Ruins of the Golden Circle: ‘Beast’ to patrol crime-ridden Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia is often held up by the US media as the model of the ‘New South‘ and capital of the ‘Sunbelt.’ However, all is not well in this once-Southern city which has been heavily re-populated with non-Southerners. Atlanta, as well as the rest of the post-plantation region known as the ‘Golden Circle‘ by many in the nineteenth century, is experiencing many of the same challenges as other cities within the region. One of those challenges is a major crime problem that arises from what are essentially Third World areas of the metropolises. This is a challenge that largely stems from the imposition of equality and democracy upon the region, an imposition which led to the total collapse of civilisation in some parts of the region (such as St Domingue, now known as Haiti). In other places such as South Carolina the collapse of civilisation was prevented only by a revolution which restored order and civility. However, even in places such as Dixie and Brazil where civilisation was not lost, chaos and poverty resulted from the egalitarian experiment in the formerly wealthy and ordered agrarian regions. Recently, we have reported on the killing wave in Brazil and how the Brazilian government has had to launch a major military/police operation with tanks and helicopters to re-take the vast Third World slums from heavily armed criminal gangs. Atlanta is not that bad yet. Indeed, there are very nice parts of the city, much as there are in the Brazilian cities that are ringed by slums. Crime and violence, however, are a major problem and Atlanta has a reputation for this (it is the eighth most dangerous city in the USA). It is now being reported that police departments in the Atlanta area are using the Lenco Bearcat, an armoured personnel carrier, in the fight against a crime wave that includes home invasions and burglaries. These vehicles cost about a quarter of a million dollars or more each and, as reported in the WND news article, they are sold to police departments across the United States – often with Federal funding assistance. The company that produces them is based in Massachusetts. This means that Southerners are taxed in order to enrich a New England business and to put armoured personnel carriers in Southern cities that have been devastated by the imposition of the Northern political and social agenda. This is what is referred to as ‘progress’ and is, of course, just one of the many benefits that Southerners receive for living under the United States Federal Government.

Texans fight on for independence from USA

Manny Fernandez’s recent article for The New York Times makes it clear that while Barack Obama may have rejected the right of self-determination, secessionists in Texas are not going away. The Texas Nationalist Movement, a pro-independence group spotlighted in the article, recently held a rally for secession at the State capital and spent the day lobbying government officials on the issue. As National Public Radio has reported, the States and regions are more divided than ever. Obama’s recent executive orders restricting gun rights have only heightened the tension, provoking a backlash from State governments and sheriffs. Fernandez writes: [T]he response — in which a White House official said the founding fathers established the United States as a “perpetual union” — hardly discouraged the Texas secession movement, which has been simmering for decades but gained momentum after the re-election of President Obama. On the opening day of the Legislature here last Tuesday, supporters of the Texas Nationalist Movement — a group that wants Texas to sever its federal ties and become an independent nation — met with Republican leaders, including Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. It was another sign that ideas once regarded as radical and even unpatriotic have found a measure of support, or at least sympathy, among some conservatives. The movement also scored a mention in one legislator’s opening-day speech, though it was not a reference that pleased supporters of the cause. “Our economy is so vast and diverse that if Texas were its own country — and no, don’t worry, that isn’t something we’re going to do this session — but if we were, we’d be the 14th-largest economy in the world,” the speaker of the House, Joe Straus III, a San Antonio Republican, told lawmakers. …The communications director for the Texas Nationalist Movement, Jeff Sadighi, shrugged off the White House response and pointed to a section of the State Constitution that says Texans have the right “to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.” At the opening of the legislative session, the group rallied on the steps of the Capitol and went to the offices of lawmakers seeking support for a referendum asking Texas voters to accept or reject secession. They got a warm reception: the group’s president, Daniel Miller, met with Mr. Dewhurst for about an hour. “We had a lengthy discussion about the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution and the future of Texas,” Mr. Miller said. “He was cordial and engaging on the issues with which we are concerned.” A spokesman for the lieutenant governor, Matt Hirsch, said that Mr. Miller was one of several constituents who met with Mr. Dewhurst on the first day of the session, but that as a proud veteran Mr. Dewhurst believed in preserving and protecting the Union. Advocates for self-determination are finally being treated with some respect by some in the media and many in State government. This is a radical change from even just a few years ago. It should be pointed out that Lt Governor Dewhurst, who was born in 1945, bases his opposition to independence upon having been in the US military. Of course, a large number of secessionists, both historically and presently, were at one time or another in the US military. But the question that Dewhurst should be asked is does he truthfully consider the USA to be the same one (in terms of values, demography, culture and politics) for which he fought many years ago? The clear answer to this question is ‘no.’ Given all the many problems with the United States in the 1960s, it is still true that things for White Southern conservatives such as Dewhurst have been made far worse since then. In fact, the US media and Dewhurst’s political opponents regularly celebrate the fact that, given present US trends that result from Federal policy, people like Dewhurst are rapidly being displaced. This is not something that just happened without cause; present US trends (which are displacing people like Dewhurst and which will make future generations of his family a small minority with little political influence in their own land) are a result of the policies imposed upon Texas and the other States by the US Federal Government. Those trends could be halted or reversed if Texas were independent.

Discovery Channel is Anti-2nd Amendment and Anti-South

In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, the Discovery Channel has caved to pressure from the anti-gun elements of our society and has cancelled among others, the popular program “Sons of Guns” of which I was/am an avid fan. Leading the charge is of course the New York Times, the pompous Yankee daily that demonizes anything southern and anything freedom related. 

Although the article was rather ambiguous about the status of the show, it’s reasonable to assume based on the cancellation of other “gun shows” that the Baton Rouge based, Red Jacket Firearms will no longer be the topic of a popular reality show on the network. The status of the show is not ratings related.

Another recent article stated:

Complaints about the show centered around the fact that it made “buying/owning guns seem fun, glamorous, even normal,” and that it was “inappropriate” to broadcast the program in the aftermath of Friday’s events. Given the fact that almost half of Americans own guns, one wonders how owning guns in America can be described as anything other than “normal”.

You see owning guns is only “normal” for those crazies and southerners right? Any other normal person living in New England the Upper Midwest or the West Coast, would have no need for guns. Those sophisticated societies are virtually free of gun crime right? After all protecting yourself is nuts, leave the protection to the government, they are doing a great job.

Southern Industry: Total Net Electricity Generation

Dixie

Total Net Electricity Generation (thousand MWh), August 2012

Texas – 44,522
Florida – 21,836
Alabama – 15,064
Georgia – 12,115
Louisiana – 9,939
North Carolina – 11,411
South Carolina – 9,063
Missouri – 8,797
Kentucky – 8,683
Oklahoma – 8,249
Tennessee – 7,602
West Virginia – 7,218
Virginia – 7,033
Arkansas – 6,203
Mississippi – 5,629

Total U.S. South: 183,364
Percent of U.S. South Net Electricity Generation: 47%

Southern potential: Agriculture & energy

By the League of South

 

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the Southern people enjoyed one of the wealthiest and most productive societies in the entire world. The Southern States produced about 75% of the world’s cotton, with sales of this crop constituting about 60% of all US exports. The strength of the US economy at that time was largely based on the output of Southern plantations. Cottonwas then the most valuable commodity traded internationally. This was before Southern independence and the subsequent US invasion and destruction of much of the South.

Much has changed since then but once again the South is in place to be among the wealthiest, most productive places on this planet. Southerners have largely recovered from the total war the United States waged against them and have an impressive infrastructure, agricultural output and energy potential. The only thing holding the South back at this point are the restrictive regulations and crippling policies imposed upon Southerners by the US Federal Government. Freed from those policies, there is no reason to believe Southerners wouldn’t return to a position of great prosperity.

Hunter Wallace at the site Confederate Renaissance has done some research over the last month or so on the economic output and potential of the South. His findings fly in the face of the US stereotype of the South being a backwards, impoverished region. As noted above, the only thing holding Southerners back is Washington, DC. Some of his findings are summarised below:

The South produces about half of US nuclear energy – and freed of DC regulations could produce MUCH more.

AGRICULTURE

• The South produces 80% of US cotton, with Texas (28.6%) leading the way and Mississippi (9.7%), Georgia (9%) and Arkansas (8.6%) all producing quite a bit as well.
• About 81% of US rice is produced in the South, with the people of Arkansas accounting for nearly half (46.7%).
• Poultry is almost an entirely (90%) Southern industry in the USA. Georgia and Arkansas are nearly tied for first place in this field.
• The South also produce nearly half (46%) of all the eggs in the US.
• Almost all (98.6%) of peanutsproduced in the US come from the South.
• The vast majority of pecans (76.2%) are produced in Dixie.
• The South produces 21% of US soybeans.
• One third (33,1%) of cattle and calves in the US come from the South.
• Twenty-seven percent of hogs in the US come from Dixie.
• About 60% of all US forest products are produced in the South.

ENERGY

• Eighteen percent of US coal reserves are in the South.
• Thirty-one percent of US coal production comes from the South.
• Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Oklahoma and Louisiana are rich in natural gas.
• The South produces about half (47%) of the US’s electricity.

These are really just the tip of the iceberg. A great deal of South’s economic, agricultural and energy potential is not included here, but one can get an idea of the wealth that the South could produce from the above number. Is there any doubt that the South would be an economic superpower if it were freed from the burdensome regulations, taxation, and legislation forced upon it by Washington, DC? Southerners have one of the richest and most fertile lands in all the world. The Southern people have demonstrated the capacity to harness those resources, producing products that feed and provide energy for people across the United States and beyond. This combination of Southern ingenuity and a bountiful land would allow Southerners to enjoy an extremely high level of prosperity and production – if they were free. And as we have seen from recent polls and news reports, millions of Southerners do want to be free.

Remembering Franklin & Southern sacrifice

By  the League of the South

 

The following is an article written by Calen, an SNN reader, about the Battle of Franklin:

This is a day early, but I want it to be seen. Tomorrow marks an anniversary that every Southerner should remember, but sadly, most have forgotten. It was Pickett’s Charge, multiplied. Tomorrow is Franklin. On 30 November 148 years ago over 20,000 Confederate troops bravely charged into the fire… and nearly 1,500 went on to the halls of their ancestors, with 5,500 more wounded, just south of Nashville, TN. The charge at Franklin was the most glorious, hellacious and devastating charge our people have ever engaged in on this continent. Sam Watkins, Co. H 1st Tennessee infantry, veteran of every battle of the Army of Tennessee, who was there, could hardly write the chapter in his memoirs; in them he stated this: ‘Kind reader, right here my pen, and courage, and ability fail me. I shrink from butchery. Would to God I could tear the page from these memoirs and from my own memory. It was the blackest page in the history of the war of the Lost Cause… I was there. I saw it. My flesh trembles, and creeps, and crawls when I think of it today. My heart almost ceases to beat at the horrid recollection. Would to God that I had never witnessed such a scene.’

In that slaughter on the road back to Nashville, 14 Southern generals fell, 6 mortally: Patrick Cleburne, John Carter, John Adams, Hiram Granbury, States Rights Gist, and Otho Strahl were all killed leading their men in the assault on the Union breastworks at Franklin. Adams was found upright in his saddle, riddled with bullets, with his horse’s legs on either side of the works. Cleburne vanished in a cloud of gun smoke and was found with a bullet in his heart. Fifty-five regimental commanders were lost.

So was Capt. Tod Carter. When the Army of Tennessee crossed the Georgia-Tennessee border, the soldiers were heartened by a sign on the side of the road that read ‘Tennessee, A Grave or A Free Home.’ Those words must have had special meaning for Tod, the middle child in the Carter family, who had enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861. By 1864, he was the assistant quartermaster to Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith in the Army of Tennessee. On the eve of the Battle of Franklin, a friend described Carter as “in a perfect ecstasy of joy’ to be seeing his family the next day. As part of Bates’s division, Smith’s brigade launched their attack at Franklin from the far left of the Confederate line. Although Tod Carter’s quartermaster duties did not require him to fight, he would not hear of it. He mounted his horse and rode ahead of the brigade, shouting ‘Follow me boys, I’m almost home!’ About five hundred feet from his front yard, Tod Carter was struck by a Union bullet and tumbled into the blood-soaked grass. After the day’s carnage had ended, the Carter family emerged from their cellar only to be greeted by General Smith with the news of Tod’s wounding. By lantern-light, Smith and the Carters spent hours searching the corpse-strewn battlefield for the young captain. His sisters’ screams announced to the party that the search was over. Dying and insensible, Tod was carried back to the Carter House near dawn and set down in his sister Annie’s room. He died the next day.

Not far from Carter, in his same division and on the extreme left flank, was the badly mauled Florida Brigade where my Great-Gr-Gr-Gr-Grandfather, Pvt. Stephen Harris, Company F, 7th Regiment Florida Infantry stood. He’d been with the Army since ’62. In the charge they were initially enfiladed by heavy Federal fire then pinned down by an artillery battery for nearly 8 hours. Had he died there I, as well as every other Smith in my family, wouldn’t exist today.

I myself have marched on what’s left of the field at Franklin. Most is covered by urban sprawl now. I was even close enough to touch Cleburne’s hat and sword belt that he was wearing when he fell. Robert E Lee said Cleburne was ‘a meteor shining brightly from a clouded sky.’ Cleburne bravely took his feared ‘Blue Flag’ division straight up the center, right after telling his troops ‘today we are to die, so let us die like men.’ They did.

So tomorrow know you come from real heroes, real warriors. From Cleburne, Granbury and Carter to Cú Chulainn, Beowulf and Sigurd. Let us be worthy of them, those Men who fought and fell to hand down a future and a noble tradition to the Sons and Daughters of Dixie. Tacitus said long ago of our people ‘as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.’ So let us remember, let us be proud and unashamed. Let us hold our heads unapologetically high. Let us know we are yet unconquered and un-reconstructed. Let us realize we are strong again. Let us be sure they did not die in vain. I ask you all to think long on what they did for us. What will you do for them? What will you do for your descendants?

‘Fare thee well departed Chieftain
Erin’s Bards send forth a wail
And our country sad laments thee.
Passed so late through death’s dark vale.
Blow ye gentle breezes softly o’er him.
Fan his brow with gentle breath
Disturb ye not his peaceful slumber
Cleburne sleeps the sleep of death.
Rest thee, Cleburne; tears of sadness
Flow from hearts thou’st nobly won;
Memory ne’er will cease to cherish
Deeds of Glory thou hast done…’

Continuity in Southern civilisation

By The League of the South

 

Historian Raimondo Luraghi in his book The Rise and Fall of the Plantation South points out that the Old South was not at all a progressive society. The drive that is found in the civilisation of the Northeast to remake society, taking on one social crusade after another, is not native to the South. The very concept of ‘progressive civilisation’ itself is alien to the traditional South. Conservative thinkers such as William Lind have pointed to belief in maintaining the continuity of society and its traditions as the underlying principle of conservatism. In the short passage below excerpted from Luraghi’s book the point (take from page 91) about the continuity of Southern civilisation is emphasised and contrasted to the lack of continuity in capitalist, progressive civilisations:

Sir Walter Raleigh‘s (or Relegh, as he preferred) Seal of Office

The American seigneurial civilization, from its very birth down to 1861, ranged over a span of about three hundred and fifty years. Yet a man born when Ralegh was still alive – either in Brazil or in the West Indies or in Virginia or even a man living in South Carolina at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a contemporary of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who might have been resurrected in the Old South at the rise of the Confederacy – would have found himself in a wholly familiar social milieu. Among the most striking features of seigneurial society was its immobilism – indeed, very few societies had ever been so static. Between the South Carolina of early 1700 and that of 1861 there was almost no difference – the same hierarchic organization, the same social culture, the same backward way of cultivating the land. Had this man been from the rice district, the crops and the way slaves worked the rice fields would have been familiar to him. Incidentally, this would, by itself, destroy the pretense that the southern civilization was “capitalistic.” As Marx adroitly observed, what most characterizes capitalist society is its high grade of dynamism. In the Old South, stillness was the basic concept. So, a man born on an eighteenth century Virginia or South Carolina plantation would have found absolutely no trouble adapting himself to plantation life in 1861.

Instead, how different the case of a man born in a capitalistic society of the eighteenth century and transplanted into the same area one hundred and sixty years later!