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Topic: Politics
Sons of Confederate Veterans have a role in modern America

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America faces a crossroads very similar to those prior to Fort Sumter. More
government, less nationalism, maybe socialism, which way do we go? 
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by Mark Vogl
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What is this guy talking about?

Well, I will try to explain. It will only take ten short paragraphs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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