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Title: The Fall of the South: A Sesquicentennial Wake By Bill Buppert
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URL Source: http://zerogov.com/?p=3964
Published: Apr 10, 2015
Author: Bill Buppert
Post Date: 2015-04-10 12:45:59 by X-15
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“So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained.” -Statement to John Leyburn (1 May 1870), as quoted in R. E. Lee: A Biography (1934) by Douglas Southall Freeman. On this day, 9 April in 1865, the Lincolnian project to enslave the entire nation under the yoke of Union supremacy, central planning and a country administered by national political fiat and the naked fist of government aggression prevailed. The South and the Confederacy for all it flaws died at Appomattox. Lee is often erroneously quoted as saying the following: “Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right hand. Supposed made to Governor Fletcher S. Stockdale (September 1870), as quoted in The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney, pp. 497-500.” No lesser literary luminaries and historians have said this is false than Douglas Southall Freeman, Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. and Bruce Catton. This appears to be historical myth-making by Mr. Dabney. My casual research and interest in Lee find this simply does not fit in his character; now there were certainly Confederate worthies who professed such sympathies. Lee is certainly one of the greatest captains of arms in the history of the West. A far more competent and talented warrior than the base incompetency and abject martial malpractice of George Washington; he joins the ranks of Douglas Haig (WWI) and Pompey (Rome) for an exaggerated sense of warrior skills untethered to reality. Lee was at the forefront of a Confederate high tide that was destroyed by the Gettysburg debacle and worsening political travails in the South as Davis tried to emulate the Sovietized system of the Union to salvage a victory. At least the South fought to fight a just war in defending their own soil from invasion. I am amused at Union apologists who claim that the South fired the first shot at Fort Sumter. Let me employ a tortured analogy; you buy a house and the owners refuse to vacate and bring friends with guns to ensure you can’t possession of your rightful property. Such was the case in Sumter where the Fort commanded the entry and exit to richest transportation hub in the south employing constant threats against the indigenous community it sat in the middle of. The War Between the States was a Second American Revolution, the last gasp of trying to unshackle the nation from the Constitutional straitjacket that extinguished liberty at every turn. Alexander Stephens, the Vice president of the Confederacy had other ideas. He is no hero of abolition nor a moral man in regards the disposition of humans in chains: “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.” Lincoln claimed this was his only disagreement with Stephens but the curious ability of Lincoln to free all slaves outside his legal jurisdiction and maintain it within his control regime. Historian Clarence Carson has astutely commented: “It should be noted, however, that as of the moment it was issued and to the best of Lincoln’s knowledge, the proclamation did not free a single slave. It did not free a slave in Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, nor in any state or portions of a state within the Confederacy occupied by Union troops…In short, Lincoln freed only those slaves over which he had no control. No doubt that was by design.” As Al Benson Jr. notes: “What it amounted to was, that, as an effective propaganda tool, the proclamation freed only those slaves that the North had no jurisdiction over and it didn’t free any slaves over which the North had some jurisdiction.” Author Webb Garrison, a former dean of Emory University noted that: “…the Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure – not an edict issued in a dramatic move to better the lives of blacks. No one knew this better than the author of the proclamation. Nine months after it was issued, he told Salmon P. Chase ‘The original proclamation has no constitutional or legal justification except as a military measure’.” There was no major politician except Charles Sumner on either side interested in the least in emancipation much less abolition of black chattel slavery. Sumner would famously ask Lincoln: “Do you know who is at this moment the largest slaveholder in the United States?” Sumner informed Lincoln that he was the largest slaveholder because the President “holds all the slaves of the District of Columbia.” This ended on paper in 1862. This war was about slavery but not in the commonly held beliefs that permeate the nonsense about the conflict in the government school systems. This war was about the Union grasp at codifying a new kind of slavery just as awful as chattel or indentured servitude. The object was to chain tax cattle to a regime that could rob them at will and ultimately using every power at its disposal to drain a person’s resources and at worst cage and murder them when it saw fit. The essential result of the horrific conflict was to out everyone on the plantation under any Constitutionally protected” territory or state. Go guerrilla indeed, what would the future have wrought? Poster Comment: "The birth of Empire. Not a damned living soul has lived under the Constitution as it was intended in 1787-1791 – or at least as it was said to be intended."
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#126. To: NeoconsNailed (#125)
Huh? He's taken more soldiers out of battle than he's introduced in to battle... I have no idea what your statement is based upon... He's illegit because he's never proved he's an actual American... By whose definition? --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Yeah, sure you don't.
He has a birth certificate that says he's an American from the State of Hawaii, with legal signatures and seal.
Got a picture of it? hopefully not the one where the contents are straight though the background design clearly curving.
Even if he was born in Kenya he'd still be a natural born citizen. His mother did not renounce her citizenship and he had established US residency well prior to his 21st birthday. Lacking that, there would be some record of naturalization. So, while the birth certificate has exactitude in sufficiency, the lack of any evidence that he was naturalized buttresses his natural born status. --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
My statement was pretty clear...we are engaged less today than we were 10 years ago... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
If it has the raised seal, and the correct signature stamp, its genuine. What turned out to be fake was the guy claiming Obama's bc was a forgery.
Everything we've been presented with as being a bc of one kind or another is clearly fake. These purported doc's were faked, not because he was or was not born in Hawaii or in this or that territory, but because his paternity is a fake and must remain so. His real dad was not an Obama. That is a physical unlikelihood, in my opinion. His real dad was more likely a card carrying communist whose name and face are now familiar to many who are following these things. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
So what? That does not make the document *fake*. --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Where is it to be viewed, warsmom, why did he balk for so long at showing it, and why did they seal the records in Hawaii? The governess no less! http://www.wnd.com/2008/10/79174/ Even if he were an actual citizen, there's still too much fraud and mystery all around him. As a mulatto, communist, warmonger and perpetual liar, he is NOT the founding fathers' and mothers' original intent for chief executive of this country.
Then his citizenship is not in question.
Here is a timeline, and an image of the BC www.politifact.com/truth-...rth-certificate-timeline/ Obama was elected twice in the 21st century, it doesn't matter if the founding fathers, many of which were slave holders, would have approved of him or not.
A) He released it in 2008... B) He didn't *balk* at anything. There is no law that compelled either him or any other candidate to produce one. --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Correctomundo. I am just supplying one alternate hypothesis for the desperate effort to obscure large portions of his background. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
Bingo. You can read. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
For the Presidency and the Vice Presidency, the Constitution requires natural born citizenship, which is not synonymous with citizenship in-general. It does not merely say that no person except a Citizen of the United States shall be eligible to the Office of President but "No person except a natural born Citizen"; meaning birth here to parents who are both American citizens only at the time of it, with no dual or multiple citizenships of other nations conferred to the child through birth. The only people trying to apply a different standard to Obama are those who don't understand the difference between citizenship and natural born citizenship or who want to discard Constitutionality on that point. McCain was not qualified for the office on those grounds, despite the Senate's unilateral and ex-post facto farce to declare him so. The birth certificate said to be Obama's indicates that his legal father of record was a foreigner and paternity otherwise has not been procedurally authenticated. Additionally, his mother may have been a British citizen by marriage. The issue of whether or not she was even technically able to confer basic U.S. citizenship by a birth abroad, if that had occurred, is a separate matter. At the time of our founding, basic citizenship status could be primarily determined by the father being an American citizen. A foreign born mother could be considered here to be an American-only by marriage to the American father but the mother's birth country might object, which could result in compromised allegiance and other nationality obligations (ref. the War of 1812 British draft of American citizens, for example) that our Founders meant to avoid regarding the Presidency (which also acts as Commander in Chief during times of war) and the Vice Presidency (which might have to move up to the Presidency in succession). ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
This problem has been wrongfully imposed on America at least as far back as Chester A. Arthur, who should not even have been Vice President, much less ascendant to the Presidency. Republicans back then, though, had enough respect for the Constitution to not make him a candidate for another term when his non-qualification became evident. Now, multiple Republicans who are not qualified as natural born citizens are attempting to run for the Presidency as a ploy to get Hispanic votes. In the case of Jeb Bush, who is a natural born citizen (afaik), his wife is potentially an alternate route for the GOP to increase Hispanic votes in tandem with his "immigration reform" promos. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
The 14th Amendment says: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. One can be a natural born citizen, or a naturalized citizen - that's it. There is no third option.
By your logic we should tear up the Declaration, Constitution, common law and rename Washington Obamaville. OK, I had it backwards on that so-called birth certificate. The background pattern in flat and the stuff printed on it bends, making it one of the lamest forgeries ever. YOU LOSE. You might as well quit.
You're living in the same dream world as your mother. Liberals think they can speak realities into being.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. One can be a natural born citizen, or a naturalized citizen - that's it. There is no third option. That Amendment isn't about natural born citizenship. It only speaks of basic citizenship status in-general and the key phrase is "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Children born here to a foreign parent are subject to the country of their parents' citizenship and acquire that citizenship by birth -- foreign allegiance and obligation problems that our Founders intended to shield the Presidency and Vice Presidency from being compromised by. Only natural born citizenship by birth here to American-only parents (both the father and the mother) does not require legislation to determine. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
There are two types of citizens of the US...naturalized and natural born. There is not a third class. Obama was not naturalized, thus... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Uh...yes it is...in fact, it is *exactly* what that amendment is about...it once and for all defined who is a US Citizen, how they could become a citizen and what legal protections they were afforded. --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Again, no... IF what you promote here was to be true, what other foreign laws are applicable to people in the US? Can France sue a person born of French parents residing in the US, in a US court for the French taxes those parents owed? According to you, France could. --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
2.OK, I had it backwards on that so-called birth certificate. The background pattern in flat and the stuff printed on it bends, making it one of the lamest forgeries ever. 3. YOU LOSE. You might as well quit. 1. What logic leads you to that conclusion? 2. It is so lame, it couldn't be a forgery. It looks exactly like it would look if the original were bound (along with other birth certificates) and photocopied onto security paper. All anyone ever gets is a COPY of the original document. It is the seal and signature stamp that makes it genuine and legal. 3. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say something I rarely say - I am correct.
I know you don't intend to claim that non-citizens of the United States are not subject to our laws while in our country, but that is what you're saying. The exception would be diplomats, and other officials of foreign governments. Think diplomatic immunity. Citizenship is either inherited at birth through one or both parents who are, themselves US citizens no matter where in the world they are born, or by birth on US soil, no matter what citizenship their parents hold. Jus soli…(Latin: right of the soil)[1] is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship.[2] As an unconditional basis for citizenship, it is the predominant rule in the Americas, but is rare elsewhere. Jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood) is a principle of nationality law by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth but by having one or both parents who are citizens of the state. Children at birth may automatically be citizens if their parents have state citizenship or national identities of ethnic, cultural or other origins. (definitions from Wikipedia) Obama was born to a US citizen mother, on US soil. That makes him a natural born citizen by jus soli and by jus sanguinis. If you know where it says differently in law, or the Constitution, please let me know.
3. YOU LOSE. You might as well quit. 1. What logic leads you to that conclusion? 2. It is so lame, it couldn't be a forgery. It looks exactly like it would look if the original were bound (along with other birth certificates) and photocopied onto security paper. All anyone ever gets is a COPY of the original document. It is the seal and signature stamp that makes it genuine and legal. 3. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say something I rarely say - I am correct. 1. Apparently you didn't read my short post fully -- I was referring to your statement that "Obama was elected twice in the 21st century, it doesn't matter if the founding fathers, many of which were slave holders, would have approved of him or not." In other words you trash original intent and attempt to hang the issue instead on the total irrelevancy of slave-owning. Yep, the TOTAL irrelevance of slave-owning! 2. Sorry, but this supposed copy simply won't do. Not for a communist pseudo- president or even the jerk as 2008 candidate. And he did balk -- there was much controversy over the B.C. till this blatant fake was finally produced. You have to remember it, it was only 7-8 years ago. (Copying a doc with a plain background onto security paper? They're just flaunting their fraud like they love to do, cf. how they laid Vince Foster out in Fort Marcy Park and then claimed it was suicide!) 3. You admit you're wrong most of the time -- that's progress. And momsy, I can't promise to discuss it further with you. If you support Obozo you're delusional and don't even belong here.
Can France sue a person born of French parents residing in the US, in a US court for the French taxes those parents owed? According to you, France could. No. According to me, their child shouldn't be made liable for taxes owed by their parents and not them. As for other foreign laws applicable to people in the U.S. of foreign parentage; also those of dual or multiple foreign citizenship ... I've already noted the drafting of American men by Britain that considered them to be British subjects as well. Ref. The War of 1812 impressment issue. If you think our Founders' intent wasn't to guard the Presidency and Vice Presidency from the possibility of such happenstances, as well as compromised allegiance and other foreign obligation entanglements, think again. I've been intending to get back to our Civil War discussion in this thread eventually and you are prolonging that by errantly conflating the 14th Amendment as if it's a nullification of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5's natural born citizenship stipulation which, according to your interpretation, would then do nothing whatsoever to protect the Presidency and Vice Presidency from divided allegiances and foreign complications and 14A would very much facilitate those national security dilemmas. Wishful thinking on your part, evidently, but clearly an incorrect supposition. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I chose France for a reason. Under French law (or what was law at some point in my life), a child can be held liable for the taxes that were owed by the parents. Since you claim that the child is subject to the jurisdiction of their foreign parent then my point stands to reason. The only way that it could not be, would be if the child had protection under US law. The 14th amendment establishes that anyone BORN or NATURALIIZED is a citizen of the US...that child was NOT naturalized...thus he was born a citizen of the US and could not be compelled by a US court to comply with French law...not so with the parents... As for other foreign laws applicable to people in the U.S. of foreign parentage; also those of dual or multiple foreign citizenship .. They could only be held responsible for acts committed outside of the US within the jurisdiction of the other nation. Nor, btw, are they subject to recall by the other nation, unlike ambassadors or attaches... I've already noted the drafting of American men by Britain that considered them to be British subjects as well. The US never considered impressment legal. IN fact, one of the roots of the War of 1812 was impressment. I've been intending to get back to our Civil War discussion in this thread eventually and you are prolonging that by errantly conflating the 14th Amendment as if it's a nullification of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5's natural born citizenship stipulation which, according to your interpretation, would then do nothing whatsoever to protect the Presidency and Vice Presidency from divided allegiances and foreign complications and 14A would very much facilitate those national security dilemmas. The plain language of Article II Section I SS5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President... Can you find me what qualifications did a person need to be a *citizen* of the US in 1788? In other words, excluding those born in the US...the parentage of whom, btw, is an unknown...what made anyone else a US citizen? --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Uh...no...he requested a copy of his BC a couple of months before the nominating convention and not only posted it but allowed a member of the press to examine it... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Vague as hell. More specific: The article cites Sheriff Arpaio's Cold Case Posse investigation. Since you support a lying, sanguinary, communistic, monstrous criminal bastard as pseudo- president and the Sheriff works to effectively solve real problems foisted on us by people like your Obozo, I feel perfectly confident in rejecting you as having any credibility on this and going with his viewpoint. Obummer is a lying, sanguinary, communistic, monstrous criminal bastard, and you know it.
Hawaii states that it is not a forgery. Game over... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Oh, yeah, a state government can be trusted to give the straight story! Game over, uh huh! Because of dementia of your worldview and lameness of your arguments.
Lacking any proof other than stating that the then registrar has a funny name and that Barack Sr chose to call himself African rather than the American term "Negro" as proof of a forgery is a bit...well...not very compelling... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
There's nothing dumber that liberalism, unless it's coming here and expecting to convert people to it.
I'm not looking to do anything...but it was a poor choice of words for a forum and I've changed it...
--Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
Good! You admit you're purposeless. Please go away and stop wasting our time. Almost everybody else here is looking to get at ultimate timely truths, become better informed, test their wits and forensic skills. You were provided with a good mind, that's obvious, but a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Are you Jewish?
Not since Jesus... Almost everybody else here is looking to get at ultimate timely truths... On the internet? --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
No, here in the forum of course. Not since Jesus -- what does that mean?
Roses Are Reddish Violets Are Bluish If It Wasn't For Christmas... We'd All Be Jewish... --Perfecting Obscurity Since 1958...
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#127. To: war (#126)
I have no idea what your statement is based upon...
#128. To: NeoconsNailed (#125)
He's illegit because he's never proved he's an actual American
#129. To: lucysmom (#128)
#130. To: NeoconsNailed (#129)
Got a picture of it? hopefully not the one where the contents are straight though the background design clearly curving.
#131. To: NeoconsNailed (#127)
Yeah, sure you don't.
#132. To: NeoconsNailed (#129)
Got a picture of it? hopefully not the one where the contents are straight though the background design clearly curving.
#133. To: lucysmom (#132)
#134. To: randge (#133)
His real dad was more likely a card carrying communist whose name and face are now familiar to many who are following these things.
#135. To: lucysmom (#132)
#136. To: randge (#133)
His real dad was more likely a card carrying communist whose name and face are now familiar to many who are following these things.
#137. To: NeoconsNailed (#135)
Even if he were an actual citizen, there's still too much fraud and mystery all around him. As a mulatto, communist, warmonger and perpetual liar, he is NOT the founding fathers' and mothers' original intent for chief executive of this country.
#138. To: NeoconsNailed (#135)
Where is it to be viewed, warsmom, why did he balk for so long at showing it
#139. To: war (#134)
That does not make the document *fake*.
#140. To: lucysmom (#136)
Then his citizenship is not in question.
#141. To: lucysmom (#136)
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Then his citizenship is not in question.
#142. To: All (#141)
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those who don't understand the difference between citizenship and natural born citizenship or who want to discard Constitutionality on that point.
#143. To: GreyLmist (#141)
For the Presidency and the Vice Presidency, the Constitution requires natural born citizenship, which is not synonymous with citizenship in-general. It does not merely say that no person except a Citizen of the United States shall be eligible to the Office of President but "No person except a natural born Citizen"; meaning birth here to parents who are both American citizens at the time of it…
#144. To: lucysmom (#137)
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Obama was elected twice in the 21st century, it doesn't matter if the founding fathers, many of which were slave holders, would have approved of him or not.
#145. To: war (#138)
#146. To: lucysmom (#143)
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The 14th Amendment says:
#147. To: GreyLmist (#141)
For the Presidency and the Vice Presidency, the Constitution requires natural born citizenship, which is not synonymous with citizenship in-general.
#148. To: GreyLmist (#146)
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That Amendment isn't about natural born citizenship.
#149. To: GreyLmist (#146)
Children born here to a foreign parent are subject to the country of their parents' citizenship and acquire that citizenship by birth...
#150. To: NeoconsNailed (#144)
1. By your logic we should tear up the Declaration, Constitution, common law and rename Washington Obamaville.
#151. To: GreyLmist (#146)
That Amendment isn't about natural born citizenship. It only speaks of basic citizenship status in-general and the key phrase is "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Children born here to a foreign parent are subject to the country of their parents' citizenship and acquire that citizenship by birth -- foreign allegiance and obligation problems that our Founders intended to shield the Presidency and Vice Presidency from being compromised by. Only natural born citizenship by birth here to American-only parents (both the father and the mother) does not require legislation to determine.
#152. To: lucysmom (#150)
1. By your logic we should tear up the Declaration, Constitution, common law and rename Washington Obamaville. 2.OK, I had it backwards on that so-called birth certificate. The background pattern in flat and the stuff printed on it bends, making it one of the lamest forgeries ever.
#153. To: war (#149)
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IF what you promote here was to be true, what other foreign laws are applicable to people in the US?
#154. To: GreyLmist (#153)
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According to me, their child shouldn't be made liable for taxes owed by their parents and not them.
#155. To: NeoconsNailed (#152)
And he did balk
#156. To: war (#155)
http://www.storyleak.com/obama-birth-certificate-confirmed-forgery-according- top- experts/
#157. To: NeoconsNailed (#156)
http://www.storyleak.com/obama-birth-certificate-confirmed-forgery-according- top- experts/
#158. To: war (#157)
#159. To: NeoconsNailed (#158)
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Oh, yeah, a state government can be trusted to give the straight story!
#160. To: war (#159)
#161. To: NeoconsNailed (#160)
#162. To: war (#161)
I'm not looking to do anything..
#163. To: NeoconsNailed (#162)
Are you Jewish?
#164. To: war (#163)
#165. To: NeoconsNailed (#164)
Not since Jesus -- what does that mean?
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