Often civil war comes in many forms—two opposing factions vying for control of a government; one group striving for control of a government while their opposition (usually ordinary folks) don’t even realize what is going on. So you have one revolutionary group (usually working behind the scenes, often part of the present government) financing and guiding radicals in the streets and enabling them to commit all sorts of mayhem against the general population, to scare them in order to keep them from exercising their mandate to vote and take part in the political life of the country. Sound familiar?

A major part of this form of civil war is censorship, either by hiding information the public needs to be aware of or by trying to censor out of existence those that try to inform the public about what is really going on. Usually both the concealing of facts and the censoring of those who seek to reveal those facts go on simultaneously. You see, all the facts can’t always be totally hidden. And there are those who follow the political scene who are able to dig out at least some of the facts—hence they must be silenced, lest they reach enough people with what they have found that those who operate behind the scenes should be politically embarrassed. A good example of this was the ongoing effort to cover up politically incorrect info about the COVID scam that Fauci and friends sought to foist on the public.

None of this is new. It has gone on at least since the French Revolution, and it reared its ugly head in this country awhile before the War of Northern Aggression, in the form of both censorship and propaganda.

As the War of Northern Aggression gained steam, the beneficent Mr. Lincoln made sure no voices of dissent against his agenda would be heard in the North. To that end, many opposition newspapers were shut down and individuals who dared to disagree with Lincoln’s agenda were routinely silenced. Some were treated to the motel-like conditions of Old Capitol Prison for extended “vacations.” These included newspaper editors, politicians, and even clergymen. The clergy in the North had to learn that it was “not nice to disagree with Father Abraham.”

Depending on what sources you referred to, anywhere from 13,000 to 38,000 Northern folks were treated to the “country club” conditions of Yankee prisons during the War. And these people were not raving Southern partisans either. All you had to do to be treated to the joyful experience of a Yankee prison was to disagree with Mr. Lincoln about most anything from the conduct of the war to the high price of groceries, and if someone chanced to hear you and reported you, you were hauled off to the slammer. Evidence of your “crime?” Heck, no! No evidence needed, just someone’s word that you said what he claimed you did. In light of recent events in Washington and New York, does this have a familiar ring?

And in Lincoln’s administration you almost, in a sense, had a government within a government—because of the agendas of Edwin Stanton, Thaddeus Stevens and others in Congress were most definitely not the program of Lincoln. Of course most of this has been censored out of our “history” books lest too many ask the wrong questions. With Lincoln you hardly ever knew what he really thought, and he couched his comments in a way he wanted you to take them instead of the way he really meant them. A good example of that was the way he parsed words regarding the Fort Sumter situation that he used to start the war. I realize my saying that will cause many leftist types to hyperventilate and they will shout the South really started the war. No they didn’t! Lincoln pushed them into a situation where they technically fired the first shot. It was a testimony to Lincoln’s devious nature that he was able to accomplish this and shift the blame. Again, all this stuff is censored out of the “history” books because you don’t need to know the truth. Those who know the truth often fight back. In the sense that the censors seek to keep you from knowing the truth, they have declared war on you, and on your children!

Lincoln was far from the only devious person in his administration. In fact his administration was loaded with them. Years ago I read an article on Wade Burleson about the Lincoln assassination and John Wilkes Booth. That was back around 2018 or so, but you may still be able to find it, The site is still up. The article said, in part, “The historical account of the actual assassination of our sixteenth President of the United States is without factual dispute. What has been open to debate is the number of men (and women) involved in the conspiracy to either kill or kidnap President Lincoln.” Now lets stipulate something here. These were two separate crimes. There were some who were guilty of taking part in a kidnap plot who were not guilty of the assassination plot.

The Burleson article continued: “The Lincoln Conspiracy, a 1977 book by David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier seeks to prove that in 1865 Edwin M. Stanton Lincoln’s Secretary of War and other Radical Republican allies sought to kidnap Lincoln. They intended to hide Lincoln for a time while bogus articles of impeachment were drafted to remove him as president. The primary motivations for this plot were strong opposition to Lincoln’s liberal Reconstruction plans…” While there were some things in this article I don’t completely agree with, this part rings mostly true—except that Lincoln’s “liberal” Reconstruction plans were mostly formed to benefit Lincoln rather than the South. He wanted the political patronage he’d get from controlling Reconstruction. Any president who could have allowed what Sherman did to Georgia was no friend of the South. His Reconstruction agenda would have benefitted him in his second term.

Quite awhile ago now, I watched a video on You Tube called “Missing pages of J. W. Booth’s Diary” done by a man named Don Thomas. I don’t even know if it’s still out there, but you can see if you can find it. He made it on July 9, 2016. Mr. Thomas has also written a book The Reason Lincoln Had To Die. I think you can still find it on Amazon. He self-published it in 2013 because he couldn’t find a publisher that would touch it with a ten foot pole. Whenever publishers shy away from this kind of thing, I like to check it out. I got the impression, watching Mr. Thomas’ YouTube presentation, that he had really done some homework and he came up with many of the conclusions the authors of The Lincoln Conspiracy did. Although I’ve not been able to get it, I think Thomas’ book would be worth the read and his You Tube video worth watching, provided some politically correct censor doesn’t come across it and decide we don’t need to see it.

I guess, looking at our current national situation, with the Biden/Obama regime in control, I am forced to reiterate something I said years ago—we are engaged in a cultural civil war. The regime in power has declared war on us ordinary folks by hiding the truth from us as much as possible and when some folks try to get that truth out there they are censored because the Swamp, Deep State, or whatever you want to call these sleazebuckets, feel that they have the right to dictate to us how we should live and what we should be allowed to believe. They cannot allow us to grasp the real truth in—in history, theology, politics, or any important issue that affects our lives. If people learn the truth, they may fight back, and it might get messy, so the oligarchs want to avoid that if possible. Those that oppose ordinary people and their God-given liberties cannot stand the light of truth being shined upon their evil deeds. That fact, alone, should reveal to us their true origins (John 8:44).

The so-called “Reconstruction” period in the South, after the shooting phase of the War of Northern Aggression ceased set in motion an insidious trend that has yet to be reversed in this country. That avoidable war brought monstrous federal intrusion into the private lives of individuals on a heretofore undreamed-of level. “Reconstruction” in the South set up virtual military dictatorships in all the former Confederate States. The banner of what today is referred to as reverse racism was raised atop the federal flagpole and flown on high. It has yet to be taken down. In fact, with the Biden/Obama regime now in power, they are busy building a higher flagpole for it.

This trend toward centralized federal pre-eminence has never been reversed, nor will it be until this country wakes up or folds up. And if it folds up as the Biden/Obama regime plans for it to, it won’t make any difference.

​Several years ago my family and I took a trip - one of many over the years. On the way home we stopped at the National Historical Park at Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia. At that site the town has been in the process of being reconstructed that that it will eventually appear just as it did when abolitionist/terrorist John Brown conducted his raid there in 1859. Maybe by now they’ve finished with the reconstruction, I don’t know. (They filmed part of the movie Gods and Generals there. If you all have not seen that movie, you should.) Many have claimed that Harpers Ferry has been turned into a secular shrine to glorify John Brown. It would seem that those who have labored hard to do that must approve of Brown’s violent terrorist tactics.

Anyway, while on our visit there, we chanced to visit the building that had housed the Provost Marshall’s office. A lady there, dressed in period attire, explained to the tourists that during the War of Northern Aggression (she didn’t call it that) Harpers Ferry was under federal jurisdiction, and was therefore, under the control of the Provost Marshall. When the lady explained what powers this man had I could not help thinking that the Provost Marshall was, for all intents and purposes, a federal dictator. As I pondered how that war had paved for future federal dictatorships, a picture of the Supreme Court suddenly flashed through my mind.

Court watchers have noted, with appropriate apprehension over the years, some of the “interesting” decisions of the court. The decisions that Comrade Obama’s forcing everyone to buy his “health” insurance or be fined was little more than judicial quackery. But the court seemed to have no problem with it. There was a decision (back in 2005, I think it was) in the state of Connecticut that allowed a city to use eminent domain, (something I’ve always hated) to attempt to seize the property of several homeowners. Apparently some cities in Connecticut felt they could make better use of some people’s property than the property owners could and so property was taken under the eminent domain clause. This is something I have never agreed with. It’s one of those weak spots the Constitution is famous for.

George Will was never one of my favorite columnists, but on occasion he came up with an article that showed some insight. Several years ago now he did a column dealing with a decision of the Supreme Court. He noted, “The Court bestowed, prospectively, its constitutional imprimatur on virtually any racial spoils system Congress enacts. The Court selectively overturned a series of precedents that had at least limited the proliferation of what are euphemistically called ‘race-conscious policies’.”

In this particular instance Will observed that the Court, by a 5-4 majority ruled that Congress may assign special benefits to particular government-preferred minorities (to the detriment of all who do not make the preferred list) and Congress may do so without regard to any injury resulting from discrimination. Reverse discrimination is now cut loose from the pretense that it is merely a remedial measure.” Take a good look at Will’s comment and let it sink in. Doesn’t it make you feel good if you happen to belong to some group that hasn’t made the government’s “preferred” list—like white Christian Southerners for example?

Some have taken exception to court rulings of this nature, claiming they violate the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law. Sorry folks, but that one was thrown under the bus a long time ago according to Will. “Equal protection is not violated if the injury done by reverse discrimination serves an important government objective.” Did you all get that? Equal protection is not violated by unequal treatment as long as “important government objectives” are being served. Question—where is this situation any different than what occurred during the first phase of “reconstruction” after the Marxist/Lincolnist Revolution of 1861, aka the Civil War?

Theologian C. Gregg Singer aptly pointed out in his book A Theological Interpretation of American History that the real aim of Thaddeus Stevens and his fellow Northern revolutionaries was a program of “reconstruction” that would start in the South and would be handled in such a way as to eventually include the entire country. The entire fabric of American life, North and South, was to be “reconstructed” according to their revolutionary aims. And guess what, folks, due to the advent of the public school system, first in the North, then in the “reconstructed” South, it has mostly worked!
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So let’s summarize. The “reconstruction” (Marx’s term) in the South set forth a policy of reverse discrimination where there was no protection under the law for Southern whites because it had been determined that reverse discrimination in regard to freed slaves served “an important government objective” of working to “ensure the perpetual ascendancy of the party of the Union” (the Republican Party).

Both North and South lived through the first phase of “reconstruction” until both became “reconstructed” enough so that most memories of a truly Christian America were obliterated.

That having been accomplished, it is now time for us to begin to realize that we are, at present, and for the discernable future, in the midst of the second phase of “reconstruction”. The perpetually ascending federal government, (the secular deity) via its court system, is busily enacting quotas and racial preference agendas and telling local school districts they have the power to raise taxes on their own, even if voters have voted down the proposed tax increase. When President Trump was in office he tried to give us a more conservative Supreme Court. But he was only one man and he got precious little support or good advice from the Deep State moles in his own administration.

It would seem that the chickens of American apostasy, turned loose in the 1820s, have now come home to roost. Many years ago, Rev R. L. Dabney in his book Defense of Virginia and the South wrote: “A righteous God, for our sins toward Him, has permitted us to be overthrown by our enemies and His.” Although he was speaking at that time to Southerners, his commentary is now appropriate for the entire country. One of the main fruits of apostasy is more and ever repressive government. Until apostasy is repudiated and a Christian culture is sought after and worked for, things will only get worse and we will continue to have rulers like Barack Obama and China Joe Biden, who are truly the fruit of and result of apostasy.