WHY THE USA FEARS THE TRADITIONAL
CONFEDERATE FLAG WAVING SOUTH
By Tim Manning
Lexington Flag Rally: I love Lexington, Virginia and
pastored a beautiful church for several years serving Lexington
and Buena Vista, and visited the VMI campus
very often. The members of this church cut their own timber, milled the wood,
built the church, did their own stained glass windows and parsonage and did a
beautiful wood carving on the parsonage door. I have baptized families here,
performed their marriages, dedicated their babies and performed their funerals.
In 1951 I met
with three men who fought under the Confederate battle flags and was raised on
stories about the war told to me by my family members who survived the war.
They did not all survive. Several will killed as unarmed civilians simply
because they were civilians living in the South.
(We often
ignore the Official Records of the U.S. Department of War that states that 80%
of the U.S.
war effort against the CSA was directed against civilians in order to demoralize
Southern men so that they would stop resisting the invasion.)
I have taught
in Virginia
communities and universities for 43 years defending western civilization
against incipient cultural Marxists and Marxism that have been working to
undermine our classical civilization for over 400 years.
We are here
today to defend civil and constitutional rights of Virginians as understood and
established in the western world which we call civilization.
In 1948 British
barrister and writer Sir Patrick Hastings wrote a summary of World Wars I &
II: he wrote, “War is the creation of individuals not of nations.” This is so
important to remember especially as we consider the consequences of Abraham
Lincoln's War to Prevent Southern Independence.
We are here to
defend the noble symbols and flags that represent the fight against an
intrusive and violent invasion of our Virginia State
by an out of control central government by the most noble men of honor during
the 1860's.
We are here to
fight bigotry and the anti-Southern racism and demagoguery imposed by the
Marxist media in Virginia's
airways.
Thomas Hobbes,
who developed some of the fundamentals of European liberal social and political
thought (not to be confused with American liberalism today by the extreme
left), writing in the 16th century on the nature of strongly centralized
governments that we generally called “empires” wrote on how empires grow their
political authority and powers through playing one group in a state against
another group or culture in the State.
The purpose of
scheme was to convince people that the government must assume more power and
authority to protect them from the evils of the past and those who posed a
possible threat to them. The state constructed these straw men to socially
engineer and manipulate people to further enhance their power and control over
a country.
Hobbes also
observed that meaningful dissent was not be permitted or tolerated. The
Christians and their influence in the Roman empire
had to be NULLIFIED and DELEGITIMIZED and INVALIDATED. Distinctive cultural and
religious groups must be snuffed out and not permitted to have a place at the
tables of public dialogue and discourse.
Hobbes called
this process of invalidation “squashing the worms of the empire.”
Today this same
censorship is happening right here in Virginia
where the important and classical concepts of freedom and liberty were first
formulated on the North American continent. Most of the first presidents and
supreme court justices were from Virginia.
The descendants of these honorable Founders defended the freedoms and the
liberties cherished by their families in the Confederate military.
There are
millions like me in the united
States who remember who we are. Aside from
our commitment to God and our families we still consider ourselves State
citizens. As I have traveled the world and spoken in many foreign nations to
college and church groups I am introduced as a “Virginian.” Some of those who
lecture with me are North Carolinians,
Georgians, Texans, Floridians, and so on. These flags which some leaders of
Lexington now wish to no longer fly during the period we CELEBRATE Lee-Jackson
Day are honored flags of Virginia and our families.
These
Confederate flags represent a noble period of Virginia's history sanctified by the blood
of faithful freedom loving Virginia Statesmen, and our relatives. These flags
also represent us personally in our love for “government by the consent of the
governed” during a time when our central government in D.C. did not forcibly
rule over our State and our families. These flags represent US and we are the
ones who get to define what these flags mean.
We do remember
who we are and why our families risked everything to preserve the Constitution
of the United States while
folks in New England were burning copies of
the U.S. Constitution in their streets.
My grandfather,
uncles and cousins walked home from Appomattox
to Norfolk, Richmond,
Lexington, Williamsburg,
Portsmouth, Roanoke and other smaller towns.
Those of us in
the Sons of Confederate Veterans learn and honor an accurate history of our Virginia and the Confederate
States of America and we seek to preserve our
ancestors and U.S. Founders view of the U.S. Constitution which we consider a
righteous heritage.
Heritage is
what you take from the past into your life as your own. We consider these flags
with their Southern St. Andrews Christian Crosses a political and spiritual
symbol representing a war we call “The Last Stand of Christendom on this
hemisphere. Subsequent to this war the Confederate Battle Flag of
Bishop-General Leonidas Polk became the universal symbol of the Christian
churches.
Take a quick
look at South Africa
where consideration was granted to the non-white majority as the population
changed they:
1.
first targeted the destruction of their national
symbols
2.
changed the names of roads and bridges,
3.
changed the names of schools
4.
changed the names of cities
5.
changed the pictures on their currency to avoid the
pictures of old heroes now considered white racists and slave owners
6.
NOW, their inner cities are falling into disrepair
7.
their history is being rewritten
8.
roads and building falling into disrepair
9.
invasions of private land and property are tolerated
10. the
owners of this property are being killed
11. only
9% of murderers are put in jail
12. legal
authorities are being bribed and it is OK
13. criminals
are voted into office
14. Your
tax dollars will go to those who don’t earn and don’t pay
15. organizations
that used to have access to state funds such as old age homes, the arts, and
veteran’s services, are simply abandoned
Once you lose
social, cultural, religious and political dominance, there is no getting it
back again.
You see, it is
not our flags that the egalitarians and socialists of modernity hate and we
know that. It is us they hate because of our Christianity and our dedication
still to the U.S. Founders view of the U.S. Constitution. We consider the
prohibition of these flags as a hate crime against us. Sowing the winds of
hatred against traditional thinking Southerners will in time reap the whirlwinds
of a fragmented State.
Lee-Jackson Day
is a time honored State Holiday. It is
treasonous to prevent us from flying the symbols under which these men of
excellent character offered their lives for our freedoms and our liberty. This
holiday is our memorial service to their memory which is a form of religious
service.
I invite the
city representatives to not participate in this still new politics of hate and
fear and permit us to continue to fly our flags in the city as we have done for
so many years. The lack of the free expression of diversity by the Lexington
City Council is exemplary of totalitarian states. Diversity is limited by the
intolerance of our leaders. Freedom is tough and often sloppy offending the
weak of mind and heart.
Freedom is more
defined, not by what it advocates, but more by what it tolerates. The Lexington
City Council has an opportunity to step forward and put freedom into practice.
Blocking our diversity is NOT the city's right, nor is it a moral right.
Practicing our diversity is our moral right and it is representative of the
best values contained in the American View of Freedom and Liberty. Our freedom is being held hostage to
the New World Order. A responsible people would not and will not permit this.
CONCLUSION
The greatest
threat to American hegemony with its all consuming militant fascism is still
the U.S. Founder's view of the U.S. Constitution which was so vigorously
defended by the Southern people during Lincoln's
War to Prevent Southern Independence.
The South was
and is a classical civilization and culture still capable of understanding the
Founder's view, because of their classicist western culture with its deeply
spiritual orthodox Biblical view of the nature of human government and culture.
These views remain a hated enigma to secularist humanists and their egalitarian
political ideology that thrives in democracies.
They do not
fear violence from Southerner's so much as the universal appeal of Southern
political views when given a chance in the political arena. This is why Marxist
propagandists use U.S.
slavery and American/yankee Nativism (racism) as a smoke screen diversion when
discussing Lincoln's
war.
This is why
there is no real objective discussion on race and racism. Whites must be
automatically considered racist in order to use guilt manipulation to establish
a communist world view. The goal of totalitarian socialism is not socialism,
but it serves as a “softer” route to communism.
The
constitutional issues of freedom and liberty must not be permitted at the table
of public dialogue and discussion where the Founder's views would be presented
by Southern voices. This is why the FBI/NSA/CIA have heavily invested in
infiltrating SCV State organizations and camps and other Southern heritage and
political movements and societies from the very time the SCV was formed over
100 years ago.
No, it is not
our Confederate Battle Flags that they fear or the discovery of their false
flag attacks on our Southern symbols and political leaders that they fear, but
they do fear a rebirth of the Founder's view of constitution government with
its threatening freedom and liberty that limits, controls and holds government
and its servants fully accountable.
U.S.
egalitarians fear the moral foundations of orthodox Christians that cannot be
so easily manipulated by the political whims and ever-changing winds of social
engineering with its consequential social disorder that so marks socialist
societies. No, it is not our flags they fear, it is Christians they fear. They
fear us.
We must be MARGINALIZED, we must be DELEGITIMIZED, we
must be INVALIDATED and seen as IRRELEVANT to the rising new social order, the
new world order. The heart of the South beats faintly, it is not well, but it
is still alive and it is gaining new support and enthusiasm. Well, we will not
go away, we will not change and we will NOT SO SILENTLY INTO THE NIGHT.
