Comments for Beaufort County defends southern history; opposes War on History attack | Eastern NC Now

Thank you commissioners Deatherage, Richardson, Rebholz, and Waters for voting to preserve our history. It is hard to fathom what the others were thinking.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:52 am By: Victoria

When you advocate for the anti-history pogrom of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Little Bobbie, that makes you a Maoist. From your posts, you are also an adocate of "equity" as the far left uses that term today, which is a very different thing than equality, and it is consistent with Marxist ideology. You also support Marxist concepts like CRT, DEI, and ESG.

Actually, when you consider what Marx wrote concerning the war, your position, Bobbie, is considerably to the left of Marx.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:39 pm By: John Steed

Why celebrate our Confederate past? One has to look past the partisan explanations of the north that it was about slavery (odd that it did not become that for over a year since the war started) or the South that it was about state's rights. I look to the ananlysis of the greatest statesman of the 20th century, Sir Winston Churchill, who was also a meticulous student of history and wrote a book on US history entitled "The Great Republic". That book contains a chapter on the causes (plural) of the War Between the States.

What Churchill identifies as the primary cause of the war is the final rupture of a conflict of ideas that had existed since the country was founded, between the concept of a powerful central government, originally advocated by Alexander Hamilton and represented in 1861 by the North, and the concept of limited government originally advocated by THomas Jefferson and represented in 1861 by the South. The Confederate government was organized around the Jeffersonian principles of limited government, and that was an ideal worthy to fight for, and worthy to celebrate today.

Churchill as a foreigner analyzing the causes of the war was in a much better position to be objective than northerners or southerners here.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 6:52 pm By: Steven P. Rader

That was a complex period of history, and blanket condemnations are for the uninformed or the malicious. British political philosopher Lord Acton, most famous for his quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely", for example wrote that the Confederate Constitution was a masterpiece of establishing limited government and he was more upset "with the stake that was lost at Richmond" than he was joyful over "that which was saved at Waterloo".

Your usual guiding light, Karl Marx, wrote "the war is not about slavery; it is a war of economic subjugation by the North against the South." Novelist Charles Dickens, a leader in the British anti-slavery movement said essentially the same thing in different words.

The valour of our southern soldiers and sailors, black and white, is something we should never lose sight of, and those who destroy their monuments are just despicable. Most southern soldiers joined to defend their homes and families from foeign invasion.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 4:45 pm By: John Steed

The above quote by George Orwell is a good one, but there is a better one from his novel "1984" which is directly on point with what the leftists are doing today to our history:

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." -Geroge Orwell, from "1984"

Bob, I would also point out to you that to true southerners, maligning their ancestors are fighting words.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 1:04 pm By: Steven P. Rader

By the reaction I'm guessing Arlington Cemetery is publicly funded. This is a tough call but these types of things belong in museums and history books. (As I said you can display what you want on private property) We must never forget our history less we be condemned to repeat it.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 11:09 am By: Big Bob

Well Big Bob: I guess we do know "how you feel" NOW.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 9:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Not sure how I feel about this. These monuments have no place in the public square but I think OK on private property .If Arlington is paid for with tax money, it needs to go. If not, it can stay.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 9:05 am By: Big Bob

Not defending your own personal heritage says a lot about Randy Walker. Walker filed to defend history. Left wing.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 6:32 am By: Hood Richardson