Yankees lie

By Walt Garlington

The Seymour Hersch revelations about the Biden regime’s bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines have apparently struck a nerve, as the deep state actors have produced a counter-narrative to try to undermine them. But it is so laughably flimsy that it is tempting to enjoy it as a work of comedy and not critique it at all. Nevertheless, sober-minded folks are dismantling it, like Jordan Schachtel:

From scripts declaring that bat (or pangolin) soup led to a “global pandemic,” to declaring that humanity had achieved a “miracle cure” vaccine (100% effective, said Pfizer) for the coronavirus, and now, distorted, source-free chronicles meant to boost support for the Slava Slush Fund, the lies continue to reach new heights of implausibility.

The New York Times dropped the latest spoon-fed script on Tuesday, with three of its intelligence community stenographers writing that an unnamed “pro-Ukrainian group” is said to be responsible for the September sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines.

Making matters more absurd, this “pro-Ukrainian” group acted without the knowledge of the man in charge, President Volodomyr Zelensky, or any of his top deputies, the intelligence agents tell the stenographers.

There are several reasons to dismiss the idea that some rogue Ukrainian Spetsnaz special forces divers carried out these operations on their own.

For one, the incidents took place close just outside the territorial waters of Denmark in the Baltic Sea, nowhere near Ukraine itself. Ukrainian forces have no naval access to those waters, and would have travel by land or air over Poland to get there.

Even more importantly, the Ukrainian special forces likely do not have the naval capacity to pull off such an operation, whether or not it was approved by Kiev.

And on he goes from there.

We draw folks’ attention to this for one simple reason: It confirms the dishonest character of the Yankee ruling class in the United States.

Southerners understand this at a deep level – we have witnessed their depravity since before the War in the 1860s. But, as often happens in war, the Yankees’ treacherous character was revealed more clearly than it had been prior to that time. For example, the Yankees were refusing to allow supplies to reach Dixie that would have alleviated the suffering of Northern prisoners of war in Southern prisons. But instead of taking any measures to help their captured comrades, the Yankees exploited the suffering of their compatriots, using it as a form of propaganda to increase hatred of Southerners. Valerie Protopapas relates the following:

When the worst of the Andersonville prisoners were returned to the North without exchange, these poor animated skeletons were taken, photographed and used to generate hatred in the North for the evil, wicked, brutal people of the South. Shortly after the photographs were released, the United States Senate passed the following:

PREAMBLE TO HOUSE RESOLUTION #97 Also known as the Retaliatory Orders

“Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather.” … passed by both houses, January 1865.

Of course, this very policy had been ongoing in most of the federal prisoner of war camps since the beginning of the war. The Andersonville photographs merely gave an excuse for a policy of long standing. And so it goes with virtually every “argument” used to validate the actions by the “Union” government against the States and people of the South. Furthermore, none of these matters – even when they were presented! – addressed the unlawful and unconstitutional mistreatment of the South that had been ongoing for many long years before the first shot was ever fired.

The Yankees and the rest of the globalist West continue in this vein, causing humanitarian disasters in countries by sanctioning them, and then blaming the targeted governments in power for the woes the policies of the Western Elite are causing, and calling for harsher measures against those governments.

Mrs. Protopapas says further:

Col. Robert Ould, who had been in charge of exchanges since the beginning of the war, wrote about the situation in Andersonville to his Union counterpart Gen. Mulford. Ould recites the efforts made by the Confederate government to succor the federal prisoners even after prisoner exchange had ended:

“My government instructs me to waive all formalities and what it considers some of the equities in this matter of exchange. I need not try to conceal from you that we cannot feed and provide for the prisoners in our hands. We cannot half feed or clothe them. You have closed our ports till we cannot get medical stores for them. You will not send us quinine and other needed medicines, even for their exclusive use. They are suffering greatly and the mortality is excessive. I tell you all this plainly, and still you refuse to exchange. What does your government demand? Name your own conditions and I will show you my authority to accept them. You are silent! Great God!, can it be that your people are monsters? If you will not exchange, I will give you your men for nothing. I will deliver ten thousand Union prisoners at Wilmington any day that you will receive them. I will deliver five thousand here on the same terms. Come and get them. If your government is so damnably dishonest to want them for nothing, you shall have them. You can at least feed them and we cannot. You can give us what you please in return for them.”

Was there a war crime at Andersonville? Yes! Upon the cessation of exchange, the Confederate government asked for medicine for the exclusive use of the imprisoned federal soldiers and were ignored! The anguish, frustration and bitterness of Ould are voiced in the sentence: “Great God! can it be that your people are monsters?!” The answer to that was, “yes!” Their own men were considered expendable in this campaign of genocide. Edward Wellington Boate was a soldier in the 42nd New York Infantry and a prisoner at Andersonville in 1864. He wrote of his experiences in the New York Times shortly after the war and commented on whom he held responsible for Andersonville’s legacy:

“You rulers who make the charge that the rebels intentionally killed off our men, when I can honestly swear they were doing everything in their power to sustain us, do not lay this flattering unction to your souls. You abandoned your brave men in the hour of their cruelest need. They fought for the Union and you reached no hand out to save the old faithful, loyal and devoted servants of the country. You may try to shift the blame from your own shoulders, but posterity will saddle the responsibility where it justly belongs.”

We continue to see this sort of thing (shifting of responsibility), as well, particularly with the Nord Stream pipelines: The Yankees violated the rules of decency by destroying them, but rather than confess, repent, and make restitution for their wrongdoing, they shift the blame to others (Ukrainian special forces, etc.).

Another example. The Yankees were furious with Dixie’s General Nathan Bedford Forrest after he defeated their forces at Fort Pillow, so they fell into their old pattern of lying about him to discredit and dehumanize him and the Confederacy in the eyes of the world:

A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Knoxville, under date of April 18, gave a colorful background to this “massacre” for the Northern audiences.

“These Forrests,” he wrote, “the oldest of whom, General Bedford Forrest, has by this and other atrocities, obtained such a record of infamy, were all negro traders. … They accumulated large sums of money in their nefarious trade, and Bedford won by that and other influences a natural promotion to Brigadier in the woman-whipping, baby-stealing rebel Confederacy.

“He is about fifty years of age, tall, gaunt, and sallow-visaged, with a long nose, deep-set, black snaky eyes, full black beard with a moustache, and hair worn long. … He was accounted mean, vindictive, cruel, and unscrupulous.

“The slave pen of old Bedford Forrest, on Adams Street, was a perfect horror to all negroes far and near. [Instances of his and his brother’s supposed brutality were then detailed – whippings, killings, other tortures.—W.G.]

“Such are the appropriate antecedents in the character of the monster who murdered in cold blood the gallant defenders of Fort Pillow.”

As a piece of propaganda, this was a masterpiece. It was copied all over the North and set burning anew in abolitionist bosoms the hatred for the “woman-whipping, baby-stealing Confederacy” (Andrew Lytle, “Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company,” J. S. Sanders & Co., Nashville, Tenn., 1992, pgs. 280-1).

Does this sound familiar to anyone? It should. This is the kind of trash the Yankees and their globalist allies shoved down everyone’s throats about Saddam Hussein (he’s murdering babies by taking them out of incubators; he’s got weapons of mass destruction), about Qaddafi, about Putin – in order to instill in the masses the desired war fever against Iraq, etc. It is doing the same with China as well (claims of genocide in Xinjiang, for instance).

But it is simply the character of the Yankee. Murray Rothbard said of it (via the Protopapas essay linked above):

“The North’s driving force, the ‘Yankees’—that ethnocultural group who either lived in New England or migrated from there to upstate New York, northern and eastern Ohio, northern Indiana, and northern Illinois—had been swept by … a fanatical and emotional neo-Puritanism driven by a fervent ‘postmillennialism’ which held that as a precondition of the Second Advent of Jesus Christ, man must set up a thousand-year-Kingdom of God on Earth. The Kingdom is to be a perfect society. In order to be perfect, of course, this Kingdom must be free of sin … If you didn’t stamp out sin by force you yourself would not be saved. This is why the Northern war against slavery partook of a fanatical millennialist fervor, of a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of high moral principle. They were ‘humanitarians with the guillotine, the Jacobins, the Bolsheviks of their era.’”

This is in contrast to tradition-minded peoples like Serbia, Hungary, Uganda, Dixie, Russia, and others. A Louisiana pastor, the Reverend Benjamin Morgan Palmer, described the katehonic mission of such ethnoi shortly before the War of Northern Aggression began in earnest (via Protopapas):

“Last of all … we defend the cause of God and religion. The abolition spirit … erected its throne upon the guillotine in the days of Robespierre … Among a people so … religious as the American, a disguise must be worn … the old threadbare disguise of the advocacy of human rights … To the South the high position is assigned of defending … the cause of all religion and of all truth … We are resisting the power which wars against … the family, the State and the Church; … and rebukes the Most High for the errors of his administration; … if it cannot snatch the reign of empire from His grasp, will lay the universe in ruins at His feet.”

In order to destroy these withstanders, the Yanks/globalists unhesitatingly resort to falsehoods (take a bow, Matt Hancock). President Putin was right: The West is an Empire of Lies. May its dissolution be swift, but peaceful.

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Originally published March 13, 2023, at Katehon.

Walt Garlington is a chemical engineer turned writer and editor of the website Confiteri: A Southern Perspective.

Editor’s note: Be sure to check out my interview with Valerie Protopapas from November 16, 2022.