ON TIKTOK
A woman known only as "Danielle" has gone viral as she renounced and then burned a Confederate Flag in front of her audience, saying she is “redneck but never racist”.
We have no idea who this woman is, where she lives, or if this was a real or "dramatized" event. In the video "Danielle" can be seen cutting the Flag down from a pole and then setting it on fire. “I’m sorry if I ever showed I was ‘racist’ from a flag. We burnt it tonight,” she said. “I’m sorry our culture taught us this was okay, it’s not. I’m white, I’m redneck, but never racist. RIP to this racist flag."
IN THE OLD DOMINION
The Charlottesville City Council on Monday unanimously voted to remove statues of Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee from two separate parks.
ALSO IN VIRGINIA
Thursday marks one year since BLM/ANTIFA protests allegedly over the murder of George Floyd turned violent. Protestors attached a rope to the Confederate monument in Portsmouth and pulled it down. Coming down, the statue struck Chris Green in the head. We are uncertain if Green was one of those attempting to pull down the monument or if he was just "protesting" in an unfortunate spot as the monument fell. What we do know is that Green was taken to a nearby hospital in a coma.
On Thursday Green's wife reports that her husband is still in rehab and that he is up and walking, having relearned how to eat and perform some other basic tasks but that he essentially has the mind of a 13-year-old and is limited in his ability to communicate, understand, and problem solve.
Had Portsmouth Police been doing their jobs on June 10, 2020 and protecting their City's monument, Mr. Green may or may not have gone to jail but he would not have been struck by a statue violently pulled down by a mob.
It is doubtful that Chris Green will ever return to the man and father he was before being struck by the monument. Actions have consequences. That said, we do not hold any animus toward Mr. Green and report his condition so that all of our readers can more effectively pray that he might both strengthen and recover from his injuries.
IN THE TAR HEEL STATE
Organizers of the NASCAR series at Winston-Salem's Bowman Gray Stadium apologized this week after a car with a Confederate flag made it onto the track, breaching NASCAR's ban on the symbol.
"It will not happen again," Gray Garrison, a spokesman for the track, said of the Flag, which was inside Lee Stimpson's car on Saturday night. “We must have just flat-out missed it, so we did miss it, and we apologize and will talk with (Stimpson) about that,” Garrison said.
Stimpson, who raced his No. 45 in the Modified Division's Hayes Jewelers 200, couldn't be reached for comment. It wasn't clear whether he displayed an actual Flag on the interior of his car or a painting or decal of the Flag.
IN THE BLUEGRASS STATE
The Perryville City Council voted last week to form a committee to work on a redesign of the City's logo, which currently includes the words "Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862" and a circular landscape drawing that includes cannons and American and Confederate flags.
Perryville, in Boyle County, was the site of a WBTS battle that left more than 7,600 soldiers dead, wounded or missing. Today, the battlefield is a state historic site popular with history buffs.
IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE
The Sons of Confederate Veterans has "volunteered" to dig up the remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Last week we reported that activists recently "elected" as politicans were in a Memphis park gloating to local media about succeeding in having the grave of General Forrest dug up and his remains removed. This was an accurate report. However, we appear to have been in error when we reported that the workers in the backdrop who were seen digging up the General's grave were City workers. Lee Millar, a spokesperson for the Sons of Confederate Veterans informed us this week that the exhumation work is not being done by City workers but by volunteers from SCV Camp # 215, The Forrest Camp.
Also employed by The Forrest Camp are "professional archeologists," and "state-certified funeral personnel." Mr. Millar tells us that he is the project manager for the project which will remove the remains of General Forrest from their present location to what will be a new memorial to the General in Columbia.
We offered for Mr. Millar to write an article on the movement of General Forrest's remains and the new memorial in Columbia. After two follow-up attempts we did not receive that article in time to go to "press." Mr. Millar comments that, "All work is being done in a respectful, dignified, and professional manner."
We are assuming that the future Forrest Monument and Memorial in Columbia will be the original monument to the General relocated to the SCV Headquarters which is also located on a very spacious plot of land in Columbia.
We are happy to report that the General's grave has not been desecrated as the other reports we had received before the publication of last week's newsletter appeared to indicate.
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NON HERITAGE NEWS EFFECTING THE SOUTHLAND:
The official Little League Twitter account is being used to push a gay agenda on kids during "Pride Month."
This is not the first time that Little League has been found pushing the left-wing, LGBTQ agenda. Last month, Little League coaches in Virginia were told they had to take a May 24th supposed “anti-racist” workshop entitled “Sports Can Battle Racism,” to continue being allowed to coach in the league.
BAN OVERTURNED?
The Judge wrote in his ruling that the firearms banned under the state’s law were “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles,” describing the AR-15 assault rifle as “a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”
That said, the ban is still in effect because the Judge granted a 30-day stay in assumption that the state’s Attorney General will appeal the decision.
ALSO OUT WEST
A s has much of the Western half of the U.S. in its grip.
Nearly all of California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and North Dakota are in a severe drought of historic proportions.
Wildfires of a size normally seen in summers have already occurred in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Experts are concerned that this summer’s wildfires will be severe and widespread. Reservoirs in California hold about half as much water as usual for this time of year.
IF YOU THINK BITCOIN IS SAFE THINK AGAIN
Thursday's New York Times reported the F.B.I.’s "recovery" (in other words: THEFT or CONFISCATION) of Bitcoins from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. So if you are investing in or keeping your money in Bitcoin because you think it is safe from government regulation or outright confiscation and theft from the government - THINK AGAIN!
SPEAKING OF BITCOIN AND RANSOMS
VOTING LEGISLATION
In Texas, knowing the Republicans had the votes to pass voting reform legislation all of the Democrats left the Chamber. This deprived the legislative body of the required quorum needed to conduct business and therefore prevented the legislation from even being voted upon.
DOES AMAZON PRIME DELIVER TO EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS?
We do not know the answer to the question asked in the headline. But we can report that Amazon's owner Jeff Bezos is promising that he will travel to space next month on a rocket that he owns through his company Blue Origin.
JABS FOR JOINTS
In Washington State, they’re looking to get you stoned after they have you poked. Thats right, if you are 21 or older and get the vaccine in Washington State the government will give you free marijuana joints.
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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 recently came across an article on https://www.historynet.com that was not new, but was interesting. It was originally published back in 2012, in June of that year, in Civil War Times. I used to read this magazine, but it had been my experience that it did not deal overly much with issues like this, as that was not politically correct at the time (and still isn’t).
Sarah Richardson wrote the article and it dealt with an interview it seems she had with Robin Blackburn, the author of the book An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln. Blackburn is a British historian and former editor of the New Left Review so no one can accuse him of being a paranoid right winger. He brought out some interesting points about Lincoln and Marx. Richardson noted of Lincoln that “Up until the age of 21 he was working without payment for his father. On some occasions his father would hire out his son’s services and even then didn’t hand over the wages.” Blackburn seemed to think this may have affected Lincoln’s views on slavery. It’s possible but it’s hard to say for sure. Although we know from some of Lincoln’s later comments on slavery it was not a major issue in his invasion of the South. He claimed to be preserving the Union (though it was going to be a preservation by force). But he said at one point that if he could preserve the Union by freeing some slaves and not others, he would do it and if he could preserve the Union by freeing none of the slaves he would do that. And his “Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 freed only slaves in Confederate territory. It freed no slaves in Union-held territory.
But the American connection to Marx goes further than Lincoln. Richardson’s article stated: “Marx himself was only 30 when he was caught up in the 1848 revolution, and he edited one of Germany’s main revolutionary newspapers. At that time, he was visited by Charles Dana, an American journalist and managing editor of the New York Daily Tribune. Dana later hired him as the Tribune’s European correspondent, A lot of his research for the Tribune ended up in his famous book Das Capital, published in 1867.”
Donnie Kennedy and I, in our book Lincoln’s Marxists, the first edition of which is still available under the title Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists dealt with Mr. Dana and his communist proclivities at some length. Mr. Dana was a prime mover and shaker in the movement to promote communism in this country in the 1850s. Arthur Thompson, author of the very informative book To The Victors Go The Myths And Monuments also deals with Charles Dana on page 198,givng more info on Dana’s leftist background.
The Tribune published, over the years, something like 450 of Marx’s articles, with at least 300 published under his name, though some researchers claim his helper, Engels, wrote quite a few of these because Marx was just too lazy to write when he often needed to, so Engels stood in the breath often while Marx was daydreaming about ways to save the world (for communism).
After the revolts of 1848 ended, thousands of the leftist revolutionaries involved fled to this country. Many of those kept in contact with Marx and continued their leftist activities by writing for German-language papers in this country, which, over time, eventually influenced many Germans here toward a Marxist point of view.
Richardson noted that “There were about 200,000 German-Americans who fought for the Union, and about 40,000 were in units that had the Germain language as the medium of command.” So these people were over here, supposedly to help the North “free the slaves, and they couldn’t even speak the language. Bet your “history” books never mention any of this! And besides, the idea of leftists fighting to “free” anyone from anything is just ludicrous All you have to do in our day is look at the countries that were enslaved under communism and you begin to understand the communist concept of “freedom.” You are “free” to do what the communists tell you to do or they shoot you or put you in a “re-education” camp” until you see things their way. And if you don’t, then they shoot you!
Richardson then notes that Dana, who had been responsible for getting Marx to write for Horace Greeley’s paper became the assistant secretary of war in 1862. He remained in close contact with good buddies of Marx like Joseph Weydemeyer who later became a general in the Union Army. And also mentioned “Another member of the Communist League in Germany in the 1840 was August Willich, who became a Union general.”
And she made another interesting point from her interview with Blackburn She said “Worth noting, too, that Marx and Lincoln were both influenced by German philosophy–in Lincoln’s case, as transmitted by such writers as Theodore Parker.” Parker was a noted Unitarian. And all the stuff I have read about him never mentioned anything about any German connections–but it now seems there were some.
We have got to begin to realize that communism in America was alive and well in the early 1850s here and that we have been lied to by those faux-historians that tell us you never had a problem with communism in America until the Roosevelt years. Let’s wake up and begin to do the homework ,lest we be victimized even further in our own day.
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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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It bears repeating (and I am painting with a wide brush here) that the religion of Progressivism despises the past and tradition. The past because it was imperfect and tradition because it carries the imperfect past into the future. Progressives after all are utopians at heart and mean to create heaven on earth. You know, since there is no actual heaven.
I think this is at the root of why Progressivism spends so much energy on controlling what we remember and believe about the past and as a consequence, why they are so determined to eradicate its physical symbols.
Its war on all things Confederate will of course come to mind, but after 2020 we see that Mr Bojangles, Aunt Jemima, and Uncle Ben have got to go as well, to say nothing of tyrants like Washington, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.
If monuments and syrup bottles cannot be spared, architecture certainly cannot be either since as a reminder of both the space and time in which it was erected its shelf life can be extremely long depending on the materials used. Consider the pyramids of Egypt which continue to evoke...errr, well, what? My point is, they will remain safe until such time as whatever ideas they evoke run contrary to whatever future Progressivism is imagining.
Brave New World, 1984, and Animal Farm remain must-reads for Conservatives because they speak so simply and clearly on Progressivism's core value of human reform via controlling memory, but also because they were written so long ago that we now have the immensely valuable benefit of hindsight that show them to be prophetic.
Progressivism rejects human nature and believes that if man can simply be made to forget, he will be a white canvas upon which to paint something new and better. To be rebuilt and made into a better mousetrap... I mean man... I mean androgynous human... I mean androgynoid.
Thus all reminders of the past must go.
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THEY RAPED EVERY GERMAN GIRL FROM 8 to 80 |
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Antony Beevor is a well-respected British historian who has published several popular historical works on the Second World War and other wars during the 20th century.
The following is from his #1 best-selling book: Berlin: The Downfall 1945, about the fall of Berlin and the massive war crimes committed by the victorious Allies.
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"Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women," wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. "Nine, ten, twelve men at a time - they rape them on a collective basis."
The Soviet armies advancing into East Prussia in January 1945, in huge, long columns, were an extraordinary mixture of modern and medieval: tank troops in padded black helmets, Cossack cavalrymen on shaggy mounts with loot strapped to the saddle, lend-lease Studebakers and Dodges towing light field guns, and then a second echelon in horse-drawn carts. The variety of character among the soldiers was almost as great as that of their military equipment. There were freebooters who drank and raped quite shamelessly, and there were idealistic, austere communists and members of the intelligentsia appalled by such behaviour.
Beria and Stalin, back in Moscow, knew perfectly well what was going on from a number of detailed reports. One stated that "many Germans declare that all German women in East Prussia who stayed behind were raped by Red Army soldiers". Numerous examples of gang rape were given - "girls under 18 and old women included".
Marshal Rokossovsky issued order No 006 in an attempt to direct "the feelings of hatred at fighting the enemy on the battlefield." It appears to have had little effect. There were also a few arbitrary attempts to exert authority. The commander of one rifle division is said to have "personally shot a lieutenant who was lining up a group of his men before a German woman spreadeagled on the ground". But either officers were involved themselves, or the lack of discipline made it too dangerous to restore order over drunken soldiers armed with submachine guns.
Calls to avenge the Motherland, violated by the Wehrmacht's invasion, had given the idea that almost any cruelty would be allowed. Even many young women soldiers and medical staff in the Red Army did not appear to disapprove. "Our soldiers' behaviour towards Germans, particularly German women, is absolutely correct!" said a 21-year-old from Agranenko's reconnaissance detachment. A number seemed to find it amusing. Several German women recorded how Soviet servicewomen watched and laughed when they were raped. But some women were deeply shaken by what they witnessed in Germany. Natalya Gesse, a close friend of the scientist Andrei Sakharov, had observed the Red Army in action in 1945 as a Soviet war correspondent. "The Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty," she recounted later. "It was an army of rapists."
Drink of every variety, including dangerous chemicals seized from laboratories and workshops, was a major factor in the violence. It seems as if Soviet soldiers needed alcoholic courage to attack a woman. But then, all too often, they drank too much and, unable to complete the act, used the bottle instead with appalling effect. A number of victims were mutilated obscenely.
The subject of the Red Army's mass rapes in Germany has been so repressed in Russia that even today veterans refuse to acknowledge what really happened. The handful prepared to speak openly, however, are totally unrepentant. "They all lifted their skirts for us and lay on the bed," said the leader of one tank company. He even went on to boast that "two million of our children were born" in Germany.
The capacity of Soviet officers to convince themselves that most of the victims were either happy with their fate, or at least accepted that it was their turn to suffer after what the Wehrmacht had done in Russia, is striking. "Our fellows were so sex-starved," a Soviet major told a British journalist at the time, "that they often raped old women of sixty, seventy or even eighty - much to these grandmothers' surprise, if not downright delight."
One can only scratch at the surface of the psychological contradictions. When gang-raped women in Königsberg begged their attackers afterwards to put them out of their misery, the Red Army men appear to have felt insulted. "Russian soldiers do not shoot women," they replied. "Only German soldiers do that." The Red Army had managed to convince itself that because it had assumed the moral mission to liberate Europe from fascism it could behave entirely as it liked, both personally and politically.
Domination and humiliation permeated most soldiers' treatment of women in East Prussia. The victims not only bore the brunt of revenge for Wehrmacht crimes, they also represented an atavistic target as old as war itself. Rape is the act of a conqueror, the feminist historian Susan Brownmiller observed, aimed at the "bodies of the defeated enemy's women" to emphasise his victory. Yet after the initial fury of January 1945 dissipated, the sadism became less marked. By the time the Red Army reached Berlin three months later, its soldiers tended to regard German women more as a casual right of conquest. The sense of domination certainly continued, but this was perhaps partly an indirect product of the humiliations which they themselves had suffered at the hands of their commanders and the Soviet authorities as a whole.
A number of other forces or influences were at work. Sexual freedom had been a subject for lively debate within Communist party circles during the 1920s, but during the following decade, Stalin ensured that Soviet society depicted itself as virtually asexual. This had nothing to do with genuine puritanism: it was because love and sex did not fit in with dogma designed to "deindividualise" the individual. Human urges and emotions had to be suppressed. Freud's work was banned, divorce and adultery were matters for strong party disapproval. Criminal sanctions against homosexuality were reintroduced. The new doctrine extended even to the complete suppression of sex education. In graphic art, the clothed outline of a woman's breasts was regarded as dangerously erotic. They had to be disguised under boiler suits. The regime clearly wanted any form of desire to be converted into love for the party and above all for Comrade Stalin.
Most ill-educated Red Army soldiers suffered from sexual ignorance and utterly unenlightened attitudes towards women. So the Soviet state's attempts to suppress the libido of its people created what one Russian writer described as a sort of "barracks eroticism" which was far more primitive and violent than "the most sordid foreign pornography". All this was combined with the dehumanising influence of modern propaganda and the atavistic, warring impulses of men marked by fear and suffering.
The novelist Vasily Grossman, a war correspondent attached to the invading Red Army, soon discovered that rape victims were not just Germans. Polish women also suffered. So did young Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian women who had been sent back to Germany by the Wehrmacht for slave labour. "Liberated Soviet girls quite often complain that our soldiers rape them," he noted. "One girl said to me in tears: 'He was an old man, older than my father'."
The rape of Soviet women and girls seriously undermines Russian attempts to justify Red Army behaviour on the grounds of revenge for German brutality in the Soviet Union. On March 29 1945 the central committee of the Komsomol (the youth organisation of the Soviet Union) informed Stalin's associate Malenkov of a report from the 1st Ukrainian Front. "On the night of 24 February," General Tsygankov recorded in the first of many examples, "a group of 35 provisional lieutenants on a course and their battalion commander entered the women's dormitory in the village of Grutenberg and raped them."
In Berlin, many women were simply not prepared for the shock of Russian revenge, however much horror propaganda they had heard from Goebbels. Many reassured themselves that, although the danger must be great out in the countryside, mass rapes could hardly take place in the city in front of everybody.
In Dahlem, Soviet officers visited Sister Kunigunde, the mother superior of Haus Dahlem, a maternity clinic and orphanage. The officers and their men behaved impeccably. In fact, the officers even warned Sister Kunigunde about the second-line troops following on behind. Their prediction proved entirely accurate. Nuns, young girls, old women, pregnant women and mothers who had just given birth were all raped without pity.
Yet within a couple of days, a pattern emerged of soldiers flashing torches in the faces of women huddled in the bunkers to choose their victims. This process of selection, as opposed to the indiscriminate violence shown earlier, indicates a definite change. By this stage Soviet soldiers started to treat German women more as sexual spoils of war than as substitutes for the Wehrmacht on which to vent their rage.
Rape has often been defined by writers on the subject as an act of violence which has little to do with sex. But that is a definition from the victim's perspective. To understand the crime, one needs to see things from the perpetrator's point of view, especially in the later stages when unaggravated rape had succeeded the extreme onslaught of January and February.
Many women found themselves forced to "concede" to one soldier in the hope that he would protect them from others. Magda Wieland, a 24-year-old actress, was dragged from a cupboard in her apartment just off the Kurfürstendamm. A very young soldier from central Asia hauled her out. He was so excited at the prospect of a beautiful young blonde that he ejaculated prematurely. By sign language, she offered herself to him as a girlfriend if he would protect her from other Russian soldiers, but he went off to boast to his comrades and another soldier raped her. Ellen Goetz, a Jewish friend of Magda's, was also raped. When other Germans tried to explain to the Russians that she was Jewish and had been persecuted, they received the retort: "Frau ist Frau."
Women soon learned to disappear during the "hunting hours" of the evening. Young daughters were hidden in storage lofts for days on end. Mothers emerged into the street to fetch water only in the early morning when Soviet soldiers were sleeping off the alcohol from the night before. Sometimes the greatest danger came from one mother giving away the hiding place of other girls in a desperate bid to save her own daughter. Older Berliners still remember the screams every night. It was impossible not to hear them because all the windows had been blown in.
Estimates of rape victims from the city's two main hospitals ranged from 95,000 to 130,000. One doctor deduced that out of approximately 100,000 women raped in the city, some 10,000 died as a result, mostly from suicide. The death rate was thought to have been much higher among the 1.4 million estimated victims in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. Altogether at least two million German women are thought to have been raped, and a substantial minority, if not a majority, appear to have suffered multiple rape.
If anyone attempted to defend a woman against a Soviet attacker it was either a father trying to defend a daughter or a young son trying to protect his mother. "The 13-year old Dieter Sahl," neighbours wrote in a letter shortly after the event, "threw himself with flailing fists at a Russian who was raping his mother in front of him. He did not succeed in anything except getting himself shot."
After the second stage of women offering themselves to one soldier to save themselves from others, came the post-battle need to survive starvation. Susan Brownmiller noted "the murky line that divides wartime rape from wartime prostitution". Soon after the surrender in Berlin, Ursula von Kardorff found all sorts of women prostituting themselves for food or the alternative currency of cigarettes. Helke Sander, a German film-maker who researched the subject in great detail, wrote of "the grey area of direct force, blackmail, calculation and real affection".
The fourth stage was a strange form of cohabitation in which Red Army officers settled in with German "occupation wives". The Soviet authorities were appalled and enraged when a number of Red Army officers, intent on staying with their German lovers, deserted when it was time to return to the Motherland.
Even if the feminist definition of rape purely as an act of violence proves to be simplistic, there is no justification for male complacency. If anything, the events of 1945 reveal how thin the veneer of civilisation can be when there is little fear of retribution. It also suggests a much darker side to male sexuality than we might care to admit.
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This week's Old Camp Meeting Time radio show, Dr. Ed preaches three messages from God's word.
Special Music is from the Hylander Singing Men.
We are happy to make these messages freely available to missionary radio stations and micro-broadcasters world-wide.
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Many in the United States are unaware that when most churches in the United States closed, thousands of Canadian churches went "underground." Most Canadian churches are still meeting in secret. But a few Canadian pastors have dared to lead their congregations to assemble openly. One of those, Pastor Tim Stephens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada was arrested and jailed.
In this week's TBR Radio Presents: The Dixie Heritage Show, recently released, Pastor Stephens tells us why he led the church to meet in defiance of the "Public Health Authority" and about the experience of his arrest and imprisonment.
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In this 76th broadcast of TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour, Dr. Ed asks what really happened on November 18, 1978? Did the members of the People's Temple really "drink the Kool-Aid"? Was there even any Kool-Aid to drink?
Was Jim Jones a CIA asset?
Was the Jonestown really a CIA front conducting MK-Ultra mind control experiments?
Dr. Ed explores the theories and alternate theories.
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Dr. Ed is a pastor, college president, historian, the author of over 40 books, an in-demand public speaker, and the host of three radio shows.
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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Its official, my radio show is a "white nationalist, pro-Hitler outlet that denies the Holocaust.” That, according to a Tuesday morning hit-piece written by MediaMatters reporter Eric Hananoki. MediaMatters retracted the story and removed the article from their website about 8 hours later but not before YouTube removed the show for "hate speech."
Had our guest been a politician in Florida he could have been the first to test the Sunshine State's new law enabling elected officials to sue YouTube and other "social media" when a platform attempts to censor political conversation as "hate speech."
The show remained popular at Rumble and on our website until I deleted it from both as a courtesy to my guest whose political reputation we do not want to tarnish. Besides, his spokesperson made it clear that he does not want to be "affiliated or associated" with a "white nationalist, pro-Hitler outlet that denies the Holocaust.” As we say here in the South: "Bless his heart."
While MediaMatters was correct to retract their "drive-by" piece I am certain that they did so exclusively for reasons of liability. Mr. Hananoki's "reporting" was in grievous error. By the way, the retraction also contained more than a few additional errors. So I have no doubt for even half a second that MediaMatters opinion of myself or of the radio show has changed one iota.
Just as General Lee referred to the hatred of his enemy as the "love [of] our friends north of the Potomac," I will dare say that our friends on the left and in the media "love" us now more than ever. And so our relatively obscure radio show that Neilson does not even bother to rate and that gets a couple thousand listens on YouTube or Rumble in any given week is now on the radar. The MediaMatters story alone gave us several thousand additional YouTube views in just a few short hours.
I wish that I could say the story ended with the retraction - it did not. The MediaMatters article was but the first of several attacks against Dixie Heritage this week. More came on Wednesday and Thursday. I wish that I could say that they were all from leftist/Marxist outfits but even so-called "Conservative" outlets such as the Daily Caller piled on as well. It would appear that Daily Caller hates the Confederacy and considers the Southern Poverty law Center (SPLC) to be a credible source. Who knows, we may even make the SPLC's "greatest hits list? If we do I'll be sure to wear my Confederate Flag bow tie and cumber-bun when I accept my "SPeeLCie." No doubt MSNBC will photoshop the video so as to make it appear to have been a swastika?
One thing is for sure, each week you need to follow the links and listen to the radio shows quick because you never know when those controversial little boogers are going to be taken offline.
While both myself and Dixie Heritage were attacked this week, neither I nor Dixie Heritage were called or eMailed for comment. Outlets claiming I/we declined to comment reported so in error. What I do know is that Dixie Heritage's efforts on behalf of Southern history and monuments are making headway because if we were not making a big difference there would have been no attack at all.
Deo Vindice!
Dr. Ed
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