The Southern folks had one great "sin" in their hearts. Their sin was of trying to save their unborn generations from having to live under the tyranny they saw being born in the North. To that end they gave that last full measure of love, their lifesblood, not for their own freedom but for ours', and our childrens'. The only freedom they ever found was in the grave. They had such great love for us and yet we show such little love for them. The slander and insults we allow to be heaped upon them without resistance is only to our shame, not theirs!

For eleven years after the army was no more, the Confederacy remained. Broken into five military districts with the most ruthless and hated tyrants selected to lord over us. The only voters allowed were a deliberate farce. Illiterate newly freed blacks, scalawags and Yankee soldiers and Carpetbaggers were the whole of the body politic. Even then it took eleven years for them to coerce the States of the Confederacy to accept the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution whereby they surrendered all rights of sovereignty, before they were allowed to join the Yankees' Union. Except for the loss of life, these years of Reconstruction were as terrible for the People of the South as any during the war. A deliberate policy of deprivation by the North to punish the survivors and crush their spirit. The North knew these "errant" States would never join the Yankee Union on their own so the vote was denied to all but Yankee lackeys. With the legitimate government barred from serving and Yankee lackeys in office, one by one our States were "allowed" to grovel their way from under the military tyrants and into the Yankees' Union.

This is conquest at its' most terrible, and a subjugation that continues today with no end in sight. Like a cancer devours flesh, this government has been growing fat on the rights and liberties of the people.

Absent the sovereign State, the individual citizen stands naked and alone, unprotected against the might of a centralized Federal government, a government that has assumed unto itself the right to be the exclusive judge of the extent of its' own powers. What tyrant has ever asked for more?

Their Constitution is no more than a game of smoke and mirrors to those who hold no more regard for it than to use it when it suits them and to set it aside when it conflicts with their purposes. No right is sacred, written or otherwise, unless it first passes their adjudication. The people are no more than a revenue source to support their elitist experiments in socialism while they remain safely isolated from any repercussions. Outrageous liberties are taken with our freedom. Freedoms once guaranteed by the real Constitution. Our fathers saw the threat of these people and were willing to die to protect their children from becoming vassals of tyranny. And die they did, in the thousands. Unfortunately, tyranny is all too accurate to describe the society in which we are forced to live today.

Every aspect of our lives is controlled by the regulations of an omnipresent, omnipotent Federal government totally controlled by these Radical Reformers. The irony is that they use the pretense of making ours' an open society to steal what little freedom we have left. The paradox of this kind of open society, the more open we become, the more freedom we lose. A truly open society should insure more freedom, not less. We are subject to a very narrow-minded elitists faction that quickly makes outcastes of anyone who dares to question their means or their goal, Correctness, intolerant of individualism and certainly intolerant of Southern nationalism.

In a nutshell, you could say that the price for this kind of society is your freedom, your childrens' freedom, and eventually nothing less than social slavery. Freedom, true freedom, is a two way street. You must permit freedom to insure your own, especially if you disagree, for it is in disagreement that we exercise true freedom. Tragically, once power is gained, it is nearly impossible to recover it, or even to curb its abuse. Like an avalanche, it gains momentum until everything in its path is swept away, and stops only when there is no more depths it can reach.

The Confederate States of America existed then and it still exists today. Being conquered does not mean a nation never existed or else most of the nations today would not exist. Starving survivors being coerced with bloody bayonets does not replace free will, or prove that a People never had a right to exist. Years or even generations of bondage do nothing to endear vassals to the lies against their heroic dead. What person can know everything they endured in the hope of freedom without feeling outrage at the lies that demonize that brave and gallant People. Our nation is just as real today as it was then. To sully our banners and destroy our tributes to our dead will never capture the soul of the People, or destroy our nationality. Every act of oppression only serves to temper the heart. Every slander only quickens the resolve. At least for that patriotic few who have the courage to stand, as our forefathers stood, against tyranny.