Some Relevant Quotes For Today, Re: the Confederate Flag

These quotes, from both ancient and modern times, say exactly what I am feeling tonight.  

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“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
Sir William Wallace, 1281

“Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.”
Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Confederate Spy

“To me, the campaign by certain groups to remove all the symbols and memorials to our Southern past amounts to the same thing…a desecration of graves. Every flag or monument that is removed, every plaque taken down, every school or street or bridge that is renamed, is no different from a broken tombstone. It is wanton and hateful violence directed at the dead who can no longer defend themselves.”
John Field Pankow

“To tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.”
James Webb-Secretary of Navy And Assistant Secretary of Defense under U.S. President Ronald Regan and current U.S. Senator (D.VA.) (Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, New York: Broadway Books, 2004, p. 225) [James Webb recently announced his candidacy for president on the Democratic ticket.  I would seriously consider voting for him, should he get the nomination.]

“The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.”
Winston Churchill

Source:  The Confederate Colonel

Confederate Quote of the Day: Jack Kerwick

In treating the Confederate flag like a Swastika, in reducing it to a one-dimensional symbol of “hate,” the flag’s enemies—both Democrats and Republicans—are guilty of nothing less than the dehumanization of generations—of millions—of patriotic, God-fearing, salt-of-the-Earth Southern Americans.

--Jack Kerwick, writing in the Unz Review:  
The Fake Controversy of the Confederate Flag -- and Why It Matters

Moonbattery: Dukes of Hazzard and the War of Obliteration Against the South

David Blount comes through again with the perfect description of the latest anti-Southern cultural atrocity.

Oppression does not need to be inflicted directly by the government for a society to be totalitarian. On the contrary, in a truly totalitarian society, the oppression is so ubiquitous, the government hardly needs to get involved. An example would be the USA in 2015, where a television standard that has been part of our culture for decades is going down the memory hole because the flag on the roof of a car is now regarded as a thought crime. Good-bye Dukes of Hazzard; you were just a little too Southern to be permitted...

Read it all here.

Blount is a true friend of the South.  His readers and commenters are pretty great, too.  Read Blount often at Moonbattery.com.

"Gone With the Wind" May Soon Be Gone With the Wind

The cultural cleansing progressives are on a roll.  Like Sherman's March to the Sea, they want to burn down the South, destroy everything in their path.  They are fueled by a hateful fanaticism.  Now they want to relegate the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" to the museum, right along side the Confederate flag.  Dave Blount at Moonbattery writes:

The totalitarian impulse that drives political correctness is like fire. The more it consumes, the hungrier it becomes. Attempting to appease it would be insane. It will keep burning until it is forcibly stopped, or until there is nothing left to burn.

 Somewhere, some how, we have to stop this.

Read Dave's article here.