This blog is dedicated to all the good Americans lost to a fringe of fearful drug-induced, ignorant, mind-controlled psychopaths conditioned and directed by our unseen and ignored technocratic overlords. The mass murder in 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina appeared unprecedented, but it was not new. In 1951, Brevard county, Florida residents Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were murdered for the same reason: fear and ignorance.
Racial tensions live on today, nourished by an abundance of fear and ignorance. An interesting theory of late is that somehow one root of this racial enmity is the sporadic display of old Confederate banners and possibly a few stone Confederate images lingering in parks. But those are emblems of history. If Lincoln truly freed the slaves, how could old historic flags and some concrete statues generate anger or cause some to commit acts of violence?
Could it be that Lincoln never freed the slaves? In one sense, could slaves still exist today, but on a much larger plantation? If that’s true, then the cause of the South was the cause of us all. This is because all Americans, black, white, and shades between, lost fundamental rights, taken by the federal government, when the South lost the fight for state’s rights and freedom from centralized dictates and unfair taxation. How much of our freedoms have evaporated since the aggrandizement of centralized federal dictates? Nobody can remember.
Most Americans today have never experienced real, genuine freedom as existed before the Civil War. Our so-called freedoms have been increasingly compressed over the years by imm
ense piles of paperwork and regulations fashioned by the sycophant political agents of our global corporate masters. People say they have freedom only because that’s what they’ve been told; but only a glimmer of true freedom exists today.
Now, seeking justice (and freedom?), the NAACP has demanded the removal of the Confederate flag, and lately the Confederate statues. Are they promoting freedom?
No. Why should they care about the old-time freedoms of some long-dead task masters. Instead they absentmindedly focus on the topic of slavery– however slavery of the old days is gone. The issue now is freedom and preserving freedom. So aren’t they are milking the wrong kind of cow when they say: the Confederate flag is “racist,” and South Carolina should stop flying the Confederate flag at its State House?
The answer is “yes.” That’s because the South and its flag also represented “freedom,” — and much more fundamentally than slavery. Now are we actually to believe the old Confederate flag incites racism? Instead, is not ignorance and fear the root problem? Here we go again, attacking innocuous surface features and not the root causes: fear and ignorance.
Fear and ignorance do not support a position of strength. Fear and ignorance suppress freedoms. But let’s look at the NAACP’s position to see how they think. What if their statement is true: the Confederate flag is truly racist. Then the Confederacy must have been racist. We all know a racist is someone who believes his race is superior to another race. Fair or unfair, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate leader, was seen as an evil racist, along with the entire South. But let’s be objective and ask: what about the North’s leader, Lincoln?
In Lincoln’s own words, “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in the favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary.”
— Abraham Lincoln.
So the leader of the North was also a racist? Apparently so. Now, therefore, shall we ban not only the Confederate flag, but also the U.S. flag?
Let’s go deeper into the forgotten story. There exists an age-old falsehood that the War Between the States was started solely to free the slaves. This is historic propaganda. Lincoln had no priority or interest in emancipating slaves as seen from his quote above. If he had, he could have freed the slaves upon his first day in office.
The Emancipation Proclamation, enacted after many battles, was a political torch to shame and punish the South.
Did the South need some punishing? Many say the old-time Southern heritage, the goodness, the gentleness of the Southern Christian people, the highly productive culture (that enriched the North greatly by way of excessively high trade tariffs), were all tarnished by the South’s dependence on the African slave.
Isn’t it ironic that the slaves indirectly produced great wealth that flowed northward into the pockets and bellies of Northern industrialists and also the general citizenry?
Yes, the South depended on its slaves to produce the products it sold on the world market, but slaves existed in North and South — and there was not sufficient political motivation to stop it. Northerners and Southerners alike were content to wear cotton clothing and consume sugar and other products produced by slaves.
It was on a higher level that North and South had even more fundamental conflicts, resulting in a theological war. Nobody is talking about this. The South was the “Bible belt” and this irritated the North…their attack on Christians (Bible belt) has been ongoing and today coincides with the flag and statue issue. The Federal goal was to attack and tear down the South’s three core values:
- Biblical values
- Respect for the original Constitutional Republic (Confederate Constitution was nearly identical to
US Constitution) - Financial freedom (Commerce free of heavy tariffs at Charleston and other ports)
The North held mainly to a rationale and Unitarian approach in religious views. In contrast, the South was known as the “Bible Belt” and was strongly influenced by a Biblical world view. Instead of the slavery issue, the preachers of the Bible belt were focused on the religious schism between the North and South…so much so that a great number of them become officers in the Confederacy. Confederate General Thomas Cobb said of the secession, “the revolution has been accomplished mainly by the churches.”
The prominent southern preacher James Thornwell said, “the parties to this conflict are not merely abolitionists (North) and slaveholders (South) — they are atheistic, socialists, communists . . . on the one side (the North) and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other (South).”
The Confederate flag is much too meaningful to say that it mainly reflects slavery or racism. Yes, over that last several decades some have attached the flag to their warped causes, but the flag historically stands primarily for states rights (those rights guaranteed to the states under the U.S. Constitution). This is the cause of all Americans!
The South’s insistence on state’s rights was the result of years of very heavy tariffs put on southern ports. This is what prompted stress between the north and the south and a war for financial freedom. The south paid millions of dollars in taxes to support the north, and then got nothing in return.
The contrast in philosophies may be shown with the examples of Julia Ward Howe and Robert E. Lee. An example of Lee’s philosophy was in his remarks of 1863:
“Soldiers, we have sinned against God. We have forgotten his mercies. We have cultivated revengeful, haughty and boastful spirit. We have not remembered that defenders of a just cause should be pure in His eyes … and we have relied too much on our own arms for the achievement of our independence. God is our only refuge and strength. Let us humble ourselves before Him. Let us confess our many sins and beseech Him to give us a higher courage, a pure patriotism, a more determined will, that He we convert the hearts of our enemies, that He will hasten the time of war…[to] cease, and that He will give us a name and place among the nations of the Earth.”
Julia Ward Howe, representing the North, thinks nothing like Lee. She stated that “not until the Civil War did I officially join the Unitarian Church and accept the fact that Christ was merely a great teacher with no higher claim to preeminence and wisdom, goodness and power, than any other man.”
Now you can see that these two people, representing the North and the South, were, in general, very different in their thinking.
Now to those wanting to remove the Confederate flag, do they know the North, in general, hated the U.S. Constitution, but the southern peoples were its defender? This was a fact. Listen to the words of Northern abolitionist Wendell Philips, a Harvard graduate, attorney and politician:
“the Republican party is in no sense a national party. It is a party pledged to work for the downfall of democracy, the downfall of the Union and the destruction of the U.S. Constitution. The religious creed of the party was . . . hate of democracy . . . and hate of the Southern people.”
Phillips also criticized Lincoln for not taking a more aggressive stand against slavery.
The Northern Senator Steven Douglas stated in December of 1860, “many Republicans desire a dissolution of the Union and urge war as a means of accomplishing the dissolution.”
Lincoln’s warning of the time was that the states have no rights except what they receive from the Federal government. That is just the opposite of what the Constitution says. Lincoln, our first dictator? He was certainly the first president to violate the Constitution on a grand scale. A good lesson would be to read some real history, untainted by political agenda, to wit:
Rutherford, Mildred. A True Estimate Of Abraham Lincoln.
Again, the cause of the South seems to be the cause of all Americans pledging allegiance to the Constitution. Now do you think that by removing the Confederate flag from flagpoles we will stop or correct the sickness in America? Hate will go away? Love will magically appear? Of course not. Removing a flag will do nothing to reduce or eliminate hateful minds, or the extremely over medicated youth dependent on psycotropic drugs associated with lethal acts. Why do the NAACP and others ignore this issue?
At 
the root of the problem here is not the Confederate flag or statues of Stonewall Jackson–the problem is the thoughts and words spread by the evil-minded. Real hate speech is not necessarily just the N word, but all words that divide white and black…all words that appeal to fiery emotions.
The waving of a man’s tongue can be much more of a racist factor than any flag or statue. We have leaders, black and white, who are doing this now — creating division, creating hate. They fan the flames of hatred…they look to incite the ignorant and fearful who are unaware of the true nature of the Confederacy and the war of Northern aggression. To know if those in power are truly genuine, find out how many have proposed removing the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike standing at the heart of the American Government in Washington D.C. for the last 117 years! This complex Confederate will not be so easy to remove as he was, at one level, perfectly aligned with the fundamental philosophy of the old North and its racist leaders, such as Lincoln.
Bill H.R. 3983
Even the Anti Defamation League (ADL) realizes that the Confederate flag is not a symbol of hate and nothing but a symbol of hate. They state:
“because of the continued use of the flag by non-extremists, one should not automatically assume that display of the flag is racist or white supremacist in nature. The symbol should only be judged in context.”
Racism lives in the hearts of men. There is nothing racist in the Confederate flag. Slavery existed in the North and South. The abolitionist movement evolved in the 1800s and peaked at the time of the Civil War. This is but one factor in the grievances that culminated in the war. Ironically, the most intense hatred and conflicts that did develop, came well after the war, when the freedmen were integrating into society. Racism grew in the early 1900s, as both white and black populations increased.
The ADL website states:
In 1860-61, eleven southern states seceded from the United States to protect the institution of slavery, forming the Confederate States of America and precipitating the Civil War.
This seems obvious, only because it has been repeated so often. Actually it is a lie, or at least only part of the truth.
First, the Confederate States of America (CSA) did not come about solely due to the issue of slavery. There were long-standing disputes between the northern states and southern states for decades. Since the north did have a majority in Congress, the north voted to tax (and tax heavily) southern trade at Charleston and other southern ports.
As to precipitating the war, the South did not want a war, only fair tarriffs. Lincoln was determined to keep high tarrifs flowing out of Charleston harbor.
To a certain extent, all national flags have to do with hate and violence. At inception or at some point, every nation has had to fight for its sovereignty. Battles result in death, hate, resentment. The U.S. flag and Confederate flag are not different in that regard.
Flags should not cause division, but unity for all in a constitutional republic with equal rights for all. Today the slaves are gone. The errors in thinking (justifying slavery) are gone. Today the South must rise again, be united in reaffirming the fundamental rights conveyed under the Constitution to regain their freedoms, both black and white.
The time of whining is past. If slavery and bondage became attached to the Southern flag, that was never it’s underlying theme. Ironically, the Confederate flag represents a fight for freedom and Black and White should not let one soiled aspect of southern culture expunge the worthiness of the South’s overall cause.
Today, instead of focusing on the long-ago institution of slavery, both Blacks and Whites ought to focus on current slavery. Today, close to 30 million men, women, and children are sold into a $150 billion annual slave market for sex and labor.
This is happening globally, and domestically; in urban and suburban areas; in hotels, restaurants, and on street corners. Slavery is everywhere today, from
chocolate farms in the Ivory Coast to the food business, clothing,, and electronics. Do you know who made your smartphone?
According to the researcher William H. Kennedy, these slaves are used and abused and worked to death, averaging only 4 years once they enter into bondage.
View the Confederate flag with perspective. Fight against today’s slave market (15 times larger than that of the old South).
Today, the human trafficking trade generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of which are children under the age of 18. In this book, David Batstone profiles the new generation of abolitionists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_United_States
Sources:
The South Must Rise Again
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