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Paul Claxon	Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:52 PM
To: Sam Kegley
Subject: Civil War To: Here they are again, those pesky facts! Civil War by The Late Dr. Jack Minzey Sometimes things that come across my desk are so well done that it would be an injustice not to share them. Such is the case with the following. I received this article from a subscriber. I did not know the author but the truth he has penned is transcendent. In my effort to confirm that the attribution is correct, I even reached out to the late Dr. Minzey’s family. At the time of this writing I have not yet heard back from them, so based upon the vetting I did do, I share it with you. The truth presented in this article is incontrovertible. I trust you will find it as powerful as I have. The article begins below. — Mychal Massie More than a month ago now, Jack Minzey sent what was to be the final chapter in the long line of books and treatises that he has written over the years.. Jack went to be with the Lord, on Sunday, 8 April 2018. Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. His interest in Conservative Politics was exceeded only by his intellectual ability. This is the last of his works: Civil War How do civil wars happen? Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here. What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections. That’s a civil war. There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government. This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship. The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war. Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat’s system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country. If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator. But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has ‘discretion’ to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the ‘discretion’ to reverse him. That’s how the game is played That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight. When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries. The Constitution has something to say about that. Whether it’s Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country. If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship. Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him. Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down. That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an ‘insurance policy’ against Trump winning the election. It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win did. Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.

Civil War? Is it Slavery Again? SamKat aka Sam Kegley

Civil War?

Is it slavery Again?

The word asinine hangs on this conservative Christian’s mind.  You know the side I choose. 

During the 1860-1865 period, the USA was divided, supposedly by the slavery issue.  Today we appear to be a nation divided about 50% on the Left, socialist side, vs the right, conservative, side for our country.

The democrats supposedly were the champions of the working poor in the past. No more! They truly are no longer that party.  President Trump is shaping the old line republican party into Conservatives for the entire working population whereas they were thought be primarily for the rich Americans. 

Our long time ‘sacrificial representatives’, both democrat and republican, claimed  to be representing ‘we the people’ but they truly have not been doing their sworn duty.  They have served themselves much more than having served us.

So many Americans on both sides fought and died in the former Civil War, which divided families as well. Relatives shot and killed or maimed relatives, sometimes aware and sometimes unaware.  Just going against the enemy per their military duty- whichever side.

Again, I offer fervent prayers to our Creator that common sense will prevail and we do not come to a shooting war. 

I personally hope for the coming back to earth of Jesus Christ, the savior of all this world’s Christians.  My wife, Jeanie  and I hope to be with all of you in Heaven.  Jesus promised for it to be so much better.

SamKat aka Sam Kegley                                                    January 16, 2018

Will Donald Trump be able to unite the country . . . Thx Bill O'Reilly - Fox News!

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Civil war sites Photos ... Thx Jim K!

The American civil war then and now

The women who dug the graves, the kids who watched the largest battle in US history – and the slaves forced to help fighters at the front. 150 years after the last shots were fired, Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the US photographing the sites scarred by the American civil war How I photographed the American civil war in 2015

Antietam Dunker’s Church

Bodies at the Dunker Church in Antietam, Maryland, September 1862. The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in US history, and Dunker Church was the focus of Union attacks against the Confederates. In 1921, a storm destroyed the church, but it was rebuilt for the 100th anniversary of the battle in 1962.

Archive photograph by Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘My family lived here during the civil war – they were farmers with 13 children. Their lives were devastated forever. There were wounded here for a year after. Bodies were left in the fields. My great uncle got paid 25 cents per skull to give them a proper burial.’

Listen to Ike Mumma, custodian of Antietam National Battlefield 

Sudley Springs

Federal cavalry face children on the side of the Confederates at Sudley Springs Ford in Virginia, March 1862. The first major land battle of the civil war took place around these springs.

Archive photograph by George N Barnard/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘These kids would have seen the largest battle in American history.’

Listen to Garry Adelman, vice president of the Centre for Civil War Photography

Slave auction house, Alexandria

The slave pen of Price, Birch & Company on Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia, c1862. Alexandria was the second largest slave centre in the US after New Orleans. When Union soldiers entered the city in May 1861, the building was abandoned – though it was reported that a slave was still shackled to the basement floor. Today the building is home to the Freedom House museum.

Archive photograph by Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘The South figured out how to use slavery to support the war – for every soldier on the frontline, there were seven slaves backing them up. Lincoln had to dismantle that machine, and the way to do that was to promise them their freedom.’

Listen to Frank Smith, founder of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington DC

Cumberland Landing

Federal encampment on the Pamunkey River, Cumberland Landing, Virginia, May 1862. The army of the Potomac, the major Union army in the Eastern theatre of the war, launched its offensive against the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862 by moving its forces to Cumberland Landing.

Archive photograph by James F Gibson/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘I was raised on a civil war battlefield. When everyone else was riding bicycles, I was picking up cannonballs and bullets off the ground after the fields were ploughed.’

Listen to Kent Radwani, former president of the New Kent Historical Society

Brompton Oak

Wounded soldiers in a hospital set up at the plantation at Brompton after the battle of Spotsylvania, Fredericksburg, May 1864. More than 50,000 men lost limbs during the Civil War.

Archive photograph by Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘In a two-week cascade of conflict, tens of thousands of men were killed and wounded on both sides. Most people who walk by it have no idea what played out underneath that tree.’

Listen to John Hennesy, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian 

Devil's Den

Corpses at Devil's Den after the battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, 1863. Today, it is a tourist attraction.

Archive photograph by Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘Photographers would come along with their wagons and set up on the battlefield. They'd drag bodies to different places and pose them. It was a very new medium, so everything was fair game.’

Listen to Angela Atkinson, ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park

Evergreen Cemetery

The gateway to the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863. It was built nine years before the battle at Gettysburg, which lasted three days and resulted in 51,000 casualties.

Archive photograph by Timothy H O'Sullivan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

 ThenNow

‘The caretaker Elizabeth Thorn was ordered to start digging graves. She buried 91 soldiers while she was six months pregnant. A statue of her was erected in 2002, holding a shovel.'

Listen to Brian Kennell, caretaker, Evergreen Cemetery

Arlington House

Federal General Samuel P Heintzelman and staff at Arlington House, Virginia, c1862. Arlington was the home of Confederate General Robert E Lee for 30 years prior to the civil war, when he left for Richmond. Arlington House is now a permanent memorial to Robert E Lee.

Archive photograph by Mathew Brady/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘My third great uncle was the head house slave here at Arlington. During the civil war the Union army took over the plantation, but the slaves remained and took care of the house.’

Listen to Stephen Hammond, descendant of the Syphax family, enslaved at Arlington House

US Capitol

The execution of confederate Captain Henry Wirz in Washington, 10 November 1865. Wirz was in charge of Andersonville military prison where 13,000 Union soldiers died. The iron dome of the Capitol building was constructed during the civil war, and is currently being restored.

Archive photograph by Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘Across the street from the Capitol building was the Old Brick Capitol, which was used as a prison for Confederates. This Confederate being hanged was a public event.’

Listen to Barbara Wolanin, curator at the Capitol

Ford’s theatre

The president's box at Ford's theatre, photographed at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 by the actor John Wilkes Booth – five days after General Robert Lee's surrender to General Grant at Appomattox. The theatre remained closed for over 100 years until it reopened in 1968 as a national historic site and working theatre.

Archive photograph by Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

 ThenNow

‘There were threats from the public that they would burn the theatre down – that it was a house of terrible horrors.’

Listen to Paul Tetrault, Director of Ford's Theatre

Cary Street, Richmond

Burnt district in Richmond, Virginia, April 1865. With the impending fall of Richmond, the retreating Confederate soldiers were ordered to set fire to warehouses and the armoury. The fires burnt out of control, destroying large parts of the city.

Archive photograph by Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

‘Richmond burned. They wanted to destroy everything of value – munitions, military equipment, ships, tobacco warehouses. The only thing still there is the kerb.’

Listen to Waite Rawls, CEO of the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia

Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter with a Confederate flag, South Carolina, April 1861. The Civil War started on 12 April 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter and, after a 34-hour exchange of fire, US Major Robert Anderson and 86 soldiers surrendered to General Beauregard and the Confederate forces.

Archive photograph by Osborn & Durbec/Library of Congress

 ThenNow

Mary: ‘My uncle John Doran was one of few men who saw the beginning of the war, and the end. He saw the Confederates advance across the field in what is known as Pickett's Charge.’ Rick: ‘My great great grandfather was in Pickett's charge. So Uncle John is shooting at Grandpa Dick. We say to our daughter, it only took the deaths of 620,000 American soldiers for your mother and I to get together.’

Listen to Mary (and Rick) Hatcher, site historians

• Photographer and interviewer David Levene
• Picture editor Jim Powell
• Design and development Troy Griggs and Daan Louter
• Editors Kate Abbott and Becky Barnicoat
• Researcher Luc Torres
• Audio editor Stuart Silver
• Archive photography Library of Congress, Getty Images, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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