An aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has a history of inflammatory comments about race and the Civil War.Read the rest here.
As first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online publication, Paul new media staffer Jack Hunter has for years been a provocative talk radio host who called himself the “Southern Avenger.” Before that, he was a member of the League of the South, a group that advocates Southern secession.
“Sen. Paul holds his staff to a standard that includes treating every individual with equal protection and respect, without exception,” spokeswoman Moira Bagley said in a statement.
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Someone in Washington with a disturbing history...surely that's a first in the annals of fine Washington governance.
So disturbing. Off with his head.
There are many parts of American history which Americans have never been willing to be honest about. The Mexican War is one of these (as in the "Halls of Montezuma"). The Civil War is another.
Morris Berman, in his latest book "Why America Failed," argues that the Civil War was at least as much a clash of civilizations as it was a war over slavery (which was abolished everywhere else without bloodshed). Berman argues that the South was the only viable cultural alternative to the hustling, commercial North, and this was mostly why the war happened.
Of course (as Berman points out), it is easy to have a non-hustling culture when you have slaves doing all the work! As one would expect, Berman has been accused by his PC critics of being "pro-slavery," despite the fact that his politics are (if anything) well to the left, and that he is a friend of Chris Hedges.
The South, like the Midi region of France (old Occitania), was re-integrated to the main culture by force of arms. The Albigensian crusaders were hardly worse than Sherman in that respect.
Thus, it is not at all surprising that separatist sentiment remains. As America's empire starts to crumble (as all empires ultimately do), I expect to see this sentiment re-emerge. If even Vermont can have a separatist movement, I cannot imagine the South can be happy. I think that is what the ruling classes in America are afraid of, which is why they get hysterical over things like this.
It is the same thing with all the hullabaloo about "racism" that Ron Paul was accused of. I went back and read the newsletters that everyone was so up in arms about. Again, all that was in these newsletters was honest truth about race relations in America. Race is another subject which absolutely, positively everybody in America lies to God's face about, in the most shameless and bare-faced manner, to maintain social peace.
America is now a great, global Empire, but it is not a country in any meaningful sense, any more than the old U.S.S.R. was. The place is only held together by lies, propaganda, and overwhelming military force on the streets. I have read that some 20 percent of the U.S. population is involved with police, corrections and security work of some sort. That is a fifth of the population, hired to hold the other four-fifths at gunpoint. This cannot last forever, and it will not. It is like the old Yugoslavia. Sooner or later Tito dies, and the place goes to pieces.
I fail to see what's disturbing about this guy.
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