A few of our readers in Florida are starting a new pro-Confederate Heritage Super PAC. Visit the website and check it out for yourself.  Sunshine State Heritage PAC is a non-profit, non-partisan, voluntary committee of historical enthusiasts.  They are going to be supporting candidates in the upcoming local and state elections that support our cause.  You can read all about it on the website.  The website is:
 
http://www.sunshinestateheritagepac.org/home.html


One of our readers sent me an interesting eMail this week:
Hillary says: "Vote for me because I'm a woman."
Bernie says: "Vote for me and I'll give you some of his."
Ted Cruz says: "Vote for me and I'll kick over all those rice bowls in Washington." 

Marco Rubio says: "Vote for me because I am electable as determined by the Republican establishment."

Donald Trump says: "Vote for me and the emergency room at your local hospital won't look like a bus station in rural Mexico"


NEW VIDEO EXPOSES MLK MYTHS

John Battell has asked that I share a youtube link with everyone. I have watched the first hour so far and believe that this video is worth your time. If you are determined not to watch all of it at least make a point to watch the first 18 minutes. The video is a documentary of how the MLK myth was fabricated. The first 18 minutes is a concise explanation of how the left has been molding the American mind and political landscape for 3 generations. Here is the youtube link:

LETTER FROM OUR READER TO SKALLYWAG LINDSEY GRAHAM:

The Honorable Lindsey Graham,

My two Great Grandfathers defended the Constitution and their Homeland against an invader whose intent was to crush and subjugate the Southern States. They were honorable men and their pride, heritage and courage to stand up for God And their social, and economical lifestyles are part of the fabric that binds the United States today.

House Bill HR 3007 is an unjust and unpatriotic action by a few to prohibit the display of the Confederate Battle Flag  in National Cemeteries.  We were divided then as a Nation but "All" serve today under one God and one Great United States of America. No individual or group can devalue the Service of Any Veteran. Veterans are to be protected and respected by all Americans not a few.

Respectfully request your support to defeat this destructive House Bill.

Very Respectfully, 
Robert Lee Henderson, Jr. 
Robelee06@yahoo.com

Note: I am an 80% Disabled Army Veteran who served 30 years Active Duty in 4 combat zones from the Vietnam Nam years to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.


SKALLYWAG'S PATHETIC REPLY:
 
From: "Senator Lindsey Graham" <Senator@lgraham.senate.gov>
Date: February 17, 2016 at 8:15:38 PM EST
To: <robelee06@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Your Message

Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I appreciate the opportunity to hear from you.

Due to the large volume of mail I receive, I regret that I am only able to respond personally to inquiries from South Carolinians.

As we continue our work in the 114th Congress, I look forward to supporting our troops in the War on Terror, repairing our economy and creating jobs, strengthening Social Security, lowering the tax burden on American families, and making the federal government more accountable and efficient.

If your correspondence pertains to a scheduling request, please fax your request to (202) 224-3808.

Sincerely,

Lindsey Graham
 
Editor's Note: Lindsey Graham is not a "State Senator." He is a UNITED STATES Senator. That means he holds a FEDERAL office, NOT a State office. His actions effect everyone, not just the residents of South Carolina. Also, the First Amendment gives ALL Americans the right to petition all members of the Federal Congress. It also gives Lindsey Graham the Constitutional obligation to entertain ALL of those petitions when he receives them. So Lindsey Graham's canned auto-responder message to Mr. Henderson is proof that he does not take seriously his oath of office, or the responsibilities of his office as they are outlined in the Constitution.


SOUTHERNERS CALLING FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

One of our readers sent this to us this week:

35 states so far

This is what Mark Levine has been talking about--a constitutional convention by the states to get back to the laws of the Constitution.  This will take less than thirty seconds to read.  If you agree, please pass it on  This is an idea that we need to address.   

35 STATES SO FAR...AND GROWING 
               
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them.  It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Their latest stunt is to exempt  themselves from the Healthcare Reform that they passed ... in all of its forms.  Somehow, that doesn't seem logical.  We do not have an elite ruling class that is above the law.  I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever.  The self-serving must stop.     
  
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of  the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators, Representatives of Congress and the President of the United States;  and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or  Representatives and the President of the United States that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ..."   
     
Editor's Note: I agree that a lot needs to be addressed and changed. I do not know that a Constitutional Convention needs to be convened because when that happens we open the Constitution up to changes that we likely will not like. The Liberals have been clamoring for a Constitutional Convention for decades and God only knows what they would do given the opportunity. Perhaps the solution is that we simply follow the Constitution that we have and hold elected and appointed officials accountable.  

TENNESSEE PROTECTION OF MONUMENTS LEGISLATION 
 
NASHVILLE - The state House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would, if it becomes law, make it more difficult for a local government in Tennessee to alter, rename or remove a historical monument on public property.

The bill by Rep. Steve McDaniel, R-Parker's Crossroads, isn't limited to Civil War monuments and memorials, like Memphis's Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, but much of the 30-minute floor debate centered on the bill's impact on Civil War era iconography. It would replace and strengthen a 2013 law McDaniel sponsored as the Memphis City Council was renaming Forrest Park and two other Confederate-themed city parks.

The new bill would require a two-thirds majority vote by the 29-member Tennessee Historical Commission before a local government could "remove, rename, relocate, alter, rededicate or otherwise disturb or alter" any memorial or monument regarding a "historic conflict, historic event, historic figure or historic organization" located on public property. The 2013 statute required only a majority vote of the commission.

House bill 2129 would also set out a process in which either the local government, or groups and in some cases an interested individual, could appeal the Historical Commission's action into Chancery Court.
McDaniel said after the House session that the bill can't be used to seek to reverse the renaming of Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park, Confederate Park to Memphis Park and Jefferson Davis Park to Mississippi River Park, but he's not sure whether it might impact the City Council's vote last summer to remove the statue of Forrest astride his horse and the remains of the Confederate general and his wife from the park to another location.

The City Council still has not petitioned the Historical Commission for approval to move the statue and remains, as apparently required by the 2013 act, and a lawsuit challenging the parks' renaming is still pending in the courts.

On the House floor, some black lawmakers argued against the bill but it ultimately passed on a 71-23 vote. Rep. Larry Miller, D-Memphis, asked whether a city council or county commission could vote to remove a Confederate flag that might be flying on public land.

McDaniel said he's unaware of a Confederate battle flag flying on any local public property but removing "a monument or emblem or symbol put there legally by a local government" would require petitioning the Historical Commission for approval and a two-thirds vote.

Conversely, if Nashville's Metropolitan Council wanted to rename Rosa Parks Boulevard in Nashville, McDaniel said in response to questions from Rep. Brenda Gilmore, D-Nashville, the council would also have to win the commission's approval because Rosa Parks was a historical figure.

Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, argued for the bill and urged his colleagues to consider the bill an effort to preserve history.

"We have a stain on our history because of what took place with the black community of our country," he said. "But it would be wrong to our children and grandchildren to erase and pretend that part of our history didn't happen. We know what we did wrong because we still have the history of what we did wrong."

Rep. Joe Towns, D-Memphis, said he agreed with much of Faison's remarks but is concerned that the state is removing the authority of local governments to make their own decisions.

"At some point we're going to have to stop constricting the ability of local officials," he said. "We become the dictator to locals. We don't like it when the federal government does it to us. The locals don't like it when we do it."

The discussion involved a brief heated exchange of words in the rear of the House chamber when Rep. G.A. Hardaway, D-Memphis, walked across the chamber to chastise Rep. Curry Todd, R-Collierville, for Todd's failed effort to cut off debate on the bill. When Todd rose to face him, Secretary of State Tre Hargett and Rep. John Mark Windle, D-Livingston, separated the two.
 
 
 
 Governor Proclaims That April Is Now 'Confederate Heritage Month'

In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April as Confederate Heritage Day.

Bryant signed an official proclamation regarding the month of April's new designation, which you can view on his website, between Physician Anesthesiologists Week 2016 and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day 2016. The Governor's proclamation was requested and championed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans according to the Jackson Free Press.

From Bryant's proclamation:

"April is the month in which Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle; and on Confederate Memorial Day, we recognize those who served in the Confederacy; and April 25, 2016, is set aside as Confederate Memorial Day to honor those who served in the Confederacy; and it is important for all Americans to reflect Upon our nation's past, to insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us: Now, Therefor, I, Phil Bryant, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April 2016 as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi.
 

CELEBRATE FLAG DAY
 
On March 5th, the SCV will be holding flag rallies across the country to commemorate the first annual "Confederate Flag Day." We encourage everyone to check the CSA Flag Day website, www.csaflag.org - find the event closest to you, and make plans to attend and show your support for our flags and our Cause.
  
 
EFFORT TO REMOVE STATUE OF GENERAL MOUTON IN LOUISIANA TAKES A NEW TURN
 
Last week we reported that in the City of Lafayette, Louisiana, there is a small movement to remove the statue of Brig. Gen. J.J. Alfred A. Mouton from its prominent location downtown in front of the old city hall.    

As we reported last week this is not the first time an effort has been made to remove the statue. Back in 1980 a court injunction was sought by the UDC to protect the monument. The injunction seems to be preventing those who would remove the statue today from doing so. So the enemies of our heritage have taken a different approach. They are proposing that General Mouton's statue be surrounded by statues of slaves and signage pontificating the evils of slavery and of the slave-holding Confederacy.
Will the LUNACY ever stop?



MARYLAND TO PROHIBIT RENEWALS OF CONFEDERATE LICENSE PLATES

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The Maryland House has passed a measure prohibiting the transfer or renewal of a license plate depicting the Confederate battle flag to another vehicle.

The House voted 131-8 on Thursday for the bill. It now goes to the Senate.

Maryland does not now offer plates with the Confederate battle flag. But prior to November, the Motor Vehicle Administration offered a Sons of Confederate Veterans organizational special registration plate that included it.

In October, a federal judge lifted a 1997 injunction preventing Maryland from removing plates from circulation. Maryland tried to recall the plates in the 1990s, but a judge at the time ruled they were protected under the First Amendment. In June, the Supreme Court ruled they were a form of government speech and could be rejected by states.

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The flag battle just totally changed direction in Mississippi. The AP article below not only shows the unusual approach being taken by some politicians itm also indicates that this battle could remain in front of the populace through 2018. The down side to such a long drawn out battle plan is that the forces of evil are certainly patient if they are anything and they can go the distance whereas even if our forces can keep pace the general public will eventually grow weary of the whole ordeal and finally support yet another blow deeming it inevitable and just wanting to move onto anything else.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -

In Mississippi, the last state to display the Confederate battle emblem on its flag, some lawmakers want the divisive symbol removed, others want to punish public institutions that refuse to fly the banner and a state House leader suggests having two separate but equal flags: one with the rebel cross and one without.

Old South symbols have come under widespread scrutiny since last June....Mississippi lawmakers remain deeply divided over their state's banner.

Several say it's is an offensive reminder of slavery and segregation. They propose replacing it with stars or a magnolia, the state's official tree and flower.

Others say Mississippi's 122-year-old flag represents history and heritage, and they propose stripping state funding from universities or local governments that refuse to fly it.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant says withholding state money is a bad idea. But he says voters, not legislators, should decide on the flag.

Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden, the House's second ranking leader, proposes having two state flags with equal status, so people could fly whichever one they want - the current flag or an historical flag with a magnolia tree in the center.

 The Charleston shootings prompted South Carolina legislators and Gov. Nikki Haley to remove a Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse lawn. Even before they acted, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn became the first prominent Republican in his GOP-dominated state to say Mississippi should consider changing its flag.

Since then, however, Gunn has mostly been silent on the issue.

For any flag proposals to survive this year, they must advance quickly. If bills aren't brought up for a committee vote by Tuesday, they die.

Meanwhile, rival groups are gathering signatures on petitions - one that would enshrine the current design in the state Constitution, and another that would remove any trace of Confederate symbolism from the banner.

Neither measure could be on the ballot until 2018.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the flag, while widely used, had not been officially recognized by state law since code books were updated in 1906. In the fall of 2000, a flag commission held several hearings that devolved into shouting matches.

Legislators put the matter to a statewide vote in April 2001. By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, voters chose the old flag over an alternative that would have displayed circles of stars representing Mississippi as the 20th state.

Since the Charleston massacre, some Mississippi cities, counties and universities have stopped flying the state flag.

Republican state Rep. William Shirley of Quitman said that became a hot topic of conversation at his catfish restaurant when the University of Mississippi stopped flying the flag. The consensus, he said, was that any school that takes state money should fly the flag. Shirley is now sponsoring legislation to pull state money from universities, community colleges or local governments that don't fly the banner.

"Whatever our flag is, I think public institutions or people that get government dollars need to fly whatever that is," said Shirley, who supports keeping the Confederate emblem.

Asked about efforts to change the flag, Shirley said: "Where do we stop? What's next?"

Several African-American lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Hillman Frazier of Jackson, propose replacing the current flag with the historical magnolia flag - the design Snowden proposes as a second flag.
Gov. Bryant told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he still believes if the flag must be reconsidered, the current design and an alternate should be put on the ballot this November.

"Let the people make this decision. That's my position," Bryant said.

The governor said he opposes pulling state money from schools, universities or other public entities that shun the flag. That would only hurt young people who are trying to get their education, the governor said.

"I'd rather not punish them for something that has a simple solution," Bryant said. "And that solution should be, put it on the ballot and let the people decide."

Frazier, who served on the flag commission in 2000, said another flag vote would divide Mississippi. He said legislative leaders should adopt a new flag and Bryant should sign it into law: "They ought to take a page out of Gov. Haley's book in South Carolina."

TRUMP AND THE PRO-CONFEDERATE VOTE

Ted Cruz' robo-caller is busy today. The latest robocall recording an apparently desperate play to turn out disgruntled southerners by attacking Donald Trump for Governor Nikki Haley's removal of the Confederate Flag back in June.

I'm going to guess that Ted reads the polls every morning so he's gotta know that Trump was endorsed earlier this week by pro-Confederate newspaper The Conservative Action Report has endorsed Trump.The Conservative Action Report is on record as "proudly defends the Confederate South and the Confederate flag."

While South Carolina's anti-Confederate Governor has endorsed Marco Rubio, the State's Lieutenant Governor, who appears to be at the very least a "Fair-weather" supporter of the flag, has endorsed Trump.

And according to advanced polling data Trump's support in South Carolina is built on a base of voters among whom "....70% think the Confederate flag should still be flying over the State Capital, to only 20% who agree with it being taken down."

"In fact 38% of Trump voters say they wish the South had won the Civil War to only 24% glad the North won and 38% who aren't sure."

Overall just 36% of Republican primary voters in the state are glad the North emerged victorious to 30% for the South, but Trump's the only one whose supporters actually wish the South had won.

36% of Republicans in South Carolina are glad the North won, slightly more than wish the South won, with nearly a third of the Republicans not sure. Cruz backers are evenly divided on the question. But less than a quarter of Trump's supporters, supporting the man that Cruz would have you believe is the embodiment of New York values, are glad the Yankees prevailed.

70% percent of Republicans in South Carolina think the Confederate flag should still be flying over the state capitol, while just 20 percent agree with the decision to take it down.  So Nikki Halley's popularity is nowhere near as high as the national media is reporting it to be. The removal of the Confederate flag was the reason given by over 2/3 of Trump supporters at a recent rally for why they no longer support their Governor. The other third cited concern that Haley joined the masses of politicians in Washington pushing for stricter gun control laws.

In the morning the polls will open in South Carolina and we will find out exactly how much Confederate support Mr. Trump has earned. At the very least Confederates are smart enough to see through Ted Cruz' using our flag (which by the way he does not support) in what may end up being the sleeziest campaign in modern history.    



EFFORT TO REMOVE STATUE OF GENERAL MOUTON IN LOUISIANA
 
Many of you are aware of the effort in New Orleans by the Mayor to remove statues of Lee, Davis and Beauregard.  Well, just about 150 miles west, in the City of Lafayette, Louisiana, there is a small movement that has jumped on the Dixiephobia bandwagon and wants to remove the statue of Brig. Gen. J.J. Alfred A. Mouton from its prominent location downtown in front of the old city hall. The movement, known as Why Alfred? this is their mission statement:
 
"Jean-Jacques Alfred Mouton was a Confederate general, his father was the first Louisiana born governor of Louisiana and his grandfather is credited with the founding of Vermilionville (current day Lafayette). Alfred, however, did very little (if anything) for Lafayette. We are a group of individuals dedicated to educating the public on the history of Alfred Mouton, and posing the question of whether his statue should have the place of prominence downtown. We are suggesting that his statue would be more appropriate at his family home, Mouton House, a block away from it's current location."

The group claims that Mouton's pre-war activities as leader of a vigilante committee overshadow any of his Confederate Service. For those who do not know, Mouton gave his life on the battlefield at Mansfield, Louisiana, on April 8, 1864. So, the group wants to know why? That is why!

There is now a counter effort to the Why Alfred? group. It is called Why Not Alfred?  The WNA? group is working diligently to put a stop to this absurd effort. The local chapter of the UDC, aptly named the Alfred Mouton Chapter, has pulled out a 1980 court injunction which protects the statue from movement.  It has been shared with the city council, the press and by now the Why Alfred? folks are aware of it, too.  As you know, activists never let a piece of paper get in their way. 

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Chaplain Ed

University of Chicago law professor David Currie wrote that, "Jefferson Davis said that the South did not object to the [United States] Constitution, but to the way it had been 'perverted by northern interpretation.'"

Our Southern ancestors did not withdraw themselves from the Union and form their own nation because they wanted a new form of government. Rather, the northern States and yankee-controlled central government had so disregarded the Constitution that the ONLY way to REVIVE the OLD form of government was to separate and establish a new one.

Now, over 150 years later, we once again find BOTH of our nation's political parties are run by Yankees and demonstrating total disregard and even DISDAIN for our nation's Constitution.

I'm just going to say it, there was overwhelming evidence that Barak Obama might not have been a natural born citizen. And the Democratic Party made no effort whatsoever to confirm his eligibility to hold office prior to his nomination. That was a total disregard for the Constitution and its clear instruction that the President be a "natural born citizen."

But the Republican Party was no better. Not only did they refuse to vet Obama's eligibility, the GOP's party bosses ram-rodded the party's voters to nominate John McCain, a man they knew to have been born in Panama.

So neither party gives a tinker's dam about the Constitution! And it was that attitude that finally compelled our Southern ancestors to establish an independent nation of southern States.

Fast forward to 2016. And the only person asking why the GOP is promoting the candidacy of a Canadian-born person for the office of President of the United States.

I have a lot of thoughts on John McCain. I did in 2008 but didn't bother to articulate them because he was born in Panama. So not being a natural born citizen the remainder of my opinions regarding him were MOOT and immaterial. He did not meet the basic qualifications for the office that are outlined in our Constitution.

The same goes for Ted Cruz. There is a LOT about Ted Cruz that I am inclined to like. But it doesn't matter because a person born in Canada is not, nor never will be a "natural born citizen" of any of these united States. So I can not support his candidacy. And I have serious questions about supporting a party that has a track record for running candidates that it knows do not meet basic constitutional qualifications.
Moving on, I will not take the time to break down Ted Cruz because he, as I have just written, does not meet the qualifications to hold the office. But I do feel compelled to share with you the research of one of our readers regarding Ted's father.

Dr. John Tisdale is a Texas pastor, the President of Anchor Theological Seminary, and a leader in the Baptist Missionary Association. I know John personally and do not believe that he has researched or written as he has with any malice toward Rafael or Ted Cruz:

PASTOR CRUZ?

I met Rafael Cruz in McAllen, Texas when his son, Rafael (Ted) Cruz was running for Texas senator. SOMETHING BOTHERED ME ABOUT HIM when I heard him sharing his testimony at the Cruz for Senator meeting sponsored by the local Tea Party...SOMETHING IN MY SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED.

I am not a skeptic by nature and I usually trust what someone tells me until I find out differently. From my personal research I am convinced Rafael Cruz is a charismatic and, as I have said many time, "I have never met a charismatic who did not have a lying spirit." I believe that "Pastor Cruz" has a lying spirit. I have read his biographical information used when he speaks at churches or Tea Party events, or other places, and it is very misleading.

When I met dad Cruz he was introduced as a "pastor of a church in the Dallas, TX ." The biographical promo that he uses refers to him as "Pastor, Professor, (and) Father of US Senator Ted Cruz." Senator Cruz has listed his father as a "pastor" on his official Senate bio webpage. It bothered me as to why the name of the church he pastored in the Dallas, Texas area was not named. I still don't the name of a church he pastors and cannot find any information where he is even listed as "a" or "the" pastor of a church in the Dallas area.

The claim that he is pastor "of a church" appears to fictitious and/or misleading.

I did find that he has been influenced by the NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION/LATTER RAIN/KINGDOM NOW DOMINION and RECONSTRUCTIONISM/END TIME TRANSFER OF WEALTH movements. (This explains his Kenneth Copeland association). "Pastor" Cruz has stated he believes Ted "is anointed to be the king of the "Seven Cultural Mountains" also known as the "Seven Mountains of Influence." All of this ties in with the DOMINION THEOLOGY HERESY.

ORDAINED MINISTER?

I have read where dad Rafael Cruz is listed as an "ordained minister," but I cannot find WHERE he was ordained or WHO ordained him or BY WHOSE AUTHORITY he was ordained. Was he ordained by a local church? If so, which church and which denomination? Or, did he buy a certificate ordination by mail? I cannot find the answer to these legitimate questions. He, to the best of my research, has never made any reference to a Bible college or Bible Institute or Seminary degree he has earned.

PROFESSOR CRUZ?
The biographical promo says he is a "professor of Bible and Theology." I have not been able to find any Bible college or Bible Institute or Seminary that lists him as a professor.

The promo lists him as the president of "Kingdom Translation Services, Inc.", which is not a school of higher learning but is a FOR PROFIT CORPORATION that lists as its address a residence in Carrolton, Texas. It is a business operated out of a home (1152 Indian Run Drive, Suite 1116, Carrolton, TX 75010) and is where Rafael Cruz claims on his bio to be Professor of Bible and Theology and President. The address is a multi-family home on 13.83 acres and is actually an apartment complex named Marbella Villas At Indian Creek. (The mailing address is 1152 Indian Run Drive, APT 1116, Carrolton, TX 75010. The word SUITE is used for the business address and the word APT is used for the mailing address.

DIRECTOR OF PURIFYING FIRE MINISTRIES?

Also, the above promo says he is the Director of Purifying Fire Ministries. I could not find any document or reference (other than his own) that lists him as the director of this organization, but I did find that there was once a Purifying Fire Ministries founded by and directed by Suzanne Hinn who is the on-again, off-again wife of the religious con-man Benny Hinn. It was also called Purifying Fire International. He had, evidently, some type of membership association with Purifying Fire Ministries, but it appears to be a false claim he is, or ever was, director of it.

In his speeches he duplicates much of Benny Hinn's teachings regarding the Seven Mountains of Society and Culture...which is the favor of some individuals, the anointment of prosperity, wealth transfer to God's anointed, and the End Times Transfer of Wealth.

BIBLE TRANSLATION AUDIO BOOK

Rafael Cruz did produce and audio book where he read the New International Version of the Bible in Spanish. The name of the book is "NVI Audio Version (Spanish version of the NIV) (Spanish Edition Audio CD and is available at Amazon. It includes 68 CD's narrated and read by Rafael.
 
STATE BOARD OF THE RELIGIOUS ROUNDTABLE

The promo states: "He also joined the State Board of the Religious Roundtable, a grassroots Judeo-Christian organization that had an important impact on the future of political dialogue." I have not been able to find anything about "the State Board of The Religious Roundtable." Does it now exist? Did it once exist and no longer exist? If so, why does he still use it in promotional material? Is it because it sounds important and prestigious? The only references that could be found were on Rafael's bios.

DIRECTOR OF GRACE FOR AMERICA

The Valley Family Forum published in April 2015 Rafael's biographical information that he had provided to them. It stated he was an ordained minister and Director of Grace for America and that he was on the State Board of the Religious Roundtable. This is the first time Rafael has stated he was the Director of Grace for America which he evidently started in 2014.

MAN OF GOD?

Because of the narrative the Rafael Cruz is an ordained minister, pastor, Bible Professor he has been presented as a highly esteemed religious leader. This has provided him many invitations to speak at church gatherings, Tea Party rallies, conventions, and meetings on the role of Christians in society and in American culture.

He has obtained access to streams of income for himself and for his son Ted's campaigns, and he has gained acceptance in evangelical population throughout America as a political surrogate for Ted Cruz. He has placed himself in a position of tremendous growth ($$$) in the future should Ted Cruz be elected president. 

The following is from one of our readers:

Chaplain Ed.
 
I was reading about the Confederate siamese twins in Dixie Heritage Newsletter and remembered a book I read about them. I believe the name was "The Two." They married southern sisters and between the two of them they fathered 23 children but no twins. The two wives' father objected to the marriage because the man were Asian, not because they were permanently attached to each other. The marriage worked anyway. Several of their sons fought for the South. When Sherman came through he tried to draft southern men at random. One of the twins was drafted the other wasn't. Of course they didn't serve. One liked to drink and play cards but his brother didn't. One would be drunk and the other would be perfectly sober. Really interesting book.
 
Marilyn Parrish
Jacksonville, Fla



Another of our readers submitted the following letter to the editor which was published in a Richmond newspaper:

To the Editor, Times-Dispatch:

A Correspondent of the Day accused Dr. Walter Williams of mythmaking concerning black Confederates. I would like to point out some myths in this correspondent's letter. The Southern states did not "rise in rebellion against the United States" in order to expand slavery. Quite to the contrary, in their attempts to peacefully secede from the union of states by the same method all states had originally acceded to it - through their respective sovereign conventions - the Southern states willfully gave up any opportunity of expanding slavery into the territories. In the process, they effectively removed slavery from the United States altogether. One would think the abolitionist North would have happily said "goodbye and good riddance" to them, but it did not. Why not?

With the Southern states out of the union, the North would lose its major source of cotton for its mills, its major source of markets for its manufactures, its major source of income from the tariff, and its control of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The Northern economy would collapse. So President Lincoln drove the Southern states back into the union at the point of the bayonet. The South was simply defending itself from invasion, conquest and coerced political allegiance - just as the 13 slave holding Colonies had done when they seceded from the British Empire in 1776.

No one can argue that slavery is not a coercive labor system, but many faithful slaves (some bearing arms) accompanied their masters to war, rescued them from their wounds, and got them safely back home.

H. V. Traywick Jr.
Richmond




Here is a letter to the editor which one of our readers in Georgia has submitted to several publications in the last week:

Hey, you out there, who are so bent on trying to destroy by Southern heritage. I am sure you see yourself as a very fair-minded, pure-hearted, noble creation and consider that I am only dust to be trodden under your political foot.
    
However, you will never find me reviling your heroes by trying to get the name of a street changed to my preference. You won't hear my voice calling for the renaming of a school nor the expulsion of traditional mascots and symbols. I neither author bills nor lobby to get long-established holidays removed. My legacy may offend you, and if that is your narrow view, so be it, but in no way can it do you harm.
    
You that seek to remove "every vestige" of my birthright are easy to spot. You are the ones calling loudly with the feigned words of "equality", "civil rights", "tolerance" and "fairness." Those are intriguing syllables considering your actions. You, now, ride the crest of the wave now because the winds of change have turned the political tide. Things change sure enough; in this State, this Country, in this world ... not in the hereafter - and here they sometimes change again. I owe you nothing! One day all that we strive for will not matter - but today, it does to me.
 
John Wayne Dobson
Macon, Geo.




Group plans Confederate Flag Day in Gettysburg

GETTYSBURG - It's a symbol of hate to many, but for one local group the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of history, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans will celebrate the "stars and bars" next month.
The group will sponsor a Confederate Flag Day to honor the history they hold dear.

"We as the sons revere the history of our families of the South and of America, and with that we wish to keep our history alive and our heritage along with that," said Gary Casteel of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Critics of the flag, including Greater Harrisburg NAACP president Stanley Lawson, say our history of slavery is nothing to celebrate.

"The Confederate flag does not unite the country, it divides the country," Lawson said. "I think this time in our history we need to be together."

"The Confederate flag may have done some nasty things, so did the American Flag, so why don't we take them both down? Why don't we destroy both of them and turn our backs on them?" Casteel said. "It's simple. We are Americans. We have the right to choose to like or dislike. The right way is to accept and move and learn by it."

The gathering will be held at the Farnsworth House Inn off Baltimore Street on March 5, from 2-4 p.m.




County Fair Releases Statement Regarding Flag

Greenwich, NY - The Washington County Fair Board issued a statement that they will not ban the sale of the Confederate Flag at the 2016 fair. Concerns over jeopardizing their 501c3 nonprofit, charitable organization status preclude them from taking a stance on this controversial issue. A call to the Internal Revenue Service for clarification resulted in a referral to Publication 4421 PC - Compliance Guide for 501c3 Nonprofit Charities. The second call for further clarification on the section in regards to public policy issues and political participation as it applies to the Confederate Flag controversy produced the same results.

California is the only state at this time that bans the sale of the Confederate flag, with South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama placing restrictions on where the flag can be displayed. The issue has become noxious for politicians and in June of 2015, ABC News ran a story "Here's Where the 2016 Candidates Stand on the Confederate Flag Issue." The fair board believes that this is a political issue, as demonstrated in the aforementioned actions by state governments and media interpretation, and as such, should be handled by the government officials elected to represent their constituents.

The fair's sole focus should continue to be on fulfilling its non-profit, charitable mission to preserve the county's rich agricultural history through education at an event that the community loves and appreciates. The fair does this through exhibits and displays while offering fun, food and entertainment.
The fair serves over 100,000 people every year from all walks of life including vast differences in opinion, different religions, different political views, different races, and creeds. It is, for this reason, the fair strives to remain neutral on all issues.

Editor's Note: I am of course happy that this county fair will not be taking any negative action toward the flag. That said, I am alarmed at their claim that the ONLY places where other fairs are limiting the display of the flag are all in SOUTHERN states: "with South Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama placing restrictions on where the flag can be displayed."

Who needs "Yankees" when Southerners seem more than capable of being their own worst enemies?
Can anyone pronounce the word "Scallywag?"   

This week we are offering a copy of President Jefferson Davis' own writings on the United States and Confederate States constitutions.
   
We will send you a copy of the 106 page book Jefferson Davis on the Constitution when you give a gift of $5 to Dixie Heritage.

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Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed

"When I've finished occupying the Soviet Union," quipped a relaxed Adolf Hitler at dinner one night in 1941, "I'll put that man Stalin back in charge. He's the only person who knows how to deal with Russians."
 
Stalin was the biggest murderer of modern history - and maybe in of all mankind's past.  
 
Which bring me to the current observations of the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz. Our media is full of stories about the persecution and mass killings of Europe's Jews in the 1930's and 1940's. And rightly so. But while the world remembers the Jewish Holocaust, it has almost totally forgotten the other Holocausts. Amid all the references to Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, there was not a mention of Magadan, Vorkuta Norilsk, or Perm, all infamous 'islands' of the Soviet system of industrial murder, known as "the Gulag." Or of the Ukrainian Holodomor.
 
From 1918 to the late 1950's (Stalin died in 1953), an estimated 20 million or more Soviet citizens were worked to death, shot or starved in the 500 camps that made up the Gulag. The most infamous and lethal were in the Arctic Circle and eastern Siberia.
 
The greatest number of deaths occurred in the 1930's when Stalin's reign of terror was at its apogee. By the end of the 1930's, the Gulag held close to 2 million inmates, about half political prisoners convicted on false charges.   Millions of other Soviet citizens were starved in local prisons, shot in execution grounds or forests, and worked to death buildings canals and rail lines or forced to mine with their bare hands.

During 1932-33, Stalin sent chief henchman Lazar Kaganovitch to break resistance by Ukrainian independent small farmers to collectivization by starving them to death.  In only a few years, some 6-7 million Ukrainians perished in what they call the Holodomor. No one was ever punished for this historic crime.  Stalin told Churchill, "Kaganovitch is my Himmler."
 
The Soviet Baltic states saw particularly ferocious repression. So did Poland which was divvied up by both Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. Six million Poles died. At least 2 million Muslims of the Soviet Union were murdered, either by shooting or, like the Chechen, packed into cattle cars and dumped on the ground in frigid Kazakhstan.
 
Stalin was given the sobriquet, "Destroyer of Nations."
 
No one knows the exact figure of deaths in the Soviet Union. But it far exceeded in numbers and scope Hitler's killings. Yet these epic Soviet crimes have all but vanished from our collective memories.  
 
Almost equally disturbing, the US, Canada and Britain have never squarely faced the ugly fact that their close wartime ally, Stalin, was a far worse mass murderer than enemy Adolf Hitler. Or that Stalin's biggest crime occurred in the 1930's while Hitler's were not fully understood until after World War II. Stalin's terrible crimes were well known to Washington, Ottawa and London well before they got into bed with "Uncle Joe" Stalin. We allied with a great devil to fight a lesser one. This fact is rarely understood because our sense of World War II history remains heavily clouded by the propaganda of the victors.

Ever since, Hitler has been relentlessly demonized while Stalin has faded from our understanding. Germans still recoil at the mention of Hitler while in Russia nostalgia grows for Stalin and his era. Much of the evidence of Stalin's crimes has turned to dust; none of the perpetrators were ever punished.  After briefly seeing the light of day during the Gorbachev era, the Stalin-era files have been resealed.

(ATLANTA - February 4, 2016)   In response to the disgraceful actions of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council that voted on December 17, 2015 to remove the historic monuments of General Robert E. Lee, General P.G.T. Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis, the Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans does hereby declare a Boycott of the City of New Orleans. The Georgia Division encourages all Members and their families in Georgia and Nationally, as well as all Southerners, to cease all plans to visit or do any business in the City of New Orleans unless and until such time as the citizens and businesses of the City apply sufficient pressure to rescind the decision of the current administration in cleansing the City of its proud Confederate heritage.

The Georgia Division strongly condemns New Orleans Mayor and City Council actions of hate and contempt aimed directly at the history and heritage of the New Orleans and the Southern people. We as descendants of Southern Soldiers are offended and insulted by the removal of these historical monuments. This is a perfect example of the divisive and contentious actions that individuals like New Orleans Mayor and the City Council intentionally seek to bring discord and division to the people of our great Nation. There is absolutely no difference between the terrorist actions of New Orleans Mayor and City Council and those of the Taliban and ISIS in their on-going endeavor of the destruction of cultural and historical heritage.
 
WRITE YOUR FLORIDA SENATOR:

For those of you wishing to contact the State Senators in Florida as they vote on removing the Kirby Smith statue, removing the Battle Flag from the Senate Seal, and as they consider a bill to ban the display of the Battle Flag and Confederate symbols on all cemetary and government property we are happy to supply their eMail addresses:

abruzzo.joseph.web@flsenate.gov; altman.thad.web@flsenate.gov ; bean.aaron.web@flsenate.gov ; benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov ; brandes.jeff.web@flsenate.gov ; 
braynon.oscar@flsenate.gov ; bullard.dwight.web@flsenate.gov ;clemens.jeff.web@flsenate.gov ; dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov ; detert.nancy.web@flsenate.gov ; 
portilla.miguel.web@flsenate.gov ; evers.greg.web@flsenate.gov ; flores.anitere.web@flsenate.gov ; gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov ; galvano.bill.web@flsenate.gov ; 
garcia.rene.web@flsenate.gov ; gardiner.andy.web@flsenate.gov gibson.audrey@flsenate.gov ; grimsley.denise.web@flsenate.gov ; hays.alan.web@flsenate.gov ; 
hukill.dorothy@flsenate.gov ; hutson.travis@flsenate.gov ; latvala.jack.web@flsenate.gov ; margolis.gwen@flsenate.gov ; montford.bill.web@flsenate.gov ; 
negron.joe.web@flsenate.gov ; richter.garrett.web@flsenate.gov ; ring.jeremy.web@flsenate.gov ; sachs.maria@flsenate.gov ; simmons.david.web@flsenate.gov ; 
simpson.wilton.web@flsenate.gov ; sobel.eleanor.web@flsenate.gov ; soto.darren.web@flsenate.gov


 
 
February 12-14, 2016 - Annual Reenactment of the Battle of Olustee
Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Florida

http://battleofolustee.org/reenactment.html 
 
 

KANSAS SCHOOL CONTINUES TO BATTLE OVER FLAG

Last week we reported about a High School student in Kansas who was banned from flying a Battle Flag on his pick-up. Yesterday, an AP report shows the battle has gotten hotter. The reason it seems is that when the student removed his flag the administration was going to drop the matter so it is his fellow students who are turning on him. Calling on the school to impose an actual punishment.

The student body president was quoted as saying: "It's kind of at the point where we have to start doing things on our own to see the change." He is one of four students leading a petition drive. He and the other petition organizers - another white student and two black students - have gathered hundreds of signatures.
 
The student council had a closed-to-the-public meeting Wednesday focusing on matters of race and the Battle Flag.

Members of the school board, which next meets on Monday, will not respond to reporters.
One student council member told reporters: "I understand in other places that (the Confederate flag) is culture, but it's not an example of Kansas culture."

I guess  they do not do a very good job of teaching State history in Kansas' public schools because the Confederate Battle Flag is very much a part of Kansas' culture. The reason is because the border of Kansas was MOVED after the WBTS. During and before the war some 1/3 or more of what is now Kansas was actually Oklahoma Indian Territory and part of the Confederacy. After the war the border of Kansas and Oklahoma was moved taking away land from the Indians who had fought for the wrong side in the recently ended conflict. When I lived in Wichita I told people that I lived in "The South" and I did because Wichita, during the WBTS, was actually in Oklahoma.

So the Confederate Battle Flag is very much a part of the culture of Kansas!  
 
One of the leaders of the Oklahoma (Kansas) soldiers was General Gano.
   
Always a Christian gentleman, Richard Montgomery Gano distinguished himself as a Pastor, Congressman, Medical Doctor, and as a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army. During the war, Kirby Smith, Commander of the Army of Trans-Mississippi, said that Gano was, "the most brilliant and effective" general in the western theatre. After the war, Gano would start churches throughout Kansas and Texas, preach protracted meetings throughout the re-united States, and baptize close to 5,000 converts.
   
We will send you an eBook copy of the 10-chapter book, The Life and Ministry of

General Richard M. Gano when you give a gift of $5 to Dixie Heritage.
 
 General Gano's grandson was Howard Hughes. As a result, Gano's former ranch and home is now the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. Making it even more inappropriate that for the first time in its history the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is banning the display of the Confederate battle flag.

A South Carolina group has hired a plane to drag a 25-foot-by-40-foot flag that adorned with the message, "BANNED BY FtW RODEO." It should rise around 11:30 a.m. "We are happy to help our compatriots in Fort Worth over this ISIS-style cleansing of Fort Worth history perpetrated by people who should know better," says the group's spokesman, P. Charles Lunsford, in a prepared statement. "If the rodeo organizers don't like the Confederate flag in their parade, we'll see how they like it several 100 feet over Will Rogers Coliseum."



THANK YOU to Chaplain John Battell! We received the package of videos you mailed to us and look forward to viewing and sharing.  



VISIT THE DIXIE HERITAGE BOOKSTORE

The Christmas pricing remains in effect only because I have not had time to update the website. We will honor all sales made at the site until that update is made. so take advantage of the savings while they are still online!


VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

YES, we are still giving a FREE eBook (PDF) copy of the book The Truth About the Confederate Flag  to everyone who visits the website - so tell your friends - and your enemies!  
   
www.dixieheritage.weebly.com
Until next week,
Deo Vindice!
Chaplain Ed