From: Jeff Van Zandt [mailto:jeff.vanzandt@precisecorp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
 
THIS SPEECH CLEARLY SHOWS OUR SITUATION IN THE WORLD.....WELL WORTH READING !

Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.

America as the last man standing
'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?'

Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands , at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing anAlliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem .

Dear friends,

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I come to America with a mission.  All is not well in the old world.  There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic.  We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe .  This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to America and the sheer survival of the West.  The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe .

First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe .  Then, I will say a few things about Islam.  To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem .

The Europe you know is changing.

You have probably seen the landmarks.  But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world.  It is the world of the parallel society created by Muslim mass-migration.

All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen.  And if they are, they might regret it.  This goes for the police as well.  It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children.  Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead.  With mosques on many street corners.  The shops have signs you and I cannot read.  You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity.  These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics.  These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe .  These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe , street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.

There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe .  With larger congregations than there are in churches.  And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region.  Clearly, the signal is: we rule.

Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam , Marseille and Malmo in Sweden .  In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim.  Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods.  Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.

In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.

Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils.  In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims.  Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'.  Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.

In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin .  The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.

In England sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves.  Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels , because he was drinking during the Ramadan.

Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II.  French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel .  I could go on forever with stories like this.  Stories about Islamization.

A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe .  San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now.  Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century.

Now these are just numbers.  And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate.  But there are few signs of that.  The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France .  One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks.  The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate.  Muslims demand what they call 'respect'.  And this is how we give them respect.  We have Muslim official state holidays.

The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority.  We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .

Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots.  Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus.  I call the perpetrators 'settlers'.  Because that is what they are.  They do not come to integrate into our societies; they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam.  Therefore, they are settlers.

Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries.  Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.

The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet.  His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized.  Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem.  But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time.  Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed.  Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza.  If it is good for Islam, it is good.  If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.

Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion.  Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins.  But in its essence Islam is a political ideology.  It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person.  Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life.  Islam means 'submission'.  Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is sharia.  If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.

Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran.  The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor.  I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times.  I support Israel .  First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.

This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance.  Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia .  Israel is simply in the way.  The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.

The war against Israel is not a war against Israel .  It is a war against the West.  It is jihad.  Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us.  If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest.  Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.

Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities.  But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values.  On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam.  They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed.  The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning.  It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination.  If they can get Israel , they can get everything.  So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'.  In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II.  And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat.  Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing.  The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine.  An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs.  With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .

Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts.  My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives.  All throughout Europe , American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish.  My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians.  We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us.  We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams.  Future generations would never forgive us.  We cannot squander our liberties.  We simply do not have the right to do so.
We have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know.
 
Please take the time to read and understand what is written here, Please send it to every free person that you know, it is so very important.
 
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From: Craig Maus, csacommand@windstream.net
Date: November 20, 2009

Dear Confederates and Patriots (bcc herein),
 
Thank you Gia for sharing.
 
I have stated on earlier occasions, several times as a matter of fact, that Europe is under-going the same invasive onslaught that we have been experiencing here in 'these' United States-
THANKS TO THE ONE WORLD, NEW WORLD ORDER PROGRESSIVE'S throughout this world.

I have said that a "Saturation Process",  whose roots were officially created in the 1960's under LBJ's "Great American Society" program in conjunction with the Kennedy's, that established the legal basis through which this "Saturation Process" would evolve whose design would impact this Nation negatively reducing any & all former immigration policies to a mere shadow of their former self.

As such, it would allow for a ' Dilution Process' that would alter the scope of American culture as we knew it  from it's European roots andeverything associated with those roots.

I wrote numerous articles regarding this only to be called, well y'all know the names by now.
 
I also said that America was the "Last Bastion of Freedom" as we know it.
 
Then again, I also said that Confederates can see things more clearly having already been exposed to the lies and treachery of the this Federal Government for nearly 145 years.  It's kind of that 'fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me' analogy.
 
We Confederates have been dodging and ducking the despotic swings of this corrupted government for so long that at times we forget that others are only beginning to receive their first share of that 'Shame on You' punch in the gut from them!
 
Well, read the enclosed herein and below.  It comes from a Member of the Dutch Parliament some 11 years after we Confederates had issued another warning to all of what was coming.
 
I guess when it is said by an 'official within a bonafide Government, it's substance takes on a greater meaning than those issued earlier on from us 'yahoo's South of the Mason-Dixon line?
 
Remember, ALL that was ever predicted by our Brethren before us, and us to date,  has come to pass!  Does anyone seriously believe Washington represents your interests after all they have done and continue to do despite your wishes for them to do OTHERWISE?
 
Perhaps now many will finally come to understand what it has been like for us to live as a conquered people under a Federal Government who overthrew our Legal Government via invasion more than 145 years ago?  You know, that same Government who lies to you as incessantly as they lied to us before 1860 and after 1865 & who now 'Socialistly' re-distributes your wealth in the name of 'Democracy'!  You are now seeing their transgressions and experiencing what we experienced resulting from Conquest and subsequent RECONSTRUCTION....that same RECONSTRUCTION they are now doing to you as they long ago did to us!
 
Will YOU join us NOW?
 
So Goes the Christian South, So WILL Go This Nation!
 
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 Government of the South- The Confederate States of America!
Deo Vindice
'When A Government becomes  Absolute, the People Must become Resolute!
www.deovindice.org

 

Mullins McLeod ready to take Confederate Flag down

Posted by Greg Hambrick
Thu, Nov 19, 2009

As the topper on a job proposal, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mullins McLeod said Thursday that the state needs to bring down the controversial Confederate Flag on the Statehouse grounds and put it in a museum where it belongs. The whole debate sends the wrong message about South Carolina, McLeod said.

"The Confederate Flag debate continues to hold our state back," he said. " We are not going to compete in a 21st Century economy by prolonging 19th Century arguments."

The flag debate has been on the back-burner for nearly a decade after the flag was removed from the Statehouse dome and placed in front of the building. Some have argued that the move, which was pitched as a compromise, placed the flag in an even more prominent spot. The flag was first placed on the Statehouse in 1963 in the midst of the Civil Rights movement.

But the flag resolution is a novel accessory for a larger jobs-creation pitch. McLeod is also calling for an impartial analysis of state jobs data, middle-class tax relief, improved training resources (particularly in rural areas), and a focus on green jobs.

© Copyright 2009, Charleston City Paper

On The Web:   www.charlestoncitypaper.com/RockBottom/archives/2009/11/19/mullins-mcleod-ready-to-take-confederate-flag-down

 

Folks need educating on Confederate flag

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

In the October 21 issue of the Times-Virginian there was a letter by Mike Scott about the Confederate Battle Flag being removed by request by a town representative prior to performing their music. What was the reason for the request? The people have a right to know! All the people, both North and South! The purpose for the Battle Flag was a blessing to both North and South according to my knowledge of the reason the battle flag was created. It was not slavery. It was not for motorcycle clubs. It was not for the KKK. When you see the Confederate Battle Flag think of the soldiers that made it back to their lines without capture, both North and South! When I see a Confederate Battle Flag on the back of a motorcycle driver, that is what I think of and rejoice what a brilliant idea it was to create that flag! The North had the same problem as the South but was outperformed by the South to fix it! That should be celebrated not smothered.

Now for the reason of the Confederate Battle Flag consider that ammunition of yesteryear gave off a cloud of white smoke both in small arms and cannon fire. Imagine a field of Battle in which were numerous, that no wind was blowing. None. The field then became like an ultra dense fog. Now, both wounded North and South Soldiers don't know where they are and start trying to crawl back to their lines, through the white smoke. They see a glimpse of red white and blue and they crawl to it. Here is where the problem began. Both North and South had flags of red white and blue. The South realizing this, created the battle flag to be shown on the battlefields. Now union soldiers made it back to their own lines as did confederate soldiers. Actually, I believe the battle flag was a creation of genius! Should be honored as such. Not the question again, why was the battle flag requested to be removed? I do believe that wherever the battle flag is to be displayed its reason that it is displayed should be told to the audience prior to the program start. The purpose being, to inform the people apparently now lost in education.

Walter Heydt
Bedford, Virginia

 

11/16/2009

U.S. Supreme Court Puts an End to High School Valedictorian's Fight to Defend Right to Speak Freely About Her Christian Beliefs at Graduation

"This is a sad day for the cause of freedom. When the Supreme Court cannot clear their calendar to hear a case of this magnitude, then our freedoms are in jeopardy. Such censorship and discrimination should not be permitted in America."-- John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute

WASHINGTON, DC -- The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a high school valedictorian whose microphone was turned off by school officials after she began speaking about the part her Christian beliefs played in her success in life. Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had asked the Court to hear the case of Brittany McComb, charging that school officials violated McComb's free speech rights and engaged in viewpoint discrimination when they censored her speech because of its Christian content. The Court issued the order denying the petition without additional explanation.

"This is a sad day for the cause of freedom," said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. "When the Supreme Court cannot clear their calendar to hear a case of this magnitude, then our freedoms are in jeopardy. Such censorship and discrimination should not be permitted in America."

In the spring of 2006, Brittany McComb was one of three valedictorians chosen based on their grade-point averages to give a speech at Foothill High School's annual commencement ceremony. Each valedictorian was provided with "suggestions" for crafting their speeches. However, school officials neither encouraged nor forbade the students to include or exclude religious content from their speeches.

In her speech, Brittany reflected on past experiences and lessons learned at school and wrote about the emptiness she experienced from accomplishments, achievements and failures in her early high school years. She then mentioned the fulfillment and satisfaction she later came to experience in something greater than herself, namely, in God's love, and Christ. Upon receiving a copy of Brittany's draft speech, school administrators proceeded to censor her speech, deleting all three Bible references, several references to "the Lord" and the only mention of the word "Christ."

Believing that the district's censorship of her speech amounted to a violation of her right to free speech, on June 15, 2006, Brittany attempted to deliver the original version of her speech in which she talked about the role that her Christian beliefs played in her success. The moment Brittany began to speak the words, school officials cut off her microphone. Despite extensive jeers from the audience over the school officials' actions, McComb was not permitted to finish her valedictory speech.

With the assistance of The Rutherford Institute, Brittany McComb filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Foothill High School officials in July 2006. In June 2007, the U.S. District Court for Nevada rejected the school district's second attempt to have the case dismissed and affirmed that the lawsuit raises substantial claims of infringement of McComb's right of free speech. School officials subsequently appealed to the Court of Appeals, which dismissed the case, holding that McComb had no right to give her speech, which it deemed to be "proselytizing."

On The Web:   rutherford.org/articles_db/press_release.asp?article_id=793

 

Protecting Their Country, Loved Ones and Homes
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
March 1 [1861]:
 
“The sad, sad state of affairs in our loved country is the all absorbing theme of both sexes. Yesterday an election was held to elect delegates for the call convention, to devise some plan for the safety & protection of the Southern States against the Northern fanatical spirit which seems fully bent on our destruction.”
 
March 4.
 
“There has been no sunshine today. The heavens seem hung with darkness, over our national wrongs…for this is the day for the inauguration of a President. That will cause the dissolution of our Union; and we know not what other ill will follow. We can only look to Him whose power alone sways heaven and earth. But the die is cast; our Star spangled banner will wave no more over us as a free & happy people. The mad fanatics of the North seem bent on the destruction of the South. They have been throwing fire brands in our midst for years, secretly. Now they have come out with a black Republican President resolved to carry out their wicked designs at the risk of life, happiness and virtue. The South has borne the insults of the North too long. But forbearance has ceased & now the crisis has arrived; some are standing idle instead of presenting one unbroken front.”
 
March 19.
 
“I have finished all the squares for my quilt. I think I shall call it a DISUNION QUILT as it will be made different from any I ever saw.”
 
May 17.
 
“Ross Magot came to see us; he got a furlow to come home a day or two. He is dressed in full uniform; he’s a fine looking officer…The neighbors met at Buckhorn today to have the militia company enrolled (May 17 the Hertford Light Infantry was formed with Thos. H. Sharpe of Harrellsville as Captain…)”
 
May 21.
 
“…everything looks gloomy & sad, & our own hearts feel sad. This evening our ears were startled by the sound of cannons. We know the foe is at hand, & we can only raise our hearts to God to ask Him to protect our little band who have gone forth to protect their country & loved ones and homes.”
 
(Excerpts from Annie B. Darden’s Diary, 1861; Before the Rebel Flag Fell, T. Parramore, editor, Johnson Publishing, 1968, pp. E-L)

 

Subjugating South Carolina
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Senator Edward Baker of Oregon responds below to former Vice President and then-Senator John Breckenridge of Kentucky in 1861. Baker preferred to prosecute war and subjugation against Americans rather than appeal to the peaceful settlement of vexing questions.  It is reported that Baker appeared in the Senate that day in the uniform of a Northern colonel, riding whip and saber in hand. Being only vaguely familiar with the United States Constitution, he mistook the assertion of State sovereignty and consent of the governed for rebellion and insurrection, and perhaps approved of George III’s war upon the American colonies and subjugating them to England’s Constitution. In what could be divined as the just reward for a tyrant, Baker would be mortally wounded eleven weeks later by Virginian’s defending their homes and country at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, near Leesburg.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Subjugating South Carolina:

 
“The senator from Kentucky [Breckenridge] stands up here in a manly way in opposition to what he sees is the overwhelming sentiment of the Senate, and utters reproof, malediction, and prediction combined. Well sir, it is not every prediction that is prophesy. I confess Mr. President, that I would not have predicted three weeks ago the disasters which have overtaken our arms; and I do not think (if I were to predict now) that six months hence the senator will indulge in the same tone of prediction which is his favorite key now. I would ask him what would you have us do now---a Confederate army within twenty miles of us, advancing, or threatening to advance, to overwhelm your government; to shake the pillars of the Union; to bring it down around your head in ruins if you stay here?
 
Are we to stop and talk about an uprising sentiment in the north against the war? Is it not the manly part to go on as we have begun, to raise money, and levy armies, to organize them, to prepare to advance; when we do advance, to regulate that advance by all the laws and regulations that civilization and humanity will allow in time of battle? To talk to us about stopping is idle; we will never stop. Will the senator yield to rebellion? Will he shrink from armed insurrection? Will his State justify it? Shall we send a flag of truce?
 
When we subjugate South Carolina, what shall we do? We shall compel its obedience to the Constitution of the United States; that is all. Why play upon words? We do not mean, we have never said, any more. If it be slavery that men should obey the Constitution their fathers fought for, let it be so. We propose to subjugate rebellion into loyalty; we propose to subjugate insurrection into peace; we propose to subjugate Confederate anarchy into constitutional Union liberty. When the Confederate armies are scattered; when their leaders are banished from power; when the people return to a late repentant sense of the wrong they have done to a government they never felt but benignancy and blessing---then the Constitution made for us all will be felt by all, like the descending rains from heaven which bless all alike.
 
Sir, how can we retreat? What will become of constitutional government? What will become of public liberty? What of past glories? What of future hopes? No sir; a thousand time no, sir! We will rally…we will rally the people, the loyal people, of the whole country. They will pour forth their treasure , their money, their men, without stint, without measure.”
 
(Edward D. Baker, senate speech of August 1, 1861. The World’s Famous Orations, W.J. Bryan, editor, Funk & Wagnall’s, 1906, pp. 3-8)

 

 

Fort Monroe Survey -- need help!
 
Dear Confederate Heritage Friends,
 
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Interpretive Solutions Fort Monroe planning workshop last week.  We had good attendance with all of the daughters, sons and interested friends!  People came from far away.  Our message was definitely well expressed during the evening.  Also, thank you to everyone who responded to my e-mail.
 
As background information, the Fort Monroe FADA (FM FADA) is made up of 18 members from the City of Hampton, the General Assembly and the Virginia Governor’s appointees and cabinet members.  This committee relies on several subcommittees and consultants to make recommendations concerning the future of Fort Monroe.  Interpretive Solutions is one consultant who is charged with making recommendations as to what themes should be interpreted at Fort Monroe.
 
I was very disappointed with the way Interpretive Solutions, presented their suggested themes for the public’s opinion.  At the meeting, I learned that Interpretive Solutions is a consulting company from New Jersey, who prides itself on working with the National Park Service on many projects throughout the USA.  From what I’ve seen of their work, I’d call it revising history.
 
The consultant had several boards set up around the room with suggested themes.  Each visitor was given enough colored dots to make one vote on each board for a first and second choice.  This approach is a modification of a method used by consultants to guarantee the solution desired by the sponsor. 
 
Prior to the meeting, I had been assured by the consultants that Confederate history would be represented as a major part of the themes.  To my disappointment, I found that the major theme represented on the voting boards was the African-American and Contraband experience.  There was no reference to the Confederacy or to President Davis’ confinement.  The only mention of any Confederate was a single mention of Robert E. Lee’s tenure as an Engineer at Fort Monroe prior to the war.  But, there was one complete board totally dedicated to the African-Americans.
 
I, and several others, expressed our displeasure as to the lack of Confederate history on the theme boards.  In response, the consultants suggested that we write our ideas on post-it notes they supplied.  It was obvious that these post-it notes would not have any recognition, because the effort asked for votes, so each post-it would only represent one vote for a subject.  We arrived at the solution to write our themes directly onto the theme boards, and then others of same mind could also vote for these themes.
 
I have attached an example of one of the boards asking for suggested themes.  On this board, the War Between the States was totally ignored by the consultants.  When questioned, their comment was that it was included in the theme “Military History at the Fort” - which covers the total period of 1610 through 2009.  But, the theme board did include separate entries for Native Americans and African Americans.
 
As mentioned above, we wrote in “Confederate History” at the bottom of the board.  Note on my attachment, that Confederate History received 27 votes, far more than any other theme.  I have photographs of all of the boards showing the votes for each subject, including those written in by the public.
 
The FM FADA website (http://www.fmfada.com) has all of the boards that were at the meeting.  They are open for on-line voting until the end of this month.  Be aware though, that the voting at the meeting, and any on-line voting will not be the final word.  During their presentation the consultant made it clear that this is just the first step in the process, and they likely have plenty of outs to influence the final decisions.  It will be to our benefit though, to be able to refer to a preponderance of votes for Confederate history, particularly since the consultant left it out.
 
The process of the Interpretive Planners consultants will last for nine months.  As part of this process, there will be several meetings for representatives of Fort Monroe Stakeholders.  The Fort Monroe FADA has identified the UDC as a Stakeholder and I will be representing the UDC at all of the meetings.  However, I cannot do it alone.
 
I am convinced that, in the end, the consultant, Interpretative Solutions will present a conclusion to the FM FADA that their research indicates that the African American experience should be the main theme at Fort Monroe, and totally ignore the Confederate story. 
 
I converse regularly with legislators and other members of FM FADA.  If I am able to point to data that shows them that the public has overwhelmingly demanded that Confederate history be a part of the interpretations at Fort Monroe, they will have a hard time ignoring us.
 
Every month on the FM FADA website, http://www.fmfada.com, there will be a different survey that Interpretive Solutions is asking the public to answer.  This survey may not always specify the Confederate story, however, there will always be a box at the bottom of each section where you may write in other answers.
 
This month’s survey is the same that was used at the workshop.  Even if you attended the workshop, you may still answer the survey online.  Near the bottom of the first page of the FM FADA website, you will see a box titled, “Fort Monroe FADA – Town Hall Meeting”.  At the bottom of this box, you need to click on “Give us your feedback here”.   A page will appear that says “Themes, Stories, and Activities at Ft. Monroe”.  This is the survey.
 
There are 8 sections to the survey.  Below is a brief description of the sections and suggestions for possible answers to add to the box at the bottom that would help insure the Confederacy Theme.  Note, that if you do write a theme into the box, do not vote for any other choices in that section, as it will dilute your vote.
 
1. Themes at Fort Monroe – This section never mentions the War Between the States, much less the Confederacy.  If you agree, please write Confederacy in the box at the bottom of the section titled, “If there are themes missing, please write them here”.
 
2. Stories at Fort Monroe – This section mentions Robert E. Lee’s tenure as a Civil Engineer at Fort Monroe, but never mentions Jefferson Davis’ confinement as a story to be told.  Please add Jefferson Davis’ confinement story as your first choice in the box. It would be helpful to mark Robert E. Lee as your second choice and at the bottom in the box titled, “Is there an important military history story missing from the list?  If so, please add it here.”     If you would prefer, Robert E. Lee as your first choice, please indicate your preference that way.
 
3. More Stories at Fort Monroe – This entire section concerns only African Americans.  I would suggest not answering any of the printed themes.  A write-in, by the public at the meeting, which received 15 votes was, “General Butler using the Contraband Decision as a political ploy”.
 
4. What are Fort Monroe’s most significant periods?  - Please answer Civil War as your first choice.
 
5. Recreation at Fort Monroe – Please answer this section as you desire.  There are three items that might be of interest to you.  1.  “View a Civil War era re-enactment of a day at Fort Monroe” 2. “Participate in a Civil War re-enactment”.  I feel that the question, “Research the Civil War, African American, or military history” is too broad, and choosing it will give more credence to African American story.
 
6. Learning Labs at Fort Monroe – Please answer this as you please.
 
7. Fort Monroe has many stories to tell.  How would you prefer to experience them at the Fort? - Please answer this section as you please.
 
8. Do you have any additional comments?  Please add them here. - This is a box where you may add positive comments that would help insure that our Confederate heritage remains at Fort Monroe. It is particularly important to stress the following:
 
• One is that the Casemate Museum should be independent of the National Park Service.  The National Park Service should not control the Casemate Museum.
 
• The second is that you would like to have a satellite of the Museum of the Confederacy at Fort Monroe.
 
There must be an enormous request by the public for the Museum of the Confederacy to have a presence at Fort Monroe.  The representative of the National Trust has made strong objections, verbally and in writing, to the existence of the MOC on Fort Monroe.  I would be glad to send you his 17-page letter. Although The FM FADA realizes that the MOC belongs at Fort Monroe, and would be a good financial boon for the self-sustainability of Fort Monroe, they are being pressured by these forces to delete it. The public must override this effort to de-emphasize Confederate history.  It is extremely important!
 
I hope that you will recognize how important your action can be to helping assure that our Confederate history is correctly told at Fort Monroe.
 
Christine Gergely
UDC Liaison to Fort Monroe
gergely@visi.net

 

CD about Abraham Lincoln and the socialists
 
From: Cpprhd10@aol.com
 
Mr. Demastus,
 
I have a new CD out about socialist support for Lincoln that is now available. If anyone wants to check it out there is a post about it up on http://www.fireeater.org  right next to the Evangelical Marxism article.
 
Thanks,
 
Al

 

The Fire Eater
 
From: to.fireeater@gmail.com
 
Folks,
 
The Fire Eater (www.fireeater.org) will celebrate its seventh birthday in January. Seven years is a long time on the Internet, and we're proud and excited. From the very beginning, the Fire Eater has tried to set itself apart by not only honouring Southern heritage, but creating new Southern culture at the same time.
 
I invite you to take a gander at The Fire Eater. We often publish articles that other Southern sites will not publish. (Good thing we're Fire Eaters; we're used to taking heat.) As an example, you might want to look at the groundbreaking work penned by Al Benson, Jr. on the connection between Marxism-Socialism and the evangelical movement.  Part II just came out today, and we're certainly looking forward to Part III.
 
In addition, you'll find a reprint of the 2005 article by MacDonald King Aston: "The Final Person: Mysticism, Christianity, and the Southern Movement" (originally on SouthernRights website). The article connects to the other articles "The Guerilla Jesus" and "Jesus the Rebel." (We seem to be on a theological theme of late!)
 
And if you missed the Majorettes from Ole Miss in 1962, you'll enjoy that picture (thanks to Bobby Mitchell, SCV).
 
We'll keep you updated on the Fire Eater's birthday. We invite your criticisms, comments, and submissions as well!
 
God bless the South,
 
MacDonald King Aston
Literary Advisor, The Fire Eater

 

Sarah Beth & Company
 
From: chiefopvfd@mchsi.com
 
Dear Sir, Please take a moment to listen to the song "Buried in the Dust". It was written and sung by my daughter Sarah Beth Meadows. I would be grateful for any feed back you could offer.                           
 
Thank you. 
Tom Meadows  
SCV Camp 2068  
 
www.myspace.com/sarahbethcompany

 

Driving Canada to Confederation
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
Both Canada and England feared the military strength of the immense Northern war machine which by early 1865 had nearly bludgeoned the American South into capitulation. Already Seward, Grant and Meade were overhead discussing an invasion of Canada after Mexico was dealt with severely. With Britain uneasy about sending regiments to Canada and provoking war, the Canadians themselves saw confederation with England as a barrier to conquest by power-intoxicated Northern radicals.

 
Like the Confederate States of America, Canada would review the defects of the US Constitution and restructure it to better serve its purpose. As McDonald offers below as a defect in the executive position, the Confederate Constitution solved with a six-year term, and no prospect of reelection. It is obvious below that McDonald’s understanding of the American Constitution and its reservation of sovereignty to the constituent States exceeded that of Lincoln and his fellow revolutionaries.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Driving Canada to Confederation:
 
“If we are not blind to our present position we must see the hazardous situation in which all the great interests of Canada stand in respect to the United States. I am no alarmist, I do not believe in the prospect of immediate war. I believe that the common sense of the two nations will prevent a war; still we cannot trust to probabilities. The government and legislature would be wanting in duty to the people if they ran any risk. We know that the United States at this moment are engaged in a war of enormous dimensions; that the occasion of a war with Great Britain has again and again arisen and may at any time in the future again arise. It would then be too late, when war had commenced, to think of measures for strengthening ourselves or to begin negotiations for a union with the sister Provinces.
 
At this moment, in consequence to the ill feeling which arisen between England and the United States---a feeling of which Canada was not the cause---in consequence of the irritation which now exists owing to the unhappy state of affairs on this continent, the reciprocity treaty, it seems probable, is about to be brought to an end…and at any moment we may be deprived of permission to carry our goods through United States channels...” Ourselves already threatened, our trade interrupted, our intercourse, political and commercial, destroyed, if we do not take warning now when we have the opportunity…”
 
It is the fashion now to enlarge on the defects of the Constitution of the United States…we can now take advantage of the last seventy-eight years during which that Constitution has existed, and I am strongly in the belief that we have in a great measure avoided in this system which we propose for the adoption of the people of Canada the defects which time and events have shown to exist in the American Constitution. By adhering to the monarchical principle we avoid one defect inherent in the Constitution…By the election of the president by a majority and for a short period, he never is the sovereign and chief of the nation. He is never looked up to by the whole people as the head and front of the nation. He is at best the successful leader of a party. This defect is all the greater on account of the practice of reelection. During his first term of office he is employed in taking steps to secure his own reelection, and for his party a continuance of power. We avoid this by adhering to the monarchical principle---the sovereign whom you respect and love. [This sovereign] who is not elevated by the action of one party nor depressed by the action of another; who is the common head and sovereign of all.
 
Ever since the [American] Union was formed, the difficulty of what is called “State rights” has existed, and this had much to do with bringing on the present unhappy war in the United States. They commenced, in fact, at the wrong end. They declared by their Constitution that each State was a sovereignty in itself, and that all the powers incident to a sovereignty belonged to each State, except those powers by which the Constitution were conferred upon the general government and Congress. Here we have adopted a different system. We have strengthened the general government.”
 
(MacDonald on Canadian Confederation, February, 1865; The World’s Famous Orations, William Jennings Bryan, editor, Funk & Wagnall’s, 1906, pp. 9-13)

 

Reaction to Bernhard's commentary on Grant the Butcher
 
From: johough@swbell.net
 
I just read Bernhard’s revelations of findings in the Haskell Memoirs concerning GRANT, THE BUTCHER. 
 
Obviously Republican Grant didn't care how much manly flesh and bones he wasted in his efforts to destroy our South.   He had a bountiful supply of sacrificial men because the Marxists in the Republican Party and in control in Congress had imported, just for that worthy purpose, many thousands of jail birds from Europe.   The Republicans had even lured some decent men here from Germany.  Most of these lost souls, unable to speak English, only knew what they were told by their clever American bosses. The understanding of what was in the Constitution given them was so twisted, it would have been unrecognizable to the founding fathers.   No doubt the newcomers thought they were dying for a noble cause--like saving the Union from folks who thought the Constitution was "just a gd piece of paper." (Where have we heard those words?)  One thing for sure these men never shot a shell to free a slave and neither did 99 percent of Union soldiers, or more.
 
Today the Republicans who started the war against the sovereign Confederacy are called Radical Republicans by the politically correct and highly recognized/honored historians who give each other "Lincoln" prizes. Those grand, brand new Republicans of the 1860's lured European men to America to be used by Grant as cannon fodder by promising the poor suckers wonderful goodies and prizes.  The South was to be given away to the new warrior immigrants, or so the liars said.  Of course who really took the goodies? -- Americans such as Sherman and Grant and others of their Republican ilk. (So his townspeople continue to worship Sherman?  Who could not adore somebody who let the men bring home so many captured treasures--some ripped from the ears and fingers of crying Southern ladies? ) Truth has long been concealed by myths.
 
You know all about the evils committed by the Marxists/Red Republicans if you have read Walter Kennedy and Al Benson's revelations found in Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War.)
 
Amazing, isn't it, that the Butcher became an American President? How surprising it is that he hasn't become a national icon as did his boss Abe, but then Grant remained serviceable to the real controllers of the all powerful central government so did not have to be bumped off.  Grant, the Butcher, was a worthy follower to dear, honest, Christian, Bible-quoting Abe Lincoln, was he not? 
 
The question remains--how long will the myth persist that Abe Lincoln was a "great" man? How long will Americans continue to worship Mr. Lincoln and worship the worshippers of Mr. Lincoln-- such as the Yankee Socialist who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance and taught American children in those long ago days to recite it with their hands in a position later adopted by another great admirer of Lincoln, Adolph Hitler? 
 
Remember Hitler's big heil salute? Once we went to war against him, our kids' salute was changed because he had adopted it. So now they place their hands on their hearts during their recitation of "I pledge allegiance" to a government that, despite the Constitution and the words of the founding fathers, is "INDIVISIBLE” because bayonets, unconstitutionally, have made it so."
 
Liberty is not for all Americans, is it?  Southerners raised at the knees of their grandfathers who fought for it after their secession from The British Empire, thought so.  They thought wrong.  Jefferson Davis' own grandfather Evan Davis fought for that liberty and believed in secession.  Jefferson Davis thought the same, so did Thomas Jefferson. Do we? 
 
Joan Hough
 

Serious About the Constitution
Commentary by Steve Scroggins
11/12/09

Nancy Pelosi was reportedly asked a question by a reporter at an Oct. 29 press conference: "Madame Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?"

Her response to this query was quite telling. "Are you serious? Are you serious?" she replied. Pelosi then took another reporter's question.

Barry Goldwater's 1960 book, THE CONSCIENCE OF A CONSERVATIVE, expressed what’s now deemed a "radical" idea. Goldwater asserted that the first question a Congressman should ask about any proposed bill is NOT whether or not it is a good idea. The first question should be: "Does the Constitution authorize Congress to act?"

Since Goldwater left the Senate, flagrant trampling of the Constitution proceeds virtually unquestioned. Ron Paul is treated as wacky radical. The current Congress is continuing the open contempt for the Constitution demonstrated since the FDR period through LBJ to the present day. The D.C. Leviathan and our national debt are growing faster than kudzu on a manure pile in a rainy July. [The text of Walter Williams' commentary "Constitutional Contempt" is at bottom. ]

It's high time for the Enumerated Powers Act as proposed by Rep. John Shadegg (R, AZ). But if the Congress ignores the Constitution, should we believe they would obey statutory law?

The Constitution gave us the blueprint for a republic, not a democracy. It's an important distinction. The Constitution's focus and purpose was to limit government, specifically, what the central government may or may not do. Its fatal flaw is that it requires a virtuous and moral people.

    "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." --John Adams, 11 October 1798

John Adams noted that our Republic was designed and fitting only for a moral people. Moral people do not approve when government steals from some citizens in order to give benefits to others. Theft is always wrong, even when the government does it under the guise of "benevolent" purposes.

The Founders were very wary of "democracy" for they knew it always led to a tyranny of the majority. Thomas Jefferson expressed the beliefs of many of the Founders this way, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Our pretense as a nation under the Rule of Law is a farce. We are, at best, a mob rule democracy...on our way to the absolute tyranny we so richly deserve. As H.L. Mencken once wrote, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

The Founders provided a very specific---and onerous--- amendment process for the Constitution. That process requires deliberation and overwhelming majority approval, not only in D.C., but also in three quarters of the State capitols. The process was made onerous in order to check runaway passions and popular fads from leading to a tyranny of the majority. The process also was made deliberate to force proposed changes to be visible, understood as departures from the original intent and open to debate.

The States once had nullification and other checking powers but all those were destroyed (in practice) in Lincoln’s war. The 14th Amendment was never properly ratified but was declared so anyway. The 16th Amendment (income tax), the establishment of The Federal Reserve and the 17th Amendment neutered the States and released the D.C. Leviathan to grow out of control. Until The Fed and these Amendments are addressed, suggests Thomas DiLorenzo, we are stuck in a situation best described as "Constitutional Futility."

James Madison wrote in Federalist #10:

    "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."

The USA converted, in practice, from a republic to a democracy during the reign of FDR. Without a miraculous change of course, our democracy's brief life is almost over and its violent death is imminent.

Copyright © 2003-2009, GeorgiaHeritageCouncil.org

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State Secession: Trying To Beat the World’s Worst Record

by Russell D. Longcore

If you can’t think of reasons that state secession is a better solution for liberty than working within "the system," consider the record of the Federal Government of the United States.

Sure, you can ultimately lay the blame on all of us, since we are the ones who allow the atrocities of Washington to continue. But for now, let’s look at Washington’s record of achievement over the last 150 years.

War of Northern Aggression – 1860s: The North wages war on a confederation of seceding states who left lawfully. Over 600,000 men died on both sides.

Reconstruction: 1860s–1870s. The North plunders the South.

Fractional reserve banking: counterfeiting by another name. Born in the 1800s, perfected by the Federal Reserve and central banking system of the USA.

Spanish-American War – 1898: "Remember the Maine?" A complete lie told by newspaperman WR Hearst, bought by the public and Washington to go to war.

Federal Reserve: established in 1913. For 96 years, it has mismanaged the economy and counterfeited currency.

IRS and the Income Tax (16th Amendment): 1913. What starts out as a small tax becomes a leviathan. What starts out as a small division of the Treasury becomes the most feared weapon of Washington.

World War 1: 1914–1918. 117,000 dead Americans, 205,000 wounded. The US had no business in a European family war but President Wilson had other ideas.

Depression I: 1929–1940s. The Federal Reserve caused it.

New Deal: 1933–1936. FDR’s massive government jobs program, plundering the wealth of the USA. Fascism by another name.

World War II: 1941–1945. Another European war, we had no dog in this fight. FDR baited the Japs into attacking Pearl Harbor, giving him political cover.

Cold War: The US and the USSR escalate preparations for war to new heights, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons.

Korean War: 1950–1953. 36,000 Americans dead, 96,000 wounded.

Viet Nam: 1950–1975. 58,000 dead Americans, 303,000 wounded.

Creation of three letter agencies: HEW, HHS, CIA, FDA, FCC, DOA, DOD, EPA, and the list goes on...

New Cabinet bureaucracies: Energy, Education, Homeland Security, etc.

Grenada invasion: 1983. 19 Americans dead, 116 wounded.

Panamanian invasion 1989: 23 Americans dead, maybe 3,000 civilians killed.

Bosnian War: 1992–1995: US sends troops under UN flag, millions of civilians made refugees.

Gulf War: 1999. President George HW Bush commits a massive force to Kuwait. 379 Americans die, 776 wounded in a 100-hour war.

Iraq: 2003–present. About 5,000 Americans dead, over 35,000 wounded (that they’ll admit to). That doesn’t count casualties of our mercenaries...I mean contractors.

Afghanistan/Pakistan: 2001–present. About 1,000 Americans dead, over 4,500 wounded. That doesn’t count casualties of our mercenaries...I mean contractors.

TSA: 2001–present. Domestic airline travel done "the government way."

Let’s not forget...

    * Counterfeiting, bailouts, nationalization and massive inflation: Just another way that Washington says "you belong to me."
    * Regulation of every facet of human life: Try to think of a second of your life that is not regulated in some way by Washington. Quick answer: that second does not exist.
    * Two-party political system: two sides of the same coin, both Washington cheerleaders and sycophants. Both want to spend unconstitutional money.
    * Out of control military, bases in 130 nations.

Here is the point to this litany of tyranny. The government of the United States of America has screwed up the entire planet through their actions over the last 150 years. The events of currency collapse and inflation in our not-too-distant future will reverberate throughout every nation on earth.

States of the United States that choose to secede will certainly be affected by the implosion of the Washington government. But, could any new nation ever match the "Hall of Shame" listed above?

New American nations, formed from the seceding United States, would be little pinpoints of light and liberty. If their only guiding principle was to not make the same mistakes that the US government made over the last 150 years, they would be destined for success.

How could they fail?

Copyright © 2009 Russell D. Longcore.

On The Web:   www.lewrockwell.com/longcore/longcore11.1.html

 

The South rises again

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009

Battle of Myers Landing offers historians opportunity to teach about civil war

By Wyndi Veigel
Staff Writer
 
As smoke cleared the air it was evident that the Union soldiers were in a retreat.
 
Amid the cheers, the Confederates gathered in celebration and to care for their “wounded.”
 
Thanks  to the North Texas History Center, the Collin County Historical Commission and the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #1588 of Plano, history came to life at Myers Park in McKinney for a Civil War re-enactment titled the Battle for Myers Landing.
 
Though the battle was fictitious since there were no Civil War battles fought in Texas, thousands of students and history enthusiasts flooded the park in anticipation of seeing camps, cannons and soldiers.
 
The event also offered classes about civilian life, blacksmithing, uniforms, sewing and dress making, cavalry, and cooking over a campfire with period utensils. There were also open Army camps, allowing children to see how soldiers lived and slept, along with what equipment they had. There was also a clothing/fashion show, and classes in finding your Civil War Ancestor, and arms and artillery.
 
One of the most interesting aspects of the battle was the information about history from many of the participating soldiers. Various flags were flown as Confederate and Union soldier regiments approached one another.
 
“The Bonnie Blue flag was one of the original flags flown for Texas. It was solid blue with a single white star with the word ‘Texas’ on it,” said Mike Holbrook, a re-enacter who played battle calls on his trumpet. “The Confederates took the Texas off of it and adopted the flag for their own. The flag was later replaced by the ‘Stars and Bars’ flag that everyone knows as the Confederate flag.”
 
Holbrook also shared the history of the closest “almost battle” to Texas.
 
“In 1864 the Federals traveled up the Red River to Shreveport, and they were going to attempt to capture Jefferson,” he said. “At that time Jefferson was a huge steamboat town which would have been very valuable to them. They were stopped in Mansfield, La. before they could make it to Jefferson.”
 
For Holbrook, being a part of history is nothing new.
 
His great-grandfather fought and was captured at the Battle of Gettysberg.
 
Since the Battle for Myers Landing was not a real battle, the organizers of the event let each side win one day.
 
“Though we knew who would ultimately win today, the South, a lot of on-the-spot strategy goes into the battle,” Holbrook said.  As Confederate calvary approached the Union soldiers, they gathered ammunition for their cannons.
 
As cannons were loaded, the calvary would retreat until both sides had exhausted their cannon shots.
 
Then hand-to-hand combat occurred with each side shooting at each other with rifles from the time period.
 
Regardless of which side won, in the end all of Collin County did as a piece of history was relived at the Battle of Myers Landing.
 
On The Web:www.farmersvilletimes.com/articles/templates/news.asp?articleid=1304&zoneid=3

 

Park plan sails along

Posted November 14, 2009

Not to jinx the thing, but we've been waiting to hear objections to the renovation plans for Confederate Park, and so far there don't seem to be any.

Could a riverfront improvement plan be under way, and nobody is against it?

To be sure, the plan has a lot going for it. To make the 2.68-acre park more compatible with the adjacent University of Memphis Law School, scheduled to open in January in the former post office, Confederate Park will get additional lighting, improved landscaping, new benches and trash cans, and a pedestrian bridge over Court connecting it to the law school.

Not even the Riverfront Development Commission's involvement -- the same group that has encountered everything from stubborn resistance to outrage toward many of its ideas -- has caused a stir.

But Confederate Park is no land bridge across the harbor, no high-rise office buildings on the bluff, no Beale Street Landing.

The removal of some artillery pieces from the site is no big deal. They're not from the Confederate era, anyway.

As long as nobody touches the Jefferson Davis statue, this project could go forward without controversy. Wouldn't that be a nice change?

2009 The E.W. Scripps Co.

On The Web:   www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/14/park-plan-sails-along/

 

Kilgore had a problem with Phil Sheridan

By Van Craddock
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore was one of those larger-than-life Texans.

At his death in 1897, a newspaper described him as "one of the most famous backwoods characters that ever went to Congress and attained high federal office."

In 1872, the future four-term U.S. congressman deeded East Texas land to the International and Great Northern railroad. In gratitude, the I&GN named a new town site "Kilgore."

"Buck" Kilgore had been a Confederate cavalry officer during the 1861-65 Civil War, during which he was wounded and taken captive by Union soldiers. He remained in a Yankee POW camp until war's end.

That may explain why Kilgore became embroiled in a bitter dispute with a former Union general ... more than two decades after the war had ended.

A promotion

In May 1888, a New York congressman introduced a bill to promote U.S. Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan to "general of the army," a title that hadn't been used since the Civil War. It was an effort to honor Sheridan, who had taken ill and wasn't expected to live.

Kilgore and many other Southerners didn't like Sheridan, who initiated a "scorched earth" policy while leading Union troops in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley late in the Civil War. In 1864, under Sheridan's orders, the troops destroyed crops, seized livestock and burned barns and mills.

It also didn't help that in 1866, Sheridan had been appointed commander of the Fifth Military District (Texas and Louisiana). The general didn't have much sympathy for ex-Confederates and ruled with a heavy hand. After numerous complaints, U.S. President Andrew Johnson removed Sheridan from his post.

So when the 1888 proposal was made to promote the ill Sheridan to general of the Army, Kilgore took the lead in opposing the bill. The East Texan used "points of order" and other legislative tricks to delay a vote on the issue for several weeks.

The result was a sort of "civil war" in Congress. Northern lawmakers were outraged that Kilgore would try to stymie the bill. Southern congressmen still smarting from losing the Civil War threw their support to Kilgore.

One Lone Star congressman backing Kilgore insisted, "No man who loves Texas and its history could support anything that might be favorable to Sheridan." Another Southerner said approving the bill would mean "sacrificing principle, manhood and state pride."

'Grenadier'

The dispute resulted in a national debate and newspaper editorials from coast to coast. Finally, after weeks of debate, compassion won out over old war wounds. The Congress, with support from former Confederates in the House, approved the measure in early June 1888. President Johnson signed the bill into lawJune 8.

"Buck" Kilgore voted "no."

Phil Sheridan officially became "general of the army." He diedAug. 5 and was buried in Washington's Arlington National Cemetery.

Kilgore continued to serve in Congress until 1895. In March of that year, President Grover Cleveland appointed Kilgore as U.S. judge in Oklahoma's Indian Territory.

Kilgore died in Ardmore, Okla., on Sept. 23, 1897, and was buried at his adopted East Texas home of Wills Point. The Dallas Morning News at the time called the colorful Kilgore "the ideal grenadier – tall, sinewy, handsome, brave, cool, with hair and beard white as snow."

The Galveston News noted the former Confederate cavalryman "could ride anything in the way of horse flesh. (Kilgore) often astonished friends by picking up stones from the ground to throw at them while riding at full gallop."

Copyright 2009 Longview News-Journal

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The Fight Over a Song at Ole Miss

Posted Nov 12, 2009
Clay Travis

When Ole Miss hosts Tennessee Saturday, the school's band will not play "From Dixie WIth Love," a song that features an incongruous pairing of "Dixie" with the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Why? Because some students and alumni chant, "The South will rise again," at the end of the song.

For Ole Miss' first-year chancellor, Dan Jones, this chant is unacceptable behavior.

"Here at the University of Mississippi, there must be no doubt that this is a warm and welcoming place for all," Dan Jones wrote Tuesday in a letter to the university community. "We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of racial segregation. We cannot fail to respond."

So Jones has responded.

And so, "From Dixie With Love" has gone the way of Colonel Reb, the original song Dixie, and the Confederate battle flag, excised from Vaught-Hemingway stadium as offensive relics of a bygone era.

But in his response, Jones has opened another series of debates. What are the obligations of a generation born two or three decades after James Meredith integrated Ole Miss' campus with regard to racial sensitivity? And, in taking this stand to combat an offensive phrase, are Jones and members of his generation fighting the ghosts of their youth more than they're fighting a present-day ill? Are Jones and his ilk the true heirs to the Lost Cause mythology for fighting against an evil that doesn't actually exist?

Unlike Dixie, or Colonel Reb, or the Confederate battle flag, the "South will rise again" addition to the song is a recent incarnation, originated, by most guesses, in the past five years or so.

Let's add a few years of leeway there and say that the chant began in the neighborhood of the year 2000, the dawn of the 21st Century.

So the chant itself, though the phrase has long since existed, is not connected to a time before the university's integration and is not an embodiment of past values. If it were a vestige of years past that had existed for decades, this would be a much simpler argument. Traditions of racial intolerance should be left in the past. But if, as it would appear, the chant is of a more recent vintage at football games, how do we assess the relative offensiveness of the language when standing alone the language is not inflammatory?

The Watergate investigations became framed by the single question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?" The question that emerges from the "The South will rise again" imbroglio is: Who is chanting it and why?

After all, isn't it the intent behind the phrase more than the words that matter? While men and women of generations past might hear this language and think of a monolithic and ethnically divided South rising again, "a revival of segregation" in the chancellor's words, why can't the young Ole Miss students be advocating a particular form of regional pride? "The South will rise again," is hardly a universal phrase of racism like an ethnic slur, something students are chanting, knowingly espousing an idea of a racially divided South.

After all, think about this: Today's Ole Miss freshmen were born in 1991.

1991!

The vast majority of these students, then, have grown up in an era where they can't even remember the O.J. Simpson trial, much less Meredith and the race riots that preceded his enrollment at Ole Miss. Systematic segregation is as remote to them as a world without air conditioning. And if it is, in fact, a chant that evokes regional pride for students, as I believe is likely, what, I would ask, in the student's mind, distinguishes a chant like this from one that is universally beloved, "SEC, SEC, SEC?"

Does any thinking person really believe that modern day college students watching and rooting their hearts out for a team that is majority African-American are actually, simultaneously, rooting for a return to the era of plantations and slavery? It's laughable beyond belief.

If, in fact, some fans are doing this, aren't they likely to be such a clueless and antiquated minority that engaging them in a battle of ideas is self-defeating, relying on the false assumption that all ideas are worthy of debate?

In waging this battle, is Ole Miss allowing the defenders of the Old South to win by engaging a ludicrous idea and considering it worthy of debate? For instance, if a few Ole Miss students decided to form a club that argued against man landing on the moon, would the university really feel compelled to debate them? Ultimately, there is probably nothing anyone at Ole Miss could have done to draw more attention to the chant, than attempt to ban it.

In fact, in a bit of counterintuitive spin, the chancellor would probably have been more successful in eradicating the chant if he'd actually requested that the entire student body do it. And then attempted to lead them in it himself. Because there is nothing less cool on a college campus than doing what an old white man suggests.

All of that, of course, doesn't even consider how stupid the chant itself is. And that's probably my primary issue with the chant, not that it's offensive, just that it's stupid.

Breaking down the language of the chant, as I wager most students have not, what magical and halcyon "again" do you want to return to? The "again" of a pre-Civil War South? When a few rich plantation owners lived lives of luxury while poor whites and enslaved blacks lifted them to their exalted stature? All while breaking their backs in menial and difficult labors beneath a harsh and unrelenting sun?

Why would anyone in their right mind ever yearn for a return to those days?

Or is it an "again" that exalts the South's rise from the ashes after the Civil War? And if it is, in fact, that, hasn't the South already risen? And, more accurately, not "again" as the chant would suggest, but for the very first time. Put it this way, has there ever been another day or era when the South was more ascendant than the present? And if that's the intent of the chant, to represent Southern pride, wouldn't, "The South has risen," be more accurate?

Of course, there's a bigger issue at play too. To what extent are modern generations of Southerners, people like me who only attended integrated schools, held hostage by the conditions that predated our birth? Is it our responsibility to be schooled in the specific racial insults of years past so that we don't inadvertently make that mistake again? Do young whites and blacks need to hear old stereotypes, maybe for the first time in their lives, solely to be aware that the terms are offensive, should they ever happen upon them in their modern lives, a sort of social inoculation? Are we, as the chancellor would suggest, beholden to link arms with those of older generations and fight the ills that existed in their lives even if they don't exist in our own?

I think that's an awfully difficult question.

Meanwhile isn't it every bit as troubling that the head of a university would cancel the playing of a song because he doesn't like the way some members of his student body, those chanting "The South will rise again," react to that song? Doesn't this sound like something that would have happened oh, I don't know, in a Mississippi of 1957? In a 21st century of open discourse, does stifling that conversation when you disagree with the statements of others really defeat the same American values that you're seeking to protect?

And here's one final question, why has every other university in the SEC moved past these racial issues so seamlessly -- cite me another SEC school with these controversies in the past decade -- while Ole Miss, despite having made bundles of progress, still seems stifled in bygone battles from eras long ago?

While the rest of the SEC seems focused on winning championships, Ole Miss hasn't hoisted an SEC trophy in football or basketball since 1963.

Is it so coincidental, then, that Ole Miss is still fighting battles from way back in 1963?

Maybe.

But I don't think so.
 
© 2009 AOL LLC.

On The Web:   ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/11/12/the-fight-over-a-song-at-ole-miss/

 

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Cultural genocide at Ole Miss

Some cultures can be celebrated. Others must be snuffed out:

Tempers are flaring all over the Ole Miss campus. They're fighting over a fight song.

The school's chancellor says the band must stop playing "From Dixie With Love" because of a chant students added to the lyrics.

'No love for Dixie' read the headline Wednesday on the Ole Miss student newspaper. School leaders pulling the piece from the marching band's playlist is something everyone on campus is talking about.

Dean Reardon, who banned the song, dismisses the students' complaints with the Roman Polanski defense -- the kids brought it on themselves:

The students who chose to say "The South will rise again" killed the tradition” says Dean of Students Dr. Thomas Reardon.

Reardon says there were several warnings to stop the chant. When it continued at a game last weekend, that was the final straw.

“That does not convey who we are” says Reardon. “It also does not convey the progress we've made as a university or show any respect to the people who have made tremendous sacrifices to bring us where we are.”

Whoa, there, Dean. Shouting "The South will rise again" fails to show respect to the people who brought us where we are? So these young Southerners should respect the Yankee invaders who subjugated their ancestors?

Memo to Ole Miss students, from the office of the Dean: Stop this talk about wanting to rise back up. Accept the fact your people were defeated, and we won't take anything else away from you.

On The Web:   www.dixienet.org/rebellion/2009/11/cultural-genocide-at-ole-miss.html

From: Gary Adams, Southron_98@cox.net
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009

Didn't Congress name the War, the Civil War?

Gary

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From: "Dave Wright", va_rebel_2001@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009

NOPE, NOPE, NOPE..... it ts as follows:

By joint resolution of both houses, on March 28,1928, Congress established that the official name of the war of 1861-1865 shall be " The War Between The States".

Asshole Lincoln took to calling it a Civil War, because he did not recognize the Confederate Government as a legitimate government. He stated it was illegal for the South to secede, but Lincoln had a short memory. He forgot that secession was taught at West Point up until the war as a viable means to a tyrannical government.... it was perfectly O.K. for Texas to secede from Mexico, and he forgot this country was founded by secession. How imperialistic is that. Washington decides what governments are legal and which was are not. Isn't that the same thing  that Japan's government was doing during WWII. They were an imperialistic government, yet we looked down our noses at them.......How much better are we than they when Washington does the same thing.

Lincoln stated that he was raising an army to put down the rebellion and per serve the union.......WRONG !!!! A union is when everyone comes together voluntarily. To force the South back in to the union is not a union , that's cohersion.....

No where in the Constitution does it state that when you join it was forever. Madison left that as a means of check and balance. You join the Union.....if the government does not hold up it's end of the deal, you are allowed to leave. It was a way to keep the government in line and not let it overstep it's boundaries.

As the founding fathers set forth, the federal gov't was only suppose to be there to protect the country as a whole, but never interferer in states rights (that was the purpose of the 10th/ amend.). Our founding fathers were afraid if you gave a centralized gov't tooo much power, you would wind up with tyrant like they had just kicked out and sent back to England and they were not about to have that happen all over again.

Our founding fathers were smarter men then most people give them credit for. Good thing they aren't around today to see what we have done with what they handed us........ but there might be a ray of hope, but it ain't in the spook !!!!!!!!

Dave

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From: "Gary Adams", Southron_98@cox.net
Date: November 14, 2009

Thank you that was what I was looking for.  Thanks a MILLION!

Gary
 

The Legacy of Great Britain’s Colonial Policy
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
“As a young man John Tyler was less certain of his relationship to the slave institution. In general, he followed his father in accepting the fact of slavery. And, like his father, he was a slave owner all his life. Nevertheless, he opposed a continuation of the African slave trade. As a United States senator in 1832 he fought for legislation to end the actual buying and selling of human beings within the shadow of the Capitol. As President he signed in 1842 the treaty with Britain which obligated the United States to maintain naval units on the African coast to enforce the nation’s anti-slave-trade laws.
 
He…advocated a diffusion into or “bleeding” of the old Dominion slave population into and throughout the territories---a form of abolition by anemia. In moments of candor he admitted that the removal of Negroes to Liberia was little more than a utopian solution to slavery, “a dream of philanthropy, visiting men’s pillows in their sleep, to cheat them on their waking.”  At [his home] Sherwood Forest he conducted a slavery operation that was humanitarian, gentle, and paternalistic. There were no whips, lashes, split families, or runaways. On Sherwood Forest plantation the Negroes did sing and dance and play their banjos and clack their bones. He [believed]…that slavery had been fastened on the United States by the colonial policy of Great Britain [and] it was an important contributing factor to the intense Anglophobia he carried with him through life. As late as 1851, on a visit to Niagara Falls, John Tyler would refuse so much as to set foot on British soil.”
 
(And Tyler Too, Robert Seager II, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1963, pp. 53-54)   

Victims of the Confederate Fury
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The superbly-equipped and fed Grand Army of the Republic, fortified with bounty-enriched enlistees and mercenaries scoured from Europe, faced a varied collection of barefoot, undernourished American country boys with mostly-captured muskets and equipment; or what slipped past the blockade. They would not be conquered easily.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net

Victims of the Confederate Fury:
 
“The Federal fatalities during the entire war were 359,528 men. Of this number, 110,070 were killed in battle or died of wounds; 249,458 died of disease or accident…Over 250,000 men were discharged for disabilities arising from wounds or disease rendering them unfit for service. Losses in the main battles of the Civil War ran high.
 
A comparison of the casualties at Gettysburg with those sustained in some of the European conflicts might prove illuminating. The Third Westphalia Regiment lost at Marc La Tour 49.4 per cent killed and wounded; the Garde-Schutze Regiment lost at Metz 46.1 per cent; the Light Brigade lost at Balaklava 36.7 per cent. These battles probably recorded the greatest losses in single engagements up to the time of the Civil War; yet it has been asserted “without fear of contradiction” that in the Union army at least 63 regiments lost more than 50 per cent in killed and wounded in single engagements. At least 23 regiments lost more than one half in killed and wounded in the three bloody days of Gettysburg. Native regiments made splendid records there---and paid for it, the Iron Brigade losing almost exactly 50 per cent of its number---but so did units of foreign-born, notably some Pennsylvania regiments.
 
The Fifth New York, Duryee’s Zouaves, in which there were many foreigners, lost in the Second Battle of Bull Run [Manassas] over 60 per cent in killed and wounded, with none missing; the regiments went into battle with 490 men, but in less than ten minutes nearly 150 lay dead or mortally wounded. Though almost annihilated, it retired slowly, carrying off with it the flags and some of the wounded.  The ultimate of sacrifice was probably sustained by the Irish Brigade when it was hurled by General Pope against Marye’s Heights in December 1862, in a useless massacre. It may be said that the Brigade virtually ceased to exist, with an average loss in casualties per regiment of almost 41 per cent. Seven thousand men in all were entered on the rolls of the Brigade; less than 1,000 returned to New York.” 
 
(Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy, Ella Lonn, LSU Press, 1951, pp. 480-482)

 

QUOTE BY RICHARD HENRY LEE, CSA?
 
From: area51news@rock.com
 
The following quote was provided to SHNV and is signed by Richard Henry Lee as a Confederate soldier.
 
As far as I know, Richard Henry Lee (Light Horse Harry) was Gen. Lee's Daddy, and fought in the revolutionary war under George Washington, and never as a Confederate soldier, or am I mistaken here by another Lee of which I was not aware?
 
C Parks
area51news@rock.com   www.csahps.com

"Twenty eight years have passed since the close of our civil war. Time, I trust has healed the wounds of war, but with the revolving years the causes and events of that terrible struggle seem to be forgotten, or if not forgotten, considered as unimportant events of history. And even the history of those events, and the causes that led to that struggle, are not set forth fairly and truthfully. It is stated in books and papers that Southern children read and study that all the blood-shedding and destruction of property of that conflict was because the South rebelled without cause against the best government the world ever saw; that although Southern soldiers were heroes in the field, skillfully massed and led, they and their leaders were rebels and traitors who fought to overthrow the Union, and to preserve human slavery, and that their defeat was necessary for free government and the welfare of the human family.

As a Confederate soldier and as a citizen of Virginia, I deny the charge, and denounce it as a calumny. We were not rebels; we did not fight to perpetuate human slavery, but for our rights and privileges under a government established over us by our fathers and in defense of our homes."
 
Colonel Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, at the dedication of the Confederate monument at Old Chapel in Clarke County, Virginia.

 

 

More yankee poll dancing
 
From: torpenhow@charter.net
 
It's remarkable -- to anybody not already rooted in regional reality. Almost every time there's a poll involving state statistics, Dixie trounces the rest of the country. The latest model:
 
The Ten States Which Are the Biggest Financial Messes
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/headlines/?p=449
 
From Just Sayin’ which led us to Pew Research:
Pew Identifies States, Like California, in Fiscal Peril, let’s take a look at the 10 states who are on the brink of being flat-busted (think Marilyn Manson with no money).
 
All but the last three are solid blue states. All but Arizona went for Obama. Notice anything? Class dismissed.
 
The above is by people probably not thinking about the North/South planetary rift, but I couldn't help noticing that the only Southern state of the ten is one notably full of Northerners, although it has also seen much spectacular work for the Cause.
 
BTW, We're having an organizational meeting today (Saturday Nov. 14) in Greenville SC for the South Carolina Conservative Action Council today -- 2:30 at Ryan's, 2426 Laurens Road a stone's throw up from I-85 exit 48B. The legendary Dr. William Carter is chairman.

 

Confederates banned by American Legion/VFW
 
From: Toebo1@aol.com
 
Once our Muslim-American citizens become offended, how long will it be before Gulf War vets and others vets of Middle East wars are banned from parades?
 
Steven A. Edmondson
Prince George, VA

 

Childress civil case
 
From:  tyhiter@wk.net
 
In the summer of 2008, during the national reunion in Concord, North Carolina, Compatriot Bazz Childress hung a Battle Flag in his hotel room window.  The owner objected and had him arrested.  More than a year of legal wrangling has ensued.
 
Bazz, with all our help, fought the criminal case, and won.  Now comes the civil case.  You see, a large hotel chain, because it can hire a whole raft of lawyers, can sometimes get its own way, even if it loses in criminal court.  There is nothing to stop the same chain, even the same hotel from doing the exact same thing, again.  To stop that, they have to be punished.  The proper legal way to do that is to sue them.
 
The Childress suit will be filed not later than 10 December, this year.  We have a good lawyer and a good case.  David will go against Goliath, this time, with a pretty good arsenal behind him.
 
I think we’ll win.  I know, however, that it will be expensive.  Lawyers aren’t cheap, at least good ones.  And, we can expect the hotel to field a whole team of them.  National will help out, and we intend to make an appeal for voluntary donations all across the Confederation, but the bottom line is that we, here in Kentucky, need to raise a lot of money, and do it now.  I’m asking every member and every Camp to give immediately as much as you can to the Childress Defense Fund.  You can do so by mailing checks made out to the Childress Defense Fund, care of Division Adjutant Bill Wells, PO Box 407 Mayfield, KY 42066.  Thank you, and Deo Vindice!
 
Thomas Y. Hiter, Ph.D.
Commanding
The Kentucky Division, SCV

 

From: "Craig Maus", csacommand@windstream.net
Date: November 13, 2009

Dear Confederates & Patriots (bcc herein),
 
It is the human psyche to deny the obvious when the anticipated result is consternation.  We must always be sensitive to this most human frailty less we compromise right from wrong and good from bad.
 
If and when we forget this most basic awareness and yield that responsibility to another in the hopes they will 'SHIELD' us from reality, it won't be long before we are made their docile sheeple--- never knowing who and what we once were, much less knowing ANY difference between right from wrong and good from bad.
 
It is to this end in which America finds itself today.
 
We have all been hustled by a Government who has always had its own interests ahead of the people for some time. It is only now that most are coming to grips with this harsh & obvious reality.
 
When you educate yourself with the 'dot's of history', the relevance of this reality, however painful, becomes more apparent, clearly revealing for you the entire 'Picture of the Transformation' that has been cleverly hidden from you:
 
The Socialized Amendments passed immediately after the Civil War- most notably the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments of the 'New Constitution'.
Reconstruction and the '26th Congress' that EXCLUDED the 're-patrioted Southern States' whose representation was given to the CarpetBagger's, et al, while a Federal Army stood by to guarantee THEIR action's- 'legal or otherwise'.
The establishment of the Non-Federal Federal Reserve System at Jeckel's Island in 1913 by the "New Progressive (see below)- Woodrow Wilson".
The removal of the gold standard guaranteeing any Federal debt and insuring the people's money.
The transfer of all State Citizen's into Federal Citizen's.
FDR's Socialist Program's preceding WW II that were crafted & created under the guise of "getting us out of the depression"--- when it was WW II that got us out of it with American Blood- AGAIN!
The wheeling & dealing with the Russian's and the carving up of Europe prior to the War's end and the economic ramification's associated with it.
The creation of the United Nation's born out of Woodrow (the PROGRESSIVE & see below) Wilson's League of Nation's after WW I.
Korea and UN involvement and on, and on, and on, and on ...........
 
And during each of these historical intersections in time, what was the one single entity that continued to grow & grow & grow?  THE Federal Government, while we, the people, through on-going Social Modification & Law, were becoming smaller & smaller & smaller and less & less & less significant.
 
I think McCarthy saw it coming and I suppose it can be argued how he went about doing things, but certainly NOT for the wrong reason's, with his House Committee on Un-American Activities Investigation.......but here we are today with many scratching their heads in bewilderment wondering how a Government they thought they elected could be so absolute & un-responsive to their apparent needs?
 
Someone recently 'suggested' to me that this 'dot-connecting' would have required virtually every Federal 'House' since Lincoln, to be in compliance with this ideologue and that would be impossible.
My comment and analogy to this individual was simply this:
" Really?
Are you going to deny the fact that he (Lincoln) and the radical Republican's within his cabinet did not force that War?
Are you going to deny the illegality of that War and the fact that Lincoln jailed just about everyone, including military & private citizen alike, who opposed him?
Are you going to deny the fact that he (Lincoln) suspended the U.S. Constitution until the War was in full scale and too late to stop?
Are you going to deny the fact that he (Lincoln) NEVER had Congressional approval to Invade the South much less wage a War against them?
Are you going to deny the ties that he (Lincoln) had with the Red Republicans & Socialists of that time known as the Forty-Eighter's?
Are you going to deny the congratulatory letter that he (Lincoln) received from Karl Marx regarding his 'victory' over the Christian South upon the war's conclusion?
Are you going to deny the designed retribution sought at the expense of the South in the form of Reconstruction and what it meant to this country overall at the War's conclusion & over time ever since?
 
And these were the actions of an American President, so what makes him or any since, any different with the exception of but a few?
And what is the one constant over time? - - - FEDERAL GROWTH!
So why is it inconceivable to accept my position and what makes yours (his) so absolute?
They have merely disguised their actions in the form of national need, etc., but their laws build upon the former's & follow suit with one another rendering the people as insignificant while elevating themselves in the bargain.
Administered upon an unsuspecting American Public much like a slow acting poison whose end always proves lethal.
And with each passing generation, the latter become less and less familiar with the former and thus, ultimately, we all become the unsuspecting  (including the State's), thus being reduced in status to that of a bastard child who knows no identity & whose allegiance is to the only entity it has ever known-  the Federal Government.
Impossible he still say's.
 
Really?
 
Consider this (I said & my analogy)-  When the first brick was laid for Pharaoh's tomb, was it the same mason who laid the last one?  What are you trying to say he said?  Simply this- that Pharaoh never once changed but, over time, the mason's did. And never once did any of them ever question who it was who laid that first brick or why!
 
And remember this as this was in YOUR TIME:
upon the end of the first Persian Gulf War in which George Bush the 1st was president in 1991, he said, and I quote:
" We are NOW entering into a One World, New World Order",  and also said the same in his state of the 'union' address to Congress.
" We are NOW entering into a One World, New World Order....."
Well, as I said to this man, how can an American President say we are entering into "A One World, New World Order " if in fact,  it didn't already exist???
How can you enter into something if it didn't already exist?
This was NOT being said figuratively- it was being said Matter of Factly, during a state of mortal euphoria!
 
George'y slipped and anyone who caught it and questioned it was immediately chided & ridiculed as a 'yahoo.'  (Haven't we been called that and more over the years?)  A couple of years later and Washington, along with it's media, would refer to it as "Globalization."
 
And what about Barack Hussein Obama's slip when he was candidate Obama, and was being questioned as never before, when he exclaimed in a mortal fit of frustration:
" The first thing THOSE PEOPLE do is run for their Bibles & their Guns."
" The first thing THOSE PEOPLE...."
Did anyone ever ask Obama to explain who "THOSE PEOPLE" were & what he really thought of THOSE PEOPLE?
      
Like George'y, he too slipped during a moment of 'passion'.
      
You see folk's, we ARE all "THOSE PEOPLE" and Obama does NOT like what we stand for in the least!  In fact, as he has so stated this in his books.  He not only dislikes this country, but equally hates what it once stood for & he is hell bent on changing all that! 
 
And what about Jon Corzine, the ex-governor of Blue State New Jersey wherein his concession speech he said:
" I will NEVER stop in advancing the ideas of PROGRESSIVE's."
" I will NEVER stop in advancing the ideas of PROGRESSIVE's."  ----- Not Democrats as he is, but PROGRESSIVE's. The same profile that Woodrow Wilson considered himself more than 100 years ago!
Isn't that interesting?
The TRUTH, once more being revealed for ALL to see & hear, during a brief moment of passion once again.
 
And today who does the RepublicRats hold in exaltation- Lincoln the Red Republican & FDR, the Democratic Communist!  They are the exalted ones who 'We The People' have labored long and hard for.....much like those same laborer's of old who built Pharaohs' tombs over countless year's while seeking and hoping for the 'CHANGE' that was never to be.
      
As I said, ' the mason who lays the first brick is not the same mason who lays the last brick'.....but the one constant is always the OVERSEER.... be it Pharaoh or the Federal!
 
So Goes The Christian South...So WILL Go This Nation!
 
Will YOU join us NOW?
 
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 Organization's,
Staunch Supporter's for the Restoration of the Legal Government of the South, The Confederate States of America!

Deo Vindice!
www.deovindice.org
www.CSAGov.org
All For One and One For All- NO More, EVERMORE!
 
PS- When Government Becomes Absolute....We Must Become Resolute!
 
 

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Tassie McLennan, tassie102@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Tassie McLennan, tassie102@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009

Subject: This from our President. Good to know where he stands on these issues!

This from our President. Good to know where he stands on these issues!  Everyone of voting age should read these two books. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

From Dreams of My Father:  'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father :  'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father:  'There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white.

From Dreams of My Father:  'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Dreams of My Father:  'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own.. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY, and most scary!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to do so!!!

I don't care whether you are a Democrat , a Republican, a Conservative or a liberal, PLEASE help spread the word.

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From: Patrick B. Broadway
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009

I guess we as White people know where we stand with this fraud of a President.

I am with the South in life or in death, in victory or in defeat...... I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and inaugurate a servile insurrection, murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone."
 
- Major General Patrick Cleburne

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From: "Craig Maus", csacommand@windstream.net
Date: November 13, 2009

Dear Confederates & Patriots (bcc herein),
 
Thank you sir for this forward.
 
However, we SHARED Obama's writing's with everyone long before he ever became president.  We told any & all that his past was but a reflection of what was to come and how he was but another cog in the Federal Wheel of Perversion, built upon Deceit & Corruption whose only mandate is pure Power.  Both parties are responsible for where he sits today.  As such, I have been calling for the expansion & inclusion of ALL Independent & God-fearing Confederate organization's within the Confederate Alliance.  I have said that our former Confederate Nation remains our LAST remaining hope for freedom and independence, and our Alliance the precursor to that Restored & Independent Confederacy.
 
We have been telling any and all for years that 'ALL Roads Have Always Lead to 1865!'  It has always been about POWER, Centralized Federal Power and Barack Hussein Obama is but the extension of that POWER built upon racial discord that transformed this country, long ago, into the socialist quagmire that it has become today.
 
It was but a means to an end through which the Federals have exacted their station at this ENTIRE Nation's expense.  The 'Divide & Conquer' theorem does NOT know race but they have used race to their ADVANTAGE through Entitlement- the 14th Amendment that was introduced & passed immediately after the conclusion of the Civil War was has become the fundamental & KEY building block of the Federal Empire.  It is their 'Power Crystal' upon which their labyrinth of Power & Deceit resides, having been born out of Reconstruction!
 
Obama is but the head of the 'pimple'.  The 'pimple's' root is the abscess upon which he sits & represents- the Federal Leviathan that has been perpetually cultivated over time, & consisting of every Federal despotic act of legislation designed to dismantle and eliminate ANY record & relationship to what was once this REPUBLIC!
 
THAT IS A STRONG INDICTMENT BUT ONE THAT CAN BE TOTALLY SUPPORTED BY THOSE SAME EVENTS THAT THE SOUTHERN REGION OF THIS REPUBLIC SAW COMING LONG AGO, AND DECIDED TO LEAVE PEACEABLY & LEGALLY IN ORDER TO AVOID THAT WHICH HAS COME TO BARE  FOR ALL WITHIN THIS NATION TODAY!
 
The people have been marginalized and dumbed down as WAS PREDICTED....just as the States before them!
 
The Federal Machine has taught them that the most prolific War in American History, a War between TWO COUNTRIES, was over & about a SINGLE issue- SLAVERY....and most have come to believe or accept that rather than to stand up and be counted!
 
The Christian Southern Republic was illegally invaded resulting in conquest and subsequent Federal Reconstruction!
 
What part of this equation is there that, once all the 'dots' in between are connected, that anyone CANNOT see....OR PERHAPS REFUSES TO SEE & DENY?  Does anyone believe there are NO consequences for subterfuge, especially when the enemy makes it easier to look the other way and make excuses for their actions?
 
What the Confederacy fought AGAINST  & attempted to negate & prevent,  is EVERYTHING  that is about to strip everyone today from their independence and freedom?
 
The U.S.A has been living a lie of the most incredible proportion since 1865!
 
The FEDERAL'S STOLE YOUR IDENTITY LONG AGO & MOST HAVE GONE WILLINGLY,  WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A FIGHT, AND YIELDED TO THEM EVERYTHING THEY WERE TO HAVE NEVER POSSESSED WHILE PAYING THEM TRIBUTE TO HAVE THEIR WAY WITH YOU, UP TO & INCLUDING FIGHTING THEIR WAR'S.....WHILE STANDING IDLY BY & ALLOWING THEM TO DEMONIZE THE ONLY ONE'S WHO DARED TO OPPOSE THEM- WE CONFEDERATE'S!
 
Read General Cleburne's statement below. His, like General Lee's, Jackson's and so MANY, MANY more like them are profound BECAUSE THEY SAW WHAT WAS COMING!
   
As a result, A great chaos is now clearly evident!
 
By allowing them to have their way with us, up to & including God's expulsion from us,  much in the same manner that we allowed them to divorce us from our History, we may have written our own epitaph.  For these transgressions, upon which we sat idly by without so much as a peep, an enormous price will be extracted from us.
 
We Confederate's, like our predecessor's before us, were trying to prevent this from occurring but it now appears impossible.
 
I believe Obama is seeking a calamity in which he will be able to marshal his real agenda and institute Marshall Law.
 
At that juncture in time, America will sink beneath the waves, as we have also predicted, consuming everyone.
 
Personally, I am still praying that our efforts to re-seat and re-store our Confederate Government will prove successful. 
 
It is the ONLY remaining option that the FEDERAL'S want you to believe is not possible, when it's legal basis, is EVERY BIT POSSIBLE!
 
There, in that Christian Republic known as The Confederate States of America, lies our ONLY hope and salvation!  Of this, I am most convinced!
 
We MUST separate if we are to SURVIVE and SAVE OURSELVES from Washington's madness! 
 
Washington was consumed long ago and the American People were sold out much in the same fashion & manner in which Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin carved up Europe before WW II ended.
 
The RepublicRats are morally corrupt.  They have long forgotten & abrogated from the fundamental principle's they were elected to represent & swore an oath to preserve.  Most have graduated from that same school of moral decay that teaches our children that the War For Southern Independence was fought over a single issue.
 
In short, they don't have a clue and Washington is beyond correction!
 
The Political Cancer that long ago infected this Nation is beyond any hope within the voting booth.  The two party system is diseased beyond cure.  The Republican's still don't have a clue as to why they lost both houses and are ONLY NOW beginning to realize that the 'Artificial Turf Movement', as Pelosi calls it,  is for real and are ONLY NOW adopting a political platform for the 2010 elections.  How disgraceful BUT revealing is that?
    
When ALL basics are compromised, like taking Christ out of Christmas and denying the Christian basis of this country in order to effect and promote a One World Orthodoxy, up to and including providing rights to the atheist & anyone else's personal persuasion's, etc, etc, AT the expense of the fundamental principle's of this country, is it really surprising why   we're at today?
    
They have changed the course of this Republic at the people's expense and in this Federal process, we have lost sight of ourselves & everything basic & fundamental as time itself!
 
We told you they would do this and many wouldn't associate with us because they did NOT want to become 'branded' like we, because we still dared to question.....  BUT..... who would you rather have REPRESENTING YOU today---   a Confederate Government, or this Federal Government? .......that question becomes a bit more profound today then it did, say, 10 years or so ago?
 
We ALWAYS asked you to educate yourselves.  We NEVER once asked you to believe us BUT to listen to what we were saying and to check out for yourselves what we were telling you.
 
We are those Confederates of old.  Realizing full well why we fought and never once becoming the Reconstructed servants of the tyrant known as Sic Semper Tyrannus....that Federal 'hero' who has enslaved us all!
 
Will YOU Join us NOW?
 
So Goes The Christian South.....So WILL Go This Nation!
 
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 Government of the South, The Confederate States of America!

Deo Vindice!
All For One and One For All!
No More, EVERMORE!
www.deovindice.org
www.CSAGov.org
 

The myth exists that the Confederate Army was a sea of lily-white Protestant faces with an occasional black "body servant." The truth is something far different.

The Confederate Army had more than 10,000 Native American soldiers from more than two-dozen tribes, including Cherokee Brigadier General Stand Watie. There were more than 5000 Hispanic Confederates and some, like Col. Ambrosio Gonzales and Loretta Velazquez, even came from Cuba. Nearly 3,500 Jewish Confederates lent their service and were among the last to die for the South. Foreigners from many countries served as officers and enlisted men, including Filipino soldiers out of New Orleans. The 10th Louisiana Infantry was known as "Lee's Foreign Legion" and there was an all-Polish cavalry unit.

According to the federal census reports in 1860, 4 million blacks lived in the southern states at the out break of the war. 261,988 were free men. The great majority of these blacks remained in the South during the war and supported the Confederacy by growing food and making war supplies. Black Southerners, slave and free, were servants, clerks, hospital orderlies, wagon drivers, and engineer labor forces, but were also chaplains, scouts, foragers, combat soldiers, and feared sharpshooters. Records have been deliberately altered and facts suppressed by the Federal government but estimates of black confederates on the battlefield range from 10,000-50,000. They served willingly and they died in Union P.O.W. camps rather than take the Union oath of loyalty. Together with Southerners descended from waves of Irish, Scottish, and German immigrants, the Confederate Army stood as a group of men whose only qualification was, "Will you fight?"

Links For Further Information:

Jewish Confederates

More Than 10,000 Jews Fought For The Confederacy

Shame Of The Yankees - America's Worst Anti-Jewish Action

Stealth Fighter

The American Indian And Their Role In The War Between The States

Stand Watie's "Iron Cross" Re-Dedication

Jewish Confederate Warriors

Confederate Braves

A Lost Cause, But An Honorable One

The Last Order Of The Confederacy

Who Was Sir Moses J. Ezekiel

Bourbon Soldiers

Stand Watie And The Confederate Indians

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True History - PDF Books

Below are links to Southron books on a number of topics, including the life of Stonewall Jackson, travels in confederate states, war stories geared toward children, even a Confederate prayer book. These are all written from a Southron point of view.

These books are in PDF format. To view the files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have this, you can download this software free by clicking HERE. Each PDF opens in its own window.

Books:

A Diary From Dixie

A Girl's Life In Virginia - Before The War

La Belle Rebelle (Belle Boyd)

Diary Of A Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

Forget Me Nots Of The Civil War

Memoir And Memorials (Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier General, CSA)

The Confederate Prayer Book

The Memoirs Of Colonel John S. Mosby

The Partisan Leader: A Novel

The War And True Courage (Two Reflections On The Life Of Stonewall Jackson)

The Woman In Battle

Three Months In The Southern States

Travels (Confederate States)

War Stories And School Day Incidents For The Children

European Mercenaries to Subdue Americans
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net

 
Lincoln’s endless levies for more troops to subdue the American South forced him to scour Europe for mercenaries, sending agents with cash and promises of government land to attract cannon-fodder. The editor of the Ulster Observer cited below pointed out that the Southern army was full of Irishmen and “asked on what principle the Irish people could leave their homeland to steep their hands in the blood of those who were their kith and kin.”
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

European Mercenaries to Subdue Americans:
 
“…[T]here had begun to be opposition to the departure of Irishmen from the country by the thousand, a migration greatly aggravated by the economic distress of the island. As early as January, 1862, the Liverpool Reporter observed that for several months young men loaded with gold watches and large bounties had been leaving Ireland, ostensibly to emigrate to America, but actually to serve in the Federal army, for which they were engaged by Northern agents.
 
An extract from the Ulster Observer of Belfast is typical of the comments appearing in the opposition press: “We have more respect for our country and our countrymen than to see them wearing the livery of a foreign state in a cause which involves no principle with which they can be identified….[but America] cannot, and should not, expect our countrymen to be her mercenaries in the present fratricidal struggle. Already the battlefields are white with the bones of their brethren.  Thousand of Irishmen have, thanklessly, it would appear, laid down their lives for the North…and if President Lincoln still stands in need of human hecatombs, he should look elsewhere than to the decimated home of Ireland for the victims.”  In general, it can be stated that the public journals were loud in denouncing “Federal agents” and clamorous for their prosecution and punishment.
 
“…One might say that [Secretary of State] Seward did everything he could to encourage…[foreign enlistments]…the Homestead Act of May, 1862, which provided free farms to all aliens who had filed declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States. It further provided that foreign-born residents might become full citizens after one years’ residence on condition of honorable service in the army.  By an act approved July 4th, 1864, the Office of Commissioner of Immigration was created under the Secretary of State; the duties imposed upon him were to gather information as to soil, climate, minerals, agricultural products, wages, transportation, and employment needs. This information was to be disseminated throughout the countries of Europe.” 
 
(Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy, Ella Lonn, LSU Press, 1951, pp. 412-418)
 

From: Bill Vallante, wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Agreed. Don't believe what you see or hear. Study the subject and come up with your best guess. My own personal experience usually shows that the truth is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
 
My brother has been in the political consulting business as a media specialist for over 20 years. Before that, he worked in various capacities for the GOP. As a guest speaker in journalism classes, wide eyed students often breathlessly ask him, "Mr. Vallante, where do you get your news from?" He answers sarcastically, "From South Park." (for those unfamiliar with it, South Park is an edgy adult cartoon series)
 
He's half serious and half kidding. The serious part of his answer is that there are no real news sources that are truly "fair and balanced." Fox is not, MSNBC is not, no one is. Everybody has an agenda. "South Park" is as good a source as any.
 
One more thing - O'Reilly should know better. He's at least as old as I am. When I was in school, no one disparaged the South. The thinking was, that the issue of secession was settled in a cauldron of blood known as "The Civil War", and from that cauldron, (for better or worse), came the America that we all know and which many like O'Reilly, purport to love. To such people, (and there are many of them), both sides should be deserving of respect. At least that's the way it used to be. O'Reilly, I am sure, if you kicked him in his fat head, would remember that. He probably does - he just doesn't care.

Reference:   http://dixieoutfitters.com/p/fox-is-not-your-friend

From:    tdilo@aol.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Faux News is the propaganda organ of the neoconservatives, many of whom are former Trotskyites and other kinds of leftists, who have captured the Republican Party.  One of the principle tenets of neoconservatism is Lincoln worship/hatred of the South and all it has ever stood for.  They want government to be as big and as centralized as possible so that they can police/control/occupy/invade/get rich from tpolicing he rest of the entire world. They are true centralizers, which is why they are Lincoln worshipers and South haters.   That's also why they constantly refer to "a higher law' than the Constitution -- or the Bible, or anything else. 

This is what Lincoln did to "justify" his actions.  This is what the neocons do to "justify" invading Iraq and proposing to invade and occupy Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Lebanan, and Syria (for starters).  Newt Gingrich proposed exactly this in a Wall Street Journal article entitled "Lincoln and Bush" a couple of years ago.  They want to spread Lincolnian "freedom" to all parts of the planet.  That's why they had Bush announce in his second inaugural that his objective was to "eliminate evil" in the world!  Vintage Lincoln, written by a neocon speechwriter, most likely Ken Masugi from the Claremont Institute.

War is the health of the state and the state is the enemy of freedom. The Republican Party is the enemy of American freedom, just like the Democratic Party is.  Secession is the only hope unless the Republican Party completely implodes and disappears.

Tom DiLorenzo

Reference:   http://dixieoutfitters.com/p/fox-is-not-your-friend

From:    wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Yeah Johnny Reb, I really do need to be more open about my feelings.... Maybe I should go to therapy and try to open up more......(joke).
 
One of my friends asked if it was his imagination or was the country now going to hell? I told him that he's been on the road to hell all along. What he's noticing now is a difference in speed. The Republicans drive the road to hell at 50mph, the Democrats do 75mph. Either way, both parties are taking us to the same place. The only difference is the speed at they travel. We're now doing 75 and everything seems to be moving much faster than it was with old G. Bush...because it is!
 
As far as Fox goes, I'll give you the words of my brother, the "expert" - "It's about viewers and market share!" A lot of people are unhappy with Obama and Fox is the only network not engaged in offering nauseating homage to "the ONE!" Fox is the only show in town for such people and Fox is raking it in! And that audience is growing daily. But, as my brother put it, "if you truly believe in a cause, (ala Sean Hannity for example), you don't charge 50 grand for an appearance."
 
No harm in cheering on Glenn Beck when he tears Cass Sunstein a new one, just don't go out and buy Factor T shirts or Glenn Beck T shirts. These guys are not our friends.

Reference:   http://dixieoutfitters.com/p/fox-is-not-your-friend

From:    mkyser@elmore.rr.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Bill,
 
Don't be so shy.  Tell us how you REALLY feel!!  :D
 
Well put sir!  I have been involving myself with the Tea Partiers (no jokes, please) because I see in that group a lot of people who have just awakened to some of the truth about what is going on.  Perhaps we even owe a slight slap of approval to Obama.  Were it not for his arrogance in believing he could do quickly what both the republicans AND the democrats have been trying to do slowly for the last several decades, these people would have never realized what was going on.  And I'm not yet convinced that it isn't too late already.  But maybe--just maybe--if enough of them are upset enough and realize that they are about to go over a cliff into socialist slavery, maybe we can cause a revolution at the ballot box next year.  And if that doesn't work a real one as Thomas Jefferson recommended.
 
The message I try to get across to the Tea Partiers is just what you've said: The republican party is NOT your friend.  They set up the ball that the democrats are now power driving.  And if you fall into the trap of expending all your efforts to put the GOP back in charge you will have just played their game and nothing will have changed.  There are not two parties.  There is ONE party with two PR departments.  The whole thing is a ruse to keep the "unwashed masses" occupied and out of the way so they can push forward their true agenda.  (Insert your favorite conspiracy theory here).
 
Johnny Reb

Reference:   http://dixieoutfitters.com/p/fox-is-not-your-friend

Let Ole Miss be Ole Miss

By Robert Lee Long
Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

I am not an apologist for the Southland that I love, nor do I make excuses for the racist demagoguery and violent excesses of its often tumultous history.

However, the decision by the University of Mississippi to abolish the playing of the beautiful anthem “From Dixie With Love,” is just downright silly and foolish. Political correctness run amok.

My friend, the late great Mississippi writer Willie Morris, used to say that the anthem often brought tears to his eyes. In his later works, he championed the anthem as a medley of reconciliation of sorts, blending the Confederate Army’s “Dixie” with the Union Army’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

I wholeheartedly agree. As a version of the “American Trilogy,” it’s the same anthem that Elvis Presley sang each night as the television station in my hometown signed off the air.

It’s a peculiarly American anthem, evoking feelings of pride, sadness, pain and glory of the tragedy and triumph that helped shape and unite this nation. I used to stay up late just to hear the haunting medley before I drifted off to sleep.

When I wrote for The Reflector, the college newspaper at Mississippi State University, I defended the right of students at Ole Miss to brandish their school symbols without fear of reprisal. The cowbell had been a similar target at MSU.

I caught flak from fellow MSU students at the time, who were of the opinion that a wounded and dispirited foe whose long-cherished symbols had been stripped away was easier to defeat on the football field.

Ole Miss has taken great steps, some might say quantum leaps, to put its racist past behind it.

A statue of James Meredith, the U.S. Army veteran who broke the color barrier at Ole Miss, now adorns the Grove.

I had the pleasure of attending the 2008 presidential debate on the Ole Miss campus and my chest swelled with pride at how effectively the university pulled it off.

The vision of a tall black man, who was running for President of the United States, and his pretty wife striding into the Gertrude Ford Center as they waved to the crowd outside, is a sight I will never forget.

I had to remind myself this was Oxford, Mississippi, the same town that songwriter Bob Dylan wrote about in his 60s-era ditty, “Oxford Town,” about the Ole Miss riots of 1962 which left two persons dead.

I had goosepimples at the irony of it all.

The fact is the South has, and will, continue to rise as it comes to terms with its past and paves the way for its future.

The region is an emerging economic power, and it’s high quality of life and rich culture attracts an estimated 40 million people a year, many of whom decide to call Mississippi home.

Fight prejudice, fight racism at every turn, but for goodness sake, let Ole Miss be Ole Miss.

This State fan wouldn’t have it any other way.

Copyright © 2009 Desoto Times Tribune

On The Web:   www.desototimes.com/articles/2009/11/11/opinion/editorials/doc4afaf82deb2e2765469140.txt

 

Dear Friends and Compatriots:
 
I'm glad to report that there isn't much to report. Today, I got off a twelve hour night shift and loaded my flags up. I arrived in Homestead at about 10:00 am and found a business I thought might be southern sympathetic and asked permission to park my pick up next to the parade route and they agreed.

I popped down the tailgate and secured one of my 4X4 square infantry battle flags and a 3x5 Navy flag to the side of the bed, With a lawn chair on the tail gate I had an excellent view of the parade and they had an excellent view of me.
 
Occurrences:
One police officer walked by and we waived, We recognized each other from the Rodeo. Two police officers walked by and kept on going, not even giving me a second look. One person from the Navy stopped and we talked for a few minutes about the military. A family and I talked for a few minutes about how important it is to teach your children Southern History at a young age as the schools don't. The most pleasant conversation was with an Army Major about the package I had. In it I have obituaries and photos of 3 friends that came home in body bags from Nam and one from Desert Storm. I told him I take my memories and dead friends to the Veterans Parade as much as I can (almost every year). It's my way of remembering them. I think if he weren't in public and if he were in uniform it would have brought tears to his eyes, Instead he was just speechless for a minute. No one from the news media stopped by or was even visible.
 
Observations:
The parade was less attended than in past years. Participants were also less or at least not as big. It was over in less time that in previous years. Walked down to the church and the reviewing stand was less crowded than in previous years, I guess less VIP's or dignitaries.

Of the people on the side of the road that I could identify, there was one black family with children, one couple and one black police officer seen. There were seven Mexican families and four groups of males.  I believe three Cuban families and two Cuban couples. Two Anglo families and several other Anglo folks scattered. The Latins far out numbered everyone.
 
This was my very uneventful day. I went and conquered in my own small way and hardly anyone noticed. I got home at about 4 pm and finally got some sleep. We may not have been in the parade but at least we were represented on the side. Is there hope for next year? I doubt it.............
 
Yours in History and Southern Pride
Mike Mitchell
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From the way it sounds, there might not be enough interest next year to hold a parade whether or not the SCV is involved. Do we see a pattern emerging here? Is the assault against Southern heritage also destroying American heritage? Certainly, the demographics don't look good for any kind of heritage related to this country, North or South.

 

Confederate flag swept to sidelines in Homestead parade
Written by ELGIN JONES  

HOMESTEAD _ A handful of Confederate flag wavers who wanted to participate in Wednesday’s Veterans Day parade were relegated instead to spectators on the sidelines.

“This is a great day, but also a sad one,” said Gary Kalof, commander of a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp in Miami-Dade County. He watched the parade from a sidewalk.

“This is what the NAACP wanted, for us to be banned,’’ Kalof said. “They wanted to divide this community, which is what they always do.”

Dressed in clothing with Confederate battle flag designs on them, four members of two different Confederate states organizations; the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Southern MC [a Confederate motorcycle club] stood in one location, waving their flags.

Banned from participating in the parade procession, the men gathered in a single location along the parade route.

“The parade is great, and I don’t think anyone ever doubted it would be,” Southern MC member James Myers said. “We’re all Americans, and it’s just sad to see a veterans organization banned from a parade in this country.”

Other people who watched the parade had a different reaction.

“This is absolutely great! It’s the most dignified Veterans Day parade I’ve seen in Homestead, and I’ve seen many,” said Rosemary Fuller.

Pat Mellerson, a local business owner, expressed similar views.

“It was a very nice family event, and we look forward to many more,” Mellerson said.

Fuller and Mellerson are the two women who expressed outrage at seeing the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in last’s year’s parade. The next day, they began a successful effort to have the groups and their flags banned from future events. The Miami-Dade NAACP joined their efforts to ban the flag from the parade and other publically sanctioned events.

In the process, they galvanized widespread support from a cross-section of the community in a movement that also saw four Homestead city council members defeated in last week’s municipal elections here.

“This is what we wanted. Respect for others’ feelings, and now we have it,” Mellerson said.

This year’s parade included over 30 organizations, including school bands. Fuller, a regular attendee of the parades, said it was about a quarter of the usual number of floats and organizations, and attributed this directly to the flag controversy.

“Who wants to come to an event where all of this nonsense is going on?” Fuller asked over the blare of police sirens and marching bands. “There are some people who wanted to kill the parade, instead of telling the Confederates now way, but the people spoke, and this just great.”

The Boy Scouts of America did not participate due to the flag controversy, which was not resolved in time for the organization to reconsider. However, a local troop did lead the pledge of allegiance, and stood next to the grand stand during the parade.

The controversy first began during last year’s parade when some black residents expressed outrage at seeing people dressed in Confederate soldier’s uniforms, marching and displaying Confederate battle flags.

Some people associate the Confederate flag with slavery, lynching, and racism. Others view it as a symbol of southern heritage, pride and that of a patriotic veteran’s group.

Mellerson and Fuller said they accomplished their goal, but will continue monitoring the parade and other public events to make sure the ban is not lifted.

“We made sure we stayed until the end of the parade, to make sure no one would try to pull anything, and this is what we will do throughout the year,” Mellerson said. 

On The Web:   www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3535&Itemid=199

 

From: Valerie Protopapas, vaproto@optonline.net
Date: November 12, 2009

Subject: Please disseminate if you wish to do so.

A call to war!
 
I recently watched Bill O’Reilly as I often do. I like O’Reilly personally. I believe that he is intelligent and sincere. He does not stand for prevarication or attempts to weasel out of answering hard questions and for that he should be praised. On the other hand, he has a particular set of opinions that make me wonder if at heart he isn’t a liberal or at least inclined that way. And, of course, coming from a lower middle-class Irish background, this would be understandable. The Irish as well as the Jews are a distinctly liberal bunch (except, of course, when it comes to the English). I have written to him from time to time when I thought that he really wasn’t “connecting the dots” with regard to the Obama Administration and Obama himself. He always wants to give the President “the benefit of the doubt” as he himself has often said. All that I am willing to give Obama is “the benefit” of a ten minute head start! I figure that he has already proven what he is and what he wants to do. He doesn’t need people making excuses for him in the name of “fairness”.
 
During O’Reilly’s “Talking Points” (the first segment of the show which can probably be viewed at O’Reilly’s website) the host commented upon Obama’s remarks about the attack at Fort Hood. O’Reilly, in addressing the attitude about Muslims in general and Hasan in particular, alluded to the fact that decent people have fought for wicked causes in the past but that the soldier’s basic decency had no bearing on the worthiness of the cause for which he fought. As many may know, while O’Reilly is presenting his “Talking Points” there is a screen behind him which illustrates the point or points he is making. And so, as he went on to mention “decent Germans” who fought in World War II, the word “Germany” appeared. Almost immediately, I was astounded to see the world “Confederacy” appear under the word Germany. And, of course, O’Reilly then said what I had dreaded that he would say, that is, something to the effect that decent men also fought for the Confederacy! I was appalled! Here was a direct correlation between Nazi Germany and the Confederacy! I can only assume that O’Reilly is the victim of ignorance, but even so to make such a foul comment is beyond the pale. He cannot be ignorant of men like Robert E. Lee! Does he put Lee in the same category as Erwin Rommel? Rommel was a decent man who chose to ignore the Nazi government and fight “for the Fatherland”. But in the case of the Confederate States of America, no such connection can be made! The Confederacy was not a tyrannous regime ruling a formerly decent nation. The Confederacy was that nation!
 
I was enraged – and I’m STILL enraged! I most strongly urge everyone to spread this far and wide among Southerners and friends of the South so as to make Mr. O’Reilly know and understand that while he’s busy being kind to the communist usurper and his unconstitutional minions in the White House, he has defamed a nation and people whose worthiness far surpasses the feeble remnants of the Republic they tried to maintain when they left the federal empire! There is not one decent person who should not call this man to account for his calumny. Bill O’Reilly has a big idea of himself, but last night he proved that he is nothing more than just one more historically ignorant purveyor of federal propaganda – a hack who owes an apology for his calumny to the men and women who lived and died for the very principles upon which this nation is – or should I say was - based.
 
In the name of justice and truth, I issue this call to war! Stand up and speak out lest we prove by our apathy to be unworthy of their sacrifice.
 
Valerie Protopapas

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My letter to Mr. O’Reilly:
 
oreilly@foxnews.com
 
Dear Mr. O’Reilly:
 
The other night I was appalled to see you make a direct correlation between Nazi Germany and the Confederate States of America. Of course, you are not entirely to blame for this grievous error. You are, after all, just one more victim of federal propaganda which began even before the War of Secession (it was not a “civil war”).
 
Obviously, I have not the time nor you the desire for me to give you even a small amount of the information you would need to form an educated  opinion in this matter, but just to help at least pique your curiosity, I will present two items for your consideration.
 
The first is an historical fact: the South did not fight for slavery although that was a very important issue – just not for the reasons people believe. However, if slavery had been the issue, then Lincoln’s offer to the Southern states to immediately pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution – entitled the “Corwin Amendment” – would have kept the South in the Union. Why? Because the Corwin Amendment protected slavery directly and in perpetuity within the Constitution, forbidding any future efforts to change that situation! So, you see, the South had no need to secede if all it wished to do was maintain the institution of slavery.
 
The second matter is a quote which clearly illustrates just why the South did go to war. In a personal conversation with author Walter Donald Kennedy, Professor Jay Hoar of Maine stated: “The worst fears of those Boys in Gray are now a fact of American life – a Federal government completely out of control.” Now, Professor Hoar is from Maine, not Mississippi; he has no sectional axe to grind. But he certainly understands and elucidates the over-arching reason for the secession of the Southern states – the fear of an increasingly powerful federal government and its symbiotic relationship with Northern commercial interests (fascism). The fact is that the South paid over 75% of the taxes into the federal coffers as the result of confiscatory tariffs - while the North received the benefit of that money (sound familiar?). With immigration increasing the population of the North and the new states in the Mid-West and West being allied with the old Northeast (to their commercial benefit), the South was fast becoming a permanent minority as well as a “cash cow” for a nation that as long ago as the Mexican War had gone from being a “republic” to an “empire”. The South politically ascribed to Madison and Calhoun; the North to Hamilton and Clay; these two governing principles were totally incompatible and the Southern states determined to return to the Founding Principles through the process of secession and confederation as guaranteed them in the Constitution.
 
When you compare the Confederacy with a rogue state like Nazi Germany, you not only do a terrible disservice to patriots and heroes like Robert E. Lee, but you expose your own ignorance and thus lessen your impact on the present political, economic and cultural state of affairs.
 
Finally, a warning: you will not find the pertinent facts in what passes for “history” today. You are going to have to go to sources that today’s “scholars” label “unreliable”, “suspicious” and “dishonest”. But it is they who are unreliable, suspicious and dishonest, not those who are trying to overcome over 150 years of “the Big Lie”. However, if you are really interested in the facts, they are out there – and I strongly suggest that you educate yourself before making any more outrageous and atrocious comments such as this.
 
Ignorance can be cured, but deliberate ignorance is the path to slavery.
 
Valerie Protopapas
Huntington Station, New York

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From: Bill Vallante, wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Subject: Re: Please disseminate if you wish to do so.

I have been yelling about crap like this until I am blue in the face! Fox is not your friends!
 
O'Reilly wouldn't know about "liberty" or "limited government" if either of those got up and kicked him in the ba**s! All he knows is ".....THERE SHOULD BE A LAW...."
 
You're suprised about his lumping Confederates in with Germans? Do you think he'd risk putting them in any other category and incur the wrath of those who wear the holy cloak of civil rights? Fox has done this type of thing repeatedly in the past. This is not a big surprise or out of character for either Fox or O'Relly.
 
Newsflash. Lincoln "united" this country and to people like O'Reilly, this is a good thing. The confederates tried to prevent it and that is a bad thing. Newsflash - O'Reilly and his bosses at Fox LOVE big government.... so long as it's THE REPUBLICANS who are running the show. When the Dems are in, suddenly, the Constitution, the Founders, and Liberty, all matter..... the only guy on Fox who's ever stood up for "liberty" is Judge Andrew Napolitano.
 
Last year, when Orlando Salinas covered the raising of the big confederate flag in Tampa, he wrote a glowing report of his experience. Does anyone remember me writing him, and does anyone remember his response to me? He said his bosses at Fox were unhappy that his report was so positive!!!! If that doesn't remind you folks of what I have been saying, ever since "the ONE" took office, I don't know what will?
 
And what have I been saying?
 
"FOX IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! FOX HATES YOU AND YOUR ANCESTORS! FOX IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! FOX IS NOT A FRIEND TO LIBERTY OR THE CONSTITUTION! THE ONLY THING FOX CARES ABOUT IS VIEWERS!"
 
As far as O'Reilly's so-called knowledge, I haven't seen much coming out of his cheese brain that I think would light the world on fire. His knowledge of most subjects barely rivals what the average guy on the street knows. He may have gone to Harvard, but so what? George Freakin' Bush went to Yale.... it proves nothing.
 
Remember what two faced sacks of crap like O'Reilly and Hannity are good for.... they are good for driving "the ONE" nuts, and that's it. They don't love you, they don't love limited government, they don't love liberty, they love the Republican party, and when the current pack of democratic commies is thrown onto the dung heap, it'll be the Republicans who will be back in and doing the same things they were doing under George the Idiot Bush and the boys and girls at Fox will be cheering to beat the band.  Nothing will have changed...Need I remind y'all that it was not Obama who called the consititution a "scrap of paper", it was George Bush.
 
Remember what the arabs say..."the enemy of my enemy is my friend." It does not mean that he is really your friend, as in a friend who stands behind you, shares your values, is there for you, etc.... he is a friend of CONVENIENCE! He is a friend only until the guy you both hate is gone...then, all bets are off
 
Republicans are not your friends. Fox is not your friends. Don't be surprise whenever either of them decides to take a big crap on your head when it's convenient for them.
 
Sorry, but there's no other way to put it.
 
Bill

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From: rick boswell, rick.boswell@gmail.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Subject: Re: Please disseminate if you wish to do so.

This is not news to me.  I've heard O'Reilly's "politely disparaging" remarks about the Confederacy before.  I won't disagree with Wild Bill that "Fox is not your friends" but they are a hell of a sight better than the alternatives, the other networks, which I no longer even bother to watch.

I long ago ceased to seek perfection; it's simply a matter of degrees of imperfection and Fox is far less imperfect in my opinion.  I don't like Glenn Beck's personality but I think he's doing a lot of good.  I enjoyed Judge Napolitano hosting Beck's show better than Beck but I admire what Beck is doing.

Do I believe everything I see or hear on Fox?  I don't believe everything I see or hear ANYWHERE.
 

From: HK Edgerton, hk.edgerton@gmail.com
Date: November 12, 2009

On Saturday, November 7, 2009, at the invitation of the local American Legion Post in the beautiful City of Clinton, Tennessee, the Sons of Confederate Veterans would fall in rank and began to march in a parade held to honor the U.S. Veterans. Ironically, as other Veteran organizations across the country have chosen to ban the Sons from entering their Veterans Day Parades with the Southern Cross, disregarding Public Law 85-425: Sec. 410, the American Legion Post here would not only invite the Sons to march, but would also give them a place of honor alongside all the other military service branches in a ceremony at the town courthouse after the parade.

As I marched alongside the Sons and their entourage, not one citizen would complain or stop me from hugging their children or themselves as I strutted with the Southern Cross amongst them. The Sons were greeted with robust cheers all along the parade route.

On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, I would once again don the uniform of the Southern soldier, and head out for a parade that was supposed to honor United States military veterans. However, for the second year in a row, the American legion Post #2 in the City of Knoxville, Tennessee chose to ban the Southern soldier from carrying his colors in their sponsored parade, thus ignoring Public Law 85- 425: Sec. 410, which states: The Administrator shall pay to each person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War a monthly pension in the same amount and subject to the same conditions as would have been applicable to such persons under the laws in effect on December 31, 1957, as if his service in the military or naval forces of the United States.
Approved May 23, 1958-
Source: U.S. Statutes at Large
Volume 72, Part 1, Page 133-134
By Federal Act of Congress (May 23, 1958) all Confederate Veterans are United States Military Veterans, and deserve all the rights and honors pertinent to such service.

***They are thus not only recognized as United States citizens, but fully as Federally recognized member of the United States military (with Veteran's status) as well.

The American Legion Post #2 of Knoxville, Tennessee has joined the ranks of those who would usher in a period of Southern social and cultural genocide while disregarding the laws of this land under the reconstruction modus operandi, and Lincoln devised pretext that it is far the Black populous, which in all regards only benefits those poverty pimps who only fill their own coffers while stripping Southern Blacks of their honored heritage and loyalty to the South.
 

From: Bill Vallante, wildbill4dixie@yahoo.com
Date: November 12, 2009

Subject: Re: Please disseminate if you wish to do so.

I have been yelling about crap like this until I am blue in the face! Fox is not your friends!
 
O'Reilly wouldn't know about "liberty" or "limited government" if either of those got up and kicked him in the ba**s! All he knows is ".....THERE SHOULD BE A LAW...."
 
You're suprised about his lumping Confederates in with Germans? Do you think he'd risk putting them in any other category and incur the wrath of those who wear the holy cloak of civil rights? Fox has done this type of thing repeatedly in the past. This is not a big surprise or out of character for either Fox or O'Relly.
 
Newsflash. Lincoln "united" this country and to people like O'Reilly, this is a good thing. The confederates tried to prevent it and that is a bad thing. Newsflash - O'Reilly and his bosses at Fox LOVE big government.... so long as it's THE REPUBLICANS who are running the show. When the Dems are in, suddenly, the Constitution, the Founders, and Liberty, all matter..... the only guy on Fox who's ever stood up for "liberty" is Judge Andrew Napolitano.
 
Last year, when Orlando Salinas covered the raising of the big confederate flag in Tampa, he wrote a glowing report of his experience. Does anyone remember me writing him, and does anyone remember his response to me? He said his bosses at Fox were unhappy that his report was so positive!!!! If that doesn't remind you folks of what I have been saying, ever since "the ONE" took office, I don't know what will?
 
And what have I been saying?
 
"FOX IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! FOX HATES YOU AND YOUR ANCESTORS! FOX IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! FOX IS NOT A FRIEND TO LIBERTY OR THE CONSTITUTION! THE ONLY THING FOX CARES ABOUT IS VIEWERS!"
 
As far as O'Reilly's so-called knowledge, I haven't seen much coming out of his cheese brain that I think would light the world on fire. His knowledge of most subjects barely rivals what the average guy on the street knows. He may have gone to Harvard, but so what? George Freakin' Bush went to Yale.... it proves nothing.
 
Remember what two faced sacks of crap like O'Reilly and Hannity are good for.... they are good for driving "the ONE" nuts, and that's it. They don't love you, they don't love limited government, they don't love liberty, they love the Republican party, and when the current pack of democratic commies is thrown onto the dung heap, it'll be the Republicans who will be back in and doing the same things they were doing under George the Idiot Bush and the boys and girls at Fox will be cheering to beat the band.  Nothing will have changed...Need I remind y'all that it was not Obama who called the consititution a "scrap of paper", it was George Bush.
 
Remember what the arabs say..."the enemy of my enemy is my friend." It does not mean that he is really your friend, as in a friend who stands behind you, shares your values, is there for you, etc.... he is a friend of CONVENIENCE! He is a friend only until the guy you both hate is gone...then, all bets are off
 
Republicans are not your friends. Fox is not your friends. Don't be surprise whenever either of them decides to take a big crap on your head when it's convenient for them.
 
Sorry, but there's no other way to put it.
 
Bill

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From: Valerie Protopapas, vaproto@optonline.net
Date: November 12, 2009

Subject: Please disseminate if you wish to do so.

A call to war!
 
I recently watched Bill O’Reilly as I often do. I like O’Reilly personally. I believe that he is intelligent and sincere. He does not stand for prevarication or attempts to weasel out of answering hard questions and for that he should be praised. On the other hand, he has a particular set of opinions that make me wonder if at heart he isn’t a liberal or at least inclined that way. And, of course, coming from a lower middle-class Irish background, this would be understandable. The Irish as well as the Jews are a distinctly liberal bunch (except, of course, when it comes to the English). I have written to him from time to time when I thought that he really wasn’t “connecting the dots” with regard to the Obama Administration and Obama himself. He always wants to give the President “the benefit of the doubt” as he himself has often said. All that I am willing to give Obama is “the benefit” of a ten minute head start! I figure that he has already proven what he is and what he wants to do. He doesn’t need people making excuses for him in the name of “fairness”.
 
During O’Reilly’s “Talking Points” (the first segment of the show which can probably be viewed at O’Reilly’s website) the host commented upon Obama’s remarks about the attack at Fort Hood. O’Reilly, in addressing the attitude about Muslims in general and Hasan in particular, alluded to the fact that decent people have fought for wicked causes in the past but that the soldier’s basic decency had no bearing on the worthiness of the cause for which he fought. As many may know, while O’Reilly is presenting his “Talking Points” there is a screen behind him which illustrates the point or points he is making. And so, as he went on to mention “decent Germans” who fought in World War II, the word “Germany” appeared. Almost immediately, I was astounded to see the world “Confederacy” appear under the word Germany. And, of course, O’Reilly then said what I had dreaded that he would say, that is, something to the effect that decent men also fought for the Confederacy! I was appalled! Here was a direct correlation between Nazi Germany and the Confederacy! I can only assume that O’Reilly is the victim of ignorance, but even so to make such a foul comment is beyond the pale. He cannot be ignorant of men like Robert E. Lee! Does he put Lee in the same category as Erwin Rommel? Rommel was a decent man who chose to ignore the Nazi government and fight “for the Fatherland”. But in the case of the Confederate States of America, no such connection can be made! The Confederacy was not a tyrannous regime ruling a formerly decent nation. The Confederacy was that nation!
 
I was enraged – and I’m STILL enraged! I most strongly urge everyone to spread this far and wide among Southerners and friends of the South so as to make Mr. O’Reilly know and understand that while he’s busy being kind to the communist usurper and his unconstitutional minions in the White House, he has defamed a nation and people whose worthiness far surpasses the feeble remnants of the Republic they tried to maintain when they left the federal empire! There is not one decent person who should not call this man to account for his calumny. Bill O’Reilly has a big idea of himself, but last night he proved that he is nothing more than just one more historically ignorant purveyor of federal propaganda – a hack who owes an apology for his calumny to the men and women who lived and died for the very principles upon which this nation is – or should I say was - based.
 
In the name of justice and truth, I issue this call to war! Stand up and speak out lest we prove by our apathy to be unworthy of their sacrifice.
 
Valerie Protopapas

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My letter to Mr. O’Reilly:
 
oreilly@foxnews.com
 
Dear Mr. O’Reilly:
 
The other night I was appalled to see you make a direct correlation between Nazi Germany and the Confederate States of America. Of course, you are not entirely to blame for this grievous error. You are, after all, just one more victim of federal propaganda which began even before the War of Secession (it was not a “civil war”).
 
Obviously, I have not the time nor you the desire for me to give you even a small amount of the information you would need to form an educated  opinion in this matter, but just to help at least pique your curiosity, I will present two items for your consideration.
 
The first is an historical fact: the South did not fight for slavery although that was a very important issue – just not for the reasons people believe. However, if slavery had been the issue, then Lincoln’s offer to the Southern states to immediately pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution – entitled the “Corwin Amendment” – would have kept the South in the Union. Why? Because the Corwin Amendment protected slavery directly and in perpetuity within the Constitution, forbidding any future efforts to change that situation! So, you see, the South had no need to secede if all it wished to do was maintain the institution of slavery.
 
The second matter is a quote which clearly illustrates just why the South did go to war. In a personal conversation with author Walter Donald Kennedy, Professor Jay Hoar of Maine stated: “The worst fears of those Boys in Gray are now a fact of American life – a Federal government completely out of control.” Now, Professor Hoar is from Maine, not Mississippi; he has no sectional axe to grind. But he certainly understands and elucidates the over-arching reason for the secession of the Southern states – the fear of an increasingly powerful federal government and its symbiotic relationship with Northern commercial interests (fascism). The fact is that the South paid over 75% of the taxes into the federal coffers as the result of confiscatory tariffs - while the North received the benefit of that money (sound familiar?). With immigration increasing the population of the North and the new states in the Mid-West and West being allied with the old Northeast (to their commercial benefit), the South was fast becoming a permanent minority as well as a “cash cow” for a nation that as long ago as the Mexican War had gone from being a “republic” to an “empire”. The South politically ascribed to Madison and Calhoun; the North to Hamilton and Clay; these two governing principles were totally incompatible and the Southern states determined to return to the Founding Principles through the process of secession and confederation as guaranteed them in the Constitution.
 
When you compare the Confederacy with a rogue state like Nazi Germany, you not only do a terrible disservice to patriots and heroes like Robert E. Lee, but you expose your own ignorance and thus lessen your impact on the present political, economic and cultural state of affairs.
 
Finally, a warning: you will not find the pertinent facts in what passes for “history” today. You are going to have to go to sources that today’s “scholars” label “unreliable”, “suspicious” and “dishonest”. But it is they who are unreliable, suspicious and dishonest, not those who are trying to overcome over 150 years of “the Big Lie”. However, if you are really interested in the facts, they are out there – and I strongly suggest that you educate yourself before making any more outrageous and atrocious comments such as this.
 
Ignorance can be cured, but deliberate ignorance is the path to slavery.
 
Valerie Protopapas
Huntington Station, New York
 

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Ole Miss Fight Song Banned at Games

Last Update: 11/10

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones is asking the band to stop playing "From Dixie With Love" after some Ole Miss fans continued chanting "the South will rise again" at the end of the medley.

The student-run newspaper, The Daily Mississippian, reported Tuesday that Jones wrote about his decision in a letter to the university community.

Jones said last week he would ask the band to stop playing "From Dixie With Love" if the chant continued during the football game this past Saturday. Jones said he is following through with what he promised.

Jones did not specify how long the song will be off limits. It blends the Confederate Army's fight song, "Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The band has played it about two decades.

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Information from: The Daily Mississippian, http://olemisslife.com/

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
 

On The Web:  www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story/Ole-Miss-Fight-Song-Banned-at-Games/MOLVziCc7EW67MaR4hLzVg.cspx

Ole Miss chancellor halts song with segregationist baggage

By Jody Callahan
Posted November 10, 2009

Ole Miss fans won't be hearing the song "From Dixie With Love" at athletic events anytime soon.

Because some fans continued chanting "The South will rise again!" at the end of the song despite requests to refrain from doing so, Chancellor Dan Jones has asked the school band to discontinue playing the song.

Many associate the chant with both the school and the area's segregationist past.

"Here at the University of Mississippi, there must be no doubt that this is a warm and welcoming place for all," Jones wrote in a letter to the Ole Miss community. "We cannot even appear to support those outside our community who advocate a revival of segregation. We cannot fail to respond."

Jones said he would consider lifting the ban "if the chant stops and our elected student leaders ask for the song to return."

Jones said previously that, if the chant continued during last Saturday's game against Northern Arizona, he would ask the band to discontinue the song.

"Yet some have chosen to continue the chant," Jones wrote. "Sadly, we have also heard from a few outside our university who support the chant as an expression of values associated with a segregationist movement discredited so many years ago."

2009 The E.W. Scripps Co.

On The Web:   www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/nov/10/ole-miss-chancellor-halts-song-segregationist-bagg/

 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

SCV Issues Statement on VFW Flag Ban in Homestead Florida

Sons of Confederate Veterans Headquarters
Columbia, TN

The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has been informed that they may not march in the Homestead, Florida Veteran's Day Parade with the Confederate Battle Flag. The SCV is quite surprised by this anomaly. The SCV honors and respects the members of the VFW, in fact many veterans are members of both. All across the nation the SCV and VFW have worked together in harmony and many occasions to honor America's Veterans.

However, the SCV condemns the decision by the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Homestead, the sponsor of the parade, as the Confederate Battle Flag is a banner which denotes the valor and bravery of some of America's most renowned veterans - the Confederate Soldier. By denying the SCV participation in the parade the Homestead post of the VFW has shown that it is no longer an organization that supports the memory of Veterans but is instead more interested in promoting an agenda of political correctness.

For the last 90 years Confederate Veterans have been recognized as US Veterans by the United States Congress. The actions of the VFW show that they believe they have the authority to re-define who qualifies to be recognized as a veteran in defiance of congressional statue. Further, the actions of the VFW, in denying the SCV entry into the parade, are repugnant to the sacrifice made by many millions of veterans who have fought to preserve the Rights of Americans as established in the Constitution.

This arbitrary action of the Homestead VFW Post is an affront to Southerners of all colors and ethnic backgrounds whose ancestors served honorably in the military of the CSA, and today continue to lead the nation in voluntary service and casualties suffered by U. S. forces in conflicts around the world.

In these times all Americans should be drawn together, and American veterans equally recognized, rather than be torn apart by a small group who wishes to inject controversy and disruption into the rightful recognition of ALL American Veterans. It is also greatly disappointing that the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post is allowing itself to be used in this manner.

The SCV urges the community in Homestead, Florida to express their rightful disappointment that the memory of one group of American Veterans, Confederate Veterans, are being disparaged by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

For more information contact
Chuck McMichael, SCV Commander in Chief, at 318-963-9892 or scvcic72@gmail.com
Chuck Rand, SCV Chief of Staff, at 318-387-3791 or chuckrand3@gmail.com

The SCV is a 501(c)3 non-profit historical and educational organization founded in 1896. See www.scv.org.

On The Web:   shnv.blogspot.com/2009/11/scv-issues-statement-on-vfw-flag-ban-in.html

 

April 8, 2004

Dr. Jeanette F. Hedrick
Superintendent
Cherokee County Schools
911 Andrews Road
Murphy, North Carolina 28906

By facsimile: (828) 837-5799

Dear Dr. Hedrick:

The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) has been contacted with respect to several recent incidents at Andrews High School regarding students who were ordered to remove articles of Confederate clothing or face disciplinary action. We understand that a male student attending the school’s prom was made to remove a Confederate flag design tuxedo jacket; a female student was ordered to turn a Confederate-theme t-shirt inside out; and another male student had a Confederate-theme hat confiscated. We further understand that there will be a called meeting of the school board tonight, April 9, for the purpose of considering a county-wide ban on all Confederate symbols in the schools.

Dr. Hedrick, the SLRC is a non-profit legal foundation that provides advocacy for individuals whose rights have been violated in connection with expressing pride in their Southern/Confederate heritage. As such we are able to point out that the high school’s actions against the students in question may constitute very real and very flagrant abridgements of their constitutional and civil rights. The students and their parents are aware of this. They are also aware that recent Federal court decisions in this and other circuits have set precedents that frankly would give them a very good chance of prevailing if they should decide to litigate against the school system. One such case, dealing specifically with Confederate clothing, is a 6th Circuit decision, Castorina v. Madison County School Board (2001). A more recent decision, Newsom v. Albemarle County School Board, et al (2003), has expanded student free speech in this very circuit. Needless to say, however, the students involved only want to be allowed to express their legitimate pride in their Confederate ancestry without being punished, humiliated, threatened or intimidated.

As of yet the SLRC is only investigating this matter, nor have we agreed to represent any Cherokee County families. The legal side of our organization is not involved - yet. My prayer is that your earnest good will and cooperation will help us keep it that way.

I have been a civil rights advocate my entire adult life and am the immediate Past President of the Asheville Branch of the NAACP. I know and have walked both sides of the street. Currently I am in the midst of a 260 mile march from North Carolina to Charleston, South Carolina - carrying a Confederate flag! I am here to tell you that I have received love and support from the Black community all along the way.

If you will lay aside the seeming institutional bias against Confederate symbols that seems to stalk Boards of Education and postpone a final decision on any Confederate symbols ban, it will be my pleasure and that of the Southern Legal Resource Center to assist you.

The SLRC has many excellent interpretive and educational resources at its command and would welcome the opportunity to make a presentation to your board, outlining the history of various Confederate symbols, their usage and their place in our own culture. If I may say so, this is a situation that calls for education and dialog, not for a hasty policy decision that could have serious consequences.

Please feel free to contact me at (828) 669-5189, and to visit our website, www.slrc-csa.org. Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely yours,

H. K. Edgerton
Chairman, Board of Advisors
Southern Legal Resource Center
Confederate Southern-American

Dixie Resources

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Good Old Rebel
Defending our Southern Heritage and Celebrating Confederate History

Confederate Colonel
The new life of the Old South.

Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization

The Real Abe Lincoln

The 37th Texas Cavalry
"The most prestigious war site on the internet today."

Southern Legal Resource Center
Attorneys fighting for Southern Preservation.

Heritage Preservation Association
"Guarding our future by preserving our past." An effective Civil Rights organization for Southern Heritage.

North Carolina Confederate Anti-Hate Foundation
Fighting against the misuse of the Confederate heritage.

"The South And Southern History"
Article containing links where you can order books on such topics as the war, reconstruction, states rights and the real constitution, and state and local history.

  Gator Guides

  Quail Hill Kennel & Supply

  Georgia Heritage Council

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Affiliates

  League Of The South

  Southern Heritage News & Views

  Southern Heritage News & Views - Dixie Videos

  Southern Heritage News & Views - Hot Spot

  Dixie Rising

  Fayette SCV

The Confederate Shop

  James City Cavalry

  Robert H. Hatton Camp 723, Sons Of Confederate Veterans, Lebanon, Tennessee

  Texas Legion SCV Camp 2103

  Good Ole Rebel - Defending Our Southern Heritage And Celebrating Confederate History

  Fragile Legacies Of Dixie

  Tuska Homma Kennels - 12th Annual Uncle Earl

  The Southern War Room

  Confederate Digest

  1st Tennessee Rifles Umit

  Southern Thang

  Confederate Soldiers Memorial Park

  Harp Of Dixie

Southern Heritage Advancement Preservation Education

  Pam Warren Clothiers

  Rose Of Sharen Productions

  A Confederate Belle

  The Southern American

Thunder Haven

  Dixieman's Southern Social Network

  Southern Cause - For And About Southern People

  CSS Neuse Foundation

  SLM News

  Mark Churms - Military History Links To Military Websites!

  Confederate Colonel

  SCV General Jerome B. Robertson Camp #992

  Boggy Country Outdoors

  Brig/General Benjamin G. Humphreys Camp #1625

  Confederate Mercantile

  Confederate American Pride

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Texas Confederate Veterans

Georgia Division Sons Of Confederate Veterans

Elect Mike Crane
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The Southern Party of Georgia
     "A grass roots effort to restore Good Government for the People of Georgia."

Sons of Confederate Veterans
     "Preserving the history and legacy of the citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy ."

Sons of Confederate Veterans - Camp 469
General Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp # 469 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans located in Rome, GA.

The Confederate War Department
     "This site is dedicated to any interest in the War Between the States..."

Sons of Confederate Veterans - Camp 2022
Capt. James Knox Camp #2022 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans - the Seaboard Guards - located in Waynesville, GA.

CSA-E
Confederate States of America - Europe

Fayette SCV

Robert H. Hatton Camp 723
     Sons Of Confederate Veterans, Lebanon, TN

Texas Legion SCV Camp 2103

SCV General Jerome B. Robertson Camp #992

Brig/General Benjamin G. Humphreys Camp #1625

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The Confederate Liberation Society

Georgia First

Southern Heritage 411

The Fire Eater

Southron Liberation Media News

Al Benson, Jr.

The Patriot Network

America: Freedom To Fascism

Constitution Party

Liberty Belles

Southern Heritage News and Views - Heritage Alerts

Southern Heritage News and Views
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DixieNet.org
League of the South homepage. "States' rights will rise again."

180 º True South
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Sobran's
The REAL news of the month.

Issues & Views
Newsletter founded by black Americans who advocate self-help and business enterprise and the protection of constitutional rights.

Bonnie Blue Publishing
The Secession Winter of 1860-1861

The First Freedom

The Southern American
A Proud Southern Website

The Liberty Based Society

• Steve Johnson's Cemeteries and Burial Records. "My site is a directory of links to webpages that feature on-line cemetery burial records. It covers many USA cemeteries, as well as cemeteries across the world. I have a page just for U.S. National Cemeteries and Veterans Burials."
• In order to get information about the African American Civil War Memorial dedicated Sept. 8, 1996, See the Civil War in Charleston page for the best online information. The National Park Service summary says "Memorial to African Americans Who Served with Union Forces in the Civil War Authorized Oct. 14, 1992, the memorial would contain the inscriptions on stainless steel plaques of some 185,000 names of African-Americans who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A commemorative bronze sculpture will be included in the design. It will be located above the Green Line Metro Station at 10th and U Streets, NW. The District of Columbia is sponsoring the memorial with the cooperative efforts of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The memorial sculpture was approved by the Commission of Fine Arts in March 1995. Further refinement of the memorial design is scheduled to occur in the fall of 1995. Inquiries may be directed to Project Director Lyndia Grant (Office of D.C. City Councilmember Frank Smith), African-American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation, P.O.73517, Washington, D.C. 20009; (202)-939-8719."
• Andersonville National Historic Site
• Arkansas Post National Memorial
• Arlington National Cemetery. Though not a Civil War Cemetery, Arlington is relevant.
• Boston African American National Historic Site
• Locust Grove State Historic Site
• Fort Point National Historic Site, CA. The National Civil War Association.
• Fort Clinch State Park
• Fort Davidson State Historic Site
• Fort Point NHS
• Fort Pulaski National Monument, GA
• Fort Scott National Historic Site. KS
• Fort Sumter National Monument, SC
• Governors Island National Monument
• Museums of VA can be found by following the links to "things to do" and places to visit.
• George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia.
• Hollywood Cemetery, Virginia
• Lotz House War Between The States/Old West Museum
• Mansfield State Commemorative Area, Louisiana
• The Marshall House Incident. "The shooting of Col. Elmer Ellsworth by the proprietor of the Marshall House as he was removing a Confederate flag." Alexandria, Va.
• Museum of the Confederacy - Richmond, VA
• Nashville National Cemetery
• Natchez National Historical Park, MS
• Camp Nelson Restoration and Preservation Foundation. "Private non-profit group of citizens working to preserve and interpret the Civil War site."
• Rebel State Commemorative Area, Louisiana
• Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia
• Shiloh National Military Park
• Texas State Cemetery
• National Museum of Civil War Medicine
• Hello to Arms. "heroic limbs displayed and memorialized from the War Between the States."
• See also NPS Parklist

• Battle of Brown's Mill
• Battle of Atlanta
• Battle of Peachtree Creek
• Battle of Champion Hill
• Tupelo National Battlefield
• Battle of Port Royal Ferry
• The Battle of Bentonville
• Battles and Battlefields of the Shenandoah Valley
• Combat at Pringles Creek
• Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
• Middle Creek National Battlefield
• Port Hudson State Historic Site
• Battle of Athens State Historic Site
• Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
• Rich Mountain Battlefield
• Fort Fisher
• Battle of Blakeley
• Battle of Ringgold Gap, Georgia
• Chickamauga
• Battle of Bloody Bridge, July 7,8 & 9, 1864
• The Great LocomotiveChase: The Story of Andrew's Raiders
• Prelude to the Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Chickamauga
• Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgia
• Battle of Allatoona Pass, Georgia
• Battle of Bloody Bridge
• Cedar Creek Battlefield
• Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania Military Park
• Battle at Lockridge's Mills
• Battle at Chancellorsville
• Battle of Shiloh
• Richmond National Battlefield
• Battle of Perryville, Kentucky
• Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
• Vicksburg National Military Park
• Fort Donelson National Battlefield
• Petersburg National Battlefield
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Reverend Chavis Opposes Emancipation
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net

 
Robert E. Lee remarked that slavery was an evil and would be better solved by time and Christian influence, and the story of Reverend Chavis (below) was a manifestation of that view.
 
Chavis knew from experience that emancipation of the African must be preceded by education, a lesson he had learned personally. The interracial cooperation and harmony in the South would eventually be destroyed by the incessant slavery agitation of abolitionists, fratricidal war, and finally a vicious Reconstruction that would see Northern Radicals foster hate between the black man and white in order to politically dominate and loot a prostrate South.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Reverend Chavis Opposes Emancipation:
 
“John Chavis (1763-1838), a free Negro of unmixed blood, preacher and educator, was born near Oxford in the County of Granville, North Carolina. As a free man he was sent to Princeton to study, privately under President Witherspoon of the College of New Jersey---“according to tradition, to demonstrate whether or not a Negro had the capacity to take a college education.”  That the test was successful appears from the record in the manuscript Order Book of Rockbridge County, Virginia, Court of 1802, which certifies to the freedom and character of Reverend John Chavis, a black man, who, as a student at Washington Academy passed successfully “through a regular course of Academical Studies.”
 
Through the influence of the Reverend Samuel Davies, a Presbyterian divine, Chavis became connected as a licentiate with the Presbyteries of Lexington and Hanover, Virginia. About 1805 he went to North Carolina, where he joined in 1809 the Orange Presbytery, and ministered to whites and blacks in various churches in at least three counties. He was distinguished for his dignity of manner, purity of diction, and simplicity and orthodoxy in teaching. Familiar with Latin and Greek, he established a classical school, teaching sometimes at night, and prepared for college the sons of prominent whites in several counties, sometimes even boarding them in his family. Among them were Senator Wille P. Mangum, Governor Manly, the sons of Chief Justice Henderson. And others, who became lawyers, doctors, teachers, preachers and politicians. He was respectfully received in the families of his former pupils, whom he visited often.
 
The letters of Chavis to Senator Mangum show that the Senator treated him as a friend. Curiously, one dated in 1836, was a vigorous protest against the Petition for Emancipation, sent to Congress by the abolitionists, as injurious to the colored race.
 
April 4, 1836
 
“I am radically and heartily opposed to the passing of such a Law, a Law which will be fraught with so many mischievous and dangerous consequences. I am already of the opinion that Congress has no more right to pass such a Law than I have to go to your house and take Orange (a slave) and bring him home and keep him as my servant…I am clearly of the opinion that immediate emancipation would be to entail the greatest earthly curse upon my brethren according to the flesh that could be conferred upon them especially in a country like ours…I believe that there are a part of the abolitionists that have, and do, acting from pure motives but I think they have zeal without knowledge, and are doing more mischief than they expect. There is I think another part that are seeking for loaves and fishes and are an exceedingly dangerous set.”
 
Chavis died in 1838, aged about seventy-five, a conspicuous example of merit rewarded by slave-holding whites.”
 
(Universal Education in the South, Volume I, Charles William Dabney, UNC Press, 1936, pp. 453-454)

 

Lincoln Was a Traitor . . .

Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo
November 8, 2009

. . . and would have been justifiably hanged for treason (and for war crimes) had the Republican Party lost its war on the South.  I have argued elsewhere that this is probably why they “had” to wage total war on the civilian population of their own country, killing some 50,000 Southern civilians in the process:  They knew they were war criminals, and could not risk even a stalemate.

For the record, here’s Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution on the subject of treason:

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”  (emphasis added).

As with all the founding documents, “United States” is in the plural, signifying that the free and independent states are united in forming a compact with each other.  Treason means levying war against the free and independent states, as the Lincoln regime did, not against the governent in Washington, D.C.  The Republican Party was born of treason.

On The Web:   www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/042323.html

 

Controversial cartoon from WA pokes fun at South Carolina

Posted: Nov 05, 2009

By Bob Behanian
 

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - A cartoonist from Washington state has released a picture about South Carolina, depicting its workers as lazy, incompetent, redneck and racist. The controversial cartoon is in response to South Carolina winning the contract for Boeing's second 787 assembly line.

The drawing is done by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, David Horsey, who is known for his controversial drawings. The cartoon was featured on the website for "The Post Intelligencer" newspaper, based in Seattle, WA.

"I'm offended because that is not what our workers are like here.  I work here and that is not the environment that we have here," said Charleston resident Tanika Reaves.

In addition to a lazy environment featured in the cartoon, the plane has an outhouse door.  The drawing also features a noose and the Confederate flag, a symbol Charleston residents say is outdated and demeaning.

Boeing is based in Seattle, and while workers there are angry over losing the Boeing bid, some say the drawing goes too far.

Some residents on the west coast have commented about the cartoon being distasteful. One comment from a reader of "The Post Intelligencer" said, "I understand people are hurt and betrayed by Boeing's disloyalty to the region, but this was really a cheap shot."

Steve Stegelin, a cartoonist for "The Charleston City Paper," says cartoonists have to get their point across in a small amount of space. He said he thought the ideas used in the cartoon were out of touch with South Carolina, especially after all the political scandal that has hit the state in the past year.

"I was a little surprised they went in this direction for South Carolina.  With the humor our state has provided in the last year as fodder, to go with the redneck stereotype was surprising," said Steglin.
 
©2009 WCSC.

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VFW will avoid Homestead parade flag flap

A local VFW post decided not to invite to the Veterans' Day Parade in downtown Homestead the two groups that had been fighting over last year's display of the Confederate battle flag.
BY TANIA VALDEMORO
tvaldemoro@MiamiHerald.com

One of Miami-Dade's oldest events -- the Veterans' Day parade in downtown Homestead -- will take place Wednesday without the two groups that have been fighting over last year's flying of a Confederate battle flag.

The Arrant-Smith Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4127, which is sponsoring this year's parade, invited several groups to march.

But no invitations were extended either to the Miami-Dade branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Only the American flag, the Florida state flag and military flags will be permitted, said Louis Melara, a parade organizer.

The Confederate veterans' group marched with the rebel flag last November. The one-time appearance of the flag sparked a controversy among the NAACP, Sons of Confederate Veterans, the city of Homestead and the Greater Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce.

The VFW stepped in last month to host the parade after the chamber's military affairs committee canceled the event, saying there was not enough time for them to organize it.

``Commander Joe Stahl pointed out to the Sons of the Confederate Veterans that they and the NAACP would not be allowed to participate in the parade,'' Melara told members of the Homestead City Council, ``because they would detract from our focus of honoring the veterans.''

On Thursday, the city council unanimously approved a permit for the parade.

Stahl leads the VFW Post 4127. The reaction to his decision was mixed.

Gregory Kalof, commander of the Miami camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said in a written statement: ``We are very disappointed in the decision that the VFW has made by electing to cast out another veterans' organization to appease obvious political forces that have held our community to boycott.''

But Brad Brown, political action chair of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP, praised the VFW.

``The NAACP commends the Veterans of Foreign Wars for their principled stance to hold a parade that truly honors veterans of the United States military,'' he said.

Copyright 2009 Miami Herald Media Co.

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Confederate flag controversy shook up Homestead

Written by ELGIN JONES  

HOMESTEAD – The year-long controversy over the display of the Confederate battle flag at publicly sanctioned events in Homestead divided the city.

Some say the issue also led to the ouster on Tuesday of four incumbent politicians who took no action on cries from some residents to ban the flag from the Veterans Day parade.

Now, the contentious flag fight may be over.

At their very first official meeting on Thursday, Nov. 4, the new slate of Homestead city council members voted unanimously to approve a permit application for the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization to hold the Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11.

The approval came after VFW parade organizers told commissioners that they barred Confederate States groups and their flags from the event.

“They [the former commissioners] could have done this a year ago, and maybe they would still be in office,” said Rosemary Fuller, who was one of the people who led the effort for the flag ban.

The development came days before the annual Veterans Day parade, and a day after the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) group announced that the Confederate battle flag had been banned from the event. The parade approval also came two days after an unprecedented voter revolt against most city hall incumbents.

Political observers say the long-simmering feud over the Confederate flag issue contributed to the ouster of Mayor Lynda Bell and three council members: Tim Nelson, Melvin McCormick and Nazy Sierra, in Tuesday's election.

Voters preferred former Council Member Steve Bateman over Bell as the mayor.

The Rev. Jimmie L. Williams III defeated McCormick. Newcomers Stephen Shelley and Elvis Maldonado also joined the dais, in place of Nelson and Sierra, respectively.

Councilwoman Judy Waldman, a frequent Bell critic, openly expressed opposition to the Confederate flag and sought city action to address it. She was the only incumbent to win re-election. She crushed her opponent, Angel Garrote, and is now the city’s vice mayor because, among the council members, she received the most votes for the post.

Officials with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) group, which is organizing the Nov. 11 parade, could not be reached for comment about the flag ban. The decision likely brings to an end the controversy which garnered the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice, which sought to resolve the matter through mediation, and the threat of an economic boycott from the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP.

"The NAACP commends the Veterans of Foreign Wars for their principled stance to hold a parade that truly honors Veterans of the United States military,’’ Brad Brown, first vice president of the Miami-Dade NAACP, wrote in an email to the newspaper on Thursday. “Veterans concerns are at the forefront of NAACP issues today and our Miami-Dade Branch's Veteran's Affairs Committee is working to make sure all veterans get the information and assistance they so well deserve. We are pleased to be able to concentrate on issues such as those without the distraction of having to address insults such as the public supported flying of the Confederate Flag.”

To some, the Confederate flag is a symbol of southern pride; to others, it is a reminder of slavery, lynching and racial mistreatment.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans issued the following statement on Wednesday:

“On Monday, November 2, 2009, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), the oldest veterans group established in 1896 was notified by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post commander Joseph Stahl, that we would not be allowed to enter the Homestead Veteran’s Day parade,’’ Gregory Kalof, commander of the Miami-Dade based Sons of Confederate Veterans camp 471, wrote in a press release sent to the South Florida Times Wednesday morning. “He stated that there were still strong feelings against the participation of the SCV but did not specify if it were the participants, organizers, or outside organizations.’’

The flag controversy in Homestead first erupted after black citizens, including Rosemary Fuller and Pat Mellerson, objected to seeing Confederate soldiers with their battle flags marching in last year’s parade.

“I am a child of the civil rights movement. My parents and grandparents suffered through a lot of discrimination and abuse during those times and that flag was a direct reminder of those things,” Mellerson said. “It’s offensive and represents brutality and oppression to so many people.”

The groups opposing the flag called on the Military Affairs Committee of the Greater Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce, which originally organized the event, and the city of Homestead, which provided in-kind support, to bar Confederate States groups and their memorabilia from future parades.

Homestead elected officials reacted by explaining that the city was not the parade organizer, and therefore had no authority to ban any organizations from the parade.

The chamber initially could not reach any compromise on the issue. But after months of wrangling and pressure from the NAACP and officials in neighboring Florida City, the Military Affairs Committee decided in September to cancel the parade altogether.

The local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Homestead took up the mantel, and applied for permits to organize this year’s parade.

Mellerson said the issue may now be resolved.

“The flag should be in a museum, in their homes, or on their personal cars,” Mellerson said. “I love parades. They are good for the community and I will have no problem attending.”

In the press release about the flag ban, Kalof tied the fate of the Confederate flag's display at the parade to that of Bell and the three other incumbents who lost their seats.  Observers on both sides of the issue say they believe the election was a referendum on the flag controversy.

“In our opinion, their standard of what has become a politically correct stance against the Confederate Battle Flag and all those that would support it are nothing short of political blackmail,’’ Kaloff wrote in his SCV press release. “The NAACP doesn’t have a record of Veteran’s support but instead only promotes its own agenda of erasing all aspects of Southern heritage. It has contrived a crisis for political ends: to remove Mayor Lynda Bell and council members from the Homestead City government. It seems very clear now that their threats have produced the desired results. For shame, for shame, on the voters and residents of Homestead by not voting or submitting to the sham that has been placed over the City.’’

Fuller, who lives just outside the city’s limits in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, agreed that the flag controversy is what galvanized voters. But she, said, other issues were also at play.

“This was never about Lynda Bell, and it wasn’t politically motivated. She [Lynda Bell] said that. Our focus was always on keeping those offensive flags and symbols from this community event,” she said. “They [council members] just blew it, and the voters spoke on Tuesday. If you go back and look at the council meetings, you will see where people who opposed the flag were demeaned and insulted.”

Fuller continued: “This is a good community and the people were just fed up, and it’s a refreshing day, and I do plan on going to the parade if they are banned.”

Kaloff said his Confederate organization would not challenge the VFW’s decision.

“We may attend the parade only as spectators. I'm not sure if it's too late to get into another parade but we are exploring that possibility,” he wrote in an email sent to the newspaper on Thursday, Nov 4.

When asked if the Sons of Confederate Veterans is considering any legal challenges to the ban, he responded, “No, there will be no legal steps taken against the VFW. We are a non-affiliated, non-political organization and would never sue another veteran’s organization just because of an error in human judgment.”

The Veterans Day parade in Homestead is a 47-year tradition that will now move forward.

“It looks as if it’s over, but we will still be watching,” Fuller said of the flag fight. “But this should be a lesson for everyone, particularly our elected officials, who should have respected everyone’s views.”

On The Web:   www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3513&Itemid=1

 

Re: Good Communist Americans?
 
From: Cpprhd10@aol.com
 
Mr. Demastus,
 
I noted the article about testimony given in 1953 that stated that because Communists served in the Union armies that made them "loyal" Americans. The man who made that statement to the government committee probably had a hard time keeping a straight face as he did it. Communists serving in Mr. Lincoln's armies did not make them loyal Americans--it made them Communists who came to this country after their Communist revolts in Europe in 1848 failed over there. They came here with the same communist baggage they had there and with the same visions and dreams. If they couldn't make Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, etc. into collectivist, centralized nations, then they would attempt the same in the US. Sadly for us, they seem to have done rather well on this side of the pond--better than they did in Europe. Of course they had Mr. Lincoln's blessing upon their endeavours here just as they had his blessing upon their communist efforts in Europe in 1848. Lincoln was rather a kindred spirit to them.

 
Donnie Kennedy and I wrote Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists to deal with this problem and to alert folks to this situation that our history books rather forgot to mention to us. How many realize that socialist Carl Schurz in 1860 helped to write the Republican Party platform for Lincoln to run on? Bet your history books forgot to mention that one. People talk about getting the Republican Party "back to its conservative roots." It would be funny if it were not so sad. The Republican Party had NO conservative roots. It was radical from day one and slanted to the left. The socialists and Communists in this country in the late 1850s and into the 60s supported it almost unanimously and they helped to set this country on a path to socialism from which we have never recovered. The present Marxist administration in Washington is part of that result. Lincoln would have loved it!
 
Donnie and I have traveled around the country, as the Lord has enabled us, talking about this and giving speeches and trying to get folks to read our book, which is, at times, not an easy task. Recently I did a CD about our book and gave folks a 38 minute speech about the communist penetration of this country in the late 1840s and 50s. Most folks we talk to have no idea all this went on and are amazed to find out that communist penetration occurred here so early. But it did and we need to be aware of it because that knowledge will affect how we view the War and the history since the War. Any who might be interested in finding out about the CD can contact me at crrphd10@aol.com
 
Al Benson Jr.

 

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Good Communist Americans?
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
The Dr. Morris U. Schappes testifying below in 1953 was a communist and defended patriotic communists who served proudly with Northern forces during the War Between the States. He named Northern General Joseph Weydemeyer as an example of this. In the excellent book “Red Republicans” by Kennedy and Benson, Weydemeyer is described as a “pioneer American Marxist” who was active in the 1848 socialist revolution in Germany, as well as a friend of Marx and Engels. In London, Weydmeyer joined the London Communist League with Marx, then moved to the US in 1851 where he found a political home in the party of Lincoln.
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Good Communist Americans?
 
Testimony of  Dr. Morris U. Schappes, Open Session of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations on April 2, 1953. Schappes was questioned by Senator Karl E. Mundt of South Dakota as to whether or not he (Schappes) knew of any “good Americans” who were also good Communists:
 
Dr. Schappes: “Well, if you will look up the records and find the names of those Communists who died in defense of our country and were honored by Congress and by other institutions, legal, legislative, executive, military, for their services to this country, services that went back to the Civil War, when Communists fought in this country on the Union side, when officers, including officers of the rank of general, who were Communists, were officers of the Union Army, I think you can find adequate substantiation indeed in the records of our Government that Communists have been and therefore obviously can be loyal Americans.”

 

Crucifixion of the South
 
From: bernhard1848@att.net
 
For the crime of following in the footsteps of the Founders of the American republic, the South “must be humbled and made respectable or be annihilated…”  So decreed the Northern spiritual leaders who felt divine intervention as they played their part in subjugating the land of Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Henry and Lee.  
 
Bernhard Thuersam, Director
Cape Fear Historical Institute
www.cfhi.net  

Crucifixion of the South:
 
‘The war set the stage for a complete reconstruction of the South. Furious hatred, politics, economic consideration, and a curious conviction that God had joined a righteous North to use it as an instrument for the purging of the wicked South, gave a keen edge to the old reconstruction urge.  The victories of bullets and bayonets were followed by the equally victorious attack of tongues and pens. Ministers mounted their pulpits on Easter Sunday, the day following President Lincoln’s tragic death, and assured their sad auditors that God’s will had been done, that the President had been removed because his heart was too merciful to punish the south as God required. 
 
An eminent New York divine assured his audience that the vice-regent of Christ, the new president, Andrew Johnson, was mandated from on high “to hew the rebels in pieces before the Lord…So let us say,” with becoming piety and sweet submissiveness he enjoined, “God’s will be done.”  Whether the ministers thought, after they discovered that Johnson was opposed to a reign of terror, that the Lord had made a mistake is not a matter of record. As Professor Paul H. Buck has said, “It was in the churches that one found the utmost intolerance, bitterness, and unforgiveness during the sad months that followed Appomattox.” Henry Ward Beecher, one of the more moderate northern preachers, thought the South was “ rotten….No timber,” said he, “grown in its cursed soil is fit for the ribs of our ship of state or for our household homes.”  The newspapers spread abroad the preachers’ gospel of righteous vindictiveness and expounded further the idea that drastic punishment of the South was essential for the security of the Union.          
 
Many unfriendly writers invaded the South, found what they wanted, and wrote books, articles, and editorials that strengthened the conviction that the South must be torn to pieces and made anew.  Book, journals and newspapers stimulated the impulse to be vigilant and stern, to repress and purge.  A juggernaut of propaganda, stemming from the various sources of public instruction, prepared the way for the crucifixion of the South.  The South of slavery and treason, of continuous outrages against the Negroes and northerners, of haughty spirit and stubborn conviction, and of superiority complex, must be humbled and made respectable or be annihilated, so that it could become again a strong factor in national politics.”
 
(One Hundred Years of Reconstruction of the South, A.B. Moore, page 107, Pursuit of Southern History, Presidential Addresses of the Southern Historical Association, 1935-1963, G. B. Tindall, editor, LSU Press, 1964)

 

 

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Black soldiers honored with new markers dedicated Sunday in Pulaski

By Associated Press
November 5, 2009

PULASKI, Tenn. (AP) — New markers honoring 18 black soldiers who fought for the Confederacy will be dedicated Sunday at a cemetery in Pulaski.

All of the soldiers were from Giles County, and records show many of them received a military pension.

Cathy Wood is president of the Giles County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She says her group and the Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter joined to buy the footstone markers, which will list the names, lifespans and unit numbers of the men.

Four of the soldiers are buried at Maplewood Cemetery, where the stones have been placed. The others were buried in small family cemeteries at farms around Giles County.

A cannon crew and color guard will take part in the ceremony at 2 p.m.

Copyright © 2009, WREG-TV

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Ole Miss may drop fight song if fans don't stop chant

By Associated Press

For the AJC

JACKSON, Miss.-- University of Mississippi football fans who refuse to stop chanting "the South will rise again" are on the verge of losing one of their favorite fight songs, the school's chancellor said Monday.

Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones said "From Dixie With Love" will no longer be played at games if fans continue the racially offensive chant.

Last month, Jones asked the band to abruptly end the tune to discourage the chant, but he says that didn't solve the problem.

Jones said fan reaction during Saturday's game against Northern Arizona would decide the fate of the song, which blends the Confederate Army's fight song, "Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic." It's been played for the university's band for about two decades.

"The University of Mississippi is a warm and welcoming place. So many have worked hard to make sure our image moves forward, and we don't want anything to hurt that," Jones said during a luncheon sponsored by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and the Capitol Press Corps.

"If the chant continues, we will discontinue the music that's associated with it," he said.

All of the university's head coaches, including football coach Houston Nutt, have endorsed the effort to end the chant, said athletics director Pete Boone.

"The chant ‘the South will rise again' reflects negatively not only on the university but also on the progress we have made in athletics over the past two decades," Boone said in a recent statement. "We join the super majority of the Ole Miss family in calling for discontinuing the chant."

Jones said the words in the phrase are "harmful" because they've been used by integration opponents in the past. For years, the university has worked to rid itself of an Old South image that included the 1962 violent standoff over James Meredith's admission as the university's first black student.

"I think the vast majority of our students don't understand the significance of this. I think most of the students who are participating in saying those words, don't know how painful they are," Jones said.

The move to abolish the chant began in October when the Ole Miss student government association passed a resolution to change the phrase to "to hell with LSU." The Faculty Senate later took a vote in support of the association and Jones.

Ole Miss has worked to improve its image as a racially diverse environment for decades after the 1962 admission of James Meredith as the school's first black student led to a deadly standoff.

Geoffrey Yoste, 45, a former Ole Miss instructor and retired Army National Guard major, said he agreed the chant is divisive and should stop, but he believes the university has mishandled the situation.

Yoste said Ole Miss officials should have held a convocation for freshmen to discuss what's acceptable on campus, rather "trying to tell a bunch of 21-year-olds what they can't do."

"I would hate for the Ole Miss band to stop playing ‘From Dixie with Love.' That would be a terrible tragedy. Even opposing teams that visit, they just think it's something new and special," Yoste said.

The Ole Miss band also plays "Dixie" itself. That song is not at issue in the current controversy.

© 2009 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Cable News Anchor Appeals to Ole Miss Students About Chant

Southern pride continues to frighten our handlers, so much so that they have to ask government shills to quell the rebellion:

Ole Miss has emailed to students a video of Fox News anchor Shepard Smith asking them not to chant "the South will rise again" at the end of one of the school's fight songs.

Smith says the phrase, considered by some to be racially offensive, "sends the wrong message about who we are" and will hurt the university.

The appeal comes after Chancellor Dan Jones said the fight song "From Dixie With Love" will be eliminated if fans continue to chant the phrase about the South.

Jones says fan reaction during Saturday's football game against Northern Arizona will decide the fate of the song.

Suitable replacement chants include, "Reconstructed and proud!", "Subjugation is our birthright!", and "Happy to live in Lower New England!"

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Confederate flag banned again

Written by ELGIN JONES  
 

HOMESTEAD – Just days before the annual Veterans Day parade in Homestead, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) group announced on Wednesday that the Confederate battle flag has been banned from the event.

Political observers say the long-simmering feud over the Confederate flag issue contributed to the ouster of Mayor Lynda Bell and three council members from office in Tuesday's election.

“On Monday, November 2, 2009, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), the oldest veterans group established in 1896 was notified by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post commander Joseph Stahl, that we would not be allowed to enter the Homestead Veteran’s Day parade,’’ Gregory Kalof, commander of the Miami-Dade based Sons of Confederate Veterans camp 471, wrote in a press release sent to the South Florida Times Wednesday morning. “He stated that there were still strong feelings against the participation of the SCV but did not specify if it were the participants, organizers, or outside organizations.’’

Officials with the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) group, which is organizing the Nov. 11 parade, could not be reached for comment about the reported ban.

To some, the Confederate flag is a symbol of southern pride; to others, it is a reminder of slavery, lynching and racial mistreatment.

The controversy in Homestead first erupted after black citizens, including Rosemary Fuller and Pat Mellerson, objected to seeing Confederate soldiers with their battle flags marching in last year’s parade.

“I am a child of the civil rights movement. My parents and grandparents suffered through a lot of discrimination and abuse during those times and that flag was a direct reminder of those things,” Mellerson said. “It’s offensive and represents brutality and oppression to so many people.”

The groups opposing the flag called on the Military Affairs Committee of the Greater Homestead/Florida City Chamber of Commerce, which originally organized the event, and the city of Homestead, which provided in-kind support, to bar Confederate States groups and their memorabilia from future parades.

Homestead officials reacted by explaining that the city was not the parade organizer, and therefore had no authority to ban any organizations from the parade.

The chamber initially could not reach any compromise on the issue. But after months of wrangling and pressure from the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP and officials in neighboring Florida City, decided in September to cancel the parade altogether.

The local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Homestead took up the mantel, and applied for permits to organize this year’s parade, which will take place next Wednesday. VFW organizers have yet to confirm if they will impose a ban.

Mellerson said the issue may now be resolved.

“The flag should be in a museum, in their homes, or on their personal cars,” Mellerson said. “We have not been told this, but if it’s true, then it is the right decision. I love parades. They are good for the community and I will have no problem attending.”

In the press release about the flag ban, Kalof tied the fate of the Confederate flag's display at the parade to that of Bell, who lost her re-election bid on Tuesday.

Five of the city’s seven council members were up for re-election. Only one, Councilwoman Judy Waldman, won re-election. Waldman advocated ending the city’s support of the parade if the Confederate groups and their flags were not banned from it.

In stunning fashion, however, Bell and the three other incumbents were defeated by challengers.

Observers on both sides of the issue say they believe the election was a referendum on the flag controversy.

“In our opinion their standard of what has become a politically correct stance against the Confederate Battle Flag and all those that would support it are nothing short of political blackmail,’’ Kaloff wrote in his press release. “The NAACP doesn’t have a record of Veteran’s support but instead only promotes its own agenda of erasing all aspects of Southern heritage. It has contrived a crisis for political ends: to remove Mayor Lynda Bell and council members from the Homestead City government. It seems very clear now that their threats have produced the desired results. For shame, for shame, on the voters and residents of Homestead by not voting or submitting to the sham that has been placed over the City.’’

Fuller, who lives just outside the city’s limits in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, agreed that the flag controversy is what galvanized voters. But she, said, other issues were also at play.

“This was never about Lynda Bell, and it wasn’t politically motivated. She [Lynda Bell] said that. Our focus was always on keeping those offensive flags and symbols from this community event,” Fuller said. “They [council members] just blew it, and the voters spoke on Tuesday. If you go back and look at the council meetings, you will see where people who opposed the flag were demeaned and insulted.”

Fuller continued: “This is a good community and the people were just fed up, and it’s a refreshing day, and I do plan on going to the parade if they are banned.”

On The Web:   www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3511

 

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.”

On The Web:   www.gastongazette.com/news/community-39403-schools-church.html

 

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   

On The Web:   www.newswithviews.com/Wallace/andrew121.htm

 

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.

On The Web:   www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/23/ole-miss-wont-let-fight-song-go-easily/

 

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
www.cfhi.net  

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

 

Use this along with the printout of your shopping cart and mail it in

Free Black Antebellum Suffrage
 
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

 

School Protest Shirts

Dixie Outfitters supports all students who wish to show their pride in their Southern Heritage by wearing shirts to school that feature the Confederate Battle Flag.

We believe that banning of the Confederate Battle Flag by public schools is a violation of students right to freedom of speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Further, these unconstitutional bans discriminate against persons of Southern heritage and are an insult to those who have Confederate ancestors. Such discrimination is a violation of the Civil Rights act of 1964.

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.

Dixie Outfitters new series of shirts called " Public School Protest Shirts" are designed to help students who feel abused and discriminated against because of their Southern heritage. These shirts do not contain the Confederate Battle Flag, but they do effectively communicate your feelings regarding the trampling of your rights.

We encourage you to make your feelings known to your school through these shirts. We offer them at a special price of $5.00 each.

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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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On The Web: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=15405

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
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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 18