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To: stand watie; mac_truck; usmcobra; Colonel Kangaroo; tkathy; newgeezer; Donald Meaker; Heyworth; ...
"once more, there are NO "neo-confederates"

The prime disciple of today's neo-rebel disinformation rants on again.

Your verbal rubbish this time is identical to previous gems such as 'There was no Civil War', or '200,000 blacks fought for Dixie's freedom'... and on and on. More insane neo-confederate revisionist propaganda.

Speaking of 'bigots', did you not state Klan/neo-Nazi top lawyer Kirk Lyons was a good friend of yours?

"The League of the South, founded in 1994 and counting some 9,000 members by 2001, is at the center of the racist neo-Confederate movement. Calling once again for Southern secession, the League's leaders say minorities are destroying the "Anglo-Celtic" (white) culture of the South. They oppose most non-white immigration and all interracial marriages. Founder Michael Hill, a former college professor, has called blacks "a deadly and compliant underclass" and has embraced well-known white supremacists such as North Carolina attorney Kirk Lyons."

You were saying .....?

Now the facts:

And this ...

How – and why – Pelican Publishing became both a local success story and a leading source of Neo-Confederate literature.

"Pelican Publishing is Milburn Calhoun, and Milburn Calhoun is Pelican Publishing.

  This blending of the man and the company explains why Pelican publishes no serious literary fiction. The fiction section, which takes up less than two pages in Pelican’s 65-page backlist catalogue, offers only the most obscure fare. "I have always been looking for good novels, but most people do not write very good novels," says Calhoun. "The problem with fiction is that the writers think no one will read it, unless it’s full of sex. And I don’t see why they have to do that." Calhoun cites his Christian faith to explain his objection to "filthy words" on the printed page.

  But more controversial than Calhoun’s disdain for the modern novelist’s predilection for sex is his interest in publishing books that seek to correct prevailing views of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Two Pelican titles in this category are The South was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy, and Southern by the Grace of God by Michael Andrew Grissom. New this past year are The Southern Nation: The New Rise of the Old South by R. Gordon Thornton and The Confederate Cookbook, Family Favorites from the Sons of Confederate Veterans edited by Lynda Moreau.

  Each of these books displays a Confederate flag on its cover. The first three share in common a particular interpretation of history: the Confederacy was the true moral victor in the Civil War, the South was justifiably defending itself from invasion by a foreign power, and Southerners were unfairly punished in the aftermath of the war by a vengeful North. The books also stand on the assertion that the Civil War was not fought over slavery, but rather was a conflict between the South’s demand for state rights and the North’s emphasis on a stronger central government. The Southern Nation also advocates that the South should separate from the North all over again and form its own country – an opinion shared by the publisher.

  "Oh, we would be much better off that way," concurs Calhoun.

These books have brought Pelican Publishing the distinction of being named a "Neo-Confederate" publisher on www.templeofdemocracy.com, a Web site devoted to following those who seek to resurrect the Confederacy’s damaged reputation. When he picked up one of Pelican’s Maverick travel guides, "Temple of Democracy" creator Edward Sebesta says he was as baffled as many people tend to be when they look over Pelican’s eclectic assortment of titles. "There is no way that I’d know that this was the same publisher who put out Southern by the Grace of God"."

Watch - whenever the truth is printed relating to the real neo-confederate agenda the despicable disciples of neo-confederate disinformation crew have the information pulled, or the thread closed - watch.

Any bets? :)

364 posted on 07/09/2006 10:57:28 AM PDT by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola
yet another false & DUMB post from FR's main DUMB-bunny = "m.eSPINola".

don't you get tired of being RIDICULED???

free dixie,sw

368 posted on 07/09/2006 11:21:36 AM PDT by stand watie ( Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. -----T.Jefferson)
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To: M. Espinola
'There was no Civil War',

Noun (Plural: Civil Wars) An internal war between two factions within a country, ie The English Civil War and the Wars of the Roses

or '200,000 blacks fought for Dixie's freedom'..

Black Confederate Soldiers

384 posted on 07/09/2006 12:43:04 PM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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