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<B>America faces a crossroads very similar to those prior to
Fort Sumter. More government, less nationalism, maybe
socialism, which way do we go?</B>
<HR>
<I>by Mark Vogl</I><BR>(conservative)<BR>Tuesday, February 2,
2010</FONT></H2>
<P>What is this guy talking about?</P>
<P>Well, I will try to explain. It will only take ten short
paragraphs.</P>
<P>The Sons of Confederate Veterans (S.C.V.) is a fraternal
organization composed of male descendents of the men who
served in the Confederate Armed Forces during the War for
Southern Independence. Their emblems include the controversial
Confederate battle flag. Their core responsibility is
articulated in a charge given to them by Lt. General Stephen
D. Lee which calls on them to defend the heritage, honor, and
reputation of the Confederate soldier and the Cause they
fought for.</P>
<P>The Cause they fought for was individual liberty, state's
rights, the original Constitution and the right to secede. In
essence, Confederates fought an aggressive Union which would
not allow the states to exercise an accepted right of
secession. This right had been exercised by all the original
states when they withdrew from the government of the Articles
of Confederation, and entered the present day United States of
America. Further, the Tenth Amendment reserved all powers not
addressed in the Constitution to the States and people
respectively. And lastly, the new union was formed as each
individual state entered the union.</P>
<P>So, despite the military victory of Grant and Sherman, and
despite the victor's interpretation towards secession, the
fact is that secession remains a right of the states, and a
political alternative which some day will most likely be
exercised.</P>
<P>Why the S.C.V. deserves a chair, not at the table, but
right next to it is so today's policy makers see the colors of
secession, the Confederate battle flag as they attempt to find
the future for America.</P>
<P>America is caught in a vortex of highly controversial
issues, many with no real compromise. You either kill an
unborn infant, or you allow it to be born, for the infant
there is no middle ground. You either allow homosexual
marriage...even if you call it something else, or you don't.
Either a person has a right to health care or they don't.</P>
<P>In the past, liberals have sold policy initiatives in half
loaves, calling for compromise. But today, that sales strategy
is burned out. We have seen the compromises develop into full
blown, expensive, not effective policies. We have seen
compromise go the way of the Missouri Compromise as socialism
now raises it's ugly head in the form of national health care
and government ownership of private business.</P>
<P>Americans are done with hearing about how government can
solve the problems, when all government does is continually
make new problems, add taxes, and never accomplish much.
Further, Americans have watched the federal government act
negligently with respect to its primary duty...ie., protect
the homeland at the border. The tens of millions of illegal
immigrants have only expanded the need for government social
services, increased health care costs and chasllenges,
overwhelmed our education infrastructure, and filled our
prisons. Illegal drugs flow over the border like a
rushing river.</P>
<P>Whether you are a Democrat watching blue states vote red,
or Republicans waiting their turn to take over the reigns of
government, one thing is clear. Americans are out of patience,
and want the solutions they have repeatedly called for.
America is a new America. Not the America of the mid 20th
century, or the world leader of the Cold War. We are now just
one nation among many.</P>
<P>Are we a great nation? We can be. Should we lead in the
world? Sometimes? But we are not the Super Power of an earlier
era. We are no longer the wealthiest nation. We no longer have
excess money to fix every problem in the world. We have to
make choices. Real choices, with real ramifications.
Washington is not where those answers are. They had their
chance and through Clinton - Bush - Obama they have
demonstrated they can't do it, are headed in the wrong
direction, and we don't want 'em any more.</P>
<P>The S.C.V. should be present so as to remind politicians
that the American people don't have endless patience. The
S.C.V. is the very best living example, as the War for
Southern Independence Sesquicentennial rapidly approaches,
that if the federal government can't find a way, the states
and the people will.</P>
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