Standing up for history!

In February, 2016:

 

Proudly and defiantly, I stood together with a large group of my fellow patriots in Lafayette--well over 100 of us. We came with determination and solidarity. I designed and produced several dozen signs, as seen below, to bring focus to our group's genuine and good mission.

 

 Our mission is the protection of ALL Historical monuments in my hometown of Lafayette, LA. We will not allow "politically correct police" to remove, replace, re-design, or erase any historical monuments, statues, street names, etc.

This is America; and in this great country, we honor our fallen veterans--whether they are United States veterans or Confederate States veterans. 

 

And, in America, it is still OKAY to be "offended". If something offends you, then grow a pair and get over it. Stop acting like children and wanting everything "offensive" in your eyesight to be removed.

 

So, who does the Confederate monument in Lafayette, LA honor?

 

Brigadier General Alfred Mouton.

 

Brigadier General Alfred Mouton was a Cajun, a native of Louisiana, a US Veteran that graduated from West Point, as well as a Confederate States of America veteran. He was a brave man that fought very skillfully and brilliantly over 150 years ago. He was wounded at the Battle of Shilo (Pittsburg Landing) in April 1862. He returned to Louisiana to recover, and then immediately began to help in the defense of Louisiana against that war criminal US General Nathaniel Banks, whose Yankee army was vandalizing, looting, raping, and stealing all across the state of Louisiana. Well, Confederate General Alfred Mouton teamed up with Confederate General Richard Taylor (son of US President Zachary Taylor). The duo of Generals Taylor and Mouton in the Western theater of the War was as skilled as that of Generals Lee and Jackson in the Eastern theater of the war. They destroyed US General Banks' army at the battles of Mansfield (April 1864) and Pleasant Hill, forcing that defeated dog General Banks to retreat northwards to Alexandria, LA to escape the pursuing Confederates. Yankee General Banks was so humiliated by his defeats by the smaller Confederate force, that he had his New York infantry burn 98% of Alexandria down! At that time, it was inhabited by women, children, and old men (population 5,000). The only building that wasn't torched by the New Yorkers was a Catholic Church, where the French priest stood outside of it with his French sabre and swore that if a single Yankee came up the steps with the torches, he would kill them on the spot. None of those Yankee cowards wanted to have to kill a priest in order to burn a church, so, they left him and the church alone. It took over 50 years for the city of Alexandria, LA to return to its pre-Civil War population.

 

Sadly, our General Alfred Mouton was mortally wounded by a cowardly Yankee sniper while he was leading his 18th Louisiana in a brave, juggernaut of a charge on the Yankee lines. Mouton fell mortally wounded from his horse, ahead of his men, and they rallied around his body and then struck the Yankee lines with such vengeance and ferocity that 2 entire Yankee lines were smashed and forced to retreat in wild desperation! The 3rd, final Yankee line survived only because night fell and it was too dark for the Confederate forces to continue whipping them that day.

 

Here are some pictures of me, as I appeared on the FRONT page of several newspapers the next day in both Lafayette, LA and Baton Rouge, LA.

 

Me and my fellow patriots had a stunning victory that night. We had far greater numbers show up, we had more votes to protect General Mouton's statue from being moved (60 to keep it, only 20 to move it), and the council heard the legal opinion of the city attorney that it will be nearly impossible to have it legally moved due to a valid permanent court order since 1980 to keep it from ever being moved.

 

"If you don't stand up for something in your life, you fall for everything."

 

"You have enemies? Good! That means you actually stood up for something, sometime in your life!"

(Sir Winston Churchill)



 



here I am, front page of the Daily Advocate in Lafayette, La
February 2016

I am on the far right-hand side of this picture holding 2 of my signs.