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Illuminati News: Mary Todd Killed Lincoln

NB Commentary: Now here’s an interesting twist for the great unwashed masses to chew on. I can’t say much, and don’t have much of a comment to say on this one except, SMDH.

Mary Todd Killed Lincoln– by Brian David Andersen –(Posted here by Wes Penre, Dec 17, 2004, Revised Dec 26, 2005)

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 03:25:23 AM 



THE GUN THAT SHOT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND IS DISPLAYED ON THE WALL OF FORDS THEATER TODAY IS A WOMAN’S DERRINGER WITH A WHITE PEARL HANDLE!!

* * *Would anyone (especially a man in the 1860s) in their right mind try to kill the President of the United states with a one shot small pistol normally carried by a woman? Six shooter revolvers existed in the 1860s and if one were to plot to kill a President, one would logically have more than one bullet in the barrel.

Mary Todd Lincoln, like many women in Washington during the American Civil War carried a derringer….But Mary Todd also owned a derringer with a white pearl handle(1)….that fact is in the National Archives. And she waved, flashed and flaunted her pearly pop gun often on the streets of Washington D.C. and The White House.

Lincoln was shot on the left side of his head and Mary Todd was left handed. Mary Todd was barred from attending the funeral and two armed guards made sure she did not leave her room for 10 days after the shooting ….that fact is in the National Archives.

Mary Todd Lincoln was denied the normal customary widowers pension three times by the U.S. Congress (Today the pension is automatic).

Mary Todd like so many high society persons in Washington D.C. during the 1860s was an opium

addict… that fact is in the Library of Congress. Her drug supplier also was a part time actor who doubled for the real full time actor John Wilkes Booth when he had multiple appearances on the same day in two different cities.

Abraham had the Treasury Department print money and that really pissed-off the Rothschilds and others because they did not want any competition with money they printed via their private company called the Federal Reserve Bank(2). Lincoln had to go because he betrayed his “family” but the plot was to discredit him by revealing that he had an affair with a Hapsburg illegitimate offspring and the royal sex resulted in two children.

The part time actor (Mary’s catnip boy) was sent to Ford’s theater to inform the President that an important message was waiting for him at the War Department. The plot then was to knock-out Abe and smuggle him (An empty carriage was found at the back of Ford’s Theater the night of the shooting) onto a sea vessel, drug him for several day and return him to Washington in a daze as the press zeroed in on the drugged President, the facts and pictures (there are many) of his illegitimate family would be released. The President would have to resign and Mary Todd was part of this plot.

However Stanton and the Rothschilds underestimated the revenge of a delirious First Lady strung-out on opium who has just discovered that her hubby had popped a secret, illegal yet “royal” family. Now Mary Todd was also going to do some popping.

As the part time imposter actor opened the door to the suite at Ford’s Theater to summon the President, he was shocked and horrified to see Mary Todd pointing and firing her woman’s derringer into her husband’s head. The imposter actor panicked because he knew his buddies downstairs would blame him for shooting the President and that was not the game plan at all or he was setup as the fall guy / patsy from the beginning. Either way going back downstairs was not a good idea so the drug pusher jumped from the Presidential box seats into the third act of the play at Ford’s Theater and broke his leg.

The term “Break a leg” used in the theater comes from “Booth’s” (the fake one) flying leap into the third act of “Our American Cousin” performed at Fords Theater on April 14, 1865.

The real John Wilkes Booth had no choice but to escape on the first ship to India because his career and reputation were blasted away by a junkie and her wacked out and desperate supplier claiming to be Booth. The fake Booth escaped to Grandbury Texas and did some acting but his alcoholism and blabbering mouth resulted in his murder by arsenic poisoning in Enid, Oklahoma.

Many people from the North and South wanted the fake Booth to be silent one way or another and

a former high ranking confederate officer who was in charge of disrupting union payroll lines ended the charade. The fake Booth’s intensely pickled body was grotesquely displayed as the remains of the real Booth in towns and hamlets in the Midwest and Western states for 18 months after he was force fed the lethal cocktail in the spring of 1911. In the continuing bizarre chain of events, there exists today a certified sworn affidavit from a cousin of Abraham Lincoln that he was present at the poisoning of the fake Booth.

Spin control of reality and perception was critical for the powers that be and the first move Stanton made according several documents in Washington D.C. libraries was to commit the two persons that accompanied the Lincolns to the theater the evening of the murder to a mental institution within 30 days of the shooting. Major Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris were released from the booby hatch sometime in 1867. What happened to these pivotal eye witnesses while they were locked up in the asylums? Later the two witness married and the Major murdered his wife. Were both of these persons totally sane when they entered the institutions but purposely driven mad because they knew too much?

Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abe and Mary knew most of the facts of his fathers’s affair, half sisters and mother’s drug and murdering ways but used his knowledge and his silence to secure a cushy job as the President of Pullman Railroad Cars. Stanton, the Rothschilds, and the Paysurers [sic. Correct spelling: Payseurs, Wes Penre] made sure Robert Todd was fat, sassy, had plenty of cash to burn in his favorite elite gambling halls and whore houses but most of all he was totally quiet to his grave. Over the years Robert Todd did everything he could to destroy evidence related to his sordid family history but he could not destroy all the facts and evidence….

While growing up in Illinois in the 1920s and 30s Mary Alice Kemery looked at a large picture with a glass bubble of Abraham Lincoln in her grandparents and then later in her parents homes. One day she requested that the picture on the wall be investigated by historians and to her and her family’s shock they discovered the picture was a prized missing and authentic lithograph signed by Lincoln on the back of the photo. How did this prized picture worth over a million dollars get into her family home? Mary’s father ask his grandmother Emma when he was a child where the photo came from and her reply was “let sleeping dogs lie” and then would often cry after making that statement. Emma cried because the picture was the only connection she had to her father Abraham Lincoln. Her mother disappeared shortly after she and her twin sister were born.

After discovering the photo on her family’s wall was an authentic piece of Lincoln history, Mary Alice Kemery began a 35 year investigation into her family’s history, Lincoln and the assassination. All the aforementioned facts about Mary Todd and others were discovered by Mary Alice in the National Archives and other libraries in the Washington D.C. area and Illinois during the past 35 years. Ray Neff (mentioned in another Conspiracy Nation segment on Lincoln) can confirm the life and time of Mary Alice Kemery and she is also known as the late, great and popular astrologer Linda Goodman a very dear and personal friend of mine.

I met Ray Neff on several occasions with Linda (Mary Alice) but Ray is too narrow minded and scared to see and absorb the large scope of Lincoln’s real life and death. Many persons (like Brian Redman and Ray Neff) are too fearful to recognize and acknowledge that their hero and icon named Lincoln was human and had sexual and love desires like any normal man and followed through with those needs that resulted in a second family. Abraham Lincoln was a normal mortal human being with talents and faults. Honest Abe was not a god or a superman… (and the reader’s perception hopefully begins to tilt and sway towards reality and move permanently away from the illusion and fiction created by the powers that be, time and hero worship by the masses of comic book like characters fashioned by writers and historians,,,)

The following is a combination of facts gathered by Linda (Mary Alice), I and others over the years. One could hire the best fiction writers in the world to make up a story but they could not invent a scenario more bazaar than the Lincoln Saga. Reality is much more fascinating, interesting and thorough than the limited imaginations and creations of the very best fiction writers.

The person born Abraham who became President of the United States did not have a last name at birth because his mother would not identify the father. The family of Abraham named him after the town he was born in or they named him after the town where his family was from Lincolnton, North Carolina (the Kentucky version of Lincoln’s birth is a spin control fabricated by wishful thinking biographers). Lincolton is a small town located near a branch operation of the Bank of England known as the Federal Reserve Bank that is privately owned and operated to this day in Charlotte, North Carolina. (This bank has no automated teller machines gee, how come?) At that time royalty from Europe and the Rothschilds had family members living in the area around Lincolnton to operate and manage the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. Abraham’s mother was a maid and nanny. Was Abraham an illegitimate offspring of European royalty or the Rothschilds? The facts and evidence indicate his royal illegitimate birth.

To end the bloody hostilities, the founding fathers (most of them Masons) of the United States agreed to the “temporary” installation of a branch institution of the Bank Of England in 1791 so the United States could repay England (the Rothschild family) for debts occurred during the Revolutionary War. This secret institution was given a 20 year charter and called the United States Constitutional Bank. To make sure this debt was paid the Bank of England established their branch in the most important area of the United States – Charlotte, North Carolina!! Charlotte, North, Carolina???? Yes Charlotte, North Carolina. Why Charlotte????

 

Today American history, geography and geology books omit one key and crucial tidbit of information – The world’s largest gold deposits in the late 18th century were around the town of Charlotte, North Carolina. English Royalty the Rothschilds and other controlled the gold and the bank that laundered the income from the mines. The Masonic Brothers of the United States gave their Masonic Brothers of England “temporary” control of the gold and the money laundering bank to pay back the war debt and end the bloodbath of the Revolutionary War. And remember the Golden Rule – he who has the gold makes the rules. And he who has the gold can mold the public perception of realty.

When the charter for the branch bank expired, Thomas Jefferson (not a Mason) had enough votes in Congress to block and deny the extension of the agreement with the Bank of England in 1811. In 1812 the Rothschilds sent troops that cut right through American defenses like a hot knife through warm butter and flawlessly burned Washington D.C. as if the Capitol were a summer campfire for marsh mellows and hot dogs.

Thomas Jefferson was given two choices:

1. Have his new country burned, crushed and tortured back into colony status. By this time the British were crudely adept at managing concentration camps (they taught the German Nazis) and Jefferson was acutely aware of the whip, rack and stockade capabilities of his enemy.

2. Remain “sovereign” (no more barbeques or skewers of the nation’s capitol) but renew the charter for the United States Constitutional Bank for 50 years.

During the war of 1812 many Americans had visually witnessed the burning of their capitol but one year later all Americans were fried and very few United States citizens knew they had been roasted on a golden platter. – In 1813 the bank charter was renewed by the U.S. Congress for 50 years and the financial institution was quietly and privately renamed the Federal Reserve Bank.

Andrew Jackson tried to cancel the bank charter when he was elected President but his term in office was short and “shameful”. However, America was eventually allowed to store some of the gold from the Charlotte area in Ft. Knox. Have any elementary school children or history Ph.D candidates in the past 50 years ever questioned where the gold in Ft Knox was originally mined 20 to 50 years before the gold rushes in Colorado and California?

As the renewal of the bank charter approached, most of the Northern politicians desired to extend the charter while most Southern politicians opposed the existence of the Federal Reserve Bank. The bank issue was one of the secret major causes of the American Civil War yet the charter prevailed when an extension was granted in 1865 – only the Northern Politicians voted on the extension because the Southern politicians were involved in the crash of the Confederacy – very convenient for the Rothschilds and English royalty. After 1865 the charter bank was publicly called The Federal Reserve Bank but privately owned and operated by the Rothschilds , the Bank Of England and the British royal family.

The fast and steady rule over the centuries is that only royalty can have sex with royalty. However, most if not all of the illegitimate children of royalty and their decedents are watched over and taken care of no matter what race, nationality, religion or any level of intelligence including Colin Powell a decedent of King George II whose family is from Jamaica. Dan Quayle (he is the classic example of any intelligence level) and George Bush are also decedents of King George II. Hilary Clinton is related to the Melons whose ancestors are English royalty.

After finishing law school Lincoln became a circuit lawyer and during his travels he was encouraged to meet and have a relationship with an illegitimate child of King Leopold of Habsburg named “Elizabeth”. Remember, only royalty has sex with royalty and the affair between LiZ and Abe was supported by both of their real yet secret families. The birth of twin daughters was the result of the long term affair that took place while Abe was traveling on horse back as a circuit lawyer and Mary Todd had no awareness of her husband’s royal sexual/ personal intercourses and family. Anyone married to Mary Todd would welcome some extra nookie especially if it was free.

Lincoln was a virtual nobody before the Republican Convention of 1860 and all of sudden he became a very important person. American history is full of unknown private citizens all of a sudden becoming persons of power and wealth. Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, Vanderbilt were all unknowns who had instant fame and fortune overnight. All of the aforementioned persons started out as Trustees (bag men) of money accounts for European royalty and the Rothschilds. They were not CEOs of any important corporations at the beginnings of their instant successful careers. But the sinister and cruel joke of these English royal court jester bag men was (and has been and still is) on the American Public. Lincoln was suppose to be a weak puppet bag man of the powers that be because of his ties to royalty but he surprised everyone with his desire to lead America to a new level of independence.

Bank Of England


The Trustee bag men insured that the private owners of the Federal Reserve Bank could operate public utility companies, corporations, universities, foundations and other institutions under the rat maze / smoke screen cloak of trusts – a continuing shell and con game set up to confuse, befuddle and impress politicians and the public. However the key industry the Federal Reserve Bank and the Trustee Bag Men immediately controlled was all aspects related to railroads. And Lincoln walked and was elected into this buzz saw of lethal high stakes financial intrigue and deadly international funny money operations. But not even his royal family ties could protect him when he challenged the will and desires of the private owners of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Lincoln is a hero because he tried to set the United States of America on a new course of fiscal responsibility by having the Treasury Department print money. He also rejected “loans” from the Bank of England to the Union at ridiculous interest rates. Why should have the Union utilized and been dependent upon money printed by the Federal Reserve Bank located in the Confederate state of North Carolina or loans from a foreign bank? He placed the survival of the United States of America above, beyond and over his secret royal family ties – and that indirectly cost him his life. But our school children are only told the fantasy of “Honest Abe” and not the reality of his true patriotism, courage, honor and sacrifice.

The twin daughters were about eight years old when Abe became President He was having friends take care of the daughters because Elizabeth was too distraught about the shame of having children without a marriage and she departed for Europe soon after the births.

Lincoln never supported his mistress and illegitimate daughters in the same manner as European royalty supports their bastards and that really ticked-off the Hapsburgs. In the National Archives are documents that detail an incident that occurred at a White House dinner in 1861. A Prince from Hapsburg walked up to Lincoln before the food was served and slapped Ol’ Honest Abe three times with a white glove. This dramatic action was a challenge for a pistol duel but the President of The United States only lowered his head in shame as he walked out of the room and did not return to the dinner.

Also in the National Archives is a letter from a school child to Lincoln asking him how many children Abe had. In the last sentence of his reply note to the child Lincoln stated “I regret to inform you that I cannot recognize that I have any twin daughters.” And a drug addicted, distraught, insane and rootin – tootin and shootin Mary Todd Lincoln made her husband, his illegitimate daughters and the American public more regretful and sorrowful than anyone could ever imagine…..

There is a second part to the saga. Lincoln arranged for one of his daughters to be raised by an old law school buddy who was from a wealthy cotton plantation family in South Carolina His name was Felix Turner Hughes. However Felix died shortly after Lincoln’s daughter arrived and a relative took over the plantation and his name was Felix Monroe Hughes. Felix Monroe raped and impregnated the daughter of Lincoln and she named the child ……88 (what is the eighth letter in the alphabet). AND 88’s LIFE AND CHILDREN ARE A PIVOTAL CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY……

Illuminati News: Mary Todd Killed Lincoln


Footnotes by Wes Penre:  
(1) ^ The problem with this theory is that the murder weapon does not have a white handle, as we can see on the picture from the wall at the Ford’s Theater (see picture above). However, this article is interesting, and it could still be a valid theory. The question is: did Mary Todd own more than one handgun? Maybe something to research further…
UPDATE Dec 19, 2007: I received an email from Brian David Andersen, the author of this article. He tells me the following: “…the author [Andersen] viewed a photo taken in the early 1970s of the white pearl handled derringer displayed in Ford’s Theater. Owners of Ford’s Theater deny that a white pearl handled derringer was every [sic] on display. The person who took the picture of the white handled pearl derringer displayed in Ford’s Theater died in 1996 thus the photo was lost in the dispersion of the deceased’s estate.”
(2) ^ There is a difference between the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Bank was originally named the United States Constitutional Bank and the name was changed after the war of 1812. The title of Federal Reserve Bank was chiseled on the building in Charlotte, North Carolina in the 1820s but like the gold mines, the true nature remained hidden from the public. The Federal Reserve System was supposedly started on Jekyll Island in the early 1900s. Wes Penre’s correspondence with the author.

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Abraham Lincoln, assassination, Civil War, conspiracy, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Todd, Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Thomas Jefferson, US Constitutional Bank

NB Commentary: Prince Was Not Murdered. (Video)

NB Commentary: I don’t think Prince was that stupid not to be able to tell the difference between his medication. They are trying to make it look like he was a drug addict as well, hiding the label or mislabeling his medication. Prince was smart enough that even if there was a mix up in his meds, his body would react and he would either figure out why, or have someone to help him figure that out. 
Prince was brilliant. He knew they “Wanted to Kill” him in every way possible.. so he took his own self out before he would give them the satisfaction of doing it. The Star Whackers are assassins and that’s what they do for a living. Prince gave the world warnings, which meant he knew of his impending death, and for the sake of torturing the “targeted individual” I would wager they told him his days were numbered. In his song about the elevator he also foretold his death, but remember, it says when the elevator tries to take you down, punch a higher floor. 
The music industry tried to take him down. He punched a higher floor, and I would say according to his beliefs, that higher floor would be heaven or the AfterLife. People have issues around folks committing suicide and due to religious influence, if somebody “kills” you, your chances of going to “heaven” are higher.. But what that tells us subliminally that it is better that someone have control over your life, along with the ability to take your life, then if you took control over your life, yourself. Prince new better, he knew that his greatest triumph would be to “cheat the PTB” our of his death. 
When you understand how this world works, that it is scripted, planned and manipulated you understand how those “idols” in Hollyweird are “scripted, planned, manipulated and assassinated” according to the agenda. Prince knew that. He was a highly evolved spiritual being. He knew the science behind the Industry and he knew about “prophecy”. That is why he was able to predict 911 years before it happened. Prince was extremely cautious about his health as well as the people around him. Of course there will always be infiltrators, but he was also brilliant, smart, keen and conscious. I never got into him before he died. But after he made transition I did a reading on what happened to Prince Rogers Nelson, and it showed me who he was on a Spiritual Level and that he took control of his life and his music up until the very end. 
Don’t fall for the Media lie, that has scandalized so many other of his minions, they did not kill Prince, he would not allow them to do so.

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American Idol, assassination, death, drugs, fentanyl, Hollywood, Jehovah's Witness, music catalog, Music Industry, overdose, Prince Rogers Nelson, propaganda, suicide

Prominent AFP Clinton Researcher Found Dead

NB Commentary: I have done some research on this. The information about his death is being withheld by the Police department and detectives, but even that’s suspicious.  I searched for articles that counter this report, but not even Snopes.com had an article on this. So check out this information and see if you can find anything on this. He worked for AFP so I doubt they would make that story up.

UPDATE: Prominent AFP Clinton Researcher Found Dead
AUGUST 01, 2016   CHRIS 

Rest in Peace.

Victor Thorn was a hard-hitting researcher, journalist and author of over 50 books.

AMERICAN FREE PRESS contacted the State College [Pa.] Police Department this morning for any news on the suicide of Victor Thorn, whose birth name was Scott Robert Makufka.
AFP asked the policeman who answered the phone if the department could provide any updates.
“There was something that occurred on Monday morning, but I don’t know if we’ve released any identities or any details about it at this time.”
AFP asked if he knew when the release might happen.
“I don’t. I don’t know what the status of the investigation is. I have not seen the detective that’s in charge of that today yet. They’ll release it as soon as they can. I don’t know what the holdup is or the details are at this point.”
Please visit “2016 Police Media Releases” to access the most current releases.
The releases “usually get picked up pretty quickly by Centre Daily Times, and statecollege.com, and some of the other media outlets,” he told AFP.

Victor Thorn Dead at 54
• AFP investigative reporter, prominent Clinton researcher, and prolific author Victor Thorn was found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
By the Staff at AFP
Prolific author, AMERICAN FREE PRESS writer and seasoned Clinton researcher Victor Thorn was found at the top of a mountain near his home, the apparent victim of a gunshot wound. Family and some close friends contend Thorn took his own life on his birthday, August 1. Thorn would have been 54.
At the peak of his writing career, the author of some 20 books and 30 chapbooks, Thorn had reported for this newspaper for over a decade, writing thousands of articles on myriad subjects from conspiracy to health-related topics. Best known for his investigate research on the Clintons, Thorn wrote the Clinton trilogy—three definitive works that delved into the history of the power couple including their sordid scandals, Bill Clinton’s sexual assaults of multiple women, and the drug running out of Mena, Arkansas while Clinton was governor of the state.
Besides writing for AFP, Thorn published the works of numerous writers in the alternative media such as Michael Collins Piper, Adam Gorightly, Mark Glenn, John Kaminski and Joan d’Arc, while also producing five CDs and DVDs, one of which is a five-disc collection that covers the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Thorn also served as the editor of five anthologies, and his political articles have appeared in various newspapers around the country.

In February 2001, Thorn founded Babel magazine, an online publication that ran until early 2004 and featured some of the first articles devoted to the 9-11 conspiracy.
One of his books, The New World Order Exposed, was translated and published in Japan in 2006, while 9-11 on Trial has been republished by Progressive Press, and was also released in France to coincide with the fifth anniversary of 9-11.
After co-hosting “The Victor Thorn Show” on the Reality Radio Network from 2002-2003, in February 2004, Thorn co-founded WING TV (World Independent News Group), a daily Internet television and radio talk show viewed in over 100 countries worldwide.
Thorn has also made hundreds of different radio appearances (including “Coast-to-Coast AM” and “The Lionel Show” on WOR 710 in New York City) and has done weekly one-hour news updates on Alex Merklinger’s “Mysteries of the Mind,” while also appearing weekly on Vyzygoth’s “From the Grassy Knoll” and Frank Whalen’s “Frankly Speaking Radio.”

Thorn has been an avid political activist who spoke at the OKC Bombing 10th anniversary, as well as before the America First Party.
He has also protested in six different states, not to mention at Ground Zero on several occasions and in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.
Some supporters have voiced concerns that yet another prominent critic of the Clintons has turned up dead—this time just after Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination.
Family has countered that there was no evidence of foul play at the scene and that Thorn most likely took his own life.
At this time, however, we are looking into all possibilities. The recent release of Crowning Clinton: Why Hillary Shouldn’t Be in the White House and the Hillary (And Bill) trilogy, which has been selling off the shelves at AFP recently—exposing all the dirty secrets the Clinton’s have tried so hard to conceal over the years—certainly provides a motive for murder.
Thorn recently had some startling success with his research and writing. At the end of 2015, coauthors Roger Stone and Robert Morrow dedicated their book The Clintons’ War on Women to Victor, and in the early part of 2016, a prominent publisher in Poland purchased the rights to translate and sell Thorn’s Clinton trilogy.
If, in fact, Thorn was taken out by the Clintons, we will, sadly, have to add Thorn’s name to the long list of Clinton victims to be found in Thorn’s own masterpiece, Hillary (And Bill): The Murder Volume.
Victor Thorn: Clinton Researcher & 9/11 book writer found dead
UPDATE: Prominent AFP Clinton Researcher Found Dead
Victor Thorn – Rest In Peace

Brilliant WN researcher Victor Thorn took his life (or the Clintons got him)
Author Victor Thorn found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

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9/11, American Free Press, Arkansas, assassination, Bill Clinton, conspiracy, elections, Hillary Clinton, JFK, psyops, republicans, research, Victor Thorn

Consciousness and Symbols

Consciousness and Symbols

            The murders in Charleston South Carolina have ripped the scab of US history off and laid bare the festering sores and oozing puss of the consciousness and psychopathology of white supremacy for the entire world to see. That dastardly act exposed the real America. With that act one of the symbols of white supremacy, the Confederate battle flag that flies over the capital of South Carolina has come under increased scrutiny. The rebel flag has long been a bone of contention and conflict between Africans in America and whites. For Black people, the flag represents one aspect of racial oppression, slavery, terrorism, murder and injustice. I say one aspect because on many occasions US terrorists like the Klu Klux Klan and White Citizens Councils also used the American flag as their rallying symbol!
            From an accurate historical perspective, the Confederate battle flag is not the flag flown by the original Confederate States of America, the first seven states that separated from the Union: South Carolina (the first state to secede), Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia.  Later, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia withdrew from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
  The Confederacy had several flags during its brief existence. The flag known as the rebel flag or the Confederate battle flag was not one of the series of Confederate flags adopted by the Confederate States of America. That battle flag was originally the flag of General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia!
            The rebel flag that flies over the South Carolina State capital was not an official symbol of the Confederate States of America! It became the symbol Southern resistance to the anti-apartheid movement also called “integration” during the twentieth century.  In recent years especially during the “Civil Rights” movement, that flag came to represent a consciousness of racial apartheid and animus, political subjugation, socio-economic caste and psychological terror. South Carolina US Senator Strom Thurman popularized that flag when he ran as a presidential candidate in 1948 as a Dixiecrat. During this time the Democrats controlled the South.

 It wasn’t until Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that Southern whites abandoned the Democratic Party in mass and switched Republican. So in actuality the rebel flag is a modern symbol of white supremacy.
            Now in light of the Charleston killings, defenders of that ethos are trying to obfuscate and revise American history. They are attempting to deflect the truth about the real meaning of the rebel flag. Since the killings I have read and seen articles and posts on YouTube claiming the War Between the States was not about slavery, that it was about “states rights”, tariffs and finance, that the rebel flag is merely a symbol of family history, tradition and regional pride! There were posts about Blacks owning slaves and African chiefs selling other Africans into slavery; anything to take the onus off of whites to prevent us from seeing not only the individual atrocities like Charleston South Carolina but the systemic holocausts white supremacy has wrought not only here in this country but around the world!
            If there was ever any doubt about whether slavery was the central issue in the War Between the States, I’ve included a picture of a one hundred dollar bill from the Confederate States of America. Look at the images on the paper. This piece of evidence alone will reveal just how integral the institution of slavery was to the Confederate States of America and its economy. Yes there were issues of “states’ rights”, there were conflicting regional cultural practices and interests, differences in economic philosophy but never forget the fact both the North and South were united on racism and warmongering. Both the North and the South profited from slavery, it’s just the North’s economy was more diverse and did not depend mainly on agriculture as did the South. The Northern financial elites had a major grip on the flow of capital and more access to money than their Southern counterparts.
            If you look at Western and modern world history you find Europeans love war. There is rarely a year that goes by they are not fighting, killing and plundering somewhere, even today. So from my perspective the issues of tariffs, the fugitive slave act, the expansion of slavery into the territories were just excuses for them to do what they love to do best, kill and maim each other and people of color.
 Bloody Kansas between1853-1861 is an example where whites used violence to decide whether Kansas would be a “free” state or a “slave” State. Many define Bleeding Kansas as a precursor to the War Between the States. If that logic is correct then the War Between the States was about slavery!
 Remember slavery was enshrined in the original US Constitution.  The original document that bound the former British colonies together was The Articles of Confederation. It said nothing about slavery from a policy standpoint and left it to the individual states to deal with the issue as they saw fit.  But delegates to a convention called in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation conspired to created a totally new document that would enshrine their class as the ruling elite in the more centralized government they created!  Since many of the delegates were slaveholders or profited from slavery in some form or other, slavery became a key issue in the new document called the Constitution of the Untied States of America.

 “A final major issue involving slavery confronted the delegates. Southern states wanted other states to return escaped slaves. The Articles of Confederation had not guaranteed this. But when Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance, it a clause promising that slaves who escaped to the Northwest Territories would be returned to their owners. The delegates placed a similar fugitive slave clause in the Constitution. This was part of a deal with New England states. In exchange for the fugitive slave clause, the New England states got concessions on shipping and trade. These compromises on slavery had serious effects on the nation. The fugitive slave clause (enforced through legislation passed in 1793 and 1850) allowed escaped slaves to be chased into the North and caught. It also resulted in the illegal kidnapping and return to slavery of thousands of free blacks. The three-fifths compromise increased the South’s representation in Congress and the Electoral College. In 12 of the first 16 presidential elections, a Southern slave owner won. Extending the slave trade past 1800 brought many slaves to America. South Carolina alone imported 40,000 slaves between 1803 and 1808 (when Congress overwhelmingly voted to end the trade). So many slaves entered that slavery spilled into the Louisiana territory and took root.” The Constitution and Slavery http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-constitution-and-sla…
            Slavery (both European and African) was the driving force in both the colonial and US economies. Slavery was woven into the fabric of the US Constitution making it the law of the land! The roots of what we see/saw in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, Ferguson Missouri, Baltimore Maryland and Charleston South Carolina recently go back to colonial America when the European monopoly trading companies and their administrators decided to augment their white slave labor force (indentured servants) with Africans. The profit motive “the top priority is the bottom line” of capitalism forged a brutal system that exploited the white bondsmen and African captives using them both as cheap labor. That tradition continued after the Revolutionary War and up until the War Between the States.
            White and Black resistance to the colonial administrators abuses (Beacon’s Rebellion and others) forced the colonial governors to make concessions to the poor whites/indentured servants so they would not side with Native Americans and Africans against the elites. They used divide and rule to undermine Black and White unity. They “freed” the indentured servants, allowed them to call themselves “white” then gave them a modicum of “rights”, privileges and mobility they denied Native Americans and Africans.
            Those divide and rule tactics have allowed the ruling elites to still remain in power and control from colonial times, through the transition to the United States to the present. This is why incidents like Ferguson, Baltimore and Charleston happen! Don’t fall for the okey doke. The rebel flag is not the central issue. It is only a piece of material. The real issue is the consciousness and values behind it! As vile as what that flag represents is, taking it down is only a symbolic concession as long as the consciousness of white supremacy, white skin privilege and domination remain.

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