In Dixie Land, I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie, away, away, away down sound in Dixie.
There's a new arrangement on our Southern Anthem.
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to TPC.
James Edwards and Keith Alexander with you as we welcome back a very old friend.
Not that he's old necessarily, but just that we've known him for a long time and what a great guy he is.
And joining us once again for Confederate History Month is Michael Gaddy.
He's a columnist.
Maybe you've read his stuff at Lew Rockwell.com.
He served as one of the founding members of the original Minuteman Project back in 2005.
That's when we first got linked up.
He's an Army veteran of Vietnam, Grenada, and Beirut.
And he returns to the program tonight to talk about his Confederate ancestry and the Southern War for Independence.
Mike, it is always so good to talk to you.
Hey, James, it's always a pleasure, sir.
You know, we'd be doing a disservice.
Well, as I say to a lot of the guests, and I mean it every time, but I certainly mean it tonight as well.
The pleasure is ours.
And we'd be doing ourselves a disservice, I think, not to tell a little bit before we get into the main event tonight, not to talk a little bit about that time for me when it was all still ahead of me, if you will, with regards to my career in radio.
But 2005, folks, this guy along with Joe McCutcheon, another one of the greatest men I've ever met, they were down there doing the jobs that most Americans and certainly the American government won't do, helping patrol our borders down there at the original Minuteman Project.
And to give you an idea of how long ago this was, 2005, Mike was going every night.
We were on five nights a week back then.
And every night, Mike was going to a payphone, putting in quarters into a payphone to call into the studio.
And I'll never forget it, Mike.
What do you remember about those days and those shows?
Oh, I tell you what, James, I remember planning my days.
You know, I knew I had certain obligations with the Minutemen.
I was running one of the lines that was called the Huachuca Line.
We were there in the Huachuca Mountains, and we had people out there, and I was working with them and supervising them.
And, you know, we would make reports and do all the other stuff.
But I always remember looking at my phone and keeping a sharp eye out on the time so that I could get to the payphone at the Palominas Trading Post, which was the only one within miles, so I could call you on the phone.
And I remember those times, remember them very vividly.
My biggest regret in one respect is the fact that we didn't tape all that.
Well, you know, those were the days in the early days of the show when there were archives at the time.
I don't think they're still archived.
I mean, that's going back now 17 years.
But I'll tell you what, they're in the hearts and the minds of, or at least ours anyway.
Maybe some of the listeners out there remember those days and those shows.
You did another thing that not a lot of people do.
You and Joe and his lovely wife, Barb.
Joe McCutcheon, that is.
That's correct.
Joe McCutcheon.
You may be the only one who called in from a payphone, but you're one of the very few that actually drove to Memphis to sit in with us at the radio station.
And you and Joe, when Barb came up, and I remember us all being there together.
I mean, you know, 99% of the shows we do are people over the phone, of course, but y'all were there and we had that fellowship as well.
And what could you tell the people?
I know they're listening tonight.
What could you tell the people who perhaps have missed some of Joe's appearances on this program about the kind of man Joe McCutcheon was?
And it is, of course, still is.
Oh, I tell you what, he's 90 now.
He's still, you know, I talk to him from time to time.
You know, I wrote an article about Joe and I defined what the true meaning of conservative was.
And the true meaning of a conservative was Joe McCutcheon.
And I went through quite a bit of detail, compared him with some people in history.
And every one of them, you know, he measured up as being a man who never wavered, still doesn't stand strong.
He's still writing articles.
You know, if, you know, he's what America means to people or should in today's world.
I had a lot of good times with Joe.
Sort of sort of reminds me of one if by land, two if by sea.
You were there on the ground.
Joe was on the ground too, but he was also in the air as a private pilot.
He was patrolling the border in his private plane.
And I remember having Babe Buchanan on the show that month when y'all were calling in so much.
That was April of 2005, was it not, Mike?
If I'm doing, if I remember correctly, that was April, wasn't it?
Yes, sir.
17 years ago this month, I actually got there towards the end of the March toward the end of March, pardon me, to coordinate with Chris Himcox and Jim Gilchrist to coordinate with them and to try and put the whole thing together and was there from the kickoff.
And I was there the last day.
Simcox and Gilchrist have both been on this show as well, of course, back during that time.
So, you know, magical memories for me walking down memory lane as it may be.
17 years later, though, now this is the thing I don't think any of us would have believed at the time.
17 years nearly to the day of those calls, certainly to the month, we're still together and we're still talking.
And tonight we're talking about Confederate History Month.
So, Mike, let's get it started.
Let's bring Keith Alexander into this as well.
Why Confederate History Month?
Why, not just 17 years later, but all these decades later after the war, more than 100 years, why is it still so important?
That or is it so important?
Yeah, there you go.
Tell us.
Yeah, good question.
Well, how can you define liberty?
How can you define rightful liberty as Thomas Jefferson did?
How can you do that without thinking of those brave people in the southern states?
And of course, you know, most people are unaware that seven initially withdrew, seceded starting in December of 1860 and going through January.
And there were four states that said, no, no, we're not going to secede.
We're going to try to stick it out.
And those four states were Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee.
And, oh, wow, which is the other one I'm trying to think of?
Virginia.
Virginia.
There we go.
Thank you.
Yeah, wake me up.
But, and they said no.
And then after Port Sumter and Lincoln said, okay, you're ordering up men.
You're going to send me men so I can invade.
And those four states said, you know, not no, but hell no.
And so they seceded.
And so those four states did not secede over slavery.
You know, and the thing that bugs me is when people say, well, you know, they seceded to protect slavery.
They didn't have to protect slavery.
The United States government and the Supreme Court had already protected slavery.
And they said.
That's a very good point, by the way, Michael.
I'm glad you brought that up.
In 1861, slavery was not under any threat.
In fact, Lincoln, at every opportunity, confirmed that he was not intent upon freeing the slaves.
That only happened from January the 1st, 1863, with the Emancipation Proclamation.
I get the question to keep England out of the war.
Could you believe Lincoln?
But continue.
Well, actually, Mike, we'll take a quick break right there.
Wanted to get the introduction in there and certainly go back and talk a little bit about our origins together with the Minuteman Project.
One of our very first guests ever on this show in April of 2005.
We'd only been on the air just a couple of months, five or six months.
We'll be back much more from Mike Daddy.
Want to hear more about his takes on the, as he puts it, the Southern War for Independence.
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When I die, I want my coffin made in Georgie Pine.
Standing straight up facing down south.
All the time reading from Dixie.
Hell yeah, I'm from Dixie.
And I'm bad, I'm from Dixie.
Fine, flying South Dixie.
Lord, I'm as lonesome and long.
Fine, fine, South Dixie.
Lord will be good when I get home.
Grandma and Grandpa Down, Georgia.
And my sweetheart down in Tennessee.
Flying a lot of hitbox down in town with family.
And they'll all be so glad to see me.
And I'm fine, flying South Dixie.
Lord, I'm as lonesome and long.
Fine, fine South Dixie.
Lord, it will be good when I get home.
Let's go Southampton.
All right, that kind of stuff will get you fired up.
Will it not, Mike Gaddy?
Listen, we're going to pivot in a moment.
I want to talk about your excellent article some years ago now on the Confederate flag, and we'll talk a little bit about that.
I want to talk about your personal Confederate ancestry, Sergeant Joel Gaddy and Private Elijah Gaddy.
Great story there.
We'll get to it all.
But first, Keith and I will sit silently.
Continue on with the thought you were making before the last break, and then let's pivot into a discussion on the flag.
All right, buddy.
I think the thing, being a historian to some effect, and I call myself a forensic historian, and I two periods of our history just absolutely have intrigued me for the better part of 40 years.
And number one is the founding era, and then number two is what I considered our second war for independence, which was the so-called alleged civil war.
But you have to understand that prior to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, there was no mention of slavery by government.
And so, when the Constitutional Convention went on, there were two Southerners who stood up very, very vociferously and said, No, not no, we've got to stop this.
And one was Luther Martin, who was the attorney general from the state of Maryland.
And he said, No, this is a, you know, we fought a war for liberty, and now we're committing a crime here with slavery.
And George Mason, who owns slaves, said it was wrong.
And he stood up.
And of course, you know, George Washington was there, and nobody minded he owned slaves.
But the others, they stood against it.
And the Quakers in Pennsylvania actually sent a letter by Benjamin Franklin to say, Please don't include slavery in this because it will just lead to war.
And how, how, how predictive was that?
But you know, Michael, Michael, this is Keith, just a second.
Let me say, I don't, I think it went beyond slavery.
I think there is a kind of psychological fault line between people from New England and people from the South that just made us incompatible.
And we weren't, in fact, I really think the psychological reason for the Civil War is that the New Englanders just could not give up the exquisite pleasure of bossing us around down here.
They were typical liberals, people that think they have the right to remake you in their own image.
What do you think?
Oh, well, I agree totally.
And the thing that I would tell you here is, and most people are unaware of this, are you familiar with John Taylor of Carolina?
Yes.
Okay, well, John Taylor of Caroline never ran for office, but he was appointed a senator to take the place of William Grayson from Georgia, who had passed away.
And he goes in and he's there and he's only there a short time.
And then he starts complaining about the taxes.
He starts saying, no, people shouldn't be taxed like this, right?
He was really making a lot of complaints.
And so as he was leaving the Senate one day, Oliver Ellsworth, well, first of all, it was Rufus King.
Rufus King, Senator King, stopped him and said, Come into the office here.
We needed to talk.
They had a little side office.
And they go into the office, and Rufus King starts and says, Look, we've got to split this country up because there's no way in the Dickens, no way in hell that we're going to get along.
The South and New England are just too different.
It will not work.
And then a few minutes later, Oliver Ellsworth walks in.
And, you know, both of these men were New Englanders.
And they said, Oliver Ellsworth said, here, talk with the people in the South and split this country wherever you will, because we will never ever get along.
Our ideas are different.
And that speaks exactly to what you were saying, Keith.
Mike, I would say this, because I do want to transition here.
You know, slavery was an issue, but I would say, I mean, we could debate to the extent to the percentage of the issue of the percentage of the pie that it was.
I mean, and of course, not everybody was of one mind on it.
I mean, there's no doubt that the privates in the Confederate Army who were leaving their farms to go and fight, they weren't doing it to preserve slavery.
And of course, slavery itself would have gone away within a few years anyway, as it did in all of the other white nations.
It didn't take a war to do it.
Mechanization and industrialization would have done it.
But anyway, mechanization of farm work.
That's not me saying I disagree with what you're saying.
It's just, as a matter of fact, it would have gone away and it would have gone away without a war.
But let's talk about the flag.
When you and I were talking, and that is, of course, the beautiful, and Keith, you said it earlier today.
It's the most beautiful flag that's ever been sewn.
Just in terms of aesthetics, you know, forget about what it stands for.
Just looking at that flag, that flag, it has a symmetry and a brightness and a vitality.
It's manly.
It's masculine.
It has a vitality to it that I think exceed that of any other national flag.
And Mike, you and I were talking about your article about the flag that you wrote some years ago that I always like to revisit.
But while we were talking on the phone yesterday, you said, hey, James, have you seen the flag in Donbass?
And of course I had, and it is the St. Andrew's Cross.
We also saw that flag, our flag, show up in Canada during the recent Trucker Rebellion.
It seems as though, of course, we're lucky, Mike, you and me and Keith and our listeners, many of them anyway, we have the DNA, the very blood and bone of the Confederate soldier in our body.
But we also have the spirit.
Now, there are some people in other parts of the world who may not have the DNA, but they do have the spirit.
And wherever the spirit to resist tyranny manifests itself, you do see Confederate flags.
Let's talk about your article about the flag.
Oh, well, I had, at the time I wrote that, I can't even remember, maybe 2016 now, but at the time I wrote it, I was just tired.
I was emotionally and physically tired of people running down the flag.
And it was just absolutely driving me crazy that people were just condemning the flag here, condemning the flag, you know, blah, blah, blah.
It's racist.
It's this, it's that, it's the other.
And I remember sitting in a class, teaching a class, and there were several black folks in my class, and they agreed with me.
I said, which is the racist flag here, people?
St. Andrew's Cross, the flag of Christianity, and it's flying over, it flew over slavery for four years.
That stars and stripes that you pledge allegiance to flew over slavery for over 70.
Which one's the racist flag?
And I had just gotten to the point to where I was tired of it.
I was tired of listening to it.
So I sat down one day and I just wrote that article.
Well, you know, let me say this, if I could, Michael.
I think we need to get off of our heels on the whole issue of slavery.
Slavery was, as James was quoted as saying by the Southern Palmer Law Center, the best thing that could have ever happened to a sub-Saharan black if he was sent to the colonies in North America, where it was, you know, at the very worst, they were treated as prized livestock.
Compare that with the Eastern, the East African slave trade with the Arabs, where they castrated all the men so drastically that two-thirds of them died from loss of blood.
Also, Africans were enslaving Europeans for a lot longer than Europeans were enslaving Africans.
They had the Barbary pirates going up and down the coast of Europe all the way out to Iceland capturing whites, putting the vital young men to work as galley slaves, the younger women as sex slaves, and killing the elderly.
So, you know, where does all this exclusive guilt for slavery on the part of white southerners come from?
That's a great question, Mike.
Well, you have to, they have to blame somebody because they're not going to blame themselves.
They're not going to blame the New England shippers.
They're not going to blame Aetna Insurance, which got its start in the world by insuring slave ships.
And it was, you know, then we look at Brown University.
Brown University, an Ivy League school, was founded by people in the slave trade.
Over 90% of the slave ships that left America left usually from the East Coast, especially from Rhode Island.
That was the center of slavery.
Not only that.
But they had to have somebody to blame.
Well, Michael, also, there is no way that that slave trade could have happened without the complicity, the vital complicity of black Africans.
Back before they discovered quinine as a treatment, an effective treatment for malaria in like the 1890s, the average lifespan of a European in sub-Saharan Africa was six months.
We were very vulnerable to tropical diseases like yellow fever.
For example, they had the big yellow fever epidemics, two of them in Memphis, 10 times more deadly to whites than it was to blacks.
Same thing for malaria, same things for dengue fever, things like this.
It would have been a death sentence for whites to go off into the jungle and try to capture blacks.
So what happened was what happened?
They just dropped an anchor in the bay and said, we're here to do business.
And the black chiefs brought them out.
Got to take a break.
So much more to cover with Mike Gaddy.
Stay tuned.
Stay tuned.
We'll be right back.
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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.
Well, that's on offer for Keith Alexander.
Keith requested that song tonight, so that's the version he wanted.
Hey, listen, I want to get off slavery, but I do want to mention very quickly, very quickly, a couple of things.
You mentioned that quote that was attributed to me.
Actually, what it was was me quoting a Jamaican, a black journalist for the Jamaican Observer.
When I just Googled James Edwards, slavery was the greatest thing.
All of these articles came up.
Donald Trump had to answer for me, having quoted a black man for saying it, but this is what he actually wrote.
America has been the best country on earth for black folks.
It was here that 600,000 black people brought from Africa in slave ships grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation and reached the greatest levels of freedom that blacks have ever had.
Wealth, let it be said.
We blacks were changed for the better, I might add, on account of slavery.
We are a better race today because our ancestors went through slavery.
The millions of lives lost were not in vain.
The Europeans proclaimed the need for us to be civilized through slavery.
And though this may be hard to understand, they were right.
Indeed, based on what is happening in black Africa today, slavery was for us in the West, in many respects, our salvation.
Now, Rich, our good friend Rich up in Nashville writes, remember this?
And this is exactly what you and Mike were saying a moment ago, Keith.
Lincoln didn't want to free the slaves.
The Confederate states didn't secede to protect slavery because the United States government, Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, had already protected slavery as enshrined in American society and legal.
So why would they secede to fight for something they already had?
And that's a great question, a rhetorical question.
Have you also brought up the fact that Jews ran the slave trade?
Well, we just did.
Well, it is.
And let me just say this.
Why did it suddenly become an issue in 1863?
It became an issue because for thinking people both in the Confederacy and in the Union, it became apparent that the only way the South was going to achieve freedom and secede successfully was if they followed the blueprint of the American colonies and got a major European power to ally themselves with them.
Well, the only candidate for that in the Civil War was England, but England was very unique.
Out of all the nations of the world, they're the only nation by that time that had legislatively abolished slavery in 1833 under William Wilberforce.
There are a lot of Englishmen that still took pride in having partnered in that.
So Lincoln knew that if he could make the Civil War a crusade to end slavery, that would keep England out of the war.
And that's why he did it.
He was a shrewd politician.
You got to give him credit for that.
Mike, final word to you on this, and then I want to talk about your Confederate ancestors.
Go.
All right.
Well, I have a little bit different viewpoint.
I agree with what Keith said.
But the one thing that most people are not aware of because they haven't studied the history of the war, and that was the fact that in 1862, the Union was getting their asses handed to them in the Shenandoah Valley and in many other places.
The South was winning the war in 1862.
Lincoln in September decided to come up with this Emancipation Proclamation, which freed no slave anywhere.
But he came up with it, but he needed a victory.
And they got a standoff at Antietam, and he said, or Shepherdstown, and he said, well, all right, let's see.
Here's what we'll do.
We've got something we'll call a victory, and now we will take the moral high ground.
Yes, he was afraid of France and England coming into the war, but he needed something to take it away because they were militarily getting beat.
Stonewall Jackson was so dominant in the Shenandoah Valley that at nighttime in Washington, D.C., they pulled the boards off the bridges because they were afraid he was going to come right into D.C. All right.
Now, I want to read one more thing from you, Mike.
And this is in your article that we've made mention of in the last segment about the flag, what the flag really stands for, and the courage, devotion, and commitment of our Confederate forebears.
You write this, and I direct quote from Mike Gaddy here, our guest this hour.
Those who have fallen mentally ill and cowardly while absorbing the deadly virus of political correctness, white guilt, and cultural Marxism are unworthy of being mentioned in the same breath as any of these heroes, talking about our Confederate heroes.
Their letters home spoke of defending their country from the Yankee invader and defending freedom and liberty.
They gave the ultimate sacrifice on the field of honor.
The overwhelming majority of the young men owned no slaves, and their absence placed a terrible burden on their families.
Theirs was a battle for home, family, and fireside, and the right of the consent of the governed, as was stated in our Declaration of Independence.
Let's talk about two of those warriors and heroes: Sergeant Joel Gaddy and Private Elijah Gaddy.
You write about them.
I'd like to hear you talk about them.
Well, they were two, and they were actually cousins, and they were in the 26th North Carolina.
And the 26th North Carolina had such heavy casualties more than any other unit during the entire war.
But the 26th North Carolina, especially at Gettysburg, and that was where I centered on them, was they went into battle there with the 26th North Carolina, and they had marched from Virginia into Gettysburg.
And many of them, if you read the daily reports, many of them didn't even have any shoes.
And others were, their clothes had been worn out.
They'd been at war for two years.
And so they were pretty well worn out.
But that was actually the first time in 1863 that a unit actually carried the Southern Cross.
And prior to that, it had been the flag of the Navy, the Confederate Navy.
And so it had been approved.
And there's a part in the article about the approval of the flag.
But Joel and they went into, and they fought a hell of a battle on July the 1st.
And on July the 2nd, they had lost so many, but they had driven the Iron Brigade of the Union Army right into the streets of Gettysburg.
And in the streets of Gettysburg, the Union Army, they even had, they were trying to surrender to each other, and they hid in the basements of the homes.
And so, but quite a few of them were injured.
And I believe that, you know, that Joel was killed on that day because he never showed up.
He was wounded, listed as wounded, but he never showed up anywhere after that.
And I think he was probably buried somewhere near Gettysburg.
But they fought the battle, and then they kind of went into a rest period on July the 2nd.
And then on July the 3rd, they led the charge, you know, across the Great Battle, Pickett's Charge, as it's been known.
And they were involved in that, and they were leaders in that.
And again, they suffered terrible casualties.
So out of over 500 men, I think it was, there were probably less than 100 left as the sun set on July the 3rd.
So that's two of my ancestors, and I have 23 more.
We could have been a little bit more.
That was a Betinoir, as they said, Michael, that was the Betinoir of Lee as a soldier is the attack on a fortified position.
If he had a weakness, that was it.
And Pickett's charge, unfortunately, was based on doing just that.
I always like to fantasize what would have happened if rather than having Jeb Stewart as his cavalry general going behind the lines, he'd had Nathan Bedford Forrest.
If Forrest had been at Gettysburg, we'd be a free nation today.
Now, I'll say this.
You mentioned that Gettysburg, of course, took place in July of 1863.
Michael Perutka, who's been on this show, he was the former presidential nominee for the Constitution Party, a former elected official in Maryland.
And he wrote that the United States was born in July and it died in July.
He said the United States as we knew it was never the same after the 4th of July, 1863.
But you agree with that, Mike?
Oh, yes, I would say that without a shadow of a doubt, that would be true.
And I love Robert E. Lee.
I really do.
But if I look at it from a military strategic point of view, Lee should have learned at Fredericksburg that you cannot attack because he was on the winning side at Fredericksburg and he held the high ground.
And he should have known that and he saw the carnage.
And he made the statement on Marie's Heights.
He made the statement that it is well that war is so terrible or we should grow too fond of it.
He decimated Burnside.
And he should have known as a military commander.
And I have made the case on several occasions that the man that should have been in charge of the Southern Army by his absolute military genius was Stonewall Jackson.
That was actually something that just came in from a listener, Mike, if you don't mind the interruption.
If Jackson had been alive, what happens at Gettysburg?
Well, if Jackson had been alive, number one is that when they went in, when Ewell was leading what had been Jackson's corps two months before, when Ewell, Old Baldy, went in, Old Baldy settled at and did not take the high ground.
Stonewall Jackson, from all of his history, up and down the Shenandoah Valley and everywhere else, there is no way his men would never have rested until they took the high ground at Saturday Heights.
It just would not have happened.
That is the first thing.
And had they done that, then the battle was in essence, would have been over.
And maybe we'd be a free nation today.
We've got to take a quick break, a quick break.
Commercial talk radio is a cruel master, especially when having a great time with a great guest talking about the history of our ancestors, and nothing motivates me more than that.
We'll be right back, though.
One more segment with it.
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Why does the left lie constantly?
Because they get spiritual power from lying.
The lies come from Satan, the father of lies.
John 8:44.
Here's how the political lying process works: Satan provides the beast with a lie.
Then the more they use the lie, the more spiritual power they get.
Look, the media is a lie multiplier, and this multiplication gives more evil spiritual power to the beast.
And that can overwhelm and even deceive the body of Christ, especially when the body is being disobedient to the head.
The churches today are incorporated, so they're subordinate to human government.
They obey the beast and do nothing to restore our national relationship with God.
And the government shall be on his shoulders.
Isaiah 9:6.
That verse is not for the present-day church.
Rather, it is for the end time church, the body of the line of Judah.
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And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far.
Ra for the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, for southern answer.
Forever there's a single star As long as the union was faithful to her trust Like friends and like we were and just But now, when northern treachery attacks our rights tomorrow, we'll hoist on high the bonny blue flag that bears a single star.
Hurrah, hurrah, for southern answer.
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag, it bears a single star.
All right, I stand corrected on one thing.
That was the anthem before the anthem there, of course, the Bonnie Blue.
Keith got, he tells people it's the Dallas Cowboy star if he ever gets that.
No, he doesn't do that.
Keith has the Bonnie Blue flag on his front bumper here at the studio tonight.
And we've got the Confederate flag here as well.
Hey, speaking of all the things that have happened in April, of course, I first met, first got to know at least Mike Gaddy and Joe McCutcheon in April of 05.
Here we are now in our 18th year celebrating Confederate History Month here on the program.
Of course, in April of 1862 that we, and I do mean we, my direct ancestor, fought in the Battle of Shiloh.
And I'll be at Shiloh on Friday.
I'm going to take my kids and my wife and my kids up to Shiloh on Friday.
And we'll be there just a few days after what would have been the day that their ancestor trod that soil.
And my ancestors were there too.
In fact, one of them was killed.
I had two brothers, IES Alexander Independence Ellen Schuler Alexander, who was my great-grandfather, and his brother, they must have been running out of names.
I had 12 children.
His name was President Washington Alexander.
President Washington Alexander was killed at Shiloh, and IES Alexander was wounded and discharged to recover.
And then he signed up with Nathan Bedford Forrest when he went through his town of Shelbyville, which was the county seat of Bedford County.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was named after Bedford County, and IES Alexander said he wanted to fight with his fellow Bedford County.
And he fought with him in the 15th Tennessee Cavalry until the end of the war.
I mentioned a moment ago that I stand corrected on something.
Rich Hamblin is always so able and willing to give us great content here on this program.
But I quoted a couple of things a moment ago.
It was actually Rich Hamblin forwarding to me some comments for use on this program by Mr. Confederate man, who is listening tonight up in New York and is talking about the show on Telegram.
So we appreciate it.
And he's going to be on our show later this month.
That's right.
He sure is.
So anyway, back to the guest on our show now, Mike Gaddy.
And it's always a pleasure to have Mike for so many reasons.
But Mike, let's now talk about your upcoming project.
I called Mike yesterday, and it was, I told him by the end of the phone call, Divine Providence led that call.
Not that I wouldn't call him on any given Confederate History Month because he's been a regular for this series going back several years.
But when I called him yesterday, it was serendipitous that we have him on tonight because Mike's got something kind of big coming up on Monday.
Mike, tell us all about it.
Well, if you will remember, James, pardon me, you made the, I said, look, I'll come on if you'll come on my show.
And you did say that.
On Monday night, on Monday night, we are beginning the very first and how appropriate we're doing it in April in Confederate History Month on speakfreeradio.com.
I have a two-hour program, which will be on every Monday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
And if the people miss it, there will be replays that will be available.
And the title of my program is called Whistling Dixie.
We're going to take the war and we're going to look at it politically.
We're going to look at it militarily, strategically, and we're going to look at the impact in Europe and other places as it has been going on.
And I was so happy to be able to do this two-hour program.
And then, James, I had several things that I planned that I wanted to do on Monday, but the fact you can be there for two hours and we'll be on speakfreadio.com and no interruption, no commercials, nothing.
It'll just be you and I, buddy, for two hours.
I don't know if I can handle it.
I mean, you're going to put me through the pace, my tag team partner.
SpeakfreeRadio.com.
I'm there right now.
And as I'm there right now, this is incredible because I did not know this until I called Mike yesterday.
I mean, the timing of it all, you don't get that lucky, folks.
I mean, that's not happenstance.
So I called Mike to book him, to hope that he would be available to come on the show tonight as we continue to celebrate Confederate history.
And now our 18th year on the air.
And Mike told me about this show, Whistling Dixie.
Now, I'm a little bit jealous about the name.
If I could go back in the time machine, you know, maybe we have a different name.
Whistling Dixie.
And he told me about speakfree radio.com.
And I'm there right now at speakfree radio.com.
And wouldn't you know it or would you know it?
There's your ball dome right there.
They simulcast us.
And when Mike got picked up by Speak Free Radio, there's a story there, Mike.
Can you do you remember it?
Oh, yes.
Actually, I do four programs there per week.
And this afternoon, I just did a three-hour program called Operation Scorpio.
But I am the one thing that just amazed me when I looked at their lineup and I, Paul English, who is the guy who created Speak Free Radio and he lives in Yorkshire, England.
He and I were talking and he was, we were talking about different programs to do.
And I said, well, I've got to do one on our Second War for Independence in America.
And he said, great.
He said, I don't know of anybody else that's really doing one consistently every week.
And maybe there are others.
And, you know, I would look forward to hearing those as well.
But he, in the meantime, he was telling me who he's been doing.
And he said, look, he said, I have this program.
And he showed me the schedule.
And I said, you've got the political cesspool.
And he said, yes.
He said, I simulcast them.
I've been simulcasting them for several years now.
He said, I don't even think they know it.
And I said, well, and then yesterday, then yesterday, he said, they're very popular here in England.
And so after I talked with you yesterday, I called Paul and I said, well, guess who I just talked to, Paul?
And he said, I haven't a clue.
Well, in his English accent.
And I said, well, I just talked with James Edward, political cesspool.
And he says, well, how the hell did that happen?
I said, well, you know, he wasn't aware that you're being simulcast.
And he said, I know.
And he said, it will be great to even talk with him.
And I said, well, come on the program with us Monday night and say hello.
I would be honored.
And I hope you can make it.
No, no, I was just going to say, I'm honored.
I'm honored that anyone would care enough to hear what me and Keith have to say and our invited guests each week to simulcast us.
Of course, we don't have a paywall.
There's no pay to play here.
If you like the work, I hope you will support the work.
But anybody who wants to pick us up and spread it, it does so with our immediate blessing.
And so the fact that Paul English has been simulcasting us at Speak Free Radio.
English, Paul English.
That's right.
Is a true honor.
And I just found out about it yesterday, which was the same day that I found out that we would have Mike Gaddy on the program tonight.
And it was the same time I found out that Mike would be starting his own show or brand new show, rather.
I should say a brand new show that will debut on Monday that I'll be appearing on at speakfree radio.com.
And it's just all happening.
It's all taking place around us.
And I told Mike, I said, well, you know, that's just wonderful that we're, you know, that we have a big reputation in Europe because we just strapped up our march around the world.
Now, this is our third or fourth year to be doing that.
I think it's our third year.
David Griffin was featured.
We had a couple of Englishmen on there, Adrian Davis, Nick Griffin, of course, also Jim Dowson over there in Ulster.
But nevertheless, yeah, so this is our third year to do that, but we've been doing Confederate History Month for, you know, since the beginning of the program.
But it's just wonderful.
It's wonderful, the cross-pollination.
It's wonderful, the cross-pollination.
And so I can't recommend enough to you, ladies and gentlemen, to check out Mike Gaddy's listening, excuse me, listen to Mike Gaddy's Whistling Dixie.
Whistling Dixie at speakfreadio.com.
Now, there's one thing, if you could pass it along to Paul before I can, there is one thing wrong at SpeakFree Radio.
He has my contact information as gab.com slash James Edwards TPC with E-DWORDS instead of A-R-D-S.
And actually, if you go to that one, and I didn't notice this until I went to the website, it's an imposter.
I don't know who it is, but there's one post there at this particular social media account that says it has my name, my face, my profile, but it says wishing all of my Jewish listeners a happy Holocaust, 1488 Sig Heil.
Now, I wouldn't put it past the ADL or SBLC to be behind this account.
They've done stuff like this.
The SBLC has specifically done stuff like this before.
But whoever it is, I know for certain it's not me.
We actually have a Twitter account, and so we might want to correct that.
But other than that, and it's easy to be fooled because it does look like me.
You don't have to make it up, James.
You say inflammatory enough.
There's plenty of content there.
There's plenty of content there.
But in any event, I just wanted to get that out there because I see it here at the top.
But I'm at speakfreadio.com.
I will be there on Monday night on Mike Gaddy's Whistling Dixie.
And I'm so thankful to Paul English, English Paul English, as Keith said, for simulcasting us.
And God bless him.
God bless you.
God bless the efforts going on there.
Can't wait to talk to you Monday.
Final word, about a minute left to go, Mike.
Final word to you, brother.
All right, buddy.
I just appreciate everything you've done.
You know, I love the way we hooked up 17 years ago, you know, on an issue that was vital to America back then.
I just love Joe McCutcheon and Barbara McCutcheon, everything they had to do with it.
But tomorrow night, 5 o'clock Eastern Time to 7 o'clock, there will be Whistling Dixie with political Sus Pools, James Edwards and myself.
And buddy, am I looking forward to it?
Monday night.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Monday night, not tomorrow night, but Monday night, correct?
Oh, I'm sorry, Monday night, Monday night.
My bad.
Thank you for be there.
But Monday night, Monday night at speakfree radio.com.
Mike, God bless you, brother.
Can't wait to talk to you on Monday, so it won't be long until we talk again.
But I'm so thankful that you joined us tonight as we have kicked Confederate History Month into high gear.
And you were the man that I wanted to have on to do just that.
And we've done it.
We've got two more great guests coming, but Mike Gaddy has really got us going tonight.