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The Lincoln lies must be exposed.

Can facts & truth ever overcome the 155 year old Lincoln cover-up: all built on ignorance and untruths? July 18, 2015

Two of the members of the Fort Smith School Board have indicated by their stated positions they are the two principal spokespersons for the Board.

They have shown that they are more than willing to carry and promulgate the now 155 year old brutal Lincoln cover-up.
These two women bill themselves as educators of children, when they shamelessly participate in perpetuating lies, distortions, revisions, omissions, indoctrination and political correctness in the government school classrooms, all orchestrated by the varied entities of all government.

It is quite obvious that these two representatives of public education, as is the case with all government, that they are either ignorant of U.S. history, specifically speaking of the time frame 1858-1868, or complicit in the Lincoln 155 year cover-up.
The public (government) school systems, in the past 155 years, have made every effort to denigrate, debase, berate, and deride the whole of the South and its institutions, i.e. heritage, culture, independence, and individual responsibility. And now, working their will to erase every vestige of the War for Southern Independence and anything Southern.

I will offer here just a speck of President Abraham Lincoln’s sins…who are the real RACISTS?

I. Abraham Lincoln, FIRST LINCOLN/DOUGLAS debate, Ottawa, Ill. , Sept. 18, 1858, in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, vol. III, pp. 145-146
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people…I as much as any man am in favor of the superior position assigned to the white race”.

II. Lincoln’s first 13th Amendment that passed both Houses of the Congress and controlled by Republicans in 1861, but was never ratified.
“No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state”.

Lincoln played a huge role in writing and the passage of the first 13th Amendment and endorsed it in his first Inaugural Address and in his letter to the Governors. The Amendment was known as the Corwin Amendment. The Corwin Amendment would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery.

The first 13th Amendment was also identified as the “slavery forever” Amendment.

Doris Kearns-Goodwin, certainly no Southerner, in her new book “Team of Rivals” praises Lincoln for his pro-slavery Amendment because it held the Republican Party together.

III. As president, Lincoln allocated millions of dollars to a project that would “colonize” American blacks in Liberia. His statements pertaining to colonization were recorded in “Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men” Aug. 14, 1862
Lincoln’s war had been underway for over 2 years before he issued the “Emancipation Proclamation”. 8 months after the Proclamation no slaves were freed that were under Union Army control.

IV. Think carefully of Lincoln’s words to the Virginia Compromise Delegation in March, 1861, well before the war began. When asked “Why not let the South go in peace?”
Lincoln’s response, “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for government? And what then would become of my tariff?”

Dr. Deannie Mehl is President of the Fort Smith School Board & spokesperson for Dr. Benny Gooden and his proposed overthrow of the Southside mascot and all things Southern. No doubt there are other factions behind the scenes directing this misplaced adventure.
They all appear to be ignorant or complicit in the 155 year Lincoln cover-up, and all have their political agendas, while continuing to short circuit the minds of children as they keep on masking the truth and the revision of history, and their weapon du jour is lying & hurling the race card.

Dr. Mehl has never witnessed the poverty, the heartache, the sufferings, and derision brought on the South by Northern interests during the 155 year painful charade by both black & white. The sufferings by both black & white through the war and into the ongoing infamous Yankee Reconstruction that devastated even further the South which did not recover until the 1980’s. Most industry located in the south is still controlled/owned by northern enterprises.

Yet this woman, Dr. Deannie Mehl who appears to be a new age carpetbagger has not experienced Southern discomfort and heartache, has the audacity to come South and exhort Southerners, particularly Fort Smithians, as to what we should do with the Southside mascot—“IT’S TIME FOR JOHNNY REB TO GO”. She and the rest of the city’s quasi-educantists would serve our city and state best by learning and teaching the unvarnished truth about U.S. conflicts from 1858 until 1868.

There are multitudes of blacks who are well versed on the facts that evolved during Lincoln’s war, but for whatever the reason they refuse to disseminate their knowledge to the brothers. For instance, many blacks owned slaves and bought & sold their own. Also many blacks & Native Americans fought for the Confederacy.

No other American President has practiced mass fratricide except Lincoln.

Letting the light of truth enter instead of the U.S. government cover up, lies and conditioning must somehow prevail to preserve our Republic.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

P.C. efforts to wipe out true history

July 15, 2015
Ignorance alone is a sad thing, but ignorance being sanctimoniously glorified is disgusting and disturbing.

H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Mark Twain—satirical humorous writers in the past would see the delicious irony in a school board & superintendent so ignorant and ill/mis-informed regarding history that they would equate a symbol of liberty/independence with one of slavery/bondage. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, that appears to be the case in the Fort Smith School Superintendent & School Board’s desire to remove/replace Southside High School’s 50+ year Rebel Mascot & all things Dixie. There’s never even been a protest of any size whatever of which I am aware.

Here we have the paragons of educational excellence, leaders of scholarly endeavors, who don’t hesitate to meet in secret, falling immediately into the trap set by the Cultural Marxist Political Correctness tactic of divisiveness=-pit one race against another in order to damage/destroy the white founding stock, i.e. Western Civilization (the ultimate goal). Do they even have a clue? Doubtful, likely just a knee-jerk response to be compliant with the politically correct “offense” du jour.

The goal is being accomplished by using the fictitious Union victors’ version of what happened and why in War of Northern Aggression—a perfect conduit to induce PC “white guilt”. The perpetrators knew most folks are too lazy to seek the truth, especially if it is the opposite of what they have been taught by teachers they trust, who themselves only know what is in the “official” textbooks. A perfect setup for manipulation & subjugation.

Which brings us to the questions…does the School Board./Superintendent know the truth & trying to hide it for nefarious reasons, or they’ve swallowed the tales told by government schools, or don’t really want to acknowledge the truth, or just arrogant defiance of inconvenient truths & desire to punish dissenters? It was not a Civil war, it was a war for independence from a tyrannical government.

In a rational honest world these people would be laughing stocks and expelled from any authority over the education process…but alas we live in a pussified age where no one is the be “offended” (real or imagined), that is no one except those who do not accept government as god, who do not believe everything it does is right, much less moral or rational, especially if they are white.

There is little doubt how this frontal attack on all things Dixie/Confederate will go. The insidious, pious PC Kool-Aid has been consumed in huge quantities by government worshipers and parasites who are feeling their oats (empowered)……besides there’s money to be generated & looted! The bloated gloat is impossible to resist by too many.

The best of our Founders envisioned an enlightened, knowledgeable citizenry who cherished individual rights and responsibilities; unfortunately what they have gotten is an intellectually lazy mass of malleable automatons who feed at the government propaganda & money trough.

Hence, it will probably be goodbye to heritage of honor, independence, & courage & hello to arrogant pandering cowardice and perpetuated ignorance.

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, And producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak,
Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies,
So that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, Because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing,
Or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
– Aldous Huxley’s lecture to The California Medical School in San Francisco in 1961


~Barbara McCutchen

arkansasfreedom.net

“Racist”: Powerful Politically Correct Incendiary

WHO IS THE RACIST? THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG OR PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN? June 27, 2015

If you have a strong stomach and a quest for factual historical knowledge, read the entirety of this piece.

Trading down—the insider’s game.

The Southside Rebels—the envy of every high school in Arkansas—why so? Because there are none like it.

Southside athletic teams are beautifully attired in distinctive blue and grey, with a smidgeon of red here and there. When they are suited up they resemble no other teams.

They are the Rebels—meaning they are independent, not easily regimented and not to be herded like sheep.

The Dixie Belles and the Southside Drill Team regalia—who else but Dixie Belles, a southern name and Southside tradition are accorded invitations to march in the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC. Bulldogs, Tigers, Lions, etc. are not on parade, but there is a certain amount of magnetism about the name Dixie Belles.

The Athletic facilities feature Southern colors.

Then the stirring song “Dixie”, which arouses Southerners’’ emotions, is truly a song of the South and Southside.
And finally, the old, weather-beaten wooden Johnny Reb standing in the entrance to Southside High greeting the students.
How Racist!!

With what do Superintendent Benny Gooden and the compliant Fort Smith School Board’s automatons plan to replace southern excellence?
Two of the downtown insiders Richard Griffin & Sammy Sicard, who pushing their personal self-serving interests have offered up the colorless name “Southside Marshals”…named after the proposed Marshal’s Museum, billed as a private endeavor while being subsidized by millions of taxpayer dollars. Envision the proposed new athletic & band uniforms—tan or brown replete with tin stars. Women’s teams would probably be known as the “Marshalettes”, with similar costumes. The mutiny that Gooden & company have pulled off is at the very least, trading down. Very few in our city pay any special attention to Marshals; they are only hired guns, and the downtown crowd has created a phony admiration for Marshals by some.

Gooden claimed the decision to scuttle Johnny Reb, etc. was based on “PERCEPTION”, i.e. racism. Perception is not an act; it is whatever the individual, in this case Gooden, wants the perception to be. What are the chances this coup was planned months or maybe years in advance, just waiting for “not letting a good crisis go to waste”, i.e. an attack on the Confederate battle flag and the South in general as an excuse to remove all remnants of the South?

Quisling Benny Gooden and his PC Board have no problem spending at least $500,000 (in government work no doubt more like $1 million) on the proposed transition, while at the same time massaging Griffin & Sicard’s ambitions.

A further note, Gooden and his Board held a behind closed doors private meeting before the public meeting to create the “fix” without the knowledge of the High School Administration or the taxpaying public. The speed with which it was accomplished, indeed breathtaking, scurrilous and denotes pre-planning by Gooden and his Board.

Government schools have been the principal purveyors of lies, altering, filtering , withholding, and revising facts concerning the Second War for Independence, misnamed the Civil War (among many other subjects) , and thereby rendering students academically misinformed and culturally defenseless. Note: Civil wars are fought to take over a central government; this was certainly not the case in the aforementioned war which was for independence from tyranny only!

Lincoln’s war cost 700,000 lives. 300,000 were Southerners and many of those were the progeny of the “DISTRESSED CAVALIERS”…brilliant minds and achievers who created a culture that is to be envied today. In 1861 there were more slaves in the north than in the south and slavery was on its way out without bloodshed, if only because of economics due to industrialization. Think of the gene pools lost—both sides, never to be replaced.

If Gooden, his PC School Board & the plethora of school teachers knew the true history of that period why are they continuing the 154 year old Lincoln cover-up? The larger question is, if they don’t know, why don’t they know??

Lincoln himself was a white-supremacist—the heck you say Rebel!

The following are some of the remarks made by Abe Lincoln in his debate with Stephen Douglas, Sept. 18, 1858. Documentation may be found (New York; Library of America, 1989) pp. 636-637. And this is only the tip.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor every have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people: and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social or political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the while race”.

The night Lincoln was shot he was busily working on a plan that he had begun to craft before the war and continued after the war, a plan to colonize blacks, i.e. to deport.

As President, Lincoln allocated millions of taxpayer dollars to a project that would “colonize” American blacks in Liberia.

In 1862 (the so-called Civil War was in full bloom) Lincoln held a meeting with several dozen “free” black men in the White House and explained to them that, because of the inherent differences between the white & black races they could never live together, and so he urged them to lead by example and colonize themselves in Liberia. (Abraham Lincoln, “Address on Colonization to a Committee of Colored Men,” August 14, 1862, in Abraham Lincoln; “Speeches & Writings, Vol. II, 1859-1866 (New York; Library of America, 1989), page 354. “

So who is the racist—The much maligned Confederate battle flag or Abraham Lincoln and the 154 year Lincoln cover-up by government schools, universities, elected & appointed officials, all media, and the PC crowd, including carpetbaggers. To the victor go the spoils, and the power to revise history.

The travesty being carried out by Benny Gooden and all his accomplices must not be tolerated. His unctuous dealings must be exposed to the taxpaying public and the Fort Smith School Board should fire him immediately, and then resign en masse. But that would be the honorable thing to do.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Revisiting the Distressed Cavaliers & real history

June 21, 2009 What the politicized institutions don’t want you to know.

The “Distressed Cavaliers”…….The best kept secret in our history, next to the truth about tyrant “Honest Abe”. (Read “The Real Lincoln” by Thomas DiLorenzo)

The Collectivists/Politically Correct purveyors’ worst nightmare would be for American citizens to learn of their true Founding history….from the establishment of Jamestown by adventurers and businessmen BEFORE the Pilgrim’s Plymouth Rock, the first Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation, BEFORE the Pilgrims’, to the wonderment of the saga of the “Distressed Cavaliers”. (Such knowledge might give rise to the pride Americans once had in their heritage, something carefully destroyed by the Politically Correct method of Cultural Marxists.)

In the mid 1600’s Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, had the brilliant plan of recruiting the younger sons of English Noble families. He was able to entice them with promises of land and position because under the custom of the day, only the oldest son was allowed to inherit the family estate and fortune. Another contributing factor was the ascendency of the Puritans in England who persecuted the non-Puritans. Hence the name, “The Distressed Cavaliers”. (“Albion’s Seed”, by David Fischer)

From these ranks came young men of education, intelligence, bravery, honor, ambition, entrepreneurialship, and leadership. Englishmen of breeding and substance. It was from this stock that the First Families of Virginia arose. They included names such as Custis, Harrison, Randolph, Mason, Madison, Washington, Lee, Jefferson, Jay, Carroll, etc.
Our beginnings and subsequent progress were not based on “Diversity”, a twisted concept at best. It was based on consistency, rule of law, honor, and a knowledge of the Enlightenment philosophy of Individualism. A man was judged by strict rules on conduct, which allowed those of lesser circumstances to function and succeed as well.

No wonder none of this is taught in the Collective Government Schools. Knowledge such as this might make for a citizenry schooled in merit and the fact that government’s only legitimate business is that of protecting the rights of the citizens and the Constitution.
A great country cannot grow based on ignorance, superstition, or anarchy, which is the result of multi-culturalism, (too many legal & illegal aliens from 3rd World cultures having little or no redeeming factors…in short all people are not the same; much depends on their achievements and values) leading to tyranny and dictatorship over the masses. Individual rights and freedoms are an anathema to Collectivists—whether Socialists, Fascists, Communists, or Monarchists.

Every aspect of Western Civilization is under attack and every other culture is being touted…all by design to destroy its very foundations. Some call it genocide.

Our Founders accomplished the most astonishing achievement in the history of the known world…they established a Constitutional Republic at the beginning of our nation, which differed drastically from Democracy (Mob Rule)which is how politicians, bureaucrats and other co-conspirators are fond of describing our system today, and all forms of Collectivism ever tried. The rights of the individual were held supreme, not the power of government. The Right to Life, Liberty, Property and the Pursuit of Happiness was not meant for government but for individual citizens.

Oh, how we need the Cavaliers today to vanquish the trolls and harpies who rule over us, demean and threaten our very existence.

Barbara McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Tax Farmers–(Gaddy)

“TAX FARMERS”

(Or how the government sponsored hate and hysteria directed at any substance or cause that is not approved and promoted by the government itself is the root of all evil and should be exterminated along with anyone foolish enough to use them.)
Author’s disclaimer: I am not now, nor have been, the user of drugs, legal or illegal, with the exception of Acetaminophen, over-the-counter allergy relief and the occasional ingestion of caffeine or an adult beverage.

Author’s note: I am also fully cognizant that I live in Bizarro World. Please take that into consideration as I cite as a recent example the claim by a proxy leader of a local group that claims fealty and allegiance to all things constitutional, that a candidate for Sheriff, recently vetted by that group, is “weak” on constitutional issues. This from the same man who recently publicly endorsed a candidate for that same office who has inundated this county with multiple lawsuits alleging repeated violations of the constitutional rights of local citizens and who knowingly hired and promoted a man who had been terminated in another state for violating the constitutional rights of citizens in that state, only to have him perpetrate these same unconstitutional acts on citizens here; So much for being “weak” on the Constitution.

Imagine for me, if you will, a local hay farmer who finds his grass and alfalfa fields beginning to be invaded by a noxious weed. When he attempts to eradicate that weed he discovers the product offered for that purpose is only sold by the government. Upon applying this product to his fields, he finds that instead of eradicating the noxious weed, the treatment actually encourages and increases its growth. He then discovers he is required by law to continue purchasing that product, and after years of use, is told that no matter how much of that product he purchases and applies to his fields, stopping the growth and spread of the noxious weed is impossible. Even so, he is required by law to purchase larger and larger quantities of this product at constantly increasing prices and continue its application.

That story is ludicrous, Rebel, you claim—that would never happen. Well, actually, taking the same principles and applying them to the so-called “war on drugs” and other such government sponsored programs, you will find the template to be almost identical. Each and every year, the price of these “wars” increase exponentially while we are told by “experts” in the euphemistically named justice department that regardless of how many taxpayer dollars are spent, the illegal use of drugs cannot be stopped, or in many cases even slowed down. Of course the mantra of the tax farmer is: “think how bad it could be if we were not spending an endless stream of dollars on something that will never work.” Ah, Bizarro World and its willful dupes.

We too often forget the side effects of taking the government’s prescription for the hopeless remedy in the “war on drugs.” During most of our adult lives we have witnessed an incremental dismantling of our Bill of Rights while pursuing the admitted failure of these wars that never end. The ramifications in our personal lives are in many ways equally as devastating as many of these drugs, especially as it relates to private property. Allow me please to cite a few examples that have emanated from the drug war induced, Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984:

“Retired army Colonel Melvin Hanberg lost his California rental property because one of his tenants was alleged to be a drug dealer. (Colonel Hanberg was never accused of any narcotics violations nor listed as a suspect by local police)
An eighty-year-old black woman lost her motel because a prostitute used a room with a customer. (This lady was never accused of having knowledge of or promoting prostitution on her property.)

Helen Hoyle, a seventy-year-old black woman in Washington, D.C., lost her home because of police suspicion that one of her grandchildren once had drugs in the house.

Donald A. Regan of Montvale, New Jersey, lost his car when he gave a lift to someone who, unbeknownst to Regan, had drugs in his possession.

The theory is that the physical site “facilitates” the illegal transaction and is thereby a party to the crime, allowing its seizure. Under the existing application of the law, your home and everyone else’s can be confiscated simply by an undercover agent arranging for a drug transaction to take place on your front lawn or in your driveway.

Police seized Gary and Kathy Bergman’s South Dakota home because it was visited by a friend who brought along a marijuana plant.
Joseph and Frances Lopes lost their home when a mentally disturbed son planted marijuana in their backyard.”

When asked about the injustice done to Mr. and Mrs. Lopes, Marshall Silberberg, the U.S. prosecutor who seized their house, snorted that the family should “be happy we let them live there as long as we did.” Stefan D. Cassella, an official in the asset forfeiture division of the U.S. Justice Department, justifies the seizure of property from innocent parties on the grounds that otherwise nothing is accomplished for the government.”

***The above examples and citations were taken from the book “The Tyranny of Good Intentions” by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence Stratton

Actual figures vary by source, but it is estimated that in our country we spend just a little less than 50 billion taxpayer dollars on the “war on drugs” every year. Of course this does not take into account the “militarization” of our local, state and national police and the advent and use of vehicles and equipment more commonly seen in a war zone than in American communities and the many associated deaths of innocents in botched dynamic entry raids by the ubiquitous SWAT team.

As one looks at the various ‘wars” our government is involved in, whether it be drugs, terrorism, poverty, noxious weeds or the quest for better water quality, there is much wisdom to be found in the words of Thomas Sowell in his book “Visions of the Anointed.” For the uninitiated the “anointed” are progressive liberals while the vision mentioned is how these progressives view how the world should be run—with them in charge of everything of course

It is really hard to demonize or criticize Thomas Sowell with the favorite derisive term of Progressives; “racist,” for he just so happens to be Black.

Here are a few quotes from Professor Sowell:

“This (liberal) vision so permeates the media and academia, and has made such major inroads into the religious community, that many grow into adulthood unaware that there is any other way of looking at things, or that evidence might be relevant to checking out the sweeping assumptions of so-called “thinking people”. Many of these “thinking people” could more accurately be characterized as articulate people, as people whose verbal nimbleness can elude both evidence and logic. This can be a fatal talent, when it supplies the crucial insulation from reality behind many historic catastrophes.” — P. 6

“As sex education programs spread widely through the American educational system during the 1970s, the pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year-old females rose from approximately 68 per thousand in 1970 to approximately 96 per thousand by 1980. Among unmarried girls in the 15- to 17-year-old bracket, birth rates rose 29 percent between 1970 and 1984, despite a massive increase in abortions, which more than doubled in the same period. Among girls under 15, the number of abortions surpassed the number of live births by 1974.” — P. 18
“Everyone is for a beneficial outcome; they simply define it in radically different terms. Everyone is a “progressive” by his own lights. That the anointed believe that this label differentiates themselves from other people is one of a number of symptoms of their naive narcissism.” — P. 95

“One of the most important questions about any proposed course of actions is whether we know how to do it. Policy A may be better than policy B, but that does not matter if we simply do not know how to do Policy A. Perhaps it would be better to rehabilitate criminals, rather than punish them, if we knew how to do it. Rewarding merit might be better than rewarding results if we knew how to do it. But one of the crucial differences between those with the tragic vision and those with the vision of the anointed is in what they respectively assume that we know how to do. Those with the vision of the anointed are seldom deterred by any question as to whether anyone has the knowledge required to do what they are attempting.” — P. 109

The vision and belief that government does anything well except for theft and coercion is a view that history proves is fatal to those who cherish liberty. The more money that is confiscated and spent on “visions of the anointed” leads to more and more of what is being fought a “war” to destroy.

Consider please; do we have more drug users than when you were young? Do we have more “terrorists” than 50 years ago? As cited above, did the government program to deal with teen pregnancy through the enlightened vision of “sex education” prevent or increase teen pregnancy? Do we have more crime than when we started to spend all that money to prevent it? Do more cops really equate to less crime? If so, where is the proof? Are there more “poor people” than what you remember as a child? Is illegal immigration more or less of a problem than when you were young? Is our country more in debt than when you grew up? Do you think there might be a connection there somewhere?

Does the story of the hay farmer make more sense to you now?

In Liberty
mike

“Most human beings only think they want freedom. In truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism. The only freedom man really wants, is the freedom to become comfortable.”

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day . . . . I believe it [human condition] susceptible of much improvement, and most of all, in matters of government and religion; and that the diffusion of knowledge among the people is to be the instrument by which it is effected.” Thomas Jefferson, April 24, 1816 . (to Dupont de Nemours)

The Search for Historical Truth (Gaddy)

From: Michael Gaddy [mailto:montezumaconstitution@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 2:45 PM
To: Michael Gaddy
Subject: REBEL RANT FOR 8 JULY 2014

THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL TRUTH

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. ~John Steinbeck

For the better part of a century, our government and their bought and paid for media and academia have promulgated a series of falsehoods that have been repeated so often that their veracity has become as accepted as air and water. This almost universal acceptance of the comfortable lie has brought us to the point in time where the truth is much more scrutinized than a lie. Without truth, history is just another work of fiction.

Several folks responded to my last Rant on the history of events in Missouri during our Second War for Independence by asking for documentation of facts presented. Being a firm believer in the axiom that a good teacher teaches their students where to look as opposed as what to see, I offer this Rant in response to those questions, although more in a general sense as opposed to a specific one.

As we once heard weekly on the TV sets tuned faithfully to the X Files, the “truth is out there.” Rest assured, our out of control, tyrannical government, their whores in the media, bought and paid for members of academia and their sycophants throughout the population will do all they can to prevent “we the people” from discovering exactly what the truth is.

First of all I would offer for reading and edification, THE REBELLION RECORD; A DIARY OF AMERICAN EVENTS originally published from 1861-1868 later republished by Arno Press in 1977. I especially call attention to Volume VIII, pages 351-353. Contained therein is a document called, TREATMENT OF SOUTHERNERS, authored by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, on January 31st 1864 and sent to Union Major R. M. Sawyer, A. A., General, Army of the Tennessee at Huntsville, Alabama. As this document is quite long, I will only offer selected excerpts but encourage everyone to read the document in its entirety.

“We of the North are, beyond all question, right in our lawful cause… Should we treat as absolute enemies all in the South who differ from us in opinion or prejudice, kill or banish them…

The Government of the United States has in North-Alabama any and all rights which they may choose to enforce in war, to take their lives, their lands and their everything…because war does exist there and war is simply power unrestrained by constitution or compact…Next year their lands will be taken; for in war we can take them; and rightfully too; and in another year they may beg in vain for their lives.” (Emphasis added)

From this point forward in my Rant, I will offer evidence of wanton criminality, theft and even murder by the Union Army, perpetrated on citizens of the South, taken totally from UNION sources to alleviate any question of bias. These quotes come directly from, The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 Volumes and an Atlas, as produced by the US Government printing office compiled from 1880-1901.

On July 18, 1861, Union General Irwin McDowell, his army advancing toward what would become the Battle of Bull Run, notified his headquarters, “I…have to report excesses by our troops, the excitement of the men found vent in burning and pillaging.” On that same day General McDowell issued General Order No. 18 which read in part, “Hardly had we arrived at this place when several houses were broken open and others were in flames by the acts of [Union soldiers]”

Here, in the words of a Union General we find that homes of civilians were being pillaged and burned by Union forces even before the first shot was fired at the Battle of Bull Run, considered by many to be the first major battle of the war.
Another example from Major General Benjamin Butler, nicknamed “spoons” by his Confederate opponents because of his penchant for collecting silver utensils that belonged to the citizens of New Orleans when he was placed in command there. This quote was from when he was commanding the Dept. of Virginia on June 4 of 1861. “Volunteer Troops seem to have adopted the theory that all property of the inhabitants are subject to plunder…The outrages to be investigated are very grave.”

The following examples could certainly be used as corroboration of my previous Rant reference depredations by Union forces in Missouri. Please don’t forget reports of these incidents and quotes originated with UNION forces, therefore assume no bias.
From Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Commander, Army of the West in Springfield Missouri, 26 July 1861 in an order to the troops under his command, “The cases of plundering, wanton destruction of property, and disregard of personal rights, of which the general commanding has heard with pain, have been disgraceful to our troops.”

From Union Captain William E. Prince, First US Infantry to Union Brigadier General James S. Lane, “I hope you will crush out this marauding which is being enacted in Colonel James R. Dennison’s name as well as yours by a band of men representing themselves as belonging to your command. Doubtless their atrocities in Missouri have been already represented to you.”

Of course this despicable conduct by Union forces was not limited to Missouri. From Union Brigadier General Charles A. Smith, Special Order no. 32, issued on 11 November 1861 reference the criminal activities of forces under the command of Union BG Eleazer A. Paine in Kentucky.

“Reports of the most painful character have reached the commanding general from different sources in the regard to the conduct of a portion of the troops recently marched to Milburn [thirty one miles southwest of Paducah] under command of BG E. A. Paine. The imputations are of the most disgraceful character to them as soldiers or citizens—that in returning several regiments [the Ninth and Twelfth Illinois excepted] straggled home in parties without the semblance of military array—a mere armed mob; and that the property of citizens was wantonly destroyed, and in some instances robbery by violence committed.”

From North Carolina, 29 July 1861 near Hatteras. Union Colonel Rush C. Hawkins Ninth New York reported the following: “Conduct of the men and some of the officers of the Twentieth New York has been that of vandals. They have plundered and destroyed…The next day they commenced breaking open private houses and stores, and I saw party after party come in, some of them headed by commissioned officers, loaded down with the results of their plundering.”

There are of course far too many of these reports to list in one sitting. I do, though, considering the outrages previously mentioned about Missouri that came under question, the following should be mentioned of similar actions in Maryland.
On 11 September 1861, Secretary of War Simon Cameron instructed Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks as follows: “Passage of any act of Secession by the legislature of Maryland must be prevented. If necessary all or any part of the legislators must be arrested.” One must remember Abraham Lincoln had previously suspended Habeas Corpus and issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Taney when he objected to that suspension.

Between the 12th and 17th of September in 1861, members of the Maryland legislature and other leading citizens were arrested by forces of the federal government. From Baltimore, Union Major General John A. Dix to Union General Wool at Fortress Monroe: “The following…have been taken into custody by order of the Government: George William Brown, mayor of Baltimore; members elect of the legislature, S. Teakle Wallace, Henry M. Warfield, Charles H. Pitts, T. Parkin Scott, Lawrence Sangston, Ross Winans, John Hanson Thomas, William G. Harrison, Leonard G. Quinlan, and Robert M. Dennison. Henry May, member of Congress and Thomas W. Hall, citizens of Baltimore. The direction of the Secretary of War is to keep them in close custody, suffering no one to communicate with them.”
Remember please the incidents quoted above came from the official records created and maintained by the US Government. The government freely admits to these atrocities and violations of our Constitution and Bill of Rights because most people don’t know where to search and all to many really don’t care. The government and their lapdogs depend on a pliant media and the ignorance of the masses to perpetrate their lies to the contrary. I hope the evidence found here will constitute “corroboration” for those who seek it or at the very least create a thirst for the truths of our own history.

Considering the above, can there be any doubt as to why Adolf Hitler praised Abraham Lincoln in Mein Kampf? The real question is why so many recent presidents like to be compared to Lincoln and why does the Republican Party refer to themselves as the Party of Lincoln and celebrate “Lincoln Day?”

Are most Republicans that ignorant of their own history or do they secretly condone the actions of Lincoln; After all, many people, including those in government employ, believe that government exists not to protect their rights but to project their beliefs and desires onto others at the point of a gun. Seen in that light, Lincoln is a real champion and worthy of celebration.
In Liberty
mike

The Un-Civil War–government & the Banksters (Gaddy)

LYING TO OUR CHILDREN AND OURSELVES (Part IV)

“Conspirators do not make minutes of their machinations, progress, and objectives. Seldom, therefore, can conspiracy be proved by other than circumstantial evidence. It is only by assembling the results, with such evidence as may be of the progress thereof by the participants, that the victim can ever make a case of conspiracy. If in the end there is a completed structure of result, the frame of which has been furnished piecemeal by several individuals, the parts when brought together showing adaptation to each other and fitness for the end accomplished, it is at least reasonable to infer concert in both planning and fabrication.” ~Scheele v. Union Finance & Loan Co., 200 Minn. 554 at 560, 274 N. W. 673 at 678 (1937). (Emphasis added)

Prior to, during and shortly after our Second War for Independence, the Constitutional Republic designed and ratified by our forefathers was hijacked and destroyed by members of the International Banking Cartel and their bought and paid for stooges in government, including members of Congress, Cabinet Members and members of the US Supreme Court. This form of unconstitutional governance has continued to the present day, continually utilizing whores for our government and we are reaping the full whirlwind of that wind sown back in the 1850s.

These politicians, members of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of government and their useful idiots throughout the last 154 years are synonymous with the “conspirators” referenced in the court case quoted above.

Our government is operated by criminals; we are hopelessly mired in a debt from which there is no recovery; members of our military who should be protecting our borders and our Bill of Rights are dying and being maimed or taking their own lives, not for God and Country but for the financial bottom line of those who have corrupted our government; our basic individual rights are blown away like leaves in a hurricane and we are slaves today to those same interests who hijacked our government those many years ago.

All of the above has occurred not because our Constitution does not work or needs amending, it has occurred precisely because it was abandoned and justified with the blatant and patently false belief that it was necessary to perpetuate a union by force of arms inflicting hundreds of thousands of deaths and to free a race of people who today are in bondage to a welfare system, black on black crime, abject poverty, and institutionalized ignorance, just as, if not more, heinous and unjust than chattel slavery.

We can no more change this pattern of corruption and mendacity by electing new members to the criminal cabal who will in turn appoint and support more unconstitutional bureaucrats than we could change the overall results of organized crime by electing or appointing a new hitman for the mafia.

One of those “hitmen” in our history who was bought and paid for and spent most of his adult life destroying our Constitutional Republic was Salmon P. Chase. Chase was one of the “founders,” if you will, of the Republican Party and was elected Senator from Ohio in 1860.

When Lincoln was elected president, he appointed Chase to be Secretary of the Treasury, not because of any special talent for that position but because Chase had supported Lincoln at the Republican Party Convention. (party politics at its best) Chase is often referred to as a “civil rights activist” by historians; again the unmentioned intimation is if a person of that era was an abolitionist then whatever they did must be viewed in history as justifiable. Any form of corruption is acceptable and even laudable if it is cloaked in the color of “civil rights.”

It is irresponsible to mention Chase without also mentioning the “Hazard Circular.” In all probability this is an object in history that is almost completely unheard of to most people, but using the theory established in the quote at the beginning of this article, one must not discount the object if the results are obvious, even if by doing so we are called conspiracy theorists by those who wish to cloak their crimes in decency.

It is necessary to demonize those who might present the Circular as evidence because it was circulated to the American Bankers by none other than the Bank of England. The Bank of England was founded by William Paterson in 1694 who once said, “The bank hath benefit of interest on all monies which it creates out of nothing.” Need I say more?

Hazard Circular: “Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and chattel slavery abolished. This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor, and carries with it the care of labor, while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages.

The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the [Civil] war must be used to control the value of money. To accomplish this, the Government bonds must be used as a banking basis.

We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to make this recommendation.
It will not do to allow greenbacks, as they are called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that, but we can control the bonds and through them the bank issues.” (Emphasis added)

We can discern from the Hazard Circular that Secretary Chase was being manipulated or controlled by the banking cabal. While there are those on the left and right who deny the existence of this circular and the cabal’s control of Chase, and by default, Lincoln, we must ask ourselves did the events as predicted in the circular actually occur.

Secretary Chase proposed and supported the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864.

“Government bonds must be used as a banking basis….We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to make this recommendation.” ~Hazard Circular.

Secretary Chase, realizing the necessity of collecting taxes in order to continue the war of aggression on the people and property of the South, also created the Bureau of Internal Revenue or what we commonly refer to today as the IRS. Just another blatantly unconstitutional bureaucracy.

Chase was also ambitious and challenged Lincoln for the presidency in 1864 and would eventually run for president again in 1868 and 1872 while sitting as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Chase would use his position on the Supreme Court to further the interests of the banking cabal, especially in Texas v White.
Chase, as Chief Justice, also presided over the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, whom the Radical Republicans who supported Reconstruction schemed to impeach in part because Johnson called the Reconstruction Act of 1867 a “bill of attainder against 9 million people, absolute despotism” and stated in his veto, “such a power has not been wielded by any Monarch in England in 500 years.”

In Texas v. White, Chase completed the destruction of the Constitutional Republic as established in 1788, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of 1791 and obliterated the “consent of the governed” clause of the Declaration of Independence of 1776. Chase converted the “free and independent states” of our founders to the highly centralized and controlled government we have today.

For many decades students in accredited law schools have been taught that the Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it does, as if our founders had no meaning in mind when they wrote the words and phrases; that these meanings were founded on Natural and Common law; were thoroughly explained in the Ratification Conventions and are not subject to radical judicial interpretation. The trouble is many of the politicians running for office today and all too many ordinary citizens believe judges to be the gods of wisdom as to our founders’ intent.

No person will ever pass the BAR if they recognize Secession or Nullification as being legal. Therefore, when the question of Nullification or Secession is brought up, the almost immediate referral is to Texas v White. It is imperative one knows that when Texas v White was litigated, Texas was living under martial law and had no representation among the people or free elections.

There was a motion made during the legal proceedings to dismiss the case on the basis Texas was not a “state’ at the time of the proceedings but was in fact a “conquered territory under military occupation.” To suit his banking cartel handlers and forever taint legal precedent, Chase denied the motion and stated that despite Texas being prostrated and impotent under military rule, she was still a state. Against all intentions of our founders and those who ratified the Constitution, Chase claimed that we are an “indestructible union of indestructible states.”

To insure the interest is paid on their fraudulent loans and bonds to our central government, the banking cabal cannot allow any state to relieve themselves of the obligation to pay by simply opting out of the violated compact. Therefore, Chase stepped up to the plate for the bankers and rendered the desired decision. In return Chase’s likeness was placed on the $10,000 note and his name is forever memorialized by one of the most powerful financial institutions in the Federal Reserve District on Wall Street.

“They [Radical Republicans in Congress] insisted that the existing governments of the Southern states be abolished. Also, to the Radical Republicans, the defeated Southern states offered a unique opportunity for a large-scale social experiment. They viewed the population of the South as simply a human chessboard. Central planners in Washington could micromanage the region and Federal troops would force compliance with their dictates. It was a bureaucrat’s dream come true. (Different from today, how? We have federal agencies and militarized law enforcement.)

Radical Reconstruction laws, which were passed over Johnson’s vetoes, consolidated the 10 excluded Southern states into 5 “military districts.” The responsibility for most civic functions, including elections, was removed from local communities and assumed by military governors. These governors were appointed by the Federal government and given unheard of powers. Registered voters, suspected of having aided or abetted the Confederate war effort, could be removed from voting lists at the discretion of the appointed governor. He could also add voters to the list if he believed they had been incorrectly omitted.

Entrances to polling places were controlled by Federal troops. When voting was complete, ballots were sealed and transported to military headquarters to be counted. Next, the ballot tally had to be certified behind closed doors by the military governor and his appointees known as a “returning board” who would determine the “intent” of the voters. Needless to say, the Republican ticket carried every election in the occupied Southern states. ~Gail Jarvis, Evil Republicans. (Emphasis added)

Is the unconstitutional view that “might makes right” and we are slaves to a large central government without the right to peacefully remove ourselves from this tyranny and oppression common today? Of course it is; just listen to the shills and sycophants who say that the law is whatever the Supreme Court says it is and if that fails to convince you, read the words of one of the current members of the Supreme Court.

When asked by a playwright if a state could legally secede, the very “conservative” Justice Antonin Scalia replied:

“I am afraid I cannot be of much help with your problem, principally because I cannot imagine that such a question could ever reach the Supreme Court. To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, “one Nation, indivisible.”) Secondly, I find it difficult to envision who the parties to this lawsuit might be. Is the State suing the United States for a declaratory judgment? But the United States cannot be sued without its consent, and it has not consented to this sort of suit…”

Here, echoing Samuel P. Chase, Scalia claims that the “war” or guns, bullets, death and destruction settled a constitutional issue, not the intent of our founders. He also referenced the Pledge of Allegiance, a piece of national socialist drivel of which Hitler would be proud; written by a de-frocked minister who preached “Jesus the Socialist” from the pulpit, was a founding member of Boston’s First Nationalist Club and a leader in the movement to nationalize this country’s economy.

The pledge, a ritual chant in support of government, compels one to ask is such a pledge appropriate for a free people? Since the banking cartel controls our government are we chanting allegiance to them as well? Would a free and independent people not be better served pledging allegiance to the Bill of Rights?

We labor today under a tyrannical de facto government that is diametrically opposed to the government our founders created and the delegates to the State Ratification Conventions agreed to.

Our government today is the evil spawn of the bankers and their bought and paid for splendid dupes in the White House, Congress, Courts and unconstitutional bureaucracies that Patrick Henry referred to as “federal sheriffs.” This government, under the guise of preserving the Union and freeing an oppressed people, has made slaves of us all. It cannot be remedied at the ballot box by voting for incumbents or those endorsed by the leadership of the two major parties.

“War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ~George Orwell, 1984
In Liberty
Mike Gaddy

“Most human beings only think they want freedom. In truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism. The only freedom man really wants, is the freedom to become comfortable.”

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day . . . . I believe it [human condition] susceptible of much improvement, and most of all, in matters of government and religion; and that the diffusion of knowledge among the people is to be the instrument by which it is effected.” Thomas Jefferson, April 24, 1816 . (to Dupont de Nemours)

The “Common Good” …Abused Again


ANOTHER DOSE OF THE SIMPLETONIAN COMPLEX.            February 11, 2013

The “Common Good” as expressed by Arkansas Catholic Bishop Anthony B. Taylor appearing as a guest writer in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2/9/13.

The Bishop’s opening paragraph demonstrates that he does not adhere to the constitutional concept of the separation of church & state.  Quote: “The central teaching of Catholic social doctrine is the sanctity and dignity of the human person”. I could not agree more with the concept; however the Bishop is referring to the conduct of illegal aliens, while refusing to honor the U.S. Constitution, and other national constitutions for that matter, add the rule of law and U.S. sovereignty without which there is chaos and anarchy. In this regard, the Bishop has publicly stated in the past that the Catholic Church cannot survive without the invasion of illegal aliens.  This alone positions his church in a criminal mode.

The Bishop speaks profusely about the federal government paying for an additional ¼ million Arkansas residents to be placed on welfare (how many illegal Mexicans are included?), joining the present number of 800,000 (legal & illegals) already wallowing in unearned largesse.  A question for Bishop Taylor:  Who funds the federal government? Is this not forced redistribution by theft, e.g.  Communism or religious altruism?   Marxism/Collectivism is always a failure, but only after it destroys the host.  The host in this case is the republic of the United States. The Bishop’s philosophy hangs an albatross around the necks of taxpaying American citizens.

The Bishop continues his screed stating that Medicaid spending in 2009 alone in Arkansas created 70,277 jobs and adding another 250,000 to the welfare rolls will create many more new jobs.  These are NOT jobs, they are government positions funded by hard working middleclass taxpayers in the private sector!  Show proof of 70,277 jobs, who the employers are, and who are the new proposed employers?

The most divisive lies the Bishop put forward in his editorial are the following:

1.    “We know the role of government is to foster the “Common Good”.  Straight out of Karl Marx.
“The Common Good” clause is explained in the Federalist Papers that were written by Founders James Madison, John Jay, & Alexander Hamilton.  All of which was undergirded by letters from Thomas Jefferson & John Adams. The intended meaning of the “Common Good” as the Founders and the Federalist Papers stated was what the colonists said the Common Good was…self-determination and responsibility for self…not what some self-serving politician or religionist says it means.

2.    Adding to the Bishop’s nonsense he goes on to state “For 100 years, American Catholic Bishops have called for universal healthcare (against the will of the American people and the Constitution) for life and human dignity, especially for the poor and immigrants”. He goes on to say with more Marxist ideology, “this includes making sure everyone has access to things needed to lead a life with dignity”.  More cradle-to-grave Communism and certainly, freedom is not denied to the poor.

3.    The Bishop, in another bombastic revelation…putting 250,000 more residents on welfare will “produce moral, social, and economic benefits for our state”. 
Bishop Taylor’s Catholic Church has a long history of criminal activities and abuse.  Openly, they advocate violation of Federal Law 8 USC, open borders, sanctuary cities, Catholic Charities (subsidized in the $billions by taxpayers) which aids and abets illegal aliens, then of course the most heinous crime of systemic pedophilia.  For this man to openly advocate anarchy can only lead to the opposite of “moral, social, and economic benefits” and drive the middleclass into oblivion, along with our rule of law and standard of living; there is no moral high ground for Bishop Taylor. In this context, American/Arkansan taxpayers not only subsidize Catholic Charities but also anti-American Hispanic organizations such as Lulac and La Raza (the Race), which are disciples of the Catholic church.

Those speaking of the “Common Good” are never the ones who pay for it. Isn’t Charity supposed to be the work of the churches and those who wish to freely give without coercion?  Not according to the gospel of Bishop Taylor. 

By the way, the Catholic Church possesses untold wealth & property, if the Medicaid project is really important to them, why don’t Catholics pay for it?  Is this not the height of hypocrisy?

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net  

More P.C.B.S. re: Illegal & 3rd world immigration


Steve Brawner in a column appearing in 1/11/13 Times Record “State Melting Pot Will Have More Salsa”.

BRAWNER IS CORRECT BUT THE SALSA LACKS CHIPS AND MELTING.

Brawner refers to the recently released Winthrop Rockefeller report, “A Profile of Immigrants in Arkansas”.  The report was for the edification of cheap labor, open border advocates, i.e. the Chambers of Commerce, government, and captains of industry.

Brawner, like many columnists, bandies the word “immigrant” in much too loose a fashion.  An Immigrant is defined as one that emigrates from one country to another, abiding by laws that the recipient country has in place; therefore Brawner is unabashedly categorizing illegal Mexicans & OTM’s as if they were here by invitation.  The aforementioned Rockefeller study indicates that 42% or MORE of the Hispanic population is here illegally and is costing Arkansas taxpayers an estimated $460 million just on their children’s education yearly.  This stat was from 2009-2010. With Hispanics proclivity to produce large numbers of children those numbers could have easily doubled. More importantly the study failed to identify the myriad of negatives Hispanics bring.

Brawner states that the study indicates Hispanics have had an estimated impact on Arkansas’ economy upwards to $4.3 billion that year. Brawner admits “the state spends more money providing services to immigrants than it gets back in taxes from them” (an understatement)—“but then, that’s the case with all of us citizens which is why the country has a $16 Trillion debt”.  Brawner attributing the $16 Trillion debt is due American citizens benefiting is a falsehood, much of the $16 Trillion debt is due to wars and more wars, foreign aid, global military bases, a huge standing army, business subsidies, ad infinitum…and oh yes, welfare for Americans which without illegals would solve the massive unemployment woes and those revenues produced back into the economy.

You see, if the 25-35 million illegals (not the 12 million number the government floats) nesting in the U.S.  were deported as 8 USC laws demands, there would not be these millions upon millions (both citizens & illegals) on welfare, drawing unemployment, et al.

To the real aspects of unbridled immigration: 90+% of all emigrants entering our republic are 3rd World, non-white, uneducated, poor, and as mentioned previously high child bearing individuals who have no history of any meaningful successes, i.e. arts & sciences.

This of course, all by design, orchestrated by corrupt states and the federal government.  Brawner, a former employee of former Gov. Mike Huckabee (POI), in all probability was involved in Huckabee’s criminal act in creating a Mexican Consulate in Little Rock, brought about in stealth, for the purpose of disbursing illegals to a 4 state workforce.   The criminal act is in violation of Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution…look it up.

In the main, Hispanics bring their failed cultures, philosophies, and heritage to our republic and keep them alive, accompanied by little or no acculturation, no understanding the U.S. Constitution & the ideals it gives rise to, or our heritage & culture, as a matter of fact, most make sport of our rule of law and population’s achievements.

Does Brawner think for one minute that the transition from a predominately white culture to a 3rd World multicultural existence will accomplish what the white Founding Stock has achieved?  Furthermore; the public school system, in its new found ethic of political correctness, is a joke and has & is punishing American kids by dumbing down the curriculum while creating a dependent social welfare environment—devoid of CHIPS.

Another imaginative statement…”America is an immigrant nation that thrives on the fresh perspectives brought by ambitious newcomers”. Just where & what are these perspectives? Open borders & cheap labor types, of which Brawner seems to approve, are fond of stating “we are a nation of immigrants”…no, we are a nation WITH immigrants.

A quick history lesson for Brawner and other open border advocates, the following quote by Howard Sutherland…”Absent a founding group or majority; it would be no nation at all, but a random gathering of people of assorted races, religions, and nationalities, united only by their presence in the same land. With no native culture to provide national unity, the population would tend to fragment on racial and ethnic lines, ensuring division and strife as groups pursue their interests at each other’s expense”.

What is occurring today in the U.S appears to be a multicultural future, guaranteed to fail…this brought to us by a nexus between corporations and the national government, the government acting as the CEO…which is what created Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.   Our national destruction is by design.

The U.S. foolishly is the yearly recipient of 3-5 million foreign nationals (legal & illegal), while at the same time the federal government fans the flame for hundreds of thousands of abortions and paying for them with taxpayer dollars.  Our former preeminent republic is steeped in government filth and squalor.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net  

Article & commentary on Secession

Guest writer

Nation divisible

U.S. states remain sovereign

By LOY MAUCH SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

— Much has been
written and discussed on the issue of secession petitions in the past
few weeks, and it seems that very few citizens on either side of the
argument understand the facts concerning this right. The first and
foremost truth that should be acknowledged regarding this topic is the
verdict of secession being legal or illegal. Since this issue comes
under the jurisdiction of the American Constitution, let’s start in
1776.

After a long train of tyrannical acts by England, the colonists
started seriously discussing a separation from the British empire. As we
should all know by now, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of
Independence, which offered a legal defense for secession. Mr. Jefferson
plainly stated: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government. . . .” Most people only
read the preamble to this magnificent American document, but one needs
to read it completely to fully understand what the colonists were
rightfully aggrieved over and their need for a secession from England.

After winning our War of Independence, the now-sovereign states
drafted and ratified the Articles of Confederation as their newly formed
government, our first Union. Note that not one state was coerced into
joining this confederacy. The Articles of Confederation stated that it
would form a “perpetual union,” but the union it created was not
perpetual. It lasted from March 1, 1781, until all the states that were
members of it had seceded from it to form a new union under the
Constitution of 1787. Again, not one state was coerced into joining the
new union or remaining a sovereign state.

After nine states, individually and not collectively, had ratified
the Constitution of 1787, this new government was now the law of the
land, but recognized only by those states that ratified it in their
respective state conventions. Furthermore several states specifically
reserved in their state constitutions the right of secession, and this
reservation, according to the rules of law, was ensured to the benefit
of the other states as well. A denial of the right of secession is a
denial of sovereignty, and secession was an obvious power reserved to
the states under the 10th Amendment.

A definitive explanation of all of this is a book titled A View of
the Constitution, written by federal abolitionist judge, William Rawle
of Pennsylvania, who was a contemporary of George Washington and
Benjamin Franklin and their personal friend. Mr. Rawle devotes an entire
chapter on how a state may lawfully secede from the American Union. He
plainly states that this event is decided by the will of the people of
their respective states and not by Congress or a president. Also,
Article VI of the Constitution articulates “that this Constitution . . .
shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”

Most people wrongly consider that the war in 1861 settled the issue
of secession forever. According to Article V of the Constitution, only
three-fourths of the several states can ratify or alter this document,
not the U.S. military, the president, Congress or the judiciary. In
other words, if secession was legal before the Civil War, it still is
today. Also, for any action to be deemed as unlawful, it must be
codified in law. That’s why we have elected representatives at the state
and federal level; to make certain actions illegal such as murder,
arson, robbery, speeding, texting while driving, etc. According to my
study of American history, no Congress yet has made it a crime to agree
with Thomas Jefferson.

Secession is a political divorce, and no union, whether it be a
marriage, business partnership, or union of states is irrevocable. Any
and all can be dissolved. The folly of the secession petitions is it
seems citizens are requesting permission to divorce themselves from the
federal government. No state needs this authorization from their
respective partners, and if one does not have the right to secede, it is
no longer free.

Fidelity to the Constitution is what holds the union together and
should be consensual. Unfaithfulness by any of its parties can justify
its disunion. I am in no way advocating any state leave this union, just
stating the legality of it and letting the readers absorb what I’ve
written and form their own opinions. I believe Patrick Henry said it
best: “The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second
thing is American union.” In a liberty-based society, liberty always
trumps government.

—–––––

Loy Mauch represents District 26 in the Arkansas legislature.

Editorial, Pages 13 on 12/28/2012