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Anti-White and Anti-Southern Myths 0 A Defense of the South Against the Jesuit Counter Reformation By Drake Shelton Louisville, Ky February, 2015 1 © 2015 Drake Shelton. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-329-06848-3 2 “My explanation and defense of the fact that I am sick and tired of being forced to live among people that hate me.” Drake Shelton, 2/21/2015 3 Table of Contents Prolegomenon……………………………………………………………………………..7 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………37 Chapter I Identifying the Real Slave Traders……………………………………………41 Chapter II The Yankee Attitude Towards the Black Man……………………………….53 Chapter III The South’s Treatment of Their Slaves……………………………………...66 Chapter IV The Biblical Doctrine of Slavery Defended…………………………………85 Chapter V War Crimes Against Southern Civilians……………………………………111 Chapter VI Why Did the North Invade the South?..........................................................129 Chapter VII Twenty Six Theses In Defense of Biblical Kinism…………...…………..161 Chapter VIII The Communist Roots and Genocidal Fruits of the Civil Rights Movement………………………………………………………………………………188 Chapter IX Stop the Genocide of the Southern White Protestant Bible-Belt…...……...196 Chapter X Are the Modern Jews the Biological Descendants of Jacob or Are they a Khazarian Peoples Masquerading as the Line of Abraham?..……………...…………..202 Chapter XI The Jews Do Not Control the World…………………...………………….206 Chapter XII Native American Genocide………………………………...……………...321 Addendum The Industrial Sedition…………………………………………...………...335 Appendix Review of Southern Slavery As It Wasn’t……………..……………………356 4 5 “The consequences that flowed from this radical change in the basis of citizenship were numerous and weighty. Nor were those consequences left subject to construction or speculation. They were incorporated in the same section of the Amendment. The abuses which were formerly heaped on the citizens of one State by the legislative and judicial authority of another State were rendered thenceforth impossible. The language of the Fourteenth Amendment is authoritative and mandatory: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Under the force of these weighty inhibitions, the citizen of foreign birth [The New Irish Catholic Invaders. – DS] cannot be persecuted by discriminating statutes, nor can the citizen of dark complexion be deprived of a single privilege or immunity which belongs to the white man. Nor can the Catholic, or the Protestant, or the Jew be placed under ban or subjected to any deprivation of personal or religious right. The provision is comprehensive and absolute, and sweeps away at once every form of oppression and every denial of justice. It abolishes caste [De-crypted: It removes even more protections the Protestants set up against the Catholic Church that forced them here in the first place. – DS] and enlarges the scope of human freedom. It increases the power of the Republic to do equal and exact justice to all its citizens, and curtails the power of the States to shelter the wrong-doer or to authorize crime by a statute. To Congress is committed the authority to enforce every provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the humblest man who is denied the equal protection of the laws of a State can have his wrongs redressed before the Supreme Judiciary of the Nation.” Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield by James Gillespie Blaine, 313-314 6 Prolegomenon Why did our fathers come here to this land? Why did they leave the ancient homelands of our ancestors in the British Isles and Northern Europe? During the 17th century Europe was inflamed with religious and political controversies extending from the famous Protestant reformation. Escalating from the events of the 16th century where the French Protestants had been slaughtered in the tens of thousands in the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and the English had survived a Roman Catholic invasion from the massive Spanish fleet, the Spanish Armada, there came a whirlwind of persecution of Protestants in England, Scotland, France, and much of central and Northern Europe. In 1618 The Jesuits are expelled from Bohemia. The Bohemian Diet of 1618 stated, “We lords, knights, deputies of Prague, Kuttenberg and other estates, together recognize in what great danger this kingdom of Bohemia has stood ever since the introduction of the hypocritical sect of Jesuits. We have, moreover, found in truth that the originators of all this mischief are the above-mentioned Jesuits, who occupy themselves in contriving how they may strengthen the Roman See, and bring all kingdoms and lands under their power and might, who to this end employ the most illicit means, inflame rulers against one another, cause rebellion and unrest among the estates of countries, especially such as are of different religions, set superiors against subordinates, subordinates against superiors. Now therefore, as they are in these ways the cause of the evil state which has befallen the kingdom, they have justly merited to be no longer tolerated in the said kingdom. .”1 Here we clearly see a precedent, that when a country creates trouble for the Jesuits, that country is sure to be inflicted with war as a propitiation to the Jesuit order. That same year, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, educated by the Jesuits, began his war of Protestant annihilation in direct contradiction to religious rights granted to them by Emperor Rudolf II in his Letter of Majesty, The Thirty Years War. The persecution of the English Protestants in the 17th century under the Stuart Kings pursuant to their departure for America can be read in Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné’s The Protector, pages 84-85, “The liberties and Protestantism of England were on the verge of shipwreck, when Cromwell intervened; and all his life he upheld in Great Britain religious liberty and the national prosperity. 1 René Fülöp-Miller, The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, 355; taken from Phelps’, Vatican Assassins, 140 7 And what became of the country after his death?—The Stuarts returned; and “when the rejoicings were over, the illuminations extinct, then punishments followed.” One hundred corpses were exhumed, among which were the great Oliver, his old and venerable mother, his dearly beloved daughter Bridget Pym, and the famous admiral Blake. Their mouldering bodies were hung on the three corners of the gallows at Tyburn, and the cavaliers found a subject of merriment and pleasantry in this revolting exhibition. Ears were cut off, noses were slit, and numbers lost their heads on the scaffold. The sentence pronounced against them all was conceived in the following terms:—”You shall be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, and there you shall be hanged by the neck; and being alive, you shall be cut down and mutilated; your entrails shall be taken out of your body, and (you living) the same to be burnt before your eyes; and your head to be cut off, and your body to be divided into four quarters.” The Stuarts, as if this were not enough, filled the country with immorality; and an illustrious Royalist of the present day can find no other excuse for Charles II. than by saying that, in propagating this corruption of morals,” it is probable that this prince merely followed the course of his own inclinations and the fickleness of his character.”! Two thousand ministers were driven from their benefices; the churches were oppressed; the noblest hearts of the country were forced to seek a refuge in distant lands; vast colonies in America were peopled by them; and England would have become like Spain, and worse than Spain, had not William III. resumed the task so energetically begun by Cromwell. If, so long after the war, and after a pacific recall to their native land, the Stuarts committed such atrocities, what would they not have dared when men’s passions and animosities were in full vigor?” Consider also 1685 A.D. and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In 1688, the Jesuit Pere La Chaise, wrote a letter to Jesuit Sir Edward Petre2 suggesting that Petre exterminate English Protestants as he had exterminated French Protestants. La Chaise used blackmail to convince Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes. Louis XIV had committed fornication with his daughter-in-law and La Chaise refused to give him absolution unless he revoke the Edict of Nantes. Do we then see the Political and Social evil of the Roman Catholic soteriological system? If Louis XIV had believed in Calvinism, La Chaise would have had no power over him. The French Catholics murdered about 500, 000 Protestants in France.3 The French Protestants then fled to North America. This idea that we were running for our lives from the Roman Catholic Inquisition and its influences in Europe and the British Isles, is not only a Pro Protestant position. Thomas Paine mentions this exact thing in his Common Sense, page 25, 2 Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum: Index, 1896, pg. 274 3 Ridpath’s Universal History (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1901) Vol. XIV, p. 454 8 “The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.” This coming from the same man who said, “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”4 The modern naturalist educational institutions seem to regularly suppress this horrifying piece of history but according to Protestant Historians the Roman Catholic Church’s Inquisitions killed over 50 million people who refused to submit to the Roman Papacy.5 This is then no conspiracy theory.
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