REBEL RANT
Everything That’s Wrong Made
Right
by
Secesh
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TUGGLE’S
STRUGGLE
Mike Tuggle, Chairman of
the League of the South of North Carolina, has written a poem about me and my
friends Jim Langcuster and
Langcuster, Gary & George - A comical goodbye to the Southern movement neocons sung to the tune of "Abraham, Martin &
George". I think this is one of the funniest pages Mike Tuggle has posted yet.
It is strange to be despised
to the point where someone writes nasty poetry about you, but I am honored to
be despised in the company of good men like Jim Langcuster
and
I don’t know Mike Tuggle. I once wrote to him to congratulate him on
one of the best Southern heritage websites I had ever seen. He wrote back, and we seemed to be friends
and compatriots. We parted company
because of the War in
The Paleos, however, are
best represented by Lew Rockwell (see lewrockwell.com)
as well as the Chronicles crowd in
I find the Paleos to be a
strange bunch, ready to hop in the political sack with any screwballs who share
their hatred of the
The League of the South is also a bastion of Paleoconservatism.
In spite of that, I have never tried to dissuade any of my friends who
have expressed a desire to join the League, nor spoken ill of them, and have
even defended them on quite a few occasions.
However, now I must ask, what has the League accomplished since its founding almost ten years ago? The answer is: not much.
Join them if you like. You may
occasionally receive a newsletter.
Whoopee.
As for Tuggle’s assertion
that Jim, George and I are “neo-cons,” that is untrue. We are more traditional Conservatives, e.g.,
we are on
I can’t speak for Jim and George, but I am absolutely
opposed to share-the-wealth social schemes.
I do, however, believe in making the
The overwhelming truth that dawned on Jim, George and
me, and which resulted in our departures from the Paleo
movement, is that the Paleo values simply do not
represent those of mainstream Southerners or mainstream American
conservatives…and that our values more closely match those of the
mainstream. We believe, for example,
that it is a good thing the
One last point. One does not
have to be a Paleocon to believe in the rightness of
the cause of his Confederate ancestors.
It is time we mainstream Confederates reasserted this fact and made it
clear that we have not appointed the Paleos to speak
for us or for our ancestors. Rejection
of Paleoconservatism is not the same as “treason” to
the Confederate cause.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
A
DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE NEW
Two of my most respected colleagues, Jim Langcuster and George Kalas, have openly stated on their
websites that the new Georgia flag is a victory, not a defeat, in the ongoing
heritage wars. I didn’t think so at
first, but Jim’s most convincing argument was his pictures of the new flag
floating in the sunlight above the Capitol Dome. It is gloriously beautiful and wonderfully
Confederate, and brings to mind Jefferson Davis and the creation of the
Confederate States in
ENHANCING
THE PAST THROUGH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
We all must find the best way to contribute to the
Cause, and one of the ways I do is through graphic art, editorial cartoons, and
digital technology. This past week I
have been reading a book to learn to use Adobe Photoshop, the best digital
editing program on the market. I am
truly amazed at what this program can do.
In the course of learning I used scans of old photos that I purchased
from antique stores for digital experimentation. (This does not harm the original photos or
scans in any way.)
Photoshop can be used to repair damage to photos,
including scratch, tear and discoloration removal, but it can do even more than
that. I have learned how to colorize old
black and white photos, which brightens them considerably and brings their
subjects to life. One example is on the
flash page of this website, an 1899 young gentleman from
Another example is above, of a new lady graduate in
THE NEW
The legislature of
The NAACP,
determined to be the most obnoxious pains-in-the-ass since
Right after the War
for
But liberals and
modern scalawags should meditate on these historical truths. When you take away a people’s right to govern
themselves, peacefully and honorably and democratically, through the ballot
box, what other alternatives do they have?
Yankees and scalawags created the original Klan by dishonest and dishonorable
actions towards the South. When you try
to erase the memory of a people and destroy its culture, you create counter
forces that do not always take the path of peace. Don’t let it happen again, in some new form.
Democracy is the
antidote to such evil. Apply it
liberally. Democracy is what will save the
SOME MUSINGS ON NEKKED
Natalie Maines in the nude?
That IS hitting below the belt.
Apparently, the Dixie Twits have not embarrassed themselves enough yet,
so last week released a group photograph of them naked to…shock people? Engender sympathy for being twits? Cause a panic?
As Tom Sparkman of
Chronwatch.com stated, the Dixie Chicks will do anything to restart their
careers, including appearing in the nude.
It won’t work, girls…blackmail rarely does.
Last week, in an old
rerun of Saturday Night Live, I heard the Dixie Chicks sing some of their
songs. They were not only good, but so
good they took my breath away. The
Chicks have this group synergy (don’t worry, it’s not catching) that makes each
member better for being part of the group.
It was the same thing the Beatles had, where the total is greater than
the sum of the parts. It would be a real
shame if their career as a group was over, but that’s the way it goes in show
biz. I won’t buy their CDs, at least not
for awhile, and not to punish them or make a statement or any crap like
that. I won’t do it because there’s
something in my psyche that tells me I’m letting the left off the hook. I am sick of hate-America types, sick of
silly liberal malarkey, sick of people who want to make nice with despots, sick
of people who say P.C. things at concerts to curry favor with the liberal/left
establishment. It is an emotional thing,
centered somewhere in my gut. I am
willing to forego, at least for now, some truly great musical talent to avoid
feeling dirty about myself. Sort of like
the Chicks probably feel after making that really stupid photo. Fire your PR people, girls.
SADDAM
HUSSEIN: MASS MURDERING MADMAN
A Paleoconservative
in the Southern Movement had this to say following the fall of
Actually,
Did Saddam's political prisoners look as mangled as
the little Iraqi boy featured in the AP photos today? His entire family
was killed, and he is permanently crippled (assuming he lives).
Just to show you how
far out of touch some of these Paleos are, read what Eason
Jordan, Chief News Executive of CNN had to say today about Saddam Hussein’s
Iraqi regime. He answers Mr. Paleo’s question about the mangled political prisoners
pretty well, describing a young Iraqi woman who was torn limb from limb, her
body parts deposited in a plastic bag on her family’s doorstep. Eason describes other examples of murder and
torture carried out by Hussein’s regime.
Some Iraqi officials told Eason
that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed.
TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP
IN THE SOUTHERN MOVEMENT?
One thing the war in
The South represents a formidable voting bloc and could (and
does) add great strength to conservative political movements and the Republican
Party. One of two things we must insist
on in return is respect for Southern heritage, history, flags, songs and
symbols. The other thing we must demand
is that Northern pundits tell the truth about the nature of the War for
Of course,
VICTORY
Baghdad fell today,
April 9, 2003, as Coalition forces moved in to take control of the city. An American tank pulled down a huge statue of
Saddam Hussein as the residents of
As we speak, a convoy of trucks carrying fresh crow, sour lemons and
industrial strength alum is headed to Washington for the Democrat Victory
Party, with possible stop-offs at Ilana Mercer’s and Lew Rockwell’s bunkers.
Eat hearty, lefties, liberals and Paleocons,
you’ve earned it!
ÉGALITÉ – FRATERNITÉ – STUPIDITÉ
THIS PAST WEEK the French attacked the only
Americans and Britons that they dare – dead ones. French cowards and Islamophiles
desecrated graves of soldiers who fell in World War II liberating
The French are strange people. Unbelievably snobbish and arrogant with
little to support their pretensions, they have a national case of the short
man’s complex, and I refer not only to their stature when I say that. Like all pee wees suffering from a well-deserved inferiority
complex, they must constantly denigrate peoples braver, richer and greater than
themselves.
Continue to boycott French wines and cheeses. Let the cheese-eating surrender monkeys save
it for their next
PALEOCONSERVATIVES
AND LIBERALS:
HARD TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE
USEFUL IDIOTS is a term the Communists used for
non-Communists who were willing to help them undermine the West. A modern day “useful idiot” might be Ilana Mercer, a beautiful woman from Israel who
was surprised lately
when that rancorous old bigot Pat Buchanan spouted off his anti-Semitism in his
political magazine, the American Fool
(or something like that), in which he described a Jewish plot to get the US
involved in a war.
Ilana, however, continues to support the
paleo-fools who hate
LEWROCKWELL.COM IS FULL OF
IT
Are you as FED UP as I am of the
Hate-America Paleoconservatives?
By Secesh
This
week Jim Langcuster posted an article on his website by Patrick Leslie entitled
“A Response from
the War Party.” Pat was responding
to an earlier article by Mike Tuggle entitled “Questions for War Party Southerners.” It is obvious that the Southern Movement is
split, not between conservative and liberal, but between paleoconservative and
just plain conservative, what the paleos like to erroneously
label as “neoconservative.” Basically,
the paleos vehemently oppose the war with
As a famous Neocon
sailor once said, “I’ve stood all I can and I can’t stands no more.”
I
am clearly in the neo camp. I have
watched, with growing dread and alarm, the hippie-peacenik, hate-America flavor
of the paleoconservatives. They seem to
me, an odd bunch, best personified by the popular political website, LewRockwell.com (LRC). The good side of LRC is that it features
great writers like Thomas J. DiLorenzo, and attacks
without mercy the
But
that’s only one side of the LRC coin.
Flip it over and you find they often support, praise and promote
anti-American Lefties like Daniel Ellsberg and apologize for ruthless despots
like Kim Jong Il, the psychopathic leader of North
Korea, land of mass starvation and concentration camps, now busily building a
nuclear capability and threatening to use it.
They don’t seem to mind that the Islamo-Fascists
destroyed the
Mike
Tuggle, an otherwise good guy who has embraced the paleo faith, wondered what
American “bullying” motivated the Islamics to launch
the attack in the first place. This is
an argument one often sees on the far Left of the political spectrum – that if
anyone attacks America, it’s because we did something awful to them, e.g., we
prevented them from having a Marxist paradise so our evil corporations could
make more profits, we are “Imperialists” who are only rich because we make them
starve, or we support Israel and won’t let Arabs mass murder Jews (how can we be so insensitive?). They are reminiscent of campus Marxists
gleefully remarking that “what goes around comes around,” and “Oh
But
these paleo-pacifist arguments are nonsense.
They are equivalent to saying that any woman who is raped probably
invited it, that anyone who is robbed, murdered or beaten probably did
something to provoke the attack. In
other words, if you are determined to do nothing in the face of evil, you can
undoubtedly find some (dishonest) way to rationalize it.
As
for
In
any case, I find the arguments of the hate-America Left and their little
brothers, the Paleos, to be weak tea, indeed. I think it’s time we opened a can of Paleo
Whoop Ass. As a famous Neocon sailor once said, “I’ve stood all I can and I can’t
stands no more.” Paleos,
prepare to defend yourself with argument and rhetoric, because we all know you
would never do it with guns.
See the Paleoconservative
Flag in “Flags of Southern Heritage.”
WHAT’S RIGHT AND WHAT’S
WRONG WITH PALEOCONSERVATIVES
The
following is my understanding of what Paleoconservatives believe and my
agreement or disagreement and why. If I
have misrepresented any paleo positions, let me know and I will correct them.
1. Paleos believe in Laissez-fair capitalism. No argument
there. I agree.
2. Paleos believe in limited government. Right
again. “The government that governs best
governs least.”
3. Paleos believe in Isolationism. They seem to
believe that if we ignore what is going on outside our borders, it will not
affect us. Besides, it’s none of our
business.
WRONG. Unless we are to revert back to a
self-contained agrarian society with no need of foreign oil, goods, capital, or
markets, isolationism is as passé as kerosene lamps and hoop skirts. In a modern, economically interdependent
world, treaties, alliances and cooperative efforts are often needed for the
benefit of all. Isolationism is neither
practical nor desirable today.
4. Paleos believe in Pacifism. If we don’t
fight back, no one will need to attack us in the first place.
WRONG. The long history of nations shows clearly
that pacifism and appeasement whet the tyrant’s appetite for more aggression,
not less. There must be clear penalties
for aggression, and its price demonstrably high to discourage despots. “To preserve the peace we must continually
prepare for war.”
5. Paleos believe in conservative Christian beliefs, i.e., they
oppose abortion and reject the theory of evolution. Neither
right nor wrong, this is cultural in nature but it is ideologically
inconsistent with other paleo beliefs. Paleos would prohibit abortion, thus bringing it under the
mandate of government, yet they would do nothing to save thousands of
fully-grown human beings in places like Iraq or North Korea, i.e., through U.S.
intervention.
6. Paleos are socially conservative, i.e., probably against
interracial marriage and pro-segregation. UNKNOWN. Paleos have not
overtly stated their positions on these matters, and it would be edifying for
them to do so. If they oppose
miscegenation and support racial segregation, this would be a glaring
inconsistency in their anti-state, libertarian position. Any paleo want to clarify this?
7. Paleos advocate peace at almost any price, save overt
invasion of the USA. They often find common cause with tyrants and
traitors who share their antipathy towards the
WRONG. It is ideologically inconsistent to be anti-state
while morally defending despots who control super states. “The enemy of my enemy” is not necessarily my
friend.
8. Paleos believe that anti-American leftists are worthy of
praise and emulation, or that such Leftists make good
partners to advance Paleo political goals.
WRONG.
Leftists oppose the
9. Paleos believe that military force should be used only in
defense of invasion or overt aggression against the U.S.
ONCE RIGHT, BUT NOW
WRONG. Though this belief has been held
by most Americans since the founding of the Republic, it may be obsolete in the
modern world. Rogue states with
unbalanced leaders (like those of
WHO
WILL SLAY GOLIATH?
A Major Lawsuit is Way
Overdue
Another small vendor selling Confederate-themed apparel, this
time in
It is becoming increasingly clear that our David needs to
defeat Goliath, the NAACP. I mean, of
course, suing the NAACP successfully in a court of law and collecting
damages. A legal victory would
accomplish several things. First, it
would set a legal precedent that restraint of trade by a big nonprofit
organization for subjective reasons of “offensiveness” is
not allowed. Second, it would give the
NAACP a black eye in the area of public relations, showing the public what
unreasonable, intolerant bullies they really are. Third, it would take money out of their
pocket, the one thing that gets the attention of corporate
We can do the usual things – write letters to newspaper editors,
write letters to CBL Properties, write letters to the NAACP. We can even picket CBL properties with
Confederate flags waving, in which case we will probably be ignored. One of the liberal media’s favorite tactics
is to deny coverage to any event or persons of which they disapprove, thus
rendering us and our cause invisible.
None of this will do any good, and we are fooling ourselves if we think
otherwise.
But a good lawsuit is impossible to ignore.
Once they are served, their legal bills start accumulating
immediately. They are under an immediate
deadline to respond, and must respond, or lose by default. We can ask damages in the millions, and who
knows, a court might just give it to us – and they know it. Their employees and board members can be
subpoenaed in discovery proceedings and grilled under oath; their corporate
minutes and other records opened for hostile scrutiny. Finally, they get to face a jury, a most
dangerous predicament indeed. Imagine the Alabama NAACP Prez
swearing under oath that his folks are oppressed and offended by Teddy Bears
with heart-shaped Confederate flags on their chests. Talk about emotional wimps! Even if they win, they lose, due to the time,
expense and bad publicity.
The American public is waking up to the Civil Rights scam,
and with the racial demagoguery being generated by the desperate Democrats, I
suspect this is a case the media would not ignore, for the simple reason that
it would sell a lot of newspapers.
Back in 1955, the NAACP lawyers were looking for the right
case and the right defendant to test the legality of segregated bussing in
Lately we have all been hearing about achieving greater unity
within the Southern movement, and I am all for that. We need to stop disassociating ourselves from
others in the movement whose politics and preferences do not closely match our
own. Let us not insist on some
impossible standard of ideological purity before we will work with one another. Basically, we all want the same thing: the ability to publicly celebrate and honor
our Confederate heritage without oppression and ostracism, and to refute 138
years of lies and misconceptions about our ancestors and their cause. Let’s keep our eyes on that goal.
One of the most essential things in
our new unified movement is to have a legal arm, one that is adequately
funded. We must build a war chest, and
we can’t do it over night. Raising
funds, recruiting top attorneys, doing legal research are tasks we must
undertake, and soon. Our ancestors
fought with muskets and minie balls; our battles must
be fought and won with plaintiff’s briefs and ballot boxes. Let us not shirk from our duty.
THE
TRUTH ABOUT SLAVERY
Some Headaches for
Northern Apologists
by
Secesh
In the current popular mythology that passes for history,
slavery in the
One of our compatriots, John C. Perry, grew tired of all the
myths and misconceptions about African slavery and decided to seek the truth,
whatever it might be. John did not set
out to create a new set of mythologies, ones with a Southern tilt. He set out to separate myth from reality and
tell the unbiased truth, to the extent this is
possible of any human. The result was
his book, Myths & Realities of
American Slavery: the True History of Slavery in America.
John read many sources on slavery, including those of
eye-witness accounts like those of Frederick Olmsted, a New York Times reporter
who, in the 1850s, spent fourteen months in the Southern states specifically to
study slavery and to report back to the Times on what he observed. John also relied on the Slave Narratives, the
actual accounts of 2,300 former slaves that were written down in the 1930s as a
WPA project for writers. Other sources
included the 1918 study American Negro
Slavery by Ulrich B. Phillips, who studied farm and plantation records to
produce the first qualitative and quantitative reference source on slavery in
the South. He also relied on Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro
Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, two distinguished economic historians. Their 1974 study of slave life used
quantitative data, computer-assisted research and the best scientific
principles of modern economics. What
their study found was an embarrassment to liberal academia, because it
presented a substantially more favorable view of slave life than that advanced
by the Northern myth and abolitionist propaganda.
John Perry did no original research in his book. He relied on the above sources, and many
others, to provide a book that is easy to read and understand. John arranged this immense topic in a logical
format and discussed many aspects of slavery that are of interest to the
Southern movement.
Some of the facts John discusses in this book are these:
1. Slavery in the
2. The life span of black slaves exceeded
that of whites.
3. Food for slaves was varied and
abundant, exceeded that of whites by 10%, and actually exceeded 20th
century levels of nutrients. The daily
caloric intake of slaves was over 4,000 calories, disproving the abolitionist
myth that slaves were poorly fed.
4. Clothing, housing, health care,
working hours and time off were all equivalent to, or better than that, of
rural whites.
5. The Slave Narratives are
overwhelmingly favorable, indicating good living conditions and cordial
relations (and often close relations) between masters and slaves.
6. Great care was taken to preserve the
life and safety of the slaves. Far from
Jonathan Farley’s recent claims that slaves were routinely murdered or
tortured, the exact opposite is true.
When slaves were hired out as laborers on such projects as railroad
construction, they were specifically kept away from dangerous situations, such
as blasting tunnels. Irish immigrants
were used instead for those tasks.
7. Slave owners were criminally
prosecuted for killing any slaves.
8.
Slave
families were routinely kept together; the break up of families by selling the
members to different owners was a rare occurrence. Stable families benefited both master and
slave, by cementing slave loyalty and preventing runaways.
9. Sexual exploitation of slaves was
very rare. The number of children sired
by whites averaged only 1% to 2%, dispelling another abolitionist myth that
slave women were regularly exploited.
There is much more to John Perry’s
book, and a copy of it should be in the library of every history student.
The
following references are recommended:
1. Myths and Realities of American Slavery, by John C. Perry (2002)
2. Time on the Cross, by Fogel and Engerman
(1974)
3. American Negro Slavery, by Ulrich B. Phillips (1918)
4. Life and Labor in the Old South, by Ulrich B. Phillips (Out of Print) (1929)
5. The Cotton Kingdom, Frederick Law Olmstead (1861)
6. The Slave Narratives, Library of Congress. At this reference you will find the 2,300
slave narratives that were recorded in the 1930s. Since the narratives represent 10,000 pages
of print, reading all of them would take some time. (1936 – 1938)
It
is common for Yankee historians to attempt to put a spin on the Slave
Narratives. We are told that the old
former slaves were aged when they told their stories, and probably forgot how
bad things really were. Also, they were
living in the great depression, and the hard times of the 1930s only made slavery
seem favorable by comparison, yada yada yada. John C. Perry examines this Northern spin and
does a good job of refuting it point by point.
Okay,
enough. Go read the book.
Recently, the NAACP of DeRidder, LA voiced its opposition to an annual Civil War reenactment,
where (horrors) the Confederate flag will be flown. The Noble Knights of Tolerance plan to press
for ending the reenactment next year, citing “racism and hate” as the chief
reasons.
Ever wonder just how bad it can
get? Step into our Time Machine….
SOUTHERN
HEADLINES FOR 2013
Atlanta – What used to be called “the Southern States
Governors Conference” voted unanimously today to cease using the terms,
“Southern” and “South,” as these words have long been associated with slavery
and are offensive to the only people whose feelings and opinions count due to a
recent Constitutional Amendment. The
Governors declared that from now on, “Southern” will be replaced by “Lower” and
“South” replaced by “Not North.”
Jackson – Delegates to the Conference of PC Educators today
debated new terminology for history books, particularly as it relates to the
Civil War (now known officially as “the War Against Racism,” or WAR for
short). Paul Puckerpuss,
a high school teacher from