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Riley Collier with truck and flag
poses with Republic High School in the background. |
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Back in January of this year
'The Catholic Knight' reported on an incident in a nearby town called Republic Missouri. I drive through this town frequently to visit family and friends. The incident I reported on involved a young man in high school named Riley Collier. Riley attends Republic High School in Southwest Missouri. He is a Southern gentleman who loves the symbols of our heritage. In particular, he likes to fly the Dixie flag, otherwise known as the Confederate Battle Flag, from the back of his pickup truck. He drove his truck to and from school and parked it in the school parking lot. He was asked by school officials to remove the flag while the truck was parked on campus. Riley complied, and removed the flag while the truck was parked. He continued to fly the flag from his truck on the way to and from school. For this Riley was suspended. However, when he returned from suspension, his flag came with him. This time Riley would remove the flag before entering the school parking lot, and then place it back on near the state highway when returning home. In response, the school suspended his driving privileges and no longer allowed him to park on campus. The incident made the local news. Riley insists he is not a racist, and his display of the flag in no way carries a racial message. He tells of it representing his heritage and way of life here in Southwest Missouri. (
Click here to learn why the Dixie flag is a holy symbol to many Southerners.) His family is supportive of his actions, as are many Southwest Missourians.
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Dixie flags such as this one are now seen all over
Republic Missouri |
Since then there has been a backlash in the City of Republic. The school superintendent has submitted his resignation which may (or may not) be related to multiple scandals surrounding the school, and this one may (or may not) be included in that list. The exact reasons for the superintendent's resignation have been kept confidential. However, the most interesting aspect of this whole case is the outpouring of support Mr. Collier has received from many of the citisens of Republic Missouri. Ever since the story aired on local news, a number of Dixie flags have been spotted in Republic Missouri. These are mostly on pickup trucks seen driving around the city. One in particular is driven by a young black gentleman. Parents are now picking up their children from Republic High School in pickup trucks sporting the Dixie flag. The number of Dixie flags flown on flagpoles and on people's houses has increased as well. They can be seen on bumper stickers, license plates, t-shirts and hats all around Republic Missouri. The only place you can't seem to find them is on the shelves of the local Wal Mart, which may change if the demand for them continues to increase. The outpouring of support by fellow Missourians for Mr. Collier is very encouraging and demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt that the heart of Dixie is still alive and well in the Ozark Mountains.
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This Confederate monument stands exactly one mile south
of Republic High School in Southwest Missouri |
The irony to this whole story is that Republic High School is literally one mile north of a Confederate monument on Highway ZZ, and just 1.3 miles north of a major Civil War battlefield that was a Confederate victory! (One wonders if the school officials knew any of this.) The battlefield is a federal park that receives thousands of visitors each year. The first Union general killed in the Civil War (General Nathaniel Lyon) gave his life there. The Battle of Wilson's Creek, also known as the Battle of Oak Hills, though certainly not the largest, was considered one of the bloodiest battles in the entire war. Dozens of Republic High School students drive past this battlefield and monument every day to and from school.
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Confederate Monument
Springfield, Missouri |
To make matters more interesting, there is a much larger Confederate monument and cemetery in Springfield Missouri. There on the corner of Glenstone and Seminole one can view a larger monument erected in 1901 to the Confederate dead buried in that fine city. The monument is in good condition, and bears a larger-than-life bronze statue of a typical Confederate soldier atop. A bust of Confederate General Sterling Price is featured on the front, with two confederate battle flags adorning the sides of the monument. On the back of the monument is a plaque commemorating the 501 Confederate dead that fell in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Most of their bodies are buried there in Springfield, many of them remain unidentified.
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Confederate Cemetery
Springfield, Missouri |
The incident in Republic Missouri serves as a great object lesson of how to deal with anti-Dixie hatred and Left-wing hysteria surrounding the Dixie flag. You see in order to win an ideological war you must first understand it. Let me dispense with the examination and just jump straight to the diagnosis. (I have some medical knowledge of these things.) Those who get hysterical about the display of the Dixie flag are not operating in a higher brain function. The upper cerebral cortex (where logic and reason originate) is not engaged here. Their hysteria and hatred for the flag is an emotional response, which is generated in the lower brain functions of the
cingulate cortex and cerebellum. This is why no amount of historical teaching or logical reason will satisfy them. They are not operating on that upper level of brain function. They are operating at a lower brain function which is closer to the "survival modes" and highly charged with emotion. For whatever reason, whether it be personal experience, or media conditioning, the sight of the Dixie flag (Confederate Battle Flag) causes them to have an immediate lower brain function reaction, causing an adrenaline rush and a flood of negative emotions to follow. They are in the "fight or flight" mode initially, then after they calm down (assuming they do calm down at all), they may try to say or do something to remove what is eliciting their negative brain stem response. It's not that they won't reason. It's that they can't. Their emotions get in the way, which defaults their thinking back down to the lower brain functions. Their attempt to remove the Dixie flag is simply an effort to protect their
cingulate cortex and cerebellum from getting excited, which of course makes them feel uncomfortable. Pity them, but don't hate them for this. Sadly, so long as the mainstream media continues to promote this emotional response, the government education system (and government entities in general) will continue to coddle it.
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Dixie flags are now flown from
houses and fences in Republic Missouri
This one was seen off Highway 174 |
There is no amount of logical reason or historical education that can help people with this problem. One thing, and only one thing, can cure them.
That is desensitisation. In other words, they must be desensitised to the very thing that is causing their
cingulate cortex and cerebellum (lower brain) emotional response. There is only one way to do this.
The Dixie Flag (Confederate Battle Flag) must be seen everywhere. It must be flown from as many flagpoles as possible. Placed on trucks, cars, t-shirts, hats, etc. It literally must be flown everywhere and placed on everything. If you're a tatoo kind of person, then consider getting one where everyone can see it. If you like t-shirts,
Visit Dixie Outfitters, or some other clothing outlet that sells them, and wear them proudly. If you're a flag-waving kind of person, then you know what you need to do. This is the battle plan folks. It's the only battle plan that will work.
The South must be desensitised to the Dixie Flag, and we are the only ones who can do it. Logical arguments and historical knowledge are helpful, but they will not win the battle. The only thing we can do to win back the ground we have lost is to address the mental-emotional complex that is causing it. Let's start desensitising folks! It works.
14 comments:
Awesome story. Would you mind if I re-posted the first part of it at Missouri Tenth, with a link back to your site so that folks could read the rest here?
Feel free to copy. :-)
The only way to actual freedom is first by linguistic freedom. We must eliminate the knee jerk reactions to false red herring attacks of racism, sexism, homophobia etc... these words have no more meaning because the liberal elite just uses them to demean any ideas that they disagree with. When such attacks are made we should simply invert them on the attacker or dare them to prove it with logic.
My pastor hails from the Southern States and says the exact same thing about the racist Dixie hysteria. He chuckles, shakes his head and comments that these people have no clue about the South.
I was very surprised to see as many battle flags flying in the Tampa Bay area as I did. I daresay even more than I saw in my Northeast Georgia home town. The Florida Crackers are proud Floridians and proud Southerners.
If you want to see an ante bellum Florida flag, go to my blog by clicking my name. I am an advocate of displaying the ante bellum state (sovereign) flags in addition to the Third National or Battle Flags.
Apologies in advance for my poor blog as it's not been updated in a while....working, working, working...
Hmm! A high school, a student with a pickup, flag flying despite objections of the enemy; this sounds a lot like the "Wolverines" in the face of the invading Communists in the movie Red Dawn except that many of the people in the town and area are getting involved. As "Stephen", the Irishman in Braveheart said: "Excellent!!!"
one wonders if the superintendent did not realize that this area has a strong Southern influence. A lot of these guys come from other parts of the country, for the job.The assumption I guess is this is :Missouri" you know, "Midwestern". People forget that we are farther south than Kentucky is, which no one disputes is a southern state. Culturally we have more in common with other southern states than we do with the "Midwest"
CK, I recently saw a map of what America will look like after the break up and guess what, my part of central Illinois has a very good chance of being in the new Dixie! Lord, let it be!
I am very proud of this young man, and , indeed, this community for their stand, not only for free speech, but for Southern heritage. This is also a campaign which I have undertaken; to get the truth of our history out there to those who are fed the liberal, Yankee mythology/propaganda. I have made True History CDs (in MS Word format) and have given many out over the past several years. It would be an honor to give some to this young man, or anyone in Republic, Missouri. They may be copied and distributed as needed. If anyone is interested you may contact me at cwipaulk@earthlink.net.
Jeff Paulk
The Confederate Battle Flag With The "St Andrews Cross" was not the only Confederate Battle Flag, but She was the most known and used late in that great war. She is the most, hated, debated, misrepresented and beloved of all Confederate symbols. She has been tarnished by groups as the, naacp "by way of slander", kkk, aryan nation, skinheads, neo nazi, white supremacy clowns...Just to name a few. She was not a national flag, nor was She a politician's flag, and most defiantly not a flag of hate!..."She was a soldier's flag" a banner of courage, honour and a call to duty. She was a rallying point for battling warriors. Many died to keep Her safe and out of enemy hands, this Flag was stained with the blood of our Southron patriots. Last, and most important...SHE WAS AN AMERICAN FLAG!!
As Southron, we owe it to ourselves and noble ancestry to protect Her and hold Her in reverence. We must stand up to those that slander Her, for that slander is slander toward us and our past. We must never let our past be removed from our future. ~ PoP Aaron
Good for the people in Republic, Missouri. This sort of reaction needs to be repeated all over the South. Instead of just caving in to these politically correct cretins we need to start getting our Confederate flags out and hoisting them on high so they can be seen everywhere.
Al Benson Jr.
Yet the flag that is accepted, flew on slave ships and slave trading posts is none other than the stars and stripes. The only thing the southern cross was is freedom of the southern people from a tyrannical government who sent an army to take away a constitutional right. Why, because that government could not survive without the goods and taxes of those states. What we have now is exactly what started the war, taking of constitutional rights and creating a smoke and mirrors excuse for doing so.
It's nice to see Dixie is alive and well in Southern Missouri. My Confederate Ancestors defended the state and Arkansas from the infidels invading their country. One of my Confederate ancestors is buried at the Confederate Veterans home in Higgensville, MO. It's too bad the Governor won't let the parks department fly Confederate Flags over Confederate graves.
I'm a historian and if the real TRUE history were known there would be more poeple all over flying the true flag of freedom - the Confedreate National flag and the Battle Flag. Both flags stand agaisnt tyranny and for freedom. The cSA (Confederate) flags are the ONLY ONES THAT HAVE NEVER FLOWN OVER SLAVERY. Almost every other nation's flags have, but not the CSA's ! They actually stnad against slavery of any kind. The only slave flag that flew from this land was the US DC Federal flag. The US Federal flag is NOT an "American flag" as we have all been brainwashed into thinking. I tis the Mason's design for the US Federalist Elites. There have alwasy been TWO Armeican nations - the Foudners esablished it that way and it was that way until Lincon was placed in office and he did a complete coup on the Foudners govt and REPLACED theri goivt with his own Marxist one that we are still under. If the US natin wants to fly thier real American flag they have to fly the one that was used BEFORE and during the Revolutionary WAr - it had the circle of stars up in the corner and had three wide horizontal bars where the occultic 13 stripes are now.
Th eCSA Natioanl flag includes the Battle flag so whden you fly it, you are actually flyibng them both. The CSA National official flag that has stood for the past 155 years is what they call the 3rd National flag. Also called the Blood Stained Banner, as in TRUE history the Confederate soldiers took the 2nd Nat'l flag and dipped it into the blood of the fallen and it made that red vertical bar on the side so it woudl not be mistaken for a surrtender flag as it was being seen as by the Yankees. They did this a full year befoer the CSA National flag was offically changed to the 3rd National. I have flown both flags out front of my house for the past 35 years ! It is also a Christian flag as the CSA is proudly a Christian nation.
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