Many of those who enjoy reading my articles have asked why I haven’t been writing lately. The answer is quite simple. After a year and half on the road defending Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker and our Republic under God, I ran out of income to sustain my travels, thus my full-time work at a local Academy and part-time work at a local College.
BUT, I have not given up the Battle to stop Obama and his radical progressive, socialist, and Marxist followers from destroying our great Republic! Throughout the week and on weekends, I have been speaking across Wisconsin and the Mid-West proclaiming Liberty to anyone who will listen and take action. While Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have re-energized the Republican base and attracted many conservatives and independents, we must taken nothing for granted all the way up to November 6th!
And even if we win, we must continue to educate, promulgate, and disseminate the limited government, conservative, Christian, free enterprise, and limited government values and ideas that are the lifeblood of what makes our Nation the greatest form of government the world has ever seen.
God forbid, but if Obama wins, he will accelerate America’s socialistic slouching to Gomorrah. A Romney-Ryan victory does not mean that the “Cultural and Political War” to destroy our Republic under God is over. Far from it!
Secular-socialistic-progressive Left Wing Statism has so permeated our society that it will be a perpetual battle to stop their pernicious controlling ways from destroying the Liberties we cherish so much.
After traveling Wisconsin defending our Great Governor from the Union Re-Call Mobocrats, anarchists, socialists, spoiled teachers, and other radicals, I have spent my time traveling Wisconsin and the Mid-West with WI Senator Ron Johnson, ex-WI Governor Tommy Thompson and a myriad of other conservative candidates. I have been to Tea Party Rallies too numerous to mention and organizations like Wisconsin Family Council, Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, CPAC, Family Research Council, Stand Up for Religious Freedom etc. etc. etc…..
I am tired, very tired.
BUT, like Senator Ron Johnson told the audience at CPAC-Chicago in June and to me last week at our Thunder In the Valley Rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin: “TOUGH!” He’s right. Tough. We are in WAR!
About the time I think I cannot drive another mile, speak another word, or knock on another door, I see the bloody feet and bodies of our brave soldiers at Valley Forge, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, etc. I remember the sacrifice made by many Patriots of their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor; and I quietly get back in my car and then stand up to the podium encouraging more Patriots to join me in knocking on more doors and speaking to more neighbors “proclaiming Liberty throughout the land and unto the inhabitants thereof!”
Take nothing for granted, stay the course, continue to work hard, and do whatever you can to help save our Nation. Hopefully we can all celebrate on the eve of November 6th and get up the next day still trusting in God to help us restore our Shining Republic upon a Hill. Godspeed to you all!
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“A Romney-Ryan victory does not mean that the “Cultural and Political War” to destroy our Republic under God is over.”
It sure is a mystery to me that people can’t understand, much less accept the fact, the United States is NO longer a Republic and has NOT been a Republic for over 150 years! One more time! Lincoln said, “In saving the union I have destroyed the Republic!”
Here’s my article again. I just posted it a few days ago on a thread here.
What they ALWAYS fail to realize and address is the facts that times have changed and the way the US Constitution is interpreted has changed with those times. The liberals like to refer to this change in reading as the US Constitution being a LIVING DOCUMENT. If one will look back over my previous on Western Journalism you will see I explain this many times. I may post more of it again here, if I have the time.
The mistake made is that the US Constitution is NOT a Living Document. It is a STRICTLY interpreted document. Now, guess who was the first person, a president, too interpret the US Constitution as a Living Document? It was Abraham Lincoln. The end result, even according to Lincoln was a quote from him stating, “In saving the union I have destroyed the Republic.”
I ask any of you; Where is the Republic today concerning the US? Where is any Republican Rule of Law? I’ll tell you that it does not exist today in the US. Yet Americans go on believing and acting just like the US Constitution is in full force. They assume that congress and laws today will pass the litmus test of the US Constitution, and it will NOT! This is why you can name all the examples you did and you are correct. Laws are based today on democratic principles and the whims and prejudice of voters. This leaves out any protection from any form of Republican law or its’ actions of “Rule of Law”. Which also means the simple majority can pass virtually any law under the pretense of it being defined from the basis of a Living Document, the US Constitution. Of which this also means practically any law can be passed at any time depending on the way they wish to interpret it and according to the interpretation of the US Constitution as it would pertain to any such law being discussed.
As I’ve stated many times, today as a political system the US by practice is a “Federal Democratic Union-FORCED”. There is NOTHING concerning a Republican form of government about it, except it is used as a cover in efforts to make people think are still governed the way they were originally intended to be. It simply makes people feel good thinking they still practicing the original laws of the land and following the US Constitution like the good slaves they are. All the while they are being led like sheep to slaughter, being completely ignorant of their own demise. I see it happen here all the time. Only a few of the best knows and understands the truth of the matter…
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
And here is my followup response to someone who denied my post above, questioning it.
“…Lincolns quote “In saving the union I have destroyed the Republic.” was not in regards to any interpretation of the Constitution….”
Oh that is a good one, really good! Let me ask:
Just what is the US Constitution?
What makes it what it is?
What is the term given to the political system it establishes?
The answer to the last question is, it created a Democratic Republic or more simply a Republic. How many ways can one destroy a Republic? Cannot material and physical things be rebuilt? That is where you are leading with your following statements that the Republic was rebuilt; right? But the POWER that makes any Republic rests solely with people delegated to care for that Republic. Initially these people MUST agree on rules and regulations that define their Republic. This is where the term, “Rule of Law” comes into being, and it is applied equally to everyone as determined by the initial vote/creation of the Article that sets forth the initial laws of the land. “Due Process” is the exorcize of a Republican form of government in action.
We have started out with a Republic being a noun of a physical nature and we ended up with it in action as a verb being described as Due Process. The first must equal the second and last. You cannot affect one without affecting the other two. Destroy one and you destroy the others. In effect what Lincoln done was to destroy a people and culture, and with its’ destruction the balance of power was tilted one way. There was no more equality of the people delegated to the preservation of the Republic. The sovereignty of the people was usurped by the Federal Government in doing so and in the process the Republican form of government broken and destroyed. This is when the Federal Government declared its’ authority over the states, which it won by force and in the process by default created a democracy, though somewhat limited at first, it was given the power to eventually grow to unlimited power. Today this political system can best be described as a “Federal Democratic Union–FORCED”.
In achieving this destruction the US Constitution had to be changed in such a way as to limit any strict interpretation of it in order that the Federal Union is preserved. Lincoln originally done this by interpreting the US Constitution, not as it was strictly intended to be followed, by he interpreted it according to his own opinions, ONLY his! Accordingly this turned the US Constitution into a “Living Document”, open to interpretation by any one person or group of people having the authority that is now conveyed to them. The Rule of Law has now been broken in doing so. For any person, accumulating enough power is now above the law! Lincoln done it originally as is Obama is doing it today. Congress allowed this treason when it reconvened on July 4, 1861. (They had no choice as Lincoln had already forced the decision.) Read Lincoln’s speech to congress in order to learn exactly what Lincoln said he had done. In short Lincoln said he committed all his previous acts, against both North and South in order to restore order and “HE THOUGHT”, it was “HIS OPINION”, that he followed what the US Constitution strictly stated. He claimed he could not ask congress as required because they were not in session. Of course he didn’t say he broke the peace treaty with South Carolina in ordering reinforcements there against the will of congress! (This remained secret until after the war.)
So, you have a piece of paper called the US Constitution, which defines the will of the people as a Republic, governed by the Rule of Law and Due Process, which was broken by a president that didn’t follow the Rule of Law or Due Process, which ended up destroying one of the governing sides of people that formed this Republic, and you still think this is a Republic?
When you beat someone into submission and rule by force and fear, all you have is tyranny, NOT a Republic. You have destroyed their dignity, their loyalty towards you, and their God given right of Sovereignty (Choice, their free agency). Trying to reconstruct them in your own image is a big fallacy. It didn’t work on the Scottish, or the Irish, or the American Indians, and it didn’t work on MANY of us Southerners; Some scalawags it has worked on, (Lovinspoonful is a good example) but for old Rednecks like me, We’re UNASHAMED, UNREPENTANT, “UNPOLITICALLY” CORRECT, AND UNRECONSTRUCTABLE.
You destroyed your own country, so don’t ever expect me and my kind to ever help you keep what you now have. For you got it from destroying your now ex countrymen, including their properties of land and money, as well as any voice they ever had in government. Easier to say by conquer, rape, murder and pillage. In return you now have an Imperial Empire that is in its’ death throes.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Outstanding observation Mr. Vindicabamur, just outstanding. I would suggest you contact “Lawless America” as I think the founder of that organization and you could have some real common ground in which to re-awaken this dying sleeping giant called the USA. I am all for “States rights” and there are several western States that really identify with your southern thinking. Such as the “right” states have to succeed from the Union. Something quite likely and maybe necessary if “Bathouse Barry” wins on Nove. 6th, 2012
@Spudman2,
Hey there!
I appreciate your compliments and am glad that you have the ability and judgment to comprehend what I’ve wrote. Today most people lack such abilities and that’s why all of us are here having this discussion. But I’m afraid it’s even a little more complicated than that. Even the best intentioned thoughts concerning Lawless America cannot change the position of today’s country, much less the world.
I went over and looked at the website and I agree it has a lot of good things/articles on it, and they are trying to do the right things. But unfortunately I’m afraid it is too late for such activism to have any real positive effects. Now, I know you’re thinking that I’m being too skeptical and too quick drawing my conclusions, that I sound like a fatalist. However let me add the following, much of which I have previously posted.
When you have an ignorant brain dead public that can no longer discern and judge the truth for themselves, all they have to base their thoughts on is their opinions of who simply sounds the best and who promises them the most. In such cases it is usually the loud and vile mouthed, the arrogant ones who doesn’t show their weakness and ignorance of knowledge, but appeases the masses with promises of freedom and money. That is what appeals to the ignorant masses. And this is what we see in the debates by those who thought Obama and Biden did a good job, who thought they won the debate. This just goes to prove to everyone that NOT everyone deserves the right to vote, that the vote MUST be limited.
Many thoughts are presented as to why all people should or should not vote. However the past 150 years and the progressive socialist climb to dominance has led to the full democratic vote, including most people who don’t have the commonsense, wealth or basic knowledge to know how to wisely vote. Wealth and knowledge are pretty basic concepts and more easily understood by people in general. However the crux of voting lays in having the commonsense to vote in the first place. So the question becomes; What is commonsense and where does it come from. Let me explain further.
Commonsense comes from the practice of morality. As for morality, there is much mis-understanding concerning morality. Man does NOT and never will decide on what is moral and immoral. It is not in his capability to do so. What man can do is take the Laws of Morality and apply them, any of them as needed to better enhance his life and civilization. It is the same thing as being God’s determination as to what constitutes good from evil. Then morality can be applied as forms of social justice. Morality applied to one’s life is called moral fortitude. Moral fortitude is the basis for commonsense and logic. Now you know why the world doesn’t have any sense any more! It’s been replaced by social justice(civil rights) as proclaimed by the humanists and Marxists. In essence the country, the society of the USA has traded its’ morality and principles, what you can say is its’ commonsense for the democratic vote. Wherein society votes as to what constitutes morality and forces everyone to live by man’s law, MINUS commonsense and moral fortitude. (In public for public interactions.) This also means man is trading his Inalienable Rights for Civil Rights. (Which is a whole nother topic, but it simply means government becomes tyrannical and forces you to live by civil law instead of Natural Law and Inalienable Rights, which was originally the basis of the US Constitution.) How many people here know the United States has a “Creed”? How many know what this CREED is directing upon them, the country? And for extra points; Who can name any other countries in the world that has a Creed for its’ political system?
The US cannot be saved from this point because the US is already lost. It was lost when the US Constitution was broken and the people failed to acknowledge it was broken and they still fail to acknowledge it to this very day. (The author of the article proves this above.) This break allowed immorality to creep into the government at ever faster rates. The more immorality crept in, the more dumbed down people become, the less commonsense they had, the less moral fortitude they showed and lived by. And the faster the immorality increased in government as the whole process became a vicious circle!
Today there is no such thing as morality in government and very little in society. Society has been dumbed down and purposely under-educated all in order to empower man with Civil Rights at the expense of Inalienable Rights, Natural Law, commonsense, moral fortitude and morality. In essence man is claiming he is becoming as god!
So we have a whole country full of inbred(schooled) idiots that thinks they know everything and are the freest people in the world. It like the story of the king who had no clothes. Educate these people, get you morality back, then your moral fortitude comes back and finally, if you get all that back, you’ll get your government back. And that is why all the activism in the world won’t save your country!
In the process of doing this, you will come to vindicate my people of the South. I fight and do this for MY people and my people ONLY! I am saying to you, I TOLD YOU SO! You let a monster, a madman conquer and destroy an innocent people and a separate country that wanted no part of his destroying a Republic and the morals it originally had. (Slavery didn’t have a thing to do with it, except be used as an excuse.) You’ll learn all this and more IF you ever gain your morality back, but by then the country will be totally obliterated and destroyed.
And here is what the Pope had to say about morality.
At last year’s Easter Mass, Pope Benedict XVI made a profound statement. He said that the world had lost its’ ability to distinguish right from wrong. This is the same thing as saying the world has lost its’ morality. This gives anyone with any sense the ability to see that the world is headed for great big disaster.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Michael, If I understand your post, you would consider me a carpetbagger, however, THIS carpetbagger would stand by your side in a heartbeat should the winds of change become violent. Your views are spot on and in my belief, are shared by far more people in the country than you give credit for. Thank you for your very well written explanation of what we are facing here. I can only hope that a peacful resolution can be found and we do not have to go down the road of war with our own brothers. God Bless America!!
@Yods,
Oh to the contrary my friend!
It is a very misunderstood thing, separating the myth of “Yankees” and Northerners. There is a BIG difference! The knowledgeable Southerner knows that a Yankee is a LIBERAL, that Liberals of today is nothing more than yankees from 1860. Their ideology is the same. Not all Northerners are yankees and not all Southerners are real Southerners. It’s what you hold and believe in your heart that counts! Northerners in 1860 that agreed with the Southerners were called “Copperheads”. Southerners that agreed with the yankees/liberals were called, “Scalawags”. There were 10s of thousands of Northerners that agreed with Southerners in 1860 but they had no choice in their actions according to where they lived. Lincoln had 10s of thousands of them put into jails without trials or even charges levied against them. New York city rioted at the time of Gettysburg and it took 40,000 troops being dispatched straight from Gettysburg, from the main army, just to help stop the riots.
Times today are much the same, only this time the war will finish as a real civil war. That is when people, regardless of location will be uniting against a common foe. So, it matters not where you are born that counts. It is what is in your heart, what you really believe in that does count! You can be as much a Southerner as I am or any other real Southerner if the thoughts and beliefs or common to the original intent of Southerners. That is simply a belief in freedom, free agency of man, Natural Law, Sovereignty, honor(not the fake honor we see today), culture and heritage, as well as faith. This is just a basic concept and idea of what drives the original Southern concepts of society, including government. Of course different people will apply this slightly differently but these are the main tenets in general. Another way to understand this politically is by the definition of “Paleoconservative”. All the real Southerns are paleoconservatives. As for a couple of perfect examples of paleoconservatives that is well known, think of Ron Paul and Andrew Napolatino. Both are from the North and both are Southern…. They are my people too! It’s what’s in your heart that counts!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
God Bless you with good fortune and full crowds!! Thank you Jake for doing the things ordinary men and women are to afraid of doing, (self included). Although I try to talk the same talk, and walk the same walk as you have, it is extremely difficult for me to leave my home and my business to join you. I am a great debater and have many skills to offer, I am reduced to speaking to small groups and individuals to further our agenda of small Gov’t, freedom to speak, protect the unborn and reduce the effect the social liberals and lunitics have on our society. In the small town I live in, fraud is rampant, people on social security disability for years that could contribute somehow yet are a burden to society. Food Stamps, housing, welfare, BadgerCare to name a few are such a burden on us hard working people, and yet there are those who freely take this “entitlement” unfairly and think nothing of it! So, thank you for your continued agressive approach, and for doing the things that we (I) are afraid of doing or cannot do!!
God Bless you, your family and God Bless America!!
Here is a post I wrote for another thread. It also applies here.
Guess I’m a racist for not voting at all.
As for the FEMA camps, Obama did not start them. They were started under the first George Bush and plans were being undertaken long before that. Do note that John Sununu under George Bush 1st wanted Bush to declare martial law at the start of the Gulf War in order that the plans of establishing a New Constitution be enacted quicker. Problem was at the time they felt there was NOT enough FEMA camps and federal agents, along with the police to fully implement the goals. Seems the time is now about as good as it is gonna get. Also note that George Bush 2nd called the US Constitution a GxxDamnxd piece of paper. Think I’m lying don’t you? A Republican wouldn’t be that way; would they? Read it and weep comrades!
http://rense.com/general69/paper.htm
Sad thing is Romney is no different!
Same as Obama…
You have nobody but to blame but yourselves!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
The best way to start regaining your country is to know the following.
Understand that the USA today is NOT a Republic, but the term is mis-applied and purposely so in order to fool the people, which brings complacency.
Understand that it was Lincoln who first broke the US Constitution by his intents and actions. He done this purposely in order to fulfill his own goals and agenda. It had NOTHING to do with the common man. Lincoln committed TREASON by those unconstitutional acts he committed.
Understand that Lincoln fully knew and understood that he had DESTROYED the Republic. He said so himself when he proclaimed, “In saving the union I have destroyed the Republic.” Lincoln was a populist president as well as an opportunist president. He contradicted himself many times during his career, which in part helped garner him the nickname “Honest Abe”.
Understand this to start regaining your country. People MUST admit their wrongs before the path to freedom and Sovereignty can continue. Concerning the country people MUST admit past mistakes so they can accept the reality of the present. You must accept the reality of the past in order to accept the present reality before you can honestly address present problems.
Understand, in short this means in order to rectify the current problems facing your country today, you must admit where the mistakes first took place in order you have a proper starting point in correcting all the problems that has taken place since the initial problem started. Meaning you MUST admit that Lincoln was wrong, that he committed TREASON against the people of both North and South and that he destroyed the Republic in the process. Once you understand this, you will no longer refer to the USA as a Republic but as a Federal Democratic Union-Forced. (This definition best fits the real and current political system of the USA.) From there it becomes much easier to address the individual problems because then you will be reading and understanding the US Constitution through “STRICT” interpretation instead of how it is interpreted today as a Living Document.
Understand in doing these things you will be destroying the MYTH of Lincoln and his ghost that haunts the entire country to this very day.
Understand that is why the government cannot and will not allow such dissension to continue without rebuttal, which is why you are currently seeing so many pro Lincoln movies, most recent of which is from Steven Spielberg. The government will fight and resist you all the way! Fore to destroy the myth of Lincoln is to destroy the Forced Federal Democratic Union, which he created. Hopefully in the process society can regain enough commonsense and morality to re-establish their Republic properly.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Insightful. Thought Provoking. Intelligent. Well written. And correct. Thank you for sharing this history and your knowledge. I am sure there are many people unaware of this information. And I was partially unaware, so had to “quiz” my husband today. Now, I would like to go and bury my head in the sand, for just the rest of today. More knowledge than my brain can handle in a few hours. But honestly, thank you for blogging this. Perhaps you should write your own article and submit it to WCJ for all to read? Just my thoughts.
~Take Care~
Thanks to all that found my posts useful and informative. I’m afraid there is not much of a demand for writing such as mine since I am too far out of bounds for the mainstream readers. They have never heard of most of the things I mention so I will seem out of place and suspicious to the average reader. However I will state that my studies in history and political sciences are very well grounded and can be verified, usually fairly easy. The thing to remember about my POV and understanding of history is that I take a classical approach from the Southern point of view concerning history. Not that my POV is wrong, but it is the way Southern historians are taught concerning history, their culture and heritage.
One reason the average is not familiar with this type of presentation of history is because it is being subdued and rejected by the established educational system which of course is under direction of governmental educational authorities. Contrary to popular belief, the local schools and the parents of the children have little to no say in what books and educational materials are approved for use by the students. So the end result is the students gets a good helping of government sponsored propagandized education, including history.
To further your understanding of how bad this really is, let me also say, that the government educated revisionist (secularist and humanist which equals socialist) historians will absolutely NOT debate any classical contemporary Southern historian. They shun them like the plague! The best revisionist historian I know of is James McPherson and he will not address any such Southern historian. What few times such debates are held it has always and without fail been a win for the Southern historian. Sadly what we don see on the internet blogs, is revisionist historians that will single out mis-statements or the ignorant pro Southern statements and then set that person up for ridicule, pretending to present such people as the standard ignorant Southerner who doesn’t know his history, all the while inferring any person regardless of education is no better if they follow the Southern POV concerning history. I think it very hypocritical for them doing such a thing, and then refusing to debate the actual Southern historians. In the end the public still remains in the dark.
As for my above posts concerning morality and government, I will close with these last few thoughts. Although sadly, and I hate to say, they don’t conclude positively. I’ll leave it up to the reader to fill in the last part as to how it should end.
I’m afraid we have reacted too late and far too little. If any of you have been following my other articles, specifically the one concerning morality, moral fortitude and commonsense, it should be obvious that the moral state of the nation has declined to such an extent as to be almost non-existent. Even Tim stated in another article that many of the Southern related groups, that their members cannot see nor understand how reconstructed they have become. This is so very true and it is readily apparent by simply observing the commonsense that many of the members show. It is also a prime example of how groups such as the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group which has become PC.) have become so politically correct over the last several years. It’s simply because they are relying less and less on their moral judgments and more and more on the writ of the law and how society accepts this law instead of holding and showing their moral fortitude. The end result is they are dumbing themselves down to society’s level.
Now consider this applied to the whole nation. What is the first thing you think of when you consider how dumbed down and PC the nation has become? Sad thoughts isn’t it? Anyone with any commonsense at all should realize that morality, moral fortitude and commonsense itself is NOT acquired overnight or even in a year or more. Just as it took many years to dumb down society it will take many years to re-instill this loss of morality, moral fortitude and commonsense. Thus the question becomes; What will happen to us in the meantime? I can’t outrightly answer that with any definitive answer. However I can say that the pendulum must start its’ shift back towards morality at some point and until then things will only get progressively worse. Nor will the first one you ever be able to affect the societal changes that are now occurring. The pendulum beam making this shift has far too much momentum behind it for any group or groups, much less any single person, to ever effect it’s continued shift. No amount of educating will work concerning this either, as it takes years of instilling concepts into people, not simply educating them right from wrong, which is simply law. I leave it up to you the reader to ascertain for yourself what the results will be for the country and the world as this shift continues unabated for the next few years. Fore there is nothing humanly possible that can stop such a pendulum shift with this much momentum. If you think there is, I would definitely love to hear your thoughts on the matter!
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
Here is a letter from John C. Calhoun; Are any of you familiar with him? If not, Google his name as it is noteworthy to know.
I think the letter was Feb 1847. How much of this letter do you recognize as having been fulfilled today? Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
From Federated Republic to Great National Consolidated Democracy:
“But while [territorial acquisition, immigration and political representation] measures were destroying the equilibrium between the two sections, the action of the government was leading to a radical change in its character, by concentrating all the power of the system in itself.
It would not be difficult to show that the process commenced at an early period of the government, and that it proceeded, almost without interruption, step by step, until it absorbed virtually its entire powers.That the government claims, and practically maintains, the right to decide in the last resort, as to the extent of its powers, will scarcely be denied by any one conversant with the political history of the country.
That it also claims the right to resort to force to maintain whatever power it claims, against all opposition, is equally certain. Indeed, it is apparent, from what we daily hear, that this has become the prevailing and fixed opinion of a great majority of the community. Now, I ask, what limitation can possibly be placed upon the powers of a government claiming and exercising such rights?
And, if none can be, how can the separate governments of the States maintain and protect the powers reserved to them by the Constitution, or the people of the several States maintain those which are reserved to them, and, among others, the sovereign powers by which they ordained and established not only their separate State Constitutions and governments, but also the Constitution and government of the United States?
But, if they have no constitutional means of maintaining them against the right claimed by this government, it necessarily follows that they hold them at its pleasure and discretion, and that all the powers of the system are in reality concentrated in it. It also follows that the character of the government has been changed in consequence from a federal republic, as it originally came from the hands of the framers, into a great national consolidated democracy.
It has indeed, at present, all the characteristics of the latter, and not one of the former, although it still retains its outward form.”
(The Life of John C. Calhoun, Gustavus M. Pinckney, Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1903, pp. 178-179)
Hi Mike,
Since I find your “bloggings” so very intriguing, but I am not as knowledgeable in regards to many historical facts, I don’t know if you have ever heard of David Barton, but I hope you don’t mind that I have asked him to read your posts. He has been on Glenn Beck’s tv show on numerous occasions, and is known for his brilliant mind and information, and for being one of the greatest historians of our time. I just wanted to ask his thoughts on this, and also asked why we do not hear about these facts, or have ever read about them in our history books. Maybe they were there. But since it’s been eons since I have been in school, well……I have a hard time on occasion remembering all things I once learned. (Sometimes what I had for dinner last night.) Sorry, but I always need to keep my sense of humor, especially during these crucial times. Anyway, I hope he will post something on here, or get back to my personal email address. Either way, I think his information will be informative too. Will be back to blog again, if he doesn’t respond to your postings directly.
Thank you for all your time and knowledge, once again.
~Best Regards~
@isis55,
Hi there,
Yes I know of David Barton. Now I have to say my piece regarding Barton and Beck. First I don’t accept Barton for his historical claims, nor Beck. BOTH are neo-conservatives and are anti-Southern. They have a video concerning General N B Forrest that is a COMPLETE fabrication and completely misleads the public who actually paid money for this seminar. You can look at the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPtKVSLwYkk
They’ve also made other comments such as labeling Lincoln the savior of the country and praise him in complete disregards for what he actually done. They are Federalists and not proponents of State’s Rights. They need to read more from Thomas Jefferson, especially his 1st Inaugural Address.
I would have absolutely NO problem taking on either of them in a debate and would love to do so. But I especially dislike Beck as he has all the characteristics of a Lincoln Republican, which is actually a Marxist claiming the title “Progressive” and conservative. I would also ask that you look up the term “Neoconservative” and study its’ deeper meanings, especially compared to “Paleoconservatives”. In reality they are both Neoconservatives.
Now I will add that most likely David Barton and Beck will agree on my statements concerning morality, moral fortitude and commonsense. So at least this is a start. We will disagree on the KKK and N B Forrest, including Ft Pillow, which is what the video concerns.
If you look and read through many articles on the KKK you will note that Forrest was a founding member. However the KKK was founded specifically to address the carpetbaggers and and union government officials who were actually robbing and stealing property and wealth form the local citizens. A little known fact is the original KKK had 42 black members in it. Forest said of them, they were as good as any soldiers he commanded during the war. Forrest left the KKK after 10 years, app. 1876 because it was turning violent and vigilant against black people in general. Also President Grant had passed laws that was to affect the conduct of the KKK. However the KKK you know today was started in the 1910s and it was much more violent and racially motivated than the original KKK, even as the original KKK fell out of existence in about 1886.
Do note in your reading, if you read about these things, Forrest and the KKK did in fact attack and some claim massacre a group of about 200 blacks in the early 1870s. But also know that blacks helped Forest in this because that group was helping union efforts in taking money and land away from the locals. They would testify against the locals for the union government officials that wanted the property and money of the locals. Fort Pillow is controversial, if you read about the battle you can read accounts stating different opinions. The issue was settled by Gen Sherman who hated N B Forest and actually wanted him dead. Sherman called for a trial against Forrest, which was against Lee’s and Grants terms of surrender. The trial was held and Sherman presented himself as judge. Problem was the trial could never produce evidence that actually condemned Forrest. To which Sherman admitted, I wanted him hung but could justify doing so by the testimony of the trial. People to this day disagree with their personal thoughts, but the trial is the only official verdict that can be addressed by us today.
Show Barton and Beck whatever you wish. I’m sure they will disagree with the parts I mentioned simply because of philosophical and ideological differences. Others they will agree with.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur
@isis55,
Talk about lucky. I just came across this video on YouTube about Glenn Beck.
Maybe this will help you figure the guy out. He is NOT a good guy, not at all!
As I said before, he is a Neo-Conservative, or a fascist minus the white supremacy. Glenn Beck is in NO WAY whatsoever a real conservative!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiSze6oTq2E&feature=relmfu
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur