Happy Birthday General Lee

Last year was General Robert E. Lee’s 200th Birthday. It was an extra special year with all kinds of extra events going on to celebrate General Lee’s 200th birthday; but just because its 2008 this year we must never forget to honor our hero’s every year and remember to keep their message alive because we are fighting for the same principles that the centralized power grabbers, one worlders, communist, leftist, anti-christian, anti-white haters have been trying to totally destroy.

Click below to watch a musical pictorial tribute to Robert E. Lee.
The 2nd video is a scene from the great movie Gods and Generals.

Confederate Generals Month

January is often referred to as “Generals Month” as no less than four famous Confederate Generals claimed January as their birth month: James Longstreet (Jan. 8, 1821), Robert E. Lee (Jan. 19, 1807), Thomas Jonathan Jackson (Jan. 21, 1824), and George Pickett (Jan. 28, 1825). Two of these men, Lee and Jackson, are particularly noteworthy. This is especially true, as this year will mark General Lee’s two hundredth birthday.

Without question, Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson were two of the greatest military leaders of all time. Even more, the Lee and Jackson tandem is regarded by many military historians as having formed perhaps the greatest battlefield duo in the history of warfare. If Jackson had survived the battle of Chancellorsville, it is very possible that the South would have prevailed at Gettysburg and perhaps would even have won the War Between The States.

As those who are familiar with history know, General Grant and his wife held personal slaves before and during the War Between The States, and even Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not free them. They were not freed until the Thirteenth Amendment was passed after the conclusion of the war. Grant’s excuse for not freeing his slaves was that “good help is so hard to come by these days.”

In addition, both Jackson and Lee emphatically supported the abolition of slavery. In fact, Lee called slavery “a moral and political evil.” He also said “the best men in the South” opposed it and welcomed its demise. Jackson said he wished to see “the shackles struck from every slave.”

However, Lee knew that what Lincoln was about to do was both immoral and unconstitutional. As a man of honor and integrity, the only thing Lee could do was that which his father had done: fight for freedom and independence. And that is exactly what he did.

Instead of allowing a politically correct culture to sully the memory of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson, all Americans should hold them in a place of highest honor and respect. Anything less is a disservice to history and a disgrace to the principles of truth and integrity.

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York, SC NAACP Harasses Local Businessman Over Confederate Flag

The York County NAACP chairman is attempting to bully the York City Council to force local businessowner, Bret Boyd, to remove the Confederate flag that flies in front of his business. According to the NAACP chair, Mr. Love, “Everybody finds it offensive.” Thankfully the mayor, city council, and the Business Association, have not cowtowed to the NAACP’s request and Mr Boyd, and SCV member, states that he will not dishonor his Confederate ancestor and remove the flag.

Vandalism Shakes Chickamauga’s Historic Cemetery

Vandalism of the historic Gordon family tombstones, Confederate soldier tombstones and other gravesites at Chickamauga Cemetery have left Chickamauga residents in disgust. Thirty gravesites were vandalized during the Dec. 14-16 weekend at the cemetery, which is behind Chickamauga First Baptist Church.

Culpepper, who is a Civil War expert, said he was notified on Monday, Dec. 17, that several tombstones at the cemetery had been destroyed. It was not until Wednesday that he learned that Gordon family’s tombstones had were among that those vandalized.

“It’s hard to put a stop to it (cemetery vandalism),” Culpepper said. “It’s hard to catch the culprits, but there is a $1,000 reward put up by the city of Chickamauga leading to the arrest of these people. And believe me, when we catch them, we are not going to slap them on the hand. They may be kids, but somebody is going to pay for this. This is just not Chickamauga. I will do whatever to put these original stones back. They need to be.”

“Vandalizing a cemetery is about the sorriest thing you can do. These are people’s lives. … Here it is Christmastime, a special time of the year… You don’t mess with family and hallowed ground,” Culpepper said.

According to Culpepper, a $1,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can give information to lead to the arrest of these vandals.

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Differences Equal Dollars: Why Missouri Should Say “No” to Freedom’s Frontier

The minutes to the August 9th, 2007 Freedom’s Frontier meeting held at Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri, reveal the course that proponents of Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area plan to use to interpret the history of the Kansas / Missouri border area.

Twice the neutral-value, concept of “no right or wrong” is mentioned as a marketing “hook”.

Supporters of Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area are quick to point out that the $10 million dollars that is to be distributed between 55 Kansas counties and 12 Missouri counties over the next fifteen years will be an economic windfall.

It should be noted, however; that Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area will be a government bureaucracy, ran by the National Park Service with paid employees. This means any initial windfall resulting from the distribution of the money will be offset by the expense to maintain it.

The fact remains that culturally, Missouri and eastern Kansas could not be more different, and despite their “no right or wrong” marketing ploy , it is a fact that there is much more money to be made in the private sector by promoting these differences.

A good example of this is the recent “Border War Showdown” football game between Mizzou and Kansas University. I can not remember in recent memory , in which the differences between two regions and cultures have been so celebrated. The following quotes were taken from news media outlets preceding this heavily promoted event.

From St. Louis’s Fox News 2 website dated Saturday November 24th, 2007

“For 116 years the Missouri and Kansas rivalry has been fought on the college football field but the “Border War” stretches years beyond that. “This is a deeply rooted rivalry of the nation,” says historian Mark Trout. Those roots aren’t just anchored in a football field they also reach deeply on the battlefield …

History chronicles many battles between the Confederates in Missouri and Union loyalists in Kansas. “You see this during the war in 1862 and 63 where you will see one side strike the other and the other will strike in retaliation.”

A true border war between the “Jayhawker” brigade and the still slightly celebrated Missouri men Bloody Bill Anderson and William Quantrill. It was in the summer of 1863 when Quantrill lead attacks in Kansas killing dozens and burning Lawrence but that say many it was retaliation for guerilla attacks from the Jayhawkers.

“It’s not the cute little bird we see on the bumper sticker,” says Trout. “The Jayhawker brigades will be known by people in Missouri as a bunch of ruffians and guerillas murderers and thugs. In Kansas they are praised.”

From the November 19th, 2007 edition of the Kansas City Star

These are just two examples of how the media portrayed the rivalry. There was no sugar coating the history, no neutral-value emphasis on not concentrating on “no right or wrong”.

Did this controversy keep people from coming to the game? No. Quite the contrary, the game at Arrowhead Stadium was sold out, and as the January 3, 2007 edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune pointed out,

“moving the games to Kansas City makes financial sense. The Chiefs have guaranteed each university $1 million per game, and that sum could rise if the games are well-attended. According to a university press release, MU will make about $1.8 million after expenses from the two games in Kansas City. That’s $1 million more than it would have netted over a two-year period”.

That’s not to mention the money spent on accommodations, food and other items that visitors who came to watch the game spent. Best of all this was done in the private sector, with no government bureaucracy, no added expenses, and no increase in taxes.

Missourians would be wise to let the Kansas idea of a bureaucratic Freedom’s Frontier , fall on deaf ears. Historical societies and heritage groups could work together by embracing the rivalry between Missouri and Kansas, by purchasing radio, television or newspaper ads during the period leading up to such sporting events.

The best part about all of this is that our true history can be preserved, along with property rights and without the threat of increased taxes or the baggage that comes with the hidden agenda from the global programs associated with Freedom’s Frontier.

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Romney Agitates Confederate Descendants

Elm Springs, Columbia TN Nov. 29

Sons of Confederate Veterans leader Christopher M. Sullivan issued the following statement in response to the CNN Republican debate Wednesday 28 November.

“Mitt Romney proposes himself to be president of the United States but last night he clearly demonstrated not only his ignorance of American history but also his contempt for Southerners who love and respect their Confederate ancestors.

“Gov. Romney went way over the line when he attacked Southerners for respecting the historical significance of the Confederate flag. Perhaps the citizens of his state of Massachusetts still hate Southerners, but Gov. Romney should not expect us to accept his outrageous attack on Southern heritage.”

Responding to a question about the Confederate flag, Romney said,

“That flag frankly, is divisive and shouldn’t be shown. Right now with the kinds of issues we’ve got in this country, I’m not going to get involved with a flag like that.”

“That’s not a flag that I would recognize so that I would hold it up in my room.”

“The people of our country have decided not to fly that flag. I think that’s the right thing.”

Sullivan went on to say, “We were not aware that the people of the country have had their First Amendment rights abridged as Mr. Romney seems to desire. Whether Gov. Romney likes it or not, Confederate flags are freely flown throughout the U.S. and in other countries as well.”

“The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. does not participate in partisan politics. We do speak out when anyone disparages the honorable service of Confederate soldiers and the symbols which identified them.” Sullivan concluded.

Confederate Flag Supporters to Retaliate against Romney, McCain, & Thompson

Confederate flag supporters are poised to attack Mitt Romney, Fred Thomson, and John McCain over recent anti-Confederate flag comments that the three have made.

Yard signs are being printed with Confederate flags and the words “Boot Romney,” “Boot McCain,” and “Boot Thompson.”

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Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson Denounce Confederate Flag

Presidential Candidates Mit Romney and Fred Thompson aggressively denounced the Confederate flag during the CNN /Youtube debate Wednesday night. Giuliani, Romney, McCain, and Huckabee battled it out over who had the worst record on immigration. Tancredo, Paul, and Hunter stood tall on conservative issues, but were given the least amount of talk time.

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul gives his take on the War between the States in this youtube video clip below.

Leftist Student at SIU, Brandon Allen, attacks Southern Heritage

Allison Petty:

To some, it represents a region, an era or a heritage. But to others, it symbolizes an attitude.

To Brandon Allen, the Confederate flag is more than just a piece of cloth.

Allen, an Undergraduate Student Government senator representing Brush Towers, has written a USG resolution calling for the university to ban non-faculty employees from wearing clothing that depicts the flag.

Allen said he was offended when he noticed maintenance workers in a university vehicle wearing shirts and bandanas emblazoned with the flag. He said he talked to other students and discovered many were upset after witnessing similar occurrences. Allen said he and other students viewed the flag as a symbol of hate, racism and white supremacy.

Senators on the Undergraduate Student Government voted on Allen’s resolution Wednesday evening. It did not pass.

Allison Petty can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 259 or allison.petty@siude.com.

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When Sharpton Attacks

By: The Unreconstructed Southerner

I ask for your indulgences on this issue but this is very important for myself and millions of Southerners throughout this land of ours. While hunting at a lodge this week, Vice President Cheney was maybe possibly in the vicinity of a Confederate flag, lets all gasp in horror as the media expects us to do. It’s sad that just a few decades removed from when the Democratic Convention featured the playing of “Dixie” that any Southern symbol is instintively attacked as racist and hatefil. True to form Al Sharpton demanded that Cheney “leave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people.” What do we say about the millions of Americans who view the flag with pride and a symbol of resistance to centralized federal tyranny?

Let’s not loose sight of the fact that Dick Cheney has been no friend of the South (or America for that matter) and nor has this Administration. Cheney forced the family of the late South Carolina Rep. Floyd Spence to promise to not display the Confederate flag or play “Dixie” if Cheney was to be present. No disrespect to the Spence family but I would have told the Vice President to take a hike.

This flap however highlights a point made by the late Dr. Sam Francis. Those who attack the Confederate flag are not merely enemies of the South, but of Christian civilization as a whole. The South is the best bastion and defender of the traditions of Christian civilization and we are therefore the easiest target. Yet Sharpton this year has been a poster boy of where the ultimate end of these attacks will take us. His vicious attacks on the Duke Lacrosse team, Don Imus, and now this serve ample evidence that Sharpton seeks to destroy any resistance to his cultural agenda: the humbling of Americans of European descent and their surrender to any political, social, and financial goals that he and his ilk demand. The same people who have attacked the flag and the South have attacked George Washington, all of the Founders, and even the so called Emancipator for their percieved heresies on the issue of race. This latest episode, while minor in scope, serves notice that all of the symbols of a self confident Anglo-Saxon culture are fair game in this Culture War.

Our resistance must be fierce and unwavering. Any attack must be met with moral courage and righteous anger at what Sharpton and Co. seek to do, not just to this country, but to us and our posterity. We will be proud of our heritage, we will not pay one penny in reparations, and we will not apologize for our ancestors. God bless and Deo Vindice.