IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE
Mark Buchanan, Heritage Defense Chairman of the Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans reports:
"I want to thank you for posting the Tennessee effort to revamp the historical commission. There is much more to the story. This is not about Confederates anymore! The vote was not just about Forrest; Admiral Gleaves and Admiral David Farragut busts were to be removed as well! Legislators are being lobbied to remove or cancel Andrew Jackson, Davey Crockett, and Alvin York. There was even an effort to remove a bust of Chief John Ross in Chattanooga last year! Memphis has a Renaming committee dedicated to rooting out undesirable names like Manassas, Jackson, Jefferson, Crump and on and on. It is like they have gone mad. It can only be hoped that Americans wake up before it is too late and encourage our legislators to stop this insanity."
IN THE OLD DOMINION
A group of public school teachers and other far-left extremists in Loudoun County, Virginia have created a doxxing group on social media targeting parents who oppose an anti-white curriculum.
IN THE YELLOWHAMMER STATE
A Confederate monument worth $500,000 was stolen from the Old Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Alabama and is being held for ransom by a group calling itself "White Lies Matter" (WLM).
The stone chair, which was first unveiled in 1893 and dedicated to President Jefferson Davis more than 20 years after his last visit to Selma and about four years after his death.
WLM is demanding that the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) hang a banner with a specific quote outside its headquarters in Virginia in order for the monument to be returned. If UDC fails to do so on April 9 (today), WLM has threatened, "Failure to do so will result in the monument, an ornate stone chair, immediately being turned into a toilet...If they do display the banner, not only will we return the chair intact, but we will clean it to boot."
We have received a statement from the SCV but so far have not received one from the UDC. District Attorney Michael Jackson said, "This incident is sending Selma back into 'The Twilight Zone, there's never a dull moment in Selma."
Of course we are questioning if the WLM will actually turn the monument into a toilet? The seat of the stone chair already has a large oval-shaped erosion so it actually looks like a toilet already.
It is our editorial opinion at Dixie Heritage that the UDC should display the banner as it does not contain any words or images that are unfactual or even offensive. Obviously, WLM hates the Yankee government as much or more as the UDC should. If WLM then returns a cleaned monument as promised we know that they are a reasonable group with some integrity and we can dialog with and possibly even work with that. We might even ultimately find that we have more in common with WLM seeing that we both have a common enemy. Perhaps WLM may eventually come to understand, as millions of blacks already do, that Southern monuments and culture is not their enemy - the Yankee government that miseducated them is!
On the other hand, if the monument is not returned then WLM is exposed as liars and thieves and their actions will bring shame upon themselves. In either event, the monument is currently out of its place and UDC will have acted honorably.
Not to declare the WLM guiltless, far from it, but if the UDC does nothing in this matter (as it is usually prone to do), or worse, thinks the police or the government gives a flying flip, the destruction of the monument (the monuments "Blood" if you will), will ultimately be on the UDC's hands.
PATRIOTS INDICTED
Kevin Seefried, who was photographed carrying a Confederate Flag in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, and his son Hunter have both been indicted by a grand jury on five counts related to obstruction, entering restricted property and disorderly conduct.
The grand jury document was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday. The two men were arrested in January after turning themselves in to authorities in Wilmington, Delaware. Both men are residents of Delaware.
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NON-HERITAGE NEWS:
Apparently seeing how the NBA and NFL ratings have cratered, Major League Baseball has decided that it needs to follow suit, offensively piss off its fan base, and go after that sweet, succulent "Social Justice" demographic.
In a statement, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to the Georgia voting "reform" legislation.
Despite moving the All-Star Game, Manfred said that "MLB's planned investments (of hundreds of millions of dollars) into Atlanta as part of our All-Star Legacy Projects will move forward."
Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, both also headquartered in the Atlanta, Georgia area, have threatened boycotts of their home State. In response, the Legislature has stripped Delta of hundreds of millions of dollars a year in tax incentives and is booting Coca-Cola from state legislative offices.
The Commissioner of Baseball announced this week that the All-Star game will be played in Colorado.
BLACKS RESPOND
James Golden, better remembered to millions as the late Rush Limbaugh's longtime producer and call-screener "Bo Snerdley," sounded off Monday against the Democratic Party as it proceeds to oppose strengthening voter ID and anti-electioneering laws by insisting the reforms are racist against African-Americans.
Candace Owens sent out the following:
Any corporation telling you that Voter ID laws are racist is run by white supremacists.
Black people know how to get ID. Pretending we are too stupid to figure out how to get to the DMV is an insult and speaks volumes about what Democrats truly think about us.
THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OFF IN GEORGIA
Further proof that the so-called "election reform" legislation in Georgia is a FARCE, as we reported in last week's letter, much of it was actually written by Stacey Abrams, the State's RINO Attorney General Raffenperger is now using the "reform" legislation top deny a judges order to allow examination of actual ballots from the 2020 election in an action before the court attempting to determine if laws were broken in the 2020 count.
Raffenperger is actually using the "election reform" law to cover his tracks and probable crimes. Again, is this legislation 'reforming" anything? Or is it cementing the criminal enterprise that was the last election into "law"?
IS JOE BIDEN A CHRISTIAN?
Joe made much during the campaign of being a Christian and particularly a Catholic. Yet Joe did not mention Jesus Christ once in his "Easter message." He did mention Coronavirus 7 times. Tells you everything you need to know about what he and the modern Left "worships."
IF THAT DOES NOT HAVE YOU ASKING IS JOE A CHRISTIAN?
Transgender flags were flown and on display at the White House on Wednesday March 31st, as President Joe Biden issued a proclamation celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility.
EVEN THE WH STAFF DOES NOT CALL JOE "PRESIDENT"
IF Joe Biden is the President then White House protocol DEMANDS that he be addressed as "President Biden" in all written or recorded communications, and as "Mr. President" in all personal conversations. Yet we have it on good authority that the White House staff and most internal memos are not addressing him as such.
Further proof that something is amiss in this stolen White House.
IS THIS HOW JOE WILL PAY FOR THE STOLEN ELECTION?
One defense expert anticipates an invasion of Taiwan within three years: "Beijing’s incursions are part of a series of dry runs in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan," John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy, strategy, and international affairs at the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, told The Epoch Times.
Any amphibious assault on Taiwan may also involve swarms of Chinese civilian merchant vessels and fishing boats, he said.
He believes an invasion could come in the next three years—much sooner than the six-year estimate given by U.S. Adm. Philip Davidson, head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), during a congressional hearing in early March.
U.S. Adm. John Aquilino, the nominee to replace Davidson as head of INDOPACOM, at his confirmation hearing in March declined to endorse Davidson’s six-year estimate, but said the threat of a Chinese invasion is “much closer to us than most think.”
We also assume the plan is to invade Taiwan while their asset (Biden) is still believed to be "Commander-in-Chief" of the US military and capable of misdirecting it. This explains why Ukraine is being actively encouraged to launch a suicidal war against Russia while asking to join NATO, as war in Ukraine would commit the US military to an un-winnable war against Russia, thereby providing China a free hand to operate in the South China Sea without US interference.
JOE AND NANCY AND "INSIDER TRADING"
Fox News reports that Joe Biden’s suggested $2 trillion spending bill could lead to huge stock gains for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and for Hunter Biden. If the Trumps and GOP Congressman did this it would be called a felony and they would soon be enjoying a jail cell once tastefully redecorated by Martha Stewart.
DOWN UNDER
The Brauer College secondary school in Victoria, Australia has come under fire this week after it was revealed that 12-year-old male students were forced to stand and “apologize” to female classmates on behalf of the entire male gender to atone for societal “sexism” and “rape.”
A post ostensibly written on SnapChat by a male student at the school, “Today at Brauer they made every guy stand up and apologise to every girl for rape, sexual assault and so on. Guys are always the ‘bad guys’ in everything these days. I’m not saying girls do not go through s**t. Guys go through as much s**t as girls do.”
The news sparked alarm from parents, and the forced apology was confirmed as real after multiple students came forward to speak about the apology there were forced to perform by the school.
The Australian government has seen fit to make lessons about “consent” compulsory for all students enrolled in public schools.
IT NEVER ENDS
Jack Philips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, was first sued in 2012 for refusing to bake a cake to commemorate a homosexual wedding. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission signed off onto the legal campaign against Philips, accusing him of legally discriminating against a homosexual couple for declining to bake the cake. Philips was ultimately vindicated by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the state of Colorado had demonstrated “hostility” to his Christian beliefs, citing comparisons to his personal business choices with the Holocaust and slavery.
Now, Philips is being sued again for declining to bake a cake commemorating someone’s transgender transition. Civil proceedings against Masterpiece Cakeshop started again on Monday, with plantiff Autumn Scardina targeting the devout Christian for refusing to bake a pro-transgenderism cake.
“Why not just bake the cake? That’s a question Jack Phillips gets asked a lot. Avoid years of litigation, avoid the death threats. Just make the cake. But Jack Phillips sees himself as an artist, and the cake as an expression of his soul,” argued one of Philips’ attorneys.
Evidence has emerged revealing that Scardina started harassing Philips in 2012 during the original controversy regarding him, indicating that the lawsuit is no less than legal warfare and a coordinated attack against Philips’ beliefs.
Scardina had brought a complaint before the Colorado Civil Rights Commission targeting Philips again, but the complaint ended with a settlement between Philips and the left-wing organization that ruled in the baker’s favor. The transgender woman is now suing Philips in state court for declining to bake a blue-and-pink transition cake for her transition to female.
DIRTY POOL IN DC?
Matt Gaetz, the three-term Florida Congressman facing a federal sex-trafficking investigation, “won’t last long,” a GOP member of Congress told The Hill, alleging Gaetz’s days on Capitol Hill are counted, “Right now it looks like at best he winds up leaving Congress disgraced and at worst he winds up in prison,” the insider said. “He is trying to tweet through the entire situation but it doesn’t seem to be going very well for him. … We would like this problem to go away.”
While none of Gaetz’s Republican associates have vocally called on him to step down, a sign of discontent is building.
Gaetz was one of President Trump’s closest allies in Congress and because of it has long been a rifted part of his party and has especially irritated many of his colleagues.
In January, Gaetz held a demonstration in Wyoming to rail against US Rep. Liz Cheney, one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his part in the Jan. 6 US Capitol insurrection. He played an active role in an ineffective internal House attempt to remove her of her leadership role as GOP House conference chair. Some believe that this was his "bridge too far" and the reason the establishment has targeted him for removal.
38-year-old Gaetz denies all accusations and says that he and his father are the victims of an “organized crime extortion.”
ON WEDNESDAY
President Trump issued the following statement in response to a fake new story in the New York Times: “Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon. It must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him,"
SPEAKING OF FLORIDA
Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Saturday after a leak was detected at an old phosphate plant pond in the Tampa Bay area that could potentially lead to a dangerous acidic flood.
State officials said they first discovered the leak on Friday. It was located in one wall of the 77-acre pond that holds about 600 million gallons of water, containing phosphorus, nitrogen, and small amounts of radium and uranium.
The stacks can also release large concentrations of radon gas.
ALSO REGARDING GOV. DeSANTIS
Top Democrats along with top Republicans have come to the Governor's defense as CBS has accused him of giving a cherry State contract to Publix grocery stores in return for a $100,000 donation that Public had given his campaign back in 2018.
The top Democrats had attempted to give their version of the story to CBS prior to the accusation but CBS did not want it because it disproved their attempt to smear the Republican Governor. In short, DeSantis did not make the decision to give the contract for vaccine distribution to Publix, a Democrat public health official made the decision and DeSantis simply signed the necessary orders for it to happen because it was determined that over 90% of the State's citizens live within a 5 minute drive of a Publix and so Democrats made the decision for logistical reasons not even knowing the chain had contributed to the Governor's campaign. The Governor signed the orders on recommendation of the health officials. Nothing fishy here at all. Just CBS trying to stir a pot that has nothing in it.
IN FEDERAL COURT
Ten congressional Democrats joined a federal lawsuit that accuses Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani of conspiring to incite the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
IN WISCONSIN
The Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate, ruling that the Democratic governor exceeded his authority by unilaterally extending the mandate for months through multiple emergency orders
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Al Benson, Jr., is the Editor of the Copperhead Chronicle.
In addition to writing for Southern Patriot and other publications, he is a member of the Confederate Society of America and the League of the South.
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I just read an article by a Nebojsa Malic on Russia Today for March 27th. I find it interesting that we seem to get more real news from foreign outlets than we do from the so-called “news” media in this country anymore. I have never been a big fan of Russia Today, in the past or now, so when I see more real news on that outlet than we get from what passes for the news media presently it only illustrates the total degeneracy and political corruption of the mainstream media in this country.
Anyone depending on our mainstream media for anything except leftist propaganda has to have a generous dose of mush between their ears.
Anyway, Malic’s article had some interesting observations contained in it. Thoughts to make American parents think, however many of them may still be capable of rational thought anymore. Malic noted: “Of course, the devil is in the details, such as making elementary school children (in California) invoke Aztec gods to empower them as ‘warriors’ for social justice. Among them is the ‘revolutionary spirit’ Huitzilopochtli, the deity of war and sun–and recipient of thousands of human sacrifices. Modern woke narratives paint the Aztecs as oppressed ‘people of color’ who fell victim to ‘white oppressors’ in the form of Spanish conquistadors, papering over inconvenient facts such as that the Aztecs slaughtered other Mesoamerican peoples…” And this is true. I have read some of the history, having some interest in American Indians over the years. The Aztecs were by no means Mesoamerican innocents. They got to where they were by killing off their opposition, some in battle, but many by bloody human sacrifice. And, in California, public school children are now supposed to be chanting to these pagan “gods.” Anything wrong with this picture?
If a public school teacher mentions the name of Jesus Christ in a positive way in a classroom that teacher could lose his or her job. But, hey, chanting to Aztec gods is okay, right? No problem there at all!
The the writer of this Russia Today article makes an astounding observation–astounding because it seems to be all true. He says “It’s not that Americans are less religious, as the polling suggests, but less Christian–the old religion getting replaced by politics, wokeness, and whatever the worship of Huitzilopochtli is supposed to be called.”
So I wonder, at this point, how many Christians in California have their children in public schools? Any number is too many! What do the Christians in California think of this new religious trend in “their” public schools? I have read nothing at all in this regard. So unless I hear something different, I have to assume that most Christians in that state have no problem with their kids being taught to chant to Aztec gods. If you have heard something different please let me know. I’d hate to think that California’s Christians have no problem with this.
Every Christian parent with a kid in public school in California should be yanking that kid out of public school as we speak.
Unfortunately, California is a bell-weather of what the rest of the country can eventually expect to be subjected to. So if the anti-Christs in that state get by with this then you can soon expect some of the more “progressive” aka leftist states in other areas to try to pull something similar. Christians need to be constantly reminded that the public school system does not belong to them. It is the Unitarian/socialist brainchild of the leftist Education Establishment in this country. It has been promoting anti-Christianity in one form or another since the 1800s. And Christians still haven’t figured that out! I begin to wonder if they ever will!
Too many Christians have been sold a bill of goods that tells them their little Johnny or Mary can be a “witness” to their degenerate public school system and help turn things around. Folks, that’s a croc and those that peddled that fable to you know it. It’s nothing more than their way of keeping your kids in the public brain laundry so they can be propagandized beyond your ability to reverse that action.
It’s about time Christians woke up before they lose their kids–and their country! If you can’t find a good Christian school for the kids then teach them at home. That will still be better than leaving them in public school to be subject to whatever whims the current “gods” in the public education establishment want to do to them.
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INSTITUTIONAL POWER VS. THE RIGHT
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Mark C. Atkins is a 6th generation native of Henry County, Tennessee. He and his wife of thirty years have six children and direct a small K-12 classical Christian school.
He is the author of Women in Combat, Feminism Goes To War, with foreword by Major General Patrick Henry Brady, USA (Ret).
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Like habits, institutional power is hard to break. Power by its nature is hard to take from the possessor as he will naturally use it to retain it. Institutional power is especially hard to take because not only will institutions defend themselves, their power is granted by the collective acceptance and habits of the people that they serve or govern.
Akin to all living things, the human institution is rooted to its inception. The acorn becomes the oak tree. The baby born to Mongolian parents on the steppes grows up to be a Mongolian even though he may have a smart phone in his pony's saddle bag.
The US was born a republic, remains one to this day, and is not likely to morph into a communist dictatorship.
Well, after 2020 the above statement will be met with nervous or incredulous guffaws by half of the electorate, but my point stands. Institutional power can run very deep.
But the United States may be thought of as having two inceptions, the first being the 4th of July 1776, and the second being New England's great victory over Dixie in 1865. To the victor go the spoils, and this includes organising things as it sees fit. New England saw fit to reshape the reborn country in its own image, and this paradigm persists to this day.
In fact I posit that this country is still run by the split personality of Old New England, the one side being religious or idealistic, the other being industrious or representing industry.
Politically this split personality can easily be seen in the Democratic and Republican parties today.
In my view the Right is not revolutionary, but throughout my lifetime has just been trying to rein in Power and maintain its perception of our institutions and way of life. But evidently, the powers-that-be (including both parties) view the Right as an existential threat to what it is or what it wants. We saw in 2020 the extent to which institutional power will go to defend itself, including undermining its own legitimacy in the eyes of the Mob.
If this is the case then the question that comes to my mind is, how does the Right bring these institutions to heel?
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It’s strange to think that until 1962 — when the Houston’s Colt .45’s enjoyed their inaugural season as an expansion team — the only baseball teams in the South were on its northernmost borderlands: Baltimore, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Of course, like all professional sports, baseball is about money, and profits are easily made in densely-populated urban centers, of which the South had few in the professional game’s first half-century. In 1950, the biggest town in the Deep South, New Orleans (pop. 570,000), was only the sixteenth-largest city in the nation. Indeed, at that time, Rochester, New York, had more people than Atlanta.
Nevertheless, Dixie’s baseball pedigree is ancient and venerable, even if Southern states in the antebellum era ignored baseball in favor of cricket (amusingly, some Southern newspapers claimed that baseball seemed too “Yankee” and was antithetical to Southern culture). New Orleans was however an outlier: in part because of its economic connections to the North, the city had fifteen baseball clubs on the eve of the Civil War. During the war, many Southerners were exposed to baseball via prisoner-of-war camps, both those controlled by the Union and the Confederacy. The lithograph “Union prisoners at Salisbury, N.C.,” by Act. Major Otto Boetticher, shows captured Union soldiers playing baseball in a Confederate-run POW camp in 1862.
Soon baseball’s popularity was rapidly spreading among Confederate units. A Union soldier at an encampment in Falmouth, Virginia, described watching Confederate soldiers play the game from across the Rappahannock River. Confederate troops had difficulty obtaining good baseballs and bats, often resorting to makeshift equipment, their bats made of wooden boards or fence rail, their balls sometimes “nothing better than a yarn-wrapped walnut.” By 1864, almost every Confederate regiment was playing the game. When Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, both Union and Confederate armies played baseball to pass the time. Baseball was lauded by many as an effective means of reconciliation in the post-war era.
In the years that followed the South bequeathed to the game many of its greatest early legends. The Georgian Ty Cobb — who, contrary to Ken Burns’ depiction in his 1995 documentary, was in favor of racial integration in the sport — was arguably the best hitter the game ever saw, and set ninety records. Prior to a May 1925 game against the St. Louis Browns, Cobb reportedly told a sportswriter: “I’ll show you something today. I’m going for home runs for the first time in my career.” Cobb went 6-for-6, including three home runs. I’d take Cobb over Babe Ruth any day.
Other early Southern stars included Rogers Hornsby (Texas), Tris Speaker (Texas), Shoeless Joe Jackson (South Carolina), and Lefty Grove (Maryland). The integration of baseball following Jackie Robinson’s first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ushered in a new era of great black ballplayers from the South, including Hank Aaron (Alabama), Willie Mays (Alabama), Monte Irvin (Alabama), Lou Brock (Arkansas), Larry Doby (South Carolina), and Ernie Banks (Texas). Many of the best collegiate baseball programs in the nation are also Southern, including Texas (2nd in the all time wins list), Florida State (5th), Clemson (8th), North Carolina (9th), Texas A&M (11th), Mississippi State (13th), Alabama (16th), Miami (18th), South Carolina (19th), and Louisiana State (t. 20th), among many others.
Though much is made of the South’s affection for football and those “Friday night lights,” baseball has always competed for a place in our heritage and identity. Thankfully, Major League Baseball in the last half-century has recognized that Southerners love their baseball as much, or almost as much, as they love their SEC football. Besides Houston, St. Louis, Washington, D.C. (sadly not much of a Southern city anymore), and Baltimore (they still play John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” at every game), there are now teams in Atlanta, Arlington (Texas), Miami, and Tampa Bay. Of the last, George Will in his bestseller Men at Work explains: “What the Chesapeake Bay is to crabs, Tampa is to baseball talent: a rich breeding ground known for both quantity and quality.”
There is also something undeniably Southern in baseball’s peculiarities and aesthetics. Bunting, knuckleballs, and stealing home — sadly elements of the game far less common in our time — all reflect creative tactical risks reminiscent of a general deciding to divide his outnumbered army to outwit and outflank the enemy. And, like Chancellorsville, sometimes the gamble pays off. The Oakland Athletics’ Ramon Hernandez in the first game of the 2003 ALCS laid a perfect, game-winning bunt against the Red Sox. Hall-of-Famer Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves won 318 games as a knuckleball pitcher. The Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson successfully stole home against the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series.
Or consider differences between the National and American Leagues, not only in regards to strike zone (purportedly because of a difference in umpire equipment), but more controversially whether or not both leagues should have designated hitters for pitchers (the NL has thus far remained stubbornly resistant to this change, done in 1973 by the AL). Baseball fanatics like George Will, for example, have argued in favor of bringing the DH to the NL. Yet what such progressivists (including the Whiggish Will) fail to understand is that part of the charm of baseball derives from regional differences.
Consider this Southern analogy. Many, rightly, have strong opinions about the best barbecue: vinegar-based North Carolina, mustard-based South Carolina, tomato-based varieties of Memphis or Kansas City, or the mayonnaise-vinegar mixture of Alabama. Some prefer pulled pork, others brisket, pork shoulder, or even ham or chicken. Yet I think few Southerners would want their favorite to monopolize the market and eliminate their competitors, so that regional distinctions were obliterated. South Carolina BBQ is certainly not my favorite — yet by no means do I desire it eliminated. We preserve cultural differences precisely as a celebration of a local character, and because we appreciate the variety of such parochial traditions.
This is also why many baseball lovers are suspicious of the contemporary obsession with data analytics, which tends to vitiates its beautiful imperfections. Former Red Sox executive Theo Epstein recently admitted: “The executives, like me, who have spent a lot of time using analytics and other measures to try to optimize individual and team performance have unwittingly had a negative impact on the aesthetic value of the game and the entertainment value of the game in some respects.” By using computers and algorithms to carefully analyze every human activity on the diamond, the game loses some of its mysterious luster. Even Will acknowledges: “Baseball people love numbers, but there are limits to what can be quantified, even in baseball.”
Over-reliance on technology points to another area where baseball and Southern identity overlap: conservatism. Will notes that conservatism is defined by an acknowledgment of limits: on the human person, on society, and even on technology. Conservatives like limits not necessarily because we are “narrow-minded,” but because we understand that boundaries help protect us, and direct us towards authentic, objective goods. We want the game we played as children and watched on television to remain identifiable with what we teach our children. I am currently the coach for my older son’s little league team, and am training him the same way my father trained me thirty years ago.
Restraints also remind us of our fallenness and instill humility. The best hitters in the game fail two-thirds of the time. Even the very best pitchers periodically get shelled. “Baseball is a game of failure,” says Will, rightly. To succeed in such a game requires virtue, patience, and resilience. The progressional game goes for six months of the year (and more if your team goes deep into the playoffs). It takes a tremendous toll on even the most athletic bodies, strongest wills, and penetrating minds, rewarding the wise and discerning rather than the brash and arrogant.
Baseball looks askance at rule-breakers, which is part of the reason why so many purists demand “records” set by Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds have asterisks next to them, either because of changes in the game, or flagrant cheating. Players routinely punish those who violate its ancient, venerable traditions. When Texan pitcher Roger Clemens realized an opposing player on second base was stealing signs, he stepped off the mount, walked to the runner, and said “If I ever see that again from you or anybody on your team I’m going to bury the guy at the plate.” (To his shame, Clemens himself was implicated in the steroids controversy).
Hitters, until recently, were regularly beaned for bat flipping, because such behaviors were viewed as undermining the humble customs of the sport, which discouraged being a “show-off.” Indeed, since “Casey at the Bat” was praised for his Christian charity, baseball has honored the gentleman over the scoundrel, the quiet endurance of Cal Ripken over the bombast of Albert Belle. We love the players who retain that “regular Joe” persona, the everyday grinder rather than the over-hyped publicity of the overpaid, superstar celebrity with the big Yankees contract.
Brion McClanahan last year wrote to me: “If the Southern tradition dies, America goes with it.” I think one might say the same thing for baseball. The game, in all its curious ceremonies and delightful idiosyncrasies — including the absence of a clock, which Will calls a “product of the preindustrial sensibility” — must be jealously protected. New generations of Americans must be properly catechized to appreciate and understand the wonderfully simplistic truth spoken by professional manager Tony La Russa: “There’s a lot of stuff goes on.” As another season begins, I pray we take a break from the frenzy of our socio-political distemper to see that stuff.
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In this week's TBR Radio Presents: The Dixie Heritage Show, the opening segment begins with Dr. Ed talking about his recent discovery of the 2013 British TV show Utopia and how season one is a scary accurate dramatization of the last 15 months in the USA and Europe.
Tom Goodrich, author of books like "Hellstorm," "The Summer of 1945," and "The Day Dixie Died," drop in for the second segment.
The closing segment features Steve Martin and his "Steep Canyon Rangers" bluegrass band.
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In this 67th broadcast of TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour, Dr. Ed talks with fellow TBR contributing editor Tom Goodrich about his articles "Those Dirty Japs" and "The Women We Left Behind" that appeared in the January/February and March/April issues of TBR magazine.
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He is an active lobbyist, tirelessly petitioning city, county, state, and federal officials on behalf of our Southern monuments and heritage.
He started Dixie Heritage in March of 2015.
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I recently discovered the 2013 British television series “Utopia.” The show itself really isn’t very good, still, I encourage all of our readers to watch it.
The show is about a fake coronavirus, the sequel to SARS (i.e., the current virus we are supposedly experiencing) that is hoaxed by a secret meta-governmental body in order to get people to take a vaccine that sterilizes them.
In the show a "shadow government" manipulates politicians, who are actually frontmen for the conspiracy while many or most of the politicians are not aware of the conspiracy. MK Ultra mind control is used to make people afraid of the "virus."
Scientists who know the virus is fake are afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled a "conspiracy theorist." The media scandalizes anyone who dares to tell the truth. For example, one scientist speaks out and the media reports that he is addicted to cocaine and hookers. A whistleblower is framed as mentally ill. One person who tells too much truth is jailed on fake underage sex charges while another is sent to jail on fake child porn charges.
The fake virus’ origin is blamed on an enemy country and is called “The Russian Flu.”
An MK Ultra mind-controlled killer commits a mass shooting and the government uses a deep fake to frame someone who figures out the truth about the virus conspiracy.
As politicians begin to suspect that the virus may not have been as bad as they were told they are blackmailed with Russian hookers into going along with the conspiracy.
Finally it is revealed that this was a "genetically-engineered" disease that you have to take special drugs to stop from killing you, and only the government has the special drugs. Eventually, "normal people" learn that it was all a conspiracy and sympathize with its goals, concluding that "the end justifies the means."
Even more interesting is that the protagonists find out about the conspiracy from a comic book. That is to say, a piece of entertainment media reveals the conspiracy. The show itself is a piece of entertainment media, which reveals the coronavirus conspiracy. Is the show trying to tell us that it is revealing a conspiracy? Or did the show inspire the current conspiracy?
I admit to watching a few shows on Canadian TV, for example, I was a big Corner Gas fan and also a fan of the show's newer animated series. But except for Dr. Who (when I was a kid) I havn't wacthed much British TV.
I wish I would have watched Utopia when it aired, as if I had, I would have recognized the whole Corona virus script immediately.
The whole story is there, including poisoning food to give virus-like symptoms and then killing people, to kick-start the virus hoax. Remembered the big outbreak in Italy, which remains the only “big outbreak” where a lot of people died? It is suspected that there that could have been some kind of poisoning of the food supply there. We didn't report it at the time because we didn't want to believe it. Looking back now, however, it makes sense that food in Lombardy could have been poisoned with something that would cause old people to get sick and die.
I didn’t really enjoy the show, because it was too gross: killing children, torture, interracial sex. These prevented me from enjoying the show, despite it basically having the most engaging content I’ve ever seen.
That said, to watch use this link:
https://archive.org/details/utopia-2013-s-01-e-01-episode-1-blu-ray
Deo Vindice!
Dr. Ed
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