It's time to draw the line against further Revisionist Attacks on American Heritage!

From: bazzchildress@qx.net

Attn: Chief of Staff (to Governor Ernie Fletcher), Stan Cave
Commonwealth of Kentucky
700 Capitol Ave.
Frankfort, KY 40601

I am writing to urge Governor Fletcher to encourage the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission (KMHC) to vote protection for the Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln statues in the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda. I am informed there may be some reluctance to do so at least insofar as the Davis statue is concerned. Such reluctance is no doubt based on the campaign put forward over at least the past decade or so to strike from our memory and memorialization anything "Southern".

That position is very troubling for many reasons. One of them is that the premise for such is founded on un-American ideals. I refer to and would encourage the Governor to familiarize himself with something called The Frankfurt School, founded by Italian communists who held that America could only be made amenable to their cause by depriving America of (by recasting its history) its past. As an example of the success of that effort, in California just last week it came to light that because of certain politically incorrect ideas therein, the Declaration of Independence itself could not be studied in class.

Likewise, if the logic flowing from "The Frankfurt School" is followed, then the whole of American history (not just its Southern component) will eventually meet its demise. As George Orwell said, "He who controls the past, controls the present. Who controls the present, controls the future". In light of the success of the effort founded on this premise in renaming schools named after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who can doubt that eventual result. Need I remind, that shortly after Georgia removed the Confederate Battle Flag from its State flag, the display of the US flag itself was called into question in some "blue state", leftist locales. Indeed, certain members of the KMHC, in arguing such logic could not bring themselves to vote protection for the Lincoln statue either, proving my argument.

Another troubling aspect is that it is simply untrue to hold that the extension of civil rights protections for those whose ancestors were once slaves or for those who once experienced segregation depends on this recasting of our history. Just consider that before 1865, some of the largest slave owners in Louisiana and South Carolina were free blacks or that the largest free black population in the country before 1860 resided in Virginia. If such is true, then we will eventually be forced into a radical French/Jacobin/Socialist based political entity from this reinterpretation of our past. (France being where within just the last few months, the maintenance of a "secular" over a "religious" society could soon carry the force of law through recently introduced legislation). And isn't it amazing that those in this country who demand that "secular" society are now threatening secession! (Funny how the principle of secession that founded this country, wasn't appropriate when 140 plus years ago, the South opposed getting to where we now found ourselves!).

The counter to this falsity is to tell the truth about our history, however such may be uncomfortable for some, because the alternative (surrender to folks who make these arguments) will in fact render the ironic result of ending what Lincoln called, "the last best hope of man on earth", through the destruction of the foundation for an American Culture. There is no more important task than addressing these cultural issues. The question is: Is the Governor up to it? (One wonders given not a single Southern governor, Gov Fletcher included, attended the CSS Hunley funeral last April). Rather than the signal that sent, I would encourage the Governor to consider that Kentucky and the rest of the South (the South being an important, if not the most important component of that American Culture) just voted our current President back into office on the strength of these cultural issues. I would also remind Governor Fletcher of what's been going on in Georgia and other sister Southern States over these attacks; governor after governor (ask former Governor Barnes down in Georgia), has been defeated for pandering to this Leftist Logic.

I used to be a strong supporter of the Republican Party, but voted Constitution Party this time in part precisely due to my perception that the Republicans ignored Pat Buchanan's warning of the culture war back in 1992. It is time to stand and deliver in light of this past election. Failure to do so will create many more folks of my thinking who see the Republican Party paying lip service to cultural issues to get its candidates elected only to turn wobbly when the political "bullets" start to fly. After all, there is no act that will satisfy the Leftists and those who vote in massive lockstep with their agenda. Time after time, compromise on these issues has only resulted in a new round of commemorations such folk find "offensive". There is not an historical marker, statue or other celebration of our past that withstand the onslaught demanded by the Leftists' logic. Gaining their votes is very unlikely if not impossible, without total surrender to this nonsense.

There are very many who share my opinions in these matters. John Kerry just went down to defeat by not understanding that truth. I voted for Gov Fletcher last year and would like to vote for him again, but he will lose my vote and the votes of those who share my views, if he proves inadequate to the task before us of reclaiming our country. Such inadequacy may even well result in the development of "Southern Parties" as in Georgia and South Carolina and be a severe detriment to future Republican administrations, (as Pat Buchanan predicts will happen), if they also prove incapable of drawing a line here and now concerning these matters.

Sincerely,

Bazz Childress
Lexington, Kentucky