Monday, January 29, 2018
Confederate Heritage Supporters Not Going Quietly Into the Night
After spending the day cleaning up our FaceBook page of vulgar, hate-filled, and profane comments from monument haters, I am reflecting on a truth that is absolute, but not universally acknowledged:
Those that attack us, our monuments, and our Confederate ancestors are almost ALWAYS left wing, Godless radicals, who hate us because our heritage is deeply rooted in our Christian faith.
A quick peek at the social media profile of most of these individuals will almost ALWAYS reveal a liberal who hates everything conservative and is still throwing a giant temper tantrum over the fact that Trump won the election. They cannot stand the fact that WE help put him there, and decided to go after what they knew would hurt us the most, and what we treasure...our history and heritage...our kin.
They are all consumed and blood thirsty, and have managed to spin and successfully propagate false narratives linking our memorials to everything from white supremacy, to slavery, to Jim Crow; lies that are blindly accepted and repeated by the main stream media, academia, government run schools, and municipalities controlled by leftists. Their plan is to tear down our flags and monuments and bully us into submission.
They will fail.
They have greatly underestimated our resolve and our God. 150 years of Yankee subjugation has not extinguished the flame our grandfathers kindled, and neither will the removal of a few flags, monuments, and memorials.
They have forgotten whose blood flows through our veins.
We will never forget. We will never forgive. We will never submit.
All glory to God. All honor to the Confederate soldier.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Lee-Jackson Day 2018 - All We Ask Is To Be Left Alone
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Monday, January 1, 2018
Despite An All Out Assault, The Confederacy Marches On
**Timeline Updated 1/2/2018**
Many of you have probably seen the latest hit piece from one of the Anti-Confederate bloggers, claiming that 2017 will go down as the "year the monuments came down". The haters and monument destroyers are declaring total victory and dancing in the streets.
Most people in the heritage community know all too well that symbols of Confederate history have been targeted for removal since the Charleston tragedy in 2015. Although the perpetrator of that atrocity had nothing to do with Confederate heritage, those who hate our heritage saw an opportunity and seized it.
There
had been calls for removal of flags and monuments, and renaming of
streets and parks for several years, but the calls grew louder and more
strident after 2015. The Southern Poverty Law Center devoted a great
deal of time and effort to charting the monuments' locations -- and
slandering them as tokens of Jim Crowism due to the time periods in
which they were erected.
What
the SPLC doesn't admit is the fact that the "spikes" in their chart
showing periods of monument raising coincided with the 25th, 50th and
100th anniversaries of the War Between the States, not Jim Crow
legislation.
Despite
the voices clamoring for Confederate destruction, it wasn't until late
spring of 2017 that Mayor Mitch Landrieu started the monument removal
craze in earnest, setting the precedent for removing them using
untrained personnel under cover of darkness. Subsequently, monuments
were removed in Baltimore, Tampa, St. Louis, Dallas and other places. In
none of these cases were the people allowed to vote on the issue, and
poll after poll proved the majority did not want the monuments taken
down.
YES, we have suffered some setbacks. YES we have lost some monuments in major cities. YES we need to be prepared for the fight that waits for us in 2018.
HOWEVER. What they are calling a "total victory" amounts to the removal of LESS THAN 5% of the Confederate monuments in the United States....and that's using the SPLC's VERY UNDER REPORTED numbers and the media's VERY EXAGGERATED numbers of removals. I believe the number is much more like less than 2% in reality.
While
some are claiming that 2017 was "The Year Confederate Monuments Came
Down", it was also the year that Confederate monuments, along with other
historical artifacts, came under the protection of state law in Alabama
for the first time. It was the year that new monuments went up across
the United Sates, and some existing ones were rededicated. It was the
year in which dozens of new Confederate flags were raised.
Several news agencies and anti-Confederate bloggers posted timelines with monument and memorial removals. We decided to do some research and create our own timeline. This one shows new monuments, flags, and markers installed and dedicated since the removal of the battle flag from the South Carolina State House grounds in July of 2015. The list It is by no means 100% complete, and we encourage you to send us any additional items or corrections for updates, but even so, the list is extensive. Take a look:
Several news agencies and anti-Confederate bloggers posted timelines with monument and memorial removals. We decided to do some research and create our own timeline. This one shows new monuments, flags, and markers installed and dedicated since the removal of the battle flag from the South Carolina State House grounds in July of 2015. The list It is by no means 100% complete, and we encourage you to send us any additional items or corrections for updates, but even so, the list is extensive. Take a look:
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Folks, now is not the time to throw in the towel or have a pity party. Now is the time to rise up and join us in the fight. Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and step up our monument defense strategies, and put plans for new monuments, memorials, and flag sites into high gear.
Let's make 2018 "The Year That The Confederacy Fought Back" !
"Besides,
sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who
presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to
fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone;
it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Patrick Henry, St. John's Church, Richmond, VA, 1775