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Review
MEDIA BYPASS Volume 11
Number 3 March 2003
The Last Word
By Pat Shannan
Frank Conner: Reviser of the Revisionists
There is a movement afloat to eradicate true Southern history from the
memories of the next generation. This deluded group has been persuaded
through revisionist history to believe that 300,000 Confederate patriots
actually died to preserve a slave system to which virtually none of them
had been benefit. And that 50,000 more black troops went into battle for
the same Southern cause-apparently, to secure their own bondage. Logic
and reason are being strained here, aren't they?
That "official" history is actually the propaganda from the same
unending ideological war that various groups of Northern liberals have
been waging against the South ever since the 1830s, so says author Frank
Conner.
"Beginning with Reconstruction, that Northern-liberal propaganda became
the 'official' American history that is taught universally in the
classrooms, in the movies, on TV, and in the books, magazines, and
newspapers. It teaches that the war was a civil war; that the South
started it; that the North fought it to free the slaves; and other such
blatant lies."
Now there is a far better source for truth-seekers. This book also has a
powerful message for conservatives everywhere: it tells how the
ideological liberals have sold socialism to the American public step by
step since the late 19th century. It tells how the liberals have falsely
tied racial discrimination so tightly to Southern states' rights in the
public mind as to make states' rights anywhere (thus, constitutional
government) unacceptable to the American public.
The liberals' goal is totalitarian socialism. The South has always been
the liberals' battlefield; and the Northern conservatives who refuse to
join the Southern conservatives in the fight there will soon find
themselves helpless cogs in the ideological liberals' U.S. workers'
paradise.
Who remembers that Lincoln's Union troops fought almost his whole war of
"insurrection" in the southern states, not to mention the raping and
pillaging of the innocents, black and white?
But for what reason? Certainly not the publicized reason of removing the
institution of slavery. (Did you know that there was never a slave ship
that flew a Confederate flag?) Slavery was flourishing in the northern
states as well. Many American patriots from the southern states were
deeply involved in the federal government prior to the war-including
Secretary of War Jefferson Davis in the 1850s. So what was the real
problem?
Space here prevents a detailed re-education, but let us provide a hint:
Of the $107 million of 1861, the southern states were being assessed a
whopping $93 million.
Who remembers that the 13 united states were born out of secession from
England and that the Declaration of Independence preserved the right of
all the states to secede again?
"The white Southerners of today do not know who they are, because they
do not know who they were," says Conner. "Their true history has been
systematically suppressed or distorted beyond recognition… as mere
individuals, the traditional Southerners can no longer defend their
basic interests in the national arena… Every demagogue or racial hustler
who comes along can guilt-trip today's Southerners into doing his
bidding by bludgeoning them with the new 'official' history of the
South."
You must read Frank Conner's book because we all need to know how
wrinkled our history has become. Neither this writer nor the publication
makes a dime from its sale. We are only saying that, wherever you are in
America, you need to read it and own it and to have it available for
your children.
Frank Conner, 71, spent most of the last decade researching and
compiling data for the only book he has ever written or ever intends to
write. His publisher wanted to edit and change some of the text. Mr.
Conner refused and had to self-publish at great expense. He is not a
wealthy man and was forced to take a second mortgage on his house in
order to get these truths to the American public.
The South Under Siege 1830 - 2000 is one of the few books we have ever
recommended. You will be glad for the rest of your life that you did.
The 750 pages are a treasure house of truth.
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