Flags, Monuments, End Game?

From Southern Son:

All the hoopla about removing monuments/plaques and flags due to slavery, racism and inequality is a smokescreen for a much broader and sinister movement. The end game of this movement seeks the overthrow and destruction of Western Civilization and the complete conversion of society to conform to Marxist and/or Nazi principles. Racism, inequality, poverty, religion and (insert next cause) are hijacked as the vehicle by which they will use to achieve the movement’s end game. This sinister movement will presented in a series by historical events (absent personal opinion or subjectivity) leading up to the present.    

A history flashback first spotlights the efforts of Reconstruction following the Civil War. Reconstruction blatantly sought to impose one form of society (the North) on another form of society (the South). The Southern people were beaten into submission by Union armies through the wanton destruction of public/private property, lives, sustenance and commission of rape all against the norms of any conventions of war. Google “The Battle of Athens (Alabama)”, “Sherman’s March to the Sea” and General Philip Sheridan's despoiling of the Shenandoah Valley. Your search will turn up a dramatic different history of events rather than the glorified rendition contained in grade school and college textbooks. The South maintained its belief in Jeffersonian democracy leading that effort to fail.  

The next flashback spotlights the New Deal programs proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934 FDR said, “There is a much bigger situation behind the Tennessee Valley Authority…we are conducting a social experiment…we are going to come to a shack on the side of the mountain where there is a white man…who, with his family of children, is completely uneducated…and is progenitor of a large line of children for many generations to come…we are going to try to bring him some of the things he needs, like schools, electric lights and so on.” (Source: TVA and The Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in The Norris Dam Area) Ironically missing is any mention of the welfare of the “women of the hills”. Was this a war on women? Another New Deal related program in Greenhills, OH in the 1930s where a “planned community” with restrictions was constructed by the federal government. Restrictions, what? Government officials interviewed people (American citizens) to determine their moral character and make sure they would maintain the property. Sounds alot like vetting. But I digress. Furthermore they were required to have a steady job that would pay today’s equivalent of $16,000-$40,000 a year. Only white families were accepted, though that was in an era when segregation was common. (A quote from the website…not personal characterization.) Google it! Last time I checked Ohio was part of the Union fighting the Confederacy. Again the South maintained its belief in Jeffersonian democracy.    

The next flashback spotlights the Civil Rights era of the 1950s-1960s. No effort is intended to portray civil rights era as a vehicle hijacked to further their end game. It is only to ask the question “Why were monuments/plaques and flags not targeted for removal?” This era can be said to be (with the exclusion of the KKK and supremacists) the purest and most peaceful push for equality in the history of this country. Again the South maintained its belief in Jeffersonian democracy. But the movement later hijacked civil rights in the name of social justice turning to violence to pursue their end game.

The first salvo (change of tactics) spotlights Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground.  For those not familiar with the Weather Underground I beg you to Google and research the violent acts and bombings by the group and its leaders against (inside) this country. The list of acts and bombings of public buildings are too long to paraphrase. Barack Obama’s Illinois state senatorial campaign was launched at the home of Bill Ayers. The South maintained its belief in Jeffersonian democracy leading that effort to fail.  

The next salvo became the removal of the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia mischaracterized as the flag of the Confederacy. Again I beg you to Google the images of each flag to see the distinct difference. That being said, the issue of the “Confederate Battle Flag” was touted as a symbol of racism and hatred that must be taken down from public display. Any dissent that defended the flag and constitutional principles of the Confederacy brought about abusive branding of such dissent as bigots, racist, evil, unchristian, supremacist, Nazi and (insert the latest slander engineered by the left).

The next salvo became the attacks on religion and removal of the Pledge of Allegiance from schools and society. “If people are to know and understand the real world, they must give up superstitious beliefs because they have a narcotic effect on the mind.” – Karl Max. The Nazis, Bolsheviks (communists) and Islamists (ISIS) destroyed by force all forms of culture (constitutions, books, statutes, art, religion, customs, etc.) of the German, Russian and Arabic people to impose their Marxists, fascist and extreme Islamic ideologies. Sound familiar? According to Marx’s thinking the feeling of pride related to patriotism must be a narcotic effect on the mind.

The next salvo is the passage and enactment of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by the shining example of the most democratically elected government in history. Aside from the humanitarian aspect of expanding healthcare, the act forced a country of free people to purchase a product to avoid punishment by monetary penalty or tax. Any dissent against the act has been termed racist, hostility toward the poor, war on women, children and the elderly…pushing grandma off the cliff! The act goes beyond providing healthcare by inquiring whether one owns a firearm in spite of the constitutional right afforded by the Second Amendment in the Constitution. A friend that is a doctor informed that there is a provision/code to classify an injury as being caused by a jet ski and/or wave runner. Why does the doctor need to know that fact? It goes to the end game of oh…jet skis cause too many injuries now we have to regulate or ban them. Tell someone they can’t buy much less ride their jet ski on the Fourth of July because it is dangerous for them. Maybe if they modify a bicycle helmet and call it a jet ski helmet it will be okay. If you can’t get hurt by a jet ski I guess you have the choice to go jump out of an airplane for a thrill…until they ban that! A resurgence in the belief in Jeffersonian democracy is leading that effort to fail and the shortcomings of the end game.

The next salvo is the continued removal of flags that has expanded into the desperate attempt to remove monuments and statutes. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others claim (falsely) that monuments and statues were erected by the motivation of racism and white supremacy. The Tuskegee Institute produced a graph that showed a notable decrease of lynchings during the years of increased monument building. (Google “Tuskegee Institute Graph Civil War Monuments”) The first spike in monument building occurred during 1910 and 1915 which would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil War. While I was a C student in math, my trusty calculator tells me that fifty years from the aforementioned years would be 1860-1865 respectively. The second spike in monument building occurred after 1960. Trusting my own mathematics it computes to around the 100th anniversary of the start of the Civil War in 1861. Another factor that partially explains the first monuments being erected in 1910 was the utter destruction and financial destitution of the South. It took years for the South to recover financially and enabled the Daughters of the Confederacy to raise money to privately fund the building of monuments.

The most destructive salvo is the rise of Antifa and other leftist groups using violence and Nazi-like tactics to end free speech. Any speech, beliefs, monuments and institutions that they disagree with are now not only being branded as hate speech, but violently confronting people of opposite views and beliefs. (Just about name any college campus today.) There is a revolutionary challenge to free speech, governmental authority and resistance to law and order. In Chicago, IL if then candidate Donald Trump had been allowed to hold his campaign rally peacefully, how many Chicago Police Officers/law enforcement officers would not have been injured in the rioting. In Charlottesville, VA if the White Supremacist groups were allowed to peacefully exercise their free speech without being confronted and attacked by Antifa and like groups no one would have been injured. If the Antifa and like groups were allowed to peacefully exercise their free speech the next day without being confronted and attacked by White Supremacy groups no one would be injured. There are three legal principles in play here that the movement hates. Sedition is defined as, “incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.” (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Riots are clearly outlined as criminal activity in 18 U.S. Code § 2101 – Riots:

(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent— (1) to incite a riot; or (2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or (3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or (4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph.

(b) In any prosecution under this section, proof that a defendant engaged or attempted to engage in one or more of the overt acts described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) [2] and (1) has traveled in interstate or foreign commerce, or (2) has use of or used any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including but not limited to, mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, to communicate with or broadcast to any person or group of persons prior to such overt acts, such travel or use shall be admissible proof to establish that such defendant traveled in or used such facility of interstate or foreign commerce. Antifa? Black Lives Matter? Environmental activists? Climate Change activists? And most importantly federal civil rights laws that make it a crime to conspire to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people “in the free exercise or enjoyment” of their constitutional rights – including, obviously, the right to free speech.

This sinister movement has existed for some number of years and is attempting the total destruction of Western Civilization by all of the historical events presented throughout this series. Bottom line: If you remove all symbols/aspects of racism and inequality tomorrow, how will you explain the fact that there are those that will achieve above average status in life and those that will under achieve below the average status of life? America is often called “America the Great” not “America the Average” or “America the Below Average”. No matter how many steps are taken to achieve a “happy medium” or average status of life there will always be those that willingly strive to achieve the best and those that will not willingly strive to achieve the best…will not work in a pie factory. As President John F. Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”


Southern Son

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It's Monday. Doesn't that make it time for another political bombshell? If not, we can all continue to contemplate Alabama Political Reporter's Brandon Moseley comparing sexual assault to stealing a lawnmower, which is a misdemeanor. Actually, we think in Killen the police chief gives you a medal for it.