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Review
MEDIA BYPASS Volume 11 Number 3 March 2003
The Last Word
By Pat Shannan
Frank Conner: Reviser of the Revisionists
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 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
public.
The South Under Siege 1830 - 2000 is one of the few books we have ever
recommended. 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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