Tuesday night US Congressmen Joe Wilson broke the etiquette rules of political decorum by shouting out “You Lie, You Lie” during a Yankee President’s speech. The last time a South Carolinian Congressman broke Washingtonian decorum in such an arresting fashion for the sin of Yankee lying US Congressman Preston Smith Brooks beat the snot out of a Yankee Senator named Charles Sumner using a walking cane to administer the lashing. Given the firestorm that Wilson’s shout out has created one would have thought that Wilson had cane lashed Obama as opposed to merely boisterously correcting the Yankee President’s lies.

Congressman Brooks lived in a culture of honor that demanded retribution against Sumner’s lies against a family member serving in the US Senate. Having long jettisoned a culture of honor it may be that shouting out “You Lie, You Lie” is the closest thing a South Carolinian today can get to administering a cane lashing to a notable liar. At the very least in both cases, each of the South Carolinian Congressman felt deeply aggrieved by the lies that they were being subject to. Congressman Brooks, living in a culture of honor, and having vindicated his family’s honor never apologized and was amply resupplied by well wishers and admirers for the cane he broke over Sumner’s back. Congressman Wilson, living in a culture of political correctness, immediately apologized for speaking the truth at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

The one and only point here that we need to take to heart is how each response to lies heard by our respective US South Carolina Congressmen reflected and reflects, during their respective eras, the division that was then and is now present in this country. When Rep. Preston Brooks took exception to a Jacobin Politician’s lies the nation was being violently pulled apart over a intense disagreement over the role and nature of the Government. On one side were those, like Sumner, who sought to expand the role of the Federal Government beyond its Constitutional boundaries. On the other side were those, like Brooks, who sought to restrict the role of the Federal Government to its Constitutional boundaries. The occasion of, what was to become a bloody disagreement, was the issue of slavery.

153 years later is a South Carolina Congressman once again serving as a harbinger of a violent national contest? Like Brooks, Wilson took exception to a Jacobin Politician’s lies. Like the era that Brooks lived in, Wilson lives in an era where the nation is violently being pulled apart over an intense disagreement over the role and nature of government. Today, on one side are those, like Obama, who is seeking to expand the role of the Federal Government even further beyond our Constitutional boundaries. Today, on the other side are those, like Wilson who is seeking to restrict the role of the Federal government to its Constitutional boundaries. The occasion of this disagreement once again is the issue of slavery.

Both in 1856 and in 2009 Jacobins and Marxists in the country were and are seeking to enslave men to the Nation State. It was in order to avoid enslavement to the ambitions of a burgeoning National government that the South seceded. We are once again at the point where we are going to have to make some difficult decisions on how to deal with the ambitions of a burgeoning National government that intends to enslave the citizenry through controlling our lives through a socialized health care mechanism.

Citizens today should perhaps look at the attempt at socialized health care the way that Southerners looked at the attempt at the socialized Morrill Tariff act. Both proposed acts, in the end, were about the ability to enrich the government at the expense of impoverishing American citizens. Perhaps the way we are threatened to being financially squeezed today by the Federal Government will cause us to sympathize with the way that Southerners were being financially squeezed in the run up to the War.

South Carolina US Congressman Preston Brooks was upset by that.

So is South Carolina US Congressman Joe Wilson.

Maybe we should send Joe some canes in appreciation.

School districts from Maryland to Texas are fielding angry complaints from parents opposed to President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address Tuesday“ forcing districts to find ways to shield students from the speech as conservative opposition to Obama spills into the nation’s classrooms.

I am in adamant opposition to all things Barack Obama but even I have to sympathize with Obama on this one. Here are parents, who have sent their children to institutions where their children are purposefully dumbed down year after year and only now, at the thought of their children being addressed by Obama they are outraged? One does begin to understand why Obama and his administration might think the resistance is racial. I mean, for years white folk have been allowing other white folk to indoctrinate their children with Marxist views in the Government schools but now that a black man comes along and begins to push the Marxist agenda suddenly white folk have a problem? It does look fishy.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Obama televising to America’s school children smacks of a third world dictator beaming his “Great Leader” presence into the lives of his subjects. I think Obama wanting to play the father figure to America’s children is more than a bit creepy. Its the kind of thing that a pervert dreams about doing. My only problem is that I’ve always found the whole government school indoctrination thing a bit creepy to begin with. Obama’s beaming presence is just the next logical step in having your children brainwashed.

My question is: Why draw the line at the Great Leader’s presence addressing the government schools but not draw the line at the daily PC indoctrination that they get year in and year out?

This rabid reaction to Obama speaking to the country’s children has me as confused as Americans getting all riled about potential socialized health care. I mean if they are going to riled about the notion of socialized health care why not get retro-riled about Social Security and Medicare and a host of other socialistic policies?

I can understand if the Obama administration is confused. In point of fact, if I were they I would sell their push for more Marxism by forcing the opposition to admit how good the current socialist policies are.

They could run advertisements,

If you love your Social Security you’ll love our proposed health care.

Our health care will do for the nation what medicare has done for Senior Citizens.

If you love the education your child gets in government schools you’ll love the health care you’ll get in our government hospitals.

If you’re impressed with your children’s teachers at the government schools, just wait to see how impressed you’ll be with your children’s Doctors at the government Medical centers.

If you loved the cars we put you into, you’ll love the hospital bed we have waiting for you.

So here is the message. By all means resist Marxist Obama. Resist him w/ all your might. By all means pull your children out of school so they don’t have to be subjected to the Great Leader mind games. By all means resist socialized health care.

But while you’re doing all that, go ahead and be consistent and resist all forms of socialism from government schools, to social security to Medicare.