Dear Editor, Southern
folks deserve to have a culture they can celebrate too. I would like to address
the bashing of those that fly the Saint Andrews Cross Battle Flag, aka the
Virginia battle flag and Confederate battle flag. I have met and conversed
recently with many young folks calling themselves "Southern
Patriots", and would like to relay to the public at large that I found no
hate in them. To the contrary I found them to be highly principled, with a
belief system based in Christianity. They viewed themselves as a group that has
been disenfranchised, and miss characterized as a bunch of dumb Yahoo
Southerner redneck inbred degenerates who drink moonshine and fight all the
time. They feel they are under attack by the news media, history books, school
teachers, National and State Legislators, who they claim want to remove all
vestiges of Southern culture and history, including all reference of them as
Christians, and all historical reminders of a war they believe resulted in a
forced power shift (grab) by the Federal government at the expense of individual
rights, local control and States rights. The War of northern aggression
(Lincoln's War) forever diminished our rights under the Constitution. This is
important because all of the freedoms we gained breaking away from the tyranny
of Great Britain that we articulated in our Declaration of Independence, our
Constitution and Bill of Rights were quickly and irrevocable taken away by
Abraham Lincoln's big Government power grab. Before the illegal war of northern
aggression, the Federal government was the inferior and operated at the
direction of states, and it was clearly understood that individual states had
the right to secede from a tyrannical Federal Government, just like in the
American Revolution we seceded from a tyrannical Great Britain. For instance
the Federal Government had no right to levy a tax on it's citizens and instead
received their revenue from each state and from import tariffs, but Lincoln's
war changed all of that. In effect Lincoln went to war against his own people
and weaken the nation by killing and wounding well over a million of it's most
productive citizens and depleting our national resources. The South had no
choice but to secede from the Union when Lincoln imposed confiscatory duty / tariff
(tax) on all goods shipped from one state to another which brought the South to
their knees economically. Similar to the Stamp Act that Great Britain imposed
upon us prior to our Declaration of Independence. The Stamp Act resulted in
armed troops entering any house without a search warrant and confiscating
entire contents and jailing inhabitants if they found even one item inside
without a stamp on it that indicated the taxes had been paid. Our 2nd
Constitutional President John Adams later reverted back to big government by
passing the "Alien and Sedition Act" that also allowed these no knock
warrants and put many in jail for criticizing his Presidency. Thank God Thomas
Jefferson did not renew, so it expired, only to be resurrected by Abraham
Lincoln which was indeed legitimate cause for succession. Constitutional expert
Judge Andrew Napollitano said "The Declaration of Independence states that
when the Government ceases to recognize our natural rights (derived from God)
that it was the duty of the people to alter or abolish it (abolish the
tyrannical government); and for those of you who may think well that is just
the Declaration of Independents, the fact is the Declaration of Independence is
the law of the land. The law that gave us birth was also adopted by the
Constitutional Convention as law and if you go to the U S code you will find it
there. So the Southern culture is that of individual freedom of the natural
rights of man derived from God and not Government. To Southerners that is what
the war was fought over. Slavery was a whole separate issue and it is not at
all apart of Southern culture. The Southern culture is composed of Christians
that are fiercely independent highly productive law abiding believers in our
Constitution the bill of rights and the Declaration of Independence. God,
Family and Country are their priorities. It is not even about the War of
Northern aggression. It is about a people, a Christian culture of freedom
loving, fiercely independent and abundantly productive Southern people trying
to survive the constant bombardment of the values they hold most dear. Haters
want to finish wiping out the last vestiges of what is considered Southern, by
demonizing all things Southern. The fact is the South seceded from the Union
for the same reasons as the Colonies seceded from Great Britain, tyranny. It
may be nearing the time to secede again. God bless America, God Bless the South
and pass the fried chicken. Charles Stoker
Source: Educational Freedom Coalition,
7/15/15 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429786443902174/permalink/1646147998932683/
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