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Frank Conner - Reviser of the Revisionists
"A person with no history, a people who have forgotten their past , will vanish like snow, or be turned into chickens to keep laying eggs until they are eaten." ----Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese Anime Director)
There is a movement afloat to eradicate true Southern history from the memories of the next generation. This deluded group has been persuaded through revisionist history to believe that 300,000 Confederate patriots actually died to preserve a slave system to which virtually none of them had been benefit. And that 50,000 more black troops went into battle for the same Southern cause - apparently, to secure their own bondage. Logic and reason are being strained here, aren't they?
That "official" history is actually the propaganda from the same unending ideological war that various groups of Northern liberals have been waging against the South ever since the 1830s, so says author Frank Conner.
"Beginning with Reconstruction, that Northern-liberal propaganda became the `official' American history that is taught universally in the classrooms, in the movies, on TV, and in the books, magazines, and newspapers. It teaches that the war was a civil war; that the South started it; that the North fought it to free the slaves; and other such blatant lies."
Now there is a far better source for truth-seekers. This book also has a powerful message for conservatives everywhere: it tells how the ideological liberals have sold socialism to the American public step by step since the late 19th century. It tells how the liberals have falsely tied racial discrimination so tightly to Southern states' rights in the public mind as to make states' rights anywhere (thus, constitutional government) unacceptable to the American public. The liberals' goal is totalitarian socialism. The South has always been the liberals' battlefield; and the Northern conservatives who refuse to join the Southern conservatives in the fight there will soon find themselves helpless cogs in the ideological liberals' U.S. workers' paradise.
Who remembers that Lincoln's Union troops fought almost his whole war of "insurrection" in the southern states, not to mention the raping and pillaging of the innocents, black and white?
But for what reason? Certainly not the publicized reason of removing the institution of slavery. (Did you know that there was never a slave ship that flew a Confederate flag?) Slavery was flourishing in the northern states as well. Many American patriots from the southern states were deeply involved in the federal government prior to the war - including Secretary of War Jefferson Davis in the 1850s. So what was the real problem?
Space here prevents a detailed re-education, but let us provide a hint: of the $107 million budget of 1861, the southern states were being assessed a whopping $93 million.
Who remembers that the 13 united states were born out of secession from England and that the Declaration of Independence preserved the right of all the states to secede again?
"The white Southerners of today do not know who they are, because they do not know who they were," says Conner. "Their true history has been systematically suppressed or distorted beyond recognition. . . as mere individuals, the traditional Southerners can no longer defend their basic interests in the national arena . . Every demagogue or racial hustler who comes along can guilt-trip today's Southerners into doing his bidding by bludgeoning them with the new `official' history of the South."
You must read Frank Conner's book because we all need to know how wrinkled our history has become. Neither this writer nor the publication makes a dime from its sale. We are only saying that, wherever you are in America, you need to read it and own it and to have it available for your children.
Frank Conner, 71, spent most of the last decade researching and compiling data for the only book he has ever written or ever intends to write. His publisher wanted to edit and change some of the text. Mr. Conner refused and had to self-publish at great expense. He is not a wealthy man and was forced to take a second mortgage on his house in order to get these truths to the American people.
The South Under Siege - 1830-2000 is one of the few books we have ever recommended. See http://collards.phantacom.net for a synopsis or just send $35 to POB 71996, Newnan, Georgia 30271. You will be glad for the rest of your life that you did. The 750 pages are a treasure house of truth.
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