[CTRL] Reparations Study to be Petitioned to Congress

[Amelia]

Title: News Article - Sierra Times.com

{{Now these are reparations I can endorse.  They ARE for acts committed by representatives of the US govt. directly, not individual citizens.  The great and noble troops so venerated in the North were nothing but a gang of armed thugs.  This article does not mention the WRITTEN and DOCUMENTED edict of General Butler LEGALIZING the rape of all the women of New Orleans.  It had become so common a practice by these grand liberators ('Sure, we are here to free the slaves, but let's gang rape them a few times first!') that this particular idiot had absolutely no qualms about even putting it in writing.  And of course, no apology necessary, ever. For anything, no matter how atrocious the behavior.  Never has this country treated a conquered enemy with the ferocity and vindictiveness with which the South was and continues to be treated. Some of us remember "Pittsburgh Plus freight rates" and other economic sanctions. Having had a family right in the path of the great and worshipped Sherman, I also have an oral history on that. See his admission below.  So while we are making reparations and apologies, how about we 'fess up and admit to having waged war on women, children and the elderly, killing far more civilians than combatants and legalizing rape.  Guess what happened when they hid the adult women of New Orleans after legalizing rape?  Now you just may not find that chapter in your govt schools history books, but Butler's declaration is easily found on the 'net.  Seems to me, New Orleans is entitled to an apology more so than the Chinese for do we not decry the horrors of rape as a weapon of war?  Or is it just OK against the South? Amelia}}    Friday, April 06, 2001 4:08 AM Subject: News Article - Sierra Times.com http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/starticles/2001/apr/arls040501.htm An Internet Publication For Real Americans Home >> News >> Article Reparations Study to be Petitioned to Congress Sierra Times 04.05.01 Dr. Michael Hill President - League of the South The League of the South is petitioning Congress to conduct a thorough, non-partisan study examining the long neglected injustices arising from the war crimes committed across the South from 1861-1865 in violation of the U. S. Constitution, the Law of Nations, and U. S. Executive Order Number 100, whereby the private property of non-combatants was ravaged, burned, stolen, and destroyed as a deliberate policy of an unconstitutional war of invasion, conquest, and occupation. Tens of thousands of individuals in the South are now signing petitions asking The League of the South to represent them as a class by exercising the people's right of petition or by a suit at law for damages. We anticipate that a thorough and impartial Congressional investigation will reveal the necessity for a long overdue compensatory program of justice for people of all races in the South-white, black, and red--who were subjected to treatment during and after the War Between the States that resulted in little less than the barbaric dispossession and destruction of the Southern people and their way of life. No reparations, no indemnification, and no "Marshall Plan" has ever been conceived or enacted by the United States Government. The United States Government now claims to be the moral monitor for the entire world; however, it cannot justify this position without first cleansing its own shield of the shame of war crimes and acts of vengeance against Southern Americans in action perhaps best described by General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said: " . . . about 20% of our effort [in Georgia and South Carolina] was against military objectives. The rest [80%] was sheer waste and destruction." Sadly, such unconscionable depredations were all too common across the South during both the war and Reconstruction. The League of the South now seeks reparations from the United States Government for all Southerners and their families who suffered atrocities during the war and the years of military occupation that followed.   Your Comments....E-mail to a Friend..News Index..Top of Page Permission to reprint/republish granted, as long as you include the name of our site, the author, and our URL. www.SierraTimes.com All Sierra Times news reports, and all editorials are ) 2001 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted) SierraTimes.com™ A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc.

Title: News Article - Sierra Times.com

An Internet Publication For Real Americans Home >> News >> Article Reparations Study to be Petitioned to Congress Sierra Times 04.05.01 Dr. Michael Hill President - League of the South The League of the South is petitioning Congress to conduct a thorough, non-partisan study examining the long neglected injustices arising from the war crimes committed across the South from 1861-1865 in violation of the U. S. Constitution, the Law of Nations, and U. S. Executive Order Number 100, whereby the private property of non-combatants was ravaged, burned, stolen, and destroyed as a deliberate policy of an unconstitutional war of invasion, conquest, and occupation. Tens of thousands of individuals in the South are now signing petitions asking The League of the South to represent them as a class by exercising the people's right of petition or by a suit at law for damages. We anticipate that a thorough and impartial Congressional investigation will reveal the necessity for a long overdue compensatory program of justice for people of all races in the South-white, black, and red--who were subjected to treatment during and after the War Between the States that resulted in little less than the barbaric dispossession and destruction of the Southern people and their way of life. No reparations, no indemnification, and no "Marshall Plan" has ever been conceived or enacted by the United States Government. The United States Government now claims to be the moral monitor for the entire world; however, it cannot justify this position without first cleansing its own shield of the shame of war crimes and acts of vengeance against Southern Americans in action perhaps best described by General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said: " . . . about 20% of our effort [in Georgia and South Carolina] was against military objectives. The rest [80%] was sheer waste and destruction." Sadly, such unconscionable depredations were all too common across the South during both the war and Reconstruction. The League of the South now seeks reparations from the United States Government for all Southerners and their families who suffered atrocities during the war and the years of military occupation that followed.   Your Comments....E-mail to a Friend..News Index..Top of Page Permission to reprint/republish granted, as long as you include the name of our site, the author, and our URL. www.SierraTimes.com All Sierra Times news reports, and all editorials are � 2001 SierraTimes.com (unless otherwise noted) SierraTimes.com™ A Subsidiary of J.J. Johnson Enterprises, Inc.