Request to Northern Virginia

My old stompin' grounds, but I am not there now.**My third and fourth daughters, Christine Pender and Bonnie Bach.

Mr Townsend,

I'm trying to "re-locate" a fallen Confederate Soldier's gravesite or marker who was buried in the Warrenton Cemetery, Virginia. I found the gravesite and marker while stationed at Vint Hill Farms Station, Virginia in 1968. I took a picture which clearly shows my ancestor's name "John Shellman" who was the son of J.W. Talley. John Shellman was killed as a result of a leg injury in the Second Battle Of Manasses, 1862.

I found a website (Free North Carolina) with a picture of Col. John Mosby's grave marker with **two young girls standing beside the grave marker and each holding a Confederate Flag. I too have a picture of the Mosby grave marker (less the two girls of course) also taken in 1968. John Shellman's grave stone was within ten or fifteen feet of the Mosby grave marker. I remember thinking John Shellman is in good company being beside another Confederate Hero. My son was visiting the Warrenton Cemetery last week and could not find the John Shellman grave marker. So, my question is: how would I go about finding out if the grave marker for John Shellman has been moved? If so, where? Is there a map or listing of those Fallen Confederates as to where they can be found in the Warrenton Cemetery?

Any records indicating my ancestor could be listed as either John Shellman OR John Shellman Talley as the last name (Talley) was in smaller letters and beneath John Shellman which followed the contour of the top of the grave stone in larger letters. If needed, I can scan my pictures and forward them to you.

Any information you can offer is appreciated.

John Stevenson

(904) 277-1688

Amelia Island, Florida

32034

Warrenton, VA 600 Confederate Dead

The Real Domestic Terrorists

Those who support States rights, constitutional government, and the right of secession are now commonly called by the ruling elite right-wing extremists and potential domestic terrorists. We traditional Southerners are indeed familiar with this game. Had the term been around then, our ancestors - from Washington and Jefferson to Lee and Davis - would have been called domestic terrorists by the Brits and Yankees, respectively. As it was, they were simply called "traitors." We reject the use of both terms for ourselves and for our forebears. Instead, we can make a good case that the real threats to domestic peace and quiet are on the other side. And yet we continue to pay them tribute and allow them to rule over us.

Who They Are?

The real domestic terrorists were (and are) those who oppose ordered Christian liberty and the worldview which upholds it. Indeed, Abe Lincoln and his minions have sired a long line of domestic terrorists, including most recently George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama (and all who aid them in their misrule). We might throw the larger part of Congress into the mix as well.

Most of what the U.S. government does is beyond the bounds of its constitutional limitations. That makes it unlawful. That which is unlawful ultimately terrorizes society. Jefferson told us that the fundamental law of the land should be viewed as chains to bind a singularly dangerous beast (the general government). For a while the beast was successfully bound; however, he slipped his chains for good in 1865 and our republic of republics was lost. Today, we live under a strange combination of socialism and fascism that would surely please a Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, or Mao as much as it would disgust our Founders.

How we came to this point is fairly clear - there was a slow and steady revolution, and most Americans were asleep while it patiently worked its way through virtually every institution in the land. Some of our fellow subjects still don't realize what has transpired. But they soon will.

Things were bad under Bush II. But because he and the GOP masqueraded as "conservatives," most Americans thought all was well. But as a famous Alabamian once said, there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two major political parties. And he was right. Bush I or Clinton; Bush II or Obama - the rhetoric may differ but the results are still the same: bigger, more intrusive, and lawless central government and less liberty and prosperity for the rest of us. Now, what little we have left in terms of liberty and property is being taken from us openly without any meaningful resistance on our part.

An Organized Criminal Enterprise

That the U.S. government is an organized criminal enterprise cannot be doubted by anyone who has kept abreast of the on-going, broad-open-daylight effort to loot the country's wealth.

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Prosecutors Gone Wild: How Many Wrongful Convictions Will the Public Stand for?

Even casual samplers of the media now come across colossal injustices and failures in the U.S. justice criminal system every two weeks or so. Yet these stories, everyone a heart-breaking recitation of how willful prosecution misconduct has ruined a life or a family, with no consequences at all to whoever has abused his great powers as a prosecutor, seem never to elicit any particular public response or gain any traction for review or reform. ...

Prosecutors have practically untrammeled discretion in deciding what to charge, how many counts to allege, and a very wide latitude in sentences sought. Grand juries are just a rubber stamp for prosecutors, and contrary to the spirit of the Fifth Amendment, provide absolutely no assurance against capricious prosecution. But complicity in or direct causation of the lengthy incarceration of falsely accused and convicted people, not to be confused with honest error and misplaced zeal, is a terribly serious offense and is so treated in every other serious jurisdiction except the U.S.
– Huffington Post and elsewhere

Dominant Social Theme: Ignore former media mogul Conrad Black. He's been convicted of corporate corruption and his articles are just sour grapes.

Free-Market Analysis: Conrad Black, the former Canadian publisher of numerous prestigious mainstream newspapers, was apparently unjustly imprisoned for corporate corruption and as a result he has discovered the injustice of the current Western industrial-penitentiary complex.

He's writing about the increasingly insane paradigm of Western "justice" and, ironically, is one of only a few of his mainstream stature (diminished as it may be) to do so. He didn't previously, but his current travails have apparently concentrated his mind.

In a series of extraordinary articles, some of them apparently written from jail, the fallen media magnate makes significant points about how the system has strayed from justice – and not just in his case. We've always maintained that the Western "justice" meme was the most stubborn and would be perhaps the last to come under attack in this Internet era. Black is certainly engaging the battle.

It turns out that after numerous appeals, Black stands accused, perhaps, of embezzling some US$250,000 in corporate funds from the company he built and headed. For this, he has apparently paid some US$32 million in fines and seen the utter destruction of his media empire – or so we have read.

Black, it would seem, has a right to be bitter. But no matter what one thinks of Black – and for much of his career he was a kind of card-carrying socialist and social-climber of the most unbearable type – he has shown considerable courage in fighting his case and writing increasingly passionate articles even as he has joined the fight to prove his innocence.

In this case, what stimulates Black's pen is a case that occurred in Texas where an individual named Michael Morton was found guilty of murdering his wife and spent 25 years in jail before being released when it turned out that prosecutors had apparently withheld exculpatory DNA evidence.

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GOA Alert: Romney, Huntsman Stonewall Gun Owners

As New Hampshire voters get set to head to the polls, Mitt and Jon Huntsman continue to ignore requests from gun owners that he return the GOA candidate questionnaire.

Thank to your efforts, we’ve heard from most of the Republican candidates, including Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. But Romney and Huntsman continue to turn a deaf ear to the Second Amendment community.

Romney’s stonewalling is no surprise. After all, he is on record supporting a semi-auto ban and waiting periods for gun purchases. Still, he has the audacity to travel around the country claiming to be a supporter of the Second Amendment.

If he truly has “changed his spots,” then why not commit in writing to support specific Second Amendment issues?

For instance, would he veto a semi-auto ban, something he signed into law as Governor of Massachusetts? Will he reverse the Obama administration’s support of the massive UN small arms treaty? And what about executive orders, gun owner registration, and a host of other issues important to gun owners?

Jon Huntsman views on gun rights are largely unknown, but as the former Utah governor creeps up in the polls in New Hampshire, gun owners are becoming increasingly interested in his positions.

Huntsman said over the summer that he would “absolutely veto” a semi-auto ban, but he has not elaborated further.

There are some 100 million gun owners in America. It is outrageous for ANY candidate for elected office to ignore this vast segment of the population.

ACTION: Please contact the Romney and Huntsman campaigns and urge them to complete the GOA candidate questionnaire.

Romney campaign contact info

Email: info@mittromney.com

Phone: (857) 288-3500

Huntsman campaign contact info

Webform: http://jon2012.com/contact

Phone: (603) 836-5643

Has this threat to punish Rhode Island disappeared down the Memory Hole?

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Comment on Charles Carroll of Carrollton

I read this about Rhode Island:

Rhode Island had not as yet joined the new Union and it was now proposed to make her suffer for her delay. On April 28, 1790, a committee was formed to consider what was to be done about Rhode Island. This was considered by Maclay and his friends as “only to furnish a pretext to raise more troops…” According to Robert Morris, this is the gist of the bill: “to prevent bringing goods, wares and merchandise from the State of Rhode Island… into the United States, and to authorize a demand for money from the said State.” The bill passed on May 18, and Rhode Island Voluntarily joined the Voluntary Union.

I bring this up because it seemed to be a threat to starve them into “submission” since RI could not trade with another state and no state could trade with her. (However, she was still responsible for paying her Fair Share of Taxes.)

Could not Lincoln have done the same thing? I mean he did do the same thing, blockading Southern ports before the war even started, and ending trade with the Voluntary Union. So why the war? By the end of this four-year slaughter, only the dead were not starving.

BTW, has this threat to punish Rhode Island disappeared down the Memory Hole? I can hardly find any reference to it.

Yossarian

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Time to sing.........

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.........Campaign season is here. Learn this song with a dozen of your buddies. At every democrat rally, stand up, sing it, then leave after your done handing out flyers stating that Communists support Obama. (They really do).

...It is just something the media hides really well. Time to get it in people's faces...

"We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?"

Via Atlas Shrugs

A Florida man, arrested Saturday for allegedly plotting to bomb night clubs and the sheriff's headquarters in Tampa, Florida, faces a federal judge on a terror charge Monday afternoon, federal prosecutors said.

Sami Osmakac, a 25-year-old naturalized American born in Kosovo, planned a car bombing that would be followed by hostage-taking and the explosion of a suicide belt he planned to wear, according to a criminal complaint made public Monday.

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