Posted on 07/30/2013 7:15:08 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Conservatives are grabbing popcorn and lining up to catch a new historical drama with modern connections.
“Copperhead,” the new film from director Ron Maxwell, focuses on the Northern opponents of the American Civil War and stars Billy Campbell, Angus MacFadyen and Peter Fonda.
At least one conservative — Richard Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com — emailed his audience to tell it about the movie “that every conservative needs to see.”
“[W]hile Copperhead is about the Civil War, believe me, it will hit close to home for every conservative fighting to preserve our Constitution and our American way of life,” Viguerie wrote. “Because Copperhead is about standing up for faith, for America, and for what’s right, just like you and I are doing today. In fact, I’ve never seen a movie with more references to the Constitution, or a movie that better sums up our current fight to stand up for American values and get our nation back on track.”
The movie, which is based on the novel by Harold Frederic, follows Abner Beech, a New York farmer who doesn’t consider himself a Yankee, and is against slavery and war in general.
Asked about whether he sees his film as conservative, Maxwell told POLITICO, “I think if ‘Copperhead’ has any relevance at all, in addition to illuminating a time and place from our common heritage, it’s as a cinematic meditation on the price of dissent. I’ve never thought of dissent as a political act belonging to the right or left. It’s an act of liberty, expression of the rights of a free person — free not just in law but free from the confines and pressures of the tyranny of the majority.”
Maxwell said while the concept of dissent is as “old as time,” in the U.S., “it’s protected in the Constitution.”
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Freedom lovers for that part of the population who were not a certain color at least. Freedom for those who were a different shade? Not so much.
Andrew Jackson had nothing but contempt and enmity for nullifiers and secessionists.
It is a construct of your mind, but not anything that actually comprised or took the place of anything.
That post shows your hostile bias and likely the fundamental reason you so easily deal in canards.
Can’t you simply offer something interesting?
First, let me ask you a question. When did the new Confederate nation announce its tariff rates?
What were they in comparison to the new Morill tariff bill?
Nice PeeWee Herman impression. Do you do birthday parties and Bar Mitzvahs too?
Except Lincoln didn’t start the war. Rather that was the pretended insurrection, and when they didn’t get a violent reaction to their theft and unconstitutional actions, fired on a US supply ship and fort, despite having an agreement with the commander that he would surrender when he ran out of food.
Such people didn’t keep their Article III obligation to resolve controversy of which the state or the US was a party at the Supreme Court, and didn’t keep their agreement to accept the surrender of the fort when they ran out of food.
They also didn’t keep their obligation to treat US soldiers as prisoners of war.
Hallucinating again?
The Republican party began as the Anti-Nebraska party, and had elements of the Whigs.
I can’t imagine any group less ‘wild eyed socialist’. The Whigs in the US were the party of the upper class. Lincoln was an exception in it, being from a poor family.
Wrong. How badly do you want to lie to post such tripe?
Consider your immortal soul. Telling lies like that blackens your soul. Shame on you.
Glad you agree that “more perfect union” in the constitution replaced the ‘perpetual union’ of the articles of confederation.
Oswald: from the south.
Booth: from the south
Hinckley: from the south
Once may be accident, twice may be coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Log Cabin Republican comes from the homosexual lobby. Are you a part of that?
Smoking meth again?
You would know.
You are the one whose opium dreams you share with us. Let me know if you have anything real.
By the way, lying about others is not respectable. Be careful or they will not permit you into the “Respectable States of America”.
There is a path to respectability. No one elses’ sins can touch you. Be honest and upright. Don’t drive away those who would be your friends by telling falsehoods about them.
Do that, and you won’t violate the other problems that our antecedents in the south had:
Don’t assassinate a president or start a treasonous war.
I am pleased to acknowledge a hostile bias against rape, assault, treason, murder, and torture.
If only more people shared such a hostile bias.
Be very,very careful! After they've reviewed this thread (having been granted a warrant by a judge) it will be *you* with whom the Secret Service will want to talk,not me.
You and I are done.Talk to fellow your whackjobs about assassinating a President.
Among other things you don’t understand the word “don’t”.
Only sodomites assert that Lincoln was a sodomite.
Normal people recognize that as libel.
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