Ron Paul’s “South Was Right” Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag

[GrahamUK]

Wow!! I thought it was common knowledge that slavery was a side issue for the civil war and not the actual cos..

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Is this actually the confederate flag, or Georgia's flag? Does anyone know where this speech has taken place?

http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/museum/html/georgia_state_flag_since_1956.htm

I would assume not, since that flag was decommissioned in 2001; the video was from 2003.

 

[southernsontn]

I would assume not, since that flag was decommissioned in 2001; the video was from 2003.

that really doesn't matter. Many georgians were fairly disgusted by the means that the flag was changed, and have refused to accept either new design, preferring the '56 flag that we defended at the ballot box. full disclosure, I am a Georgia native, although I haven't lived there in years.

 

[Miguel]

Tell you guys the truth everytime I see that flag I think of Bo & Luke Duke, Man I love that show. I can't believe how the Original General Lee Charger went for!!! http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/02/ebay-find-of-the-day-john-schneider-sells-his-general-lee-for-o/

 

[klamath]

Wow!! I thought it was common knowledge that slavery was a side issue for the civil war and not the actual cos..

It is common knowledge that the war was started by the issue of slavery but fought to preserve the Union and not necessary to end slavery. It is even in the gettysburg address.

 

[Travlyr]

It is common knowledge that the war was started by the issue of slavery but fought to preserve the Union and not necessary to end slavery. It is even in the gettysburg address.

That's what they tell you in government school history.

 

[klamath]

That's what they tell you in government school history.

Except the southern states stated in their declaration of independent's that it was slavery why they left. Yeaw but southern government schools dont teach that.

 

[Travlyr]

Except the southern states stated in their declaration of independent's that it was slavery why they left. Yeaw but southern government schools dont teach that.

That's a feel good argument, but it is not true.


War Is A Racket
The War Between the States was fought to centralize power and profit the banks. The proof is in the pudding. Greenbacks (1861), National Banking Acts of 1863 & 1864, Knox v. Lee (1871) overturned Hepburn v. Griswold (1870), & the 14th Amendment.

Article. XIV.

[Proposed 1866; Allegedly ratified 1868. See Fourteenth Amendment Law Library for argument it was not ratified.]
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Shall Not Be Questioned?

Every other country ended slavery without war because slaves were expensive and the industrial revolution was rapidly making chattel slavery obsolete. The Northern Industrial states were looking for cheap labor. Of course the northern government schools don't tell you any of that.

 

[southernsontn]

It is common knowledge that the war was started by the issue of slavery but fought to preserve the Union and not necessary to end slavery. It is even in the gettysburg address.

So, if we listen to Abe about his war, I guess we went to war in Iraq because of all those Weapons of mass destruction we found behind every sand dune, because that's what Bush said.I suppose Guantanamo Bay is now closed, since Obama said he was going to... oh, wait...

 

[Yowan]

Did anyone else see the other article NewsOne did on Ron Paul? "Ron Paul Was Implicated In Failed White Supremacist Island Invasion"