In reading the news on World Net Daily , they have had a series of stories on how Christianity is being wiped out from historic sites like this was something new. I have often seen the parallels between the saying about how the Nazis came for various groups and developed my own for America. First they came for the Southrons, then they came for the Founding Fathers and then they came for the Christians. We have seen this in our lifetime. Each of these areas has been systematically removed, cleansed or redefined to remove anything that might truly inspire us to achieve great things. As Texians and Southrons we have seen our history and culture removed and twisted into something that is hardly recognizable. 

This is exactly what is occurring in Alvin Texas at Harby Junior High. The namesake of the school was a member of the UDC. The display cases contained many of her mementos, including confederate flag emblems. Two students have begun wearing Confederate clothing, claiming that it is acceptable. The district has responded with a vengeance on the the two boys. I was amazed at how the superintendent claims the boys are trouble makers and that the public does not understand that.
When I read that I recognized the sociological ploy of "Blaming the Victim". This ploy is often used to divert attention from the real issues.

Another incident occurred in the Houston area a few years back when the Museum of the Confederacy changed its name to the Museum of Southern History. The museum has some wonderful items, and its curator does an excellent job, but changing the name to avoid offending people and for marketability is still political correctness and truth purging. The bothersome point is that they decided to do it themselves, without being forced to.

I could go on with more examples, which we are all familiar with, including the purging of the founding fathers names from the schools in New Orleans, and the removal of the Confederate plaques from the Supreme Court building in Texas. I don’t know if the Katrina mess in New Orleans or Bush’s current political mess are divine retribution for "removing the landmarks which thy fathers have set", or just irony. It is awfully odd that those things happen when force is used to change history. President Davis told us that "Anything settled by force or in disregard of law is never truly settled."  Another southern saying is "Make sure the truth is dead before you bury it". 

History is inconvenient for many of the new worlders  because it testifies of Almighty God and his hand in the affairs of men. Any change in regime requires a change in the myths that support it. The myths supporting the current imperial regime are cracking. People are waking up to that reality. The new myths are not strong enough to support the empire they have built. It is ironic that the military must swear oaths to "protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic". I even had to swear such an oath in order to teach at a local college for a while. In considering that oath, who has done more to threaten the Constitution: Iraq, Afghanistan, Al-Quidah and their cohorts or the imperial Presidency with rule by fiat and Congress?  A good read this morning is Worshipping the State . It will wake you up to some reality.

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