when these men and women are able to have a small celebration in the ceremony of raising the Mississippi Flag that represents them, as the Kentucky unit's state flag is lowered.
 
I don't know all the details, but some superior, a fellow Mississippian, no less, decided that the Mississippi State Flag is "Racist" and made them take it down. I am not going to go into my opinions of the reasons this is wrong, but I can tell you that this development has made a bad situation even worse and the morale of these guys is pretty low.
 
Please talk about this, tell everyone and anyone you can think of! If the Mississippi men and women who are over there, away from their families and their lives for our country, can't display pride in their home and themselves then just let them come home!
 
Please join the "Support the 858th" facebook groups and show your support for these guys.
 
Here are some posts from other family members and updates as I get them:
 
Today my grandson called me and him and his unit the 858th Engineers from Calhoun City, Ms. They are in Baghdad. Congressman Travis Childers gave them a Mississippi flag that had flown over the White House in Washington to carry to Iraq to fly over their barracks until they came home. Today their sergeant made them take it down. This is not right. They are at Camp Stryker, Iraq and no one else had to remove their flags. They are there to fight for our country and the freedom of us here at home. I am writing to you because this is not right. Their morale was real low today when I talked to my grandson. So while they are half way around the world fighting for us I am here fighting for the 858th Engineers out of Calhoun City Ms. and will continue to fight until they have their flag back where it belongs. The flag of THE GREAT STATE of MISSISSIPPI, will fly over the barracks of the 858th Engineers again. A MAD GRANDMA FROM MISSISSIPPI - Diane Hatfield
 
John Wells: Well I can't speak for everyone but if all of the Mississippi boy's and girl's would all get together we can do great things. Tell them to keep their spirits high, and it will be over soon. The infamous they told us the same thing but we haven't seen them and we fly a MS flag everywhere. Besides they can't stop them from flying it, the flag is a state flag, it flies everywhere and on every active duty post, in every chow hall that I have ever been in.
 
Jennifer Bullard: I like a comment my friend made stating they should move from Mississippi if they do not want to be part of it. This has my support!
 
Tegra Cannon: I can not tell you all how proud I am of not only my husband SSG BARRY CANNON, for putting his (our) life on hold to serve his country and his STATE but also of my sister Tympel who has gone far and beyond what I could ever expect to accomplish with this matter. Thank you to everyone who has put in a phone call, sent an email or just joined the 858th support page.
 
John Wells: Ya'll just tell them CC boys that a Bruce boy said fly it anyway. We do.
 
Jennifer Bullard:
 
Coleman J. LeMaster October 20 at 8:09pm Report
 
Jennifer,
 
Do you have more information about this? Has it been covered by any Mississippi newspapers or anything? If I had more information, I'd certainly consider it as a topic.
 
I'm going to remove the comment from Wednesday's topic only because I don't want it to derail the conversation from the marijuana topic. But it definitely has my attention and I'd like to know more about this.
 
I also wanted you to know where I was coming from so you wouldn't think I was disregarding your topic idea by deleting your post.
 
Let me know if there's additional info out there and I'll try to craft something from that.
 
Thanks for the topic idea!
 
C.J.
 
Thought someone else might want to talk to this guy who knows more than me. He is a WTVA reporter.
 
Tegra Cannon: Jennifer, I talked to Barry this morning, he says thank you for everything everyone has done to help get the flag up. He mentioned that starting tomorrow (today for them) they would start having a flag from each state represented on a weekly basis. This is a start but as we all know it’s not an answer. Fact that should be passed along, 1) it was a ... Read More Virginia unit that was there first, that flag was lowered the MS flag was put up, but shortly after they were told that it needed to come down. (it could have been overruled by headquarters but it was not)
 
2) The flag that Travis Childers presented to our troops during the picnic was not the flag in question; it was the American Flag that flew over the Mississippi Capitol.
 
If we are going to go to the news with this, all facts MUST be correct! I want that flag to fly more than anyone but not at the humiliation of our troops. Facts have got to be straight! I only get to talk to Barry for a few minutes everyday, and my time with him on the phone is spent talking about how he is doing, how his family is back home and such. I will talk to him for a longer period of time during the weekend. Please get the facts if you can't wait to get them from me get them from other sources. But please, please, get them right.
 
Jennifer Bullard: That is why I wanted someone else to talk to him. I don't have any facts. I just stirred up interest and will leave that to someone who knows.
 
Tympel Turner Blansett: Fact is - someone won't let those guys fly OUR flag! There is no good reason for it, regardless of the circumstances. Flying a flag from each state every week? BS!
 
Michael Turner Hatfield: ok the Mississippi flag never flew outside of our headquarters we put it up outside our rooms and it flew for about 15 mins and we was made to take it down we never had any type of ceremony where the flag went up we put our own flag that was bought by a soldier here up and he put it up and was made to take it down and at our headquarters we never have had a flag flying there but i would like to see our flag fly outside there too.

 

Town officials should not object to Confederate flags

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

About two years ago, I was asked by a town representative to remove a confederate flag from the stage where Silver Creek was performing for an Appomattox Cheerz event. Recently, The Southland Band was also asked by yet another Town representative to remove their confederate flag during their performance for the same type event.

Even though both bands complied, I contend the town representative had no right to do this and that I was denied my right to freedom of speech and expression. This is a case of what I consider to be "political correctness" run amok.

It is my understanding that among the many original purposes of these communityevents, is the desire to bring the Appomattox community together and to celebrate our rich history. Some have wrongly promoted the notion that simply displaying the confederate is somehow endorsing and supporting the institution of slavery.

Nothing could be further from the truth and I believe that the actions of the town representative not only denied me my rights, but also perpetuated a myth, which is contrary to history. We all know that Appomattox happened to be in a confederate state and destiny chose us to be the location where the Civil War ended. Will the town next discourage civil war re-enactments and all confederate symbols in and around our historic community? Will confederate flags or other symbols not be allowed to be displayed or flow at our, hopefully, new confederate museum?

It is true that the confederate flag has in some instances been adopted by hate groups, but we will not allow them to redefine the flag of the old south as a symbol of hate, however, it seems that the town representative does not understand the difference. A big part of coming together as a community is also celebrating our heritage and tolerance for each other because we can be offended by whatever we choose.

Mike Scott
Creek Johnson Band
Appomattox 

 

Rock Island Dungeon
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“When we arrived [as Confederate prisoners] at Rock Island, early in December 1863, Col. Rust was in command with a detachment of the Fourth Invalid Corps. He was a kind-hearted old fellow and just to the prisoners; but unfortunately for us the old Colonel was soon removed, and in his place came as inhuman a brute as ever disgraced the uniform of any country, one A.J. Johnson, with his regiment of Negroes for guard duty, leaving the Fourth Invalid men…for light fatigue duty.
 
Men were brutally punished upon the slightest pretext. I saw prisoners tied up to the fence by their thumbs, their toes barely touching the ground in the hot, broiling sun until they would faint, and when cut down by the guards, fall limp and unconscious. While none of us dared approach for they were next to the fence, over the dead line and grinning Negro sentinels stood just above them with ready guns in hand. 
 
[O]ur rations had been gradually reduced to less than half the amount issued to us when we first reached the Rock Island prison. Hunger began to develop the savage instincts that lie dormant in us all; men grew ugly in temper, quarrels and fights were frequent over their scanty rations, yet this was but a foretaste of what was to come.
 
In the summer of 1864…we were informed that the United States government had opened a recruiting office in our prison and that all who would take the oath and join the United States army would be moved into the new pen---calf pen, we called it---furnished good clothing, bountiful rations, paid $100. bounty, the post sutler permitted to bring in whatever they wanted to eat, and that they would not be sent South to fight, but on the frontier to hold the Indians in subjection.
 
Never, since the Son of Man was tempted by the devil was dishonor more cunningly devised or temptingly displayed. Quite a number jumped at the bait, mostly men who were willing to take the oath under any circumstance; but after this came the heroic struggle between patriotism and starvation…But every few days starvation would claim a victory. It was pitiful. Gaunt forms with the glare of wolfish hunger in their eyes, the very pictures of famine could be seen going up to take the oath, tears streaming down their faces and curses on the Yankees from their lips, their poor, shriveled flesh showing beneath fluttering rags…”
 
(Forty Hours In A Dungeon At Rock Island,” B.M. Hord, Nashville, TN.  Confederate Veteran Magazine, August 1904, page 385)

 

Lincula (!) has risen from the grave
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
To: hk.edgerton@gmail.com
 
RE: Historical Re-enactment The Battle of Ft. Sanders
The Stench of Abraham Lincoln
 
/\/.\/\/. REPLIES: We commend you, HK, for taking the time to visit the event and saying the unsayable where it was urgently needed. It shows again who the real racists and haters are. In fact, this is one of the truly priceless moments in Lincolnolatry -- dishonest abe would surely have said the same things.
 
Our job is often to speak the truth and leave any results up to God. Anybody who witnessed either confrontation should have at least gotten a good "hmmm" out of it -- maybe it was some young folks' first critical taste of politically incorrect truth.

 

Grey-Haired Patriots Near Fort Fisher
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“First Bombardment of Fort Fisher:  In the morning we halted at Sugar Loaf. The fleet had been bombarding Fort Fisher, but the enemy had not landed. The Confederate forces under Bragg, outside of Fort Fisher, consisted of a small body of Senior Reserves, ages from 45 to 50, and some little cavalry. It was pitiful to see some of these grey-haired patriots dead in the woods, killed by shells from the fleet. Among those who carried a musket there was Mr. William Pettigrew, brother of the heroic General [James Johnston Pettigrew]---since a venerable minister of the Gospel.”
 
(The Martin-Kirkland Brigade, Charles G. Elliot, North Carolina Regiments, Clark, Volume IV)    

Self-Sacrifice
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“One noteworthy example of the self-sacrifice of our soldiers is remembered with especial pride. On June 15 and 17, 1864, the women and children of Richmond had been suffering for food, and the Thirtieth Virginia sent them one day’s rations of flour, pork, bacon and veal, not from their abundance, but by going without the day’s ration themselves. “Yet,” said a journal of that time, “despatches from General Lee show that nearly every regiment in his army has re-enlisted for the war.”   On April 30th, when we were threatened on every side, and encompassed so perfectly that we could only hope for a miracle to overcome our foes, Mr. Davis’s health declined from loss of sleep so that he forgot to eat, and I resumed the practice of carrying him something at one-o’clock.”
 
Jefferson Davis, Varina Howell Davis, Belford Company, 1890, Vol. II, page 496)

 

Powder to Shoot the Yankee Abolitionists”
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“One of our cotton merchants on the bay related to us yesterday a significant fact, which we must report for the especial benefit of our anti-slavery friends (friends with the “r” out), of the North. The slaves on a cotton plantation, whose master (as is the custom of many of our Georgia planters) allows his people to make a crop for themselves each year in order to furnish themselves with holiday funds and pocket money, a few days since sent their crop, consisting of some 38 bags of cotton to our friend, who is their master’s factor, to be sold.
 
Accompanying the cotton was a letter in which the Negroes all joined, requesting that their cotton be sold for the best price it would bring in the market, and with the additional request that their factor should, if it was necessary, return one-half the amount of proceeds to be appropriated for the purchase of “powder to shoot the Yankee abolitionists.”
 
(Diary of Ada Amelia Costin, Wilmington, North Carolina, Friday, January 18, 1861. Special Collections, Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington)

 

The Approaching Vandals
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“Removal of the Remains of Washington – A correspondent of the Lynchburg “Republican” says: “I was told today that a report having reached…Virginia that the tomb of Gen. Washington was going to be violated by the [Northern] Republicans, his remains and those of his family were promptly removed to a more central spot in the State, where they will be out of harm’s way.
 
If this is true, what a commentary on the North! How strange that coming events should prompt such a move! Surely we live in a singular age.”
 
(Diary of Ada Amelia Costin, Wilmington, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 21, 1861. Special Collections, Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington)

 

Lincoln's Goal, Weitzel's Fear
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Lincoln’s goal in emancipating slaves who would flock to the Northern invader was the same as Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in 1775, and British Admiral Cochrane in 1812: to incite race war and the massacre of the South’s white population.  General Weitzel (below) was no doubt thinking of the fate of white citizens and French troops in the Haitian slave rebellion of the mid-1790’s.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Lincoln’s Goal, Weitzel’s Fear:
 
“Maintaining discipline among the black recruits, who had been in the army for only a few weeks, was a matter of concern. Although some members of the Native Guards had engaged in petty theft while in New Orleans, stealing oranges, chickens, and the like, now they were accused of much worse behavior. An officer in a New Hampshire regiment stationed at Thibodaux reported that “there are endless complaints of burnings, stealing, ravishing and lesser crimes” committed by soldiers from the 1st Regiment. “It is thought that Gen. Banks will have to disband them or put them under iron rule,” he wrote, “or to garrison the black troops at some fort far away from civilization.”  Soldiers from the 2nd Regiment were accused of plundering the countryside and entering homes to steal jewelry and other valuables in the parish of St. John the Baptist.
 
The Union commander in the area was Brigadier General Godfrey Weitzel, a young West Point graduate from Cincinnati and son of German immigrants. Weitzel did not like having black troops under his command. “I cannot command those negro regiments,” he informed [General Benjamin] Butler. “The commanding general knows well my private opinions on this subject.” Weitzel was convinced that the presence of armed blacks would incite a slave uprising in the territory he occupied.
 
[Weitzel wrote:] “Since the arrival of the negro regiments symptoms of servile insurrection are becoming apparent. I could not, without breaking my brigade all up, put a force in every part of the district to keep down such an insurrection….I have no confidence in the organization. Its moral effect on this community, which is stripped of nearly all able-bodied men and will be stripped of a great many of its arms, is terrible. Women and children, and even men are in terror. It is heart-rending, and I cannot make myself responsible for it. I will go anywhere with my own brigade that you see fit to order me, but I beg you therefore to keep the negro brigade directly under your command or place some one over both mine and it.”
 
(Louisiana Native Guards, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., LSU Press, 1995, pp. 36-38)

 

Historical Re-enactment The Battle of Ft. Sanders
The Stench of Abraham Lincoln
 
From:  hk.edgerton@gmail.com
 
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, some of the spectators who had gone into the tent where the Lincoln re-enactor would speak during the Historical re-enactment of the Battle of Ft. Sanders; would come out and come over to the table where I was set up and relate to me that Lincoln had conveyed to them that he would like to see me placed in front of a Union cannon and give the orders to fire. I suppose his comments were based upon my rendition of the Rebel Yell that I shouted out every time a unit of Union soldiers would pass by the encampment where I was stationed.
 
Lincoln's comments bothered me not, nor the fact that he had been paid a healthy honorarium to come to this Southern town and speak . What did bother me and so many other Southerners present was that this war criminal would be allowed to rant on and on spreading his lies and propaganda unchallenged to an unsuspecting public, many of whom were our Southern babies who had no knowledge of the total warfare policy sanctioned by Lincoln on our Southern populous, as his soldiers raped, murdered, starved, and burned the homes of innocent and defenseless old men, women and children, while leaving them helpless. And it is worth to note that some of these war criminals would be reported and even court-martialed, and Lincoln would over turn the rulings and promote them for their actions. (Col. Turchin, Commander of the 19th Illinois) General David Hunter, General Philip Sheridan, and many others to include the devil himself, General William Tecumseh Sherman would be commended by Lincoln for their pulling down and burning of homes, businesses, army supply warehouses, hospitals, churches, everything. 
 
On Sunday morning, October 18, 2009, I like so many others of my Southern family who had complained of Lincoln's rhetoric and presence had  just about enough, and knew it was time to act. I would ask of the gentleman who was serving as the Master of ceremony at a small re-enacted skirmish that had taken place before the major battle as he announced to the crowd of spectators gathered that Lincoln would address them after the skirmish; or you going to let a southerner make comments after Lincoln speaks? He would chide me a tongue lashing that I was shocked to hear. “No! This is our re-enactment. We are one nation now and I am a Southerner.
 
I told him that I failed to see the relevance of his answer. And that this re-enactment was truly ours as he had indicated, and it would not sit well with any true and loyal Southerner to have Lincoln strutting around spitting out his lying propaganda on a battlefield in the Southland of America , while cheering on his Northern troops. Having no other reply, he just ignored me and continued talking to those gathered.
 
I am not just disappointed about what I witnessed at Ft. Sanders and those who would sponsor it,  but also at the hostile judiciary that our babies continue to face, ( Candice Hardwick of Latta, South Carolina, the babies of Blount County High School, young Tommy Defoe of Knoxville, etc. ) with case law  like Tinker vs. the Des Moines, Iowa School Board  having no standing with these spineless Federal Judges to give them due justice as they grant implied immunity to those teachers and school administrators who take away the limited First Amendment Rights of these babies , while stripping young Southern Black babies of any memory of the honor and dignity earned by their ancestors under the Banner of the Southern Cross, and using them against their peers as weapons of choice to justify their criminal behavior.
 
And to include in my disappointment , the gutless poverty pimps like the apparent great grandson of William T. Sherman, "Julian Bond ", who spit their hate filled and traitorous rhetoric against their homeland , while filling their coffers and leaving other unsuspecting Black folks to suffer the consequences of hate triggered by their actions; just as it did during the 12 year period of so called reconstruction that created a divide between a man called master and a man that he called slave and family; who through God's plan had found a love for each other. and had they been left alone in the greatest country in the universe, would have been a shining example for all of mankind to follow.
 
HK Edgerton
www.southernheritage411.com

 

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These bans perpetuate ignorance and misunderstanding about the true history of the Confederacy and the Confederate Battle Flag. It is the mandate of public schools to educate its students in true history. The Confederate Battle flag is a historical flag of the Southern soldier who fought for the principles espoused by the founding fathers of the United States. Historical facts, not politically correct positions, should be taught by our schools.

It is not the mandate of our public schools to deny its students of the fundamental freedoms enjoyed by American citizens. It is not the mandate of our schools to deny Southern students symbols of their heritage while allowing other ethnicities their symbols of heritage. Public school students who are denied their freedom to express themselves should protest this injustice.

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By David L. Hudson Jr.
First Amendment Center research attorney
06.09.05

A West Virginia high school student had a First Amendment right to wear Confederate flag clothing to school, a federal judge recently ruled.

Noting a “sea of interpretations about what the flag represents,” the judge reasoned that “there are a variety of innocent flag uses that would be silenced by the broadly worded policy” of Putnam County's Hurricane High School.

Franklin Bragg sued school officials after he was punished for wearing a “Dixie Outfitters” T-shirt and a belt buckle, both of which bore the flag’s image. School policy prohibited “racist language and/or symbols or graphics,” specifically including “the Rebel flag, which has been used as a symbol of racism at high schools in Putnam County.”

Bragg enlisted the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, which filed a federal lawsuit on his behalf in April 2005. On May 31, U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. ruled in a memorandum opinion and order in Bragg v. Swanson that Principal Joyce Vessey Swanson had violated Bragg’s First Amendment rights.

Swanson instituted the ban because she said she had had several negative experiences with the flag at other schools in the county. However, Copenhaver ruled Swanson had not shown much evidence of racial tension associated with the flag.

Copenhaver reasoned that the applicable legal standard for resolution of the case was Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1969 decision upholding the right of several students to wear black armbands to school protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Court established the so-called Tinker standard, which holds that school officials can censor student expression if they can reasonably forecast that the expression will create a substantial disruption or material interference with school activities or will invade the rights of others. The Court in Tinker warned that school officials could not censor student expression based on “undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance.”

Some courts have given school officials greater leeway to regulate the Confederate flag under a standard from the Supreme Court’s 1986 decision Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, which established that school officials can prohibit student expression that is “vulgar, lewd or plainly offensive.”

However, Copenhaver refused to apply the Fraser standard, writing that “the display of the flag is not per se and patently offensive.”

Applying Tinker, Copenhaver said the principal did not have enough evidence to reasonably forecast that the flag would create a substantial disruption of school activities. Copenhaver said “the principal acted with ‘a remote apprehension of disturbance’ rather than a ‘specific and significant fear of disruption.’”

“Although the best of intentions undergird the policy, the offending portion unjustifiably silenced a significant amount of permissible speech in contravention of the First Amendment,” Copenhaver wrote.

He credited the testimony of Bragg’s friend, Lisa Adkins, an African-American student who said Bragg’s clothing did not bother her or other African-American students at Hurricane. The judge wrote that Adkins’ testimony showed that “there exists at the school an environment in which people of both races mix freely together and form good relationships.”

The judge also said it was problematic that school officials singled out the Confederate flag but allowed students to wear Malcolm X T-shirts.

However, he cautioned that his ruling in Bragg’s favor should not give anyone license to intimidate others with Confederate flag clothing: “This opinion should not be interpreted as offering a safe haven for those bent on using the flag in school as a tool for disruption, intimidation, or trampling upon the rights of others. Should that occur, or be reasonably forecast by the school, the very ban struck down today might be entirely appropriate.”

The West Virginia ACLU applauded the judge’s ruling. “The court recognized that allowing some expressions of political speech by students while banning others is a flagrant violation of the First Amendment,” said Executive Director Andrew Schneider in a news release. “We hope that the school will use this as an opportunity to teach students about their constitutional rights and encourage debate over future controversial subjects before resorting to censorship.”

Charleston, W.Va.-based attorney Greg Bailey, who represented the school board and the principal, said: “No decision has been made on whether to appeal. It is still under consideration. The superintendent plans to discuss it with the school board in the near future to decide what action to take.”

NOTE: If you would like to contact Franklin Bragg regarding his experiences, you can send him an email at cowboy_f150@yahoo.com.

CLICK HERE to view the judge's final order on Bragg vs Swanson. NOTE: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer to view this file. If you don't already have it, it is available FREE by clicking on the link below.

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What you can do to stop your school from banning symbols of Southern Heritage.

Step 1.

Click on this link, An Open Letter to Schools, and print the letter entitled "An open letter to schools considering banning Dixie Outfitters shirts" along with the "Dixie Outfitters' Mission Statement" and submit them to your school principal or administrator. Also download and print these newspaper articles on recent lawsuits brought by students against the school for banning the Confederate Battle Flag:

Castorina v. Madison County School Board

Bragg v Swanson

Shingler v. Seminole County School District - Article
Shingler v. Seminole County School District - Court Ruling (PDF Document. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this file. If you do not have this, you can download a free copy by going HERE.

Ask for his/her consideration of these documents in his/her decision regarding banning of Confederate symbols.

Step 2.

If your school official does not rescind the banning policy then you may organize a petition signing and/or speak to the school board. Click here  for a form named "Petition" for you to use or to use as a guide.

Secure as many names as possible, complete with addresses and phone numbers. Encourage the petition signers to call their principal or school board members and express their displeasure at being denied their freedom of expression, as provided by the United States Constitution.

Contact your school board and request a time to speak at the next school board meeting. Contact all the people who signed the petition and tell them of the date and time of the school board meeting and ask them to come in support of the petition. Ask them to wear their Southern Heritage clothing. If the petition and calls to the school board do not change the policy, the next option is to sue the school board.

Step 3.

Contact these organizations for assistance with your suit against the school board:

A. - Go to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) web site at www.aclu.org. Look on the bottom left for the nearest ACLU office nearest you and contact them about your problem.

Go to www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm and read about your rights to freedom of speech.

Go to www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechlist.cfm?c=87 and read about some First Amendment victories by the ACLU.

Go to www.aclu.org/StudentsRights/StudentsRights.cfm?ID=13149&c=159 and learn more your First Amendment rights as a student.

B. - Contact your local Sons of Confederate Veterans heritage defense officer for help. Contact information is at www.scv.org/heritageChairmen.php.

C. - Contact a local lawyer of your choice or contact Kirk Lyons of the Southern Legal Resource Center. The SLRC contact information is as follows:

Phone: 1-800-370-3617, 1-828-669-5189
Website: www.slrc-csa.org
E-mail: slrc@slrc-csa.org

Mailing Address:
SLRC
PO Box 1235
Black Mountain, NC 28711

Suggestions for resolving a school ban on Confederate symbols in your community.
By Kirk D. Lyons
Article

To report a heritage violation contact the SLRC case manager at 1-864-476-0656 and email at slrc@crystalink.com. The SLRC is a group of Southern lawyers specializing in Southern Heritage offenses. They may take your case at little or no cost to you.

D. - Click the links below for information on other organizations that you may contact to help you protect your freedom of expression.

First Amendment Lawyers Association
Free Expression Network
Free Expression Policy Project
Freedom Forum
National Coalition Against Censorship
Thomas Jefferson Center For The Protection Of Free Expression

We at Dixie Outfitters know that most Southern people are "live and let live people" with a high tolerance level and a firm belief that all should enjoy the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. We are not racist and do not hate people because of their color, but we cannot continue to allow the NAACP and the liberals to keep on destroying all vestiges of our Southern Heritage.

We have a right to be proud of our ancestors who gave their lives for their Southern homeland. We have a right to be proud of our Southern traditions and culture. The Confederate battle flag is a symbol of this heritage and culture. We have a right to be proud of this symbol. We must take a stand. We must continue the fight to save our Southern Heritage. I urge you to take all actions necessary to preserve our Southern culture.

Our ancestors were brave. They gave their lives for what they believed. Let us now summon the courage to start a petition drive or sign a petition or carry a flag and support our children and their legitimate Constitutional rights.

Best regards,

Dewey Barber
President, Dixie Outfitters

Tsunami of Corruption & Economic Ignorance
Commentary by J. A. Davis
10/19/2009

Are You Ready to Say I'm Not Taking It any More?

With so many assaults on what we used to know as our constitution by some 34 new un-elected and mostly un-approved new czars in the newly formed government in Washington, more and more people are left wondering what they can do.

So that you might have some idea of myriad programs that have either been introduced and put in effect or some that are going through the formalities of some rigged approval process as only a dominating monopoly party can do, we are featuring news stories in our Hate Watch and Notable News categories at the heading of our website

Also note we are including second by second accounting of our national debt. Click the link and you will get a breakdown of the the various categories of debt. It might make you aware, if you're not already, that the adminstration in Washington and the national news media for the most part is not telling the whole truth that you need to know.

"How big government gets that way: It takes over new turf in time of crisis, then hangs on to much of it after the crisis is over." --Fortune Magazine, describing Crisis and Leviathan, by Robert Higgs

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." --Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal CEO conference, Nov. 19, 2008

Some believe we are being set up for a financial collapse of such proportions that only a complete take over by a new order can ultimately restore some form of government. For those doubters, world history going back to biblical times is a reference point. Folks in my age range have witnessed it in the past century first hand in other places.

This nation has never experienced anything like the plight we find ourselves in---and it's all self-inflicted. Prior to the recent presidential and congressional elections, we could never have imagined in our wildest nightmares that so-called Americans, even of the most liberal stripe would do, or attempt to do, what we are seeing take place before our very eyes.

In reviewing our meticulous, well-sourced postings in the GHC web links mentioned be forewarned you're going to see evidence that your bank account is under heavy strain as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is now admitting it is broke and will be for several years in advance. Their main job is to guarantee bank deposits and accounts.

You'll find evidence showing the very same people who caused the financial crisis the nation is in are being backed by the new administration to do the same type things they did to collapse our economy years ago, namely, issue mortgages to people who for the most part have questionable ability to maintain them, and at a down payment of three and half percent or less to buy as home.

Experts now predict the lending agency, FHA, the Federal Housing Authority, will go bust in a crash worse than Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which have been bailed out by more money than most of us could count in a lifetime.

"Our political economy is rife with such catastrophes in waiting, yet the public always seems startled, and outraged, when the day of reckoning can no longer be deferred, and another apartment collapses in the state’s Hotel of Impossible Promises, loading onto the taxpayers more visibly the burden of sheltering the previous occupants." --Robert Higgs, from Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public Is Shocked, 9/10/08

That was all part of a the monstrous Stimulus Plan that was supposed to put people back to work. Here's the scorecard. Billions have been allocated, but each month millions more Americans lose their jobs. Unemployment has grown hovering around 10%. When we count the folks who have given up searching and benefits, and the underemployed, those who have taken lesser jobs to buy a few groceries, the number becomes 17% which is getting close to the numbers of the great depression.

Meanwhile, we continue to absorb more than a hundred thousand alien workers each month (1.3 million per year).

Part of this stimulus is going to programs such as just took place in Detroit where citizens can make application for a government cash bonus. Those who watch the interviews on TV couldn't have missed the people applying stating the money was coming from Obama. Where does he get it they were asked. One said "He's got it in his stash."

Note also the item where millions are being added to Pell grants so that applicants can enter beauty, cosmetology and masseuse training for $12,000 a year. More than tuition to the state university.

The problem is there are hundreds of experienced beauticians in the area who are among those who have lost their jobs because of the economy.

"Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path---meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run." --Summary, Congressional Budget Office Longterm Budget Outlook June 2009

Not long ago the Congressional Budget Office reportedly opined that somewhere around 50% of the money allocated in the federal budget is bound for corruption and fraud. (As they say, the ACORN doesn't fall far from the Community Organizer tree.) This is consistent with General Accounting Office (GAO) audits of fraud in basic government purchases.

Think about it, if correct, a lot of crooks by whatever means are getting wealthy off our tax dollars. Despite promises to the contrary, virtually every program being foisted on the taxpaying public calls for huge increases in either taxes or costs which--- when mandated by the government--- are nonetheless taxes despite any semantics and sophistry to the contrary. [Define taxes ]

"When Medicare was launched in 1965, Part A was projected to cost $9 billion by 1990, but ended up costing $67 billion. When Medicaid’s special hospitals subsidy was added in 1987, it was supposed to cost $100 million annually, but it already cost $11 billion by 1992. When Medicare’s home care benefit was added in 1988, it was projected to cost $4 billion in 1993, but ended up costing $10 billion." --Cato Tax & Budget Bulletin, June 2009, "Will Obama Raise Middle-Class Taxes to Fund Health Care?"

Check out the various healthcare plans, Cap and Trade legislation, greatly accelerated plans to add thousands of federal workers to such programs as the Youth Corps, added enforcement for gun control along with increased efforts to police certain First Amendment rights (hate speech codes) as has been announced by the Department of Homeland Security in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti Defamation League.

If you're not already mad as hell, see what they're doing to senior citizens in cutting out roughly $400 billion from Medicare.

He that giveth can also taketh away. Especially when it's not his money.

There are many substantiating articles and essays on these an other subjects under Hate Watch and Notable News at the very top of our GHC website. I hope you care enough to take a little time to follow the old railroad crossing admonition. Stop, Look and Listen.

God Save America.

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." --James Madison

"...the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Taylor, May 28, 1816.

"The country is filled with people who have been clueless about the economy for years. In fact, it’s worse: the country is being run by such people. There are few things you can be certain of these days. But one of them is that whatever Washington does with regard to the economy, it will be the exact opposite of what anyone with any sense would do." --Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Feb. 27, 2009

"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Priestley, 1802.

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John Brown's 150 Years of Martyrdom

Commentary by Steve Scroggins, 10/16/09

"History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history." ---Edward Hallett Carr, from What is History?, p.69.

It's appropriate that we remember the events of 150 years ago and observe how their interpretation has developed since then in light of history before and since.

America's "War Against Terrorism" is certainly nothing new. Americans have been fighting terrorism in one form or another since our independence from Great Britain, and historically America's only successes have come through the use of overwhelming force.

American sailors were taken captive and enslaved and had their ships and cargoes seized by the Barbary pirates beginning promptly after the Treaty of Paris in 1783 when Great Britain ceased paying tribute (protection money) for her former colonies. Given its lack of naval power, America continued paying tribute to the Pirates of Barbary from 1785 until 1815 when enough force was finally deployed to convince the pirates to leave American shipping and sailors alone. The US Marine Corps hymn recounts those early Marine actions in Africa, "...to the shores of Tripoli" in what is known as the first and second Barbary Wars.

"The Policy of Christendom has made Cowards of all their Sailors before the Standard of Mahomet. It would be heroical and glorious in Us, to restore Courage to ours. I doubt not we could accomplish it, if we should set about it in earnest. But the Difficulty of bringing our People to agree upon it, has ever discouraged me." ---John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1786, expressing distaste with tribute to Barbary pirates
[Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959). Ed. Lester J. Cappon]

"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." --Rep. Robert Goodloe Harper, (Federalist, SC), 1798

The other European powers (referred to as "Christendom" by Adams) had long found it expedient and perhaps cheaper to pay off the pirates rather than suffer seizures of ships and cargoes, ransoming of crews and so forth --- or putting enough naval force in place to defend their shipping. After American independence was established, the U.S. initially fell into the same habit of paying off the thugs. Though Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson recommended war instead, Washington and later Adams continued to pay the tributes and ransoms because Congress wouldn't raise the money for an adequate navy. The sums demanded as tribute were almost fifty percent of the total federal budget. As president, Jefferson sent naval power to the Med, but it was not enough to permanently stop all the Barbary pirates. In 1815, President James Madison finally sent enough naval force (after the War of 1812) to convince the pirates. The British and European powers soon followed suit and stopped paying tributes as well. [ Source: Jewett, Thomas, "The U.S. Wages War Against The Barbary States" ]

Piracy, it should be noted, was a significant risk justifying the need for a stronger navy and it certainly weighed on the minds of the Founders when they considered the need for a stronger central government in the mid-1780's ( the Constitution ) that could raise sufficient revenues and focus the diplomacy and resources of the united States.

A final note on Piracy. If the Southern Poverty Law Center had existed in 1815, we can be reasonably certain they would have issued a special report, most likely entitled, Xenophobe/Racist Americans Crush Livelihoods of Barbary Entrepreneurs. We're somewhat surprised that the SPLC hasn't yet issued a report entitled Racist U.S. Navy attacks Somali Good Samaritans. We know they've been busy working with the DHS and the FBI and mailing fundraising letters, perhaps they'll address anti-Somali hate soon.

Defining Terrorism

Unlike the SPLC, we are NOT expanding the definition of Terrorism. On the contrary, we are limiting it here for the purpose of discussion.

For purposes of discussion, I'm excluding the hostilities between white settlers and native Americans. The French and later the British found it expedient to incite conflict and raids between natives and white American settlers in their efforts to win dominance in North America. Eventually, Americans themselves set about removing the Indians by containment or genocide, completing the dirty job in the early 20th century. [Sidebar: Would the SPLC have called the Indians "nativist racists"? No, of course not, only whites can be true SPLC 'Hate Groups.']

In addition to the so-called "Indian wars" that spanned well over a century, I'm excluding the actions of Sherman's looters and others of the yankee barbarian horde in uniform. The debate over their war crimes against civilians is a discussion for another time.

That being said, let's turn our attention to the 19th century and the period leading up to John Brown's infamy as a terrorist (or martyr) and eventually to the "irrepressible conflict."

Fear of a violent uprising among slave populations was ever present among all nations holding a significant population of slaves. Keep in mind that only five percent of the 12-13 million African slaves sold out of Africa came to North America (1440-1780); the rest were taken to Spanish, French, English and Portuguese holdings in the Caribbean and South America.* The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, in which the slaves slaughtered their white (French) masters (whom they outnumbered ten to one), made these fears all the more real. The idea was reinforced by the Virginia rampage of Nat Turner in 1831 (55 murders). *[ Sources: Thomas, Hugh: The Slave Trade; Sobran, Joseph: "Slavery in Perspective" ]

A large part of the rancor slave-holding planters (and many neutral observers) held against the radical abolitionists was not that they favored abolition, or used slanderous rhetoric, but that they advocated abolition by way of a murderous uprising or by "any means necessary." Many radicals were encouraging such an uprising. Certain wealthy abolitionists (the "Secret Six" et al) even funded madmen and terrorists like John Brown to commit violence for their cause. Their actions severely curtailed abolitionist sentiment and expression in the South, and were clearly counter-productive.

The mid-1850s were a violent time in Bleeding Kansas and Brown was right in the middle of it. Brown himself acknowledged his approval of the murders of several Kansas families committed by his associates. Brown was also known for his less famous (but still murderous) raid into Vernon County, Missouri. There were radical abolitionists and then there were RADICAL (and murderous) abolitionists like John Brown.

Brown sought funding and support for his Harper's Ferry plan more than a decade prior to 1859 from such noted figures as Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass. Brown's plan to end American slavery by murdering all slave holders didn't end there. He went on to draft his own version of a provisional Constitution, which presumably would be ratified after all the evil had been purged from the United States.

Despite the murder and terrorism committed by Brown and his followers, he was lionized by black leaders and many white abolitionists in the North. In their minds, one surmises, they saw the killing of slave owners and their families as some form of moral "justice." Brown was lauded by yankee poets such as Thoreau and Emerson. There are memorial parks named for Brown (Kansas), statues erected in his honor (Kansas) as well as memorial plaques placed by the NAACP and W.E.B. DuBois in Harpers Ferry. Commissioned artwork of Brown depicts him in the pose of Moses with a Bible and a rifle. [Source: www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/jbchapter14.html ]

"The Saint, whose fate yet hangs in suspense, but whose martyrdom, if it shall be perfected, will make the gallows as glorious as the cross." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson, describing terrorist John Brown in a lecture at Tremont Temple, Nov. 11, 1859.

A well-known tune was even adapted to a song to praise the murderous Brown as a "martyr" and to condemn "the evil south" which the author's lyrics referred to as a serpent. The worst part, the outrage, is that it's sung in many churches across America (north and south) to this day on the pretense that it is "Christian" and "patriotic." Perhaps you've heard it: The Battle Hymn of the Republic (by Julia Ward Howe, wife of Secret Six member Dr. Samuel G. Howe). Jeff Davis wrote a commentary entitled, The Battle Hymn: Its Falsehood Marches On, a few years back which includes a number of references and links. Laurence M. Vance referred to the Battle Hymn as Blasphemy In Song. Judge for yourself.

Brown's Infamous Raid

October 16, 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of what is arguably the best known instance of domestic terrorism in America in the 19th century (again, excluding the Indian wars and Sherman's crimes). I am writing, of course, of the infamous Harper's Ferry Raid led by fanatical terrorist John Brown. Fortunately, the body count was lower in total than Brown's raids in Kansas and Missouri or even the Nat Turner rampage in Virginia.

Starting around 11pm on the 16th, John Brown led a small group of 15 or so white men and five blacks to seize the federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now the illegal West Virginia). After seizing the armory itself and its guard, Brown and his men took about forty citizens of Harper's Ferry as hostages during the wee hours of October 17th and into the next day. Though Brown's raiders had cut the telegraph wires, they released a passing railroad freighter which sounded the alarm upon its arrival at Baltimore, notifying the governor of Virginia and President James Buchanan.

Brown's purpose was to seize the weapons of the armory arsenal and to spark a murderous slave uprising in Virginia and across the South by arming the slaves. He had hoped that many if not most slaves in the area, upon hearing of Brown's raid, would join his group and seek freedom by way of the violent deaths of their masters. President Buchanan dispatched Colonel Robert E. Lee and a force of U.S. Marines to deal with Brown's raid (local militia were already on the scene surrounding the insurgents). A portion of Lee's after action report is posted below.

Brown's raiders were overpowered and most of the hostages were rescued. The surviving raiders including Brown were put on trial and convicted. John Brown was hanged for his Harper's Ferry crimes Dec. 2, 1859, or as Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, Brown's martyrdom was "perfected" making the "gallows as glorious as the cross." Most of Brown's Harper's Ferry accomplices, apparently not quite deities of Brown's stature, were hanged with less fanfare within a month.

Frederick Douglass suggested later that Brown did not fail in his purpose; that he gave his life for it, that he brought on the war that ended slavery. I contend that Brown's bloody approach was the worst that could be taken. It hardened the antagonism between the sections and convinced the southern states that radical abolitionists would not stop until they had incited mass murder and widespread violence. Hence, the southern states believed they were safer out of the union.

Brown's raid undermined the chances that peacemakers of both sides could negotiate a peaceful settlement (including most importantly a compromise on tariffs) to prevent the "irrepressible conflict." Slavery was doomed by the 1850s; its end in America was inevitable. No other country in the world required war to end it. I won't say that Brown caused the war--- he did not --- but he galvanized the southern states in their resolve to secede for tax relief and safety.

Lincoln had the option to let the southern states go in peace; instead, he chose war (and 650,000 American deaths) as preferable to losing the tax revenues paid by the southern states (75+% of the total). Lincoln, seeking election support when the raid occurred, characterized Brown as a "delusional lunatic justly hanged."

"The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States." --The London Spectator, 1863, describing the political war measure known as the Emancipation Proclamation

Super Power Status and Terrorism

Prior to and during WWII, Americans knew there were formidable foreign threats of conquest or attack. We emerged from WWII as a world superpower and from the Cold War as the world's only superpower. No sane nation or entity would attack us in the open. Terrorism and guerilla insurgency became the only practical way to attack or oppose the United States.

Prior to the latter half of the 20th century in America, acts of terrorism were relatively uncommon but not rare. Since 9/11 of 2001, terrorism is a word or concept that we encounter almost daily, due in part to reality (our worldwide interests and adventurism) and due in part to the alarmism and sensationalism to today's mass media. Mencken's maxim of practical politics holds especially true in today's America. It's essentially identical to Morris Dees' maxim of fundraising.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken, from In Defense of Women, 1918

Attention Spans and News-based Memory

Jacob Burckhardt once wrote that "history is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another." By the same token, "news" can be said to be what most news editors find worthy of note in current events. Obviously, events that capture more news coverage and generate more controversy are generally more likely to be deemed "worthy of note" by future historians.

If an event like the Harper's Ferry Raid occurred today (a seizure of weapons for a violent political cause), would people remember it 150 years from now? Would they remember it in context?

As a test of this query, a brief quiz: How many airliners were hijacked to Cuba in the 1970s and why? What happened at Ruby Ridge? Why were The Branch Davidians in Waco incinerated? What happened at Columbine? What motivated the D.C. Snipers? Were McVeigh and Nichols the only terrorists in the Oklahoma City bombing? Will these events of the 1980s and 1990s be remembered in 50 or 100 years?

If such a Raid happened today, we can be fairly certain that it wouldn't be widely or deeply reported, much less condemned, by selective and biased "watchdogs" such as the Southern Poverty Law Center. It would be a backpage story in less than a week.

Since Brown was white and professed to be a Christian, he thus meets the intitial SPLC litmus test as a hate group. However, since he was critical of the South and Southerners and professed that his crimes were for the benefit of blacks, he would get a free pass on having his crimes assigned to "hate." Given all the noise of alarmist warnings and predictions of right wing terrorism coming from the SPLC machine, a Harper's Ferry Raid today would be little noted.

Why do you think that, Scroggins, you ask? Let's look at a few examples, shall we? The SPLC looks the other way when real acts of hate are committed against approved targets, that is, people who disagree with SPLC's agenda. It might be a crime, it's just not a "hate crime" that interests them. The SPLC has mastered the "art" of smearing its targets using "guilt by association" and rhetorical innuendo as its primary M.O...but while utilizing a group of writers whose anti-American backgrounds are conveniently whitewashed or omitted. The truth would enrage the law enforcement community that assists in distributing SPLC's propaganda and smears. GHC will be publishing a series on some of these characters and their anti-American backgrounds.

The SPLC didn't see anything hateful about The New Black Panther Party, when they were intimidating white voters in November 2008 in Philadelphia. No special reports, not even a mention in their volume of publications.

The SPLC writes nothing about the various hispanic hate groups who advocate killing 'gringos' but SPLC labels every citizen who might be concerned about illegal immigration a "racist" or a "nativist." The SPLC wants its readers/contributors to believe there are skinheads, klansmen and militia rightwingers lurking behind every weedpatch and bush. SPLC spends all their ink mapping "hate crimes" such as graffiti and literature distributions all the while ignoring volumes of violent urban gang crime (mostly hispanic and black) that is often racially motivated.

The SPLC has picked up the hypocrisy torch where Julia Ward Howe left off. They want to lead the U.S. government (DHS, FBI, etc.) to use its "terrible swift sword" against American citizens who oppose SPLC's political agenda and preferences. The April 2009 DHS report on "Rightwing Extremism," sourced extensively to SPLC, demonstrates that our national intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been co-opted to serve as propaganda engines and persecution tools of the left.

SPLC benefits in that its fundraising and scare-mongering gain credibility in some quarters and their targeted "enemies" undergo more scrutiny and surveillance at taxpayer expense. Meanwhile, our limited intelligence assets are squandered on witch hunts while the real threats and real hate violence gets little or no attention. Sources:

Honoring Hate and Demagoguery

The University of Alabama Law School and a local law firm selects an annual recipient of the "Morris Dees Justice Award." Ken Silverstein, in his article entitled "The Southern Poverty Business Model" published in Harper's Magazine Nov. 2007, quotes Atlanta attorney Stephen B. Bright from a letter Bright sent to the Dean of the Law School at the University of Alabama. In the letter, Bright refers to Dees as "a con man and fraud" and to the Dees Justice Award as "another Dees scam." Perhaps the Law School should devise another award and name it the John Brown Peace & Tolerance Award. The first award might go to the leader of The New Black Panther Party or perhaps the head pimp or madame at ACORN, or maybe to SPLC Board Chairman Julian Bond.

Some future Julia Ward Howe may one day write a song about Morris Dees and the SPLC crusades... Morris, Morris, hallelujah! Morris, Morris, hallelujah! Morris, Morris, hallelujah! His dupes are marching on....

Terrorist John Brown has statues, plaques, websites and memorial parks erected in his "honor." He has a popular song that mentions him by name. He met justice at the end of a rope. Smear Merchant and conman Morris Dees has a "Justice Award" named for him and has erected several huge Poverty Palaces in Montgomery. He's accumulated between $150 and $200 million in the SPLC endownment fund and he has a propaganda machine cranking out smears on a regular basis.

Which one do you think will be remembered most favorably in 150 years?

We can only hope that the future answer is, "Morris Who?" Given a little more time distance from slavery and the civil rights movement, I trust that Uncle Mo will be judged a greedy hypocrite and demagogue and a black eye on the civil rights movement and that history will properly adjudge John Brown more of a fanatical terrorist seeking "justice" through murder and less a martyr of a noble cause.

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Students lose Confederate-flag purse case in 5th Circuit

By David L. Hudson Jr.
First Amendment scholar
10.16.09

Texas public high school officials did not violate the First Amendment by prohibiting two female students from carrying purses featuring images of the Confederate flag to school, a federal appeals court panel has ruled.

The school district in Burleson has a policy barring students from wearing clothing or accessories that display “inappropriate symbolism, especially that which discriminates against other students based on race, religion or sex.” Burleson High School supplemented this districtwide regulation during the 2002-03 school year with a policy prohibiting the visible display of the Confederate flag on campus.

The high school adopted the policy after several incidents of racial tension and hostility at the school. In the 2002-03 school year 35 incidents of race-related problems were reported. One incident involved a Burleson High School student’s shoving a Confederate flag in the face of several members of an all-black volleyball team from a visiting school.

The two girls at Burleson High School — known in court papers as A.M. and A.T. — challenged the constitutionality of the policy after being told they could not carry their Confederate-flag purses on school grounds in January 2006. The students contended that the policy violated their free-expression rights. They also alleged that school officials committed viewpoint discrimination by singling out the Confederate flag for unfavorable treatment, while allowing students to wear other racially tinged clothing, such as Malcolm X and Mexican-nationalist T-shirts.

The girls sued in February 2007 in federal district court, which ruled in favor the school defendants. The district court found that school officials reasonably concluded that displaying the Confederate flag would cause substantial disruptions at school within the meaning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s seminal student-speech decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969).

In Tinker, the Court ruled that school officials in Iowa violated the First Amendment rights of several students when they enforced a ban on black armbands students had worn in part to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Tinker established a standard — that school officials can punish student expression only if they can reasonably forecast that such student expression will cause a substantial disruption or material interference with school activities.

On appeal, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the lower court Oct. 9 in A.M. v. Cash. The panel concluded that the lower court had applied the Tinker standard correctly.

“Applying the Tinker standard to the instant case, defendants reasonably anticipated that visible displays of the Confederate flag would cause substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities,” the court wrote. “There is ample, uncontroverted evidence that elements of the BHS student body have continually manifested racial hostility and tension.”

The plaintiffs argued that the school officials had to show more than simply generalized racial tension, but also a direct connection between the flag and disruptive activities.

The panel disagreed, writing: “But Tinker does not require a showing of past disruption; administrators can also meet their burden by establishing that they had a reasonable expectation, grounded in fact, that the proscribed speech would probably result in disruption.”

Kirk Lyons, attorney for the students, wrote in an e-mail to the First Amendment Center Online: "The court’s standard is so broad it negates Tinker. Any school can ban the Confederate flag (or symbol of choice) with impunity under such a standard. It has been a consistent problem with student free speech advocates in getting courts to hold schools to the burden set by Tinker."

On The Web:   www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22206

 

Wyeth's Biography of Forrest
 
From: thedixiediarist@yahoo.com
 
Hello All,
 
After a few delays, we have finally gotten Dr. John Allan Wyeth's "Life of Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest" up for sale. You can purchase this for $17.74 plus shipping in soft cover, or, $1.25 in PDF format. You can look at it here:  http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-life-of-lt-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest/7785422  or visit my lulu.com store front at http://stores.lulu.com/Confederate .
 
Web page description:
"N. Bedford Forrest enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private in early 1861. By mid-year he was a Lt. Colonel and by war's end, he was a brevet Lieutenant General. No other man North or South may lay claim to such honor. He struck fear into the hearts of his enemies. With equal degree he was loved by those whom he served and defended against Yankee invasion.
 
"He is much maligned as a man, as a general, and a citizen, but in these pages, you will see a different picture: the picture of a man of honor, of native skill, honesty, courage and above all, patriotism. This is not the General Forrest of popular media today, but the General Forrest we should all know. He is, indeed, a man to look up to in all ages."
 
Enjoy! I hope to have Dabney's "Life and Campaigns of  Lt. Gen. Stonewall Jackson"  available soon.
 
Have a Dixie Day!
Matt McCune
The Dixie Diarist
http://stores.lulu.com/Confederate

 

Escaped Fiends from the Lower Regions
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“General Sherman was traveling with the Fifteenth Corps on March 8 (1865) when it crossed the line into North Carolina, and that evening both the General and the corps went into camp near Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church, a region his soldiers thought looked “real northern-like. Small farms and nice white, tidy dwellings.”
 
General Sherman, still riding with the Fifteenth Corps, took refuge on the night of March 9 from a “terrible storm of rain” in a little Presbyterian church called Bethel. Refusing a bit of carpet one of his staff had improvised into a bed on the pulpit platform, the General stretched himself out on one of the wooden pews for the night. Not far from Bethel Church, at the meeting hall of the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society, could be found another reminder of Sherman’s visit. J.M. Johnson, secretary of the society, entering in the minutes, April 22, 1865:
 
“After a considerable interruption, caused by the unwelcome visit of Sherman’s thieves, the Society meets again. And, of course, when God’s own house is outraged by the Yankee brutes, temples of morality and science will not be respected.  We find the ornaments of our fair little Hall shattered and ruined; our book shelves empty; the grove strewn with fragments of valuable, precious volumes; the speeches and productions of members who are sleeping in their silent graves, torn and trampled in the mire, “as pearls before the swine.”
 
“Ye illiterate beasts! Ye children of vice! Ye have not yet demoralized us, Today we marshal our little band again; and with three cheers for Temperance and literature, unfurl our triumphant banner to the breeze.”
 
A resident of the village of Philadelphus [Robeson county], after passing through “the ordeal of brutal, inhuman and merciless Yankeeism,” wrote: “They visited us in torrents,” and acted like “escaped fiends from the lower regions…”
 
(The Civil War in North Carolina, John G. Barrett, UNC Press, 1963, pp. 301-302)

 

Prisoners Ready to Slay, Burn and Destroy Again
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The stated reason for prosecuting war against the South was to save the Union, but the armed emissaries of reunification sent by the North would destroy any State not wanting to be saved.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Prisoners Ready to Slay, Burn and Destroy Again:
 
“We understand that a good many of the Yankee prisoners are quite truculent and insulting, declaring that if they ever do get their freedom, they will slay, burn, and destroy in Richmond to their hearts’ content.  The immediate provocation of these dire menaces is that they do not always have sugar in their coffee. They need sweetening no doubt, and if they received their deserts, would have no cause to complain of any deficiency in that particular….We are not much alarmed at the threats of these fine fellows.  They have been breathing blood and thunder against Richmond for the last three years, and it has all ended at Libby [one of the largest tobacco ware-house prisons in Richmond]. 
 
That is the only “On to Richmond” which has been realized yet. We have no doubt that the Yankees will behave a great deal worse hereafter, if that be possible, than they have ever done before. But perhaps we shall behave worse also. There is great room for improvement in our mode of treating these invaders…We are not always going to have our prisoners murdered by inches and our houses burned over our heads without some attempt at retaliation. In the meantime, the sooner the Yankees now here are removed farther South, the better for all parties.”
 
(The Yankee Prisons, Richmond Daily Dispatch, February 17, 1864, page 2)

 

TAKE THE NAACP AND MEDIA TO COURT
 
From: area51news@rock.com
 
Attn: SCV - JOE WILSON/RUSH LIMBAUGH
 
By now you have surely heard that Rush Limbaugh is probably going to file suit against a number of those in the media on the grounds of injuring his REPUTATION and CREDIBILITY.
 
10/14/2009 Fox News (Bill O'Reilly) had a boat load of organizations and people insinuating Rush is a racist. This is going to be great as it develops.
 
Wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the SCV to follow Rush right on in the court room for a little litigation and adjudication WITH THE NAACP AND THE MEDIA??? This seems like one great opportunity if there ever was one, and the timing is ripe.
 
Win or loose - it would go a long way in vindicating the SCV and the heritage, and that would be important.
 
CONFEDERATE FLAG NOT THE PROBLEM by Charley Reese.
http://42ndvirginia.org/reese2.html       

A great read!!!
 
C Parks, CSA  
www.CSAHPS.com   
S.C. CSA LET US VOTE CAMPAIGN

 

Keep Your Hands Out of Our Pockets
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
Chuck:
 
I believe Bernhard’s post (just after this one) ANSWERS this one, don’t you? Obviously, the difference had to do with what each section believed was required of the central government by it and of it by the central government. The South wished to be left alone with the federal government doing only such things as were constitutionally prescribed. The North apparently wanted a great deal more from the federal government all the while knowing that the monies used by that government and given to it came – in large part – from the South! So the federal government itself in the end became the means by which money was taken from the South and given to the North.
 
Furthermore, the South could read the handwriting on the wall. With the ever expanding nation, it was clear that the new territories as they became states would side with the North and why not? That was the profitable thing to do!  The South could not expand (albeit Missouri and Oklahoma might have joined forces with that section; maybe Arizona as well. But the vast majority of new states coming into the United States would side with the North and render the South into a permanent minority that would be forced to financially support a much larger majority. The South would become the host for a Northern collectivist, fascistic economic parasite without any hope of reducing the power of the federal entity that acted as a sort of “anti-Robin Hood”,  taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
 
Of course, we now know that the Northern states were misguided in believing that they could empower the central government and maintain their own liberty. In the end, the “means to an end” used by the North became the end itself and now ALL are prostrate under the tyranny of the “federal government”.
 
Valerie

************************************************
 
Keep Your Hands Out of Our Pockets
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net 
 
“On the 14th of December [Alexander H. Stephens] made a speech in the House in answer to Mr. Mace, of Indiana, who had announced the determination of himself and his party to vote for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill…and had given notice of his intention to introduce a bill to prohibit slavery in those Territories.  After showing that the local elections throughout the States give a different testimony, Mr. Stephens thus meets the allegation that the South had been in the habit of claiming and extorting more than her just rights from the Federal Government: 
 
“But the gentleman says that when Southern men’s measures are vetoed, they raise their voices in tones of thunder until they carry them. Sir, I do not believe there ever was a Southern measure vetoed. I do not recollect one. The South has never asked anything from your Government that called for a veto. There is the difference between us. The South asks but small favors from you. It is a class of gentlemen from the North who ask aid from the Government. Why, we never come here in that attitude. Let me ask the gentleman when any measure from the South was ever vetoed?, when the South ever asked anything that required the exercise of the veto power?
 
But the gentleman said that he admired the South, because “knowing their rights, they dared maintain them.” That I take as a compliment. And now, what is his position? Why the South, “knowing their rights, and daring to maintain them,” he would have the North rise up and prevent her from getting her known and acknowledged rights!  If we know our rights, and they are our rights, and we dare maintain them, why ought not the North,---why ought not the gentleman (I will not say the North) to grant us our rights?  Have we ever asked anything but what was right?  That is the position that the South has always occupied, as I remember her history.”
 
“Now, sir, upon the subject of internal improvements which the gentleman alluded to, has the South ever asked legislative aid in that particular? I do not speak now sectionally, or against the North; but look at the whole history of the Government. Who is it that is constantly appealing here for legislative aid and legislative patronage? Who ask for fishing bounties? Who ask for protection to navigation? Who is that wants a duty on coal? Who upon iron? Who upon woolen goods? Who upon shoes, leather, cotton fabrics---everything? Why the industrial interests of the North. But when did we ever come up and ask any aid from the Government of the United States? The constant prayer of the South to you has been to stay your hands. All that we ask of you is,---keep your hands out of our pockets.”
 
(Life of Alexander H. Stephens, Richard Malcolm Johnson, William Hand Browne, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883, pp. 280-281)

 

4,000 Ghosts Honored at Point Lookout Prisoner of War Cemetery

ST. MARY'S COUNTY - 10/13/2009
 

The Captain Vincent Camalier Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans along with the Point Lookout Prisoner of War Association held a Memorial service to honor the 4,000+ prisoners buried at the Confederate cemetery on Point Lookout on Saturday, Oct. 10.

According to Jim Dunbar, association head, the event held each year to honor the descendants of those Confederate soldiers that died at the Camp Hoffman prison. “There were probably close to 14 thousand men that died in the prison,” said Dunbar. “The monument has the names 3,300 men that died and we have gone through records and uncovered an additional 700 names that need to be honored.

The moving service included color guards, re-enactors and guest speakers. After the service the Confederate Memorial park next to the cemetery was opened for an all day event of celebration, living history, food and more speakers.

One of the speakers, H.K. Edgenton, a black Confederate activist who works to provide the ‘real truth’ as President of Southern Heritage 411, Inc.  Edgenton gave an impressive, passionate speech to the audience as part of the ceremony designed to tell the facts from the perspective of hundreds of thousands of black people who love and support the south, its people, customs and history.

The prison – a facility for Confederate prisoners of war was built at Point Lookout on the tip of the peninsula at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. During the two years the camp was in operation from August 1863 to June 1865, the prison was jammed with inmates, easily overwhelming the camp’s capacity of 10 thousand. It is estimated that at any given time, the camp contained from 12 thousand and to 20 thousand prisoners. During its two years in operation, it is estimated that 50,000 military and civilians were held.

The camp was laid out in a series of streets and trenches designed to drain runoff. It was surrounded by a fourteen foot parapet wall. Prisoners lived sixteen or more to a tent and suffered from short rations and limited fire wood in winter. When the coffee ration was suspended for federal prisoners at Andersonville, the Point Lookout prisoner lost theirs as well.

The worst suffering came because the physical conditions. The ground was flat and sandy and at almost sea level so that was just above high tide, adding to the misery, including every imaginable weather extreme, from blazing heat to bone-chilling cold.

© 2005-2009 Bay Media Services & The Bay Net

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Students suspended after rebel flag displayed at high school

Saturday, October 10, 2009

NewsChannel 36 Staff
 

Gaston County, N.C.-- Racial tensions are running high at a local high school in Dallas after someone displayed a confederate flag on school grounds this week. The incident at North Gaston High School, is still under investigation. But to add to the friction, at least three students were suspended Friday after getting into an altercation fueled by the presence of the rebel flag at the school. "Three students were suspended for a verbal altercation this morning," said Gaston County Schools spokeswoman Bonnie Reidy. "It was a carry over from the incident yesterday (Thursday), I believe," she adds.

The flag was taped onto the pole outside of the school when students arrived Thursday morning. School officials are still investigating the incident. A civil rights group in the area tells us they plan to meet with school officials Monday.

© 2009 WCNC-TV

On The Web:   www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-101009-mk-rebel_flag_hoisted_at_school_.20219d32f.html

 

Education would ease flag disputes

October 11, 2009

Candice Hardwick filed suit in 2006 against her school district in Latta, S.C., for not allowing her to wear clothing containing Confederate emblems. U.S. District Court Judge Terry Wooten recently ruled in a summary judgment hearing in favor of the school district that the symbols are disruptive.

Candice's counsel argued that her First Amendment right to free expression and equal protection rights were violated. Other kids were allowed to wear FUBU, Black Power and Malcolm X shirts. The judge said she did not have enough proof of this argument.

Disruption is characterized by unrest, disorder or insubordination. When the FUBU et al was worn there was no unrest, disorder or insubordination. The Caucasian students were obviously instilled with law-abiding integrity and respect for the rights of others. Also, unlike all other elements of our society, Southern Caucasian students are not a protected species by the federal government and their guilt of racism is a predetermined conception.

Oh, but the sight of the Confederate flag reverberates the indelible memories of the old South and slavery. This is only true for members of the dumb masses that are blindly ignorant of how slavery was perpetuated, where it existed in the United States, who performed the marketing, who owned slaves, when it started and how it really ended.

Reasons that integrate slavery with the Confederate flag are far outnumbered by those that more closely integrate slavery with the U.S. flag. Education can make the former less disruptive than the latter.

Charlie Graham
Prattville   

From: "Craig Maus", csacommand@windstream.net
Date: October 12, 2009

Dear Confederates and Fellow Patriots (bcc herein),
 
I have visited just about every Battlefield in this land and at each I have felt an eerie & growing uneasiness.  From Ft. Donnellson overlooking the River; to Vicksburg at the Heights; Shiloh and the Bloody Pond; Chickamauga and, of course, Gettysburg to name but a few.
 
From early dawn at each, to late afternoons, in all weather conditions and in all seasons.  The blood letting at each of these Battlefields was enormous and beyond the general comprehension of most Americans because the magnitude of these engagements has yet to be shared and spoken of in the American Classroom's.
 
I suppose one reason among many, if so shared, would trigger a thought process within the minds of our youth that would raise questions that the Federals do not want comprehended, exposing the vast conspiracy of lies and distortions they have withheld from the American Public over these near 145 years since the War's conclusion.  The amount of blood that resonates within the soil at each of these Battlefields in which unimaginable horrific engagements occurred, cannot be easily erased by a scribe in the hands of one whose intentions is to profiteer at the expense of the very soul of this nation.
 
God will NOT permit the enormity of these occurrences to be rendered casualties of a perverted mindset who believes the Trinity can be compromised by mortal men.  Those same men and women who call themselves Federal's, whose virtues delight in extolling their '5-pieces of silver'  at the expense of every un-suspecting American.  Of this I AM CONVINCED!
 
They have gone largely un-challenged in the creation of their modern-day Babylon and have committed this once-great nation, under God, all but invisible and derelict.
 
In a penchant for 'Change', driven in large part by a latitude of laziness that most have embraced, many turned the convenient cheek,  choosing instead to select the easy way while omitting &  ignoring their responsibility as individuals in simple matters dealing with everyday basics relating to right & wrong as our Lord asked of us.
As such, we have allowed the evil incarnate of the Beast himself to become our master, embracing the Golden Calf as the measure of merit and forgetting every tangible element  that made us great and different in the first place.
 
The Federals have driven God from us using 'social proliferation',  skillfully designed, to accelerate their mantle of despotism.  And with open eyes, we allowed them to do this.
 
The price that will be extracted from us all will indeed be a heavy toll.  We knew once the elementary differences between good and bad, but God has always shown us the resulting carnage that comes when simplicity and common sense is over ridden by greed and human frailty.  We have lost our way as a nation and choose the easy way once too often.
 
I cannot help but feel that dark and ominous days lay ahead for what is left of America.  A conflict of major proportions is looming and unless we remember our values and beliefs, and at once, the price we will all pay for the transgressions the Federals have deposited in our homes, will be extreme beyond comprehension.
No one will escape the resulting carnage.
 
The time has indeed arrived wherein every Man and Women across this land will have to take a stand.
There is NO substitute between that which is right and that which is obviously and clearly most wrong!
 
The evil that occupies Washington has been in the making for some time.
 
It has NO conscience and lives in a surreal world of pretense intent on devouring the soul of this land using it's people to accomplish it's ends.  They sit upon their own mantle, fashioned much like the Golden Calf.
A mantle that knows no sympathy, has no heart, and has not the welfare of you, I, our children & grandchildren in mind.
 
The Federals have become their own self-fulfilling prophecy, carved from those very Battlefields of old in which they believe they buried the Christian Republic.
 
Lincoln embraced Socialism and is the Founding Father of today's Federal blight that he laid upon this land following The War For Southern Independence.  Obama is but merely the long, extension and result of that which was cast many years ago.  And, like Lincoln, he too has surrounded himself with a very disturbing group of people whose mindsets are identical & whose purpose's are NOT the value's upon which this great Republic was founded.
 
I look back often times at those great Confederates who subscribed to God's written word, and fought indeed for a noble Cause that, gratefully, still remains & has NOT died.  They were simple men who got up in the morning, worked until their calluses bled and never asked or believed they deserved anything other than what they received from their own efforts.
 
That was once the character of this Nation that bound us together..... UNTIL the evil unveiled itself and decided to have its way......because we were in the way! It was once a strength second to NONE!
 
No country is without mistakes.  No land is without criticism.  But I believe God judges us all on how we overcome human weakness & error.  We have ALL suffered from time to time.  The evil within this world does not ostracize any from this most basic fact.
 
However, it is as a collective measure via right or wrong that the human element will prosper.......or fail..... if & when the most basic and elementary practices of human decency are either remembered, or forgotten......or allowed to be deposited into the hands of 'Officials' because we become 'too busy' to pay attention.
 
The Federal's have become the agent of the Beast.
  
They engineered a conspired to re-write this country's purpose while systematically demonizing every element and entity that has 'called them out',  through a vilification process accompanied with a well-designed & masterfully planned script, intended to render most within this country blind and ignorant to their origin.
 
I have often said that unless 'we know where we have been, how can we expect to know where we are going' ?
 
To that end, every single personage and distinct symbol of our Beloved Confederacy has been maligned by them!  They have instituted & choreographed, over time, Revisionist History, extolling the merits of their conquest that further underwrote their 'cause celeb',  usingSocial Re-engineering much like the Spartans used the Trojan Horse to gain entry into what once was an 'Impregnable Republic'.  And thus their on-going penchant for self-gain and purpose, likewise, has gone un-contested & un-noticed.
 
The Christian Confederate Army defended the Southern Nation.  It was NOT within the realm or acceptance of the Confederacy to even contemplate an invasion of the North, because it was fully understood that God would NOT sanctify such an un-holy incursion.
 
The Confederacy fought to defend themselves because it was they who was invaded by the Beast Lincoln.
 
Our flags were representative of ALL that we believed in, from the First Stainless, to the Second and the Third.
Each had a specific meaning including our Beloved Battle Flag that represented the Cross of St. Andrew-  the Scottish Saint impaled by the Romans upon a cartwheel in an X-fashion.
 
And today they, and our men and women of that time have been DELIBERATELY defiled within the Federals' Public School's.....cast out and politicized in the name of political expediency just as they have cast out God, The Almighty.
 
There comes a time in everyone's life when you know you must Take A Stand.
 
That time is NOW!  If you deliberately decide to remain blind to everything that has been put asunder and sacrificed at The Alter of Political Correctness, God will damn us.  If you turn your back on Him, and everything that EVERY Christian Confederate fought to preserve, He will be unrepentant towards us.
 
As He is our protector and resides within each of us, so to must we be the pylons of our faith and do likewise in the interests of our families.
 
We are the ONLY thing between them and a Federal Beast who will use them to THEIR fullest advantage while draining them further of their blood & identity!  You cannot compromise with evil and evil resides & permeates in that cesspool on the Potomac.
 
It's been compromised beyond repair and I respectfully suggest that we must 'Go Back To The Future', to that time and place in which God's Laws were recognized and from which the Original Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written.  They may be old by age, but the language within them remains as every bit fresh & new as when they were written, & more obviously applicable today in purpose & meaning than ever before.
 
WE, THE SOUTHERN NATION, NEVER SURRENDERED!
President Davis, a Constitutional scholar and devout Christian Man knew full well the consequences if he were to have signed Letters of Surrender to the Federal's.  He, like many others of that time, knew full well that what Lincoln's Marauder's did was wrong, evil and without legal basis.
 
There, in those Laws that guided us before 1865 is where our Salvation lays.
 
Turn those brass buckles upside down once more that read, US......and you will see that it reads SN- for the Southern Nation.....the still, LEGAL DeJure Government of the Southern Confederacy.  Illegal might does NOT make right, nor do the Laws that the Federal's wrote AFTER they invaded us, justifying their illegal actions, make them right!
 
The Battlefields of old and the many hundreds of thousands that died upon them for a belief in God and Country cannot be ignored.  The Blood of our PATRIOTS was once associated with the moral equivalency of everything that was near and dear to us ALL.  Essentially, it is the 'Mirror of our Being'-  it is the 'Reflection of Our Soul's'.
Our personal Freedom's were to have NEVER been compromised or approached by ANY sitting Government.
That was NEVER a 'Line' that they were to come near or ever contemplate crossing.
 
NOT then, NOT now, NOT ever!  But the Federal's have decided to cross it.....and now we must choose the side we will DEFEND! 
 
There was a merit and purpose for those who fought beneath the starry-eyed Cross, a Flag whose purity and beauty REPRESENTED THE TRUTH of purpose and the Defense of Liberty and Freedom.....a Flag that the Federal's have PERPETUALLY DEMONIZED through deliberate lie's and un-holy distortions.

When will YOU say NO MORE, EVERMORE, and take a stand with us Confederates?
 
Upon the Great Seal of The Confederacy is George Washington and beneath him is inscribed the Latin words- Deo Vindice- God Will Vindicate!
 
Does anyone seriously believe that the Christian South then, as today, represented an un-holy Cause that the Federal's have made it out to be?
 
Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson were inarguably two of the most devout Christian Confederate Soldiers who ever fought.
 
Does anyone seriously believe they would have taken any side other than that which was God's side?
 
Who would you believe, our Confederate Patriot's of yesteryear AND today, or the Federal's whose apathy and wanton disdain for your individuality permeates and surrounds you far worse than any pandemic imaginable?
Which 'Line' will you choose?
   
Perhaps God is giving us ALL one last chance for redemption.... and perhaps the decision we make, will decide, if a contagion is or is not visited upon us?  The choice, and our fate, is clearly in our own hands now!
 
So Goes The Christian South......So WILL Go This Nation!  It is, Every Bit, 1860 Again.
 
ALL Roads Lead to 1865!

For God, Family and The Confederacy,
Craig Maus,
humble president, The Confederate Society of America and Proud Member of The Confederate Alliance of Independent Organizations,
Staunch Supporter's for the Rightful Restoration of OUR Rightful Government, The Confederate States of America!
www.deovindice.org
www.CSAGov.org
Will You JOIN Us Now?
Deo Vindice!
 

The Great Obamunist and Romans 1

by Al Benson Jr.
8 October 2009

And all the people said “Give us a Great Obamunist to rule over us like unto the other nations.” And so it was. Now that we have been provided with a Great Obamunist, one promising “change” and “transparency,” we are slowly beginning to learn that the “change” he has in mind (Marxism) is not quite what we were looking for. And we are learning that the “transparency” he promised grows more and more opaque with each passing day.

His real birth certificate is unavailable. His college records are unavailable. In fact, any real information about this man is unavailable. However, the leftist direction of his policies and programs is becoming quite apparent.

Shades of First Samuel 8:11-20!

There are rumors that the Great Obamunist would like to start regulating the Internet. To help him eventually accomplish that he already has an “Information Czar” born in New Delhi, India, who is supposed to control public information and monitor all private emails. Bet she or he (I can’t tell from the name) won’t like this article. Our Great Obamunist is already pursuing options to control bloggers’ liberties and I’ve no doubt the rest will follow when he feels he is in the right position to pull it off. His Marxist mentality and that of his handlers knows only one thing—total control over everyone.

Remember First Samuel, chapter 8.

I’m sure the Great Obamunist was chagrined when his “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones was forced to resign because his Communist connections were exposed. Comrade Jones, it seems, had rather strong connections to the American Communist Party and the San Francisco Communist Party, so the Great Obamunist would, naturally, like to gain control of the Internet so the American people would not be subject to such glaring truths. Better for him if we don’t know.

However, most of those he appoints to various positions are so openly leftist and so outrageously controversial that it’s hard to cover up what they’ve done and where they are coming from. Of course he has almost total complicity from the media, but that nasty Internet seems somehow to be getting information out there he’d rather not have out there. A brief example: Obama has picked a woman, Chai Feldblum, to be the commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Most folks have never heard of this person, and the evening fish wrapper charitably referred to as a “newspaper” is not about to tell you anything about here. Neither will that talking head on the six o’ clock “news” program. But, according to World Net Daily (wnd.com) for October 5th, Ms. Feldblum is on record as stating that “Gay sex is morally good.” Turns out that Ms. Feldblum is a Georgetown law professor—and an advocate for homosexual rights. She is also codirector of something called Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described as a homosexual rights group that planned to change “the American workplace and revolutionize social mores.”

Think a little about what she’s saying. When it comes to “equal opportunities for work,” no heterosexual need apply! This woman wants to root out what is left of biblical morality in this country and do away with it. The bible condemns sodomy—which she promotes. Anyone seeking to overturn biblical law is, by her own definition, a revolutionary—an anti-Christ revolutionary. Many among the naive will express shock and doubt that the Great Obamunist would appoint such a person. I don’t. Given his track record, she is entirely consistent with his Marxist worldview.

Then, as if to rub salt in our wounds, there is his new “Safe Schools Czar,” a man named Kevin Jennings. He’s affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education. And newswithviews.com on October 3rd noted of Mr. Jennings that:

It was in his pedagogic capacity that Jennings advised a 15-year-old boy who was being sexually violated by an adult male, to submit to two years of abuse, and to risk a broad spectrum of venereal diseases including AIDS, Instead of reporting the crime to the police, as the law requires, Jennings advised the boy to use condoms during sodomy (unsafe, illegal). Hence: Jennings’ criminal conspiracies disqualify him as Obama’s “safe schools” czar. Jennings’ criminal conspiracies DO qualify him for immediate arrest and trial...”

Do you think all of this will make any difference to the Great Obamunist? Don’t bet the farm on it.

Jennings is exactly the sort of individual that the Obamunist wants in power so the schools can be “safe” but for whom—the pedophiles? The lady who wrote the News With Views article is Dr. Judith Reisman, author of the book Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences. That’s Alfred Kinsey, by the way.

So it would seem that the Great Obamunist is devoted to seeking out and appointing people in his administration that are in diametrical opposition to true morality as defined by the Holy Scriptures. The type of people he seems to want to flesh out his ruling body with are those described in the last half of the first chapter of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.

Paul writes in Romans 1:24-28 that:

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever, Amen. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.

That’s exactly where the Great Obamunist and his current Marxist administration are going and where they are trying to take the rest of the country. They are working overtime trying to fulfill the last half of Romans 1—and that needs to be exposed so that slumbering Christians can begin to awake and not continue to sleep through their own destruction and that of their country.

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October 8, 2009
Exclusive: The End of the Game of Guilt

Bill Siegel

Congressman Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” charge against President Barack Obama has elicited a curious response from various figures – that Wilson’s action both comes from and evidences racism. Perhaps New York Times’ Maureen Dowd made the most provocative allegation while former President Jimmy Carter couldn’t resist the opportunity to top it off with his own contention that racism underlies many whites’ criticism of President Barack Obama. This is not to ignore similar utterances from such less relevant voices as Janeane Garofalo that restate the racist charge with no support other than an attitude of arrogant certainty. These very accusations cover a much deeper struggle within this country that needs exposure and clarity if, in fact, America is to truly move into the “post racial” era Obama promised.
 
First, not even Dowd’s brilliant style with melodious sentence structure, clever analogy, and witty digs could cover what was an obvious exercise in projection. Her proposition was that she “heard” Wilson speak: “You lie, boy.” And indeed, as a master of psychological terms, she must be aware that the “material” for her experience certainly comes from her own mind, as messy as it may be.
 
Her argument started with ad hominem attacks on Wilson for being a “backbencher,” as if it is Wilson’s assumed envy (as opposed to Dowd’s own envy made apparent each week in her work) that motivated Wilson to lose etiquette. Her assembled facts are that Wilson belonged to a “Confederate” organization, supported the Confederate flag and denounced a black woman’s claim to being the daughter to Strom Thurmond. From this, she conjures up the notion that Wilson must have felt he was “being lectured and even rebuked by” Obama. The suggestion is that Wilson was filled with envy and unable to restrain his racist rage. This argument could not survive a high school debating class but rules at the Times.
 
And, tellingly, after much press over her piece, Dowd, herself, was (unlike Wilson) unable to apologize and admit her flagrant abuse. Instead, she followed it up with a later piece in which she ran to black father figure Congressman James Clyburn to give credibility to the same weak charges she had made originally. Perhaps, in Dowd’s mind, if a black claims the same racism, it makes it even truer and elevates Dowd to the empathetic and morally superior white doing God’s work. Dowd, well practiced in using psychological concepts as weapons, would do well to look in the mirror.
 
That Dowd intentionally ignored all of the facts about Wilson’s assertion that Obama clearly and repeatedly lied highlights the equal absurdity of Carter’s claim. Carter states that animosity to Obama exists because he is black and that many whites believe that blacks “are not qualified to lead this great country.” Carter, himself, says that this position is based on his own experience. Carter, subsequently, attempted to clarify what he had said but did not accurately restate what he did, in fact, say.
 
Projection is in high gear with these two and the first sensible response should be to inquire as to how these statements reveal more about their source than their targets. Carter, thought by many an anti-Semite, is likely familiar with his own race based judgments. Dowd’s mind, judging from her “oeuvre,” is far more complex but nonetheless a victim of liberal impulses and their related easy appeal to victim hood. So much of what lies beneath the charge of racism is the accuser’s own tendency to judge based on race, transferred to others in order to perceive “victims.” In fact, to see racism everywhere requires the “racist” like mind. Further, Dowd proceeds directly to victim hood to finish off her otherwise ludicrous argument; casting Obama as a victim of attempts to paint the black president as “Other,” the focus of Dowd-declared paranoids, and those simply unable to accept the grand “ascension” of a black man.
 
But Dowd and Carter are merely symptoms of a much larger issue: How does America learn to process the failure of its first black president? (click here for more). Wilson’s comments, just as those of the town hall participants and the 9/12 marchers, were inspired by what they perceive as Obama’s multitude of failures. The dissent that has become loud concerns the policies and actions of Obama and his variously complicit Congress and others. As with Occam’s razor, there is no need for appeal to an underlying motivation such as racism when the intentions could not be made clearer.
 
Disappointment with Obama’s policies and actions is rising at a remarkable pace. Promises of a “post racial” and “bipartisan” world have dissolved, and representations that he would be the most transparent and accountable president proved completely false. And to those who do not like his policies, feelings of betrayal abound as he puzzlingly spends the nation into what appears as almost deliberate economic suicide. All of this certainly does result in anger, even rage. Yet assigning that rage to racism or envy of a risen black is mere disguise and distraction and attempts to deflect responsibility away from Obama, himself.
 
The heart of the problem begins with what Shelby Steele has called “white guilt” in his book by the same title. This is the behavior (not the emotion) whites adopt to cure their sense of losing the moral high ground for the nation’s racial history. The depth of Steele’s brilliant elucidations can not be adequately explored here but the essence is that blacks have been able to extract power from whites based on how they present that racial past. In short, blacks stigmatize whites with being “racist" and whites act in order to shed themselves of that stigma. As Steele further describes in An Unbound Man, there are two general approaches to this stigmatizing dance. “Bargainers” essentially agree to not flaunt the racial past while “challengers” shove that racial past in the faces of whites.
 
What keeps this game going is the notion that whites need to do something to regain their moral position. Unfortunately, guilt is a tactic in a game that has no end. The entire process contains no rules or guidelines for exit- there is no ultimate victory, defeat, or tie. There are no pre-established criteria for deciding when racial history is no longer a cause for stigma. The game continues indefinitely as the players essentially become addicted to it. Yet, until this game ends, we can truly never reach a “post racial” world nor free ourselves of the abusive consequences we are witnessing here.
 
Much of what Dowd, Carter, Garofalo, and many others are doing is clinging to familiar behavior in order to ensure that the game of white guilt continues. Like children unable to accept commands to prepare for bed, they desperately run to all that has proven effective in the past. And the indignant accusation of racism is, perhaps, the essence of white guilt.
 
The critical factor of the racist charge is that it begs the target to prove a negative – that he is not a racist; a virtually impossible task. As long as the racist stigma can be made to seem reasonable, it will stick and force the white guilt behavior. To make the stigma stick, however, the meaning of “racism” has had to change over the past decades to keep up with social evolution. And it is this interchange of meanings that has stirred up an almost impenetrable cloud of smoke.
 
“Racism” certainly used to apply primarily to discriminatory actions depriving certain people of benefits based on the fact that they were a member of a particular race. Hence, most of the issues used to concern “rights” such as to vote, to share facilities, be afforded opportunities and so forth. And “racism,” in turn, concerned actions (some discriminatory and others violent), presumed accompanied with hatred and similar thoughts and emotions. Discrimination and related ugly violence had been a staple of America for centuries and, thus, this meaning could easily stigmatize. Yet, since the ‘60s, such discrimination has been virtually eliminated under the law. That does not mean that discrimination doesn’t occur any more than that theft and burglary statutes have prevented the taking of property. Nonetheless, the legal aspect has been addressed rendering discrimination difficult to use to stigmatize.
 
As racist actions became more and more infrequent, a somewhat different use of “racism” began to occupy center stage; one that solely concerns thoughts and internal judgments of another based on race. This is some of what Dowd and Carter are referencing in statements that blacks resemble certain animals or are incapable of leadership and so forth. The stigmatizing charge began to reference internal attitudes, emotions, and other judgments.
 
Over time, however, this charge has also started to weaken. New generations have been raised under very different principles with respect to race than their ancestors. Society has evolved, in many areas into multicultural directions, and attitudes have led and followed. Many have become aware that judgments are taking place within every mind every minute; and many are based on far more ludicrous, insensitive, and seemingly unjust criteria than race. And, those like Carter and Dowd who see racism everywhere are perhaps more guilty of this charge than their objects themselves.
 
In this sense, perhaps we are all racists; it is pure whimsy to expect that people will not notice and judge skin color or other racial attributes. It can be argued that racists are solely those with incorrect or irrational judgments of others based on race but that opens a never ending can of worms which, in turn, keeps the game of guilt alive. No matter how refined, this is a charge against thoughts disconnected from behavior and, thus, difficult to prove.
 
While many efforts have been made to keep the charge of this type of racism alive, it is becoming more difficult to sustain the notion that whites continue to be uniquely infected with racial judgments above and beyond other types of judgments. Racially based judgments have been discussed publicly for years, making most extremely sensitive to their own attitudes and potentially politically incorrect (if not ethically repulsive) words. Sensitivity awareness in a multitude of forms has assisted many in minimizing the severity of such judgments, and much of our increasingly multicultural nation has made expression of any such judgments out of place. Most have accepted that while race, like any number of attributes, might remain to some degree active within ones thoughts, there is little need to act based on those judgments themselves.
 
Furthermore, if hateful thinking is the key to racism, the past decades have revealed ever increasing displays of black hatred for whites. In many areas, (such as the hip-hop world, comedy, prisons, colleges to name a few) pride is taken in black expression of hatred toward and irrational judgments of whites. Obama’s own preacher, Rev. Wright, spewed Black Liberation Theology each week which could not survive a charge of pure racism if whites and blacks were switched. While whites often disfavor and self-police hateful expression based on race (such as that by comedian Michael Richards) the rise in black expression has, to some degree, offset the ability of this type of stigmatizing. In short, as black hatred for whites has been expressed throughout much of society, whites have been less willing to accept the critical white guilt premise – that they uniquely have lost the moral high ground.
 
Because these “racism” concepts have been losing their applicability, the game of white guilt has been less able to sustain itself. Most of what can be done about discrimination has been put in place. There is little more than simple evolution through generations that can further change the fact of every mind’s endless capacity of judgments and most have learned to separate their own private judgments from mature interpersonal behavior. Further, most consider their private world of thought off limits. Newsweek magazine recently described how young children begin to make distinctions based upon race or skin color. Whites can no longer be deemed guilty simply of judgments. And, despite Dowd and Carter, much of the reasonable commentary on Wilson's behavior has dismissed racism as a contributing factor.
 
As these two concepts of racism lose effectiveness as stigmatizing agents, a third one has begun to rear its head; one that has been buried deep within the game all along. This is the notion that racism explains any inequality in wealth and property that exists between the races. That is, as long as blacks do not have at least equal wealth, racism must be at work. In essence, this is the notion that blacks are entitled to reparations for slavery and subsequent unequal opportunities and that until full reparations (whatever that amounts to) are paid, racism continues. Racism, essentially, is the existence of a wealth inequality by virtue of having been its cause.
 
This latter concept underlies much of the thinking surrounding many of Obama’s associates including Van Jones, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, etc. It underlies the famous Joe the Plumber redistribution of wealth comment as well as the thinking of Obama mentors Saul Alinsky and Frank Marshall Davis. It sits within the DNA of ACORN and SEIU and throughout much of Obama’s voting base. Yet, because it butts heads with other essential capitalistic and American premises, it has been disguised and wheeled out slowly. And, as it becomes apparent to many Americans, it causes them to so quickly conclude Obama is not only inappropriate for this country but is a failure who must be confronted and stopped quickly before he can do irreversible damage.
 
Thus, reparations/wealth redistribution is the emerging meaning of “racism.” Yet this meaning reveals itself more as an extreme economic desire of the accuser rather than a fault of the accused and thus difficult to use credibly. When the meaning is more closely related to a remedy rather than the offense, it begins to lose substance. And, while the other stigmas required restrictions on actions and thoughts, this meaning essentially constitutes a taking from whites. Given that many trillions of dollars have been spent over decades on Great Society and similar programs targeted largely to remedy past discrimination, whites, in large part, are significantly less inclined to accept this stigma. Such a severe demand of whites, therefore, is likely to face a final wall; one which will insist that the entire game of guilt be terminated.
 
Yet, how do we end this game of white guilt (the game where blacks extract power based on the charge of racism) when the charge is no longer effective? And how do we end the game which, itself, provides no guidance for termination?
 
The way to end it is to merely stop playing; refuse to charge others of racism and refuse to accept the charge. Like any addiction, each craving to play the game must be met with firm discipline. Yet, the game has become so addictive for so many that this is not so simple. Many, such as the shakedown duo Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, have built careers on being challengers. Many liberal whites, including Dowd herself, have based their entire identities on the notion that they are somehow better, wiser, and morally elevated precisely because they have mastered the game. And many blacks, raised on the idols of bargainers and challengers, have a difficult time finding role models to guide them in how to avoid playing the game. The game has been so deeply infused in our culture for decades that it is difficult to imagine its absence. These are truly difficult cultural concerns and can only be addressed with full consciousness and deliberate effort. While much of the country is beginning to realize it wants to shed the game, how to do so remains a mystery.
 
Not knowing exactly how to proceed without the game shows up in our difficulty in dealing with failures of our first black president. (Leaving aside the debate as to whether or not Obama has been a success or failure, many have already concluded he severely endangers the nation and it is their voice that gives rise to the concern). America has learned to not only accept but to take pride in the successes of blacks, particularly in fields such as sports and entertainment. Yet, America has yet to figure out, within the white guilt game, how to deal with the failure of exalted blacks. OJ Simpson was a hero to both whites and blacks as a player and broadcaster. Yet in his demise, the nation struggled largely along racial lines to find a way to accept the fall. Similarly, and in no way always, many black politicians are arguably treated differently in fall from whites; one can question the treatment of Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, and Marion Barry on this basis (although other factors clearly complicate these cases). More relevant is the refusal of what used to be called the mainstream media to legitimately engage in a thorough due diligence of Barack Obama’s past. Needless to say, any white politician under identical circumstances would face a different treatment.
 
The nation felt it had achieved a level of greatness with the election of Obama. It is difficult for even Obama’s strongest critics not to take pride in such event. Yet, is the nation prepared to accept full responsibility for what it has done? Digging further, what would an Obama failure truly mean? Does it mean that many were wrong to choose him, fools to believe in this hypnotic idol? Does it mean that racial stereotypes, such as that alleged by Carter, are true? Does it mean all the hopes for a new world, a post racial world, were delusions? Does it mean we haven't given him enough of a chance? How long is enough? The cognitive dissonance for many who invested so much in Obama makes it difficult to accept the possibility of error.
 
But more significantly, what does a nation without the game of white guilt look like? Being post racial is really to make the choice NOT to infuse racial explanations where they do not belong, NOT to engage in white guilt, NOT to challenge on the basis of race as Dowd and Carter did, and NOT to hallucinate old racist stereotypes from the past as Garofalo is compelled to do. Choosing not to stoke the flame will ultimately end the fire. The paradox we confront is that while white guilt is the fuel for a game programmed never to end, true resolution can not appear until the game is ended. Accordingly, white guilt continues to protect Obama. Those who dare to question him are buried in a cloud of accusations rather than adequately answered.
 
Thus, Dowd, Carter, and many others should be seen in light of this difficulty to know where we are headed and what a truly post racial world look like. It is, perhaps, too threatening to too many at this point to give up the game. Rather, some feel compelled to tighten their grip on the game they know so well; like children begging for one more inning when their bedtime has arrived.
 
Significantly, as the charge of racism itself becomes more and more difficult to make stick requiring the more extreme meanings of “racism,” two possibilities arise: the game could either tend to die out or the extremes could push evolution into somewhat of a civil war. After all, some of Obama’s mentors such as Alinsky sought precisely to provoke a battle between the “Haves” and the Have-Nots.”
 
Obama makes himself out to be in favor of a truly post racial world. Yet Obama’s actions indicate he thrives on utilizing the game of white guilt. His immediate instinct in response to the Professor “Skip” Gates affair was to charge Officer James Crowley with racial profiling before he knew any of the facts. Obama is fully steeped in the game. And, Obama, if anyone, proved to be the racist (per the second meaning above) as he judged Crowley on the basis of his being a white cop. Unfortunately, counter to his claim for a post racial world, if he secures and consolidates his power, he may, in fact, be best able to keep the game of guilt alive long enough to give credibility to the call for reparations.
 
Perhaps, some of what is stirring resistance to Obama includes the perception (faint as it may be to some) that he is, in fact, pushing for that third concept of “racism” – wealth redistribution and reparations based on race. Maybe, if Dowd’s vast psychological lexicon were more deftly deployed, she would inquire whether that goal (rather than Obama’s skin color) is some of what threatens much of the growing anti-Obama population. Clearly, Obama’s spending activities were much of what the marchers and town hallers openly cited and much of what Wilson disapproved. Instead, racism became the charge used by Dowd and others precisely to disguise the reality of what truly occurred.
 
Until we develop an easier ability to navigate through the failures of our black leaders, we will keep the game of white guilt alive. And, as long as we keep the game fueled, it will push for more dangerous and extreme meanings of “racism” to stay alive. If, however, we as a nation can both discover a way to deal with Obama’s failure just as if he were any man, and agree to simply refuse to play the game of guilt, then we can begin to learn how to successfully live in a post racial world. Until then, Hall of Fame players such as Dowd and Carter are all talk, and misguided to boot.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
SCV DECLARES HAYWARD SHEPHERD DAY

The Army of Northern Virginia of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will kick off the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States on Saturday, October 3, in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, by holding their annual meeting beginning at 10:30 at the Block house (John Brown’s Fort). The purpose of the meeting is to announce that October 16 will be known as HAYWARD SHEPHERD DAY, honoring the unfortunate black citizen who met his death as John Brown’s first victim 150 years ago.

Hayward, a faithful employee and Baggage Master of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was murdered in furtherance of John Brown’s nefarious scheme to capture the arsenal in that famous city. The SCV will honor Hayward Shepherd by placing a wreath at the 1931 marker honoring him across from the Engine House where Brown’s raid ended. Mr. Richard Hines, a well known historian from Alexandria, Virginia, will discuss the real John Brown.

Many today try to whitewash Brown’s crimes and call him a martyr. Mr. Hines will discuss Brown’s true motivations and his association with a group of famous Northern abolitionists (the Secret 6) who financed his plot and encouraged him to murder and commit crimes against his fellow Americans. The public is welcome to come see the wreath laying and hera Mr. Hines speak.

Anyone desiring information about this ceremony may contact Brag Bowling at 1-804-389-3620.

Brag Bowling
Commander
Army of Northern Virginia
Sons of Confederate Veterans

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Young Confederate goes to fight, sees mostly sickness

Rob Neufeld Visiting Our Past
October 7, 2009 09:22 AM

The land is still country where Newfound Creek flows into Hominy Creek in west Buncombe and east Haywood counties. A century and a half ago, William F. Hall, age 24, left his Newfound farm to join the second wave of enlistments in the Confederate Army.

He and his young wife, Margaret Cole, had two babies — Jo, age 1, and Henry, just 1 month — and Margaret was with child. “Dear Wife,” William wrote Margaret from his first camp below Warm Springs (now called Hot Springs), on July 2, 1862, “I am feeling well at this time. … We had to carry our packs all the way. … I am giting a little rested now. We hain't drilled any yet but it is getting dark.”

A miserable, lonely month passes before William, with others of the 60th Regiment of the N.C. Infantry, is mustered into service at Camp Smith in north Georgia. William McDowell, his regimental captain, promises pay soon. Hall is beset by worries: his wife's workload and welfare; an unpaid debt; not hearing his babies' voices. “My beloved companion,” he writes, “I must close my badly written leter by saying I am your beloved husband until death.”

In October at Camp Martin in east Tennessee, a staging ground for the drawn-out, brutal battles there, William is afflicted by the flu, the measles and one of the biggest killers in the Civil War, diarrhea. He hears news of Confederate successes — like the Battle of Lexington — but the news of Confederate disasters does not filter through. Yet another kind of disaster is happening at hand: death through sickness.

“I had rather be any place else than here at the hospital,” William writes Margaret, as he's left behind in an unsanitary trap. He hears that he has a new son, Thomas, and instructs his wife to use his bounty to buy “Elvina's hog.” “If I see you nomore,” he closes, “I hope to meet you and the children in a better world where there is no war nor parting with wif and children.”

In mid-May, 1863, the word comes: Anyone who can walk has to fight. William goes to join his regiment, heading toward Vicksburg. Too sick, he's put in a camp hospital in Lauderdale Springs, Miss. (where today there is a major Confederate cemetery).

William Hall's letters to his wife, published in J.L. Mashburn's new volume, “Hominy Valley Revisited,” end on Aug. 7, 1863. Volume XIV of “North Carolina Troops” reports that Hall was killed at Chickamauga on Sept. 20, 1863. Mashburn reports that Margaret lived 61 years beyond.

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COTTON FAMILY HONORS CIVIL WAR ANCESTOR

Members of the Cotton family had a special and memorable reunion on May 30, 2009, and paid homage to an ancestor whose grave had previously been unmarked.

King M. Cotton and his wife, Malinda Jane Robertson Cotton, moved to Perry County in 1860 with their two young children, John L. and Jared Nathaniel. They later had four more children, Alvin M., Mosella J., W.E. (Ed), and Idela J.

Cotton became a private in the Confederate Army, volunteering in Linden to Major Cox, on October 8, 1862, to serve a three-year stint with DeMoss’ Second Company A, 10th Regiment, Tennessee Calvary. He was captured by Union soldiers in Jackson on November 26, 1863, and sent to Louisville, Kentucky, as a prisoner on December 7 that same year.

From Louisville, Private Cotton was transferred to Rock Island Prison Barracks, in Illinois, on New Year’s Day, 1864, where he remained for more than four months. Under a May 9, 1865, order of the Union, Private Cotton was freed on May 23, after signing a sworn allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.

The present day Cotton family has a copy of that document. Described on the agreement as dark-haired, and grey-eyed, Private Cotton was five feet, eight inches tall, and 33 years old at the time of his release.

The document stated that King Cotton of Perry County would “henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution…and the Union of the States” and “abide by and support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves” and “abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves.”

Private King passed away at his Toms Creek home on September 10, 1914, at age 84. His obituary in the local newspaper described him as an elder in the Christian Church, and a “gentleman in the truest sense, being honest, kind-hearted, and industrious.”

On May 30 the descendants of King M. Cotton held a graveside memorial service at Bell-Robertson Cemetery in Pineview, their ancestor’s final resting place. His descendants also went to Hickman County to the old Modley Farm in the Blue Buck Creek area to see the graves of Private Cotton’s parents, Jared and Dorcas Modley Cotton, and visit the family cabin that was built in 1830 and still stands.

The family would like to especially thank Ms. Dorotha R. Hudson of Perry County, and Wayne and Nina Cotton of Paris, for their years of ancestry research and for helping the Cotton family locate Private Cotton’s grave and securing a government marker for placement there.

The material for this article was provided by Michael N. Averett, Private Cotton’s great, great, great grandson.

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New Jefferson Davis library planned

Associated Press - October 7, 2009

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - A contract has been signed to build a new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast house that was the retirement home for the president of the Confederacy.

Beauvoir's Director Rick Forte said Tuesday's signing was the result of 4 years of work.

The J.C. Dukes Construction Company of Mobile, Ala., won the $10.4 million contract, according to WLOX television.

The old library was demolished after being heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. the Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide 90% of the money for the project.

Information from: WLOX-TV, http://www.wlox.com

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

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Why are all the streets in Pine Valley named for Confederates?

Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Not quite all of them are - there's Haig Drive, which more likely owes its name to a British field marshal, while Reagan Court might honor the 40th president of the United States rather than the Confederate postmaster general, John H. Reagan of Texas. Still, there are a lot of Confederate generals down there, and even an admiral. (Semmes Drive honors Raphael Semmes, commander of the raider CSS Alabama.)

Why is that? Well, Pine Valley grew up around the Pine Valley Country Club (founded in 1955), in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Pine Valley Baptist Church and Pine Valley United Methodist Church were both organized in 1961.

One of the big deals in 1961 was the centennial of the American Civil War.

In New Hanover County, street, road and drive names are normally named by the subdivision developers or, failing that, by neighborhood residents. (The City of Wilmington did not annex Pine Valley until 1983, and only then after a bitter court fight.) Given the time frame, it only seems natural that folks selling real estate would appeal to their potential customers' sense of heritage. Presumably, the sellers weren't counting on a lot of customers from North of the Mason-Dixon (or customers whose ancestors had been slaves). Or maybe they thought that "Grant Road" or "Sherman Lane" wouldn't go over well around here.

Whiting Cove is named Maj. Gen. William Henry Chase Whiting (1824-1865), the commander of the Wilmington district for much of the war and the engineer behind the development of Fort Fisher and the Cape Fear River defenses. He was wounded in the Union attack of Fort Fisher, died as a prisoner of war at Governors Island, N.Y., and was reburied at Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery in 1900.

Bragg Drive, of course, is named for Gen. Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), a North Carolina native with a checkered military career, who succeeded Whiting as commander of the Wilmington defenses in 1864. (The Richmond Examiner, noting his appointment, commented simply, "Goodbye, Wilmington!") Whiting, in his last days, blamed Bragg for not releasing troops camped at Sugar Loaf dune, near Carolina Beach, to come to Fort Fisher's aid.

Reilly Drive, given context, probably honors Maj. James Reilly, the Confederate officer who actually surrendered Fort Fisher to the Union after both Whiting and Col. William Lamb, the fort's commander, had both been wounded. Ironically, Reilly - an artillery sergeant in the U.S. Army before the war - had ended up surrendering Fort Johnston near Smithville (modern-day Southport) to milita companies from Wilmington at the opening of the war.

Robert Hoke Road is for Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke (1837-1912), another native North Carolinian, who became a division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the Wilmington campaign. His division was the one camped at Sugar Loaf while Fort Fisher fell.

John D. Barry Road is one of the few "Confederate" streets named for a local boy: John D. Barry (1839-1867) was born in Wilmington, attended the University of North Carolina and rose through the ranks to become colonel of the 18th North Carolina. He was slated to be promoted to brigadier general, but his appointment was canceled after a disabling wound put him out of action late in the war.

By most reports, Barry was an able officer, but he was haunted by bad luck - specifically, companies under his command committed the most famous "friendly fire" incident of the Civil War, shooting and fatally wounding Stonewall Jackson at the battle of Chancellorsville. Tradition holds that Barry personally issued the order to open fire, mistaking Jackson and his staff in the dark for Union cavalry raiders. After the war, Barry returned to Wilmington in ill health and edited a newspaper for a while before dying short of his 38th birthday. Some Southern sources claim he "died of a broken heart" for shooting Jackson; traumatic wartime wounds might have played a role as well. He is also buried in Oakdale Cemetery.

- Ben Steelman

Copyright © 2009 StarNewsOnline.com

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So that's what they mean by "War of Northern Aggression."
 
By tspears
Wed, Oct 7 2009

Do young men from the Deep South have a different personality? Prone to rebel, or to react to northern aggression, for instance? To defend their honour like Ashley Wilkes?

This is actual research, from an actual scientific source, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. It was done in 1996, but you can still find it floating around Pub Med, a website that carries vast amounts of medical research.

I'm going to let the authors tell it themselves, through their abstract. A couple of footnotes first:

1. Cortisol is a hormone in the blood that generally shows stress.

2. They use the word "confederate" in the sense of "someone helping the researcher". Perhaps they could have found a better word, given the context.
 
Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: an experimental ethnography.

Three experiments examined how norms characteristic of a "culture of honor" manifest themselves in the cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and physiological reactions of southern White males. Participants were University of Michigan students who grew up in the North or South. In 3 experiments they were insulted by a confederate who bumped into the participant and called him an "a******". Compared with northerners - who were relatively unaffected by the insult - southerners were (a) more likely to think their masculine reputation was threatened, (b) more upset (as shown by a rise in cortisol levels), (c) more physiologically primed for aggression (as shown by a rise in testosterone levels), (d) more cognitively primed for aggression, and (e) more likely to engage in aggressive and dominant behavior.

And that's it. Personally, I blame those bumper stickers that say "Lee surrendered; I didn't."

© 2008 - 2009 Canwest Publishing Inc.

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Confederate flag may fly in VFW Homestead parade

Written by ELGIN JONES  

HOMESTEAD – Undaunted by the cancellation of the traditional Homestead Veterans Day Parade, a group of veterans on Wednesday announced that it is organizing its own parade, and would not necessarily ban the Confederate battle flag from being displayed in it.

Officials with the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) say they have submitted a permit application to the city of Homestead, seeking to hold this year’s Veterans Day parade in the city.

The revelation came a day after the South Florida Times reported that the Military Affairs Committee (MAC) of the Greater Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce, which has previously organized the 47-year event, voted recently to cancel this year’s Nov. 11 parade. The move followed an announcement by the MAC last month that it would hold the parade, but ban the display of the Confederate battle flag.

The flag is a symbol of southern pride to some, but represents slavery, lynching and racial mistreatment to others.

“We made the decision to go forward, and we just put the application in. I don’t know if we are going to get any resistance to it, but the application has been filed with the city, and we are waiting for the permit,” said William Thibault, a retired veteran who is working with the Arrant-Smith VFW Post 4127 in Homestead to organize the alternative version of the parade.

Homestead city spokeswoman Lillian Delgado said in an email that the VFW has not yet submitted an application to hold the parade.

The VFW is sending out invitation applications from an established list of past parade participants, with a Nov. 6 deadline for them to be returned.

Thibault said the group would not automatically bar the Sons of Confederate Veterans from participating.

“First of all, I have no comment on that because I don’t know who will or will not respond to the applications we are sending out,” Thibault said. “This will not be a decision made by me alone. The committee allows for participation by any organization that honors veterans, and if they tell us on their applications what their theme is, and whether they will have floats, etc., then a decision will be made whether they meet our requirements or not.”

But already, Gregory E. Kalof, a commander in the Miami-Dade County-based Private George Perry camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said his organization will participate in the VFW parade, no differently than other veterans organizations.

The parade is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 11 at noon in downtown Homestead, according to the forms that the VFW is sending to would-be applicants.

“This parade, honoring the memory of the men and women who have fought to defend our nation and liberty is the oldest and, usually, the largest Veteran’s Day celebration in Miami-Dade County,’’ the form reads. “As such, we expect all entries will be designed to convey the patriotic theme of the holiday.”

Thibault said the VFW has been assured that it will get financial and other support, but did not elaborate on the source of that support. The city of Homestead has provided financial support to previous Veterans Day parades.

The MAC canceled its version of this year’s parade after several participants pulled out due to controversy surrounding the participation of Confederate States groups in last year’s parade, and the display of the Confederate battle flag during the event.

The Miami-Dade NAACP and some residents opposed the participation of Confederate  organizations, and threatened an economic boycott of the chamber’s member businesses if those groups were not barred from participating in future parades.

After the MAC canceled its version of this year’s parade, Bishop Victor T. Curry, president of the Miami-Dade NAACP, said in a statement emailed to the media on Tuesday: “The Sons of the Confederate Veterans organization and the Confederate flag have no place in a Chamber of Commerce-sponsored and taxpayer-supported event.’’

Curry also said, “The NAACP and the coalition of organizations and concerned Americans does not desire the cancellation of the parade but rather a parade that will truly honor U.S. veterans and not insult significant numbers of our citizens.’’

He continued: “Confederate symbols are symbols of support for white supremacy, resistance to desegregation and fighting to maintain slavery.  They are as offensive as the Nazi swastika.’’

Neither Curry nor other NAACP officials could be immediately reached for comment about the VFW’s plans for its own Veterans Day parade.

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Homestead parade cancelled over Confederate flag controversy

South Florida Sun Sentinel

October 7, 2009

HOMESTEAD - A controversy over the display of a Confederate flag has led to the cancellation of a Homestead Veteran's Day Parade, the South Florida Times reports.

The Military Affairs Committee of Homestead's Chamber of Commerce voted to cancel the Nov. 11 event because too many participants had withdrawn from the event because of the controversy, the Times reports.

"We're really disappointed. That parade was for the veterans," said Gregory E. Kalof, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp commander in Miami-Dade County. " I'm a Vietnam veteran and I remember when we came home, we were spit upon, and this is no different."

The Miami-Dade NAACP, which had threatened an economic boycott of the chamber's member businesses if Confederate groups were allowed, said it had not wanted to end the parade.

They said they only wanted to ban the flag's display, the Times reported.

Copyright © 2009, South Florida Sun-Sentinel         

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New VA Confederate Forum
 
From: va-csagov@cox.net
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
I have taken the liberty of building a temporary online Forum specifically dedicated to the Confederate State of Virginia for use as a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and information relevant to the restoration of the CSA and, more specifically, the sovereignty of Virginia and her patriot-citizens.
 
This forum's location and format are subject to change, though I hope not too terribly.  This started as a project to replace another forum and it was decided that my devices were not necessarily along the lines of what they were looking for.  Rather than scrap the board entirely I have decided to dedicate it to VA sovereignty issues and it will hopefully become a permanent addition to the VA State web site, currently under construction.
 
This will be the only notification of this forum's release.  Anyone who received this message and wishes not to receive additional messages, please let me know and I will delete your address from my list of contacts.
 
http://va.southernwarroom.freecp.net
 
--
Deo Vindice,
Travis Fox
Chairman, Virginia Constitutional Convention
State Registrar, Confederate States of America

 

SHAPE
 
From: gpthelastrebel@cableone.net
 
Chuck,
 
I would like to remind all readers of SHNV that Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation and Education (SHAPE) is looking for active members. We are an active Southern Heritage group that welcomes all southern patriots to our cause. We have a General Discussion board, for general postings. Our Articles Board where researched and sourced articles can be posted, we have a Re-enactors board where you may discuss upcoming events or just talk about past events. We have a This Day in History board for historical events and discussion. We have a Did You Know board for interesting facts in history. We work with and help many organizations who work to save our history. We have a Members Only board for those who support and promote our efforts; you must be active and stay active to gain access to this board. We have several projects in the works at this time and may be willing to take on new suggested projects. SHAPE is a recognized charity organization in the state of Mississippi and I am currently working on our 501 tax exempt status. I invite everyone to check us out and consider joining us in our efforts to promote and protect our Southern Heritage.
 
Best Regards,
 
George Purvis
SHAPE VP
http://southernheritageadvancementpreservationeducation.com

 

Gilded Age Working Conditions
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
In 1876, the North had been free from the political and moral restraint of Southerner leaders for 15 years. This morally-superior North had been very concerned about the welfare of black slaves down South not long before, and who at the same time worked children and young women in unhealthy factories for fourteen hours a day. A decent and moral people need no laws to protect young children from abuse such as this, and yet Sumner, Thad Stevens, Garrison, Greeley, all the various abolitionists previously concerned about the plight of those cared for from cradle to grave, remained silent. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
Wilmington, North Carolina
www.cfhi.net

Gilded Age Working Conditions:
 
“Factory Life:  For those lucky enough not to be out of work, factory conditions were far from ideal. Skilled workers, who had earned $4.50 to $5 per day in 1873, in 1876 had their wages reduced to between $1.50 and $2. Nevertheless, the New York times chided workers for not accepting wage reductions necessitated by the 1873 Panic; why should skilled laborers who “earned liberal wages…sullenly refuse to accept any reduction…It seems almost incredible than men should be capable of such blind folly.”
 
Child Labor: In 1876 Massachusetts passed a child-labor law, but child-labor laws were not enforced and had no effect until years later. Thus in 1876, children worked long, hard days and were often involved in very dangerous work. Harper’s Weekly stated:
 
“Recent legislation in Massachusetts has introduced new regulations for protecting young children from overwork and neglect in factories and workshops. A law which went into operation last March [1876] forbade, under penalty of from twenty to fifty dollars, the employment in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment of children under ten years of age at all, and of children under fourteen, unless during the preceding year the child has attended school at least ten consecutive weeks.”
 
John F. Weir, “Forging the Shaft, 1877:
 
“When a workingman was injured in shop, mine or on the railroad, the claim agent of the employing company would at once present himself with an instrument of agreement for the injured man and his wife, if he had one, to sign,” wrote Terrance Powderly. “By the terms of the instrument the company would be released from all responsibility in consideration of the payment of a few dollars. Let me tell you of one such case out of the hundreds I witnessed. A coal miner, a neighbor of mine, had his back injured through a fall of rock in the darkness of the mine. The claim agent called to see him; he asked for time to consider and sent for me. He had a wife and children, his means were meager. I advised against signing a release, and here is what he said: “I am buying this house from the company. If I don’t sign this release, I can never get a day’s work under that company or any other round here, for if I get well I’ll be blacklisted. When my next payment on the house falls due, or the interest not paid we’ll be thrown out on the street. With no work, no money, no friends, what will my wife and babies do?...”
 
(America in 1876, The Plight of the Poor, Lally Weymouth, Vintage Books, 1976, page 195)

 

Dump Confederate flag
 
I am seeing a huge increase in use of the Confederate flag in all of Ventura County. I firmly believe they should either remove their flags and other Confederate symbols or freely admit what it is: hate.
 
How anyone can be delusional enough to believe the Confederate flag is not racist is beyond me or anyone else with common sense.
 
The Klan, skinheads, neo-Nazis and all other extreme white-hetero-Protestant privileged groups use the Confederate flag as a symbol of white supremacy. Get a clue. If these groups are using this symbol, it’s racist.
 
To deny that it is racist is to deny common sense and to ignore recent history. The flag enjoyed a huge resurgence during the civil rights era. Angry, racist white Southerners brought it back to show they weren’t going to take this whole desegregation thing lying down.
 
They dusted off the old Dixie flag to terrorize blacks who had the audacity to fight Jim Crow laws. I’m just not buying the “It’s a heritage thing.” Admit what it really is: “A heritage of hate thing.”
 
The Confederacy lost. The Confederate South will never rise again! The Confederate ideology will be met with the truth of freedom for all in this country: equal and never separate.
 
All of us can take some comfort in the fact that we have, for the first time ever, a black First Family in the White House, and it is driving these neo-Nazi fascists into a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy!
 
Your letters: October 7, 2009
Ventura County Star
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/oct/07/ob8letts07/

Re: Supreme Court refuses Confederate flag T-shirt case
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1005/p02s04-usju.html
 
Chuck,
 
Given that Chief Justice Roberts – a “conservative” and “strict constructionist” - gave the oath of office to a man that he knew damned well was very likely unqualified by virtue of Constitutional determinants to be President (and choked on the oath, I might add), I am not at all surprised that an ongoing erosion of Constitutional rights is accepted and promoted by the “High” Court.
 
None of the cases brought against Obama during the election campaign by competent plaintiffs with “standing” (though often the “lack” of standing was the cause used to dismiss those cases out of hand) were heard even though the facts were plain and the defendant in many instances failed to respond to the complaint, thus giving victory to the plaintiffs by virtue of summary judgment.
 
The handling of this matter by the federal and state courts at every level merely served to prove that our judicial system is a joke; that it is fatally compromised and that the only thing the Constitution stands for these days is a prop behind which our venal, corrupt and traitorous politicians from BOTH parties can stand and look “patriotic”.
 
Do not look to our “court system” for interest much less justice. You would be more successful teaching a pig Latin.
 
Valerie Protopapas

 

Confederate Cemetery Fundraiser
 
Since 1873 the Southern Memorial Association has privately owned and maintained the 3-acre Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The association will have a drawing on Saturday June 6, 2010, during the annual memorial service at the Confederate Cemetery.  Tickets are $1.00 each and all money will go toward the maintenance of this historic Confederate Cemetery.  The winner will receive a beautiful hand-made crosstitch of the five flags of the Confederacy with a quotation by Jefferson Davis, “The priniciple for which we contended is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
 
The crosstitch is framed 18" x 15" and signed on the back by UDC member, Mrs. Heidi Smith, of Arkansas, who donated this lovely work of art to the Southern Memorial Association.  Heidi is the 3x-great granddaughter of James Hansford, 6th Georgia Infantry and 3x-great granddaughter of Abraham Hill, Beauregard's S.C Light Artillery, as well as having 73 other documented Confederate ancestors.
 
For a picture of the crosstitch, how to purchase a ticket and also more information about the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas, please visit our website:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arsma/fundraiser.html
 
All mail will be answered.  We are just several ladies who voluntarily carry on the work of the founding ladies of 1872.  We receive no money from any endowments and not a penny from any public funds, taxes or otherwise.  We exist only by small private donations and plan to keep it that way.  Thanks for any help.

 

North Carolinian Estimate of Sherman's Associates
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“On March 7, 1865 General William T. Sherman and his army of mercenaries from Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and Prussia, as well as the northern United States, many of whom could not speak English, crossed the North Carolina State line. Behind them lay the smoking ruins of sacked Georgia and South Carolina cities, homeless widows and orphans, and death by starvation. At Laurel Hill, NC, Sherman halted to refresh his troops, and from here he wired General Schofield in Wilmington that he would be in Goldsboro, NC March 20, 1865 via Fayetteville, NC. On March 12th Sherman and his army of barbarians reached Fayetteville. After plundering the residential section, it was then burned. Also destroyed were four cotton mills, the churches, banks, courthouse and warehouses. Sherman then moved on looting and burning. Any item that could not be carried,  including furniture, carpets and farm equipment, was destroyed. Even the cabins of the slaves were robbed by the Yankees.”
 
(Land of the Golden River, Volume 2 & 3, Lewis Philip Hall, Hall’s Enterprises, 1980, page 101)

 

Provoking Total War and Devastation
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Careful historians like to blame the War Between the States on fanatics of both North and South, though the fanatics seemed to primarily inhabit the North. The South by 1860 certainly had “the wolf by the ears” as Jefferson noted decades earlier, greatly fearing Santo Domingue-style race war and machete-wielding slaves in revolt. What was needed in 1860 was a well-reasoned and peaceful solution to the large number of enslaved Africans in the South, but none was offered by the transcendentalist-abolitionist sons of New England slave merchants who only preached slave revolts and rivers of blood. 
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net 

Provoking Total War and Devastation:
 
“The potency of literature in the governance of men’s minds was forcibly shown when in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a work of popular fiction which set up a Christian martyr in black skin as hero, idealized the Negro, exaggerated his unhappiness in the South, and presented harrowing pictures of brutality. The book was universally read, 100,000 copies being sold within two months and 300,000 within a year. The south considered the book a slander, regarding it not incorrectly as an abolitionist tract. A Southern woman of spirit wrote of trying to read Uncle Tom, but added that she “could not”; it was too sickening.” Flesh and blood revolt,” she said, at such details as a “man sending his little son to beat a human being tied to a tree.”
 
The significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as of similar mass attacks upon the popular mind, lay in the fact that the conflict of sections was becoming increasingly dramatized. Issues were becoming emotionalized; slogans were reducing public sentiment to stereotyped patterns; social psychology was approaching a hair-trigger instability. To this factor of mass psychology William H. Seward made a fateful contribution. Speaking at Rochester, New York, October 25, 1858, he said: “Shall I tell you what this collision means? They think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.”  A year after the speech was delivered old John Brown of Osawatomie broke out with an insane attack upon slavery in Virginia; and the sensitive mind of the South put the two together: Seward, the Republican spokesman, was preaching the “irrepressible conflict”; John Brown was giving the illustration of it in blood and servile war!
 
Scorning the “milk-and-water” abolitionists of the parlor variety, John Brown had said: “What is needed is action---action!”  Exalting this resolution to the self-immolating life-purpose of a martyr, he had sworn his sons to the support of his undertakings; and in the Pottawatomie massacre, albeit his complicity in this outrage was not generally known, he had demonstrated that murder in cold blood was part of his strategy. Tireless in his determined efforts, Brown obtained money and arms from respectable antislavery sources; established himself in Canada with a band of twelve whites and thirty-four Negroes; held a “Convention” (misrepresented as a meeting to organize a colored Masonic lodge); drew up a document called “Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States”; and concocted a daring plan for violent emancipation.
 
“Virginia, said Wendell Phillips, “is no government…Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia!...She is a pirate ship, and John Brown sails the sea a Lord High Admiral of the Almighty with his commission to sink every pirate he meets on God’s ocean of the nineteenth century.”
 
(Civil War and Reconstruction, J.G. Randall, D.C. Heath and Company, 1937, pp. 170-172)

 

The Greater Villains
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The response of the Northern liberal press and abolitionist agitators to John Brown’s 1859 violence in Virginia helped Southerners find a more perfect union outside the old federated Union. With violent fanatics like Brown encouraged, armed and financed by irresponsible abolitionists in New England; fanatics who cared little for the paper Constitution that bound them to obedience---as it equally bound Southerners. Though it would have been blocked by Northern politicians, Virginia could have demanded that Federal courts arrest the wealthy abolitionists who financed Brown’s insurrection in their State and bring them to justice. Nonetheless, Americans in the South would no longer want be associated with deceitful people such as this in a voluntary union of States.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net 

The Greater Villains:
 
“On Wednesday morning, October 19, John Brown and [Aaron Dwight] Stevens were placed in a wagon and driven to the railway station under a strong guard of Marines to protect them from the possibility of a merciful lynching. But when they reached the waiting train and the shouts of “Lynch them, lynch them!” rose, the Governor was there to call back, “Oh, it would be cowardly to do so now!”  The Sheriff of Jefferson County and the United States Marshal for the Western District of Virginia committed their four prisoners to the jail at Charlestown to await trial.
 
There was no apparent reason why the prisoners should not be brought to justice as soon as possible, for the evidence was clear, the law demanded immediate trial, and the State of Virginia recognized no advantage in submitting the case to the Federal courts. The Federal government was directly by the attack on the arsenal and indirectly by the whole nature of the conspiracy, but Virginia was insisting on a primary principle in retaining jurisdiction. In the case of John Brown himself there was little hesitation; in that of his companions more debate occurred, for the temptation was strong to embody in fact a subsidiary principle concerning the slave problem by turning Stevens over to the Federal Government for prosecution….the great advantage the Federal court possessed [was] being able to summon “the greater villains” who resided beyond the jurisdiction of the State of Virginia; and meanwhile some of these villains had made haste to reside beyond the jurisdiction of the United States.
 
The immediate trial and the wounds of two of the prisoners provided unexpected capital for the “liberal” newspapers in the North. At first the Republican press hurried to repudiate John Brown and all his works, for it was felt that this sort of thing might prove disastrous in the Presidential contest of the next year, but it was not long before editors and politicians alike recognized an opportunity in the situation. The Chicago Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln in 1860 unanimously resolved that the attempt of John Brown was criminal…But in the autumn of 1859 the “liberal” press…deplored the conditions which made it [Brown’s attack] necessary; it deplored the misguided effort in a holy cause, but abhorred the barbarous conduct in Virginia in suppressing that effort. [William Lloyd] Garrison wrote in the Liberator:
 
“In recording the expressions of sympathy and admiration which are so widely felt for John Brown, whose doom is now swiftly approaching…that, judging him by the code of Bunker hill, we think he is deserving of high-wrought eulogy as any who ever wielded sword or battle-axe in the cause of liberty…”
 
(John Brown, The Making of a Martyr, Robert Penn Warren, J.S. Sanders and Company, 1929, pp. 393-395)

 

 

Lack of Flags
 
From: gerasim.mayden@gmail.com
 
Sir:  I do find it sad that as I travel on my motorcycle through the South I see very, very few Confederate flags. I have 2 on my bike, and that is more than I saw on a 2,000 mile trip through TN, MS, LA AL. I’m in TX right now, all I see here is the 1st national, NEVER the 2nd or 3rd.  Sad, our fathers died for the rights of the South, and we can’t even fly a flag in the memory of the Cause.   God forgive us.
 
Deo Vindice
 
Gerasim
 
MO…

 

Re: response to concerns
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
To: cityofodum@windstream.net
 
Thank you. I was able to open the document and it proves what I came to believe: that the matter was a misunderstanding between the parties exacerbated by [1] excessive government regulation of just about everything and [2] an unfortunate “track record” of dealings between the SCV and various local, county and state governments with regard to the display of the Battle Flag.
 
It is sad that our present “politically correct” and demonstrably anti-Southern culture - together with the endless need of government at every level to legislate, regulate and otherwise intrude upon the lives of individual Americans from the amount of water in our toilets to the placing of symbols or signs on “government” rights of way - is creating an ever more hostile and confrontational environment.
 
On the other hand, while I can understand the need to obtain “permission” to display on the DOT right of way something that is going to remain in place for months, weeks or even days, I cannot understand the City’s rather overwhelming response to something that was only going to be displayed for a matter of hours. Ergo, I am inclined to believe that the nature of what was displayed had more to do with the complaints received and the haste of its removal than any failure of protocol! Of course, I have no idea how large these flags were, but I cannot imagine that they were all 3 by 5 foot and thus capable of dangerously obstructing the view of drivers. Of course, if they were in fact that large, then their removal required an extremely determined effort by the individual doing so to accomplish the deed so rapidly and efficiently that they were already stored in the maintenance building when the gentleman who placed them came and asked after them! As I noted in an earlier response, such dedication and application is seldom seen at any level of government!
 
I have been told by Mr. Titus – and I have no reason to disbelieve his word – that the City of Odum is not “anti-Southern” and did not pursue a politically correct policy in this matter - and I rejoice in that fact. However, obviously there is a woeful lack of communication between the City government and the SCV with regards to that fact. Had this understanding been in place, doubtless the incident would never have happened. If the City had made known to the SCV – and other organizations as well – the various “regulations” under which we are all (alas!) forced to live these days, then the proper channels would have been accessed and the proper permissions received. Sadly, that did not happen.
 
Let us hope that in future, all such misunderstandings can be avoided by an open, amicable and respectful relationship amongst all those involved.
 
Again, thank you for your response.
 
Valerie Protopapas

 

Speaking Up
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
 
www.snopes.com debunks many rumors and "old wives' tales."
 
A recent article mentioned "the Jim Crow laws that separated blacks from whites in the South."
 
Here is my comment, directed to
www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/comments/webmail.asp
 
Your article at www.snopes.com/language/offense/jimmies.asp mentions "the Jim Crow laws that separated blacks from whites in the South."
 
Please know that there were also Jim Crow laws in the North. Washington DC was Jim Crow until after World War II. Topeka, Kansas was Jim Crow into the 1950s (the famous case that ended school segregation was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka). The US military was not desegregated until 1948.
 
Please know also that the Southern-State legislatures that passed Jim Crow laws were reconstruction legislatures, firmly under Congressional control.
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon

 

The Casualties of War
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
 
Dear SHNV Friends,
 
I received an unusually high number of positive e-mails from my response to "The Casualties of War."  Bruce Buwalda, a gentleman from Missouri with an MBA, drew an unusually insightful conclusion that may well be more true than I used to be willing to admit.  His conclusion said, "With such a precedent established for war, the U.S victors had no right in participating in war crimes tribunals on the vanquished nations (regardless of the enormity of the crimes), due to the stain on her hands from the war between the states."  That the United States have no humility and know no shame is something still recognized by unreconstructed Southerners.
 
Let's take a look at the victorious United States for concrete examples that are contrary to totalitarian governments.
 
1. Some of the"first concentration camps" were conducted by the United States of America in the west as holding pins until we could kill the Indians with small pox, and it did not seem to bother anyone that thousands of Indians died in the "Removal" to Oklahoma. The English had used small pox against us earlier in our history and that evidently established a precedent for the United States.  The "Supreme Race" idea is tied to the American sense of "Divine Destiny," even though other peoples were already living the areas we sought to claim as "belonging" to us.
 
2. The whole concept of "ethnic cleansing" was practiced by the United States against American Indians by the establishment of removal and the reservation system and then later was used against ethnic Germans through the Morgenthau Plan.  In the Morgenthau Plan, written by Henry Morgenthau, Jr. United States Secretary of the Treasury, the United States, England and Russia killed over 2 1/2 million German civilians after World War II was over, loaded German civilians like cattle on rail cars (exactly like the Germans did to Jews and other Europeans)  and relocated 15,000,000 more Germans in our assisting England in its plan to control European markets for its own homeland industries and restrict Germans from doing anything except farming. Had not the Morganthau Plan been halted the plan would have exterminated European Germans from the face of the earth.  Tens of millions of more Germans would have been exterminated. For Confederate Southerners this meant that cities and towns that existed before Lincoln's War no longer exist.  Now those of us who have followed our ancestors are STILL UNDERGOING cultural cleansing.
 
3. The term "Total War" was coined under Abraham Lincoln by the United States against the Confederate States of America. Hitler loved and adopted the notion.
 
4. The "extermination" of various European peoples was made to seem reasonable by the extensive use by the United States military's of the term and the practice.  It was used near the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's U.S. War to Prevent Southern Independence by general's Hunter, Sheridan and Butler from the time of the very beginning of the war. Dozens of other U.S. generals used the term and were ordered to facilitate a massive genocide against Southerners, especially against their civilians.  Their Southern civilian targets were the women, children and the elderly who remained in the cities.  Sherman stated before congress that 80% of the U.S. military force used again the South was against  "their civilians."
 
5.  Hitler's "hatred for the Jews" was fired-up to uncontrolled proportions by two books written against Judism by the U.S. car maker Henry Ford. Hitler send his emissaries to the United States and awarded Henry Ford the highest metal of honour that Germany has ever awarded to a foreign national. This is a story seldom admitted to by World war II historians.  It is O.K. to hate Hitler and Germans but not O.K. to hate the Marxism and national socialism that provided a structure for their genocidal activities.
 
6. Decades ago the apostate descendants of the radical Puritans (commonly and proudly, of course, calling themselves "yankee's") living in the Deep North (New England) gave up their radicalized Calvinism and gave birth to the "eugenics movement" long before Hitler's death chambers. These people surrendered their belief in God and the Bible and became atheists and agnostics who embraced transcendentalism, socialism, communism and Unitarianism. They had always hated Christians who differed with them in beliefs and continued to shun any level of tolerance toward Christians and especially toward those who held the more "orthodox" Biblical beliefs.
 
Socialist like Margaret Sanger (Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee 1879-1966) and earlier Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)  were "feminist" activists in pushing American birth control.  Sanger became the founder of the American Birth Control League which became Planned Parenthood. She spoke to the KKK pushing her views. The feminist movement was a supremist white female movement seeking to stop the birth of non-white babies first in North America and then in the rest of the world. In her drive to promote contraception and abortion which was a distinguishing manifestation of "negative eugenics (as seen in the Nazi movements)," Sanger remains a hero of American liberals composed of American Nazi's, neo-Nazi's, Fabian socialists and apostate Evangelical churches.  Northern Evangelical churches readily accepted abortion into their "value systems." ((Atheists and agnostics have "values" while Christians have "morals." Values are defined through rationalism and the use of Marxist democracy and morals are defined through the study of the Bible.)) Susan B. Anthony remains a hero honoured by a dollar coin issued by the government of the United States of America in her "honour."  Anthony traveled the United States and Europe for 45 years giving 75 to 100 speeches every year on "women's rights."
 
Thank you Mr. Buwalda. I now believe that you are more right than the history of the court historians which is constructed to make us feel comfortable with the agnostic notions of the American empire.
 
Deo Vindice.
 
Timothy D. Manning, M. Div
Executive Director
North Carolina Heritage Foundation
3018 Charleston Highway
Cayce, South Carolina 29172
(336) 420-5355
 

Flag Defense and "us"
 
From: tmanning1@triad.rr.com
 
Dear SHNV Friends,
 
People’s actions and symbols represent them. "Our" placement of these flags are "our" actions and "our" cherished symbols of "our" civilization . . . recognizing, of course, that no "symbol" is required to walk on all four legs meaning that our symbols mean to us what we designate and accept them to mean from the past. Legitimately we do not give permission to those who know less of our past than we do to tell us what our symbols mean. Teaching them a history lesson will not solve our problem with anti-Southern racists. It is not the Southern flags and symbols that less informed people hate.  It is us.
 
The removal by modernity's sociopaths of "our" symbols is a childish and annoying attempt to invalidate "us" and "our" beliefs. In many other countries such actions would already have led to real bloodshed and enhanced subjugation. Any reasonable person is compelled to conclude that those who attack "us" and "our" symbols are "our" enemies.
 
This gives me a great deal to fear about the future of the not-so-United States. Even strongly subjugated and outnumbered minorities will sooner or later strike back in order to protect themselves from the continuing political and cultural abuse. Whites generally (although the French have shown us that at times whites can behave in this manner) do not just get angry or drunk and riot in the streets and burn down a few buildings and steal some CD's and TV's etc. from some local businesses. The current events present us with some very serious matters and possibilities and the current suppression of Christians and Southerners truly is about us and our ability to be a distinct people defining and living our own beliefs.
 
Those who do not tolerate our symbols are demonstrating their intolerant attitudes toward those of "us" who honour those symbols.  It is the Christian and the self conscious Southerner that socialists and agnostics hate.
 
Those intolerant folks do not realize that they are playing an antagonistic role against the God given human right to practice personal liberty and freedom at governmental levels. Such people were playing a major role in England during the early 1600's and instead of being called "socialists" they were called "levelers."  This violent egalitarian world view was not new with the Kennedy's, FDR, Truman, Marx, the Soviets, China Harvard, Yale or Cuba. Our problem today is that most of the world is so dumbed down that we no longer recognize an old rationalistic enemy that our ancestors sometimes found themselves at war with and, less often, in subjugation to.
 
The United States of America have fought 218 wars since the American Revolution.  Any country who fights that many wars in that short a period of time is an intolerant and militarily aggressive country and a direct threat to any reasonable person's concept of "World Peace." George Orwell was a socialist but he did get this part right.
 
Blacks, not all of course, more and more are responding the way American Fabian socialists and American Nazi socialists (Democrats & Republicans) have programmed them to act and vote.  While many blacks do play the role of enemies to Southern whites, it is not the NAACP or blacks who are the real and fundamental enemies of those of us who do not accept the current manifestations of American agnosticism and its companion cultural Marxism.
 
The current platform of the Democrat Party [they are not the Democratic Party] largely reflects the Nazi platform of Adolph Hitler. Substitute hatred for Christians in the place of Hitler’s hatred for Jews and the comparison comes frightening close to being identical.  Volatile ingredients are in the melting pot and being briskly stirred. We must not remain silent or our enslavement to American socialists will be complete. Future generations will tell this story.  How will they tell it?
 
Deo Vindice.
 
Timothy D. Manning
Executive Director
North Carolina Heritage Foundation

 

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A Hispanic Month Tribute to Moses Ezekiel

By: Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Freelance Writer, Author of book, "When America Stood for God, Family and Country" and 36 plues years as PROUD member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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September 15th -October 15th is Hispanic History Month and the Educational Committee of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a national-historical and educational organization, has included an informative Hispanic History Month fact sheet about those who served in the Confederate and Union Armies at:

http://www.scv.org/documents/edpapers/hispanichistory.pdf

Some say, Americans know more about sports then they do about their nation’s past. Sports are a wonderful past-time of family fun but there can also be fun in reading stories about great Americans like; George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Booker T. Washington, Florence Nightingale and Moses Ezekiel, with your children and grandchildren.

Please share this story of America’s forgotten past with teachers, young people, family and friends.

Moses J. Ezekiel was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 28, 1844. He was one of fourteen children born to Jacob and Catherine De Castro Ezekiel. His grandparents came to America from Holland in 1808, and were of Jewish-Spanish Heritage.

At the age of 16, and the beginning of the War Between the States, Moses begged his father and mother to allow him to enroll at Virginia Military Institute.

Three years after his enrollment at (VMI) the cadets of the school marched to the aid of Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Moses Ezekiel joined his fellow cadets in a charge against the Union lines at the "Battle of New Market."

When the War Between the States ended, Moses went back to Virginia Military Institute to finish his studies where he graduated in 1866. According to his letters, which are now preserved by the American Jewish Historical Society, Ezekiel met with Robert E. Lee during this time. Lee encouraged him by saying, "I hope you will be an artist.....do earn a reputation in whatever profession you undertake.”

The world famous Arlington National Cemetery is located in Virginia and overlooks the Potomac River. At section 16, of the cemetery, is a beautiful Confederate Monument that towers over the graves of 450 Southern soldiers, wives and civilians. These words are inscribed on the memorial:

"Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, Not lured by ambition, or goaded by necessity, But in simple obedience to duty, as they understood it, These men sacrificed all, dared all....and died."

The United Daughters of the Confederacy entered into a contract with Moses J. Ezekiel to build this Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery. It is written that he based his work on the words of Prophet Isaiah, "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks."

This Confederate Memorial towers 32 and 1/2 feet and is said to be the tallest bronze sculpture at Arlington National Cemetery. On top is a figure of a woman, with olive leaves covering her head, representing the South. She also holds a laurel wreath in her left hand, remembering the Sons of Dixie. On the side of the monument is also a depiction of a Black Confederate marching in step with white soldiers.

Ezekiel was not able to come to the dedication of the monument held on June 4, 1914, with President Woodrow Wilson presiding. Union and Confederate soldiers were present among a crowd of thousands at this historic event.

Moses Jacob Ezekiel studied to be an artist in Italy. As a tribute to his great works, he was knighted by Emperor William I of Germany and King's Humbert I and Victor Emmanuel, II of Italy---thus the title of "Sir."

Among the works of Sir Moses J. Ezekiel are: “Christ Bound for the Cross", "The Martyr", "David singing his song of Glory”, “Moses Receiving the Law on Mount Sinai" and “Stonewall Jackson” located at VMI.

Upon his death in 1917, Moses Ezekiel left behind his request to be buried with his Confederates at Arlington. A burial ceremony was conducted on March 31, 1921, at the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. It was presided over by the United States Secretary of War John W. Weeks. He was laid to rest at the foot of the memorial that he had sculptured. Six VMI cadets flanked his casket that was covered with an American flag. Lest We Forget!


 

Friday, October 2, 2009

New Publication Exposes SPLC's Tactics

As Rocky the Flying Squirrel would say, "Now here's something you'll REALLY like!"

The Federation for American Immigration Reform today released a Guide to Understanding the Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Immigration Debate. The publication is designed to help journalists differentiate fact from fiction, and politics from policy in order to improve the accuracy of immigration reporting and foster more meaningful, temperate debate. The guide reveals the unscrupulous methods the SPLC uses to discredit organizations advocating enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. In particular, it examines why the SPLC's financial motives fuel their increasing use of ad hominem attacks.

Of course, debate is the last thing the SPLC wants. Their tactics are aimed at squelching it, not to foster it. If anyone takes a position deviating the least bit from the Wall Street Journal's Open Borders agenda, they're a skinhead racist Nazi.

And the point about the SPLC's financial motives can't be made too often. It's something no reporter for the corporate media ever questions, despite the SPLC's notoriously profitable fund-raising based on fearmongering and distortion. Let's hope FAIR's publication inspires some REAL reporting.

On The Web:   www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/10/new-publication-exposes-splcs-tactics.html

 

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Have you been in the South lately?

First, here's the good news, from an experienced political observer:

Have you been in the South lately? The level of anti-Obama, anti-Democratic and anti-Congress venom is extraordinary, and with 59 Democrat-held seats in the region, 22 in or potentially in competitive districts, this is a very serious situation for Democrats. I have had several Democratic members from the region say the atmosphere is as bad or worse than it was in 1994.

This is not just about President Obama. It is anti-Congress and anti-Democratic Congress.

In other words, Obama's radical program has galvanized the South -- just as we hoped it would back during the campaign. Here's what I wrote last summer:

So instead of voting for John McCain and wishing and hoping he'll one day realize he's a Republican and will support a conservative agenda, we should vote for Obama. Why? Because McCain will impose his globalist, Neocon, Open Border agenda while invoking the language of conservatism, which will more deeply entrench these measures in society and therefore do more harm to our culture. The openly radical Obama, on the other hand, will impose an openly hostile agenda that will galvanize a genuine conservative revolt.

Prior to Obama's surprising success, I'd advocated that we vote for Hillary as the left-Democrat most likely to rouse conservative Southerners to action. But Obama seemed too good to be real -- with his close association with the race-baiting Jeremiah Wright, the "clinging to guns and religion" comments, and his connections to an unapologetic radical bomber, it seemed impossible he could beat the seasoned, tough Hillary. But he did, and the prospect of such an in-your-face, race-obsessed leftist firing up conservative opposition looked promising.

And it's worked, as Professor Nyhan notes above -- to which I say, keep up the good work, Mr. President!

So here's the troubling question of the year: Will this anti-DC sentiment be coopted ONCE AGAIN into putting the backstabbing Republicans back in power, or will the people work instead to fight for REAL change?

Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future, and doubly so about the political future. But I have hope.

On The Web:   www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/10/have-you-been-in-south-lately.html

 

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Richmond Discusses Sesquicentennial Events

Richmond leaders talk about how to commemorate Civil War
Karin Kapsidelis
Sep 30, 2009
Richmond Times-Dispatch

The sesquicentennial of the Civil War will put Richmond center stage nationally with both the opportunity and the obligation to tell the story of what happened here honestly.

That was the message of "The Future of Richmond's Past," a forum that drew about 160 people to the University of Richmond yesterday for the start of a series of discussions on how to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war.

Leaders from Richmond historic and civic organizations discussed the need to develop a cohesive plan for visitors drawn to the capital of the Confederacy for four years of events beginning in 2011.

The sesquicentennial will be a twin commemoration that also will mark the end of slavery, said UR President Edward L. Ayers.

Many people, he said, "have been working for decades to prepare for a time when we can tell the story of Richmond whole, when we can tell the story of Richmond honestly, when we can tell the story of Richmond to the nation and to the world."

Visitors will be watching to see how Richmond, which was a major slave market, will interpret a past with "so many layers one on top of the other, so many meanings, so much richness," he said.

In April, Ayers was host of "America on the Eve of the Civil War," the first event of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission.

He said he was approached after that conference and asked to initiate conversations about how Richmond's various historic sites can collaborate on the sesquicentennial.

Virginia Union University President Claude G. Perkins and Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao, who both spoke at yesterday's event, said their schools will host follow-up discussions.

Virginia is better prepared now for the influx of visitors the commemoration will bring than it was in 1990 when Ken Burns' documentary series "The Civil War" aired, said John F. "Jack" Berry Jr., president and CEO of the Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau.

That film brought a 25 percent increase in tourism and "we weren't ready," he said.

S. Waite Rawls III, president and CEO of The Museum of The Confederacy, noted that the first post-Civil War tourist to Richmond was Abraham Lincoln, and the place he wanted to visit first was the White House of the Confederacy.

Yet the museum does not get adequate support from the city for signage, parking and interpretive markers, he said.

Richmond tends to think in terms "of blue and gray or black and white, and we have forgotten green, the color of money," he said.

The city's history is perhaps its greatest financial asset, "but that history sits before us without us reaching out to capitalize on it," he said.

"The twin sesquicentennial offers us that chance, and it will not repeat itself in my lifetime," he said.

Del. Delores L. McQuinn, D-Richmond, chairwoman of the Slave Trail Commission, said part of her group's mission is to "contribute to the healing of Richmond's racial past."

She hopes to see the city become an international destination for education about slavery.

"Richmond is ready for it," she said. "It's time for us to move forward."

On The Web:   sonsofconfederateveterans.blogspot.com/2009/10/richmond-discusses-sesquicentennial.html

 

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Event Slated for Arlington House
Park Service Event Helps Usher In Civil War Commemoration
by SCOTT McCAFFREY, Staff Writer
 

Arlington County’s ( VA ) commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War will unofficially begin on Oct. 10 with an event at Arlington House, the Custis-Lee Mansion.

From 7 to 10 p.m. that night, the National Park Service will present a program detailing John Brown’s Raid, an event that helped to light the fuse for what, less than two years later, would tear the nation apart.

Fergus Bordewich, author of “Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America,” will speak on the life of Brown, an abolitionist who On Oct. 16-18, 1859, led a group that tried to seize control of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, then in Virginia and now in West Virginia.

Their goal was to spark a slave revolt in Virginia and surrounding areas.

The assault was put down by a detachment of U.S. Marines, who were led by Col. Robert E. Lee. Lee married into the Custis family, which owned the Arlington House plantation where the Oct. 10 program will take place.

After being charged with treason against Virginia, Brown was hanged in December 1859 and several other participants later went to the gallows. But their actions helped to further inflame passions over slavery. The Civil War began in April 1861.

Both the state and county governments have assembled task forces to plan and lead commemorative events related to the Civil War. The Arlington group, appointed by the County Board, has been meeting since early March. Warren Nelson is serving as chairman.

Arlington - which then was known as Alexandria County - had several key roles in Civil War history.

It was from Arlington House that Lee made his decision not to accept command of Union troops, but rather to command Virginia troops that soon would be in rebellion against the federal government.

At the outbreak of hostilities, federal troops marched across Potomac River bridges to occupy the mostly rural county for the duration of the war. Federal officials seized the Arlington House plantation, an action later ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court, and began the first burials at what would become Arlington National Cemetery.

Federal officials also hurriedly constructed a ring of forts in the area, to protect the nation’s capital from attack. Remnants of a number of the forts remain, and the modern-day Fort Myer garrison traces its roots to one of the Civil War forts.

After the war, Lee never returned to Arlington House; his wife, Mary Custis Lee, who had inherited the plantation from her father in 1857, returned once but was too distraught to leave her carriage.

During and after the war, freed slaves were housed at Freedman’s Village for several decades. Several of today’s most prominent African-American Arlington families can trace their lineage back to Arlington House, and efforts are underway to create a museum dedicated to the achievements of local African-Americans both during slavery and after.

By the 20th century, a spirit of reconciliation had taken hold, at least among some. In 1920, Alexandria County was renamed “Arlington” in part to honor Lee, and Arlington House in 1955 was designated by Congress as the nation’s memorial to the general.

Nelson said local commemorative events will run through at least 2015, the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, the event that effectively ended the war. But they could run longer, as far out as January 2020, the 150th anniversary of Virginia’s readmittance to the Union.

The Oct. 10 event at Arlington House also will include a series of tours and exhibits exploring radical abolitionism, and a performance by the Victorian Dance Emsemble. Special activities for children will be available.

Because Arlington House is rarely open to the public at night, the event offers a chance to tour the house and view the Washington skyline from a seldom-seen vantage point, National Park Service officials said.

Entry times are available on the half-hour from 7 to 9 p.m., with lectures by Bordewich conducted at 8 and 9 p.m. Reservations are required, and parking will only be available for those with reservations.

For reservations, call (703) 235-1530. For information, see the Web site at www.nps.gov/arho.

http://www.sungazette.net/articles/2009/09/20/arlington/news/nw422.txt

On The Web:   sonsofconfederateveterans.blogspot.com/2009/10/event-slated-for-arlington-house.html

 

Carter is Wrong: Open Letter to Catherine Meeks, PhD

Commentary by Steve Scroggins
9/30/09

The text below is an open letter to Macon Telegraph columnist Catherine Meeks, PhD., regarding her column (9/30/09) entitled, President Carter is Right.

Dr. Meeks,

It seems that we'll never likely agree on the subject of racism. Racism, as your body of writing in the Telegraph documents, is so central, so dominant in your worldview. But perhaps we could learn something of value from one another. Perhaps not.

I am white. I am male. These are strange sentences for me to write because I don't often think of it. It just is. But then there are writers like you who keep reminding me, telling me that I'm evil, a bigot and a racist.

Based on your writings, again, I expect those facts (that I'm white and male) alone to shut your mind to any opinion I have which contradicts yours. Due solely to the melanin deficiency in my skin, you apparently cannot conceive that I might understand the hurt and anger that real racism inspires in you. Empathy comes in many forms; I am a human being. Therefore, I can "get it"...I can understand on some level without being black or without being a woman.

You suggest that anyone who doesn't agree with you simply cannot face the truth. I don't fear any truth!! It was Thomas Jefferson who once wrote, "There is not a truth existing which I fear...or would wish unknown to the whole world." I feel the same way. The Gospel of John (8:31-32) quotes Jesus as saying, "[Y]ou will know the truth and the truth will set you free." Truer words were never spoken.

Let's explore some truth, shall we?

Apparently, you cannot conceive that I might oppose Obama's policies without any regard to his race (half white). I openly opposed the excessive spending of the GOP Congress and then President Bush. It had nothing to do with their race or gender or even their zodiac signs. It still doesn't.

Apparently, the fact that millions of white people voted for Obama, in many cases because he was (half) black, has escaped your notice. I say "because" because there is no other explanation other than the fact that Obama represented himself as a "moderate" - a lie that any rational person would reject or at least doubt based on his meager voting record in the U.S. Senate. He promised a tax cut for 95% of Americans while proposing massive spending increases --- how is that plausible for any thinking American of any color? Were those millions of white people afraid of change? No! I say they embraced it---despite the obvious risks based on Obama's skimpy record and implausible promises.

How do you explain the fact that 95% of black people voted for Obama? Doesn't that constitute prima facie evidence of widespread bigotry among blacks? To argue otherwise is to argue that 95% of blacks are liberals who favor excessive spending, government-funded abortion, government takeovers of health care, ACORN corruption, shady associations with terrorists, communists (Ayer, Jones, etc.). You would reject the premise that 95% of blacks are liberals and communists, wouldn't you? You wouldn't suggest that 95% of blacks are easily duped, would you? If 95% of blacks don't support/endorse abortion and Obama's liberal agenda, then 95% wouldn't have voted for Obama, right?...unless some other factor entered their voting decision. Could it have been bigotry?

It's the left that is trying to redefine the meaning of dissent and racism. During the Bush years, the left claimed that "dissent is patriotism" when they disagreed with Bush war policies or spending priorities. Now, they squeal that "dissent is racism"...that any policy disagreement is racism. That is an obvious lie that any thinking person would reject --- yet you are embracing it, nay, shouting it.

Citizenship...our Constitution requires it for eligibility. That part of the Constitution was written before anyone could imagine a half black president. How, then, do you arrive at the conclusion that questioning his citizenship is as act of racism? The so-called "birthers," as the left derisively calls them, are NOT trying to prove that Obama's not an eligible citizen as you assert. On the contrary, they are asking Obama to prove he is a citizen---which is NOT an unreasonable request. It's simple really. WHY won't he produce the document to end the controversy? WHY doesn't he authorize someone to release the full long-form document to put that question to bed? Does he enjoy leaving this doubt? Is it a red herring issue?

I don't know, but it's a valid question that has nothing to do with race. McCain produced his documents. Are we supposed to lower the standard because of Obama's skin color?

Carter is not correct; Carter is a buffoon who sacrifices what little credibility he had left for a few minutes in the limelight. Perhaps he feels guilt over the racial tricks he played in Georgia to win election to Governor. Walter E. Williams is much closer to the truth than Carter will ever be. See his column published today.

What is amazing is that people such as you, Jimmy Carter and Leonard Pitts and others can express openly the opinion that you know the inner thoughts and feelings of others. I know nothing about you other than the thoughts you express in writing. For me to pretend to know all your motivations would be presumptuous, wouldn't you agree?

You wrote, "Racism is a system that is based on superiority and inferiority." Are you not arguing for your own "supremacy" over the benighted souls who don't see truth as you do?

I don't suggest that writing about race and racism make you a racist. The racist label is so overused that it has lost its punch and meaning in public discourse. Instead, I'm suggesting that you are a bigot. You presume to know what millions of other people think and why--- their "systematized behavior" as you call it---is based on the color of their skin. Your thinking, as expressed in your writing, is not only wrong, hypocritical and unfair...it's a farce.

You apparently cannot comprehend that I, and millions of others, are rightfully annoyed and offended that you presume to know us and our motivations. Same goes for Carter, Pitts, et al. This guilt tripping whine of yours does nothing to me except make me laugh...and then wonder how such beliefs came to exist. I'm confident that most thinking people will reject your ideas as quickly as they dismissed Carter's. You make a joke of the cause you profess to hold dear. Your words mirror those of race hustlers and demagogues.

Should we be worried that you and the racism brown shirts are giddy planning to round up and remove the racists? Get those misnamed "Hate Crime" laws passed and you can start jailing the people with whom you disagree----just for writing or speaking what you consider heresy. Let's get the Obama Youth organized!

Sound crazy? No more than your rantings.

After you remove the racists, who's next? Those who oppose abortion? Those who oppose illegal immigration? Those who oppose high taxes and spending and government bailouts? Those who defend their second amendment rights? Those who defend their country in the U.S. military?

Oh...I forgot, the Department of Homeland Security and the frauds at the Southern Poverty Law Center already define those groups as racists and potential terrorists. Who are the real proponents of "hate" and bigotry here?

With pity and contempt,

Steve Scroggins
Macon, GA.

 

Confederate Flag Impacts South Carolina Tourism

The NAACP vows to continue its economic boycott of the state of South Carolina.  That means, for the ninth straight year, the state stands to lose thousands because of the ongoing protest. The boycott stems, in part, due to the confederate flag.

"We aren't taking a break,” says Dr. Lonnie Randolph, president of the civil rights organization. "The confederate flag is important because it's disrespectful."

Randolph admits the NAACP's upcoming convention, which hosts about 400 attendees is not a huge economic blow to South Carolina.  However he says, galvanizing other organizations to do the same, hits home.

"We still have the support of the NCAA, the Black Coaches Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches,” he said.

Randolph says the support of multiple groups is essential in the ongoing boycott of South Carolina. The economic sanctions are fueled over the placement of the confederate flag.

The symbol was removed from atop the State House dome in 2000.  It now sits on the State House grounds next to a confederate soldiers’ monument.

"The only time you can truly tell in tourism if a boycott of any kind is working, is if you lose a large group,” says Tom Sponseller, Executive Director of the South Carolina Hospitality Association.  He says the state is already feeling the impact of losing a large group. For several years, the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament has chosen North Carolina.

"It was big.  That was a tournament that would've brought colleges from all ACC schools, their fans, teams into Myrtle Beach for probably a whole week long event.  That's big."

Randolph claims his list of supporters is getting bigger.  He said he is negotiating a contract to keep away a Christian organization’s 75, 000 members.  He also said hundreds of family reunions could be cancelled.  However, Tom Sponseller says families that historically have their reunions in South Carolina, are still coming.

Copyright ©2009 ABC Columbia

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Dems: It's time to retire the “racism” franchise

Addison Gardner
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado

I lived in Georgia for most of four decades before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley.

My mother's family was from New Orleans; she was born there, and I attended Tulane University. My children were born in Atlanta, and my grandparents owned a large farm — “plantation,” if you like — outside Thomasville in southwest Georgia.

I know the South pretty well, and I'm familiar with the cultural stereotypes that attach to anybody who has ever lived there.

I guess the confederate battle flag tops the list. Then there's NASCAR and denim overalls, banjos, cornbread and grits. Oh, yeah, and those white, Wal-Mart-shopping porkers who drive pickups fitted with gun racks, lust after farm animals (when their sisters are out of town) and hate black folks.

Toss in a jug of moonshine, and we've about picked-clean the stereotypical cotton field.

Then there are those historical “red-state” political associations: Republicans have no use for “people of color.” Pay no attention to the fact that a Republican president emancipated the slaves, and that a greater percentage of Republican legislators supported the Civil Rights Act than their Democrat counterparts.

Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan, and Democrat governors barred the entrance to schoolhouses to little black girls with pigtails and frilly smocks. The Georgia of my youth featured a Democrat governor and segregationist, Lester Maddox, who waved a pickaxe handle at blacks attempting to enter his restaurant.

Robert Byrd, dean of the Senate — and longest serving senator in history — was a Grand Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, and, during WWII, he penned this letter to the segregationist Mississippi senator, Theodore Bilbo: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

Of course Byrd has recanted those philosophies for political expediency, but — unlike his colleague, Arlen Specter — Robert Byrd has never been a Republican, not even when he used the “n” word during a 2001 television interview and shocked everybody but his Senate colleagues and the press corps who humor him.

If that'd been Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott (R), instead of West Virginian Sen. Robert Byrd (D), the nation's dailies would've been inked with retributive blood.

Neither party can legitimately claim the racial tolerance high ground. Has one party whipped its recent history of race-based subsidies to great effect and ridden that horse to political hegemony? You bet it has.

Does that mean political pandering is to be admired, government dependency is good, and Democrats have the best, long-term answers for achieving real racial parity in this country?

History teaches us otherwise.

We have spent trillions on Lyndon Johnson “Great Society” programs — “reparations” by another name — and still face pervasive poverty, soaring illegitimacy rates, and black kids who can't get a decent education in America's inner-city schools.

Obama sends Malia and Sasha to Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., but he buckled to teachers' union demands that killed the district voucher program. Seventeen-hundred black kids lost their places at private schools — including those at Sidwell Friends. In effect, Obama barred the school door after his daughters got seats. Alabama Gov. George Wallace is smiling in hell.

Let me deal you some “racist” reality: When campaign contributions talk, black kids walk.

Republicans have long sponsored school “competition,” via voucher programs that would free inner-city kids trapped in failing government schools. So, which party is advancing the interests of black America, and which party is pandering to “special interests?”

The Department of Education — that Carter-era stillbirth — has been plagued by waste, mismanagement and ineptitude. Spawned by the same party that now champions “competition,” (when pushing its “public option” in health care) the D.O.E. is another example of the failure of federal Mastodons.

Why is “competition” a good thing when Democrats talk about government-run health care for people without insurance options, but a bad thing when Republicans talk about private school vouchers for people without educational options?

My favorite White House, press corps image — captured this past July at the “beer-summit” — features a shirt-sleeved Obama striding manfully down the garden stair to greet the press, while, in the background, Sgt. Crowley extends his arm and helps handicapped Professor Gates down the steps.

We will never bridge the racial and cultural divides in America, until Democrats stop waving “racism!” like Lester Maddox's pickaxe handle.

It takes courage and action — not speeches — to bring about “change.”

On The Web:   www.aspentimes.com/article/20090929/COLUMN/909289986/1021/NONE&parentprofile=1061

 

Rep. Joe Wilson member of Confederate group?

from crooksandliars

Bill Dalton
September 15, 2009

Looking into the background of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, after his heckling of President Obama is this:

Joe also has been a member of the Columbia World Affairs Council, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sinclair Lodge 154, Jamil Temple, Woodmen of the World, Sons of Confederate Veterans, ....

This is an organization that, as the SPLC has detailed assiduously, has been taken over in the past decade by radical neo-Confederates who favor secession and defend slavery as a benign institution. Leading the takeover is a radical racist who's been an important legal figure on the far right for some years.

In more recent years, the takeover has led to an outright internal civil war. Andrew Meacham at the St. Petersburg Times detailed the internal rift last year:

Experts say the divisions within the Sons vary between two extremes. On one side are the traditionalists, members who focus on cleaning up Confederate grave sites and conducting Civil War re-enactments.

On the other side are the so-called Lunatics, up to 2,000 members who deride traditionalists as "grannies'' and belong to camps named after notorious Southern figures such as John Wilkes Booth and Jesse James.

John Wilkes Booth members have been known to put pennies in urinals, making sure to leave the Lincoln side face-up. Other Lunatic groups have removed the U.S. flag from their halls and banned the Pledge of Allegiance, says Walter Hilderman, who several years ago created an anti-Lunatic group called Save the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

"The problem is it's supposed to be a patriotic organization," says Hilderman, 59. "You are either that or you let guys in who want to secede."

Now, add this to the fact that Joe Wilson, as a state legislator, was one of only seven Republicans to go against their own party and vote to keep the Dixie Rebel flag flying over the South Carolina capitol:

The flag came down that year after Republicans in both houses went for a compromise that would put it on Statehouse grounds at the Confederate Soldier’s monument. The “Magnificent Seven” of Senators who voted to keep the flag up included current Congressman Joe Wilson

A clearer picture of why this congressman might so virulently breach protocol and loudly interrupt an African-American president's speech to Congress by calling him a liar does start to emerge, doesn't it?

So inquiring minds want to know:

Is Joe Wilson still a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans?

If so, does he condone the activities of the "Lunatic" faction that now controls the SCV?

Does Joe Wilson consider the Republican Party "the Party of Lincoln"?

Does Joe Wilson support secession?

On The Web:   primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/19957

 

Published: October 02, 2009

Crossing conflict: SCV fights to honor veterans
By TAMMIE TOLER
Princeton Times

PRINCETON — Capt. Hercules Scott died at the age of 89 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery. That’s all the information his tombstone reveals, but Richard Lockhart and John Fleming know there’s much more to Scott’s story.

“He fought in Gettysburg and survived Pickett’s Charge,” Fleming explained, referring to the failed Confederate attack on the center of the Union forces during the third day of battle in Gettysburg, Pa.

As the two leaders of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans spoke Wednesday, they pointed to a photo of Scott’s grave and a small wooden cross standing low to the ground at the front of his tombstone.

That cross was one of 49 the Flat Top Copperheads placed in tribute to the service of Confederate veterans buried inside Oakwood Cemetery last spring.

Aside from knowing their names and bits of their histories, most of these soldiers were complete strangers to Fleming, Lockhart and other 46 Sons of Confederate Veterans who volunteered their time and effort to honor the men who fought alongside their ancestors.

They raised funds to create small-scale replicas of the Southern Cross of Honor to pay tribute to local men who picked up arms in the conflict they prefer to call “The War Between The States.” Traditionally, the Southern Crosses are cast iron and created in 11-inch squares. The local versions were only about 6 inches high and wide and were constructed of wood.

“Our purpose in doing this is simply to mark the Confederate veterans’ graves,” Lockhart said. “There’s no racism, no hatred, involved.”

In May, the SCV members placed the crosses at the graves, where they reportedly remained and even attracted several visitors to the cemetery situated on Main Street in Princeton.

“The 48 Southern Crosses were installed so visitors to the cemetery could easily recognize their graves as those of Confederate soldiers and to give the deceased soldiers the respect and honor they deserved,” Lockhart and Fleming wrote in a letter they distributed this week.

After the initial 48 crosses were in place, another descendant contacted the SCV and requested that a cross be placed on his grandfather’s grave. The Copperheads happily located the grave and complied with the request.

From their perspective, the crosses drew historical tourists and Civil War buffs to Mercer County, where the state boundaries declared the region part of the Union, but local sentiment predominantly sided with the South. In one day, Fleming said what is now Mercer County rallied 1,200 men to stand against the Yankees, and there are several historic sites that helped decide the outcome of the Civil War.

“Our organization is a historical veterans’ organization,” Fleming said. “All we do is try to preserve Southern history and heritage. This is something to be proud of.”

In fact, the SCV literature focuses on “heritage — not hate.”

By September, however, the crosses became a point of contention between officials at the cemetery and the SCV. Early in the month, Lockhart said he received a call from a maintenance crew representative stating that he had seven days to remove the crosses because they were hampering the mowing and trimming process at Oakwood.

Lockhart, who couldn’t believe the crosses were a hindrance or hazard, said he opted not to remove the crosses because the United States government had recognized Confederate veterans as legitimate American war veterans and allowed the marking of their graves.

There are an estimated 800 other war veterans buried inside Oakwood and Resthaven properties, and Lockhart said the management seemed to have no problem mowing around American flags and even the occasional spike of artificial flowers that appear in violation of the business’s floral guidelines.

To Fleming and Lockhart, focusing specifically on the Southern Crosses seemed to be an act of disrespect and discrimination.

When they didn’t remove the crosses, Oakwood crews did. In recent weeks, most of the crosses were pulled from the soil surrounding the graves, and the SCV members were outraged.

“Really, we feel like they’ve desecrated the graves of all these veterans,” Fleming said this week.

The insult ran so deep that SCV members questioned the legality of removing the Southern Cross, a symbol approved by the government to represent service to the Confederacy, from graves of men declared American war veterans.

At Oakwood, however, representatives said safety was their only concern.

Curtis Shrader spoke briefly with the Times this week, though he pointed out he worked in sales and not in the grounds crew. Keith Miller, of the maintenance department, reportedly sent word through Shrader that the crosses were removed because they were complicating mowing around the soldiers’ graves.

“Keith says, after the mowing season, they can put them back up,” Shrader said.

The mowing season ends once grass stops growing for the fall, usually in October or November, depending on the weather. Of course, the crosses would fall into contention again come spring, unless the matter is resolved before then.

SCV members worried that the crosses may have been demolished or thrown away, but Shrader reported they were being held securely at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, of which Oakwood is a part.

A call to a grounds crew supervisor had not been returned as of press time.

As they contemplated their next steps, Fleming and Lockhart said removal of the crosses was insensitive at best and discriminatory at worst.

“A cemetery is a history of people — a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving, remembering and honoring — always,” Lockhart and Fleming wrote on behalf of SCV members.

Associated Press content © 2009

On The Web:   www.bdtonline.com/princeton/local_story_275105408.html

 

From: HK Edgerton, hk.edgerton@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009
Subject: Criminal and Civil Lawsuit / Alachua County School Board, Alachua County Superintendent & Veita Jackson Carter
To: supt@gm.sbac.edu

Dear Dr. Boyd,

This letter is intended to serve as my intent to file both criminal and civil charges against an employee of yours, a one Veita Jackson-Carter acting in her capacity as Principal of Hawthorne Middle/High School, and as such an employee under your supervision, thereby leaving me no other choice but to add both your office and the Alachua County School Board as parties to the civil lawsuit.
 
I will allege that Ms. Veita Jackson-Carter entered into a verbal contract with me to deliver as a guest speaker at 8:00 AM on the morning of September 14, 2009, a speech to the Middle School students of Hawthorne, and later that afternoon I was to address the High School students. I was led to believe that shortly after the students would be allowed to vote on whether or not they would continue wearing apparel depicting the Confederate Flag.
 
After spending several hours preparing my message, tailoring two different ones because of the age differences of the children, and driving some 12 hours to reach the school, I was informed by Ms. Jackson-Carter that she had changed her mind; I would only be able to address the entire school for 15 minutes from the Media Center. I would spend some thirty minutes with Ms. Jackson-Carter, showing and explaining the materials I would use for the now shortened presentation (shirts that bore the images of Black Confederate soldiers, to include the historic Dixie Outfitters shirt that bore my very own image, the Un-Civil War edition by Mike Scruggs, a laminated copy of several Black Confederate soldiers, their units and their roles in the Confederate Army, a collectors edition of several essays on the love between the Southern African Slave, and his Southern White master, and other memorabilia from the Historic March Across Dixie, and especially to include the most noted letter from Rev. R.L. Dabney in September of 1865 to Union General Howard of the Freedman's Bureau) . After agreeing that I could use these materials, I would present them to Ms. Jackson-Carter and let her know that I needed to return to my car to get the same for my presentation.
 
Ms. Jackson-Carter expressed grave reservations of me returning to my car un-escorted without security. In her own words; "While that flag is a Badge of Honor for you, there are members of my staff and students who see it differently and it could get you hurt." I confess that I did not sense these hostilities, but she assured me that it was her school, and that she knew her people. She would escort me to my car and back to the Media Center. After the shortened presentation, I would leave the same materials for Ms. Jackson-Carter to deliver to the School Board, and ask for a copy of the taped presentation. She would inform me that she needed permission from the School Board to give me a copy. I still don't have that copy.
 
After my presentation, Ms. Jackson-Carter would announce to the listening audience that there would later be other guest from the University to discuss the same topic, and that there would be allotted time this very day to discuss the subject matter. I interjected that I would be available for the rest of the day should any of the students or faculty have questions of me. Shortly after returning to her office, Ms. Jackson-Carter would inform me that several teachers had asked if I would address their classes. She would escort me to the History class where I would spend some forty five minutes. Upon returning to the office of Ms. Jackson-Carter and asking of her whereabouts, she had told me she would take me to the next class. The staff looked somewhat befuddled, and told me that the Principal had issued a do not disturb order. They also told me that while they had not heard all of my presentation, they were impressed by what they had heard and were looking forward to seeing it run again. I was asked to have a seat and wait for the Principal to finish whatever business that she had.
 
After sitting in the outer office for some thirty minutes, I would again approach the front desk and ask if someone could place a note under the Principal, asking as to where I should go next? There was no response from Ms. Jackson-Carter's door. I then asked if they would call her with my inquiry? There was a deafening silence from the intercom. I informed the staff that I had some twelve hours to drive on my return home, and could not just sit here with no response from the Principal. I was now left to make my way alone through the hall that led to my car where the Principal had indicated that my life would be in harms way. However, to make matters worse, thanks to her, I now had a bulls eye on my chest.
 
I would later learn that I had been used by the Principal to carry out a planned farce. Never were the children going to use my presentation to help them make an informed decision, my presence was only a part of the crafty procedure meant to deceive those who governed her actions. I was told that there had already been some sort of vote taken by the parents and students.
 
I can only conclude that Ms. Jackson-Carter through her actions not only conspired against the display and wearing of the Confederate Flag, but also conspired to see that some sort of bodily harm come to me with her actions. I also conclude that Ms. Jackson-Carter broke the trust of not only this community and her students, but also the trust of those who hired her. She has made a mockery of the Supreme Court decision of Tinker vs. the Des Moines, Iowa School Board and other court rulings. And I find it hard that she can continue to be called Principal. 
 
I also seek compensation ($500.00) in the form of an Honorarium waive because of breach of verbal contract, 2. $20.00 X 12 for each of the shirts left in the possession of Ms. Jackson-Carter, 3. $24 X 3 for copies of the Un-Civil War Books, 4. $10 X 3 for each copy of the Rev. Dabney memorabilia, 5. $10 X 3 for the laminated copies of the Black Confederate soldier, 6. Mileage compensation $.54 per mile = , 1,200 (to and from destination = $648.00), $100.00 out of pocket expense for food. Total = $1,620.00.

Respectfully,

HK Edgerton
President
Southern Heritage 411

1995-2009 SWR, SHNV & TheSouthernAmerican.org

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From: HK Edgerton, hk.edgerton@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009
Subject: An Open Report / Ironton, Ohio
To: pop@thesouthernamerican.org

A town official of Ironton, Ohio who had the distinction of heading up the committee of entrants to the annual Veterans Day Parade had taken it upon himself to abuse his authority by banning the Sons of Confederate Veterans from participating. He had further issued a declaration , that as long as he was alive; no Confederate Flag would march on the streets of Ironton.
 
On Saturday morning, September 26, 2009, as the skies blackened and lightning bolts flashed across the skies and the sound of thunder made one shudder; a small contingent of Southern folks alongside the Division Commanders of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and a Representative of the Michigan Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered readying for a planned march through these streets of Ironton culminating at the County Courthouse.
 
I must say that when the Chief of Police arrived and questioned young Frances ( Bud ) Strausbaugh who had worked alongside the mayor and Chief to obtain a permit for the March, are you folks going to call this off? I looked around at those gathered. One baby girl who had looked so pretty in her period garb, now looked like a mermaid. They were all drenched by the continuous rain pouring down from what now looked like the evening sky , even though it was now 9:00 AM. We have come too far was the reply. Then I shall send your escort replied the Chief.
 
When the Kentucky Division Commander called out to me, come on HK, I must say that all I could think of was,  if my sister saw this spectacle on TV, I was going to have to partake of that Castor oil she had threatened me with all week.In that moment, I completely understood just what it means to be called Southern. Nothing could break their spirit, or deter them from honoring the memory of those who paid the ultimate price with their lives in defense of their homeland and her people. And I like so many who looked like me had done, no matter their social standing, freed or indentured would take my place proudly beside my family, because when the day was done, I too was Southern.
 
In conclusion, may God forever bless the Honorable Mayor, Police Chief and people of Ironton, Ohio who were so very kind. and as far as the gentleman who made the declaration " that no Confederate Flag would march through the streets of Ironton as long as he was alive"; I hope that he did not pass away on Saturday morning.

1995-2009 SWR, SHNV & TheSouthernAmerican.org

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Confederate American Pride update - 29 Sept.  2009
 
From: confederateson1949@yahoo.com
 
Compatriots,
 
As the fall weather moves in on us, I am happy to announce some more updates to the Confederate American Pride website.
 
First, you reenactors will appreciate the five-part imbedded videos from the movie Gettysburg.  This has got to be the grandest reenactment ever filmed.  You can find the video on the Confederate American Pride homepage at http://www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com.
 
While you're on the homepage be sure to check out the latest videos and links from Ray McBerry's campaign for governor in Georgia.  His speeches are truly inspirational to any states rights advocate.  Ray is a true statesman of the kind we used to have in this country.
 
Finally, many new links have been added throughout the website.  Hope you enjoy checking them out.
 
For a free South,
 
K. Steven Monk
 
CONFEDERATE AMERICAN PRIDE
Dedicated to Americans who are proud of their Confederate heritage
http://www.ConfederateAmericanPride.com

 

THE CIVIL WAR COURIER and SCV Cooperate in Publicizing Events:
 
Compatriots, I have spoken to Connie Payne, an editor of the Civil War Courier, Camp Chase Gazette and the Citizens Companion, regarding having SCV news and event information in these publications. We are being offered the opportunity to send our event announcements and / or post event reports for publication. This is a great opportunity to have your Division and Camp news reach a greater audience. Below you will find information on when / how information should be submitted for publication.
Notices should be sent to Connie Payne at companioneditor@gmail.com
 
Lets take advantage of this chance to get the word out to "keep the skeer on!"
 
Chuck Rand
Chief of Staff
chuckrand3@gmail.com

FORMAT:
 
All press releases, articles or other written items should be submitted as a MS WORD document. There is no word limit.
 
All photographs to accompany such articles should be submitted as jpgs, preferably in raw files. Photos will be cropped and resized as needed so as to not lose resolution and print quality. If the contributor prefers to crop and size at home, a standard image is 4x6 or 5x7 at 300 dpi.
Photographs must include a caption which clearly explains the image, as well as the photograph's namer to ensure that proper credit is given.
Charts, spreadsheets or graphs can be submitted as jpgs, or as pdfs
 
DEADLINES:
 
The Civil War Courier generally deadlines runs 4-6 weeks "out" from the date on the magazine or newspaper. For example, the October edition of the Camp Chase Gazette has a deadline to submit event or other notices of August 25th for inclusion in the October issue. That being said, here are the deadlines for each issue for the coming year.
 
DEADLINES FOR THE CIVIL WAR COURIER: Civil War Newspaper - Printed monthly, 12 times per year
 
November, 2009 edition: Deadline for submission September 25th, 2009
December, 2009 edition: October 25
January 2010 edition: November 25
February 2010 edition: December 25, 2009
March 2010 edition: January 25, 2010
April 2010 edition: February 25
May 2010 edition: March 25
June 2010 edition: April 25
July 2010 edition: May 25
August 2010 edition: June 25
September 2010 edition: July 25
October 2010 edition: August 25
November 2010 edition: September 25, 2010
 
DEADLINES FOR THE CAMP CHASE GAZETTE AND THE CITIZENS' COMPANION: Reenactor military & Civilian magazines:
Combined November/December, 2009 edition: Deadline is September 25th, 2009
Combined January/February, 2010 edition: Deadline is November 25th
*MARCH - OCTOBER EDITIONS ARE MONTHLY, AND HAVE THE SAME DEADLINES AS THE COURIER LISTED ABOVE

 

 

A world of its own?
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
I would appreciate it of some would comment in SHNV on this portion of a letter to the editor, The Barnes Review, November 1996 -- from B.W. Fowler, Memphis, TX:
 
<<<Texas is a true republic, and cannot be annexed to the United States. It's a nation unto itself. We never joined the "Confederate States of America", although we fought with it. We were lumped into the Confederacy by the federal government when Robert E. Lee surrendered and the federals occupied us. To occupy Texas without conquering it individually was illegal.>>>
 
A contrasting view: "he state of Texas declared its secession from the United States on February 1, 1861, and joined the Confederate States of America on March 2, 1861, replacing its governor, Sam Houston, when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy."
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War
 
Thanks! /\/.\/\/.

 

Care to rephrase that
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
To: Foundation for American Communications
85 South Grand Avenue,
Pasadena, CA 91105
 
Re: Political Civility in America
 
Via "Web Sage" <Web_Sage@mail.vresp.com> I've received your email blurb on the book "Political Civility in America: Exploring the connection between the First Amendment and political civility." A sincere interest in promoting civility would be commendable, but it appears to me what you're really after is getting real or imagined conservatives to shut up and go away.
 
Here's your invitation, with my comments:
 
<<<Political civility in America seems to have taken a dive southward, with a recent spate of rude outbursts, accusations and the ever-blaring talk shows.>>>
 
*******Excuse me, but you've just indulged one of the rudest, most extremely bigoted fads of them all -- equating "south" with downfall or ruin. Admit it -- "taken a dive southward" actually means "gone to hell", right? South being a downward direction on maps, and hell being downward from earth and heaven in medieval mytho-theology?
 
Well, we here in the South don't appreciate it. Sure, you aren't thinking of Dixie when you say that. Sure. But you're forgetting that according to your own yankee moral code, one is never, EVER to say anything that disparages a race, ethicity, "gender" or whatever, no matter how tenuous or unintentional the slight might be. Remember "niggardly"?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggardly
 
If you liberals get to ruin one word of the English language after another we in Dixie shouldn't have to hear this "went southward" stuff anymore -- fair enough?
 
<<< Calmer-minded pundits lament the loss of civility and basic decency in American political discourse. >>>
 
*******On the contrary, maybe the "Stepford" condition of most politics today is the real problem. Political dustups between "establishment" politicians are as substantive as pro wrestling, i.e. entirely staged. One can't get a letter to the editor published or an appearance on TC news if one doesn't use talking-head tone, keeping everything nice and "muddle-of-the-road". Today's politicians are open liars, shysters, mass murderers. When, pray tell, does it become proper to raise yor voice on the subject?
 
You no doubt are probably just trying to throw cold water on the huge grassroots protest movement now building. They are indeed something else, but if you really cared for "democracy" or "pluralism" you would welcome them.
 
<<<One way to understand the current situation is to explore the history of political incivility in America – from the poisoned atmosphere preceding the Civil War to the McCarthy era and Watergate. In light of this checkered past, it would be difficult to argue, “it’s the worst it’s ever been.” How, then, does one gauge standards of civility in the present time?>>>
 
******* Let me suggest that it start with a fresh, open, well-televised re-examination of the Northern abolitionist hate rhetoric -- the berserk genocidal mania in yankee word and policy -- that forced the South to secede. It appears we agree about the McCarthy era, at least -- the Senator and his associates were certainly more civil than today's liberal Democrat demagogues, who freely slander large portions of the citizenry and attempt to wipe out whole nations abroad over nothing. George W. Bush was a liberal Democrat in everything but name, so he qualifies. Let's not forget, either, that McCarthy was right as has definitively come out in the wash in more recent years.
 
<<<Often overlooked in the discussion is the role of the First Amendment and religious liberty in America’s civil discourse. The First Amendment not only guarantees freedom of speech – either civil or uncivil – but it also ensures that the government will not interfere with religious practice or impose religious doctrine on its populace. The Religious Liberty Clauses thereby foster pluralism as a civic ideal.>>>
 
******* Not as defined by liberals, I regret to inform you, i.e. ameriKa as the world's ethnic dumping ground -- in which Christianity is ruthlessly phased out by "activist" judges and globalist fat cat politicians.
 
<<<According to Professor Philip Goff of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, pluralism is a philosophical commitment to diversity, a belief that there is some intrinsic good in difference. Implicit in this philosophy is respect for difference, which translates to civility. Pluralism with respect to religion filters down to many different layers and forms the bedrock of civil society. See more on political civility and the First Amendment here. >>>
 
******* No use, anonymous blurb spammer.  (Didn't you read my thumbnail sketch in Knowledge=Freedom before entering my address?) The fraudulence of your position is clear for all to see: you never, EVER sing the virtues of sameness, monoversity, homogeneity, and instead run around accusing ameriKa of being too white, too Christian, too native-born. In my experience!
 
You as liberal change agents had no business using my email address, and noteworthily you supply none of your own. You write under cover of <Web_Sage@mail.vresp.com> so nobody can find you. Who are you, really? Searching your organization online, it's clearly a lie
 
http://www.facsnet.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3
 
.......with a non-working phone number. "Aermican communications" -- when will you moles quit using America for a fig leaf? Maybe Foundation for American Communications is nothing but an ad-hoc early Halloween costume for "People for the American Way"?
 
Guess I'll have to send this to your postal address even though that's probably fake too. Its thousands of recipients via email will, I assure you, enjoy it.
 
/\/.\/\/.

 

Bigotry at Odum, Georgia
 
From: vaproto@optonline.net
 
Chuck,
 
Below is the e-mail exchange between Mr. Titus and myself. I thought you might find it of interest.
 
Val

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From: Valerie Protopapas vaproto@optonline.net
To: "Sonja Titus" sdkktitus@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Re: In response to bigotry in Odum

Mr. Titus,
 
Thank you for sending me your response to Mr. Dixon. It is interesting to note how things can go very wrong even when everyone involved acts with the best of intentions.
 
However, I will say this, you ask Mr. Dixon why the City Council was not “informed” of the intention to place the flags along the funeral route (I assume that we are speaking of the Battle Flag). You stated, “If you would have made the simplest effort to inform the city of what you wanted to do before you went ahead and did it...” Well, I can tell you as the result of some few years fighting the battle against censorship of Southern heritage and Confederate symbols that often such “requests” are met with an outright and absolute refusal on the part of city government. Yes, this even happens in cities located in the “deep South”. In that the flags were going to be a temporary fixture to be removed after Mr. Jones’ final journey home, I daresay it may be that those involved simply wanted to “put ‘em up and then take ‘em down.” There might not even have been concern about “public opinion” given that the whole affair would be well over before anyone so inclined could “become offended”. But if that was the idea of those making the arrangements, alas, it didn’t happen that way.
 
But now I must ask you something. Tell me honestly sir, if something else – say, American flags or some other less controversial symbols had been place even in the DOT right of way, is it not probable that they would have remained there until they were removed by those placing them or until they simply disintegrated with the passage of time? Or is your local government so swift in its responses (especially to something that was obviously not an egregious trespass upon the public right of way) that between the time the flags were placed and the time the funeral cortege began the flags had been removed?!
 
I assure you sir, if that is the case, then Odum, Georgia is unique! Even here in Yankeeland, trying to get the local government to do anything unless it is a disaster in the making is like pulling teeth! I simply cannot understand why even if the town did not know why the flags were there, that the governing body would send out folks to remove them without waiting a few hours to see if the matter could be explained. Surely, they caused no harm neither did they constitute a danger to the public. What, then, was the rush to remove them? You said yourself that between the time you saw one flag drooping to the ground and the time you went out to straighten it up it was gone! As noted, unless Odum, Georgia is unique, I cannot imagine such swift action taking place unless it was a matter of considerable concern to the city government. And, of course, if that was in fact the case, then at least  some of Mr. Dixon’s conclusions are credible.
 
Now that doesn’t mean that the members of the city government – including yourself - are bigots and hate the South but let’s face it, this would certainly not be the first time that local politicians have been “spooked” by thought of the NAACP descending upon their town howling “racism”! Most folks in that situation just take the easy way out and remove the flags or, if a request is made to display them, deny that request.
 
Now, I cannot say what would have happened if things had gone otherwise. Certainly it would have been better had the matter been approached as you suggest. I am sure that you would have backed the SCV Camp in its request. Still, I wonder if the request would have been refused despite your vote. As I noted above, there is a “track record” here – and it does not favor such requests or the SCV. Folks who cherish the symbols of the Confederacy and Southern heritage have learned from past unpleasant experiences that nine times out of ten they are on the losing side of these petitions to their local representatives. Perhaps Mr. Dixon was wrong in his conclusions, but frankly, given the record of such matters, I do not believe that he was being altogether unrealistic when he made them.
 
Let us hope that people of good will consign past mistakes and differences to oblivion and work together for a better future in Odum – and elsewhere.
 
Valerie Protopapas - Long Island, New York 
 
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On 10/1/09 9:03 PM, "Sonja Titus" <sdkktitus@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Valerie~
 
Jeeez, I like your spunk! Lord knows we need more folks like you down here! Let me see if I can answer your questions in order.

Again, if someone, anyone, would have known what the flags were for, they would have been left alone or possibly slightly repositioned.

I know all about the assault on Southern heritage, especially when it comes to the Battle Flag. I was the most stringent antagonist regarding our beloved (Governor) Sonny Perdue's lie about keeping the stars & bars on the Georgia flag and then breaking that promise seven years ago. I hammered him incessantly in editorials, and am still angry over it.
 
As far as your "put em' up and then take em' down" comment... I'm sorry, but that is just too conspiratorial. Nothing even resembling that would happen with our current administration.
 
As far as what  might have happened if the flags were US or something else? I need to state unequivocally that the flags were removed not because of WHAT they were, but WHERE they were. If you aren't aware, they were placed in an area between railroads tracks and a highway intersection where people stop before crossing the highway. I suppose if someone were to "push the envelope" they could say that the flags obstructed traffic view, but I'm not going there. As far as Odum being unique... it is. We only have 425 registered residents and are only a square mile, so when something happens, EVERYBODY knows it. The intersection where the flags were are a place where almost everyone who lives here crosses or drives by multiple times a day. Yes, things happen fast because there is little ground to cover. The Mayor is semi-retired and "makes the rounds" several times a day. We don't have a police dept. We police ourselves and do quite well thank you.
 
I need to repeat what I  said to Mr. Dixon... this all could have been prevented if he would have simply informed someone. I would think that a funeral like this would have deserved that. Am I wrong?
 
Indeed, the flags were removed within an hour of my seeing them. I cannot dispute that, not would I as it would be a lie. And again, I am in full awareness that there is a hostility towards southern heritage, especially now that so many believe that they have been validated by the election of Obama. I hate it.
 
If something like this would have required a vote (and I assure you it wouldn't have), and the vote would have been against the Battle Flag, then mam, we WOULD have had a battle here, and the anti's would have lost handily.
 
For the last time, conclusions have been drawn in this "episode" which don't reflect reality in the least. I am sorry for that. I don't know what more I can say to prove that the premeditated hatred that Mr. Dixon claims fostered this event simply  does not exist.
 
God bless you, and keep up the fight.
 
Dave Titus
Pray for Peace...  Prepare for War.

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From: Valerie Protopapas – 10/1/2009
 
Dave (if I may),
 
The “put ‘em up and take ‘em down” sentiment referred to those who planned the funeral, not the town. Sometimes, men who plan things think, “Oh, well, before the cortege we’ll just put ‘em up and then take ‘em down afterwards!” I’m sure you know that kind of reasoning done by folks who don’t see anything problematic in just goin’ along and doin’ stuff. Nobody thinks about the consequences of actions that might well have consequences (women on the other hand, are apt to plan things into infinity!). In years past, that sort of thing was done all the time and nobody thought twice. I cannot say our endless regulations and restrictions have enriched the quality of life; indeed, I believe just the opposite!
 
Thanks for your reply. As noted, those doing the planning should have taken more care. Perhaps they were worried about being refused the right to place the flags, I cannot say. I don’t know the people or the area. But, alas, I do know the ongoing onslaught against the South, her heritage, her people and her symbols – and it enrages me.  When I was 9 (1950), the “Civil War” was becoming quite popular, replacing the usual “cowboys and Indians” that tomboys like myself played with the rest of the boys. I read two stories printed God knows where about two Virginia women whose homes were “used” by Union officers against their will. There was no violence or even rudeness, but I remember how angry I was at the helplessness of these women in the face of the overbearing, self-righteous and downright puffed-up Yankees. One woman was asked by a Colonel to play her beautiful piano for him as he was lonely and homesick. She refused coldly. When he sat down to play it himself, she took a small axe from the hearth used to cut kindling and smashed the piano keyboard so that he could not play. He was both astonished and shaken, declaring that it was going to be a long and hard war if this was the reaction of even the women of Virginia and the South.
 
From that moment, I knew which side I championed – so I was the ONLY one on my block (76th Street, Woodhaven, Queens, New York) to wear the grey kepi. I’m still fighting so forgive me if I was perhaps over-dramatic in my reaction. Keep up the good fight. Perhaps if the folks in the local SCV knew that they could count on the Odum government, the whole problem might have been avoided.
 
Valerie

 

Asheville LTE
 
From: rebscape@charter.net
 
Chuck –
 
This letter appeared in this morning’s Asheville Citizen-Times:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091002/OPINION02/91001050/1040
 
In the first paragraph the author refers to comments made by an SCV member in a September 24 letter which stated that slavery per se was not the principal cause of the War Between the States.  Mr. Philo’s position appears to be that anyone who believes that has an “inability to deal with reality.”
 
Maybe Mr. Philo needs a dose of reality himself.
 
Roger McCredie

 

HARRY JONES OF ODUM GEORGIA
 
From: GeorgiaFlagger@JoiMail.com
 
DEAR WILBUR DAVID DIXON,
 
It is my understanding from someone there that the flags were placed on telephone poles and on right of ways, then left out, so of course the city will remove them. However, if this was a attack on grave flags, I would be there in my uniform to defend.
 
Harry's widow Monika requests that someone help replace the old Ga flags in memory of Harry.
 
Thanks & God Bless
Billy Bearden

 

Re: In response to bigotry in Odum
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
To: sdkktitus@yahoo.com
 
Dear Mr. Titus:
 
Thank you for your message.
 
Here follows the notice I received about the happening in Odum:
 
Honorable Southern men and women:
 
On September 16, 2009,  an old time Southern funeral was held for Harry Jones of Odum, Georgia.  Harry was a member of Capt. JAMES KNOX of Brantly County, Georgia, SCV.
 
Out of the tremendous respect for Harry had by all who knew him, the SCV marked the way to his burial site by placing Confederate flags along the route.  This route led to his home, where Harry chose to be laid to rest, in an area set aside for that purpose. The bigotry and hatred of Southerners was rabidly displayed by the City Government of Odom, Georgia. They sent out employees to confiscate the flags that, in their words, “represented hatred of blacks”. This action showed utter disrespect for a kind and gentle man who was loved by all who knew him. It also showed total disrespect for a funeral, total disregard of the feelings of family and friends and included outright theft of private property by morally bankrupt and very ignorant officials of this very anti-Southern Georgia city.
 
Please take time to write the city officials and voice your concerns for their lack of respect for a citizen’s funeral, their theft of private property, their lack of respect for the First Amendment of the Constitution and for their display of bigotry and racist attitudes towards Southerners. They need to feel the hot breath of Southerners down the back of their cowardly yellow necks.
 
Will they next come and pluck the flag from Harry’s grave?
 
That was all the information I had. Given that I am somewhat of a fire-eater, and reasoning as I did from the premise that the information I received was at heart accurate, and remembering that, even though Georgia is definitely not damyankeefied Florida, there have still been incidents of heritage violation in Georgia (at Ringgold, for example), I reacted.
 
Speaking for myself, I apologize for any offense I gave to you, the mayor, your brother and sister council-members, and the City of Odum.
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon

 

In response to bigotry in Odum
 
From: sdkktitus@yahoo.com
To: WDixon4316@aol.com
CC: cityofodum@windstream.net
 
Mr. Dixon~
 
I’ve already written two lengthy letters to you explaining my upbringing, my hatred of socialism and its evils, my loathing of reverse racism, the attack on the Stars & Bars, etc., but I deleted them because I don’t have to explain myself to you.
 
I’m writing to you now because your letter to SCV brethren berating the City of Odum needs clarification, and because there are folks out there who have taken you at your word and are understandably upset as I would be, and they need the truth, because I believe they are good people and wouldn’t have sent the mail/faxes they did if they had full disclosure.
 
No one appreciates being accused of something they didn’t do, but what’s even worse is being accused of something that is the total antithesis of who and what you are.
 
FACT- You never approached, informed, or asked permission of the City of Odum to place flags on property that is not yours. FACT- The flags were not “confiscated”, they were simply removed BECAUSE they were on DOT right-away. FACT- Neither the mayor, staff or councilmen of Odum had ANY IDEA what these flags represented because SOMEONE dropped the ball and failed that responsibility. FACT- The flags were returned only 30 or 40 minutes after they were taken down (to a fellow who was very rude to our female clerks), and only then did they learn what the purpose of the flags were (I found out two days later). FACT- Mayor Mansfield doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, and particularly not against whites or southerners. This accusation is not only nonsensical, it’s ridiculous! This is the deep south sir, not Yankee Florida!
 
You jumped to the conclusion that the Mayor had the flags taken down for reasons beyond his responsibility as Mayor (racism. bigotry, hatred). You then make another huge leap into “conspiracy-land” and also blame the Council for the Mayors decision as though we were all in collusion! WE HAD NO CLUE! We work for a living! We don’t hang around City Hall drinking coffee and waiting for the phone to ring or to watch who comes in! In fact, I’m the only one on the council who even WORKS in Odum.
 
If you would have made the simplest effort to inform the city of what you wanted to do before you went ahead and did it, I would have been your strongest protagonist, especially because I’m a steadfast supporter of the Stars & Bars as well as the “Don’t tread on me” flag (I sell the bumper sticker at my shop), but as you have proved, it’s easier to hurl false accusations after the fact than to accept responsibility for protocol ignored. The repercussions from this issue that you have created out of whole-cloth are at YOUR feet sir.
 
I’m speaking only for myself. I have no idea whether any of the other council-people knew anything about this before you wrote your letter filled with vile innuendo and libelous accusations, but I, at least until now, had the utmost respect for the SCV and even a higher respect for the Confederate Battle Flag. My respect for the flag will never dwindle, but I have lost all respect for your particular group if they are anything like yourself. By the way, If ANYONE should harbor any lingering offense regarding this gross and irrational misunderstanding, it should be Mr. Harry’s widow, but in fact, she has met with the Mayor and was every bit the example of diplomacy and went away from the discourse completely content and satisfied that no harm was either done or intended. Maybe you should attempt communication?
 
Neither the Mayor nor any of the Council are “bigots”, “hate filled”, “racists” or harbor ANY ingrained “disrespect” for “southerners. The very thought that whites would hate whites or southerners would hate southerners is moronic. In fact, if this wasn’t so sad, it would be funny… you know, like a Michael Moore film.  I wish you would channel your energies towards REAL racists… like Obama and his administration, or are you a fan of his?
 
Again… if you would have taken 2 minutes out of your busy schedule to inform the City of your intentions regarding the flags and WHAT THEY WERE FOR, I promise you they would not only have been left alone until you were ready to take them down, but I PERSONALLY would have propped them up better, because when I saw them on my way to my shop that morning, both were bent over and touching the ground. (I actually came back to do that anyway, but they were gone).
 
Councilman David Paul Titus

 

An Open Letter
 
From: cliftonpalmermclendon@yahoo.com
To: cityofodum@windstream.net
 
This e-mail concerns the act of vandalism and theft of private property committed in connection with the funeral and burial of Mr. Harry Jones of your city – specifically, the removal of the Confederate Battle Flags placed by his family and friends.
 
First, some definitions [taken from Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.; 1981)]:
 
BIGOTRY: Obstinate and unreasoning attachment to one’s own belief and opinions with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
 
PREJUDICE: Unreasonable predilection for or objection against something; or an opinion or leaning adverse to anything without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge; or an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics; or an opinion or judgment formed beforehand or without due examination.
 
The rationale given for removing the Confederate Battle Flags placed for Mr. Jones’s funeral was that the Confederate Battle Flag “represented hatred of blacks”.
 
Many people believe that the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of hatred because some groups that are undeniably bent on hatred utilize that Flag. Such observers reason somewhat as follows:
 
1. [Group] openly preaches hatred.
2. [Group] also openly displays the Confederate Battle Flag.
3. The Confederate Battle Flag, therefore, is a symbol of hatred.
 
A look at http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm will show that the Ku Kluxers (who make no secret of their hatred for blacks) make heavy use of the thirteen-stripe United States Flag.
 
To return to the syllogism:
 
1. The Kluxers  openly preach hatred.
2. The Kluxers  also openly display the Confederate Battle Flag.
3. The Confederate Battle Flag, therefore, is a symbol of hatred.
 
Continuing from the information given at http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm:
 
4. The Kluxers  also openly display the United States Flag.
 
… one might draw any of several conclusions.
 
Three possible conclusions:
 
5a. The United States Flag, therefore, is also a symbol of hatred of blacks.
 
Those who draw Conclusion 5a have a difficult proposition to defend. Many people view the United States Flag as a symbol of human rights.
 
5b. The syllogism only applies to hatemongers’ use of the Confederate Battle Flag -- it does not apply to hatemongers’ use of the United States Flag.
 
Those who draw Conclusion 5b also have a difficult proposition to defend. Theirs is to explain why the same act by the same people degrades one Flag but not the other, and why they themselves are not hypocrites for applying a double standard.
 
5c.  Hatemongers’ use of a symbol (whether the United States Flag, the Confederate Battle Flag, or some other symbol) makes that symbol a symbol used (or abused) by hatemongers rather than a symbol of hatred.
 
Those who draw Conclusion 5c appear to be on much more solid philosophical grounds, with a far more defensible viewpoint, that those who draw Conclusion 5a or 5b. A symbol has only such meaning as is assigned to it.
 
Your removal of the Confederate Battle Flags in connection with Mr. Jones’s funeral showed that you had an unreasonable objection against the Confederate Battle Flag. The opinion that the Confederate Battle Flag was a symbol of hatred was formed without just grounds, without due examination, and before sufficient knowledge. The removal showed an irrational attitude of hostility directed against Mr. Jones’s family and friends.
 
An abject apology to Mr. Jones’s family and friends is in order, and quickly. Failure to offer that apology will show that you have an obstinate and unreasoning attachment to your belief and opinion with intolerance of the belief and sensibilities of Mr. Jones’s family and friends.
 
Do you really want the world to know that the mayor and city council of Odum, Georgia are prejudiced bigots?
 
Clifton Palmer McLendon
Gilmer, Texas

 

Why they behave in the manner they do
 
From: tandpam@shawneelink.net
 
Chuck Sir;
 
Greetings from Mole Church on a chilly illannoy fall morning.
 
I just finished reading the latest edition of SHNV, thankful as ever that you unselfishly provide a service that acts as a lifeline to those of us stuck so far from our beloved South. So, before going any further with this post please accept a long overdue thank you from me and mine.
 
The opening post regarding the actions by the city of Odum GA in removing the Confederate flags that marked the funerary route to Harry Jones final resting place started my day with tears.
 
Harry was a camp brother of mine, and one who was dedicated to the Cause as any I ever met! Even after his health failed he continued to do all that was possible to educate the uneducated and misinformed as to the truth of that horrible war of northern arrogance 61-65 through countless school visits and living histories, as well as grave side services. It is what Camp 2022 does best, and I am damn proud of all the men of the camp, but I held Harry among the best of the best.
 
The last time I was in his company was nearly two years ago, when the camp held a carry in supper, meet and greet fellowship for Pam, Mayme and myself while we were in God's country visiting.  In fact Harry was among a few that I asked to sign one of my acoustic guitars, his signature remains there as bold and clear as the night he placed it there. If I should ever need reminding what a true Southron patriot is made of, I need only look at that guitar.  My family mourns for him as well as his beloved wife and daughter who we hold dear to us as well.

Having failed miserably at recounting my feelings for a fallen brother, I will try and focus upon the subject of this post.
 
Those people that live and breathe to stir the hate pot, play the race card, and place a spear into the side of anything Confederate related, do it for a small number of reasons. In my opinion, those reasons include money, power be it large or small, hatred for truth in history, and they just weren't raised up right!
 
Now, I do not have any cut and dried solutions to these problems, however, I for one will continue to do my best (even though I  will always fall short of giving  the honour due my ancestors and all those brave men that served in that war), but I will continue to try as did Harry to stand tall, loud and proud of the Old South and never waiver in my dedication to enlighten those in the dark as to the truth on any occasion when their paths might cross mine.   It's not much, but it's something.
 
This post dedicated to the memory of Compatriot Harry Jones, his family, and to the men and women of Capt James Knox Camp 2022 GA. Div SCV.
 
T. Warren Heritage Officer camp 2022
Behind Enemy lines in illannoy
http://www.scvcamp2022.org/

 

Hawthorne High, Fl.  Confederate Flag Ban Update 9-29-09
 
From: dewey@barberandcompany.com
 
Southern Compatriots,
 
Principal Carter of Hawthorne High, Fl. is a liar, a Southern hater and bigot.
 
First,  Principal Carter agreed to let H.K. Edgerton make a presentation concerning the Confederate flag to the students of Hawthorne High in person. According to her statements, H.K. would speak in the auditorium, first to the middle school children, then to the high school children. However, upon arrival of H.K. on Monday Sept. 14, 2009, Mrs. Carter broke her promise and would not allow H.K. to speak directly to the students but instead made him speak via closed circuit television.
 
Principal Carter also promised to wait till H.K. spoke to the school before passing out ballots which would "let the students decide" whether or not to ban the Confederate flag. But, in fact, she began passing out and collecting the student ballots two days before H.K. made his presentation.
 
Thirdly, when the ballots were counted, the results were not released and Mrs. Carter "trashed" the ballots and unilaterally imposed the ban of the Confederate flag at Hawthorn High without regard for her students opinions or her promise to "let the students decide."
 
Ladies and gentlemen, we have given Mrs. Carter every opportunity to do the right thing. Many of you have written emails and called Mrs. Carter but evidently she is blinded by her prejudice against our heritage and symbols.
 
We have no alternative but to continue to the fight in the behalf of our Southern students.
 
The Southern Legal Resource center has been notified and is working with the parents of the Hawthorn High students. Dixie Outfitters is also working with the parents, forming a strategy to defeat Principal Carter and her discriminatory policy.
 
Be assured that we have just begun to fight this injustice and we are in it for the long haul. I will keep you informed of the actions we will take and how you can help us. For now, please send me copies of any emails that you have sent to Hawthorn High in the past and any you send in the future. We intend to post these emails so all who are following these events can view them.
 
If you wish to contact the school administrators again to voice your displeasure, contact info. follows:
 
Principal
Veita Jackson Carter, M.E.D-P
jacksovl@gm.sbac.edu
352-481-1900
FAX 352-481-4859
 
Superintendent
Dr.W.Danial Boyd.Jr
supt@gm.sbac.edu
352-955-7880
 
Vice Principal
Libby Hartwell
mshartwelles@g.sbac.edu
352-481-1900
 
Deptuy Superintendent
Sandy Hollinger
hollinsh@gm.sbac.edu
352-955-7880
 
School Board of Alachua County
Kirby Smith Administrative Center
620 East University Avenue
Gainesville, Florida 3601-5498

Thanks,
 
Dewey Barber
President, Dixie Outfitters

 

SLRC ADVISES FAMILIES IN HAWTHORNE T-SHIRT DISPUTE
 
HAWTHORNE, FL  -- The Southern Legal Resource Center is guiding the families of students at Hawthorne Middle and High Schools who have found themselves caught up in a sudden and apparently arbitrary ban on Confederate-themed clothing.
 
In mid-September, parents and guardians of several middle and high school students in Hawthorne, a small town east of Gainesville in Alachua County, contacted the SLRC after the students had been sent home for wearing t-shirts with designs that incorporated the Confederate battle flag.  The incidents took place at the beginning of the new school year in August and parents said there had been no prior warning of a ban on Confederate clothing.  Furthermore, they said, such clothing has been worn at the school without incident for many years.
 
At first, according to parents, Hawthorne Middle/High School Principal Veita Jackson-Carter specifically (although verbally) banned Confederate symbols by name.  Later, they said, she amended her position, indicating that she would abide by the results of a written poll that was to be conducted among both students and parents.  She then indicated she would delay further action until after a visit to the school on by Southern activist and former NAACP officer H.K. Edgerton.
 
However, ballots were handed to the students on September 8 and parents’ copies were asked to be returned by September 14, the actual date of Edgerton’s visit.  Moreover, copies of the survey obtained by the SLRC show no mention of the Confederate flag or any other specific content.  The poll asks respondents to rate, in general terms, the school’s new dress code and several other innovations.  The dress code, also obtained by the SLRC, likewise makes no mention of Confederate symbols.
 
Mrs. Joann Justice, grandmother of two of the affected students, said she received a voice mail message from Ms. Jackson-Carter on September 17, stating that the principal had set aside the written ballots and instead conducted her own “informal poll” among students and faculty as to what they thought about the Confederate flag.  The results of this survey, she said in her message, had led her to stand by her original decision to ban Confederate symbols.  She did not, according to Mrs. Justice, say how she had conducted her survey or what the actual results were.  The principal also stated she had taken a videotape of Edgerton’s lecture to the Alachua County Board of Education for review by Superintendent Daniel Boyd, but did not say what Boyd’s reaction had been.  When Mrs. Justice questioned Ms. Jackson-Carter on these points in a follow-up phone conversation, she said the principal “became very irate” and terminated the call.
 
The SLRC helped Mrs. Justice draft a letter to Superintendent Boyd in which she related her dealings with Ms. Jackson-Carter and asked for clarification of the same points.  She hand delivered the letter to Boyd’s office on September 24 but to date has received no response, she said.
 
“I just appreciate so much the advice we are getting from the SLRC, and we also appreciate all the support and offers of help we are getting” Mrs. Justice said.  “We are very confident about the way things are going forward.”
 
“We have developed a game plan for the Hawthorne situation and we are following it,” said SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie.  “At this point, that involves playing everything pretty close to our vest.  We know that feelings are running high in this case, but we would urge folks at this point, unless they are citizens of Alachua County themselves,  to refrain from contacting the principal or other school officials.
 
“We will post new developments as they occur, and meanwhile anybody who would like to be brought up to date is welcome to contact the SLRC and we will be glad to fill them in, to the extent that we can do so without compromising our agenda.”

 

Secession movement spreads well beyond Texas

Posted Friday, Oct. 02, 2009

By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com

AUSTIN — As head of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Daniel Miller of Nederland believes it’s time for the Lone Star State to sever its bond with the United States and return to the days when Texas was an independent republic.

"Independence. In our lifetime," Miller’s organization proclaims on its Web site.

When Gov. Rick Perry suggested that some Texans might want to secede from the Union because they are fed up with the federal government, the remarks drew nationwide news coverage and became fodder for late-night comedians.

But to Texas separatists like Miller and Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Kilgore of Mansfield, secession is no laughing matter. Nor is it exclusive to the nation’s second-largest state.

Fanned by angry contempt for Washington, secession movements have sprouted up in perhaps more than a dozen states in recent years. In Vermont, retired economics professor Thomas Naylor leads the Second Vermont Republic, a self-styled citizens network dedicated to extracting the sparsely populated New England state from "the American Empire."

And on the other side of the continent, Northweste