The Confederacy will probably be the
only non-Wordist outpost among all the countries
on earth that have a white majority. If you want
an ethnically pure community inside the Confederacy,
you will be welcome to have one.
As I discussed earlier, the Confederacy should allow
people to form their own communities, all-white,
theocratic, gay, mixed, computer fanatics, blood
relations only, whatever you wish (See March 6 article,
"How Tomorrow's Confederacy
Will Deal With Tomorrow's Reality"). But
there is a reality that we all must face: in order
to hold ground, a nation must pay for it. This is
the reality that limits freedom, and this is the
reality that so many ideologues try to ignore.
Benjamin Franklin lived in Philadelphia, the home
colony of the Quakers. Quakers wanted freedom of
worship and they wanted to keep a very large colony
under their rule. These are things men have to fight
and die for. But Quakers also wanted to be pacifists.
Obviously, if everybody in Pennsylvania had been
pacifists, the Indians and/or the French would have
driven them into the Atlantic Ocean. So other people
had to do the Quaker's fighting for them. So the
Quakers were the original American leftists. They
never hesitated to be pure hypocrites.
In his autobiography, Franklin gives many examples
of Quaker hypocrisy. He discusses one incident where
William Penn himself was on a ship, which sighted
another ship. Penn and the rest thought the other
ship was manned by pirates. Faced with this threat
of death, a young Quaker on board ran up to help
fight off the threat, and all the other Quakers,
including Penn, cheered him on.
Then it turned out the other ship was friendly.
Immediately the other Quakers, including Penn, turned
on the boy, shouting that he had violated his Quakerism
by wanting to fight. The boy pointed out that, when
they thought they were in danger, Penn and the rest
had been all for his fighting.
More generally, Franklin points out that the Quakers
used their pacifism to save money at the cost of
other peoples lives. When Pennsylvania frontiersmen
were massacred by Indians and asked for help, the
Quakers piously refused to help, citing their pacifism.
So they saved the cost of munitions they might have
sent. But when the threat got past the frontier,
and the rich Quakers themselves were threatened,
Franklin got through an appropriation.
Today, the national Quaker organizations are the
most left wing church groups, even among all the
other left wing churches today. Solzhenitsyn discusses
American Quakers who went to the Gulag Archipelago
and who, being leftists, were good friends to the
Stalinists and reported only what the left wanted
them to say.
By the way, Richard Nixon was the descendant of
Quakers. But Nixon's forebears went to North Carolina.
In North Carolina, there was nobody to protect those
Quakers, so they either had to do their own fighting
or die. So, surprise, surprise, the North Carolina
Quakers were known as "the fighting Quakers."
When I was a boy, I remember reading how William
Penn had made an agreement with an Indian chief.
The story, given as real history, said that, since
that time, no Quaker had ever been killed by an
Indian. Nixon's ancestors would have found that
grimly amusing. Actually, the Quakers avoided Indian
attacks by staying safely away from the frontier
and letting frontiersmen fight the Indians. The
frontiersmen would take land from the Indians. The
Quakers would then nonviolently get the land from
the
frontiersmen by using the law.
Speaking of famous pacifists, one of the funniest
things I have ever heard was said by the person
whom liberals, and therefore respectable conservatives,
look upon as a sort of human god. This worshipped
being was Mahatma Ghandi. After World War II, someone
asked Ghandi what he would have done if the Japanese
had taken India. Ghandi replied that, if the Japanese
had taken India, he would have used the same tactics
against them that he used against the British!
I can just see it now. The Japanese invaders have
finally conquered India. They have heard of this
great Resistance Leader, Mahatma Ghandi. A Japanese
officer is asking about this Ghandi when a dirty
little man walks up and starts babbling about how
he will starve himself if the Japanese don't leave.
The officer chops off the dirty little man's head.
He then continues looking for this Mahatma Ghandi
who is leading a Resistance to Japan.
Nonviolence only works if you have somebody to protect
you. Quakers are big on nonviolence when it means
THEY don't have to fight, but they have no hesitation
in using others to do their fighting for them. If
anybody threatens a Quaker, he immediately calls
a policeman, a man with a gun at his side, to protect
him.
In the Confederacy, there should be no room for
people who piously refuse to carry their own weight.
You pay our taxes, you help to fight our battles,
or you leave. There can be room for a LIMITED number
of genuine pacifists in the Confederacy, but only
if they are willing to carry their weight some other
way. When I was very small, our landlady was a descendant
of a family that produced Confederate generals.
Her son was a genuine pacifist, so he had done his
duty in World War II as a medic. As a medic, he
had won a Silver Star, which she showed to me. Seeing
that medal, I realized that heroism and blood shows.
Even as a pacifist, he could not help being a hero!
He was the opposite of William Penn and the general
run of Quakers.
But in the real world, if you want to have ground
to live on, somebody has to hold that ground with
a gun. Help us do it, or go elsewhere. We will have
religious freedom, but religion will be no excuse
to avoid your obligations.
Don't get me wrong. I think a pacifist should be
free to avoid doing his part. I just do not think
he should be able to do it at my expense. If someone
wants to be a free rider, I think we should pay
for his ticket to a country which will accept him
and let him be a free rider at THEIR expense.
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