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I. The sentiments of this website.

"All we ask is to be let alone." (Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America .)

“We may be very quiet. But we are everywhere, we cantankerous, contrarian members of the Leave Me Alone Coalition.” (“Claire Wolfe”, noted libertarian.)

"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert it's self, though it may be at another time and in another form . . . . The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena.” (Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America .)

"But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—"that government of the people, by the people, for the people," should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and veto of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that veto was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary". (H.L. Mencken, noted libertarian and kurmudjeon, on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.)

"Lincoln's war implied, and the Gettysburg Address set to words, a firm message to the States of the Union - I love you, and if you leave me, I'll hunt you down and kill you. The Address was not the sagely comments of a wise statesmen, rather the vain, obsessive ranting of a power-hungry demon engaging in a blood-thirsty mission of self-aggrandizement, no matter the volume of corpses required to attain it." (Lewis Goldberg, author)

"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states." (Charles Dickens, noted literary figure.)

"Were it not for the wounds that Lincoln inflicted upon the Constitution, it would have been infinitely more difficult for Franklin Roosevelt to carry through his revolution, for the coercive welfare state to come into being and bring about the conditions against which we are fighting today." (Frank Meyer, paleolibertarian political filosofer)

"(As a result of the War Between the States), the old federal republic in which the national government had rarely touched the average citizen except through the post-office gave way to a more centralized polity that taxed the people directly and created an internal revenue bureau to collect these taxes, drafted men in the army, expanded the jurisdiction of federal courts, created a national currency and a national banking system, and established the first national agency for social welfare- the Freedmen's Bureau. Eleven of the first twelve amendments to the Constitution had limited the powers of the national government; six of the next seven, beginning with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, vastly expanded those powers at the expense of the states." (James M. McPherson, damn Yankee historian, but quite honest here)

"America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South." (G.K. Chesterton, noted literary figure and Christian philosopher.)

"The cause of the South is the cause of us all." (Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America .)

Con-fed-er-a-TAR-i-an: 1) confederate + libertarian; 2) an individual who tells every tyrant to go to hell, not just Yankee tyrants, but who does so preferably from within the confines of Dixie.

LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL

This here 19th-century image is one of "Honest Abe" Lincoln as th' "Federal Phoenix" arisin' from th' ashes of th' US Constitution, Commerce, Credit, Habeas Corpus, States Rights and a Free Press, all named in th' burnin' logs below him. Most of "Honest Abe's" modern emulators are historic'ly ignurnt 'n tharfore don't realize wut opposition thar wuz to him back in th' day, not ohnly in th' Confederate states, but in th' North too. Th' man wuz a cad 'n a despot, but later generashuns of Americans wud become hornswaggled by th' orficial National Myth and Piety, gittin' all patriotic feelin' when th' Battle Hymn of th' Republic Empire is played 'n whin they gaze upohn his Zeus-like image in-att temple thar at Rome ohn th' Potomac. 'N now we got the Lincoln Bicentennial comin' upohn us from th' storage bin of th' grapes of wrath, with all sorts of silly celebratin' 'n honorin' t' be done by both libruls 'n so-called conservatives alike(which is fittin' since it's both th' Evil Party and th' Stupid Party which are the ideological heirs of Lincoln). Well, as cud be expected, ol' Jones is one-a many-a paleocon who'll be observin' this here bicentennial by flyin' Confed'rate flags and tellin' th' truth t' Americans 'bout who ol' Abe really wuz. I am lankin' a series of my own posts as well as those of other Confed'rate truth tellers here. We report, y'all decide.

What is Confederalism?

"Confederalism's" a term yir gonna be hearin' more 'n more as th' American Empire implodes, as Americans come t' detest Warshuntun DC mo' thin-ey alreddy do, 'n as-ey try t' come t' grips with wut th' country really shud be.

From knowledgerush.com

Confederalism is a form of government in which states within a nation have the most control over their laws. It is generally accepted that in a confederacy, the federal government exists only to discuss what actions the country in general should take, to organize the military forces of the states, to discuss state and federal borders, and create a close alliance between states.

The individual states would create their own laws, militias, and governments.

Proponents of confederalism suggest this form of government as an alternative to federalism . They point out that in a federal government, one's is "ruled by the majority." In other words, one's opinion and one's vote can do very little to oppose laws and decisions supported by the majority of the entire nation, and one cannot get a law passed unless the majority of the nation both hear of and agree with it. They argue that in a confederacy, one could practice freedom of association, moving freely to a state or town in which the laws most closely match those that one would prefer. Additionally, voters in a confederacy have the most direct control over their own laws.

Although states create a few of the laws, the United States of America has a system of government in which federal laws override local laws, thus it is generally considered a federal government.

With confederalism, as opposed t' th kind of Yankee-perverted federalism-at now tyrannizes th' land, th' central gummint will TRULY become th' servant of sovereign states, whether 'em states exist individually or in smaller confederacies of culturally-similar states, like ol' Dixie, or th' Left Coast.

"It is history that teaches us to hope." (Robert E. Lee)

S. Jones

Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 11:42AM by

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Reader Comments (1)

Jonesie - As a lifelong and unapolagetic supporter of Confederacy in the United States, we agree on the merits of this post 100%. I have been watching the federal government reject the constitution time and again, especially the 10th Amendment. If I had to offer a guess, a majority of Americans would limit their knowledge of the Bill o' Rights to "Freedom of Speech, Seperation of Church and State, and Guns" to most likely quote the Plebs.

In a perfect world we could hope for the stability of free men in these states under a loose confederation - unfortunately the deck is stacked against us... and with the NorCom deployment of the Big Red One's combat troops to the US in a time of peace (in violation of the Constitution), there is little chance that the Fed is going to relinquish any power it has recently granted itself.

I just posted a more in depth thought about this just after your last slam on my Friday blog. Please read, and let's discuss.

Regarding the RMA - I consider myself the voice of reason. See, I am a Libertarian working within the Republican Party in an attempt to move the party away from her Authoritarian NeoCon tendancies... so having a voice in forums such as the RMA allows something more than the same within their circles - and hopefully forces them to ask some questions. I have had a positive response to some of my less than friendly posts from within the RMA... so long as I have my soul intact, I will continue to use such forums to reach out to unlikely readership... just as I use my position in the party to strive for change in the GOP to more traditional small government ideals and stopping the leftward pendulum.

If not for the RMA, I doubt you and I would have met-up in the blogosphere... so it can't be all that bad! :)

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