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What I think about secession basically is that it is a consummation devoutly to be wished, but a dangerous pursuit to advocate publicly. Janet Napolitano and the alphabet soup guys do not take kindly to the notion of freedom in any way, and for the precise reason that Abraham Lincoln did not. When asked why he didn’t just let the South go, Lincoln exploded in a rage, “Let the South go? LET THE SOUTH GO? How, then, should I fill my coffers?” Documented historical fact. Look it up for yourselves. Winners write history and the North/Leftists have had nearly 160...

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Sen. Robert Byrd will become the longest-serving member of Congress ever — a capstone on a remarkable career in which the adopted son of a coal miner propelled himself from poverty to the pinnacle of legislative power, where he could, did and still does send billions of federal dollars back across the Blue Ridge to help build his home state of West Virginia. Byrd’s stat sheet speaks for itself: • Served 20,774 days — or 56 years and 10½ months — in Congress • Attended 18,582 Senate roll call votes • Elected to Senate...

Thomas J. DiLorenzo, published author and senior fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses the principle of nullification as a devolution of power away from the central government into the hands of the state or the people, Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Resolves as resistance to the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, ways nullification was put into practice all across the Union in the early days of the Republic, Andrew Jackson and resistance to the bank of the United States, the “Tariff of Abominations,” nullification of the fugitive slave act, the slander of racism that proponents of big government often...

White Supremacists and Anti-Semites Plan to Recruit at July 4 Tea Parties Posted: May 18, 2009 http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/White_Supremacists_July_4_Tea_Parties.htm The Tea Party phenomenon, which began with anti-tax rallies staged across the country on April 15, 2009, will continue as activists in almost every state are planning similar events on July 4. Notably, white supremacists are again planning to participate. As they have done with other political and social issues, for example, promoting the Ron Paul campaign and using the immigration debate, white supremacists and anti-Semites are planning to exploit Tea Parties to disseminate their hateful views and recruit a larger following. Extremists...

Geithner still passes confirmation, sworn in Monday WASHINGTON -- West Virginia Senator Robert C Byrd (D-WV) voted against the confirmation of Timothy Geithner's Senate Confirmation for Secretary of Treasury citing the nominee's snafus with his own taxes. Despite the nay votes, Geithner confirmation passed the senate Monday night 60-34 with four not voting. Geithner came under fire earlier this month when it was revealed his 2002 to 2006 taxes were not properly filed. In all Geithner has paid already $25,000 in back taxes with more expected to be paid. Following the vote, Sen. Byrd issued his reason for voting against...

A Memphis-area businessman who served 12 years in prison for torching a Kentucky church for the Ku Klux Klan in 1991 said Monday he has been unfairly excluded from a major contract in Coahoma County, Miss., because of his criminal past. Brian Tackett, president of Memphis-based Tackett Excavating Inc., called his crime a mistake and disavowed the KKK. He said he plans to sue Coahoma County officials and is now negotiating with a lawyer. His company was formerly based in Southaven, but it moved to Memphis about a year ago. "It was stupid. ... I got caught up in the...

Whispering Woods Manager Received Threats OLIVE BRANCH, Miss The general manager of a Memphis-area conference center hotel has resigned, saying he received threats over a white power group's planned meeting at the facility next month. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is promoting the Nov. 7-9 event billed as the "European American Unity and Rights Conference" at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center. Whispering Woods manager Travis Murray said Wednesday he quit after his work telephone number and work e-mail address were distributed in an e-mail by the Memphis-based civil rights group Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, which...

Senator Byrd In Step with West Virginians, Poll ShowsByrd Opposes Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region For Release: June 6, 2008 Washington, DC - Senator Robert Byrd, who opposes America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is in sync with a majority of West Virginians, says a poll released by the National Center for Public Policy Research. The survey found 64% of likely voters in mid-Atlantic states (WV, VA, MD, PA, NY, NJ and DE) oppose spending more for gasoline to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 71% oppose spending...

TALLAHASSEE -- For a sign of Florida Republicans' all-out effort to attract black voters, look no farther than the glossy full-colored The Black Republican magazine that launches broadsides like these: The KKK was the ''terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.'' Democrats, in addition to waging ''war on God,'' are still mired in sex and financial scandals. That's all tucked in the back of the Sarasota-based National Black Republican Association's 60-page mag, the first half of which touts Republican Gov. Charlie Crist's civil rights record and the Republican Party of Florida's minority outreach efforts that the association has helped coordinate. The...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday after complaining of back pain following a fall at his home, his spokesman said. Byrd, 90, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the longest-serving senator in history, was staying overnight at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for observation, said spokesman Jesse Jacobs. It was not immediately clear whether he had suffered broken bones. Jacobs said Byrd fell at his Virginia home Monday night. He came to his office Tuesday and was on the Senate floor to vote for an Indian health bill. But after noticing he...

Had the Civil War not occurred when it did allowing Nathan Bedford Forrest to serve as a cavalry officer, we very likely would not be studying or even reading about him today. Of course the same could be said about Ulysses S. Grant and many other notable Civil War commanders. What separates Forrest from other successful general officers are his accomplishments despite his almost total lack of education or military background and his impoverished upbringing. His rise from private to lieutenant general was clearly earned, not gained through political influence or social standing. His military success are due to virtually...

CULLMAN, Ala. -- Members of one Ku Klux Klan organization say they will assemble at the courthouse Nov. 10 to show their opposition to another Klan group that plans an anti-immigration rally there that day. Ken Mier, who described himself as an investigator for the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and the national office of the Ku Klux Klan LLC, said in an e-mail to The Cullman Times that his group is against the tactics of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which held an anti-immigration protest last month in Athens. "We are opposed to the ignorance and stupidity...

"Nooses, the 'n' word, a Klansman's hood, and the burning cross are the clearest symbols of hate for black America," --Al Sharpton, in remarks prepared for the House Judiciary Committee Chutzpah is often defined as murdering one's parents and then asking the court for mercy as an orphan, although the image of a violent pimp who beats and rapes his women and then talks about chastity and women's rights also comes to mind. The above statement probably takes the grand prize for chutzpah, not merely this year but for all time. If Sharpton dislikes the N word so much, perhaps...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced Friday to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi. Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, two 19-year-olds who disappeared from Franklin County on May 2, 1964. The young men's bodies were found two months later in the Mississippi River. Seale showed no emotion as U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate read his sentence. Wingate told...

Commentary: The Red State-Slave State Connection is all too Real Commentary: The Red State-Slave State Connection is all too Real Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 By: Last week while I was up at Harvard University meeting with black columnists from around the country, including several of my BlackAmericaWeb.com colleagues, Michael Dawson took me to school with his map that shows the overlap between Republican red states and the old Confederacy and slave-friendly territories. Dawson is a professor of government and Afro-American studies who specializes in the ways that race and politics intersect. I was sold. His map spoke to the...

After Ku Klux Klan Speech: A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups In her autobiography, Margaret Sanger tells us that in 1926 in Silver Lake, New Jersey, she spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally. Not surprisingly, the made-for-TV movie about Sanger, Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story , forgot to mention Maggie's Klan rally speech, but the event has begun to get more attention of late from some commentators. Rereading Sanger's own account of her Ku Klux Klan speech, one thing really jumped out at me the other day. Here are some of the more...

I couldn't help but think of Margaret Sanger when I saw the above cartoon from Kranky's Cartoons. If Margaret Sanger were to return today to Silver Lake to speak once again at a Ku Klux Klan Rally where she spoke 81 years ago, she would certainly say "Mission Accomplished!" Her evidence would be: *In America today, almost as many African-American children are aborted as are born. *A black baby is three times more likely to be murdered in the womb than a white baby. *Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. *Twice as many African-Americans...

The alliance with Obama, combined with the turnout of top Democrats at the filibuster rally, is yet another indicator of MoveOn's growing presence on Capitol Hill. It also shows a strong alliance with Byrd, the 87-year-old senator who has taken the lead in the Democratic effort to justify the judicial filibusters. Byrd "is fighting an attempt by Republicans to change the 200-year old rules of the Senate that would allow Republicans to ram federal judges through the Senate with no regard for what others might say," Obama wrote in the MoveOn letter. "Above all, Robert Byrd understands just how sacred...

This is an argument that our side has yet to make. While the Democrats' decision to appear at Al Sharpton's National Action Network (Black counterpart of the Klan or Aryan Nations) should obviously be repugnant to every single "[Jewish] diamond merchant," "white interloper," "Greek homo," and "N***** whore" (phrases used by Sharpton himself), and to every "bloodsucking Jew" and "cracker lover" (his entourage's terminology), we are missing a very vital point: Racists, anti-Semites, and similar hatemongers appeal primarily to the absolute dregs of the societies they claim to represent. The Democrats are appearing with Sharpton because they say he...

This is what Ronald Reagan said and did when, in 1980, the Ku Klux Klan offered him its endorsement. [Picture of Reagan, words denouncing the Ku Klux Klan added] "I said that I have no tolerance for what the Klan represents, and would have nothing to do with any groups of that type. ...I firmly believe that there is no room for partisanship on this question. Democrats and Republicans alike must be resolute in disassociating ourselves from any group or individual whose political philosophy consists only of racial or religious intolerance, whose arguments are supported only by intimidation or threats...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Civil War ended nearly 142 years ago, for most of the country anyway, but bitter battles over how zealously that war should be remembered are erupting in Austin, the Texas capital. First, rock musician Ted Nugent wore a T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups — at the Jan. 16 inaugural ball for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, prompting criticism from civil-rights groups. A few days later, the state's elected land commissioner, arguing for a more "balanced" view of history, marked Confederate Heroes Day — an official state holiday...

GASTONIA, N.C. — Fears over illegal immigration are fueling a resurgence in membership to the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina and across the country, according to Klan officials and organizations that track hate groups. In Gaston County near Charlotte, the imperial wizard of the Mount Holly-based chapter of the Klan says membership is growing faster than he's seen since joining in the 1960s. "People are tired of this mess," said Virgil Griffin, 62. "The illegal immigrants are taking this country over."

Ku Klux Klan experiences ‘surprising and troubling resurgence’ in US during the past year due to exploitation of hot issues such as immigration, gay marriage, urban crime, according to report Ynetnews Published: 02.06.07, 12:37 The Ku Klux Klan has experienced "a surprising and troubling resurgence" in the United States during the past year, an Anti-Defamation League report revealed Tuesday. According to the report, the white supremacy group has successfully exploited issues such as immigration, gay marriage and urban crime to draw in new members and accelerate activity. The ADL monitors the activities of hate groups and reports developments to policy...

Jimmy Carter. Southern Democrat. Peanut Farmer. The worst ever President. Contemporary of Sen. Byrd (Grand Kleagle of the Klan who was shocked-shocked I say, to learn the KKK was a racist organization). Jimmy speaks fearfully of an all-powerful Jewish lobby, and some strange jewish ability to censor news and views they don't like world wide. He authored a book that cannot call a murdering palestinian a terrorist. Maybe Jimmy's underlying theme connects closer to Byrd than we might think. Maybe membership in the Klan was more common in 1950/60s rural southern farmers than we realized.

Officials say Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers died today in a state penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. He was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer. The 82-year-old Bowers was convicted in August of 1998 of ordering the assassination. Dahmer, a civil rights activist had fought for black rights during Mississippi's turbulent struggle for racial equality. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth said in news release that Bowers died at approximately 11:30 am of cardio pulmonary arrest in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital in Parchman. Dahmer's widow, Ellie...

Can anyone point me to an URL w/the video interview of Robert Byrd using the N-WORD two or three times in an interview w/Tony Snow, then of Fox news??

It is hardly breaking news to state that Soros-funded MoveOn.org is a hotbed of racism, Marxism, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. This story has been widely circulated and Web sites like WMD have extensive coverage of the whole debacle. The story even made The Washington Times recently, and the moderators of MoveOn’s “Action Forums” have been forced to disable the forums due to their inability to control the hate speech being posted on their site. Luckily, many of the offending quotes were saved by disgusted viewers, a selection of which, thanks to the work of W.M.D., I present below:

About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos as they stood behind barricades at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Gordon Young of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan also called Saturday for the U.S. to pull its troops out of Iraq and use them to patrol the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration. The World Knights obtained a permit in July for the two-hour demonstration. The National Park Service granted it under the group's First Amendment rights to free speech.

Klan holds rally at GettysburgGETTYSBURG, Pa. - About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos as they stood behind barricades at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. Gordon Young of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan also called Saturday for the U.S. to pull its troops out of Iraq and use them to patrol the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration. The World Knights obtained a permit in July for the two-hour demonstration. The National Park Service granted it under the group's First Amendment rights to free...

Sep 3, 2006 — A member of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an umbrella over Wrightsville resident James Lewis on Saturday, keeping the steady drizzle from his tall pointed hood and long white robe with black accents. The robe's an old one. His other one has green stripes added to show his new status as Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Klan, a position he took two weeks ago. Lewis, a Klansman since he was 15, was one of three in white robes who led a group of about 26 Klan members and supporters...

Addressing the NAACP’s annual meeting, President Bush made good progress in reaching out to African- American voters. The warm reception from the audience must have worried Democrats who consider themselves owners of the African-American vote. Even more important, however, than how the NAACP views the Republican Party is how the Republican Party views itself. As Republicans embrace their heritage as “the party of Lincoln,” they will understand the true heritage of the Democrats to be “the party of slavery” and “the party of the Confederacy” and the party of the Ku Klux Klan.” Laudable as his remarks were, President Bush...

Open Anti-Semitism in San Francisco by Lee Kaplan Jul 06, '06 / 10 Tammuz 5766 Although I'd written about it many times, and read about it in second-hand reports, I never actually heard it said with my own two ears. After all, this was America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where religious intolerance might exist in closed circles, but which was generally not openly voiced in public except by fringe hate groups like the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Palestinian supporters in America team up with those groups against Jews, but don't like...

The son of a former Ku Klux Klan leader was arrested Tuesday on charges that he beat and critically injured his father during a fight Saturday. Indiana State Police say they arrested Anthony D. Berry, 31, at his home in Garrett in DeKalb County. He was being held in the DeKalb County Jail without bail Tuesday on a felony charge of aggravated battery, said Indiana State Police Detective Mark Heffelfinger. Berry's father, former KKK leader Jeffrey Lynn Berry, 53, was in critical condition Tuesday at a Fort Wayne hospital, Heffelfinger said. A probable cause affidavit said that the elder Berry...

Senator Robert Byrd, 88, one of Congress's most eloquent and outspoken critics of the US military presence in Iraq, became the US Senate's longest-serving member. The frail octogenarian who hobbles through the corridors of the Senate with the aid of a cane in each hand was first elected to the legislature's upper chamber in 1958. Known for his florid oratory, in recent years he has given numerous speeches from the Senate floor against the upward spiraling cost of rebuilding Iraq and the US motives for invading that country. He has represented the eastern coal-mining state of West Virginia the Senate...

SHARPSBURG, Md. — A Ku Klux Klan group plans to hold a rally June 10 on the grounds of the Antietam National Battlefield, site of the bloodiest one-day clash of the Civil War, an organizer and a park official said...

MR BYRD:..[snip irrelevant rambling] the Senate, as an institution, remains remarkably similar to the body created at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. It retains all of its original powers, including providing advice and consent--yes...[The Senate serves] as a court of impeachment--you better believe it, Mr. President. The Senate can send you home. You better believe that. If the House impeaches you, the Senate will try you. The Senate, don't forget it, serves as a court of impeachment and has an equal say with the House on legislation. The Senate has an equal say with the other body on legislation.

Extremists Declare 'Open Season' on Immigrants: Hispanics Target of Incitement and Violence Overview As the public debate over immigration reform has taken center-stage in American politics and public life, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists have declared "open season" on immigrants and attempted to co-opt and exploit the controversy by focusing their efforts -- and their anger -- on the minority group at the center of the controversy: Hispanics.   As a result, to a level unprecedented in recent years, America's Latino immigrant population has become the primary focus of hateful and racist rhetoric and extreme violence -- aided, abetted...

I love history. I’m proud of my Southern heritage. But for me to be angry to the point of protesting a moment in Southern history that happened nearly a century-and-a-half ago would be just, well, nonsensical. And would in some ways tarnish that heritage.

Black sergeant was 'loyal Klansman' By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs. Ron Stallworth carries his KKK membership card as a memento. Brian Nicholson, Deseret Morning News Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that Stallworth is black. "He asked me to take over the lead because I was a good, loyal Klansman," said Stallworth, who had been in constant phone contact with the Klan leader while leading a yearlong Colorado Springs police investigation into the Klan. Stallworth later moved to Utah,...

New York Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro is blasting 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton for throwing a birthday party tonight for Ku Klux Klansman-turned-Senator Robert Byrd at the home of a civil rights pioneer. "It's outrageous and shocking that Senator Clinton and her Democrat colleagues would choose Frederick Douglass' house to honor Senator Robert Byrd, who has a history of involvement with hate groups and has used racial slurs publicly," said Pirro spokeswoman Andrea Tantaros told the Associated Press. "Any person who has made racially insensitive comments and participated in groups that promote ethnic prejudice - Republican or Democrat - does...

Stormfronters' Rally In Crawford, TX On Saturday & Sunday Aug. 27 & 28 I'm driving out to Crawford, Texas tomorrow, Friday August 26th to help put up a White Nationalist voice in the protest against Bush's War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan. We'll be uploading digital photos, and maybe video, from Crawford so that Stormfront's 58,000 Members (achieved today) and hundreds of thousands of Guests can follow the events in Crawford from a White patriot perspective. If you live anywhere within a driving distance that won't put you out too much, would you please join us on...

The latest entrants in the saga of Cindy Sheehan vs. President Bush are white supremacists, as they plan to rally against the Iraq War this weekend in Crawford, Texas. Members of Stormfront.org are tossing their figurative hoods into the mix, as they invite supporters to come to Camp Casey to "let the world know that white patriots were first and loudest to protest this war for Israel." Anti-war activists, including one from CodePink, suggest 'Bush stinks' near the president's property in Crawford, Texas (photo: Fausto Fernos) "We don't want leftist Johnny-come-latelys who are misleadingly protesting this war – as if...

N.C. Hearing Opens on 1979 Klan Killings By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago Signe Waller, right, is comforted by Cory Wechler, a friend, on stage as she reads her prepared statement, Friday, July 15, 2005, during the public hearing of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, N.C. Waller was at the November 3, 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan rally when a violent confrontation between Communist Workers Party members and the Ku Klux at Morningside Homes in Greensboro, left five CWP members dead, including her husband Dr. Jim Waller. (AP Photo/Lynn Hey) GREENSBORO, N.C. - The widow...

Couple Finds Crosses Burning Outside Trenton Home Detectives Await Return Of Evidence From Crime Lab TRENTON, Mich. -- A biracial couple that moved to a Trenton neighborhood two weeks ago received a harsh welcome this weekend, Local 4 reported. The man who lives at the home with his wife and 1-year-old daughter told the station that the family woke to find a cross burning outside their daughter's window two days in a row. "I thought it was a dream," he said. "I just actually couldn't believe that people would do something like that." Police caught two men leaving the area...

The interview with the Senate leader had droned on for more than an hour and just about every topic had been asked and answered, cordially and completely. Except one, which seemed so obvious it surely had to be expected. So near the end, it, too, was asked. What happened next remains as vivid in the reporter's mind today as it was the day he wrote it in The Washington Post 24 years ago: "Suddenly (the Senate leader's) face freezes. The muscles on either side of his jaw harden to what must be the consistency of golf balls. His eyes are...

Robert Byrd's former compatriot was found guilty of manslaughter....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The Ku Klux Klan is the central paradox of Robert C. Byrd's life — "an extraordinarily foolish mistake" that has haunted him for 40 years but the very thing that launched one of the longest careers in the U.S. Senate. "It has emerged throughout my life to haunt and embarrass me, and has taught me in a very graphic way what one major mistake can do to one's life, career and reputation," the West Virginia Democrat says in an autobiography being released Monday. "I displayed very bad judgment, due to immaturity and a lack of seasoned reasoning."...

Stupidity is an equal opportunity affliction Doofi vs Doofi in Texas By John David Powell Monday, June 13, 2005 -- Curious, is it not, the ease in which stupidity rosses racial, ethnic, and political lines? Stupidity also crosses state lines and regional boundaries. One might be tempted to say stupidity is an equal opportunity affliction. Stupidity donned its mantle of righteousness and trekked to the Texas town of Tomball on Saturday, June 11. That's where the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (www.wckkk.com) held a free (but not open to reporters and other "undesirables" and "troublemakers"), special Klan...

It has been 18 months since I postulated my theory about why the Democrats in the U.S. Senate are filibustering President Bush's judicial nominees. I said it then, and I say it now – many of the leading Democratic politicians in America are racist to the core. While, superficially, the Democratic Party courts the black vote with promises of favoritism and charity, there's always been something condescending about this attitude. There's always been something patronizing about it. There's always been something insulting about it. I've suspected there are essentially two motivations behind the Democrats' promotion of racial preferences – or...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...