By Eddie Howell
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| Confederate battle flag |
It's remarkable that the
horrible shootings in Charleston, SC, by a demented lunatic are being
used as an excuse for the PC police to pursue their
worse-than-worthless agenda, i.e., cram their thuggish, bullying
nonsense down everyone's throat. Now the moronic left is trying to
remove all traces of the Confederacy from our history, because they
find it unpleasant. Maybe they like the mottos in Aldous Huxley's
novel Brave New World, “Most historical facts are
unpleasant,” and Henry Ford's quote “History is bunk,” used by
the authorities to discourage people from inquiring into the past.
The brainless attempt to
eradicate the Confederate flag is one of their latest efforts, and
now they have the Supreme Court's lawless decision to legalize gay
marriage everywhere to work with as well, plus, of course, Donald
Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants, which may have lacked
tact, but not truth.
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| Gen. Robert E. Lee |
Common sense is becoming
rarer and rarer with these self-righteous, sanctimonious ninnies,
whose main purpose in life seems to be just to be offended and scream
out at things (e.g., the Confederate flag) which have nothing to do
with what they're supposedly protesting (e.g., the shootings in SC by
a deranged person). That flag has been around for a century and a
half following the Union victory in the Civil War. All of a sudden,
because of some crazy man's murder spree, now we're supposed to
rewrite history and cleanse it of many important facts.
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| Lt. Gen, "Stonewall" Jackson |
I'm not a racist, but I am a
Southerner, and, like it or not, that flag represents things greater
than the sins of slavery and racism. It calls to memory the thousands
who fought and died for their homeland. It helps us remember men like
Robert E. Lee, a great and honorable man who only reluctantly led the
rebel forces, after concluding that it was his moral duty to do so; Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson,
brilliant commander, and other brave Confederate fighters who felt
that it was worth putting their lives on the line to defend their
homes. Yes, the South was wrong about slavery, and the Civil War
settled the issue at great cost. Because the war was fought on
American soil, unlike the World Wars, and involved Americans fighting
each other, sometimes brother against brother, it left an emotional
residue that was very slow to recede, and is still around today.
But the South has, to very
great extent, grown away from racism, albeit with some unpleasant
incentives (Reconstruction, Supreme Court rulings, National Guard
deployments, etc.), but grow it has, and, especially since the end of
legal segregation, the great majority of Southerners accept the fact
that people of all races share equally in legal rights, and merit
respectful treatment.
Removal of the Confederate
flag brings to mind George Orwell's novel 1984, and the memory hole
which was the destination of historical documentation to be removed
and never seen again. The Soviets practiced their own version of
this, revising history books and altering photographs to try to wipe
out the memory of people or events they didn't like, as though they
never existed.
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| The "General Lee" from "The Dukes of Hazzard" |
Today, we have some genius
ordering that “The Dukes of Hazzard” be taken off the TV Land
channel. John Schneider and others are right in their criticism. They
can do what they want with their network. The market will respond,
“Dukes” will likely find another TV home, and TV Land's ratings
will be affected. But it was a dumb decision, helping nothing.
Now Al Sharpton wants the
military to remove all traces of the Confederacy. How he can be taken seriously any more, given
his track record, is beyond me. He owes millions in taxes, but has
access to the White House of President Obama, our Deceiver-in-Chief.
What Sharpton asks is ridiculous on its face, and to comply would
take extremely stupid, un-American, and unconstitutional orders.
We may hope our generals have better sense, but I'm not so sure about
Obama.
This July Fourth, let's
celebrate and exercise our freedom. We're going to have to defend it
against the leftists.
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