Sipsey Street Irregulars: I figured this was coming. Collectivists push their propaganda advantage on the Confederate flag hysteria.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I figured this was coming. Collectivists push their propaganda advantage on the Confederate flag hysteria.

Confederate Ideology and the Second Amendment

LATER. See also, reference current hysteria: Alabama Governor Caspar Milquetoast Removes Confederate Flag From State Capitol. Bentley always was a statist weenie.

9 comments:

Joel said...: Wow, no conflation there. To Charles Reid, Nullification=2A=slavery, end of 'argument.'

I wonder if Mr. Reid is in favor of the Alien and Sedition Acts? Is Mr. Reid aware that Nullification first raised its head with the Kentucky Resolution of 1798, penned by Thomas Jefferson? Oh, but Jefferson was a slave-holder, and so obviously evil to the core. Then how about the Virginia Resolution of the same year, written by James Madison - who may have known a thing or two about what the constitution did or didn't say or mean. Both were distinctly and specifically about state nullification of federal diktats. Both long predated the battle over southern tariffs.

The view that Nullification was somehow invented in the 19th century to defend slavery is a sure sign of being unwilling to look at both sides of an issue. I suspect Mr. Reid is completely and purposefully unaware that Nullification has been used to promote ANTI-slavery measures, as when in 1850 the Vermont legislature passed the "Habeas Corpus Law," requiring Vermont officials to assist rather than return fugitive slaves, in nullification of the federal Fugitive Slave Act. The Wisconsin state supreme court followed in 1854 when it declared the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, and thus NULL and void.

None of this information is in any way arcane, none of it stinks of tinfoil. But none of it supports Mr. Reid's view of Nullification's 'sordid' history, so down the memory hole it goes.

And none of it has anything real to do with the 2A, anyway. What a transparent piece of 'progressive' agitprop.; June 24, 2015 at 8:54 AM
Anonymous said...: Even the HuffPo has gone over the cliff.
Teh Stoopid is strong with this one.
Wow.Just.Wow.

B Woodman
III-per; June 24, 2015 at 9:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Sounds like a Joseph Goebbels wannabe to me and another 2nd repealer wishing for a blood bath.

Effective state nullification was essentially lost with the passage of the 16th and 17th amenements to the constitution. With the 16th the federal government became the central holder of the pursestrings. When Fedgov can bypass a state and dip directly into the citizens wallet for it's money then it can dole it out to whomever it wishes. Anyone really believe the two houses of congress can regulate the leviathan created in the 20th century and insure fair and equitable distribution of revenues? Waiting for an answer. Crickets.

One last thing. Anyone who believes we Americans live in a land where there is Rule of Law is living in a fantasy world. Rule of Law is now a Myth.; June 24, 2015 at 9:11 AM
harp1034 said...: Today they come to ban the Confederate battle flag. If they can pull this off then they will go for guns next. This creep has caused a lot of damage.
Take my word for it. This is way bigger than some 154 year old flag. They are not going to stop at the flag. They smell blood in the water and will go for a lot more than this.; June 24, 2015 at 9:28 AM
MissAnthropy said...: "Take my word for it. This is way bigger than some 154 year old flag. They are not going to stop at the flag. They smell blood in the water and will go for a lot more than this."

Exactly. They will never stop. They're like the Terminator -- you cannot bargain with them, reason with them, placate them.

They are adept at what they do, following the template of their icon Alinsky. Identify a target and isolate it from support and sympathy. Right now it's the Confederate flag, but in truth they seek the destruction of anything and everything that stands contrary to their world view. It's not just historical symbols they intend to purge from the bounds of polite company. They'll be moving onto all symbols and artifacts of white identity (whether explicitly "white" or not) such as national flags of European countries. That movement is already apace there, as the English Defence League has discovered with their use of the St. George flag of England.; June 24, 2015 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous said...: Confederate flag removed from Alabama capitol
Governor orders removal of the flag: Published On: Jun 24 2015 09:55:55 AM CDT
http://www.channel3000.com/news/confederate-flag-removed-from-alabama-capitol/33748436

Alabama Gov. Bentley removes Confederate flags from Capitol grounds
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/confederate_flag_removed_from.html

I don’t know what law or legal precedence
backs it up, other than the fact that Alabama’s
state government is completely
overrun by traitorous communists.; June 24, 2015 at 10:44 AM
Mark Tyree said...: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/battleflagfourth?_ft_=top_level_post_id.1625696180977676. A Facebook to stand up to the leftist PC cult. Battle flag the 4th.; June 24, 2015 at 3:54 PM
TheBohunk said...: They are no longer even trying to hide who they are anymore. CNN anchors are suggesting the Jefferson Monument be destroyed.

Our kristallnacht continues...; June 25, 2015 at 1:49 AM
Informed42 said...: Think out of the box about the flag issue. All of the Liberal assholes and traitor
politicians are jumping on the band wagon right along with the Lame Stream Media and all the blacks. (And it seems that everyone that's black from Charleston to San Francisco is having prayer vigils or gatherings and are preachers) Obviously there's a shit load of them that don't have jobs they need to go to !!

So, go ahead and take the flags down and appease the jigs and their supporters, and watch how effective that will be in eliminating racial strife and blacks killing and preying on blacks. Take the flag down and everything will be just hunky dory.

And if you believe that, you probably believe that politicians are honest and none of them lie through their teeth every time they open their mouths.; June 25, 2015 at 11:50 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I figured this was coming. Collectivists push their propaganda advantage on the Confederate flag hysteria.

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