Posted on 06/04/2002 1:52:14 PM PDT by craqed
Here is one of the candidates in the November elections for Congress in Mississippi. Jim Giles (the candidate) wants to "put a rebel in Conress for a change to shake things up".
Link to his website: www.rebelarmy.com.
Surely you don't argue that twodees' denial of the meaning of scalawag was correct?
After completing college Giles attended the Sorbonne University in Paris, France where he received two degrees in French, where he lived with a French family in the Latin Quarter and where he saw massive student protests against socialist president Francois Mitterrand. While living in Paris, Giles attended church at the American Church in Paris on the Seine River where the children of America’s elite congregated more as a social event than a spiritual exercise. Giles learned first hand the basic contempt held by the rest of America for his home state as if Mississippi held a monopoly on all evil and ignorance. A quiet and shy kid growing up, Giles began speaking up in defense of Mississippi and has been defending her ever since. Those who now represent Mississippi in Congress never defend our state; they only deliver the money to a select few. They never take to the floor of Congress and thunder away in defense of our poor but proud people. Giles would. Mississippi has been and remains a target, the whipping boy of all that is wrong in America and not a peep from Tomäto or Ronnie.
...also please e-mail this petition to EVERYONE on your list...
(Paris France, not Paris Mississippi. You hear?)
As for twodees, haven't read it but my definition of a Scalawag, as meant in the South is: a Southerner who profited from Reconstruction, at the cost of his fellow citizens...and who had joined the Republican Party at that time, for that express purpose.
Why only thirty (30)? Why not thirty-five (35)? Forty (40)? Or even forty-five (45)?
(Is this a question (?)?)
Election 1896
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe y'all can dig up William Jennings Bryan and vote for him. This "rebel" guy is sounding all the populist notes. Reminds me of Homer Stokes from "Oh Brother Where art thou?"
Is you is or is you ain't my constichency?" Homer Stokes, friend of the little man.
I was gonna ask the same thing. Forget this dumb cracker. Vote for her.
GILES THROWN OUT AGAIN June 8, 2002 Rankin County, MS – Jim Giles was thrown out of the Disabled American Veterans state convention at the Best Western in Meridian today. The Veterans’ representative told Giles that he was not invited to speak and that if he didn’t leave the police would be called. Giles said, “What exactly did our veterans fight for if not our freedom and democracy? Veterans fought for my freedom to speak as part of the democratic process and yet the leaders of this Veterans’ group who were small in stature and had Yankee accents have decided for the rest of you veterans that I’m not to be permitted an opportunity to make a presentation to you. Shouldn’t you be the one to decide and not your corrupt bureaucratic leaders? This Veterans’ meeting outrageously omitted the state flag of Mississippi from the flag display which included the U.S. and POW flags. You no more represent the majority of veterans in this state than Tomäto represents conservatives in this state. I’m on to you! It’s doubtful they will air it but for the record a Jewish television camera (WTOK Channel 11, the ABC affiliate) was present to record my ejection while Tomäto spoke. Ronnie Shows and Tomäto were invited to speak. I’m a legally qualified candidate. Why exactly am I not being allowed to speak? That’s a rhetorical question because you know the answer. The establishment and the Jewish media disapprove of my values, beliefs and convictions which are shared by the majority of individuals in this state, black and white alike. My exclusion goes against everything America is supposed to stand for and for what veterans fought for.”
That's from his own website.
Made in Japan, aren't they? More likely a Buddhist television camera.
That band ain't white! They's integrated!
He claims to support property rights yet supports a national sales tax that would redefine new homes as "consumable goods and services" (similar to alcohol and tobacco) rather than real property.
He claims he'd defend our borders, yet would undermine domestic production by extending "free trade" privileges to entities outside our Constitutional jurisdiction and not bound by a similar set of laws and regulations.
Don't need a kook like this in Congress.
The clowns that are already there are bad enough.
Good thing Giles isn't running for office in Texas--the event organizers would have busted a cap on him and used the He needed killin' defense--and probably got away with it, too!
While his loyalty to Mississippi is commendable, his use of the term "Peasant" as his identified constituency, demonizing references to "good ole boy network," "Jewish controlled media," and the Mississippi "establishment," suggest that he is more focused on finding someone to blame, than on advancing a coherent philosophy. This hurts the credibility of whatever is good in his message; and will make many genuine Conservatives, who are as fed up as he is with certain practices, very loath to vote for him.
Having said that, I will say something more. The gutlessly politically correct tendency of many lifelong Conservatives to try to remain respectable to the Leftwing media, leaves many not so ideologically well-rooted, without any serious discussion of certain issues, with which to find a rudder to steer a consistent course. This throws many with a sense that something is very wrong into an intellectual thrashing around process, where they may get diverted into tangential tendencies to concentrate more on blaming someone else, than putting forth a coherent answer. Here is an intelligent man, who is not going at this in the right way, because he feels betrayed by an "establishment," that appears to be a sort of hydra headed monster. He is attacking what he considers the different heads.
Mississippi needs a new political leadership. It is very sad that one who has the passion to provide it, appears to be losing his way, moving in the wrong direction. Do not misunderstand me. It is his manner of identifying the players, not any fault with seeing who is on which side, that is his problem. He sees a plot, as it were, a "good ole boy, Jewish and establishment" plot. But it is not the "good ole boys, Jews or establishment," that is behind what he would fight. It is dysrons in each group who allow themselves to be maneuvered and used by the hard core Left.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
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