Mark~ There is a great deal of truth in what you say, and clearly put. My only further comment regards almost none of it per se but the backdrop, which as I said, I am familiar with. It goes sort of like this: Those people lined up there mile after mile were, as I feel reasonably stated here, not in their “hearts” lined up for Caesar but for a really deep personal loss. Yes, there has been – especially in the Atlanta area – over the past 150 years, a great influx of people from the North. This began of course with the Lincoln remnant and the advent of American socialization/nationalization which was “reconstruction”. Let’s not, on two counts, get too regional here though. First “reconstruction “ did not nor was it ever intended to be mere “punishment” to the Southland. It was AND IS pandemic to America – as now the world. Well considered through all the years following AD1776, was the concern in euro-finance circles that America’s backbone, being Christian Doctrine supporting individual sovereign Men, had to be broken! It HAS taken much longer than anticipated but the bleeding of America financially has been satiating to the delayed results as the rich just grew themselves more and more astronomically richer. The second regional clarification is that from the first, as was the case in the settlement of America itself, the very best/capable men of the North were unmoved by notions of relocating lock, stock, and barrel to the South! So we got “Carpetbaggers”. These were Men who could not afford proper luggage and therefore were identified in their lower financial – and therefore administrative – capacities by their luggage made from rugged carpeting which the bulk of them used to carry ALL their earthly possessions. These low-life bastards were matched at their local destinations by “Scalawags”, locals who would be identified today as “rat-bastards”! The greatest influx into Atlanta came from a circumference of hundreds of miles which had been ravished “Gaza style” by those same kinds of people. It was not until after WWII that Atlanta was subjected to any great influx of Northern/Euro capital and of course company people assigned to manipulate it! This in that 60 or so years has brought people from all over America to “Hotlanta”. Point here is that the vast core of Atlanta has remained as no place short of Texas, very rooted in their original regional traditions and their values of life, distorted as they may have become! That distortion is the key to which I wished to point when I remarked how few socialists stood up then to be counted! And for what did they stand to be counted? I could probably give you fifty to a hundred pages on why there became the great disparity between the North and the South in our first 75 years, but the schism in mores and folkways became a real split by AD1860. The two primary external influences were the industrial revolution and the shifting agrarian environmental factors. It will be briefly mentioned here that one finds those two elements of immense concentration by the socialists form the late 18th century to this day! The South remained the permanent home of the “Bible Belt” and of course spread westward. In two thirds of America today the largest political divide involves those who regard the Scriptures as Holy and those who do not! Atlanta is a vast area of Bible Believers! Yes! That belief has been perverted and otherwise injured by the socialists. Still, I will witness the underlying faith/beliefs in those tenants of the Christian Doctrine remain strangely – especially to the heathen – something indelibly in flux! So the question here is: What will it take to gel and/or solidify that instability and flower it to a point of prime motivation and allegiance. Please consider it this way: There is probably no greater strength to Herr Hagel’s “synthesis” theory than the immense difference between strong faith in a supernatural power visually unfamiliar, and a complete dedication to the operation of all society at the hands of a few Men rulers! Please read the entire book through! You will find in Scripture only negativity toward the notion that LIVING MEN should replace an “unseen” Almighty God as the rule on Earth! Those Atlanta people standing were doing so for two separate and distinct reasons which they combined not stringently in their minds. A local was killed “in the service of his country”, and the concept of “stewardship”! Although I find that concept pretty well befuddled in the “average” American mind today I will not tangent into its explanation here; suffice it to say it was on the minds of 56 out of the 56 on July 4th! It is VITAL to the concept of the united States of America and even if in remnant form, it flowed on that Atlanta crowd seen in the video! The good sergeant was just a major element in the occasion! ~Hal~ --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Mark Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mark Garrett <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Fw: Funeral Procession To: "hal" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 3:05 AM Not to put a kill pill on the very tough tearjerker that I just witnessed, but is it not true that a man that is paid to enter armed conflict a mercenary? Self-sacrifice would be much easier to sallow if he did it for his country, but the fact remains that he was paid and well supported by the finance machine. I feel for the people lined up on the roads edge as their continued dumbed down education has led them to beleive that he died for them, but you know as well as I do that he is dieing for the bankers and nothing more. This video is just the reason I am about to place myself in harms way without pay, while I access Lincoln's banking system thus stand side by side with the men responsible for the death of this fine man in the video. This madness has to come to an end! M- On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:55 AM, hal <[email protected]> wrote: --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ed <[email protected]> Subject: Fw: Funeral Procession To: Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 5:25 PM Thanks Gary I had mostly lost faith in my countrymen, but this goes along way toward restoring some of it. Ted Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:31 PM Subject: Fw: Funeral Procession I believe there is hope for our country! God bless, Karen T. ********************************************* Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City , Georgia , just south of Atlanta , on June 11, 2009 . The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral home in McDonough , Georgia . A simple notice in local papers indicated the road route to be taken and the approximate time. Nowadays one can be led to believe that America no longer respects honor and no longer honors sacrifice outside the military. Be it known that there are many places in this land where people still recognize the courage and impact of total self-sacrifice. Georgia remains one of those graceful places. The link below is a short travelogue of that day's remarkable and painful journey. But only watch this if you wish to have some of your faith in people restored. Please share widely. http://blip.tv/play/AYGJ5h6YgmE
