April 29, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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The scene from the movie Gods and Generals, which we often talk about during our Confederate History Month series.
That was Stephen Lang playing Stonewall Jackson in that film, and he did it impeccably, if I do say so myself.
Believe it or not, Stephen Lang is actually a Jewish guy from New York, but when he was cast for the role of Stonewall Jackson, he read a lot about Jackson, said he came away with a great deal of respect and admiration for Jackson, and he perfected the dialect, that Virginian Shenandoah dialect.
It's really one of the most remarkable acting performances I've ever seen.
And of course, Stephen Lang also played Ike Clinton in the movie Tombstone.
Right.
Along with, well, that was another all-star ensemble cast.
Robert Duvall plays Robert E. Lee in the movie Gods and Generals.
In Tombstone, though, you had Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp, Bill Paxton as well.
Well, compare those generals with the primary Union generals towards the end, other than Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman.
They were infamous in the eyes of the left because they wiped out the Plains Indians right after they got through doing their best to wipe out white Southerners in Reconstruction.
Yeah, that's something Paul Craig Roberts mentions in the article we were covering in the first hour.
But I'll say one more thing about Gods and Generals very quickly.
Good movie.
And it came out in 2003.
So it's fairly recent, and it portrays the South in a very fair and objective light.
Now, think about this.
In 2011, Warner Brothers re-released the movie for the 150th anniversary of the onset of the war.
And an executive at Warner Brothers contacted me in 2011 and asked if they could partner with the political cesspool in order to promote the re-release of this film.
And so, of course, because I believed in the movie, I actually saw it in the theaters when it came out in 2003, which is before TPC ever even went on the air.
I was happy to do it.
It really stands along amongst major motion pictures that have come out recently as it favorably depicts the Confederacy and rightly casts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson as heroes.
But it just goes to show how much has changed since 2011.
2011, Warner Brothers is asking us, and they sent me a bunch of copies of the movie, said, give them away.
Just promote it.
If you'll promote it on the air, we'll send you a bunch of copies.
And they did.
I still have one.
I kept one for myself.
But it wasn't even my first time to work with Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers was actually the parent company of that Swedish TV show that I was on for a couple of, made a couple of cameos on over two seasons.
They were the parent company.
It wasn't SVT1 in Sweden, which was the channel it came on.
Warner Brothers, it was an executive from Warner Brothers in Cashman.
Yeah, one of the producers.
Anyway, but definitely check out Gods and Generals.
Well, I want to read one more thing.
We were talking about how Confederate History Month is celebrated in April because the war began and ended in April 1861 and 1865, respectively.
We've read this before, but I'd like to read it again quite quickly, and that's from Michael Perutka out of Maryland, an attorney by trade, but he was also the Constitution Party's presidential candidate.
Also won a Republican primary for attorney general.
And he's been on this show several times.
Now he has.
And he wrote that America itself was born and died on the 4th of July.
And of course, we all know about the Declaration of Independence being signed July 4th, 1766.
The death, he says, was July 4th, 1863, with the proximity of the defeat of our American forces, as he calls it, at Gettysburg.
Michael Perutka writing on the 4th of July, 1863, after three days of brutal and desperate fighting to defend and preserve the American way of life, American soldiers, talking about the Confederate Army here, American soldiers retreated in the rain through Frederick, Maryland, and slipped back across the Potomac River to the relative safety of Virginia.
I wonder what Independence Day thoughts went through the minds of these men as they marched away from the horrific scene where they and their brethren had sacrificed life and limb for the cause of American independence.
He's talking about the South here.
What singular faith and courage led them to continue the struggle to defend America from the growing tyrant?
This is why I'm reading this tonight, Keith, in light of everything we covered in the first hour with the bannings, the censorships, all of this degenerate.
Tyranny is alive on America today than it was in 1863.
Just upon us.
Though most people in America don't realize that Perutka continues, the Army of Northern Virginia was the last force.
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Northern flags and south winds flutter.
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Apologies for that, folks.
I kicked a cord loose here.
And anyway, our producers were Johnny on the spot, brought up some music and took us right into the break.
Sorry for that truncated treatment of Michael Perutka's thoughts on why we, the United, why the American experiment was born and died on the 4th of July.
But in any event, we must move on now and move on, we shall.
And move on, we do to Michael Gaddy, our last official guest of Confederate History Month 2023.
Michael Gaddy and I met 18 years ago this month when he was calling in from a payphone.
If you can remember what those things are, that goes to show you how long we've been on the air.
18 years ago, there was still this thing called a payphone.
You put a quarter in it and you could call somebody.
Anyway, he did that every night from the Minuteman Project on the border with Mexico.
He is a political commentator and a teacher who has served as one of the founding members of the aforementioned original Minuteman Project, an army veteran of Vietnam, Grenada, and Beirut.
And he's back on the show right now to talk about some essential elements of the war between the states and its ultimate legacy.
Mike, it's great to have you tonight.
Hey, it's always wonderful to be with you, James.
Well, I appreciate that, my friend.
And that said, I was on your show last week, and we'll plug that a little bit later before we run out of time tonight because time is precious.
We got to cram a lot in in some short order.
And you brought up some things that I thought would make for excellent segments on this show.
First, was your opinion that the war between the states itself was sewn into the Constitution at ratification and that this war was inevitable the minute the Constitution was ratified.
Share with us your thoughts about that.
Well, James, I am by stating that, all I am doing is echoing Patrick Henry because Patrick Henry predicted it.
And he said that if we ratify this Constitution, there will be a bitter, nasty, deadly war within 100 years.
Well, it happened within 87.
And so Patrick Henry saw it, and I'm certainly no one to contest Patrick Henry.
But history shows us a lot of different things, James, and that is from the very beginning almost, the northern states, the Yankee New Englanders, especially, were treating the South as their standard milk cow.
It was their source of revenue.
And during the Revolution, and we're really not taught this in school like we should be because the schools today are the 10th plank of the Communist Manifesto.
But what happened during the Revolutionary War was the last two years were basically fought in the South, not in the North.
The Southerners, those good old Southern boys, didn't line up in a straight line and shoot at each other like the Redcoats and Washington's Army.
These people played for real.
And if we look at the Swamp Fox Francis Marion, if we look at Thomas Sumter, if we look at John Severe, and we look at the men in the South who led this, the Revolutionary War was won in the South.
And one of the things that happened during that time was all debts incurred by individual states for the common cause or the general welfare were supposed to become the tax burden of the central government.
Well, the Yankees didn't want to pay that.
And so the Southerners, even though they had paid off, especially Virginia, had paid off their war debts, then the Congress said, okay, well, now we're going to accept the war debts as a joint effort.
And so the South ended up paying their debt twice.
And that was the precursor.
And then when we get to the Constitution, of course, number one is that slavery was put into the Constitution and the South gets blamed for that.
Georgia and South Carolina are blamed.
Oh, they said they wouldn't join the Union.
And that's not true.
What we had at that timeframe was the fact in the Constitution, they put it together.
It was especially put together.
And with the slavery being included in there, because the majority of the shippers of slaves came out of Rhode Island, Boston, and New York.
And it was a big commercial trade for them.
They were making tons of money off of the slave trade.
So they weren't about to give up the slave trade, not at all in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
So they wanted slavery into the Constitution.
They put it in there and said, oh, well, we'll keep it for 20 years.
Well, many people said, no, we can't do that.
That will be, you know, they fought against it.
George Mason, a slave owner from Virginia, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, he said, slavery, we've got to stop this.
We've got to put it out.
But also, the other thing that most people think about is the majority of slaves that were purchased into the South were financed through New England banks.
So they were making money off the interest off the loans they were loaning the plantation owners to purchase slaves.
And then they were also involved in the shipping.
And there is no way that anyone could say that slavery was not a very, in its very essence, a part of the Civil War.
And then secondly is Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, which was the very first power that was given to Congress.
And that was the power of unlimited taxation from unlimited sources and unlimited amounts.
There are no limits on the amount that the people could be taxed in the Constitution.
Well, what happened was, is that the North started using the South again as their revenue producers, and they kept putting on tariffs against the South and kept increasing the tariffs.
We almost went to war in the 1830s, early 1830s, over that same thing.
But it extended on into the 1860s.
So if it had not have been for slavery put into the Constitution, and then, of course, it was codified into the Constitution, 1857, and Dred Scott v. Sanford.
And of course, the southern states, four of them put mentioned slavery in their secession documents, and we get beat up with that.
They say, oh, well, you know, you put it in there, so it was about slavery.
Well, gosh, guys, slavery was constitutional.
So what are you saying?
Lincoln went to war against the South because the South was standing on the Constitution?
I've never heard it put that way.
That's a good way to put it.
Yeah, continue on, Mike.
Well, I'm sorry, buddy.
I kind of lost you there for a second.
No, no, no, no.
I was just saying, I've never heard it put that way about, you know, reminding people that it was in the Constitution to begin with.
Oh, yes.
Yeah, the slavery was there, and even though it was supposed to end in 20 years, initially, no one in the North was controlling.
They had the most of the votes in Congress because of population.
And they were not about to let slavery end because it was a huge source of income.
And there is a four-volume set put out by none other than the Nation of Islam, believe it or not, that doesn't promote Islam in any way.
But that four-volume set is filled with documentation of where the slave trade was conducted in America, and it was Rhode Island, Boston, and New York.
So, Mike, to get back to Patrick Henry, because you were mentioning that he argued full-throatedly, if that's a term, about how the ratification of the Constitution would inevitably lead to war.
Connect those dots.
I know we have so much to cover with you in such a short amount of time.
Just connect those dots as you can for the audience.
I know you're talking about it right now, but coming back to that and how prophetic he was.
Well, he perfectly nailed it, you know, and he said over and over, one of the things was, is he said that the taxation especially, he said the taxation will be the seed, the unlimited taxation will be the seed on which the blossom of tyranny will grow.
And he was exactly right.
He saw through and he made so many, and he pitched against ratification.
And the thing I think that bothers me more than anything else, James, is among the letters of the founding fathers back and forth, almost every one of the founders referred to Patrick Henry as the most devout Christian among the founders.
And yet— And who did— I'm sorry, Mike.
I never want to interrupt you, but who did Patrick Henry's son, who did Patrick Henry's grandson fight with in the war?
Who did he fight for?
Confederacy.
And that wasn't unusual, was it?
No, and let's also remember that Thomas Jefferson's nephew died on the field of lost shoes at the Battle of Newmarket as a VMI cadet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How about that?
And he's buried on the BMI campus under the statue of Virginia mourns her dead.
And so that is where his remains are even to today.
Well, this is Keith Alexander.
Let me ask you this.
Did he die at the Battle of Newmarket?
Yeah, he just said that.
Yeah.
Battle of Lost Shoes.
Battle of Newmarket.
Yes.
The field of lost shoes when they charged across the field in the muddy field and the majority of them lost their shoes.
Led by the former President of the United States himself, John Breckinridge.
I mean, and that goes, you know, again, Mike, I don't want to digress here, but can you imagine someone of that level of influence, captains of industries, titans of the former government and political apparatus, leaving it all for a cause?
I mean, that would never happen today.
We don't have men of principle and honor anymore.
At that level.
No, and see, that's one of the things, James, that really bothers me is the fact that most people don't realize that these men, and a great majority of them, never owned a slave.
And they left their homes, they left their families, they left their crops, they left their jobs, they left everything to go fight what they referred to in many letters as the Yankee invader.
Well, what they did, Michael, was this.
Let me just say this.
What they did, they were tired of the South being used by the North as an agricultural colony to finance their industrial development, right?
And of course, Mike, we're going to come back.
The music's playing.
We're going to come back and talk about how this cult of Lincoln, what its legacy is.
But, I mean, you know, you've got all these southerners today, though, who think they're fighting for freedom when they go over there.
The soldiers themselves might not necessarily know what they're fighting for, but I think we'll be right back.
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Well, that's a tune you'll know with a little more militant lyrics.
That's the war version of our national anthem.
And let me tell you something, folks.
Mike Gaddy is a mainstay here on our Confederate History Month series for just about, I don't know if he's ever missed one.
If he has, he hasn't missed many.
He's got an article.
We've read it so many times, we have to keep renaming it.
I think the last thing we settled on is it's not your flag, Yankee bastards.
And it's a beautiful defense of the South and his own Confederate ancestors out of North Carolina.
And he has shared that story before.
Go back in our broadcast archives.
You'll want to revisit those stories and those appearances.
But tonight we're talking with Mike about other things, the legacy, the elements of the war itself.
And Mike, I'm going to play something for you in the next segment, okay?
And you tell me if you agree or disagree with it.
What I was saying before was, you know, the Southern soldiers today, so many people in the United States Army are believing they're fighting for freedom, but they're certainly not getting that right.
Did the Confederates have it right?
I say that they did.
And we'll get to that in the next segment.
But before we get to there, let's move on to this, Mike.
This is another element that you're particularly well suited to educate us about.
And the question is, how has the Lincoln myth, the Lincoln cult as it has developed, thank you, Keith, for the word, as it's developed since his death, sort of been used to glorify the imperial presidency and the global American empire?
Well, James, we have to go back and we have to take a look at the fact that Lincoln was the first Republican Party president ever elected.
He wasn't even on the ballot in 10 southern states.
They couldn't even vote against him.
So he wasn't there.
But here's the thing that most people are unaware of, and that is the fact that the Republican Party was founded by Marxist, some very close friends of Marx, and many of Lincoln's generals were actually Marxist and friends of Karl Marx.
So we have the Marxist philosophy, which has permeated, and of course, the Marxist philosophy has never tell the truth about anything.
And so they have built this Lincoln myth about, number one, the Emancipation Proclamation.
You know, he freed the slaves.
No, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free anybody.
And if we go back and look at the book that was called Forced into Glory by, you know, the publisher of Ebony Magazine, he says that when Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation, he actually kept about 50,000 slaves in slavery with that.
And he goes into detail.
The gentleman's name was Leron Bennett Jr., God rest his soul.
He exposed Lincoln.
A black man exposed Lincoln.
Of course, he got trashed for doing that.
But when you understand that the Marxists own the media, they're going to promote, and they own academia in America today.
If you go into so many of the colleges and universities, which we're seeing, they're completely controlled by Marxists.
Lincoln had armies, I mean, divisions in his army that didn't even speak English.
And, you know, they were the people who had left Europe in the 1848 purge of communism out of Europe and socialists.
And so they moved to America.
And Wiedemeyer was one of his generals.
And he also had a Russian by the name of Turgevich who changed his name to Turchin.
And he was involved in the massacre of the people in Athens, Alabama.
The Marxists basically controlled Lincoln's administration.
And of course, then, you know, you had Charles A. Dana, who was an assistant secretary of war.
Charles A. Dana was a very close friend of Karl Marx, had been in Europe with Karl Marx.
So the Marxist system, and again, we go to the 10th blank of the Communist Manifesto, which is, you know, mandatory education for American children by government-sponsored schools.
And so they're going to teach what they want to teach.
I mean, I guess it's as simple as this.
It's a tale as old as time.
The victors write the history.
And if I'm not mistaken, wasn't it Patrick Claiborne, General Claiborne himself, who said if we lose this war, northerners will write our history and teach it to our children?
Well, that is exactly true.
And then we have to remember that in Reconstruction, the Yankee came south, especially the preachers who came south and took over the southern churches and started teaching the socialist brand of religion.
And then they took over the schools as well, did away with classic education.
In 1860, in Charleston, South Carolina, to graduate from high school, you had to be conversant in Latin and Greek.
And the valedictorian of the 1860 graduation class at Charleston High School had to give the president his valedictorian speech in Latin.
And so the South was destroyed in Reconstruction in both their faith.
Even the black churches split.
The black churches split because of the socialists who came south to teach and preach.
So Obviously, history pivoted at Appomattox, but in what way, again, I think the purpose of this segment is, and you've done a fine job of explaining it so far, but how the cult of Lincoln, the Lincoln mythology, and Sam Dixon wrote a wonderful paper about this, the truth behind Abraham Lincoln.
We've posted that before on TPC several times.
But how has Lincoln, as a historical figure, been used to advance the whole great emancipator myth, for example?
Well, just all of that and how that war was litigated, used to advance the imperial presidency and the global American empire.
Well, here's the thing, James.
I think we got to throw this in.
At least, you know, Americans have never heard of what were called contraband camps.
And when the Emancipation Proclamation was released, blacks, you know, most of in the South couldn't read.
And so they tried to make their way to the Union Army.
They thought there was freedom.
But in the Emancipation Proclamation, if you left the South and came into a border state, you came into the North, you came back into slavery again because slavery was not abolished in the North or in any of the border states, only in the South.
And even Lincoln's Secretary of State said, Seward said, look, why did you free the slaves where you have no control and you kept those in bondage where we are?
So it's all a huge farce.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed no one.
Yeah, political ploy.
That was a political ploy.
And that was really, I mean, in large part, I mean, we know about the Cornerstone speech.
We know about, as you mentioned, some of the secession documents of the individual state governments.
I'm not going to say it wasn't a cause.
I don't care if it was the entire cause or zero part of the cause or a little bit of the cause or this percentage of the pie.
They were still my people.
I still stand by them.
They were right.
The North was wrong.
But the truth of the matter is it was not the prime reason for the war.
Money, power, resources.
In fact, empire.
Lincoln was warned by his generals not to make the cause of the war slavery because if it did, the entire Union Army would desert.
Well, look at the New York draft drives, 1863.
Look what happened when he issued the draft in 1863 and the city of New York erupted and the people of New York were running around finding every black they could find and hanging them.
And Lincoln actually had to send forces.
He had to send forces off the battlefield in Gettysburg into New York to put down the riots.
And let's not ever forget that the first three states that were invaded by Lincoln were still in the Union.
Well, and again, I mean, all of this, though, since then, you could tie it all together.
You can connect the dots from Atlanta, Georgia to Dredgen, Germany.
I think you can connect those dots in a clear, straight line.
Oh, I don't think there's any doubt.
The imperial presidency, that's what was designed.
And, you know, if I may for just a second, jump back to Patrick Henry.
Sure.
And who else?
Show me anyone else in history who ever said, give me liberty or give me death.
That's a southerner who put liberty before their own lives.
No one in history, in American history, except Patrick Henry and the men of the South in the Confederacy.
But the crazy thing about it was, is Patrick Henry hated the Constitution.
And the plan behind, we had the Articles of Confederation and perpetual union, and it was to prevent a powerful consolidated government and the inevitable tyranny that always occurs, just as we're looking at today, guys.
The Articles of Confederation did not provide for a lucrative way to pay for the Union government because the ones who wrote it liked it that way, vesting all real authority in the 13 state governments.
The last thing they wanted was another tyrannical imperial government such as that they had just gotten rid of with King George III.
And Patrick Henry thought the Articles of Confederation and the Union of States that it defined were just rights.
He was a Virginian, a man of the South, and wanted no part of being merged with Northerners.
We're coming up on our list.
Yeah, well, I know what you were about to say.
He knew any thought.
I mean, George Washington, our first president, was a Southerner.
And I was going to ask you, I mean, certainly the spirit of the South was embodied by some of those original framers.
I was wondering how many of the original founders were of Yankee DeSim.
We've got to take one more break.
We'll be right back.
So stay tuned, everybody.
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The many Christian ministers at the Constitutional Convention sought God's will.
The God-given rights in the Constitution were ordained by God.
America is the new promised land for Christian Israel, and Christians are the true chosen people.
True Israel is Christian.
Listen to Jesus, quote, my sheep follow me, unquote.
And quote, you do not believe because you are not my sheep, unquote.
John 10, 25 through 27.
The beast has transformed America into the woman mystery Babylon.
Revelation chapter 17.
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If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property.
It is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent.
It is the triumph of commerce, the banks, factories.
We should meet the federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
So that, again, a clip from the movie Gods and Generals, which we were talking about earlier this hour, just in advance of Mike Gaddy's closing appearance tonight for our Confederate History Month series.
He's coming out of the bullpen now.
He's closing it, that's for sure.
So Mike, that depiction there against Stephen Lang playing Stonewall Jackson, do you agree or disagree with that?
Does that stack up to historical authenticity?
Is that what the South and its leaders, all the way from Jackson?
Understood themselves to be fighting for.
There you go.
Thank you, Keith.
Well, what we've got here, gentlemen, is the fact that Stonewall Jackson just repeated what Patrick Henry said about 80 years before.
And it's a reiteration.
He said exactly the same thing.
It was the banks.
It was the commercial interests.
And, you know, Stonewall Jackson said to his chief aide, Sandy Pendleton, he said, if the if the Yankees lose their little war, they'll go home with their with their bank profits.
They'll go home rich on all of the war profits.
But he said, but Sandy, if we lose this war, we lose everything.
And we did.
He was exactly right.
Absolutely.
So that being said, they were fighting for their freedom.
They were fighting for their independence.
How has the spirit of liberty itself been psyoped in our current society, Michael?
Well, the thing that you have to understand, and the great thing about a psyop, and I was involved in creating those in other countries for a while back when we considered other countries to be our enemy and not our own citizens.
PSYOPs are designed to get people to think a particular way.
It's a mind control thing.
And we see it constantly today.
And, you know, I won't get into that because we're on this Confederate subject.
But there are so many PSYOPs that operate almost every day.
If you've ever been involved in a PSYOP, you see them.
You can recognize them right off.
But what we've done with these psyops is to get people to become complacent and to get people, you know, Patrick Henry said, we shall, you know, we shall listen to that siren song of hope until we are all turned into beasts.
Well, look at what's happening now.
Look at the people around you.
Look at the people in Chicago, New York, and other places.
Are these people acting like human beings like the people we grew up with?
No, no way.
So what you do is you get people in that hope.
Hope is the big thing.
And, you know, I refer to it on my programs and my podcast as hopium, the greatest drug made to man, made known to man.
And the people get hooked on hope and then they do nothing.
They sit on their backsides and they don't do anything.
And that is the, and that has, unfortunately, that has robbed us.
And James, you mentioned it earlier, that has robbed us of that great Southern spirit.
And, you know, it's our forefathers.
It's the Scots-Irish primarily who came down the Appalachian Chain and the Alleghenies and came down and settled the South.
And those were people of conviction and moral conviction.
And they were just not going to tolerate what happened.
And unfortunately, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee did not listen to Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
They did not listen to him in the beginning because he told them in the beginning, we cannot fight a protracted war, gentlemen, because we do not have the resources.
We do not have the men.
When our men are killed, we have no one to replace them with.
And the Yankees just keep replacing theirs with the foreigners that are coming into the country.
And he was fighting.
Primarily the Irish.
Good for you.
Yeah, well, I mean, that, again, it just goes to show the South was fighting for all of those things.
And today, as the empire, the Imperial Presidency seeks to advance its corrupt and degenerate being across the world, they are playing upon these wonderful things as a way, as a ruse, to get Southerners to enlist.
You're fighting for our freedom.
You're invading Iraq.
You're invading Afghanistan.
And they hate us.
And They have a program now of dishonoring the South and all of the heroes that at least in the post-Reconstruction era, they specifically named after Southern heroes to try to heal the wounds and get us to join them in their imperial adventures.
I want to play one more clip from Mike.
Before you answer, Mike, I'll play one more clip.
This is from the film we just cited.
I don't know if this is a film, all right?
It's a movie.
But they did go to some efforts to make it historically accurate.
And this is what you said earlier about Stonewall Jackson not wanting to make this a protracted war.
That's also addressed right here.
General Stewart.
If I had my way, we would show no quarter to the enemy.
No more than the Redskins showed your troopers the black flag, sir.
If the North triumphs, it is not a lot.
And he goes on from that.
He talks about the Bible being full of such wars.
Only the black flag will bring the Yankee invader quickly to his senses.
But so here we are now, and here we are in the current year, to use the parlance of our time, 2023, a long time after the end of that war officially, although it's still being battled in our hearts and our minds here on this program.
Why is it always appropriate, Michael, to celebrate the ancestry that those of us in the South share and to champion their cause still to this day?
Because they were honest.
There was no lies associated with the South.
These men went away to fight for their families and fight for their homes and to fight what everyone should cherish.
And if I may quickly, James, if you will remember when I take your time to my program and I told you that short story.
Imagine this, people.
There is a couple.
They are married.
And the husband is living off of everything the wife makes.
And he is stealing everything she has and he does nothing.
And then suddenly, and spends it on himself.
And then suddenly his wife says, I want a divorce.
And he says, nope, you don't get a divorce.
And he kills her.
The husband was named Abe, and the wife was named Dixie.
That's about right, is it not, Keith?
That's it.
Yeah, we wanted an uncontested divorce like most people who wanted a divorce, but they were not going to let us have it.
Well, we still want it today.
I mean, Mike, this is something that's been a recurring theme on this program, even in this age of repressive tolerance, I guess, is the only oxymoron I can come up with.
But the cause for secession is gaining steam today, once again.
Not more and more apparent that it's the only way out.
And not just in the South, but all the way up to Idaho and parts of eastern Oregon and beyond.
This is something that, well, as President Davis himself said, it'll reassert itself perhaps in another time, in another way.
And perhaps that day and time has come.
Patrick Henry said more than 100 years.
Yeah, well, right after the war was over, gentlemen, we had the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, who was a big-time operator for the international banking cabal.
And Salmon P. Chase, as the Chief Justice of the Court, ran for president three times while he was sitting, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
He turned a Supreme Court decision into the fact that secession is illegal.
And he did that with Texas v. White.
And, of course, the case that was up had nothing to do with secession, but just like John Marshall, he used it to make law out of nothing.
But the point of it is, is that if you do not believe in secession, then America is still a British colony.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, and that's a good point.
That is an excellent point.
An obvious point that we might have otherwise overlooked.
What is the difference between the heroes of the Revolution and the so-called losers or the traitors as society would call it?
Well, the difference was we didn't have a major European power ally themselves with us like the revolutionaries do.
Well, ultimately, the difference is they won and we lost for now.
But, Mike, because there was no difference otherwise.
The history is written by the winners.
So we are the heroes in our own story in the American Revolution.
And unfortunately, as the Yankees wrote our history in the South, we are everything but.
But we're going to have you back on Mike on.
Yeah, go ahead.
Well, James.
We've got about 10 minutes left.
Go ahead and throw one thing out real quickly, and that is people, take a few moments.
I did a podcast on this on my Whistling Dixie podcast.
And that is take the revolution, how many Southern leaders during our Second War for Independence.
I love Stonewall Jackson's nomenclature.
Our Second War for Independence.
Look at how many battlefield leaders were ancestors of the men who won our freedom from Great Britain.
That's it.
And we're going to have you back, Mike.
I've got a minute left, so you're going to have to cram a lot into this minute, but I know you can do it.
We're going to have you back on the 4th of July show.
So the Saturday nearest to the 4th of July, the Saturday before the 4th of July, because the Saturday after 4th of July, we're going to be back in South Carolina.
So the Saturday, one of those two Saturdays, let me put it this way.
We're going to have Mike on.
And we're going to be talking about the flag.
Mike, I got two things for you.
Number one, in your opinion, what does the Confederate flag stand for?
And what does the American flag stand for now?
Not the Betsy Rotz flag, not the flag for independence in the 1770s.
What do the two flags stand for now?
And how can people find more about your work, your podcast, your program?
Well, you know, I told you about my presentation to the Sons of Confederate Veterans about the American flag.
You and I talked about that on my program or afterwards.
I can't remember which one it was.
But, you know, the point of it is, is that the Confederate battle flag, St. Andrew's Cross, you know, if we look at what did the Congress of the Confederacy when they first put, first made it the battle flag, and it was made the battle flag because the stars and bars too closely resemble the stars and stripes on the battlefield for battlefield commanders, and it was causing problems.
So they needed a different standard, and they went to the naval jack, which was the cross of St. Andrews.
So the South had a Christian flag, and the U.S. did not.
Well, and the flag now, that flag to me now stands for degeneracy, transgenderism, any form of sexual depravity, the subjugation of our people.
Everything evil and wrong with the world is what I see when I see the American flag.
And everything that we want to stand for is what I see in the Confederate flag.
Mike, 30 seconds.
How do people find your work?
Well, you can, if you listen to Republic Broadcasting Network, I do a program every Saturday, which James was on with me last week, every from 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern.
And we've had our own Confederate History Month this month.