[Vision2020] Eyes Wide Shut

[J Ford]

Michael:

"Thanks Jim.  Keep in mind that I have been around meetings, talks, etc, of
Wilson, Wilkins, and Christ Church for almost a decade. "

I'm sorry to hear you say that.  It means that your eyes have been closed, 
sealed and un-openable for a decade - time enough for atrophy to set in.  
You being able to see the truth at this point is like wishing the Statute of 
Liberty to dance the jig - not going to happen.


"I am very glad to come away from that experience with a more balanced 
understanding of the
civil war."

Balanced?!  How can you possibly say you have a "balanced understanding" of 
something when all you listen to is half-truths, mis-spoken words of events, 
and down right lies about a period of time that neither Wilson or his 
companions were actually a part of?  By Wilson's own admissions, he grew up 
in New Jersey and Moscow - how can you possibly say he "knows" the truth 
about the South?  His only experience has been gained at the knee of a white 
hate group leader and his own demented thought processes!  Balanced!!!  Bah, 
humbug.

"The causes of the war were a bit more than slavery (like the
north was not just as or more racist than the south?);  the north intruded
and destroyed half of my country, and that half of my country was filled
with a culture far more respectable than the one I currently live in. "

The "cause" of the war, IF you would read anything else besides Wilson, et 
al, was about state's peoples rights and about slavery.  It was about a 
group of rebels who decided to break away from a country that they were 
handed by virtue of blood, sweat, tears and lives, to do right by.  Instead, 
this group of folks decided to enslave a group of people who had no business 
being brought to the country by force and tell everyone to go stick their 
thumbs up their ****'s if they don't like it.  It was about a bunch of 
murderers who claimed to have God on their side and to prove it, they killed 
as many people as they wanted when they wanted as they wanted, including our 
President.  One of your congregation has the nerve to say Grant was a slave 
owner and in fact owned slaves six years after the Civil War!!!  What 
baloney!  Grant's wife's family owned slaves, freed them BEFORE the 
emancipation and hired those that wanted to stay with the family.  Grant's 
father was an abolitionist, for pity's sake, and Grant carried those 
teachings throughtout his military and private life.

http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/page160.html

"These strange discussions about the confederate flag (which I've never had 
the
slightest bit of fondness for) make me sad. I'm not inclined to argue for
the value of displaying this defeated symbol, but I know its function was
not the same as the Nazi Swastika."

The Nazi flag, like the Confederate flag was/is meant to instill fear and 
promote acquiescence among the seers  - period.  It was/is a symbol of hate, 
murder, and dominance over a section of people that the bearers did/do not 
like and want(ed) to have rule over.  You are either very, very naive or 
plainly ignorant of the reason for the flag and that, on either level, is 
sad and disappointing.  Wilson/Wilkins wrote a book that tells a false and 
unverifiable history of a time in our country's life and they proudly 
display a flag to bolster the patriotism to those lies.  You following them 
makes you no better, especially since you are doing so with such closed 
eyes.

As Mr. T would say:

"I pity the fool!"


J  ;)

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