Texians,

It has long been held that liberals use the courts to achieve what they can not through legislation. Today there are two flagrant cases of this happening. In the first, a federal judge has ordered (get that-ORDERED) the Treasury department to change the whole monetary system of the united States.Judge Orders Treasury Concerning Money . To me that sounds pompous. The next thing you know, some judge will order the money be printed in other languages so that people can read it. Consider that on the new dollar coin, the word dollar has been removed and replaced with "$1".

The other case of judicial activism concerns the supreme court.
Supremes to hear global warming case In this case, some of the "green" states are suing in order to ‘force’ the government to monitor exhaust emissions on new cars. It seems that the powers that be in the green states did not like the laws passed in Congress, so now they are using the courts to try to FORCE change upon the populous. This one has some potential fallout for each of us.

I would make a joke about how the ‘hired hands’ are up to something, but these guys were never hired. The foxes are running the legal chicken coup. The antics of such judges and plaintiffs in these cases is laughable. Sadly they take themselves seriously. They are so out of touch with the common man, they view themselves as minor deities similar to the Senators of Rome in former days.

What has government done for you today? -Changed our money and may soon change our cars.

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Texians,

In searching the internet, I found a fascinating study Extremist Group Study .The research was done at the University of Arizona. They are attempting to identify the "dark net". It was funded by the Department of Homeland Security with assistance from the SPLC and the CIA. To start out with they used the SPLC to identify the groups and websites they investigated using several types of analytical tools.

While analyzing, they used hyperlink cues "..to confirm our initial manual site classification according to the SPLC categories". When I took research we were taught to let the findings tell you what truth is not classify your findings according to your expectations. I guess if you fund the research, you get some say so in the outcome. In graduate school a learned professor advised me to always look at who pays for the research because it will tell you what they will find. They also watered down the reliability numbers to "acceptable" levels rather than report on whether or not there was something significant.

What did they find? Well, "…there were only a few links between the neoconfederate cluster and the Christian Identity and white supremecy/neo-Nazi clusters." Keep in mind the associations are what the deem as "acceptable", NOT statistically significant. What links they found were weak. "…the link between the www.texasls.org and www.americanpatrol.org reflects a common interest in "protecting" the southern border and a common bitterness toward Hispanic illegal immigrants."

Think about what they are saying, the LOS and Texas LOS are associated with hate groups based on wanting to protect the borders and disliking criminal activity. I recall that the Bible mentions something about people who call good evil and evil good. With this kind of definition, the SPLC desires to condone criminals and considers it ‘hateful’ to protect the private property of this nation. There are some things that are just plain wrong, including condoning criminal behavior and not protecting one’s home.

Although the study contains some graphics due to the way they are laid out create an implied visual connection, their findings do not support what the researchers were looking for.

Bottom line. 1) Research does not support the claims of the SPLC that the LOS is a hate group, even when the SPLC helped with the research. 2) The "real" hate group is the SPLC based on its desire to harbor criminals, restrict free speech, and deny people the ability to protect their own homes. 3) Even with help of Homeland Security and the CIA, there is NO support for claims that the LOS is a hate group. 4) The only association the research found was because they "watered down" the statistics.

Despite these findings, the recent SPLC "hatewatch" update on their site documents the involvement of the LOS at the secessionist meeting in Vermont. (I would provide you with a link, but I do not want to associate with HATE groups).  I appears that for the SPLC facts are inconvenient things.   

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In reading the news on World Net Daily , they have had a series of stories on how Christianity is being wiped out from historic sites like this was something new. I have often seen the parallels between the saying about how the Nazis came for various groups and developed my own for America. First they came for the Southrons, then they came for the Founding Fathers and then they came for the Christians. We have seen this in our lifetime. Each of these areas has been systematically removed, cleansed or redefined to remove anything that might truly inspire us to achieve great things. As Texians and Southrons we have seen our history and culture removed and twisted into something that is hardly recognizable. 

This is exactly what is occurring in Alvin Texas at Harby Junior High. The namesake of the school was a member of the UDC. The display cases contained many of her mementos, including confederate flag emblems. Two students have begun wearing Confederate clothing, claiming that it is acceptable. The district has responded with a vengeance on the the two boys. I was amazed at how the superintendent claims the boys are trouble makers and that the public does not understand that.
When I read that I recognized the sociological ploy of "Blaming the Victim". This ploy is often used to divert attention from the real issues.

Another incident occurred in the Houston area a few years back when the Museum of the Confederacy changed its name to the Museum of Southern History. The museum has some wonderful items, and its curator does an excellent job, but changing the name to avoid offending people and for marketability is still political correctness and truth purging. The bothersome point is that they decided to do it themselves, without being forced to.

I could go on with more examples, which we are all familiar with, including the purging of the founding fathers names from the schools in New Orleans, and the removal of the Confederate plaques from the Supreme Court building in Texas. I don’t know if the Katrina mess in New Orleans or Bush’s current political mess are divine retribution for "removing the landmarks which thy fathers have set", or just irony. It is awfully odd that those things happen when force is used to change history. President Davis told us that "Anything settled by force or in disregard of law is never truly settled."  Another southern saying is "Make sure the truth is dead before you bury it". 

History is inconvenient for many of the new worlders  because it testifies of Almighty God and his hand in the affairs of men. Any change in regime requires a change in the myths that support it. The myths supporting the current imperial regime are cracking. People are waking up to that reality. The new myths are not strong enough to support the empire they have built. It is ironic that the military must swear oaths to "protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic". I even had to swear such an oath in order to teach at a local college for a while. In considering that oath, who has done more to threaten the Constitution: Iraq, Afghanistan, Al-Quidah and their cohorts or the imperial Presidency with rule by fiat and Congress?  A good read this morning is Worshipping the State . It will wake you up to some reality.

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