Today marks the 159th anniversary of Pickett’s charge.
The so-called high-water mark of the Confederacy.
General Pickett’s famous charge at Gettysburg.
The principal part of the Federal army was on the north side of the Chickahominy.
Hill’s division of the Confederate forces met this large force with impetuous courage.
Some of his brigades were broken. The National forces were steadily gaining ground.
Jackson had not arrived. It was a critical moment. Three brigades under Wilcox were ordered forward against the Federal left flank, to make a diversion in favor of the attacking columns.
Pickett’s brigade, making an independent diversion on the left of these brigades, developed the strong position and force of the Federals in Longstreet’s front.
ORDERS FOR A GENERAL ADVANCE. The latter at once resolved to change the feint into an attack, and orders for a general advance were issued.
At this moment Stonewall Jackson arrived, and the air was rent with shouts.
Pickett’s brigade, supported by part of Anderson’s brigade,
swept on to the charge with fierce grandeur.
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But the rebellion lives on. In the hearts and minds of free-thinking Americans everywhere. We know our nation was born out of rebellion. We know that we must continue to rebel since the government is ridden with tyranny and traitors who want nothing more than to see free Americans enslaved.
The rebellion continues against George H.W. Bush’s so-called new world order. We know we need to continue the fight. In truth, the Confederacy of Lincoln’s war against the states never had a “high water mark”.
The Confederacy is alive and well in every heart that loves freedom. In every American soul there is a seed of rebellion that must be preserved and allowed to take root in times like these. These seeds grow into millions of Liberty trees that are spread throughout our country. Now is the time for the Confederacy to finish what it started. It’s time Pickett’s charge was not remembered as a “high water mark”, but as the first wave of a rebel tsunami.
We are Americans. We are rebels. Our nation was formed by men who rebelled against
the tyranny they saw in their government. It was tempered when we rebelled against the tyranny of one man who took the power of a dictator. And now it must be wielded as a sword against the tyranny of our domestic enemies and their masters.
It is time. It is time for the return of the rebels. Good morning brothers and sisters; it’s July 4th weekend, I have to admit that I don’t much feel like celebrating. We have become a laughingstock to the world. We have turned our back on God. I don’t understand how people can mock such a good, wonderful God. He did say that in the last days it would be like the days of Noah.
Let’s have a look at our God from the Smart Book; Psalms 118:24
[24] This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 66:1-9
New Revised Standard Version
1 Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth.
2 sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise.
3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power, your enemies cringe before you.
4 All the earth worships you; they sing praises to you, sing praises to your name.” Selah
5 Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds among mortals.
6 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him,
7 who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations- let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah
8 Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
9 who has kept us among the living and has not let our feet slip.
God’s eyes are on the nations, He’s watching us. We should not exalt ourselves. We shouldn’t be saying that we know better than our Creator. He gave us His Word so that we should know how to be morally right. Yet, our nation has mocked the Lord and His Word. He has kept us among the living and hasn’t let our feet slip. We must turn back to Him and His Word.
It’s pretty bad when all the earth worships Him and sings His praises and we who were created to be a light to a lost world have come to this sad state and mock the Creator.
If we’re not careful He could consider us to be an enemy and we will be cringing.
Wake up America and turn your hearts to the Lord.
The Lord blesses and keep you, His Face shine upon you,
Chaplain Loehne
July 4 Parade Grand Marshal Quits After Threats to Family (wayang.dedyn.io)
A former Marine slated to lead Friendswood’s Fourth of July parade backed
out Thursday after a coordinated campaign to remove her as grand marshal
led to threats of violence against her and her family, the city announced.
Haley Carter, who also chairs Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Commission Against Gun Violence, “voluntarily stepped down,” she said, after failed congressional hopeful, former RV salesman and conservative talk show host Jesse Kelly sicced his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers on her and her family Wednesday. Kelly said he took exception to Carter’s political views and even posted a photo of her child in an effort to intimidate Friendswood officials into canceling her inclusion in the parade.
After the city announced Carter was receiving threats of violence, Kelly celebrated, saying “UPDATE: She’s gone” and declaring his actions as part of “The New Right,” described by Vanity Fair’s James Pogue as “a project to overthrow the thrust of progress, at least such as liberals understand the word.” In Kelly’s plea to his followers, he lamented that Carter was “into trans activism” and pointed out that she took her excited son to a drag show in Las Vegas to see his “favorite Queen.”
While Kelly’s insular following applauded his maneuver, others spoke in support of Carter. Turner, who appointed her to the city of Houston’s commission in 2018, called her an “American hero” and role model.
“Simply put, Haley is the best of us,”
Turner said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.
“It is no wonder that her hometown of Friendswood chose to honor her in their Fourth
of July parade. Haley embodies everything the uniquely American holiday represents.
Freedom. Independence. Love of country. In other words, the perfect 4th of July grand marshal.
“Unfortunately, some have threatened violence against Haley and her family because of her strength, her belief in equality, and her leadership in trying to reduce gun violence here in Houston,” Turner continued. “But they have failed. Haley will continue to move forward and make positive changes as she has always done.”
Kelly, who lives in a Friendswood gated community, claimed to be doing the work on behalf of the small “blood red” town by starting the campaign against Carter.
A handful of fellow residents agreed with Kelly, and challenged the idea that Carter was being threatened at all in the comments of the city’s Facebook post.
“Threats’ or just concerned citizens wanting to ensure filth behaviors and ideas are not deemed okay nor perpetuated in our city?” asked one poster. “I’d like to consider exposing the truth about where she stands and the discontent, I presented to the city were all tasteful, non-threatening and deserved. We must put a foot down if we see things we don’t condone being literally paraded around. Not cool.”
However, a large majority of Friendswood residents commented on Carter’s defenses in the post. “Embarrassing behavior by grown adults,” one commenter said. “I’m sad this is Friendswood resident behavior.
She had my family’s support!” “This is disgusting!” another wrote.
“We need to put the friends back in Friendswood. Or rename our town Hatewood.”
“I’m embarrassed to be a long time Friendswood resident today,” a resident posted.
“This is truly shameful behavior to threaten and berate a hometown veteran?!!
Haley was coach for the Afghanistan Women’s National Football Team
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Carter locked down her social media channels after Kelly posted the photo of her son.
The extent of the threats was not immediately clear, and a spokesperson for Friendswood Police Department did not immediately know if detectives were investigating the threats. Carter served eight years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving multiple tours of duty during Operation Iraqi Freedom. She returned home in 2013 and played as a reserve goalkeeper for the Dash.
She also served as assistant coach for teams at Huston–Tillotson University,
Sam Houston State University and the University of Houston. She was assistant coach to the Afghanistan national team from 2016 to 2018 and currently serves as goalkeeper coach for Antigua and Barbuda women’s national football team.
In her time coaching the Afghan women’s team, Carter was instrumental in speaking
out about institutional sexual abuse from the team’s male owners. That outcry led to the eventual lifetime ban of team owner Kerim Kerramudin from FIFA play. Carter, in her role as chair of Turner’s Commission Against Gun Violence, most recently called for immediate action on gun reform from state leaders in the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde.
Small Town’s July 4 Parade Has Been Upended By Right-Wing Culture Warriors
Nathalie Baptiste | The Nation
Haley Carter steps down as Grand Marshal of annual 4th of July parade
in Friendswood after receiving threats online – ABC13 Houston
When the city of Friendswood, Texas, announced on Facebook that hometown hero
Haley Carter would be the grand marshal for the town’s famed Fourth of July parade,
the post was peppered with excited comments. Carter, who was in the Marines and is
a retired professional soccer player, was just the type of person residents wanted to
see lead the parade.
Then the right-wing culture warriors showed up.
Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly tweeted the same day that Friendswood had
appointed a “gun-grabber” who is “into drag” and “trans activism” to lead the parade.
Kelly is from Ohio, ran a failed congressional campaign in Arizona, and now hosts his
radio show from nearby Houston. “Communists are in blood-red areas too,” he wrote.
Soon, excited Facebook comments were accompanied by screenshots of Kelly’s tweets about Carter, some of which included a picture of her young son. She began receiving threats.
On paper, Carter seems like the kind of person conservatives who claim to love the military would support. She attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served two tours
in Iraq after graduating in 2006. She played in the National Women’s Soccer League
for the Houston Dash and served as an assistant coach for the Afghanistan Women’s
National Football Team. She has an MBA and a law degree.
But Carter is also an outspoken supporter of gun reform in her home state of Texas.
She serves as the chair of the Mayor’s Commission Against Gun Violence in Houston,
and in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, she wrote a letter demanding Texas leaders act on gun reform. She also regularly takes her son to drag events and once surprised him with a trip to Las Vegas to meet his favorite drag queen.
Just two days after she was announced as grand marshal, Carter officially stepped down from the role. No one will replace her. The city told that Carter had “voluntarily stepped down after receiving threats of harm to herself and her family.”
If right-wing reactionaries are willing to threaten violence over a parade,
how far will they go?
The July 4 parade in Friendswood,
A city of 35,000 people about 25 miles from Houston, has been a tradition for 130 years.
The July 4th Steering Committee, which is made up of community members appointed by the City Council, picks the grand marshal. Carter was chosen because she’s a native and has a long record of service.
“Haley embodies everything the uniquely American holiday represents. Freedom. Independence. Love of country. In other words, the perfect July 4th grand marshal,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said in a statement.
“Unfortunately, some have threatened violence against Haley and her family because of her strength, her belief in equality, and her leadership in trying to reduce gun violence here in Houston.”
Theoretically, if you were so offended by children seeing drag queens, you could just
not take your own child to drag shows. But that’s not enough for the likes of Kelly and
the hordes of people who follow his lead.
The Friendswood parade is important to the people of the town, but it’s not exactly a national referendum. Haley Carter being the grand marshal of an Independence Day parade shouldn’t be a controversial appointment. And if right-wing reactionaries are willing to threaten violence over a parade, how far will they go?
It’s part of an alarming new trend. Conservatives are harassing people out of jobs, like
the white parents who chased a Black woman out of two education jobs or the Oklahoma teacher who resigned after parents objected to his TikTok about supporting LGBTQ kids.
Carter was harassed out of participating in the parade, but there were no consequences
for the people who launched the attacks.
In fact, Kelly bragged about his successful hate campaign.
“If you’re looking for someone to blame, Mayor, you should know that it’s me who did this,” he said in response to a tweet from Turner. “I stopped your communist friend from representing a great community. Welcome to The New Right.”
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