The welfare state, the South & independence

Eliminating the destructive welfare state & restoring self-determination 

 

Dr Ralph Raico, an author, historian, free market economist and professor at State University of New York College at Buffalo, spoke at a conference back in 2003 in which he talked about the rise and fall of what we now call Classical Liberalism (though it was once just called liberalism – and still is in much of the world – before Left-wing statists appropriated the popular label in the US for their own cause). Dr Raico, who would almost certainly have been termed a “Copperhead” for his support of the South and the right of secession had he lived in the 1860s, applies his analysis of the decline of freedom and the rise of the welfare/warfare state in the Western World (especially since WWI though the process was underway well before then) to the South. In fact, he argues that Southern secession in 1860-61 was the last serious attempt to check an unlimited US Federal Government, which today recognises no limits on its powers at home and around the globe. He also talks about Southerners’ attempts to limit the Confederate Government in Richmond much as they had tried (and failed) to do to the Federal Government in Washington. Dr Raico discusses the US Federal Government’s conquest of the South and its disregard for Southern life and even for the slaves for whom they claimed to care so much. He goes on to talk about a development of the Western welfare state which its early advocates probably could not have envisioned – this being political correctness, multiculturalism and the destruction of Western people and their replacement with Third World immigrants. He talks about how the welfare state has eliminated references to Dixie and attacked Southern identity as part of this process. Perhaps most interestingly for Southern nationalists, Dr Raico argues that Classical Liberalism can not be restored in the United States and that the modern state can not be limited. Instead, he argues that free and homogeneous (he tackles the very politically-incorrect subject of “diversity” as the welfare state uses the term) communities across the South (and the Occidental world in general) need to be formed where people of similar backgrounds and cultures can govern themselves and preserve their culture, identity and liberty free from a central government or modern state. This is the only way we will survive and achieve freedom, Dr Raico argues.

Teen Suspended From N.J. School For Wearing Confederate Flag Shirt

Says It's Part Of Her History; Mom Vows To Sue On First Amendment Violation

 

 EAST WINDSOR, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been suspended for wearing a sweatshirt with a Confederate flag on it.
Many see it as a symbol of hate and racism, but this teenager claims its part of her heritage, reports CBS 2’s Christine Sloan.
Torri Albrecht said Monday when she showed up to her middle school wearing a sweatshirt with the confederate flag. She said her vice principal gave her a choice:
“He said I had to take off the sweatshirt or flip it inside out or face the consequences,” Albrecht said.
But the eighth grader, who was born in Virginia and lived there just a year, said she refused to take it off.
“It shows I am from the South. I am proud of where I came from and it shows my heritage,” Albrecht said.
The teenager’s mother, who took a picture at the Kreps Middle School, said her daughter was suspended for not changing into something else — a violation, she said, of her First Amendment rights.
“The Indian kids get to wear turbans. The Jewish children can wear yarmulkes. That’s their birth right, their heritage. It’s my daughter’s heritage,” said Jane West, Albrecht’s mother.

An assistant superintendent said Albrecht was not suspended for the sweatshirt but for a confidentiality policy they can’t discuss.
“When I got the suspension slip it said she was disrespectful when asked to remove her sweatshirt,” West said.
Albrecht’s bed is covered with her dad’s Confederate flag. He died two years ago. And it’s on the computer screen she used to buy her sweatshirt online.
However, Albrecht did admit she doesn’t know the history behind this flag, viewed by many as a racially-charged symbol.
“I don’t pay attention to that I don’t know,” Albrecht said.
However, the teenager, who said she’s receiving death threats, insisted, “Everyone who wears it isn’t racist.”
Some people in her town disagree.
“It’s a negative connotation. All she’s doing is hurting other peoples’ feelings,” resident Ken Flent told Sloan.
Albrecht said she wants to be transferred to a new school district and want to wear her sweatshirt there. Albrecht’s mother said she plans on suing her current school district. Editor's Note: The girl is suspended for being disrespectful, not for wearing the t-shirt. So what does that tell you?

Memorial Service Honors Confederate Prisoners

Scotland, MD - 11/7/2011
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By Dick Myers

Guest speaker Adbur Haymes

In the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, one of war’s many dark spots was remembered Saturday in St. Mary’s County. More than 4,000 Confederate soldiers died at Pt. Lookout prisoner of war camp between 1863 and 1865 of the 50,000 soldiers held there. A memorial service in their memory was held at the National Confederate Cemetery in Scotland just north of the camp which is now part of Pt. Lookout State Park.

The event was hosted by Captain Vincent Camalier, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Camp #1359 and the newly formed Southern Maryland Chapter #48, Order of the Confederate Rose, Private Jane Perkins.

Camp Commander Larry Messick welcomed everyone attending the event on the blustery day. Many of the attendees were dressed in re-enactor costumes. During the presentation of colors re-enactors representing a number of units surrounded the base of the Confederate monument.

Newly appointed Baltimore National Cemetery Superintendent Dr. Martha Rankin was on her first visit to Pt. Lookout. She said the area evoked different responses from different people, but she noted, “I can’t imagine anyone visiting here and not being moved. We share the inability to wrap our minds around the number of soldiers killed and wounded in the Civil War.” She added that sites such as Pt. Lookout are, “places for future generations to learn from.”

Guest speaker was Adbur Haymes, director of operations at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond and a retired U.S. Army Sgt. Major. Haymes, an African-American and an unabashed southerner, said “I say y’all and drink sweat tea.” He added he brought greeting from Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

Haymes said of those who wound up at Pt. Lookout, “They were proud soldiers who did their duty following the orders of their president, Jefferson Davis and following the orders of their general, Robert E. Lee.”

Haymes spoke lovingly of Gen. Lee and told how he agonized about joining the Confederacy. He told of leaving Arlington House after making that decision, never to return. He told of how soldiers were buried on the front lawn of Arlington House. Lee’s son filed suit in the 1890’s to regain control of their ancestral home and won that suit in the U.S. Supreme Court. The family was given the option to disinter the bodies, but realized that Gen. Lee would have not wanted that. Instead they sold the property to the U.S. for what is now Arlington National Cemetery.

Haymes called both Davis and Lee great men and said he is on a mission to rehabilitate the legacy of the president of the Confederacy.

Commander of the Southern Maryland Chapter #48, Order of the Confederate Rose Monie Harper told the story of Private Jane Perkins, after whom the chapter is named. She and her brother immigrated to America after the Irish Rebellion, ended up in Massachusetts, where they were not welcome and eventually settled in Virginia where she became a school teacher.

Jane’s brother enlisted in the Army of Northern Virginia and she joined him, first incognito as a man. She was captured during a battle in Hanover, VA and sent to Pt. Lookout, where she was the only woman. She was strip-searched upon arrival and she gave birth to a son while there (father unknown).

Buck-Thompson described a feisty woman who told her captors, “I can straddle a horse, I can jump a fence and I can kill a Yankee.” After being sent to another prison her son was kept at Pt. Lookout and both of their ultimate fates remain a mystery today.

During the ceremony the Pledge of Allegiance was recited and the National Anthem performed, the Salute to the Confederate Flag was also recited and Dixie performed. Maryland My Maryland, with its words “Despot’s Heel is on Our Shore” was also performed by musician Wally Ivanov. Wreaths were laid at the monument from several organizations.

Many of the re-enactors camped at the park on Friday evening.

Point Lookout Memorial Service

Point Lookout Memorial Service

November 5, 2011

Scotland, Maryland

11 AM

Sponsored by the Captain Vincent Camalier Camp #1359,

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Guest speaker will be Sgt. Major Abdur Hamyes, (US Army Ret.) of  The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA.

Present will be the award winning SCV Maryland Division Color Guard.

Also, Friday evening Nov. 4^th at 6:30 PM. at Confederate Memorial Park, The Private Jane Perkins Camp #48, Order of the Confederate Rose, will be sponsoring a Paranormal Investigation of the park and cemetery.

Trent Hall Media Group will lead the investigation. There is a fee to join the investigation teams Friday evening but it will be so much fun.

We plan on setting up camp Friday and spending the night. Confederate Memorial Park is located 1 mile north of Point Lookout State Park, site of the infamous Point Lookout Prison Camp which housed 52,000 Confederate P.O.W.'s during the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War). Come join us!

Special Request from Dr. Hill

The League of the South has a message all freedom-loving Southerners ought to hear. It is the message of Southern independence from a sinking, corrupt, and destructive regime in Washington, DC. When our people hear this message, they usually react positively to it. After all, no one in his right mind wants to go down on an obviously sinking ship.

But how many of them never hear our message because we stay "under the radar?" As much as we hate to admit it, our organization is still unknown to most Southerners. Why? One reason is the clutter of mass information - we get buried beneath the crush of topics that dominate both the conventional news cycle and the internet. Another is the nature of our message. It is unpopular with the "powers-that-be," including the news media; therefore, it is ridiculed, marginalized, or simply ignored. But perhaps the main reason we remain under the radar is the lack of funds to advertise our message.

The League of the South Board of Directors has approved a major publicity campaign. It will take money to do a test run of this project. Though we are not yet at liberty to divulge all the details of this project (mainly because we think our enemies would try to prevent it), we are to the point where we are ready to raise the money to fund it.

As President of the League, I am asking for at least 50 members or supporters to pledge $30 quarterly, $60 semi-annually, or $120 annually to this test project. Our ultimate goal is to raise $6000 ($1500 per quarter) over the next 12 months to put this publicity campaign to a real live test run.

You can make a quarterly or semi-annual pledge (for which we will send you a "coupon book" as a reminder of your pledge) or you can simply make a one-time annual donation for the amount you wish to pledge. Anything we raise over and above the necessary amount will be placed in a special fund to help with the continuation of this project.

Though initially we are running a test (which we will be able to closely monitor), we believe the project has merit and thus will prove successful in getting us out from below the radar and into the eye of the Southern public. I am asking you to make a pledge today. Once we have the necessary funds committed and all the plans in place, we will announce the launching of this important project, first to League members and supporters and then to the general public.

If we fund and plan it well, the project will draw a great deal of attention to our message.

Please make your contribution to the League office today by sending your donation by mail to: LS, PO Box 760, Killen, Alabama 35645 or by visiting our website at http://dixienet.org/members/Outreach_Project.php. 

Michael Hill

President, The League of the South

Feds ask court to block Alabama’s immigration law

Central regime continues to stand in the way 

The US Federal Government is attempting to stop Alabama from acting to slow down the flow of illegal immigration and the displacement of native Alabamians. Fox News reported on the story:

The Obama administration asked an appeals court on Friday to block the enforcement of Alabama’s strict immigration law — widely considered to be the toughest in the nation — arguing it invites discrimination against foreign-born citizens and legal immigrants and is at odds with federal policy.
The Justice Department filed the challenge to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. It claimed Alabama’s new law “is highly likely to expose persons lawfully in the United States, including school children, to new difficulties in routine dealings.”

The overhaul allows authorities to question people suspected of being in the country illegally and hold them without bond. It also lets officials check the immigration status of students in public schools.
A federal judge in Alabama upheld those two key aspects of the law, which have already taken effect.
Those provisions that took effect are what help make the Alabama law stricter than similar laws passed in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia. Other federal judges have blocked all or parts of the laws in those states.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Friday that President Obama has been clear on his position that “efforts to address the issue of America’s broken immigration system through a patchwork of state laws will only create more problems than it solves.”
Alabama shrugged off the appeal.
“The fact that the Department of Justice has appealed comes as no surprise,” Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said. “I remain committed to seeing that this law is fully implemented. We will continue to defend this law against any and all challenges.”
Immigration became a hot issue in Alabama over the past decade as the state’s Hispanic population grew by 145 percent to about 185,600. While the group still represents only about 4 percent of the population, some counties in north Alabama have large Spanish-speaking communities and schools where most of the students are Hispanic.
The Justice Department’s appeal said parts of the law conflict with federal rules, and that “attempts to drive aliens `off the grid’ will only impede the removal process established by federal law.” It also said the legislation could impact diplomatic relations with foreign countries.
“Alabama is not in a position to answer to other nations for the consequences of its policy,” it said. “That is the responsibility of the federal government, which speaks for all the states and must ensure that the consequences of one state’s foray in to the realm of immigration law are not visited upon the nation as a whole.”
It also said requiring officers to report people without adequate credentials to federal immigration officials “unnecessarily diverts resources from federal enforcement priorities and precludes state and local officials from working in true cooperation with federal officials.”

TSA scanners coming to more airports across the South

Hundreds of scanners already at airports... more on the way

Austin, Baton Rouge, Chattanooga, Knoxville and Tallahassee are among the 29 airports in the United States where the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is installing its controversial scanners which take images through travellers’ clothing. The TSA describes their invasive devices in glowing terms:

The machines will be deployed with new automated target recognition software designed to enhance privacy by eliminating passenger-specific images while improving throughput capabilities and streamlining the checkpoint screening process.”We remain committed to implementing technologies that strengthen passenger privacy while ensuring the highest level of security,” said TSA Administrator John S. Pistole. “In addition to improving the passenger experience at the checkpoint, advanced imaging technology continues to give us the greatest opportunity to detect and deter evolving threats to aviation.”
…In September 2011, TSA purchased 300 millimeter wave units, which are being deployed in the coming months. Currently, there are nearly 500 AIT units at 78 airports nationwide. President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget included the purchase of 500 units, and the President’s fiscal 2012 budget requests funding for an additional 275 units.