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McKague's flawed flag logic
Dear friends,
Flaggers aren't
'soreheads,' but believe Perdue lied
William H. Swann
Marietta, Ga.
Editor:
I am one of the so-called Georgia flaggers, and according to
Barry Paschal a "sorehead," though I and the other Georgia
flaggers I know would dispute that charge (column,
June 8, "Governor soon will visit county").
I am a Baptist evangelist who traveled more than 10,000 miles
campaigning for Gov. Sonny Perdue. I did that because the
governor told me and four other Baptist ministers that he
believed the people should have a voice in their state flag, and
if he was elected we would have an opportunity to vote on the
1956 Confederate memorial state flag. There was no equivocation,
no hedging, no I'll try; it was a promise.
We are all grown men and we know that the way to tell when a
politician is lying is when their lips move, but candidate
Perdue was a deacon in the Baptist Church and in all honesty I
couldn't believe that he was capable of lying to Baptist
ministers face to face. Clearly we were mistaken; certainly not
the first time that has happened, and likely not the last time,
either.
So we are on opposite sides of a political debate. I'm as
respected in my field as Paschal is in his. Both are entitled to
our opinions, and it is the right of every American and Georgian
to express that political opinion in whatever legal means are
available.
Putting up signs, waving the 1956 Confederate memorial state
flag and yelling at the governor are all legal means of
expressing disapproval of his political policy and, in this
case, bold-face lying. I would think of all the people in the
world, a newspaper editor would support our efforts, as they
represent free speech without which your paper could be shut
down if it ever printed anything a government official didn't
like.
It is interesting that instead of supporting our right, if not
our message, Paschal chose to call us names like a mischievous
eighth-grader who can't get his point across without
name-calling. He has every right to disagree with us. He
certainly doesn't have to like us, nor even respect the great
effort it takes for people with jobs and families to travel all
over the state just to protest the governor. But he doesn't have
the right to call us names because we don't agree with his
opinion.
To be clear, the governor's race of 2006 will likely prove or
disprove the facts about the influence the flag protesters
really have. If the governor is re-elected, we may not fade
away, but our credibility will certainly suffer. If the governor
loses to Mark Taylor or Cathy Cox, then people like Paschal will
say that we had nothing to do with the governor's defeat, but we
both will know the truth.
If the governor loses it will be because of the flag, which if
you think about it is totally ironic, because neither Democrat
Taylor or Cox is likely to favor changing the flag back. There
is such a thing as respecting your enemies because you know
where they stand, and that is much better than having to worry
about the hand patting you on the back holding a knife from a
so-called friend.
The date of the governor's visit will likely draw a few flaggers.
Since July 30 is on a Saturday, I might even be able to attend
from up here in north Georgia, if I do I'll try to bring a
friend or two.
There is one factual error in Paschal's column, and even the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff who hates us wouldn't go as
far as he did in his comment about the Perdue rag, "Voters
approved Perdue's design overwhelmingly." The voters largely
stayed away from voting; fewer than 14 percent of the registered
voters showed up to vote on the flag issue, and a third of them
voted for the Barnes rag. All the major heritage groups ...
urged their voters to boycott the vote, and they did. According
to my dictionary that is hardly overwhelming.
Creative Loafing printed a story recently that said the official
sign for the state of Georgia is "Sonny Lied." I think it is
safe to say you haven't seen anything yet. ...
William H. Swann
Marietta, Ga.
The Northern Philosophy
By Jim Welch
Regarding the savagery and motivation of the North under
Lincoln I suggest we always remember the letters written by the
leaders of the Northern armies and the President Lincoln as it
revealed their true inner motives as well as the extent of the
crimes they were willing to commit against the South.
For example here is a quote from a letter written by General
Sherman to the general in chief of the Union armies, and
Lincoln's reaction to that letter.
The longer the American Civil War lasted, the more Union
generals acted as if they were conducting a crusade to crush
infidels. In a September 17, 1863, letter to Henry W. Halleck,
the general in chief of the Union armies, Union Gen. William
Tecumseh Sherman wrote:
"The United States has the right, and ... the ... power, to
penetrate to every part of the national domain . . . We will
remove and destroy every obstacle -
if need be, take every life,
every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that
to us seems proper."
Halleck liked Sherman's letter so much that he passed it on to
President Lincoln, who declared that it should be published.
Sherman, in a follow-up to Halleck on October 10, 1863,
declared:
"I have your telegram saying the President had read my letter
and thought it should be publishedÂ…. I profess ... to fight
for butt one single purpose, viz, to sustain a Government
capable of vindicating its just and rightful authority,
independent of niggers, cotton, money, or any earthly
interest." Source:
"Ethic
Cleansing", by James Bovard October 1999. You may
read the entire article at: http://www.fff.org/freedom/1099d.asp
Yes, the Northern philosophy of a powerful central Government
ignoring the unalienable Rights of the People while exercising
absolute control over their lives and property was the true
reason for the butchery of the South. That Government is what
we have today. Under Lincoln, as well as today, the Central
Government is no longer the
Guarantor
of the People's unalienable Rights and Liberties, but it became
the
Grantor of all Rights and Liberties.
Additionally, more insight to the thinking of these war
criminals is revealed in the research of historian Thomas J.
DiLorenzo.
"On April 24, 1863, Lincoln issued General Order No. 100, known as the Lieber Code, which reiterated the accepted conventions of international law that existed at the time and which prohibited the intentional targeting of civilians in wartime. Those who did so were considered to be war criminals and should be prosecuted as such.
But from the very beginning, the Lincoln
administration ignored its own Code as its armies pillaged,
plundered, raped, and burned their way through the Southern
states. In 1862 the entire town of Randolph, Tennessee, was
burned to the ground by General Sherman even though there were
no enemy combatants there. In 1863 Sherman burned Jackson and
Meridian, Mississippi to the ground, again after the Confederate
army had left. In a letter to General Grant, Sherman boasted
that "for five days, ten thousand of our men worked hard and
with a will, in that work of destruction, with axes, sledges,
crowbars, clawbars, and with fire, and I have no hesitation in
pronouncing the work well done. Meridian . . . no longer
exists."" SOURCE: an article entitled,
"Lincoln's
Second American Revolution" by historian Thomas J.
DiLorenzo which appeared at:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo32.html
General Sherman declared on January 31, 1864 that "To the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy." In a July 31, 1862 letter to his wife he said his goal was "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people." And so he burned the towns of Randolph, Tennessee, Jackson and Meridian, Mississippi, and Atlanta to the ground after the Confederate army had left; bombarded cities occupied only by civilians in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1863; and boasted in his memoirs of destroying $100 million in private property and stealing another $20 million worth. All of this destroyed food stuffs and left women, children, and the elderly in the cold of winter without shelter or food.
General Philip Sheridan did much of the same in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, burning hundreds of houses to the ground and killing or stealing all livestock and destroying crops long after the Confederate Army had left the valley, just as winter was approaching.
"A new kind of soldier was needed" for this kind of work, writes Roberts. Here he is referring to my quotation of pro-Sherman biographer Lee Kennett, who in his biography of Sherman wrote that "the New York regiments [in Sherman’s army] were . . . filled with big city criminals and foreigners fresh from the jails of the Old World." Lincoln recruited the worst of the worst to serve as pillagers and plunderers in Sherman’s army. SOURCE: Article by historian Thomas J. DiLorenzo entitled, "Fighting Facts With Slander" http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo14.html
May God
bless our brave ancestors and may we always be thankful for the
courage they exhibited in their fight for Liberty. Sadly, that
kind of courage and willingness to stand and fight for our
unalienable Rights such as the Right to own and control personal
Property, Liberty, and the Right to be free of the ever
reaching, controlling hand of the Cerberean creature we know as
"the Central Government" is but a faded memory. The tragedy is
that the leftist seeks to remove that connection we have in
memory by defaming and demonizing the South, and it is THEIR
version of history they are imposing on our children.
With the
passing of each older generation the collective memory of the
rape and murder of the South diminishes. It is our duty to pass
the facts on to our children. We must never forget!
"The Gray Riders are gone, yet they remain asleep in Our Soil,
and alive in Our Veins! Untouched by fire, untouched by frost,
they whisper within us -- OUR CAUSE IS NOT LOST!"
Jim Welch
The Art of Surprise Attack
The War for Southern Independence was fought because the South did not have fair
representation in the Federal government. In 1860, 75% of the federal revenue
was being paid by the South, who comprised only 30% of the population.
During the War for Southern Independence, over one quarter million (260,000)
Southern men, women and children gave their lives upholding the principles
espoused by the founding fathers of the United States. The Confederate battle
flag is a symbol of their sacrifice. It is a symbol of our Southern heritage.
To deny our Southern children their right to display symbols of their heritage
is not only a violation of freedom of expression as guaranteed by the First
Amendment but is also a "mind crime" which strikes at self esteem of each child
who loves his family, his ancestors and his Southern home. Censorship of this
sort severely damages the self image of a child and can have long lasting
repercussions in that child's life.
Schools and individuals who embrace the popular liberal propaganda that the
Confederate Battle flag as a symbol of racism do not know the true history of
the flag or the War for Southern Independence. They are ignorant followers of
organizations and individuals who use "racism" as a tool to raise money and
divide our Southern black and white people.
The war against all things Southern began in earnest when Kewesi Mfume took the
reins of the NAACP. Mfume's real name is Frizzell Gray. Frizzell was born and
raised in the city neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. He is the father of five
illegitimate children by three different women. He is a former gang member who
had been arrested for theft on two occasions. In 1996, he outlined a five point
plan to restore the integrity and effectiveness of the NAACP.
Mfume was well aware that stirring up racial animosity and strife would benefit
the coffers of the NAACP. He began in earnest to urge his members to charge the
South and all things Confederate with racism and slavery. In a letter dated Jan.
12, 2000 he states: “as such, our principle objection and litigate efforts until
now have been directed to the Confederate flag use as an official symbol.
However, we feel we are at a great crossroads and feel that a compromise would
not be beneficial to anyone. In the near future, efforts will be aimed at the
removal of racist names, mascots, monuments and ending the glorification of the
Confederate soldier through what is termed reenacting. We also feel that there
could be better use of State and Federal resources by the closing of museums and
battlefields which are dedicated to the preservation of slavery.”
Writing almost 100 years ago, Booker T. Washington knew Mfume’s false tune.
“There are a certain class of race problem solvers who don’t want the patient to
get well because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy
means of making a living but also an easy medium through which to make
themselves prominate before the public.”
Frizzell Gray knows nothing about our Southern culture. He obviously knows
nothing or doesn't care about the real truth concerning the War for Southern
Independence. Frizzell Gray does not represent the majority of black people.
Frizzell Gray is an opportunist, a bigot, a liar, a thief, a philanderer, and a
racist.
Frizzell Gray is severely harming the very people that he professes to help and
some school administrators are aiding him in his ignoble cause.
Frizzell Gray is telling you school administrators (via his NAACP followers)
what the Confederate Battle Flag means to the Southern people and some of you
believe him!
The truth is the Confederate Battle Flag represents all Southern and even
Northern Confederates regardless of race or religion and is the symbol of less
government, less taxes, and the right of the people to govern themselves. It is
flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who
willingly shed their blood for Southern Independence. To many Southerners, the
Confederate Battle Flag is THE
symbol of their culture and homeland.
This symbol of our Southern heritage has never caused a disruption. It is people
who cause disruptions.
Public schools should encourage respect for the culture and heritage of all of
their students, including Southerners. Students who do not respect individual
freedom and the diversity of cultures in the United States should be disciplined
on a case by case basis. Punish those who cause disruptions, but do not punish
those who are innocent and whose only crime is that they are proud of their
family, their culture and their home. I urge our public school administrators to
not foster ignorance, hate and resentment among the innocent Southern students
who only want to be proud of who they are.
I urge you to give your students the freedoms that are enjoyed by all United
States citizens, including the freedom of expression as set forth in the First
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is the mandate of our schools to educate
its students, not censor them.
Dewey W. Barber
Owner, Dixie Outfitters
GEORGIANS AS SOUTHERNERS--AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
by Frank Conner
A terrific battle is raging over the design of the state flag of Georgia.
At stake is an entire way of life.
In 2001, Democratic Governor Roy Barnes, at the urging of big-business
interests in Atlanta, cut secret backroom-deals with Georgia legislators to
haul down abruptly the state flag with the Confederate battle-flag emblem
which had been flying since 1956; and to replace it with a nondescript flag
which has since been voted nationally the ugliest state flag in existence.
In 2002, Southern patriots in Georgia conducted colorful
protest-demonstrations ("flaggings") during the reelection campaigns of
Gov. Barnes and his cohorts, condemning his arbitrary ouster of their
beloved flag. Apparently a majority of the voters in Georgia agreed with
those Southern patriots: Barnes was defeated at the polls; and a consensus
holds that his contemptuous rejection of the 1956 flag was a major factor
in his defeat.
Barnes' opponent, Republican candidate Sonny Perdue, had promised to allow
the citizens of Georgia to vote for the state flag of their choice--the
inference being, of course, that it would be a vote between the nondescript
2001 flag and the 1956 flag which it had replaced. But now (as this is
written) Governor Perdue and the Georgia General Assembly are planning to
stuff a new flag of their own design down the voters' throats--just as
Barnes had done. This bill does pretend to allow the citizens a choice in
the matter: if, after the new flag is in official use, the citizens don't
like it, they can later vote to decide whether or not to vote later on to
replace it with some other flag long after that--and the battle flag may or
may not constitute one of the choices when the bill gets voted on; but if
the battle flag somehow remains in the running and is mistakenly chosen by
the voters, the legislature reserves the right to decide then that the
whole exercise was unconstitutional. This is politicians' language for,
"Don't hold your breath waiting for the 1956 flag ever to be run up the
state's flagpoles again."
This nightmare of a bill is the direct result of terrific opposition to the
1956 flag led by: the liberal CEOs of big business in Atlanta, and the
liberal news-media--spearheaded by the monopoly statewide-newspaper, the
"Atlanta Journal-Constitution," and the rest of the New-South liberal
establishment in Atlanta; and the black activists in Georgia, led by
politician Tyrone Brooks.
The new flag which the politicians plan to ram down our throats is a
variation of the First National flag of the Confederacy. The liberals are
telling the voters that both the proposed new flag and the 1956 flag are
based upon Confederate flags, so what's the difference between the two? And
why choose the battle flag in preference to the other one, when the battle
flag symbolizes the Confederates' fight to preserve slavery, etc.?
The liberals' arguments are based upon the Big Lie which liberal
historians, judges, filmmakers, journalists, and other propagandists have
been feeding us wholesale for the past 40 years: that the South fought the
"Civil War" to preserve slavery, etc. For the truth about the reasons for
that war, read Charles Adams' "When in the Course of Human Events," Thomas
DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln," or my own book, "The South Under Siege
1830--2000." Those well-documented books tell a very different story: the
liberals are flat-out lying about the battle flag and what it stands for.
And if there is no real difference between the battle flag and the First
National flag for use as our state flag, then why have the liberals spent
vast amounts of money and political influence over the past decade to get
the 1956 Georgia flag replaced by the First National flag? And why did the
most-dedicated black activist in Georgia, Tyrone Brooks, spend 22 years
introducing bills in the Georgia General Assembly to try to get the state
flag changed from the battle flag to the First National flag?
The liberals understand clearly that flags are symbols; that as such, some
flags affect people strongly and therefore have great power; that others do
not; and that the battle flag is one of the most powerful symbols in the
US. For the past 50 years, the liberals have been waging an ideological war
to discredit and destroy the belief system of the traditional South, and
the way of life resulting from that belief system. (The liberals have
always claimed that their fight with us was about race, but if you study
the situation carefully, you see that race was just their excuse for
destroying us as a people.) About 15 years ago, the liberals realized that
if the Southern leaders rally the people behind the battle flag to defend
their belief system and way of life, the people will stand their ground.
But none of the other Confederate flags hold any real attraction for most
of the traditional Southerners, so they will not rally behind those flags
as symbols. Therefore, get rid of the battle flag, and you can render the
traditional Southerners helpless. And that's what this fight is really all
about.
Why are the liberals so anxious to crush the traditional Southerners as a
people? Because we stand in the liberals' way--just as we have always done.
Ever since Alexander Hamilton, representing the financial and manufacturing
interests of the Northeast, stood before the Constitutional Convention of
1787 and tried to persuade the delegates there to give the US an
all-powerful national government which would tax the citizenry (primarily
the Southerners) heavily to subsidize the swift industrialization of the
nation (thus benefitting the Northern capitalists), the liberals have
sought what amounts to a totalitarian national-government, to regulate the
citizens rigidly, and tax them to enforce the liberals' vision of social
and economic equality upon the society.
The Southerners have always been a different breed. They believe that the
state exists to serve the citizen, and not the other way around. They
believe that man functions best when governed by the unwritten moral-code
provided by Southern community-standards, and his life is not being
regulated in a stranglehold grip by an ocean of laws imposed by a powerful
central government.
The traditional Southerner is a Godfearing person, whose priorities are
religion, family, and community, in that order. He lives by a code of honor
descended from the values of chivalry; and he is kind and considerate to
others. He values his personal relations with the people of the community
very highly; and he judges people by their character, and not by wealth or
appearances.
For a long, long time after the War of Northern Aggression, the Southerners
were forced to live hardscrabble lives--for many, lasting until World War
II. Yet because of their unique belief system and way of life, the
Southerners have lived a serene existence in a society based upon mutual
trust and friendship. It is the society of decency. And if in the end it is
the quality of your relationships with the others around you that
determines the amount of real satisfaction you derive from life, then the
traditional Southern society is superior to any other in the nation.
Regardless of all the hate-mongering propaganda that the liberals have put
out to try to make us reject our own belief system, if you strip away that
propaganda and honestly compare our society point by point with any other
in the US in terms of human values, the traditional Southern society will
always come out ahead.
The New South liberals in Atlanta and the other big cities of the South are
fighting to destroy our way of life and replace it with their own--with a
society deliberately balkanized into hostile tribes grouped by race,
gender, etc., which in turn break out into lonely and alienated city-people
who snarl at one another by kneejerk reflex; a mindless consumerist-society
in which life has no real meaning or purpose; a society in which the rulers
are intent upon bludgeoning each of us into a shape that will fit the
liberals' standardized mold of the perfect citizen.
If you are a Georgian, and you are content to permit the liberals to
destroy us as a people, then go ahead and accept some "Confederate" state
flag other than the 1956 flag with the battle-flag emblem; and continue to
vote into office the politicians who imposed that flag upon you. But don't
complain afterwards when the New South liberals swiftly install their
workers' paradise in what used to be the South.
End
Frank Conner is the author of "The South Under Siege 1830 2000/ A History
of the Relations Between the North and the South." For details, visit the
book's website at
<http://collards.phantacom.net/>http://collards.phantacom.net . You can
e-mail Mr. Conner at
<mailto:frankconner@mail.newnanutilities.org>
WHY WE NEED TO RECLAIM OUR 1956 STATE FLAG
by Frank Conner
When the Georgia General Assembly voted in 1956 to adopt a new state flag which featured the Confederate battle-flag prominently in its design--as a part of the nationwide preparations for the Civil War Centennial program proclaimed by President Eisenhower, they did so simply to commemorate the brave fight the Confederates had made in defense of their homes and families. (And in its 7/5/92 issue, the AJC--after a lengthy search to try to attribute darker motives to the vote--had to admit the truth of that.) But now the battle flag has taken on a far-more-important role.
In 1956, the battle flag represented the timeless Southern beliefs by which most Georgians still lived, such as: the belief in real freedom of speech, not censorship by political correctness; the belief in a moral society governed by Christian values, as clearly intended by our Founding Fathers--and not in the anything-goes barbarism of today; the belief in free enterprise, which rewards individual initiative--and not in totalitarian socialism, which attempts disastrously to impose social and economic equality upon all; and the belief that government exists to serve the people--and not vice versa. Because most Georgians lived by this set of beliefs in 1956 anyway, it was not necessary to emphasize back then that these beliefs are specifically what the battle flag stands for.
But now this Southern belief-system is under concerted attack by the ideological liberals (secular humanists), who are systematically destroying the Southern way of life and gradually imposing atheistic socialism upon us. The New-South people in Atlanta are leading this sustained attack in our state, and they are fully supported by the (liberal) news-media, big business, the black activists, and most of the state politicians. Their principal weapon against us is their invented charge of "racism."
The line in the sand has been drawn by both sides with the Confederate battle-flag in the middle. Both sides recognize clearly that the battle flag is the only symbol which represents the Southern belief-system and way of life. And in Georgia, the battle flag is represented by our 1956 state flag. (All other Confederate symbols are meaningless in this fight.) And that is why all of our formidable enemies are attacking that flag no-holds-barred, using every lie and distortion and underhanded trick in their arsenal to disparage that flag and defeat its reinstatement.
The black activists are supporting the liberals by attacking our way of life and our flag, even though it was under the 1956 state flag with the prominent battle-flag emblem that the blacks in Georgia made far-greater social and economic gains than under any other state flag during the 20th century. That was when the blacks gained their full civil-rights in Georgia, so in reality, they have every reason to approve of the 1956 flag. Big business in Georgia is attacking our way of life and our flag because the CEOs think their companies can make more money easier that way. The liberal media attack our way of life and our flag by kneejerk-reflex, because they hate our belief-system. And most state politicians are attacking our way of life and our flag because they pay attention to what big business, the black activists, and the liberal media want, not what the people of Georgia want.
As long as the battle flag (i.e., the 1956 state flag) flies officially in public, then the real Southerners in Georgia can live serene and tranquil lives, secure in the knowledge that enough other Georgians still believe as they do to block the liberals from finishing the job of turning Georgia into New-York South. But if we allow the liberals to defeat our flag....
Southern heritage and true Southerners are unique to anything or anyone else in the world. I am sure you have heard it said, North, East, and West, are all geographical directions, but South is a place. But this place is more than our accent and our love of blackeyed peas and collard greens, or how we drink our, (sweet), ice tea. It is more than Spanish moss hanging from old oak trees, or azaleas infusing the landscape with their brilliant colors. It is more than the musical talents given to the world from our people. Our heritage is Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, and Seminole Indians, the people of color who have worked side by side with us since the 1800's. Oh yes, there are people of color who love the South and the Confederate flags too, one such ladies is a member of the same UDC Chapter as I am. Our Southern people help lay the foundation of this Country, and have defended it in every war since its inception.
Southern heritage is love of God, family, and country. It is neighbor helping neighbor, being able to take pride of ones own culture and race, knowing it is not racist to do so. It is in the eyes, the mirror of the heart and soul, of our people. Although many of these eyes have now become dimmed or blinded by the distortion of Southern history that is being taught. I believe that somewhere in the deepest part of our people, there still remains a seed of the truth, that hopefully, someday, will spring forth and take root.
Our fight and defense of the flags and monuments of the Confederacy lies in the fact that we know that our ancestors gave their all to protect and defend their homes and families under these banners. We strive to vindicate their names from the hate and slander that has been unjustly placed on them. Wouldn't it be a better world if we were allowed to go into public schools and teach what really happened here in America in the late 1800's? Wouldn't it be nice if we were allowed to explain to others why we still fly the Confederate flag and defend its honor? You see, when someone tells us we cannot fly our flags or place stickers on our vehicle, when our children are kicked out of school for wearing a t-shirt with the picture of Robert E. Lee on it; that is saying to us, "you can not honor your ancestors, they were evil and wrong", and that is something we will not tolerate. In the South... it is all about family, and you don't mess with our family; the men of the Confederacy are family! Sally Knight Raburn
THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST by Wayne Carlson
The Leftist oriented Washington Post ran an article this week that caught my attention and was the inspiration for this week's column. The article in question is titled "Old South Goes With The Wind: Workers Reflect Region's Racial Transformation". At first glance you might think that the article is talking about the rapid racial transformation of Southwestern States like California, Arizona, New Mexico, and perhaps Texas, since all four States border Mexico and demographers readily acknowledge that they will soon to be Hispanic dominated States. The influx of tens of millions of legal and illegal immigrants has indeed transformed the Old Southwest into something new. California, overwhelmingly white a mere 30 years ago, now has a minority white population. With birth rates two to three times that of other racial or ethnic groups, and no end in sight to our virtual open border policy, it is easy to see that Hispanics will soon control the destiny of that, and every other State they choose to come to. The kinds of problems and changes that will bring, nobody seems to want to talk about, and we all know why. White people are paralyzed with fear to speak of themselves as "a people" with their own interests. They make up only about 10% of the world's population, a distinct minority, yet refuse to act as every other racial or ethnic group on earth does. When Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton speaks about "their" people, and their interests, no one charges them with "racism" etc., nor should they. It is natural, and yes, human, for people of the same ethnic or racial heritage to feel a kinship with one another. To deny this in the face of all evidence to the contrary is asinine. Yet, in politically correct America, only whites are forbidden to think and act as if they have their own legitimate interests. This is why the people in California and elsewhere have stood by, silently watching, while the Federal Government and their own State leaders allowed their State to be invaded by illegals from another country. To speak out would have invariably invited the usual charge of being racist or a xenophobe. We all know this to be true so why aren't we saying so? It's too late for California and probably the rest of the Southwest. The writing is already on the wall. Those States are going to be Hispanic States. As some of their more outspoken leaders have said, "If you don't like it, leave! Studies show that many Californians are following this advice and heading elsewhere. Is it racism that drives these Californian's out? No, I don't think so. They are doing something very human and seeking to live amongst those that share the same cultural values as they do.
Racism as a term is misapplied so frequently in this country that I think it needs to be strictly defined and understood. I see its only legitimate meaning as stemming from the deliberate attack upon someone, or some group, seeking to do them harm solely because of their race. The question I wish to pose today, and get people to start to think about, concerns the legitimate interests and welfare of the white population of this country. If you think that whites have no legitimate rights or interests in the racial transformation of their country, fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but if, after discussion and debate, we see that their interests are indeed harmed by their reduction to minority status, then we may have to evaluate your motives in supporting policies that will cause them harm. Now, it must be clearly stated that what is in the legitimate interests of our white citizens does not necessarily mean that they are in conflict with those of other groups. Indeed, for all the imperfections they share with every other racial group on earth, none have been as open-minded, tolerant, and yes, liberal in their relations with those of other racial groups. In fact, it is the white race's preoccupation, bordering on obsession, with proving that it has no racial hatred or hostility toward others that has led to their willingness to dispossess themselves of their own countries. We see the same thing going on in every white country in Europe and North America. I titled this column today, "The Suicide of the West" because that is exactly what we are witnessing today. "Western Civilization" of which this country is a product cannot hope to survive apart from the people that have sustained it. Retaining a numerical majority is the only way we can hope to preserve our heritage of limited government, Constitutional liberty, economic affluence, and Christian cultural influence. You cannot expect waves of foreigners with no link to this heritage to work for its preservation. If I am wrong, I would like to be shown how.
The Washington Post article previously mentioned, was not focusing on the racial transformation of The Southwestern States, it was talking about the Southeast. Apparently Dixie is next in line for what amounts to the final Reconstruction of our homeland. This, no doubt, has the old South-hating Leftists smiling with glee, anxious to dance a jig on the grave of what remains of the old Confederacy and what America was intended to be. In looking back, we can see that white Southerners were "politically dispossessed" of their country in the War of Yankee Aggression. What we've experienced since then has euphemistically gone under the name of a "Culture War". It is a war we've been losing for some time that has resulted in what amounts to our "cultural dispossession". The only thing left in our obliteration from history is our "geographic dispossession", which is well underway as we can see from articles such as this. Our people have never given their approval to any of this. Our so-called leaders have never asked us if we wanted to become a minority in our own land. This is because they already know that we overwhelmingly oppose it. Every poll ever taken has shown that American's are opposed to immigration policies, open borders, and the routine pardon given to millions of illegals every few years. Our leaders simply don't care what you and I think. They listen to other voices with dollars behind them. Unless and until you speak out and demand a moratorium on the mass migration of the Third World into our country, you will witness the Californication of your State too. Is that the inheritance you wish to bequeath to your children? Will you be paralyzed in fear of being falsely accused of racism, or will you hurl the invective back in their faces for opposing what you know is in the best interests of your people. I stand for the original American model and a homeland where my culture can flourish and live. Where do you stand? I welcome comments at simplysouthern@i-plus.net
"BREAD AND GAMES"
by John A. Black, Dixie Depot
(Originally Published 1994)
The following is the final paragraph of The Lost Cause by
Edward A. Pollard. He was editor of the Daily Richmond Examiner
from 1861 to 1867 and a noted author of the Confederate Cause:
"In such a condition there may possibly be a solid and honourable
peace; and one in which the South may still preserve many things dear
to her in the past. There may not be a political South. But if, on
the other hand, the South, mistaking the consequences of the war,
accepts the position of the inferiour, and gives up what was never
claimed or conquered in the war; surrenders her schools of intellect
and thought, and is left only with the brutal desire of the conquered
for "bread and games;" then indeed to her people may be applied what
Tacitus wrote of those who existed under the Roman Empire: "We cannot
be said to have lived, but rather to have crawled in silence, the young
towards the decrepitude of age and the old to dishonourable graves."
Our bands do not play "Dixie."---it might offend. Our flag has been used
in ways that bring comparison to the flag of Hitler. Our children are
without great heroes and are polluted with the violence and lust of the
commercial media. Our Southern people are divided group against group.
Our institutions and our media are owned by non-Southerners.
We love our games and cars and clothes. All the material things that we
pay our masters to give us. We have sold our land to get these things.
We have sold our families. We want the government to take care of us.
We have fulfilled Edward Pollard's prophecy of 132 years ago,.
BUT THERE IS HOPE. First, understand the condition, then create a vision.
Today, a Southerner is not someone who is born in the South. Some of our
biggest enemies live among us. Some of our best friends were born---and
still live---far away.
DO NOT DESPAIR! At the darkest hour, the dawn is not far away. We are
still here and many of us still remember. We have a common bond that is
more powerful than the frills and frenzy of today. It is more powerful
than our differences. It is this South that was created in the hell of
war and reconstruction when master and slave suffered together.
LEARN AND TEACH! Our stories, our heroes and culture are a "Camelot."
Learn the great and positive stories and tell them. The light in the eyes
of those you touch will be your reward.
While the secular elite worry about children killing children, we will
teach our children about "DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY!"
HAVE A DIXIE DAY!
Gentlemen, This article by Mr. Reese explains the Northern Aggression in Simple Terms.
You Confederate But Don't Know It?
by Charley Reese
Most of the political problems in this country won't be settled until
more folks realize the South was right.
I know that goes against the P.C. edicts, but the fact is that on the
subject of the constitutional republic, the Confederate leaders were
right and the Northern Republicans were wrong.
Many people today even argue the Confederate positions without realizing
it.
For example, if you argue for strict construction of the Constitution,
you are arguing the Confederate position; when you oppose pork-barrel
spending, you are arguing the Confederate position; and when you oppose
protective tariffs, you are arguing the Confederate position. But that's
not all.
When you argue for the Bill of Rights, you are arguing the Confederate
position, and when you argue that the Constitution limits the power and
jurisdiction of the federal government, you are arguing the Confederate
position.
One of the things that gets lost when you adopt the politically correct
oversimplification that the War Between the States was a Civil War all
about slavery is a whole treasure load of American political history.
It was not a civil war. A civil war is when two or more factions contend
for control of one government. At no time did the South intend or attempt
to overthrow the government of the United States. The Southern states
simply withdrew from what they correctly viewed as a voluntary union.
They formed their own union and adopted their own constitution.
The U.S. government remained intact. There were just fewer states, but
everything else remained as exactly as it was. You can be sure that, with
as much bitterness and hatred of the South that there was in the North,
the Northerners would have tried Confederates for treason if there had
been any grounds. There weren't, and the South's worst enemy knew that.
Abraham Lincoln's invasion of the South was entirely without any
constitutional authority. And it's as plain as an elephant in a tea party
that Lincoln did not seek to preserve the Union to end slavery. All you
have to do is read his first inaugural address. What Lincoln didn't want
to lose was tax revenue generated by the South.
As Northern states gained a majority in both houses, they began to use
the South as a cash cow. Here's how it worked: Most Southerners who
exported cotton bartered the cotton in Europe for goods. When the
protective tariffs were imposed, that meant Southerners had to pay them.
To make matters worse, the North would then use the revenue for
pork-barrel projects in its states. The South was faced with either
paying high tariffs and receiving no benefits from the revenue or buying
artificially high-priced Northern goods.
Southerners opposed pork-barrel spending. Their correct view was that,
because the federal government was merely the agent of all the states,
whatever money it spent should be of equal benefit. Their position on
public lands was that they belonged to all the people and the federal
government had no authority to give the lands away to private interests.
Northerners had announced they would not be bound by the Constitution.
What you had was the rise of modern nationalism fighting the original
republic founded by the American Revolution.
So, regardless of where you were born, you may be a Southerner
philosophically.
Reach Charley Reese at:
407-420-5315 or creese@orlandosentinel.com
Students having the patriotism to wear the flag of their ancestors
should be rewarded, not humiliated. In the time of crisis, these
very students would be first to serve in the defense of our Southland
and its citizens, just as their Grandparents stood in the gap.
The failing of the public school system has been in not teaching
the students about the thousands of blacks who served in the
Confederate Army. They should know that black Confederate
soldiers are buried under the Morris Brown College in Atlanta.
Also it should be pointed out that the WBTS would not have
lasted very long without other blacks keeping the farms going
while the Southern soldiers were away at war.
Thankfully, the Georgia State law forbidding the teaching of
history in Georgia schools is not being enforced.
Elijah Coleman
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Ref: THE BANNER MESSENGER, Vol. 1X. No.37 Buchanan,
Georgia. Thursday, September 29, 1892
Letter issued by Captain S. D. Bradwell, State School Commissioner.
To all Boards of Education in the state: Georgia law requires that
history not be taught in Georgia schools. Some educators felt that it
should be taught but the law is explicit on what can be taught.
Mr. Tim Meadows was arrested and imprisoned in Mobile, Alabama because he marched with the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the Veterans Day parade carrying the Confederate soldiers' Battleflag. Here is a response to Mobile's anti-Southern bigots:
Hello,
A reply to Mr. Michael Marshall of the Mobile Register about "THOSE" flag
people. This "journalist" needs more than a little insight on "those" flag
people such as Compatriot Tim Meadows. He is right on one point though, he
states that the City of Mobile, AL is in error for their act with the
honorable Tim Meadows. Yep, it does indeed seem that way, the more to be
pitied for their crass ignorance, says I.
“Those Flag People”
“Those” flag people are American citizens, MY and YOUR fellow American
citizens. Lately, many of them are feeling a fresh surge of American
nationalism and a sense of patriotism they haven’t felt in some time. To be
honest, it feels good and is a welcome refresher from the obnoxious barrage
of various chattering ideologies and Leftist, Fabian Socialist philosophy.
“Those” flag people are my friends, neighbors, contemporaries and oftentimes
include myself and close family members. A significant number of “those”
flag people display various emblems of American vexillology with justifiable
pride and render overdue honor to their cherished American ancestors who
contributed liberally in terms of lives, livelihood and sacred honor in the
construction of this very nation. These flag people live in my house, my
community, my town, my state and my nation. “Those” flag people belong
here as much as anyone that I’ve ever met who was born or naturalized within
the national boundaries of These United States. In fact, “those” flag
people have forsaken all others and love their country so much, they would
unhesitatingly die for the perpetuity of American sovereignty, freedom and
government. “Those” flag people contribute a brisk stimulus to the American
economy in terms of significant domestic manufacture of equipment, clothing,
and sundry reenacting supplies as well as historical and park preservation
and an increasing amount of imported merchandise related to historical
interpretation. “Those” flag people deserve recognition for their
whole-hearted contribution to preserving and interpreting American history
as it relates to diversity in ethnic origins, cultures and economics.
“Those” flag people took their cue from men such as Teddy Roosevelt to keep
the American spirit alive and help keep the doors open to many state and
national parks. It is most readily apparent to the impartial and
equitable observer that, “those” flag people are dedicated, hard-working,
decent, law-abiding American citizens and do their fair share of
contributing to the moral, spiritual, economic and social well-being of
their communities, states and the national entity. Many of “those” flag
people are military veterans, educators, business people and reliable
leaders. “Those” flag people have preempted the very advice that a
president gave in that “we should love our children” and even go beyond that
noble ideal. Those flag people love their progeny and also their
progenitors. R. S. Griffin
---Most Sincerely,
Robert Silas Griffin
Griffin's Research and Veteran's Éclat - 2001
A recent newspaper article about the 50th-anniversary reunion of a
high-school class in Newnan, Georgia talks about the differences between
growing up at the tag end of the Old South, and living in the New South of
today. As such, the essay probably describes life in a number of Southern
towns in the 1930s/40s, and today.
NHS Class of '51 To Hold 50th Reunion
By Frank Conner
Newnan High School's Class of 1951 will gather for its
50th-anniversary reunion at 6:30 pm on June 16th at Barronton's Special
Events Center on Bullsboro Drive. There we will celebrate our survival of
the unending tidal-waves of change which have distanced the Old South that
we grew up in from the New South of today.
Most of us were born in 1933--the fourth year of the Great
Depression which lasted until World War II, and the year Franklin D.
Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the U.S. and Adolph Hitler was
named chancellor of Germany. (Both men died in office in 1945, when we were
12 years old: Roosevelt from a massive cerebral-hemorrhage, and Hitler from
a .32 bullet which he fired into his right temple while the Russian Army
was conquering Berlin.)
In 1933, the U.S. was a much-simpler place. The federal government
was small, and the federal budget was only about $5 billion. Money was
scarce then--very, very scarce for most people in the South, and it
remained so well into World War II.
In 1933, network radio was just catching on across America.
Phonographs played bulky 78-rpm records, had wind-up spring motors, and
used cactus needles to pick up the sound. Movies were shot in black and
white, and talkies had been standardized only a few years earlier.
Automobiles were fragile machines which needed frequent repairs; and they
did not come with automatic transmissions, power brakes, or turn signals.
There was no air conditioning--except in a few movie theaters in the
biggest cities; so all Southerners sweltered in the summertime. Nylon and
polyester had not yet been invented; clothes wrinkled as soon as you put
them on, and wore out rapidly. Shoe polish would hold its shine for only a
few days. By present standards, medicine was crude: there were no
antibiotics, and people routinely died from diseases that are easily
curable today.
All of that sounds awful, you say--if you are a Baby Boomer, or of
even later vintage. But most of us in the Class of '51 don't think so; we
believe that we were highly favored by Fortune. You see, we grew up at the
tag end of the Old South. And contrary to the daily flood of propaganda for
the past 50 years in most of the big-city newspapers and TV programming,
the Old South which we knew was probably the most-decent society that has
ever existed in any industrialized nation.
The great lie promoted by liberalism is that antisocial
behavior--extreme selfishness and alienation, sexual licentiousness,
idleness, and lawlessness--are the inevitable results of poverty; but we
know from direct observation that such is simply not true. Being children
of the Great Depression, some of us grew up under conditions of poverty
which make today's urban-ghetto residents seem wealthy by comparison; but
we have never felt deprived. We understand clearly that each person's
character and morality--or lack of same--result only from the value system
which he was taught as a child by his parents and the society. And we
believe that we were taught right.
Newnan has always attracted solid, quietly-outstanding people,
right from its start. And during the first half of the 20th century, its
principal industries--Cole shop and the textile mills--were home-owned.
Therefore, both the industries and the town were run right. For example,
Newnan Water and Light was usually directed by people who were thinking a
generation or two ahead. And Sheriff Lamar ("Mist' Lee-mar") Potts and the
chief of police of Newnan held crime to a bare minimum in these parts, and
created a local ambiance in which we believed that we should be law-abiding
citizens. We remember to this day (with awe) the John Wallace trial in
1948, celebrated by Margaret Anne Barnes in her book, Murder in Coweta County.
Our superintendent of schools was Homer Drake; and I don't believe
that Coweta County could have asked for a better one. The same was true of
our high-school principal, O.P. Evans. Some of our high-school teachers
were: Robert Baker, Sally Bowen, Maryella Camp ("Yard by yard, Latin is
hard; inch by inch, Latin's a cinch!")," Willie Gunn, Coach Norman
Harrison, Sue Jordan, Henry Kitchens, school secretary Lavane Leach,
Madelyn Luckette, Lillian McDonald, Carrie Mae McElroy, Myrtice Prosser,
Ruby Reeves, Louise Rumble, Coach Jack Schiffi, Walter Stevens, Ralph
Taylor, I.E. Thigpen, Robert Waters, and Ruth Young.
We were the last class to graduate from the old red-brick
high-school building on the corner of Jackson Street and Temple Avenue,
where the city park is located today. Our school did not have a big
budget--in fact, that building had been condemned for many years; but I
have never heard anyone in our class express the slightest desire to trade
the education that he or she received in that humble location in the late
1940s for an education from any of the most-lavishly-funded schools of today.
In the 1940s and early 1950s, the sole job of the schools was to
educate those of us who were educable (the schools were not then required
to serve as holding pens for troublemakers). The job of the teachers was to
teach--not to fill out paperwork so as to keep a big bureaucracy of paper
shufflers busy. The schools, the society at large, our parents, and most of
us considered a good education to be an extremely-valuable asset. The
schools of that era had the right and the responsibility to maintain good
discipline in the classrooms, and they did so. And if a school became
unhappy with one of its students, generally that student's parents became
equally unhappy with him.
Those who came along even a decade after us have no inkling as to
how good an education the public schools can deliver--even on the
most-modest budget--when the superintendent and principal are competent,
the schools are not politicized or bureaucratized, and all parties are
agreed that the only job of the schools is to educate the educable children
in a disciplined environment. We were so very, very lucky.
We grew up in the last days of the Old South--in the society of
decency. Most of us took for granted then the unbelievable sweetness of
life in a well-run Southern town of the 1940s. Even though we--like
everybody else--were beset with life's hardships, still we lived tranquil
lives. We trusted each other, and rightly so! The people left their cars
unlocked. In those days before air conditioning, we opened all the windows
and doors of our houses each night in the summertime to let in the cool
air. People might lose their front-door keys because they used them so
seldom. We could walk anywhere safely at any time of the day or night. When
I was 13, my parents knew I could ride the bus to Atlanta every Saturday
morning, go to the orthodontist, then roam the streets for the rest of the
day and return home that night safely: child molesters and street crime
were not tolerated. Nobody used drugs then but musicians and a few other
unstable exotics. And bootlegging was very carefully controlled.
To say that in the Old South we valued highly the goodwill of the
community sounds coldly abstract, so let me put it another way: local
people cared about each other. The schoolteachers would go to incredible
lengths to try to bring out the best in each child. In Sunday School--even
in the bigger congregations, most of the adults in the church knew the
names of all the children, and in many cases even knew what interests each
child had! Every child knew that in an emergency, he could ask the help of
any adult in town, and if he deserved it, he would probably get it. He also
knew that if he misbehaved in dealing with any adult, that adult might well
haul him back to his parents, in which case he would be in a world of hurt.
In those days, people rarely had children out of wedlock or got divorced,
so each child knew that he would probably graduate to adulthood with the
same pair of parents he began with. And the first priority of any married
couple was to raise their children well; so people spent a lot of time
teaching their children what was right and what was wrong; and until we
were 16, we did not have television to shoot down the values which our
parents had taught us at such length. Given those influences, we grew up
confident that the world was a good place to live in; that our community
was a good place to live in; and that the philosophy of life we had been
taught worked well. Because the system worked so well, we could afford to
be innocents--and there is no more-enjoyable mode of life than that.
The Old South did not pretend to be a classless society. Each
person had his well-defined place in it--mill owner, preacher, teacher,
storekeeper, lawyer, foreman, mill hand, mechanic, farmer, policeman,
sharecropper. But the Old South was not primarily a greedy materialistic
society--as was the North; here, character counted, as well as wealth.
Whatever your station in life, if you lived honorably, you were respected
for who and what you were. Naturally, everybody would have preferred to be
rich; but the have-nots did not lust after the possessions of the haves in
the Old South as they did in the North. Here, it was truly the decent society.
In those days, the schools and public places in the South were
still segregated. Nonetheless, in a town such as Newnan, most of the whites
and blacks were in frequent contact--whether in transacting everyday
business, or merely circulating downtown; and most middle-class white
families had black cooks/maids. Consequently the blacks and whites saw each
other at their best and their worst, and knew each other as real people and
not as abstract symbols. There was remarkably little expressed animosity
between the races.
I do not want to foster the impression that everybody was a saint;
we were subject to all the common failings of human beings. In addition,
throughout the U.S. at any time, about 13% of the population will be
dysfunctional--either because they were born with badly-flawed genes or
because they were brought up so badly as to act as if they had been.
However, in a truly well-run society such as the Old South was, most people
are expected to suppress their bad character-traits and exhibit their best
ones; and here most of them did.
We were taught to want to become reliable members of the
community. None of our class has been a billionaire or a movie star. A few
of us did become millionaires; others (like me) barely squeak by. But the
philosophy that we were taught by the Old South has proven to be a good fit
with human nature. None of us has ever been sent to prison. Of the Class of
1951's 111 graduates, by 2001--when we are 67 years old--only 19 of us had
died. That is exceptional. And this year our steering committee was able to
get in touch with all but one of the living. Even though some of us are now
scattered around the U.S., probably more than half wi