The Flag of Many Colors

It is the modern day perception of that the Confederacy was comprised of a bunch of slave owning, racist, uneducated, hillbilly white boys. The reality of it is this: The Confederacy was comprised of Whites, Hispanics, Indians, Jews, and Blacks. That's right, Blacks were a part of the Confederacy too… and not only, as some of you may assume, in the capacity of slave.

In 1861 the CSA formalized relations with "The Five Tribes" that were settled in what is now the State of Oklahoma. The Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) were official members of the CSA and were to have Oklahoma as their own sovereign state, with its own Constitution written by them. Additionally, the Indians were to be treated as a Confederate Citizen with the right to purchase, hold, and freely travel the lands of the CSA.

Here is an excerpt from the 1861 CSA Cherokee Treaty:
"The Confederate States of America, having accepted the said protectorate, hereby solemnly promise the said Cherokee Nation never to desert or to abandon it, and that under no circumstances will they permit the Northern States or any other enemy to overcome them and sever the Cherokees from the Confederacy; but that they will, at any cost and all hazards, protect and defend them and maintain unbroken the ties created by identity of interests and institutions, and strengthened and made perpetual by this treaty."

"It is hereby further agreed by the Confederate States that all the members of the Cherokee Nation, as hereinafter defined, shall be henceforward competent to take, hold, and pass, by purchased or descent, lands in any of the Confederate States, heretofore or hereafter acquired by them."

The 5 red stars represent the 5 Tribes

Roughly 65,000 Blacks served as Confederate Soldiers, with Jefferson Davis seeking a goal of enlisting up to 300,000. The Blacks that served were comprised of both slave and free. The free Blacks were paid the same as White soldiers and were entitled to the same benefits, unlike Blacks in the Union army. In fact, Frederick Douglas even commented:

"There are at the present moment many Colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but real soldiers, having musket on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down any loyal troops and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government and build up that of the rebels."

Furthermore, Frederick Douglas gave a warning to Abraham Lincoln that if he could not capture slaves and then guarantee them freedom and land bounties "they would take up arms for the rebels."

Note: The first military monument in the US Capital to honor a Black soldier is the Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. The monument also depicts a White soldier giving his child to a Black woman for protection.





A Black Confederate Veteran

More than 13,000 Hispanics fought on the side of the Confederacy, as did over 3000 Jews.
The next time someone tells you that the Confederate Flag is a symbol of racism; you can gently remind them of the efforts of Men of all colors, all creeds, and all walks of life that fought under that flag. You can tell them that they fought for liberty and to preserve the Democratic Republic of our forefathers. You can remind them that the Confederate Flag is a Flag of many colors: Red, White, and Blue.

Bush doesn't think America should be an actual place

Tancredo says president believes nation should be merely 'idea' without borders.
WorldNetDaily.com
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53023
Joe Kovacs11-19-06

PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Bush believes America should be more of an idea than an actual place, a Republican congressman told WND in an exclusive interview.

"People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. "He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that - it's an idea. It's not an actual place defined by borders. I mean this is where this guy is really going."

Tancredo lashed out at the White House's lack of action in securing U.S. borders, and said efforts to merge the U.S. with both Mexico and Canada is not a fantasy.

"I know this is dramatic - or maybe somebody would say overly dramatic - but I'm telling you, that everything I see leads me to believe that this whole idea of the North American Union, it's not something that just is written about by right-wing fringe kooks. It is something in the head of the president of the United States, the president of Mexico, I think the prime minister of Canada buys into it. ...

"And they would just tell you, 'Well, sure, it's a natural thing. It's part of the great globalization ... of the economy.' They assume it's a natural, evolutionary event that's going to occur here. I hope they're wrong and I'm going to try my best to make sure they're wrong. But I'm telling you the tide is great. The tide is moving in their direction. We have to say that."
Tancredo was in South Florida joining the likes of media giants Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter at a four-day event called "Restoration Weekend" which concluded today. The gathering was hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

He pointed to Florida's largest city as an example of how the nature of America can be changed by uncontrolled immigration.

"Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country," he said. "You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."

He said quickly changing demographics can cause big problems, and specifically cited the "Islamization of Europe" in recent years which has led to conflict across the continent.
Tancredo isn't the only congressman warning about plans to integrate the three nations of this continent.

Rep. Ron Paul, a maverick Republican from Texas, denounced plans for the proposed "NAFTA superhighway" in his state as part of a larger plot for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico into a North American Union.

As WND reported this month, Enrique Berruga, Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations, came right out and said a North American Union is needed - and even provided a deadline.
Berruga said the merger must be complete in the next eight years before the U.S. baby boomer retirement wave hits full force.

Tancredo - a heavyweight champion of the border-security issue, and whose new book on how to solve that vexing problem, titled "In Mortal Danger," became an immediate best seller - just may be elected president, Fox News's Neil Cavuto said recently.

"Illegals coming into America are sure to be front and center in the next presidential election here," Cavuto said on a June broadcast of "Your World with Neil Cavuto," "and Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo certainly knows it. He owns this issue. And straw polls show that, if he were to run for president, he just might well be president."

JFK, the Federal Feserve, and plot to destroy American freedoms

"The high office of the President has been used to foment [incite] a plot to destroy the Americans' freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizens of this plight."
-John F. Kennedy (at Columbia University 10 days before his assassination.)

NOTE: On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Governmentat interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. Thousands of United States Notes were printed and sent to banks to be released in November 1963. After the assassination the notes were recalled and destroyed. A U.S.Treasury picture of a $2 United States Note, Series 1963A, can be found at http://www.friesian.com/images/notes/2-63-uo.gif
along with all the other facts surrounding Executive Order No. 11110.

"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions they are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people ofthe U.S. for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will."
-Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman, House Banking and Currency Committee, June 10, 1932

"This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon."
- Robert Hemphill, Credit manager of Federal Reserve Bankin Atlanta.

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
- John Maynard Keynes, economist and author of "The Economic Consequences of the Peace"

"The Founding Fathers of this great land had no difficulty whatsoever understanding the agenda of bankers, and they frequently referred to them and their kind as, quote, 'friends of paper money'. They hated the Bank of England, in particular, and felt that even were we successful in winning our independence from The Saxon Kingdom and King George, we could never truly be a nation of freemen, unless we had an honest money system. Through ignorance, but moreover, because of apathy, a small, but wealthy, clique of power brokers have robbed us of our Rights and Liberties, and we are being raped of our wealth. We are paying the price for the near-comatose levels of complacency by our parents, and only God knows what might become of our children, should we not work diligently to shake this country from its slumber! Many a nation has lost its freedom at the end of a gun barrel, but here in America, we just decided to hand it over voluntarily. Worse yet, we paid for the tyranny and usurpation out of our own pockets with "volutary" tax contributions and the use of a debt-laden fiat currency!"
-PeterKershaw, author of the 1994 booklet "Economic Solutions"

Exit Habeas Corpus, Enter Night and Fog

Taken from the website: Another Day in the Empire
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=612
Tuesday October 17th 2006, 8:47 pm


As if to confirm that Republicans are indeed a fascist rabble, consider their uniform silence in regard to the military commissions bill, otherwise known as the monstrosity that ate the Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 9, dealing with habeas corpus.

Republicans, who are primarily neocons, that is to say fascist authoritarians, consider themselves patriots, and yet almost to the man and a few women they have not said a word about the evisceration of habeas corpus, once considered such an elemental liberty it was the only one enumerated in the original text of the Constitution.

The elimination of habeas corpus, a bedrock right going back to 1215 and the Magna Carta, did not even as much as merit a passing mention on the Drudge Report, probably one of the most popular Republican web sites on the internet.

Instead, if we are to believe Drudge, Republicans are interested Madonna going to Africa and adopting babies. The sanctimonious Hillary, who voted for killing habeas corpus with nary a blink, wearing a small diamond-studded cross warrants an all caps link, but the death of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights does not. And oh, incidentally, Matt Drudge feels it is important you know the mother of Chris Rock was discriminated against at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in South Carolina. All the insipid and meaningless news fit to print, but not a word about the end of our once cherished republic.

Republicans, and no shortage of Democrats, have sold you and me down the river to a place where we can be abducted, tortured, and killed in secret, no different than the unfortunate desaparecidos of El Salvador. How long before we suffer our own Operation Condor, as did the people of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay? How long before we go through our very own Nacht und Nebel, or Night and Fog?

Lately, a few people have told me I use the Nazi example too much, but what happened today, with the unitary decider signing away our long-standing right to not be held by the state without a day in court is a perfect match for what happened in Nazi Germany after the Reichstag Fire Decree. In fact, the Night and Fog decree is a near perfect example, as the Nazis used it to disappear the political opposition. Hitler and his minions would not be bothered by what they considered unnecessary rules, so they grabbed all who organized to oppose them.

"After lengthy consideration, it is the will of the Führer that the measures [be] taken against those who are guilty of offenses against the Reich," declared SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. "Efficient and enduring intimidation can only be achieved either by capital punishment or by measures by which the relatives of the criminals do not know the fate of the criminal. The prisoners are, in future, to be transported to Germany secretly, and further treatment of the offenders will take place here; these measures will have a deterrent effect because: A. The prisoners will vanish without a trace. B. No information may be given as to their whereabouts or their fate," decreed Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel.

Considering the mindset of the neocons, who have so far slaughtered over 600,000 Iraqis, our disappeared may very well suffer the fate of political dissidents during Argentina's "Dirty War": forced to jump out of airplanes far out over the Atlantic Ocean, but not before enduring torture. Argentina's los desaparecidos were never found, simply disappeared into Night and Fog, and thus, without bodies, the government denied they had been killed. In this way, between 1976 and 1983, up to 30,000 dissidents were liquidated.

"Disappearances work on two levels: not only do they effectively silence those opposition members who have disappeared, they also sow uncertainty and terror in the wider community in general, thus silencing other opposition voices, current and potential alike," explains Wikipedia. "Disappearances entail the violation of a series of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. For the disappeared person, these include the right to liberty, the right to personal security and humane treatment (including freedom from torture), the right to a fair trial, to legal counsel, and to equal protection under the law, the right of presumption of innocence, et cetera. The families, who often spend the rest of their lives in searches for remains of the disappeared, also become victims of the disappearance's effects."

If you think the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was crafted strictly for aliens and foreign Muslims, think again. It was devised to go after the opposition in this country, as it presents more of a challenge and threat to the neocon order than a handful of Arabs. As citizens begin disappearing into the night and fog, will Matt Drudge continue posting meaningless articles about Madonna? Matt Drudge and faithful neocon-wannabes of all stripe need to take heed and bone up on a bit of history. Although it will likely irk my readers who believe I use the Nazi example a bit too much here, the example of Hitler's Reichsmordwoche, or Nacht der langen Messer, Night of the Long Knives, should serve.

On the night of June 30 and Sunday July 1, 1934, Hitler ordered potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung massacred. Stalin had his Great Purge and "river of blood," culminating in the assassination of Trotsky. Invariably, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, unable to withstand even minor disagreement, take out not only the opposition, but allies who may, however tenuously, become the opposition of tomorrow.
Bill O'Reilly should take note.

Oh man, HOLD ON FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

This freaky storm is wreaking havoc over all of Florida, people are seeking cover from the mayhem and it is feared that this could be THE END OF THE WORLD.

Ok, folks, get real now, this was noting more than a good storm in reality. I cannot believe how many people got sucked up into the panic that the media spread around just like propaganda.

Just so you know, I don't watch the typical media, I get my news from the internet and I only pick and choose what I want to know and form my own opinion, I so very rarely listen to the local radio, even my weather news I get from the internet, I would rather my own weather reports be wrong from my own interpretation rather than what some idiot with an agenda says on the boob tube, then all I have to blame is myself.

I was surprised Monday morning on my way to work how strange the traffic was and how the lines were backed up at the fuel stations, I really did not know that people were freaking out until I saw it. This whole time I have felt kinda like I was Neo in the Matrix, millions of people, living out their lives, oblivious. It just goes to show you how far we have come in America, that fear can grip us so bad just through the words of the media, I hope that at least some people wake up this morning and realize just how stupid they were for believing and reacting the way they did.

It would not have been so bad if it would not have been built up so much, just simple warnings and telling people THE TRUTH instead of making this out to be the next killer hurricane. Trust me, I have been through several hurricanes, as have many people down here, you would think that in their experience that they would be able to figure out the difference between the nasty ones in the past and this storm now.

So, we should all learn a little lesson here: don't believe everything that the media says, most definitely. We have the examples of the past to tell us that is how evil regimes have controlled the people. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, present day Communist China, anywhere there is a government control of the people you can see that the media is one of the primary tools utilized to instill fear in the people. If the people are afraid of the government and their many tentacles of control then they can keep their people subdued, divided and under control.

Wake up people, take your freedoms seriously and seek to be independent, start with not allowing the government to scare you. The stakes are very high, and the gallows could be waiting for many of us and our families if we let it get too far.

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
~Samuel Adams

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August 19, 2006

Jim Bryson Trying to Emulate Sen. Allen in Attacking Counter-Message Team
It appears that TN GOP gubernatorial candidate is trying to follow in the footsteps of Sen. Allen. Instead of using racial slurs, Bryson's staff is using laser pointers into the eyes of the Governor's counter-message team.

The war of words between Democrats and Republicans has escalated to include laser beams and physical confrontation in gubernatorial candidate Jim Bryson's bus tour of East Tennessee, according to somewhat conflicting accounts from campaigners.

Members of Republican Bryson's staff stand accused of directing beams from pocket laser-pointers into the eyes of Democrats who have been following the Bryson bus, making videotapes of the candidate and distributing pamphlets.

And, just like in the Allen case, repugnut operatives are trying to turn the tables and accuse the counter-message team.

Bryson spokesman Lance Frizzell denied that Democratic eyes were targeted by lasers and, in turn, accused the Democratic team of "shoving" a Republican and other "unruly behavior," including "defacing" the bus with Bredesen bumper stickers.
Accusing the accuser, I find to be extremely childish. If you did it, own up to it. Hey, William Pierce, I'm talking to you.

The fact of the matter is, several of the counter-message team's eyes were targeted, and a police report was filed. Then, Humphrey reports that the GOP team states, they will "probably stop using the lasers," after being advised by police of the ramifications of laser pointers.
Shows me that the repugnuts are lying to save their asses and laser pointers were being used.
Pointing a laser beam into someone else's eyes is reprehensible, childish, and dangerous. These staff members should not be retained by a candidate that is serious in holding or retaining an elected office.

As for laser pointers and if they are harmful or not, the FDA has classified laser pointers as being harmful. Lasers are classified according to their degree of hazard from Class 1 to Class 4, Class 4 being the most hazardous. Most laser pointers in the US are Class 2 and Class 3a lasers. The eye's blink reflex (0.25 seconds) is usually enough to protect the eye from damage due to visible lasers, however Class 3a lasers do have the potential to cause damage if viewed directly for greater than 0.25 seconds.

The FDA requires warning labels to be placed on laser pointers including it's classification and instructions telling users to not look directly into the beam. Unfortunately, there are now reports of lasers being imported from China and Russia that are not properly labeled. These lasers are significantly more dangerous and contain a green beam rather than a red one. Before buying a laser pointer, be sure to check that it contains a FDA warning label.

Which brings me back to GOP campaign operations. Yes, there will always be counter-message teams, for both sides. Candidates and their campaign staff expect it, and set up their own. But, what I find horrifying is the emerging trend of GOP candidates and staff resorting to unseemly behavior. When this unseemly behavior is seen by voters, it should not be condoned, but be chalked up to a big, fat check mark in the "con" column of why that candidate is not acceptable to hold an elected office, particularly the higher levels of our state and national governments.
EP NEWS


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Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'

Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:07 pm (PST)
Every airport traveller 'will be fingerprinted'
GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

* Airport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror
plot
* Six out of ten believe government is not exaggerating terrorism
threat
* Reid reaction to terror has seen his public profile soar as
Blair's successor

Key quote
"As we face the threat of mass murder we have to accept that the
rights of the individual that we enjoy must, and will be, balanced
with the collective right of security and the protection of life and
limb that our citizens demand." - JOHN REID, THE HOME SECRETARY

Story in full BIOMETRIC testing is set to be introduced at European
airports under plans for stringent new security measures revealed
yesterday in the wake of last week's alleged terror plot.
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Passengers would have their fingerprint or iris scanned under the
measures proposed by EU interior ministers, which would also use
passenger profiling to try to identify potential terrorists.

The move to beef up relaxed security procedures in Europe came as John
Reid, the Home Secretary, warned that human rights would have to be
balanced against the threat from terrorism and that the current terror
threat was Europe-wide and needed to be tackled on an international level.

The EU minister in charge of justice, Franco Frattini, said ministers
were looking at the "positive profiling" of passengers, carried out
well in advance of their flights, based on "biometric identifiers"
such as iris scans or fingerprints.

However, both he and Mr Reid stressed that there were no plans for
profiling based on passengers' ethnic origins. Rather, the profiling
would be drawn from biometric information.

This would actually speed up airport security procedures, he argued.

But the scheme could also pave the way for an EU-wide database,
provoking outrage from privacy rights campaigners last night.

The plan to extend biometric procedures - already enforced in the
United States, Canada and Australia - to European airports was
revealed after an informal meeting of EU interior ministers in London
yesterday.

Other measures agreed include a commitment to stamping out radicalism
by stricter policing of the internet, replacing extremism with a
"European" model of Islam, a 250 million research project into liquid
explosives and a meeting of security services across Europe this month.

The details emerged after ministers from the current Finnish EU
presidency, as well as future EU presidencies Germany, France,
Portugal and Slovenia, were briefed along with Mr Reid and Mr Frattini
yesterday by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the MI5 director general,
and Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, the head of special operations
at Scotland Yard.

Responding to the plans, Phil Booth, the national co-ordinator of
NO2ID, a UK campaign group which lobbies against a centralised
biometrics database, said the biometric scheme could not work unless
Europe had the fingerprint of every international terrorist on record.

"If [interior ministers] do not have that, then what they are
proposing is the construction of the largest haystack of all time to
find a few needles," he said.

"This magical thinking about biometrics identifying terrorists is
plainly crazy. What is more worrying is that John Reid is
grandstanding and using an alleged incident to conflate our security
and our freedom."

Mr Booth added that biometrics could also be used for de facto racial
profiling of passengers: "Because it is a measure of the body,
biometrics will often identify people's ethnic origin."

Other proposals revealed by Mr Frattini included the training of imams
at EU level after concerns that extremists were taking over mosques,
while radicalisation across schools and prisons would also come under
closer scrutiny.

"We do want a European Islam and that is very important not only to
show to the Muslim communities that we fully respect other religions
... but we also want [them to] respect national laws, European laws
and fundamental rights - first of all the right to life," he said.

The bloc will look into a suggestion by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French
interior minister, to set up counter-terrorism expert teams at EU
level ready to help countries if needed, he said.

Meanwhile, a separate 250 million fund was announced to help to
research and detect liquid explosives.

Mr Frattini said that he would make proposals in coming days on the
detection of explosives.

Yesterday, Mr Reid said Europe would not allow terrorists to undermine
the "common European values that bind our societies together".

The proponents of terror "would abuse our open societies, would misuse
our freedoms and adapt the latest technology to their evil intent and
have no regard for human life or for human rights".

"As we face the threat of mass murder, we have to accept that the
rights of the individual that we enjoy must, and will be, balanced
with the collective right of security and the protection of life and
limb that our citizens demand," he added.

Meanwhile, a YouGov poll out today reveals that more than half of
people in the UK questioned wanted a "more aggressive" foreign policy.
And 55 per cent supported passenger profiling at airports.

Related topics

* Terrorism in the UK
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=758
* Identity cards
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=428
* Tony Blair's leadership
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=926

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