A) I consider the Confederacy a preliminary, exploratory exercise, leading up to the actual campaign (which is coming).
B) I consider the Confederate (Rebel) Flag a useful symbol of current, sensible rebellion against our lawless rulers (the imperial president, the millionaires-club-congress, and the partisan, politicized judiciary).
It's use is not only appropriately historical, but it immediately separates friends from foes:
Anyone who embraces/accepts the flag is likely a friend.
Anyone who faints in horror at the very sight of it, is likely a drooling pwo-gwessive, or a lily-livered RINO.
It's a very handy symbol that way...!
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I made these two points elsewhere, but I liked 'em so much, I thought I'd post them here.
/gun
*hat tip trubolotta
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
2 months ago
Me too - son of a yankee Dad and Confederate Mom, a proud Virginian and son of the South.
ReplyDeleteTru, I was born in San Francisco, raised on the Peninsula. Both my parents were born in California, as were my maternal grandparents.
ReplyDeleteAnd through all those generations, the Confederate Flag meant nothing to any of us except as an historical relic of the Civil War.
My how things have changed.
I won't hold you responsible for CA Gunny. (heheh)
DeleteMany people know nothing other than the media drivel about the war. Andersonville has received a lot of attention lately because of "war crimes" against Union POWs. Those who rant on about that camp don't dare mention the POW camp in Elmira, NY. Like most war issues, it is not nearly as one sided as the statists would have it.
The south was desperate for food, clothing, medicine and supplies for its own soldiers, no less prisoners of war. It was the north that ended the practice of parole in hopes of depriving the south of manpower. That decision made Andersonville necessary or those POWs would have been sent home.
In contrast, the north had plenty of food, clothing, medicine and supplies and had no excuse for not providing those for prisoners at Elmira. There were war crimes all right, but the it was Union that committed them.
Henry Wirz, the warden of Andersonville, was convicted and hanged for war crimes. I don't know about the warden at Elmira; he may have been decorated as a war hero for killing so many Confederate POWs.
I am a southerner, a conservative but most importantly a Christian. I try to forgive man's inhumanity, but I try not to forget. I told you that little story because I doubt very much you ever heard it before or if you did, it was just one side. It is however, so typical of the one-sidedness I encounter so often when reading idiots comments about that war as they try to make political hay today.
When I was a young girl I became fascinated with the Civil War, but everything I heard was definitely biased toward the Union side. It's been years, so I forget most of it now..but I know I never heard THAT.
DeleteSpeaking of not getting all the facts, I remember being shocked the first time I heard the tiny percentage of the Southern population who actually held slaves. I think we just assumed that everyone had slaves...as it was such a huge part of the discussion of the War.