Return of the Confederacy

[Swede]

I have never heard of the Tenthers before.

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They hate Lincoln, the New Deal, and desegregation. They love Jefferson Davis, secession, and nullification. Wingnuts author John Avlon on the creepy, growing political force known as Tenthers.

There's a place in the Wingnut universe where the rights of states to secede is still asserted, the New Deal is characterized as unconstitutional, and desegregation is considered tyranny imposed by the federal government.

They're not fans of the federal highway system or health-care legislation either.

Meet the Tenthers—a group of "Tenth Amendment activists" whose ranks are rising in the Obama era. They are holding a national summit today in Atlanta under the auspices of the Tenth Amendment Center, featuring speakers such as former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice (and current gubernatorial candidate) Roy Moore and the engaging Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-25/return-of-the-confederacy/?cid=hp:mainpromo7

[villager]

1. so which corporate entities fund the Tenth Amendment Center?

n/t

[slackmaster]

2. South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

HUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.

Three of the estimated 45 million Southerners who have not yet gotten around to rising again.

"Make no mistake, the South shall rise again," said Knox Pritchard, president of the Huntsville-based Alliance Of Confederate States. "But we're just not quite ready to do it now. Hopefully, we'll be able to rise again real soon, maybe even in 2001."

Pritchard's fellow Southerners shared his confidence.

"Yes, sir. The South will rise again, and when it does, I'll be right up front waving the Stars and Bars," said Dock Mullins of Decatur, GA. "But first, I gotta get my truck fixed and get that rusty old stove out of my yard."...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28559

[SteveM]

7. Looks like our deer hunting cabin, sans flag. nt

[BlueGirlRedState]

3. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is one

In his campaign ad, he says he'll fight to uphold the Tenth Amendment.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Hyperbole from either side is not particularly helpful

There is a backlash against federalism underway. Parts of it are good, parts are bad. Many here support federal mandates for health care under the HCR label but we despise federal mandates for education, AKA NCLB. Yes there are some real wackos in the current backlash, but there are some real wackos supporting increased federalism too. Avalon is as much a smear artist as those he writes about. Not surprising in a society which is more and more sound bite driven.

[HopeHoops]

5. The GOP shat on the 10th Amendment in the 2000 election.

There's nothing in the Constitution that gives the federal government, the USSC in particular, the right to overrule the decision of a state SC on the results of an election to a federal position. I wonder if these so called "tenthers" put any effort into bitching about THAT.

[DBoon]

6. this was never about "state's rights"

The old Confederacy was all about slavery and the social system it supported.

The new Confederacy wishes to revive the spirit of the old.

[OHdem10]

8. Social System!!!!

[SteveM]

9. The "lynchpin" of the old Confederacy was gun-control. That's gone...

since the GOP used liberalized gun laws as an issue to draw in voters. Trouble is, they made the South the cutting edge of liberalized gun laws which apply to ALL citizens. It must have been embarrassing to some at www.georgiacarry.org (which submitted an excellent brief on the racist history of gun laws in the Heller decision) to sift through their own dehydrated droppings, and in effect renounce them.

Funny, we don't hear much from the GOPers about "states' rights" when it comes to the W.O.D., Inc. When it comes to illegal drugs, "nationalization" of the issue is just fine.

[HopeHoops]

10. Yeah, I figured that. The "tenther" thing is just a front.

[slackmaster]

11. States don't have rights. States have powers, people have rights.

It wasn't really about slavery, it was about the power of states to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.

:sarcasm:

[Renew Deal]

12. They better not invite Scalia

Who said that there is no right to secede.