"Every mother's son of you knew that if you didn't keep exact step to the music of Dixie and the Bonny Blue Flag, if you did not tread the very front line of battle when the contest was on, knew in short that if you returned home in aught but soldierly honor, that the very fires of hell would not scorch and consume your unshriven souls as you would be scorched and consumed by the scorn and contempt of your womanhood."
--Cpl. James Tanner, 1906
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Aristotle
taught that “To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to
other things, plants, animals, implements, for none of these things
retain their natural power when they are too large or too small.”1 In
this paper I want to explore Hume’s views on the proper size and scale
of political order. Size and scale are not the same thing. The scale of a
thing is the size appropriate to its function. Scale for human things
is the human body and its capacities. Classical architects have longed
explored the relation between the human frame, its sensory capacities,
and the proper size of doors, windows, courtyards, gardens, the width of
streets, plazas, and so forth.
What is the proper size and scale of political order?
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Beautiful and most appreciated.
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Michelle Laws, head of the NAACP, demanded the girls be suspended, was herself
arrested for trespassing and code violation.
They are getting desperate to put the fear of honoring the CSA the respect and recognition it deserves over and above the Union. Pitiful cowards.
Thanks for the compliment and the link.
DeleteAfter the re-election of Barack Obama
ReplyDeleteSouthern Nationalist Activism Flag with explanation of symbolism. It debuted at the Uvalda, GA demonstration against Southern demographic displacement on August 24, 2013.
Southern nationalism returned to the public eye in the wake of President Obama's re-election on November 6, 2012. Just one day later, Michael E. of Slidell, Louisiana started a petition on We the People, the official White House petition site, asking the Obama administration to "Peacefully grant the State of Louisiana to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government."[1] By year's end, secession petitions existed for all fifty states; as of November 16 secession petitions had garnered more than 839,000 total signatures.[2] Despite the countrywide scope of the
'SECEDE' sticker creatively superimposed over the USA Today logo in 2013.
movement, the bulk of signatures were for Southern states. Although White House spokesman Jon Carson summarily wrote off all petitions that reached the 25,000 signature threshhold with a response entitled "Our States Remain United," the Southern nationalist cause had reawakened. Southern patriots inundated cities and towns across Dixie with 'SECEDE' and 'SECEDE From Obamaland' stickers, demonstrating just how disunited the country actually was.[3]
We're about as united as 1865. Besides, we don't need permission to secede.
Ahead of the Uvalda, Georgia demonstration against Southern demographic displacement which took place on August 24, 2013, Michael Cushman of the Southern Nationalist Network introduced the Southern Nationalist Activism Flag. Designed by Jon, an Augusta, Georgia activist, the flag has a white field, symbolizing heritage, hierarchy, and tradition, emblazoned with a black St. Andrew's cross symbolizing Christianity and Celtic heritage, while the black color stands for nationalism. Not intended to replace the Stars and Bars or any other flag of the South, SNN intends the Southern nationalist flag to provide an emblem specific to Southern nationalism in our time.[4] The League of the South flew Sothern nationalist flag alongside the Georgia Secession Flag at the Uvalda rally on August 24.[5]
In the time since Obama's re-election, many Southern nationalists have noticed a radicalization within the movement as Southern patriots concude that "Taking Back America" is futile.[6]
"Taking Back America" is futile
DeleteI agree, both taking back and secession are long rows to hoe, but secession would be the best.