How the Civil War Changed Your Life…..

How the Civil War Changed Your Life

 

AARP ^ | April 12, 2011 | Betsy Towner

 

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8 things to think about as we mark the conflict’s 150th anniversary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some ring strong: of course the end of slavery, perhaps the worst disgrace in the nation’s history. And the 620,000 ancestors lost. Other vestiges have weakened with the passage of time but are no less legacies of the four horrific, heroic years that shaped us as one nation.

 

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Here are eight ways the Civil War indelibly changed us and how we live:

 

 

 

Copperhead Official Trailer #1 (2013) – Civil War Movie HD – YouTube

Copperhead Official Trailer #1 (2013) – Civil War Movie HD

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WHY HAS THIS FLAG BEEN A WORLDWIDE SYMBOL OF OPPOSITION TO STATE TYRANNY?(CLICK-HERE!)
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President Harding Sends the Marines to Attack Gettysburg – 1922… “Once upon a time where was no political correctness about the Civil War. There were differences of opinion yes, but they were not exploited for political reasons like they are today.” | Veterans Today

Once upon a time where was no political correctness about the Civil War. There were differences of opinion yes, but they were not exploited for political reasons like they are today.

Throughout the ’90′s and into the new century many Democrats and Republicans alike competed over who could wipe their feet the hardest on Southern heritage to make themselves more attractive to the black vote. The Republicans have always lost big, and never learned.

A classic was John McCain playing Mr. Veteran, who understood about the sanctity of battle flags in the South Carolina primary. But Carl Rove just gutted McCain there. (Editor’s note: Ted Sampley told me Rove gave him $37,000 to attack McCain. Later, when Rove tried to get Sampley to stop, he refused. We miss Ted, cut out of better cloth than both.)

150 years later, Virginia treats Lincoln like a hero (Hooray for Hollywood)

150 years later, Virginia treats Lincoln like a hero (Hooray for Hollywood)

SF Gate ^ | April 11, 2013 | Christine Delsol

Jefferson Davis President 1861–1865 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

Posted on Friday, April 12, 2013 1:06:29 PM by Colonel Kangaroo

As the capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond, Va. could hardly be described as a supporter of Abraham Lincoln; its grand Monument Avenue is chock-full of oversized statues of heroes of the Confederacy, including Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Jeb Stuart. But now, nearly 150 years after the Civil War ended, Lincoln – or at least the movie version of him – is Richmond’s new hero…

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U.S. Still Making Payments to Relatives of Civil War Vets (143 Years Later, V.A. Still Pays Out)

U.S. Still Making Payments to Relatives of Civil War Vets (143 Years Later, V.A. Still Pays Out)

 

Breitbart ^ | 21 Mar 2013, | Wynton Hall

 

Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:51:06 PM by DogByte6RER

 

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U.S. Still Making Payments to Relatives of Civil War Vets

 

The U.S. government spends over $40 billion a year to compensate veterans and their family members for service in conflicts as far back as the Civil War.

 

According to an analysis conducted by the Associated Press, the costs of veteran compensation for previous wars are as follows:

 

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC PICTURES OF THE CIVIL WAR…

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC PICTURES OF THE CIVIL WAR

 

It is amazing how sharp they are;

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Click here: The Civil War, Part 1: The Atlantic

America – On The Brink Of Civil War – Viral Video | Politics… “America may be nearing war with most people in the country not even knowing it.”

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Is America on the brink of civil war?

This viral video from ThinkOutsideTheTV shows how America may be nearing war with most people in the country not even knowing it.

Exposing Washington’s TREACHERY while Making the Case for the Restoration of the Confederate Republic that was Never Surrendered- VIDEO!… The VIDEO herein is a shocking reveal of why the Civil War came about and the Real Reasons for IT; What was Created resulting from it;

Exposing Washington’s TREACHERY while Making the Case for the Restoration of the Confederate Republic that was Never Surrendered- VIDEO!

 

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Dear Patriots- bcc herein w/permission to forward (Reaching 2-thousand thru YOU & Thanks to YOU)

 

 

The VIDEO herein is a shocking reveal of why the Civil War came about and the Real Reasons for IT;

What was Created resulting from it;

How Lincoln and Company & those who followed ‘afterwards’ profited because of it (Politically & Economically),

and Its Relationship to the Present & that which now Exists in Washington disguising Itself as a ‘Representative’ body;

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The Distortion & Miss-Understanding, as acknowledged by the Black Community herein, with respect to the Nefarious Emancipation Proclamation and how it became

Washington’s ‘Cause-Celeb’ for their 150 Year Lie;

AMERICA’S NEXT CIVIL WAR!

“Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action…” … Aristotle

 

You’d think ole “Ari” might have been peering through some sort of cosmic window into modern day America some 2300 years ago with comments such as those above.

 

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There’s another way to look at it, as well. One can grudgingly admit that the Greeks, of 2300 years ago, were smarter than modern Americans. In my estimation—you’d be right. So, I tend to go with the latter explanation.

 

See, America is building a head of steam preparing to go to war with itself a second time at this very moment. This is not unusual—not in America. We have already had two revolutions. You may recall the American Revolution against Great Britain and the second—the War for Southern Independence, often erroneously referred to as the American Civil War, or the War Between the States.

 

December 27, 2012: The Day Freedom Died in America… (“Doug Hagmann courageously tried to warn Americans of a deliberate government planned Civil War in an article titled, “The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style”.”)

By Judi McLeod Thursday, December 27, 2012

 

It was five months before the November 6 presidential election when CFP columnist, Northeast Intelligence Network’s Doug Hagmann courageously tried to warn Americans of a deliberate government planned Civil War in an article titled, “The planned re-election of Obama, revolutionary style”.

 

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“According to my source, there is talk among the highest levels of the uppermost echelon of the Department of Homeland Security, which he describes as effectively under the control of Barack Hussein Obama. During this call, he said that the DHS is actively preparing for massive social unrest inside the United States. He then corrected himself, stating that “a civil war” is the more appropriate term.

 

Certain elements of the government are not only expecting and preparing for it, they are actually facilitating it,” stated my source. (CFP May 8, 2012)

 

(Reader Response; Gunny G) ~ The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body (Commentary)

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(For other info on congress, see Will Rogers)

 

A company of thieves…what more needs/can be said…

 

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We made a hard, left turn back aways inappropriately called “the civil war”!

 

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Then a lotta bumpy road since; and now….. “The Closer”!!!!!

 

Jimmy Hoffa, on Michigan: “We’re Going to Have a Civil War”

Yes, this is the same elegant creature who screeched about “taking out” Tea Party “son-of-a-bitches” [sic] at a presidential event last year. In case you’d forgotten, both the White House and the DNC conspicuously declined to repudiate his vituperation at the time. Now Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. has taken his anger mismanagement show to CNN, seething about an incipient “civil war” in Michigan:

 

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Jimmy Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Tuesday he expects Michigan unions and lawmakers to break out into “civil war” after the state legislature passed right-to-work bills that would weaken unions’ power. “This is just the first round of a battle that’s going to divide this state. We’re going to have a civil war,” Hoffa said on CNN’s Newsroom.

 

 

 

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“What they’re doing is basically betraying democracy,” he told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin. “If there’s any question here, let’s put it on the ballot and let the people of Michigan decide what’s good for Michigan.” Proponents of the legislation say it gives workers more freedom, while opponents say a less robust union presence will negatively affect workers’ rights. Hoffa also argued that those who don’t pay union dues will be considered “free riders,” as they’re getting the same benefits from union representation without the cost.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War By Noel Sheppard Created 12/08/2012 – 11:13am

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, “It’s divided our country in a way that we haven’t been divided probably since the Civil War.”

 

Robert Kennedy Jr. in Urbana, IL Français : Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. à Urbana, en Illinois (États-Unis). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

This occurred during an online video interview with the Huffington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):

 

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR: There’s two things happening. One is the influence of big money in politics, and the other is the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News. 95 percent of talk radio in our country is right-wing, and you need, according to Pew survey, and you, so a whole section of our country that that’s what they’re hearing. They wake up in the morning, when they go to bed at night.

 

Charles Krauthammer The President Wants to Create a “Civil War” in the House… (Gunny G: And, As Usual, The “Reader Responses” Are As Good Or Better Than The Article!)

Charles Krauthammer The President Wants to Create a “Civil War” in the House

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Posted on Friday, December 07, 2012 7:04:29 AM by lowbridgeVideo at linkExcerpt Read more at youtube.com …

Gunny G: What “The Folks” Are Saying About… (Reader Responses…) ~ CIVIL WAR II America’s new cold war

CIVIL WAR II America’s new cold war

Self ^ | 2012 | Steve Newton

Posted on Wednesday, December 05, 2012 7:24:06 PM by Steve Newton

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After a contentious election sometimes emotions run high. The winners are jubilant and the losers are despondent. This time it’s different. After 4 years of an “us against them” policy this nation has never been as divided as we are now since the first civil war. What may have been a deliberate policy to win an election may well transform into a monster that will devour us all.

Obama (Again) Compared To Lincoln

Obama (Again) Compared To Lincoln

 

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Big Hairy News ^ | November 15, 2012 | Scooter Van Neuter

 

Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:59:20 PM by WXRGina

 

In an interview on NBC’s Nightly News, “Lincoln” director Steven Spielberg drew comparisons between the iconic 16th president, and Barack Obama.

 

“Lincoln advocated things that we hold dear today, like class warfare, gay marriage, and giving everybody a free cell phone,” said Spielberg. “He advocated that government can be a positive force for the good of all people, especially if you’re lazy and not white.”

 

Ron Paul: Secession Is an American Principle…

Ron Paul‘s Video Updates / Ron Paul: Secession Is an American Principle

Ron Paul: Secession Is an American Principle

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By RonPaul.com on November 13, 2012

Ron Paul: This weekend I got a couple of calls from the media asking me questions about Rick Perry, our governor here in Texas and the statements he made about possible secession.

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, he didn’t call for secession, but he was restating a principle that was long held and at least in the original time of our country, and that is that there was a right to secession.

Actually, after the Civil War, nobody believes there is a so-called right to secession, but it is a very legitimate issue to debate because all of the states that came into the Union before the Civil War believed they have a right to secede and New England in the early part of the 19th century actually considered it, and nobody questioned them about whether they had the right to do it or not.

Civil War, the U.S. Constitution and History

We should do our best to avoid another Civil War and the best way to do that is to insist upon faithful adherence to the U.S. Constitution.

An article entitled The U.S. Constitution and Civil War, posted at my blog on December 27, 2011, has received more “hits” than any other post there. It has received 14.66% of my total hits this year thus far; 33.10% of those hits came this October, more than in any previous month. Another article, Shall we Have Another Civil War posted on August 10, 2011, has also received many hits this year.

Andrew Sullivan warns of the Confederacy making a comeback if GOP wins Virginia, Florida… (““If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it’s the Confederacy, entirely,” Sullivan declared…”)

Andrew Sullivan warns of the Confederacy making a comeback if GOP wins Virginia, Florida

 

The Daily Caller ^ | October 28, 2012 | Jeff Poor

 

Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:15:40 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

 

English: A photo of author and political commentator Andrew Sullivan. Taken in Amsterdam, Holland with a Nikon D2Xs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

If you think comparing Mitt Romney’s supporters in the American South to the Civil War’s Confederacy would be irresponsible and racially suggestive, Daily Beast “Daily Dish” blogger Andrew Sullivan apparently disagrees with you.

 

“If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it’s the Confederacy, entirely,” Sullivan declared on this weekend’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

 

Undeniable, American Civil War, it is in the Cards ~ (“You hear it only in whispers. Americans, those who used to consider themselves liberal or conservative, urban or rural, all races, religions and ethnicities are whispering”) | Veterans Today

 

You hear it only in whispers. Americans, those who used to consider themselves liberal or conservative, urban or rural, all races, religions and ethnicities are whispering.

 

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With America’s new laws, universal wiretapping, total supervision of the Internet, networks of informants throughout the population, there is a genuine fear, neither of invasion nor of collapse and starvation though those are seen as more than “probable.”

 

(“Most Americans agree that the Democrat and Republican establishments are infested by individuals whose allegiance is not to their country, but to themselves and their political party.”) ~ Will An Obama Victory Spark A Civil War In The US?

 

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Most Americans agree that the Democrat and Republican establishments are infested by individuals whose allegiance is not to their country, but to themselves and their political party. Their aim is to be unconstrained by the Constitution and the rule of lawand unaccountable to the American people.

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Leftists Can’t Break 200-Year Racism Habit… Ann Coulter

 

Democrats spent the first century of this country’s existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults.

 

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After fighting the Civil War to continue enslaving black people and then subjecting newly freed black Americans to vicious, humiliating Jim Crow laws and Ku Klux Klan violence, Democrats set about frantically rewriting their own ugly history.

 

Step 1: Switch “Democrat” to “Southerner”;

 

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Gunny G: How and When Marxism Found Its Way To America…

Most people are satisfied with the party line regarding the Civil war (so-called), Lincoln, The Republican Party (GOP), Slavery, etc.

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Likewise, they also accept that Marxism, or communism, is a fairly recent event in the United States, and little is known of Karl Marx, nor do they suspect that Marxism is at all related to the history of Civil War times and the well-known individuals of that era. Such information, though, is readily available.

Blasphemy in Song by Laurence M. Vance (Battle Hymn of The Republic))

 

Although most Americans who are familiar with this “patriotic anthem” rightly connect it with the so-called Civil War, many probably don’t know who wrote it, and even fewer know anything about how it came about.

 

How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War (Excerpt!!!!!)

 

How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War

 

Reason Papers ^ | Spring 2006 | TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

 

Posted on Monday, September 17, 2007 5:35:27 PM by Delacon

 

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How Libertarians Ought To Think About The U.S. Civil War

 

By Timothy Sandefur

 

[Reason Papers vol. 28, pp. 61-83, Spring 2006]

 

I. Introduction

 

For decades, outspoken libertarians have seen the Civil War not

 

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only as a

 

historical calamity, but as a political calamity as well. According to many libertarians,

 

the Union victory in the Civil War, and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln in general,

 

represented a betrayal of American Constitution and of the fundamental principles of

 

American political philosophy.

 

Gunny G: Just Where Did The Term “Leatherneck” Originate? « CITIZEN.BLOGGER.1984+ GUNNY.G BLOG.EMAIL

 

“It is questionable whether the origin of the term “Leatherneck” can be accepted as a legitimate member of the family of legends. More like a tradition, it is. For there can be no doubt of the origin, considering that U. S. Marines

 

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of three generations wore leather collars. It is as obvious as the nickname “Red” for a recruit with carrot-colored hair and freckles.

 

America’s coming civil war — makers vs. takers

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America‘s coming civil war — makers vs. takers

Fox News ^ | 7-12-12 | Arthur Herman

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:03:02 PM by dynachrome

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

Those were Abe Lincoln’s words in his first inaugural in 1861, as America was running headlong into civil war. Now we’re a house divided again and another civil war is coming, with the 2012 election as its Gettysburg.

Call it America’s coming civil war between the Makers and the Takers.

On one side are those who create wealth, America’s private sector–the very ones targeted by President Obama’s tax hikes announced Monday.

On the other are the public employee unions; left-leaning intelligentsia who see the growth of government as index of progress; and the millions of Americans now dependent on government through a growing network of government transfer payments, from Medicaid and Social Security to college loans and corporate bailouts and handouts (think GM and Solyndra).

The Author of the Civil War…

Sir Walter Scott not only dominated gift book lists on the eve of the Civil War but also dominated Southern literary taste throughout the conflict. His highly idealized depiction of the age of chivalry allowed Southern readers and writers to find positive meaning in war’s horrors, hardships and innumerable deaths. And his works inspired countless wartime imitators, who drew upon his romantic conception of combat.

Prison Planet.com » Hubris as the Evil Force in History

I have always been intrigued by the Battle of Bull Run, the opening battle of the US Civil War, known to southerners as the War of Northern Aggression. Extreme hubris characterized both sides, the North before the battle and the South afterwards.

Republican politicians and their ladies in their finery road out to Manassas, the Virginia town through which the stream, Bull Run, flowed, in carriages to watch the Union Army end the “Southern Rebellion” in one fell swoop. What they witnessed instead was the Union Army fleeing back to Washington with its tail between its legs. The flight of the northern troops promoted some southern wags to name the battle, the Battle of Yankee Run.

The outcome of the battle, left the South infected with the hubris that had so abruptly departed the North. The southerners concluded that they had nothing to fear from cowards who ran away from a fight. “We have nothing to worry about from them,” decided the South. It was precisely at this point that hubris defeated the South.

(“The “Battle” of Sand Creek could be considered the last engagement in which the U.S. flag flew over Americans who mounted a desperate defense of their homes and families against a barbarous aggressor.”) What To Remember on Memorial Day by William Norman Grigg

The “Battle” of Sand Creek could be considered the last engagement in which the U.S. flag flew over Americans who mounted a desperate defense of their homes and families against a barbarous aggressor.

Black Kettle, Southern Cheyenne chief (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

During the months leading up to the November 1864 attack on the Sand Creek Reservation, Black Kettle had cooperated in efforts to identify and apprehend Indians who had stolen horses and attacked white settlers. He had also repeatedly petitioned both civilian and military officials on behalf of Indians who had suffered similar abuses.

“The Indians talk very bitterly about the whites – say they have stolen their ponies and abused their women, taken their hunting grounds, and they expected that they would have to fight for their rights,” wrote Lt. George Hawkins in an official report filed during the bitter winter of 1863. The concept that Indians had rights they were entitled to defend was foreign to Colorado Governor John Evans and General Samuel Curtis.

During a September 1864 conference in Denver, Evans disingenuously insisted that owing to a “state of war” the military had plenary authority over Indian affairs, and that he was powerless to negotiate a peace treaty. Curtis wasn’t interested in a modus vivendi with the Indians: “I want no peace until the Indians suffer more,” he wrote in a directive to Colonel Chivington.

(“Another Massacre Of Indians”) What To Remember on Memorial Day by William Norman Grigg

Colonel John Milton Chivington, United States Army (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“What you are proposing is murder,” Lt. Joseph Cramer told his commanding officer, Colonel John Chivington of the Third Colorado Cavalry, shortly before daybreak on the morning of the planned assault. Cramer and several other members of Chivington’s command staff had severe misgivings about the prospect of a sneak attack against a band of defenseless of Cheyenne Indians who had been promised protection.

Black Kettle, Southern Cheyenne chief (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Chief Black Kettle had distinguished himself through repeated efforts to secure the peace – on one occasion riding weaponless between opposing skirmish lines to prevent a battle from breaking out. In witness of his non-belligerency he had been provided with a United States flag by military officers who promised to protect the Cheyennes and Arapahos who lived in his encampment.

The “Battle” of Sand Creek could be considered the last engagement in which the U.S. flag flew over Americans who mounted a desperate defense of their homes and families against a barbarous aggressor.

During the months leading up to the November 1864 attack on the Sand Creek Reservation, Black Kettle had cooperated in efforts to identify and apprehend Indians who had stolen horses and attacked white settlers. He had also repeatedly petitioned both civilian and military officials on behalf of Indians who had suffered similar abuses.

“The Indians talk very bitterly about the whites – say they have stolen their ponies and abused their women, taken their hunting grounds, and they expected that they would have to fight for their rights,” wrote Lt. George Hawkins in an official report filed during the bitter winter of 1863. The concept that Indians had rights they were entitled to defend was foreign to Colorado Governor John Evans and General Samuel Curtis.

During a September 1864 conference in Denver, Evans disingenuously insisted that owing to a “state of war” the military had plenary authority over Indian affairs, and that he was powerless to negotiate a peace treaty. Curtis wasn’t interested in a modus vivendi with the Indians: “I want no peace until the Indians suffer more,” he wrote in a directive to Colonel Chivington. “Pursue everywhere and chastise the Cheyennes and the Arapahos…. No presents must be made and no peace concluded without my consent.”

Chivington was indecently eager to carry out that barbarous directive. Considered a war hero of sorts following a Civil War engagement with Confederate forces in New Mexico, Chivington chafed under the restraints placed on his volunteers. He also resented the fact that the Third Colorado Cavalry, which had yet to see action, had been saddled with the sardonic sobriquet “The Bloodless Third.”………

EXCERPT

via What To Remember on Memorial Day by William Norman Grigg.

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When America Went Crazy by Eric Peters « CITIZEN.BLOGGER.1984+ GUNNY.G BLOG.EMAIL

America lost its mind 146 years ago and hasn’t been the same since. Or rather, it’s been a different country ever since.

Civil War shipwreck creates hurdle for government’s $653M plan

Before government engineers can deepen one of the nation’s busiest seaports to accommodate future trade, they first need to remove a $14 million obstacle from the past — a Confederate warship rotting on the Savannah River bottom for nearly 150 years.

Confederate troops scuttled the ironclad CSS Georgia to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union troops took Savannah in December 1864. It’s been on the river bottom ever since.

Now, the Civil War shipwreck sits in the way of a government agency’s $653 million plan to deepen the waterway that links the nation’s fourth-busiest container port to the Atlantic Ocean. The ship’s remains are considered so historically significant that dredging the river is prohibited within 50 feet of the wreckage.

So the Army Corps of Engineers plans to raise and preserve what’s left of the CSS Georgia. The agency’s final report on the project last month estimated the cost to taxpayers at $14 million. The work could start next year on what’s sure to be a painstaking effort.

Fred On Everything ~ The Need to Lynch Zimmerman The Coming Race War in America

The Need to Lynch Zimmerman

The Coming Race War in America

April 19, 2012

The Coming Race War in America was published in 1996 by Carl Rowan, the black columnist and former ambassador to Finland. The title is not ironic. He foresaw a major racial explosion. The book of course was furiously ignored. It should not have been. It dealt with an apocalyptic vision that has lurked around the edges of American consciousness since before the Civil War. And still does. We just don’t talk about it.

What has this to do with Zimmerman?

This: Our racial policy has proved a disaster. Sixty years after Brown vs. the School Board, blacks have not assimilated. They constitute a separate people having almost nothing in common with the surrounding European society. They fiercely maintain their identity with their own music, dialect, customs, dress, and names. All attempts to turn them into middle-class whites in darker packaging have failed. Only relentless governmental pressure forces an appearance of partial integration.

Confederate Memorial Day in Dixie

The South still remembers the men and women of the Confederate States of America who came from all races and religions that include: Cuban born Confederate Colonel Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, Irish-born General Patrick R. Cleburne and Black Confederate drummer Bill Yopp.

Typical First National Flag (Stars and Bars) 7-star battle ensign design. (4 May 1861 – 21 May 1861) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Barack Obama Was A Foreign Student – American Media Threatened into Silence | Western Journalism.com

…One of the few media outlets reporting fully on the Cold Case Posse is the Tea Party Tribune of Arizona. On March 21st, the Tribune reported that Sheriff Arpaio has asked the Selective Service headquarters in Virginia for the original card itself in an effort to determine its authenticity within the Selective Service System.

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According to the Tribune, Sheriff Arpaio expressed his confidence that the agency would investigate the matter. This remains to be seen.

U.S. Civil War Took Bigger Toll Than Previously Estimated

Jefferson Davis, Präsident der CSA Deutsch: 1861: Jefferson Davis (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Civil War — already considered the deadliest conflict in American history — in fact took a toll far more severe than previously estimated. That’s what a new analysis of census data by Binghamton University historian J. David Hacker reveals.

Hacker says the war’s dead numbered about 750,000, an estimate that’s 20 percent higher than the commonly cited figure of 620,000. His findings will be published in December in the journal Civil War History.

“The traditional estimate has become iconic,” Hacker says. “It’s been quoted for the last hundred years or more. If you go with that total for a minute — 620,000 — the number of men dying in the Civil War is more than in all other American wars from the American Revolution through the Korean War combined. And consider that the American population in 1860 was about 31 million people, about one-tenth the size it is today. If the war were fought today, the number of deaths would total 6.2 million.”

(Col Sellin ~ “They Are Afraid of Us”) Why the News Blackout of Possibly Greatest Constitutional Crisis since the Civil War? » Publications » Family Security Matters

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…..More revelations stemming from the Arpaio investigation will undoubtedly be forthcoming. Yet despite the potential historic Constitutional implications and reminiscent of Lenin’s dogma, the politicians and the media not only remain silent but actively suppress legitimate inquiry.

Why is that? Because facts are stubborn things.

President John F. Kennedy said:

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people.”

The politicians and the media are afraid to let the American people judge the truth and falsehood of their statements and actions.

They are afraid of us……

Civil War POW Camps

Mike Wright wrote, “On both sides of the war, men and women were locked away in dark prisons or held in outdoor camps under blistering sun and freezing snow. They were fed too little and lived and died under primitive conditions.” [1] There were approximately 193,743 Northerners and 214,865 Southerners held during the war.

Prison Planet.com » Thugs with Joysticks VS Thugs in Jackboots

Which is scarier?

Through the ages, the idea of soldiers barging into homes, pillaging, raping and killing, has stricken fear into the hearts of the oppressed.

Before and during the Wars of Independence in Scotland, English lords and their forces plucked defenseless women from their homes, killed everyone else, then burned the structures to the ground.

During the US Civil War, militia in search of food and supplies invaded the homes of unprotected women and children.

Back in Nazi Germany, folks lived in fear of jackbooted thugs kicking in their doors and searching their homes to find contraband or hidden fugitives.

Since 1968, the armed forces of the United States has been actively practicing Civil Disturbance Planning in conjunction with the police and the National Guard.

Even today, the US military practices kicking down civilian doors while executing drills in Germany in a facility in Baumholder designed to be similar to an American apartment building.

(Alan Stang, Thomas DiLorenzo, Etc…) Neo-Confederate – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Neo-Confederate views of the Republican Party

Many neo-Confederates are openly critical of the Republican Party.

Conservative columnist Alan Stang, in a Southern Mercury article, “Republican Party: Red From the Start”, sees a communist conspiracy in the Republican party of the mid-19th century. He alleges that the 1848 revolutionaries in Europe were communists and that some of these revolutionaries came to America after the failed 1848 revolution to perpetrate some type of communist agenda in the United States. Stang states:

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… Lee and Jackson did not fully comprehend what they were fighting. Had this really been a “Civil” War, rather than a secession, they would and could have easily seized Washington after Manassas and hanged our first Communist President and the other war criminals.”

Another quote is:

So, again, the Republican Party did not “go wrong.” It was rotten from the start. It has never been anything but red. The characterization of Republican states as “red states” is quite appropriate.[32]

The dots of history Have Been connected for You — Confederate non-Surrender…

Dear Brethren (hundreds bcc herein-permission to forward),

 

 

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  For nearly 20 years the Confederate Society of America has been providing you with detailed information drawn from many Historical Sources that would substantiate our many claims heretofore described by our adversaries as ‘baseless allegations’.

 During this time period we have equally called for the development and advancement of a Confederate Alliance consisting of like-minded organizations whose basic conscript is the recognition of another’s Independent Sovereignty without which, there would be no such advancement.

From this Alliance, additional & key information has continually come forth, equally supporting our position thanks to our Confederate Colleagues within them.

 

Therefore, and with your permission, let me provide y’all with an ‘incorporation’ of those MANY materials heretofore sent out wherein the…..

‘Historical Dots I Have Heretofore Suggested You Connect, Have Been Connected For You’:

 

Army Col Lawrence Sellin: Obama’s ineligibility greatest crisis since Civil War…must be dealt with before election…

Army Col Lawrence Sellin: Obama‘s ineligibility greatest crisis since Civil War

Army Col Lawrence Sellin: Obama’s ineligibility greatest crisis since Civil War: “‘Army Colonel Lawrence Sellin: Obama’s ineligibility greatest crisis since the Civil War; It must be dealt with before election

(“The Civil War has become untouchable, unless you agree with the standard arguments. 1. Lincoln was a god among men. 2. The South was evil. 3. Union is the ultimate goal of the American experiment. 4. The Federal government’s design trumps the rights of the People, and the States. 5. Political bands are eternal, and must be preserved at all costs. 6. The ends justify the means.The arguments for the necessity of the War between the States are considered unassailable, and I have noticed lately that the political-correctness has reached such a high level that even purportedly conservative blogs are beginning to remove threads that stray into pro-rebellion territory”) The Original Secessionists

There is nothing more irritating to a warrior-poet than an unwillingness to debate. If speech is troubling, or blatantly false, or amateurish, then it will fall of its own weight. I don’t need, and I suspect a majority of truthseekers don’t want, an administrator hovering above the public forum deciding which issues are too controversial for polite company.

 

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The Civil War has become untouchable, unless you agree with the standard arguments. 1. Lincoln was a god among men. 2. The South was evil. 3. Union is the ultimate goal of the American experiment. 4. The Federal government’s design trumps the rights of the People, and the States. 5. Political bands are eternal, and must be preserved at all costs. 6. The ends justify the means.The arguments for the necessity of the War between the States are considered unassailable, and I have noticed lately that the political-correctness has reached such a high level that even purportedly conservative blogs are beginning to remove threads that stray into pro-rebellion territory

Robert E. Lee: Remembering an American Legend

Robert E. Lee: Remembering an American Legend

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Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:35:41 PM by BigReb555

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Thursday, January 19, 2012, is the 205th birthday of General Robert E. Lee, whose memory is still dear in the hearts of people everywhere.

Will Ron Paul Destroy the ‘Party of Lincoln’? by Thomas DiLorenzo

Former Bush administration speechwriter Michael Gerson, who is now a columnist for the company newspaper of the company town known as Washington, D.C., recently authored yet another hysterical neocon rant over the Ron Paul candidacy. Ron Paul is on a “quest to undo the Party of Lincoln,” blared Gerson’s headline. Every freedom-loving, patriotic American can only hope and pray that Ron Paul succeeds.

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Gerson’s tone is dripping with venomous hatred when he accuses Ron Paul of being some kind of nut by calling the Civil War “senseless” and of saying that Lincoln ruled with an iron fist. Generations of historians have also called the Civil War “senseless” or something similar. “The bumbling generation” is how some historians describe the Civil War-era politicians who plunged the nation into war, the most preeminent of whom was Lincoln himself. But when Ron Paul refers to the war in that way what he has in mind is the true historical fact that all other countries of the world that ended slavery in the nineteenth century – including most of the Northern states in the U.S – did so peacefully. The British, French, Spaniards, Dutch, Swedes, Danes, and others ended slavery in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, all of Central America, Mexico, Bolivia, Uruguay, the French and Danish colonies, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela without resorting to the mass murder and destruction of war. (See Jim Powell. Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery; Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery; and Slavery in New York, published by the New York Historical Society).

Leftist Love Affair With Lincoln and The Union…

This latest article on http://revisedhistory.wordpress.com  deals with some of the same kind of information and documentation that Donnie Kennedy and I provide in our book Lincoln’s Marxists.

ATTENTION PREPPERS – Having More Than 7 Days Of Food Makes You A Suspected Terrorist

ATTENTION PREPPERS – Having More Than 7 Days Of Food Makes You A Suspected Terrorist

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Posted on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:29:32 AM by Kartographer

James Madison, father of the Constitution, warned, “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become instruments of tyranny at home.”

Abraham Lincoln had similar thoughts, saying “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

During war there has always been a struggle to preserve Constitutional liberties. During the Civil War the right of habeas corpus was suspended. Newspapers were closed down. Fortunately, these rights were restored after the war.

The discussion now to suspend certain rights to due process is especially worrisome given that we are engaged in a war that appears to have no end. Rights given up now cannot be expected to be returned. So, we do well to contemplate the diminishment of due process, knowing that the rights we lose now may never be restored.

My well-intentioned colleagues ignore these admonitions in defending provisions of the Defense bill pertaining to detaining suspected terrorists.

Their legislation would arm the military with the authority to detain indefinitely – without due process or trial – SUSPECTED al-Qaida sympathizers, including American citizens apprehended on American soil.

I want to repeat that. We are talking about people who are merely SUSPECTED of a crime. And we are talking about American citizens.

If these provisions pass, we could see American citizens being sent to Guantanamo Bay.

This should be alarming to everyone watching this proceeding today. Because it…..

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HISTORY 102: The Origins and Nature of American Radicalism Part Three: US 1890-1932

HISTORY 102: The Origins and Nature of American Radicalism Part Three: US 1890-1932

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474980743738 ^ | eagle i

Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:12:57 AM by ttjemery

(This is part three of a series of seven articles from my friends wrings. I found his writings to being very informative.)

Here I’m going to consider the history of the American “left,” that is political movements to change the political system created under the US Constitution since 1791. For brevity’s sake I’m going to confine discussion to post-Civil War up to the present, and mainly only consider larger, more popular movements.

Utopia? Hardly ~ “Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon.”

…..Disturbingly, the man who warned of an American Napoleon became the American Napoleon.

Which brings me to a personal confession: Joe Sobran has softened my thinking on Lincoln. When I came to study the Civil War, and study it in-depth, over eight years, it occurred to me that, truly, the conflict is more properly named the War for Southern Independence.

The Northern view of the war which I had been spoon-fed in school parrots the earlier English view of the colonial (American) War of Independence — right down to laughing at the notion that the relevant rebels could possibly claim to be fighting for freedom, merely because of the issue of slavery. By the way, the English figured things out the second time around — and rooted for the Confederacy. In that regard, see Sheldon Vanauken‘s The Glittering Illusion.