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Can We Prevent a Second Civil War?
JPFO ^ | 2011 | Kirby Ferris

Posted on 04/29/2011 9:26:36 AM PDT by marktwain

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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

1st - the War of Northern Aggression was not a Civil War because the south was trying to secede from the USA and not trying to change the government of the USA, which is the requirement needed to be a “civil” war.

So, the next war will be First Civil War if patriots in all 50 states revolt. If a subset of states attempt to secede, then is will be the “War of Democrat Overreach and taxation without representation”, since the republicans obviously are not representing the will of the people either.

In many ways another conflict where the conservative states secede is preferable since I believe California and NY are lost forever and if the majority of the states secede then I don’t see how the Yankee/CA liberal bastards can do much.


281 posted on 05/01/2011 9:01:04 AM PDT by TxDas (This above all, to thine ownself be true.)
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To: Nowhere Man

We have literally generations of Gramscian rot to purge from our culture and our nation. It’s not just a political office or two that require an emetic - it’s our schools, churches, institutions of art, culture and music, media.

What do you do with kindergarten / grade school / high school teachers filling kids’ heads with collectivist mush?

What do you do with the school boards who countenance the destruction of your kids’ minds?

What do you do with the pastors dishing out ‘social justice’ nostrums from the pulpit?

What do you do with the union thugs, the Free Shit Army, the takers, the looters, the moochers?

None of us have to like the answers to those questions. But they are questions that demand an answer - one way or the other.


282 posted on 05/01/2011 9:05:06 AM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: marktwain; 2ndDivisionVet; Travis McGee; Gilbo_3; hiredhand; Squantos; DoughtyOne; sickoflibs; ...

RE “Second American Civil War”

Actually, it would be CW Number 3, but who’s counting...and the FIRST one started in April 1775 over Gun Control too... A fact which must be driven home constantly to “those people”.

People often fail to realize that the “American Revolution” was, for all intents and purposes, the first Civil War - there were Patriot “rebels” and then there were liberals - err, Tories.. (gee that slipped out, didn’t it?) - and they often lived right next door to each other.


283 posted on 05/01/2011 9:21:59 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

“...War isn’t pretty, but submission to tyranny is uglier still....”

Well-said.

Rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Don’t want it, but what we want may be made irrelevant.


284 posted on 05/01/2011 9:24:24 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: marktwain

No you can’t prevent a 2nd civil war. It is already in progress in a myriad of ways - http://www.newnation.org

When it gets worse expect the worst atrocities of the USA ghettos and current Mexico to be perpetrated against conservatives but especially whites (e.g. Christian/Newsom murder rape). I don’t see anything we can do beyond prepare, arm to the teeth, and educate each other on what is happening but not being reported.

I see immigration, illegal and legal, as the cause as it is obvious they seek with their policies to dispossess primarily whites and overthrow our Republic by importing votes for a global communistic system. It really is a worldwide slow state sponsored genocide against pale people who have tasted freedom and do not want to participate in their global plans.


285 posted on 05/01/2011 9:24:43 AM PDT by brandon24
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To: sauropod
[ The nation has divided between producers and parasites. The parasites have reached a critical mass. ]

Thats WHY!... using the term parasite is NOT hyperbole but merely calling the truth as it is.. The term should be used until it is OVERUSED.. There are parasites.. identifying them should be patriotic.. Names should be spoken.. And the parasites should be identified..

When in a hyperbolic situation ONLY hyperbole can possibly explain the situation correctly.. Anything LESS is merely dis-information.. or possible propaganda..

Also; there are many partial parasites.. like contractors that do business with federal, state and local government AND WITH the private sector.. Parasites just the same but they don't think of themselves as parasites.. THAT SHOULD STOP..

286 posted on 05/01/2011 9:46:26 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: TxDas
1st - the War of Northern Aggression was not a Civil War because the south was trying to secede from the USA and not trying to change the government of the USA, which is the requirement needed to be a “civil” war.

Yes, I read that in Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

There is no such "requirement needed to be a 'civil war,' " that's plain nonsense. Narrow down the definition and then exclude the obviously qualified instance. A civil war is one in which one faction of a nation fights another in a broadly significant contest between the two forces, two cultures, two political opponents. Of course it was a civil war. Your terms are far better suited to "revolution."

As to the rest, conservatives won't secede. I won't go into it, it's too depressing to contemplate, but they just won't.

287 posted on 05/01/2011 10:02:14 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Bad posters drive out good; don't post and drive!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Sounds good if you are in a deep red state but not so much if you are stuck in a purple, blue, or deep blue state. Then what? Who can afford to pick up and move to another state. The housing fiasco created by the Federal government has greatly reduced any interstate relocations. You can be certain that many (30+) of the states will not buck Washington. The very best thing is to be more active and have more rallies denouncing not just the Islamic Socialist in the office of POTUS but against the bastardization of our Republic.

You are in Georgia I assume. Is Atlanta dominated by Dems or Repubs? How about the black voters in your state? Dem or Repub? Did Obamalamadingdong get at least 45% of the vote in Georgia? I am in NC and the major cities and their respective counties went blue as well as most of the eastern part of the state that votes democrat in national elections because their daddy and their granddaddy did. See the frustration? Instead of revolution I hope for secession.

288 posted on 05/01/2011 10:29:44 AM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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To: Noumenon
What do you do with the pastors dishing out ‘social justice’ nostrums from the pulpit?

What do you do with the union thugs, the Free Shit Army, the takers, the looters, the moochers?


A lot of good points there, there is a lot of rot that has set in. I don't quite have a lot of time right now, but I watched most of the Rocky Balboa movies on AMC. I think they should be required viewing in schools, from Rocky I to Rocky Balboa. I liked the beginning of Rocky III where Paulie (his brother in law) was down on his luck and tossed a whiskey bottle into a Rocky pinball machine at a video game place. Paulie was arrested and Rocky bailed him out. Paulie was upset at Rocky's fame and said that "he should help him" where Rocky replied "no one owes anybody a living, it is up to each of us." Rocky added, "people help each other because they want to." Rocky then summed up, "if you wanted a job from me, why didn't you ask?"

I do believe you can learn a lot of life's truths from the Rocky movies.
289 posted on 05/01/2011 10:38:37 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: cycjec
When the bottom drops out it won't be eat the rich, it'll be eat the middle class.

Its the commie way, but the electorate is too historically illiterate to understand.

Of course its not their fault, its the result of 50 years of state managed education.

290 posted on 05/01/2011 11:12:52 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Melas

My list is to deport with prejudice anyone who espouses socialism, Marxism, Islam, anarchy, and hate America rhetoric and send the sonsofbitches to any socialist country that would take them and shoot on sight anyone that comes back. You do not allow cancer to stay in a body to destroy it or rotten food to remain and contaminate it’s surrounding. You cut out the cancer and throw out the food. It is just that easy. They hate us because of our love for our country so I say, let them do that 6000 miles from here. I could really care less about the consequences as long as I am free, left the he’ll alone and don’t have to listen to their vile insipid deal anymore. I’m just tired of it, from both parties who don’t give a rat’s, rearrange end about nothing but being respected and treated like royalty. Screw that. I am quite sure the founders did not mean speech that destroys the Republic but rather how the Republic is to run. All these scum sucking low lives want to do is make us as miserable and hopeless as the rest of the world. Screw that too. We are America. We are THE superpower. We fought for it, bled for it, our best have died for it and most of us have worked to make this nation the best ever conceived in the heart and mind of man. It’s just time to take out the trash, clean house, and get back to being Number 1 and being Damn proud of it.


291 posted on 05/01/2011 11:21:04 AM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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To: NTHockey

I love that movie! Own it and have also watched it a ton of times.

My tipping point is nearing... As bad as the other issues are (and here within an hour of the border, I know), I’m just tired. Tired of the lack of values and morals, tired of working night and day, breaking my back, only to have everything stolen for redistribution.

Property taxes for illegal alien offspring, now rioting and screaming like banshees for their “rights.”

Outrageous sales taxes (9.1%) for crappy roads you need a tank to drive on, lack of parks and libraries, lack of union cops (headed by a racist Hispanic who ignores the law anyway), all the stuff the “city” and other govt supposedly takes care of.

Tired of getting a small bonus and having most of it stolen for redistribution.

And if I saw anything ever getting any better, I wouldn’t be *this* tired, but all we do is prepare for the cattle cars to Siberia (or Alaska or wherever).


292 posted on 05/01/2011 11:38:06 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: justice14
Maybe I’m wrong, but I just don’t see it happening any time soon.

I agree with you. Nothing's going to happen. Everyone submitted to red-light cameras and satellites monitoring us 24-7. Cameras peering in our homes for Google streetview. Strip searches and radiation to fly. Papers and interrogation if you drive (within 100 miles of the borders) and various other checkpoints to submit to (whether you drink or not).

Almost everyone's been perfectly trained by now to submit to "authority."

If watching the racist TSA agents mauling and molesting children, humiliating the elderly after 9/11, stepped up a few notches this last fall wasn't enough to make people wake up and speak out en masse, nothing will be.

And the few who might step up will just be Waco'd or Ruby Ridge'd, thanks to the soul-less jackboots at the ATF and some of the other Stalinist agencies.

293 posted on 05/01/2011 11:47:05 AM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: JimRed
"Or do we want to get it over with WHILE WE ARE STILL ARMED?"

There is so much value in this question that I don't even know how to express it. The government establishment KNOWS what is coming and they are scrambling to disarm us before the fecal matter hits the oscillator. If THEY know it's coming, why do so few on OUR side realize it?

I'm not saying I WANT it. I just know it's inevitable. And since it's inevitable, I want to have the best tools possible with which to stand by ground.
294 posted on 05/01/2011 12:09:44 PM PDT by HushTX (I make libs rage quit.)
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To: iowamark
Yes, I read a great deal of history.

You are incorrect that secessionists did not talk about tariffs or taxes.

I believe John C. Calhoun was among the most prominent secessionist. Here are Calhoun's words.

“The North has adopted a system of revenue and disbursements, in which an undue proportion of the burden of taxation has been imposed on the South, and an undue proportion of its proceeds appropriated to the North...The South as the great exporting portion of the Union has in reality paid vastly more than her due proportion of the revenue.”

The secessionsist book The Lost Cause: expressed indignation as follows:

“In every measure that the ingenuity of avarice could devise the North exacted from the South a tribute, which it could only pay at the expense and in the character of an inferior in the Union.”

Edmund Ruffin, a secessionist who ordered the first shot to be fired at Fort Sumpter exclaimed:

The South would be twice as rich and powerful if it were not for Northern tax policies.”

You ask what tarriffs and taxes. Most of all the tarriff of 1832, known widely in the South as the “tarriff of abomination.” And, once the Congress was controlled by the North, several other tariffs and tax schemes that favored the Nortern industrialists over the Southern agricultural and exporting economy. Such tarriffs brought in revenues of approximately $100 million of which, $90 million came from the much less populated, poorer South.

In his book For Good and Evil, the result of a 20 year study of the history of taxation, Charles Adams states:

“One of the most popular myths in American history is that the Civil War was started over slavery and that Lincoln, as the Great Emancipator, drove the nation into a bloody war to break the chains of bondage that shackled over three and a half million black Americans. This childhood history story is a fable.”

He and others have noted that prior to the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress approved for adoption, a constitutional amendment protecting slavery forever (in the South) and thus there had to be something else that caused them to fire the first shot.

I have tried to answer your questions with civility. I do not appreciate your stooping to allege I was just repeating racist slogans. Hopefully that is not your habit.

295 posted on 05/01/2011 12:21:46 PM PDT by gleneagle
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To: cashless

Yes you are pretty well screwed in NC. Asheville libs run the state. My sister and brother in law used to live near Waynesville. My condolences. In GA we have almost a Republican supermajority in both state houses and a Republican Governor. Its mostly all good.

The bad part is that Gwinnett County GA where we currently live is the number one destination for all Mexican illegals coming across the border. We are crawling with them. We have the gang bangers with the drugs etc and crime is way up. The legislature just passed an AZ style immigration bill that will hopefully get rid of a lot of them. Plus there is very little work at present. A lot of self deportation going on.

The Metro Atlanta area is going to be uninhabitable when the collapse comes so it doesn’t really matter what county you are in. The large population of inner city unprepareds will be descending on the burbs. If you live in the burbs you will just have a dangerous miserable existence. We are several months out from re-locating to the N GA mountains. There is only one demographic up there and everybody sticks together. We plan to ride out the collapse on about 5 defendable acres with at least one year of food, some chickens and an alternative energy source. Either solar or micro hydro. We realized a long time ago that we are not pioneer stock so we are setting up to live off the grid in a similar fashion to the way we live now. Just more simply.


296 posted on 05/01/2011 12:36:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: central_va
I respectfully do not agree that they would fall like dominoes. NY, CA, OR, WA, IL, VT certainly would not fall in line. I suspect even my state, NC, would have as much trouble deciding to severe this time as the last time. We were known as the Union stronghold wedged between two Southern stalwarts. Even VA could not be considered as willing this time since much of its northern half works for the Federal gov’t. Just saying.
297 posted on 05/01/2011 12:43:45 PM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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To: marktwain

I think we have to support the Bill of Rights as a whole. If we allow the government to ignore First or Fourth or Seventh Amendment rights in the name of the War on Terror or some other “good” cause, then we have established the precedent that the Bill of Rights can be ignored from time to time when it is in the “national interest.” This makes it that much easier to justify ignoring the protections of the Second Amendment as well.


298 posted on 05/01/2011 1:03:51 PM PDT by juno67
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To: marktwain

In my opinion the civil war has already begun. It’s the shooting that hasn’t started. 911 was a temporary respite. We are a nation divided when we have groups that vote 80-90% consistently for one side only. We have been divided on purpose by a massive “progressive” conspiracy and infiltration of every institution in this land. We ignored it at our peril and only a massive purge will correct that problem if we are to save ourselves.


299 posted on 05/01/2011 1:06:25 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Clintonfatigued
Interesting concept. Let's start by having NYC, LA, Chicago and San Fran declare themselves as Progressive city states and see how it goes.
300 posted on 05/01/2011 1:16:41 PM PDT by cashless (Unlike Obama and his supporters, I'd rather be a TEA BAGGER than a TEA BAGGEE.)
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