TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE

Have you seen Twelve Years a Slave?

My God! It really was that bad in 'Murica before the Civil War.

Yet the ancestors of Alex Jones went to war to defend the institution of slavery. They joined the Confederate Army and reached the ranks of Colonel and even General. All those beatings. All that abuse. All that despair. All that white supremacy. And all supported by the Bible! Yet Jones worshipped (and may still do) President Andrew Jackson, who at one point owned 300 slaves on his plantation, The Hermitage, where he plotted treason against the United States Government with traitor Aaron Burr, and finally succeeded when he destroyed The Second Bank of the United States. Jackson would also drive several native American tribes from their ancestral lands to eventually leave states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia free of Native Americans so that planters like himself could build plantations and bring slave labour to work the plantations. Perhaps Solomon Northup worked on a plantation that was native American land? Who knows.

And what did those states do? They seceded and joined the Confederacy.

And there is this latest attempt by the Confederacy to claim that it was all about tariffs, backed up by some stuff by DiLorenzo, criticising Lincoln for freeing the slaves, when every ordinance of secession states very clearly and explicitly that the Confederate states seceded to defend slavery, while tariffs are barely mentioned.

But perhaps this explains why Pastor Chuck Baldwin was allowed to appear on The Alex Jones Show to spout his white supremacist verbal vomit, such as why the Confederate Battle Flag should be raised, without any challenge to his lies about General Robert E Lee (Baldwin made Lee out to be an honourable gentleman when if Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to lead the Union Army then the war may not have lasted a year, if that, and Lee owned many slaves, had runaways beaten and sold them rather than set them free).

I would love to know how those ancestors and the Confederacy are regarded in the Jones family these days...