INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC PUBLISHED OR PROMOTED BY THE
SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
These are two of speakers at the 2015 Sons of Confederate Veterans Reunion in Richmond, Virgina and are headlined at this web page. They are speakers at the "Heritage" Luncheon.
Read the following and you will see what type of "heritage" they might be talking about. This is their web page. www.kennedytwins.com.
The cover article for May/June 2012 Confederate Veteran is “Lincoln, Federal
Supremacy, and the Death of States’ Rights,” pages 16-22, 60-62, by James
Ronald Kennedy, with a website www.kennedytwins.com. Kennedy is one of the headline speakers at
the 2015 Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) National Reunion in Richmond, Virginia.
Some selections from the article:
In an absolute monarchy
or dictatorship such decision-making authority resides in the person of the
king or dictator. In a mass democracy such as we have in contemporary America,
sovereignty resides within the supreme Federal government. The Federal
government is ultimately supreme – its will must be obeyed. “We the people” of
the once-sovereign states now approach our masters in Washington, DC, as
subjects, not citizens. We, like the subjects of a king or dictator, approach our government as supplicants, with
outstretched hands pleading, “Please, may
we have just a little more freedom or keep just a little more of our income?”
[Italics in the original.] [pp. 22]
Few Anti-Federalists were
able to envision the oppressive horror a centralized supreme Federal government
would eventually compel Americans to endure. [pp. 22]
In this dark hour of
American political history it is possible to see the potential for the
reemergence of the ancient American political principle of real States’ Rights.
[pp. 23]
James Ronald Kennedy recommends a passage of a
constitutional amendment to solve what he sees is a problem. It is an amendment
which would effectively dissolve national government in any state on the whim
of that state. He doesn’t advocate violence. However, when you characterize the
American government as an “oppressive horror” others might take other actions
to what they perceive as a “horror.”
In the Sept./Oct. 2014 issue of Confederate Veteran, pp. 16-22, 24,56-62,64-65, is an article, “Our
Re-United Country?: The Sad Reality of Reconciliation,” by James Ronald Kennedy
and Walter Donald Kennedy, both headline speakers at the 2015 SCV National
Reunion in Richmond.
The article is all about how the South is abused. The
American government is a tyranny and Reconstruction isn’t an attempt to
establish a multiracial democracy, but an oppression of the South, and the
Kennedy’s specifically condemn scholars who think Reconstruction was a good
thing.
We live in an era in
which real states’ rights does not exist; we live in an era in which “we the
people” of a free republic the once-sovereign states are no longer citizens of
a free republic but are mere subjects to an all-powerful and supreme federal
government. [pp. 17]
After all, were they not
at the mercy of a cruel and triumphant invader? After the War and during the
active phase of Reconstruction, the South had no means of resistance to Federal
tyranny. [pp. 17]
Rejecting that idea that secession was done to
preserve slavery the Kennedys write:
“… the War was fought for
Southern independence and to prevent the enslavement of all Southerners to an
aggressive and evil Federal Empire – an empire which was determined to make
political, economic, and social slaves of all Southerners, regardless of skin
color. [pp. 21]
Notice that it is an “evil” Federal Empire and the
capitalization of Empire.
On page 18 the Kennedys quote both Robert E. Lee and
Alexander H. Stephens (VP of the Confederacy) warning that the loss of states’
rights would result in a despotism this enlisting both Confederate leaders and
heroes to the members of the SCV in their claim that America is a despotism.
There are sections titled “Political Subjugation – the
Price of Reconciliation,” “Economic Subjugation – the Price of Reconciliation,”
and “Social Subjugation – the Price of Reconciliation,” and “Cultural
Distortion – the Price of Reconciliation.”
Many people in the South do not believe the
Confederacy was a good thing, support civil rights and are proud to be Americans.
They are denounced in a section “Of Quislings, Vichymen and Scalaways –
Soldiers of Reconciliation.” The Kennedys state:
Thus the reconciliation
movement has provided the Federal Empire with legions of Southern
cooperationists to help it maintain its rule – a rule of centralized Federal
tyranny worst than the one that America’s Founding Fathers seceded from in
1776.” [pp. 60]
The Kennedys solution is their constitutional
amendment they had printed in the May/June 2012 issue.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment