A Second Phase of “Reconstruction”

The so-called “Reconstruction” period in the South, after the shooting phase of the War of Northern Aggression ceased, set in motion an insidious trend that has yet to be reversed in this country. That avoidable war brought monstrous federal intrusion into the private lives of individuals on a heretofore undreamed-of level. “Reconstruction” in the South set up virtual military dictatorships in all the former Confederate states. The banner of what today is referred to as reverse racism was raised atop the federal flagpole and flown on high. It has yet to be taken down. In fact, with the Biden/Obama regime now in power, they are busy building a higher flagpole for it.

This trend toward centralized federal pre-eminence has never been reversed, nor will it be until this country wakes up or folds up. And if it folds up as the Biden/Obama regime plans for it to, it won’t make any difference.

Several years ago, my family and I took a trip (one of many over the years). On the way home, we stopped at the National Historical Park at Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia. At that site the town has been in the process of being reconstructed that that it will eventually appear just as it did when abolitionist/terrorist John Brown conducted his raid there in 1859. Maybe by now they’ve finished with the reconstruction, I don’t know. They filmed part of the movie Gods and Generals there. If you all have not seen that movie you should. Many have claimed that Harpers Ferry has been turned into a secular shrine to glorify John Brown. It would seem that those who have labored hard to do that must approve of Brown’s violent terrorist tactics.

Anyway, while on our visit there, we chanced to visit the building that had housed the Provost Marshall’s office. A lady there, dressed in period attire, explained to the tourists that during the War of Northern Aggression (she didn’t call it that), Harpers Ferry was under federal jurisdiction, and was therefore, under the control of the Provost Marshall. When the lady explained what powers this man had, I could not help thinking that the Provost Marshall was, for all intents and purposes, a federal dictator. As I pondered how that war had paved for future federal dictatorships, a picture of the Supreme Court suddenly flashed through my mind.

Court watchers have noted, with appropriate apprehension over the years, some of the “interesting” decisions of the court. The decisions that Comrade Obama’s forcing everyone to buy his “health” insurance or be fined was little more than judicial quackery. But the court seemed to have no problem with it. There was a decision back in 2005, I think it was, in the state of Connecticut that allowed a city to use eminent domain, (something I’ve always hated) to attempt to seize the property of several homeowners. Apparently, some cities in Connecticut felt they could make better use of some people’s property than the property owners could and so property was taken under the eminent domain clause. This is something I have never agreed with. It’s one of those weak spots the Constitution is famous for.

George Will was never one of my favorite columnists, but on occasion he came up with an article that showed some insight. Several years ago now, he did a column dealing with a decision of the Supreme Court. He noted, “The Court bestowed, prospectively, its constitutional imprimatur on virtually any racial spoils system Congress enacts. The Court selectively overturned a series of precedents that had at least limited the proliferation of what are euphemistically called ‘race-conscious policies’.”

In this particular instance Will observed that the Court, by a 5-4 majority ruled that Congress may assign special benefits to particular government-preferred minorities (to the detriment of all who do not make the preferred list) and Congress may do so without regard to any injury resulting from discrimination. Reverse discrimination is now cut loose from the pretense that it is merely a remedial measure.” Take a good look at Will’s comment and let it sink in. Doesn’t it make you feel good if you happen to belong to some group that hasn’t made the government’s “preferred” list—like white Christian Southerners for example?

Some have taken exception to court rulings of this nature, claiming they violate the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law. Sorry folks, but that one was thrown under the bus a long time ago according to Will. “Equal protection is not violated if the injury done by reverse discrimination serves an important government objective.” Did you all get that. Equal protection is not violated by unequal treatment as long as “important government objectives” are being served. Question—where is this situation any different than what occurred during the first phase of “Reconstruction” after the Marxist/Lincolnist Revolution of 1861 aka as the Civil War?

Theologian C. Gregg Singer aptly pointed out in his book A Theological Interpretation of American History that the real aim of Thaddeus Stevens and his fellow Northern revolutionaries was a program of “reconstruction” that would start in the South and would be handled in such a way as to eventually include the entire country. The entire fabric of American life, North and South, was to be “reconstructed” according to their revolutionary aims. And guess what, folks, due to the advent of the public school system, first in the North, then in the “reconstructed” South, it has mostly worked!

So, let’s summarize. The “reconstruction” (Marx’s term) in the South set forth a policy of reverse discrimination where there was no protection under the law for Southern whites because it had been determined that reverse discrimination in regard to freed slaves served “an important government objective” of working to “ensure the perpetual ascendancy of the party of the Union” (the Republican Party).

Both North and South lived through the first phase of “reconstruction” until both became “reconstructed” enough so that most memories of a truly Christian America were obliterated.

That having been accomplished, it is now time for us to begin to realize that we are, at present, and for the discernable future, in the midst of the second phase of “reconstruction”. The perpetually ascending federal government, (the secular deity) via its court system, is busily enacting quotas and racial preference agendas and telling local school districts they have the power to raise taxes on their own, even if voters have voted down the proposed tax increase. When President Trump was in office he tried to give us a more conservative Supreme Court. But he was only one man and he got precious little support or good advice from the Deep State moles in his own administration.

It would seem that the chickens of American apostasy, turned loose in the 1820s, have now come home to roost. Many years ago, Rev R. L. Dabney in his book Defense of Virginia and the South wrote: “A righteous God, for our sins toward Him, has permitted us to be overthrown by our enemies and His.” Although he was speaking at that time to Southerners, his commentary is now appropriate for the entire country. One of the main fruits of apostasy is more and ever repressive government. Until apostasy is repudiated and a Christian culture is sought after and worked for, things will only get worse and we will continue to have rulers like Barack Obama and China Joe Biden, who are truly the fruit of and result of apostasy.

-By Al Benson Jr.