Perspective: Die-hard Confederates should be reconstructed

St. Augustine Record ^ | 09/27/2003 | Peter Guinta

[sheltonmac]

I received an e-mail from Ron Holland, editor of Dixie Daily News, calling my attention to this editorial. Apparently, the responses to Gunita's rant were overwhelming, because the essay was pulled from the St. Augustine Record's website. I was only able to find the text via a cached web page courtesy of Google.

[sheltonmac]

*ping*

[Kenton]

According to an article by Bob Moser and published in the Southern Poverty Law Center's magazine "Intelligence Report," which monitors right-wing and hate groups

Yeah, well quoting the SPLC as a source is kind of a tip-off about where the author is coming from.

Hell, I'm a Yankee, and I'm offended by way these people treat southerners...

[warchild9]

Gee whillikers, I'm "racist, angry, and twisted!" I always thought I just loved those smelly coastal mud flats where I was born and raised more than Manhattan concrete (which I also have developed a fondness for). Being a Southern Nationalist is fun!

[Lexington Green]

The resentment of a defeated and occupied people often festers for centuries... witness the American South... witness the Middle East.

Unreconstructed Rebel

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic too;
I hates the Freedmen's Buro,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.

We got three hundred thousand
Befo' they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo',
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sho';
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a damn.

[Middle Man]

There is a great expose waiting to be written on why staff turnover is so high at the SPLC. I hear sexual harassment has always been the order of the day on Dees' plantation.

[stainlessbanner]

Let's see if Peter Guinta shoots off his foul-mouth at Ft. Clinch....

[warchild9]

From what I've read, an employee of SPLC is only in danger of sexual harassment if he's a boyish young man within snapping distance of Morris Dees.

[TomServo]

I hear sexual harassment has always been the order of the day on Dees' plantation.

I do hope they're over the age of 12.

[CatoRenasci]

What's nearer the true spirit of the Old South:

the sour grapes of that song (which is funny); or

the various United Confederate Verterans (UCV) and Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) chapters who had joint meetings with each other and Confederate cavalry General Joe Wheeler who put Army Blue back on in 1898 to take command of the US Army's cavalry division for invasion of Cuba.

[Texas Federalist]

"Confederacy was never an internationally recognized nation, so the crewmen also died as citizens of the United States."

More internationalist drival . . .

[republicanwizard]

It was impossible for the seceded states to cease to become American. Lincoln viewed secession as impossible. Therefore, though they might claim a new allegiance, the Confederates were still legally citizens of the United States.

[Middle Man]

"I hates the Constitution,
"This great Republic too;"

"I love the Union and the Constitution but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it" ~ Jefferson Davis

[Middle Man]

Let's just say a lot of people have left the SPLC with their idealism badly shaken. ;^)

[shuckmaster]

ping!

[stainlessbanner]

the Confederates were still legally citizens of the United States.

Why require the '66 ironclad oath to reinstate citizenship?

[republicanwizard]

To make sure your ancestors didn't commit treason without understanding the consequences again.

We should have shot them, but that is only my opinion.

[robowombat]

At the time of the Lincoln statue uproar I seriously suggested the SCV should say it was a fine idea and should be linked to putting a statue of R E Lee in DC maybe with Lee's (possible) quote 'Duty is the most subline word in the English language.' Other countries have done this with 'noble rebels'. In Tokyo one of the biggest statues commemorates Saigo Takamori the leader of the southern (Japanese) revolt against the Tokagawa regime.

[Constitution Day]

SCV BUMP!

[republicanwizard]

What is so noble about turning one's sword on the government and country that gave him the sword?