The extent that power hungry people go is always astounding. In ancient history, there were people like Queen Jezebel and Queen Athalia. Jezebel did not care who she killed to get her way. Athaliah killed her own grandchildren in order to hold on to the power of the throne.
In Nancy Pelosi, we have our own modern day Jezebel and Athalia combined. She has shown disregard for President Obama’s promise to post any legislation five days before the votes. Pelosi often drafts legislation without CONgress critters, much less the public ever seeing it. She refuses to allow other opinions on any policy decisions. There is no legitimate opinion but hers. She is also determined to have Obamacare pass no matter who she has to threaten, lie to or coerce. With all her Jezebel-like determination, she is determined to get her health care bill passed. Like Queen Athalia, she has no regard of life and wants the taxpayers to underwrite abortion and other evils. She also shows no regard for who pays the bill for her partying and indulgence in political mayhem. Her jaunt to Copenhagen with her ‘close’ associates costs the taxpayer a million dollars. This is during a time when many are loosing their jobs.
Here in Texas, when times were hard, Governor Pendleton Murrah shunned the extravagant inauguaration parties preferring something low-key and taking the oath of office in a home spun suit. Pelosi could learn from the example of Murrah in her actions.
During the Governorship of Pendleton Murrah, Texas faced many challenges. The Governor held firm to the idea that civil freedoms needed to be respected, even during wartime. His struggles with the military commanders in Texas are legendary. It was during this time that a local newspaper wrote an editorial with the following quote:
“a watchful eye must be kept on the military, especially during wartime, for an army can be as dangerous as it is useful”.
It would behoove us to consider those words in the days in which we live. Much like Murrah’s day, that nation is at war. Freedoms are under fire, both from enemies on the outside and those on the inside. In his final public speech, he said this about the enemies on the inside:
“Be firm and true to yourselves, above all things be united. Drive with scorn
and contempt, from your midst the crawling demagogue who would array one class of the
community against another. He is your worst enemy who would sow dissentions and divisions among you. “
Let us repair to the altars of our fathers and once again take counsel from their experiences. During these days let us not give into unmanly despair, but rather rise to the occasion. Let us remember that President Davis told us that issues , which were never settled, would return again in another form.
In considering Southern history, President Jefferson Davis is often a name that come to mind. He led the Southern nation during the time of war. His speeches talked about States Rights and the desire to be left alone. Although he talked about such matters, the men who lived by their convictions on the issue were Governors Joseph Brown of Georgia, Pendleton Murrah of Texas and Zebulon Vance of North Carolina. These men took stands for their States, even when it meant going against the central government. Davis talked States Rights, but during the course of the war, succumbed to the power of the centralized State.
Had the war ended more favourably, these Governors would be considered the founding fathers of States Rights. They not only talked it, they lived it. When they did live it, the ideas they espoused took root. In Texas, many troops would only serve out of the State when Governor Murrah gave orders to do so. The authority of the central government was not enough to entice them out of the State.
When the nation is returned to us, the examples of how these men governed will be useful to study. Their policies and thinking are living laboratoris of how true States Rights works.
Kosovo is now an independent nation. It’s independence raises some important questions that freedom minded people need to seriously consider.
If independence is condoned for Kosovo, why not the Southern Confederacy? The Southern states did not renounce their soverignty. By all rights we should be recognized as a free nation among the table of nations of the world. The United States has recognized Kosovo above the objections of Russia. What if the tables were turned with the EU and Russia acknowledging our independence over the objections of the Blue States making up the Yankee Union? The nation of Kosovo is not a homogenous one. It consists of various groups that joined in the cry for independence. The South is generally filled with Southrons from various backgrounds, yet all Southron. We have more in common that the people of Kosovo. Since we have more homogeneous values of family, homeland and respect for law, it seems logical to me that the South has an even more valid claim to recognition of its independence than Kosovo. The Southern States were independent nations bonded together in a joint Confederacy. That independence was never surrendered. Instead we were occupied. President Davis never surrendered the Confederacy. Governor Murrah never surrendered Texas. So Texas and the South have a national tradition and common values. Even in the latest election, look at how the South votes versus how Yankee States vote. The differences are clear, we are a distinct people. These differences are not just mental constructs. A review of how Southern Congressional Representatives and Senators shows a clear difference in policies and positions over those of the other regions. So given the distinctiveness of our people, the national history and the oppression of any resemblance of an official vote to join the Union we qualify as a legitimate occupied nation.
The position taken by the State department is a double standard. It recognizes other nations, but ignores such issues on its own shores. Great effort is undertaken to maintain the illusion of national unity when the reality shows something different.
Many people of the world do not understand the significance of Kosovo and its role in the wars that raged through Europe and the Middle East. The defeat of the Christian forces there on June 15, 1389 is well known by those familiar with history. It is quite possible that Kosovo represents the appeasement of certain factions, by surrendering Europe a piece at a time. I am not a Middle East expert, although the whole Kosovo deal smacks of appeasement and political back room dealings rather than a legitimate and authentic independence of a people.
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