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Title: The Pussification of The South
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Published: Dec 4, 2004
Author: lessgovernment.com
Post Date: 2006-06-23 23:54:51 by Mind_Virus
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Comments: 7
The Pussification of The South Dec 04, 2004 Recently here in Arkansas, it seems like the Clinton Library has been the big topic of conversation, saturating the news to the point of naseau on my part. Clinton maybe didn't suck, but he wasn't as great as liberals seem to think either. That's beside the point. Shortly before the mass of ceremonial bullshit that went into opening the library, a ridiculous bit of political correctness was undertaken in Little Rock, namely — pun intended — the RENAMING of Confederate Blvd. Now, part of the road had already been redubbed as Springer quite a few years back. The moniker assassins returned to finish the job recently apparently because of all the visitors that would be descending on Little Rock for the whole library shebang. God forbid someone should see the word "Confederate," be reminded of the Civil War and think of slavery. Of course, Little Rock has long been embarassed, I guess, about its most prominent historical event, that little thing about keeping black children from their educational rights. Here's the problem. Yes, racism is an ugly thing and certainly the South has been, and even, to a degree, still is today, guilty of racism, especially in the pre-Civil War days of slavery. But for once let's get things straight. The Civil War, the Confederacy, the Rebel Flag ... all these things are about something bigger — and a whole lot more positive — than racism. Racism has long been a side issue that has clouded the Civil War and its real reason for happening. The whole ideal behind the Civil War was states' rights, an issue that is no less important today than ever. I'm not a redneck. I'm not a white supremacist. When I yell "yee-haw!" it's all in good fun. I don't listen to much country music (there's lots of us down here that don't). Blah blah blah. But you know what? I love the Rebel Flag. (A) It's about rebellion, duh! (B) It stands for the rights of states to decide for themselves what to do without a bloated federal government sticking its goddamned nose in where it doesn't belong. The feds are there to set up basic constitutional parameters and maintain infrastructure. The rest is up to the states. Let's face it. Minus the whole slavery thing (which I admit was deplorable), the South was RIGHT in the Civil War. Abe Lincoln is not the super duper president schools' revisionist history has made him out to be. That's right, it's the so-called traditional history force fed you in school that's really the revisionist version of things. It's the doctored version. Why call the truth revisionist? And why go around revising things that don't need revising. There's no fucking reason the Confederacy — a noble part of Southern history — should be swept under the rug to save face in front of a few damn Yankees.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
I heard this argument all the time I was growing up. My father grew up in South Africa and defended apartheid and, to a lesser extent, slavery and Jim Crow. Certainly, part of the war was caused by a dispute between the industrial north and the agrarian south. That's still going on. But the proximate cause of the Civil War was slavery. Every bit of history backs that, and Jefferson Davis and his minions used class warfare to get poor whites, who had no chance of every owning a slave, to back the ruling class there. Just like the north used ignorant immigrants who couldn't have cared less what the south did. Slavery was and is wrong. And it WAS the cause of the war. Revisionism is an ugly thing. It is pretty hilarious when slavery proponents point to the bible as their justification. I doubt Jesus said "slaves, obey your masters." I imagine that was added by the Romans, who only kept their society afloat with slaves and conquering other countries. They would have collapsed with most of their men away for years and decades without the presence of slaves to do the work.
Sorry Mr. Mekons, but the war was started due to tarriffs and there is or was absolutely no analogy to the South and South Africa except for the word South.
That, and consolidating power in deecee, instead of the several independent state houses.
Really? So why wasn't every black man given their 40 acres and a mule after the war?
Why, then, did Saint Abe's "Emancipation" Proclamation so explicitly avoid emancipating every slave that Lincoln actually had any power to free (the slaves held in Northern states), and "free" only those outside his power to free? Also, who do you think wrote Romans? (Hint: it's a letter to the church in Rome -- many of whom were slaves. And no, Jesus isn't the writer.) More reading ... less imagining.
Tell it on the mountains, brother: "Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion[[[[here, the murderous traitor lies as grieviously and transparently as does Bush today -- there was never any "rebellion", there was only a lawful and legal effort to secede from a union in which the south could no longer find representation -- was this same transgression not the purported reason for the American revolution itself?!]]]], do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States[[[[he denounces the secession effort a "rebellion" before officially classifying a it as "rebellion" -- this traitor wasn't even on his game when he wrote this rubbish]]]], the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free;"[[[[hmmm, mizza Lincoln seh, wheyze de freedum fo us no'then darkies, seh if'n you pleaze, mizza Lincoln?]]]] This man was a despciable, murdering fraud "leader" that unfortunately served as a role model for the despicable murdering fraud leaders of today.
Slavery - the exploitation of an entire group of people for economic benefit - not only resulted in the greatest war and bloodshed on our soil, but also generations of misery and fighting between two groups of people, who if they had their own way, probably wouldn't be involved with each other at all. Or as little as possible. Not because of hatred, but because of lack of common interest. Illegal immigration will bring the same results. It is ALSO the exploitation of an entire group of people for economic benefit. It will ALSO result in the creation of an underclass who will not integrate into the larger society. It will ALSO likely be the basis for war between two groups of people trying to claim the same land - Mexicans and Americans. It is so predictable. Why? Because people don't really change. They just think up bigger lies to tell themselves.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
#2. To: Mekons4 (#1)
But the proximate cause of the Civil War was slavery.
#3. To: Rube Goldberg (#2)
Sorry Mr. Mekons, but the war was started due to tarriffs and there is or was absolutely no analogy to the South and South Africa except for the word South.
#4. To: Mekons4 (#1)
But the proximate cause of the Civil War was slavery.
#5. To: Mekons4 (#1)
Slavery was and is wrong. And it WAS the cause of the war. Revisionism is an ugly thing. It is pretty hilarious when slavery proponents point to the bible as their justification. I doubt Jesus said "slaves, obey your masters." I imagine that was added by the Romans,
#6. To: Enderby (#5)
so explicitly avoid emancipating every slave that Lincoln actually had any power to free
#7. To: Mekons4 (#1)
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