Confederate Values and Principles Remain Important

[redcliffsw]

Confederate Values and Principles Remain Important
   
The Confederate flag and other Confederate symbols including Monuments and Memorials represent the same principles as the original U.S. Betsy Ross flag-Limited Constitutional Federal Government, States' Rights', Resistance to Tyranny, and Christian Values and Principles. But Northern Socialist liberals have for the past 150 years berated, disparaged, and condemned the CSA and its symbols and through their propaganda have indoctrinated many Americans to believe that they represent racism, bigotry, and a painful reminder of slavery. The U.S. flag, the Stars and Stripes, is the official flag of the KKK and it flew over slave ships and the genocide and near extermination of the Native American Indians but it gets a complete pass. The two flags are not held to the same level of accountability.
     
Robert E. Lee had to make a decision in 1861. Defend the Constitution or defend the Union ? He made the correct decision to defend the Constitution. This makes him an American hero--not a traitor as claimed by some who do not understand the ideas and concepts of government as established by America 's founding fathers.  America was founded as a Constitutional Federal Republic composed of a Limited Federal Government and Sovereign States . In 1861 the Federal Government of America was taken over by Northern politicians, industrialists, Socialists, Communists, Atheists, radicals, zealots, fanatics, and hypocrites who were driven by greed, power, corruption and a burning desire to establish Socialism in America . They had a blatant disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights when it stood in the way of profit, power and total control of America  by the Northern states.
   
Former Confederate General Robert E. Lee stated in 1866 "All the South has ever desired was that the union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved; and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth."
   
Campaigns all across America have resulted in removing or suppressing Confederate symbols.  The Confederacy has been the victim of one of America 's most successful smear campaigns. Certainly, part is due to the old truism "the victors write the history" and much is due to heightened racial sensitivities in our current era, in which the Confederacy, which lasted 4 years, is seen as the principal villain in North American slavery, an institution which lasted more than 200 years in both North and South.
     
There are more profound reasons for the extreme contempt heaped on the Confederacy.  The dominant interpreters of American history have transferred slavery, disunion, and states rights to the Confederacy to purify and transform America into a modern and progressive social democracy.  Their efforts are only successful if one accepts the superficial view of history presented by the all pervasive supporters of the current American regime.
     
Much of the great intellectual foundation of the early Republic, such as the Federalist Papers and their anti-federalist counterparts, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, and the writings of John C. Calhoun (Disquisition on Government and Discourse on the Constitution and Government) are ignored in flagrant omission.
   
Why argue the Confederate cause 150 years after surrender? Why are Confederate principles and values important to the preservation of American liberty? Constitutional issues surrounding the secession of the Southern states; Lincoln 's destructive and brutal suppression of secession; criminal, corrupt, and immoral reconstruction policies; and post 1865 constitutional amendments are fundamental to understanding the erosion of liberty and expansion of Federal power.
     
The other facet is the Lincoln myth. The metamorphosis of a shrewd partisan operative into a national demigod sanctified violation of the constitution as acceptable. If the great and good Abe Lincoln did it, it must be right. Former New York governor Mario Cuomo defended an unconstitutional act by referring to Lincoln 's expedient violations of the constitution. If Lincoln 's gross violations of the constitution are justified, that gives a pass to later presidents, congress, and federal courts to do the same.   
   
If Lincoln and the Union cause in the War for Southern Independence (Civil War) are axiomatically right, then all arguments for Limited Federal Government and strict adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights will eventually fail. Those who believe that the constitutional compact of limited government is the essential characteristic of American liberty realize that freedom is not guaranteed by a taxing, regulating, and war-mongering government.  A vigorous defense of the Confederate cause as among the purest expressions of true American liberty and patriotism is essential. The founding fathers saw the constitution as a contract between the states, not a sacred blood oath binding one to obedience to a national regime. Modern day liberals and conservatives both promote the use of federal force and confiscation to achieve their goals.
     
Subsequent history has shown that our Confederate ancestors were right; the modern central government is a swollen monstrosity, with its tentacles grasping into every aspect of our lives. The constitutionally limited government of the Founding Fathers died at Appomattox Virginia on April 9, 1865. Abraham Lincoln broke the original Constitution and Bill of Rights and changed America from a Republic to a Socialist Democracy. Day by day America is becoming a Socialist police state.

Article by James W. King
Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp Commander
Albany Georgia
jkingantiquearms@bellsouth.net

[Wake-up!]

A well written article by King. The second to last paragraph pretty well sums things up, in my opinion.

When I look at America today, I see maybe one fourth of its population that understand "that the constitutional compact of limited government is the essential characteristic of American liberty, and realize that freedom is not guaranteed by a taxing, regulating, and war-mongering government". On the other hand, I see more than half of its population failing to consider that position. In my opinion, that 'more-than-half' are 1) government employees who live off other taxpayers, 2) those with their hands open for entitlements, thinking (falsely) that life provides things for 'free', and 3) those who have accepted the tenant that safety is better than freedom.

In deference to King, I believe (no matter how much I talk about them) that all arguments for Limited Federal Government and strict adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights have failed! American Socialism has won, it has inertia, it is a snowball gaining size as it rolls downhill. No vote of the people will alter it, no resistance from the one fourth will alter it, no political party will alter it, Trump sure as Hell will not.

American Socialism will not last forever, it will die of its own exhaustive inertia, as all socialistic systems do. Mao became China's Dictator in 1945 and initiated his Great Leap Forward, i.e., he initiated totalitarianism. When Mao died in 1976, China had the lowest gross domestic product of any modern nation. It was a country of sheer poverty (save the few very wealthy like Mao). Historians claim his programs led to an estimated half billion deaths from starvation.

An article in National Review in 1980, written by an American who had spent twenty years of his life as a consulate to the Soviet Union, said America did not need to fight a war with the USSR, that the USSR would internally collapse, the inertia of Socialism was choking it to death. The article cited numerous examples of its failed domestic economy. As an example, in 1980 the typical Soviet worker paid 2 months of wages for a pair of shoes made in a government factory. The shoes typically lasted 3 months before breaking and needing repairs. And of course, the Soviets also saw the handwriting on the wall, and in December 1991 the Supreme Soviet, the highest governmental body of the Soviet Union, voted both itself and the Soviet Union out of existence.

China has changed. The younger generation that followed Mao immediately started free-market reforms in Chinese agriculture. China's gross domestic product has increased every fiscal quarter since then! Although China still holds to centralized authority in many aspects, it has created free market zones. Those zones are alive with international trade, with price and product competition. A friend who travels to China every year says those free zones have less regulated markets then America has.

So has the USSR. It is now, some 12 or 13 independent nations, all with their own cultures and degrees of freedom and socialism. And all are doing better socially and economically than the old USSR. Smaller is better.

If the one fourth has lost, what are we to do? I propose we do everything we can to likewise see American Socialism collapse. Pay as few taxes as possible, work as little as possible (that's better for our health, anyway), get a government job, sign up for all entitlements possible, demand more and more services, bloat the system by getting in bed with the more-than-half. The next election, vote for the most socialistic candidate. We can't stop the inertia, it is too late. But we can help increase the inertia, help it all collapse. And when it does, be prepared to see Washington DC go the way of the Supreme Soviet, to see some States become independent, to see others realign with varying degrees of a central authority. Those will be dynamic times, not dangerous ones. Out of the collapse will come the opportunity for the one fourth to have the limited government we desire. And by that time, we will probably be more than one fourth.

And I've just proven I can be longer winded than James King . . . . . or good old Ross :<))

[sixdogsmom]

I do think you have a ways to go to outdo friend Ross. Enjoy your input, keep on keepin on!

[redcliffsw]

Wakeup that was good.  Liberals - that is the Republicans and modern Democrats do not share with Confederate values and principles.

Republicans and modern Democrats have shared values and they identify with each other by and thru Abraham Lincoln.  Tyrants and socialists.