Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

[Tonymecury]

Can not see a post on this, but if there is, i will take mine down.

Enoch Powel, Prime Minister from 1966-74, his eight year reign as prime minister was cut short in 1974, when he was shot by IRA snipper, .​

That must have hurt - was he snipped in the Rotunda?

 

[J.J.Jameson88]

A Rare photo of Alexander Colleton, Father of influential Freedom Party big-wig Anne Colleton. This is the only known photograph of Alexander Colleton to survive the burning of the family home, 'Marshlands' during the Red uprising in 1915.

 

[Darth_Kiryan]

Ok, i am curious, who do we consider to be the equivalent of Anne Colleton in OTL?

 

[trekchu]

Oddly, I always got a Winifred Wagner vibe off her...

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Ok, i am curious, who do we consider to be the equivalent of Anne Colleton in OTL?

I think Ann was just a general amalgam and stand-in parallel for the German aristocracy who supported Hitler during his rise to power with no real otl equivalent.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Joe Albert holding the draft known as the "Second Book", a 200 page manuscript intended by Featherston and the Freedom Party as a sequel to Over Open Sights. The draft was discovered by army clerk Joe Albert in 1969 at a Washington State warehouse that had been used by the U.S. army for storage of captured Confederate documents and the draft went unnoticed upon entry and remained there for 25 years.

It is believed to be mainly composed of ideas and rants that were edited out of the final edition of Over Open Sights and were being saved for an eventual sequel. Much like it's predecessor, it contains many rants against the blacks of the Confederate States and is similarly poorly worded and eloquent. However the book does give more insight into what Featherston's thoughts and plans for the world, specifically North America.

In 1994, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Confederacy, the papers were released to the public.

Such positions being.
-Canada should be made an independent nation again, with Quebec as a part if it as well.
-A canal should be built in Nicaragua owned and operated by the Confederates.
-All island nations in the Caribbean should be acquired by the Confederate States, specifically Haiti.
-Mormons oppression in the United States is worse than anything the Confederates have ever done to blacks and that Mormons should be given their own country.
-Confederate States should acquire more of a Pacific coast (whether it be from Mexico or the United States) and should become a major player in the Pacific.
-Not much comments on Europe but Featherston does say that Britain and France are the "natural dominant powers of Europe and it's unnatural for Germany to be the major power of Europe" and that the Austro-Hungarian Empire is oppressing it's various nationalities similar to how the "damnyankees did us before the War of Secession".

 

[J.J.Jameson88]

Former Supreme Court Justice Robert Kardashian Sr. (1944-2003) was appointed to the court in 1994 by President Bob Dole. He was the first Justice of Armenian descent which created some controversy with the Ottoman Empire following his nomination. His tenure was short and plagued by scandals including allegations of bribery of his wife Kris. He resigned his position in disgrace in 1998 and died in relative obscurity five years later. He is today best known for his children's crafts show: Knitting with the Kardashians.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Photo of Marry McGregor-Pomeroy, the infamous Canadian terrorist/martyr and daughter of the equally infamous Arthur MacGregor. She still remains a semi-popular figure amongst certain Canadian Separatists, most notably the Canadian Freedom Front, despite her bombing campaign that targeted American or American-sympathetic civilians rather than military officials. Following her execution her husband and son partook in the Canadian uprising of 42-43 but were captured once it was put down and executed. Her surviving relatives were forcibly removed from the United States to Great Britain following the conclusion of the Second Great War. Their descendents are still banned from entering the United States as they still advocate Canadian separation from the United States by any means.

 

[President Mahan]

Joe Albert holding the draft known as the "Second Book", a 200 page manuscript intended by Featherston and the Freedom Party as a sequel to Over Open Sights. The draft was discovered by army clerk Joe Albert in 1969 at a Washington State warehouse that had been used by the U.S. army for storage of captured Confederate documents and the draft went unnoticed upon entry and remained there for 25 years.

It is believed to be mainly composed of ideas and rants that were edited out of the final edition of Over Open Sights and were being saved for an eventual sequel. Much like it's predecessor, it contains many rants against the blacks of the Confederate States and is similarly poorly worded and eloquent. However the book does give more insight into what Featherston's thoughts and plans for the world, specifically North America.

In 1994, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Confederacy, the papers were released to the public.

Such positions being.
-Canada should be made an independent nation again, with Quebec as a part if it as well.
-A canal should be built in Nicaragua owned and operated by the Confederates.
-All island nations in the Caribbean should be acquired by the Confederate States, specifically Haiti.
-Mormons oppression in the United States is worse than anything the Confederates have ever done to blacks and that Mormons should be given their own country.
-Confederate States should acquire more of a Pacific coast (whether it be from Mexico or the United States) and should become a major player in the Pacific.
-Not much comments on Europe but Featherston does say that Britain and France are the "natural dominant powers of Europe and it's unnatural for Germany to be the major power of Europe" and that the Austro-Hungarian Empire is oppressing it's various nationalities similar to how the "damnyankees did us before the War of Secession".

I was hoping Over Open Sights Book 2 was more a little meglomanical. During the 1936 Olympics I remember Featherston claim first the CSA was going to be the greatest nation in North America... and then the world!!!

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

I was hoping Over Open Sights Book 2 was more a little meglomanical. During the 1936 Olympics I remember Featherston claim first the CSA was going to be the greatest nation in North America... and then the world!!!

I tried to be a little megalomaniacal but the problem with Freedomite ideology is that it doesn't appear to have the batshit insane "übermensch, aryan superman, and lebensraum" factor that Nazism does. It seems mainly centered around just killing blacks and licking the damnyankees again, monstrous and horrible but it just seems to be lacking that thing the Nazis had that truly made them different.

 

[Marky Bunny]

I always thought Featherston would want to break up the United States if they won. Adding California to give access to the Pacific, giving more to the Mormons. A free Canada would get Washington, some of Oregon, the border states, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The CSA would get Missouri, and Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. A rump North-East would lose Maine to Canada and maybe New Hampshire and Vermont.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

I always thought Featherston would want to break up the United States if they won. Adding California to give access to the Pacific, giving more to the Mormons. A free Canada would get Washington, some of Oregon, the border states, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The CSA would get Missouri, and Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. A rump North-East would lose Maine to Canada and maybe New Hampshire and Vermont.

I figured he'd want all the territory ever claimed by the Confederate States (Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and West Virginia) in addition to the "southern slave states" that stayed loyal to the U.S. (Maryland and Delaware). Anything more would just have "too many damnyankees" to take care of.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Battle of Pittsburgh

U.S. soldiers trained for winter-weather combat lead the counter offensive against the Confederates at the Battle of Pittsburgh. They were originally kept in Canada to combat any uprising by Canadian nationalists or possible Russian invasion via Alaska but transferred out as they were needed to lead the counter-offensive U.S. army.


U.S. troops celebrating in re-capture of the Pittsburgh Remembrance Monument Hall from Confederate hands.

Surrendered C.S. POWS in the aftermath of the battle. They were among the lucky ones as some either refused to surrender or U.S. troops, bitter and angry over the whole war started by the C.S., weren't in the business of accepting POWS.

U.S. troops discovering surviving Pittsburgh citizens in the aftermath of the battle for the city.

 

[Inquisition]

A screenshot from the 2004 computer game Half-Life 2, about supernatural events set during the Second Great War. The premise surrounds the discovery of an interdimensional portal in Canada, which is used by Confederate-supported Canadian rebels to summon creatures from another plane of existence to wreak havoc on the US occupation. The game was praised for revolutionary graphics for its time, a complex, multifaceted story, and creative use of puzzle/platforming elements.

Here we see Canadian antagonist Miranda Tremaine, loosely based on real-life Canadian martyr Mary Pomeroy, being finally captured by Quebecois-US troops led by the player Character, Colonel Gordon Freeman.

 

[VidaLaVida]

Two photos from 1970, which illustrate one of the biggest cultural differences between the two biggest 20th Century superpowers.

The new logo of the U.S. Socialist party, unveiled just before the congressional elections of 1970. Note the multiracial hands, as well as the conspicuous absence of the Stars and Stripes or any other national symbols of the United States of America.

Meanwhile, on September 2nd, 1970, crowds of proud, patriotic Germans in front of Brandenburg Gate celebrate the centennial Sedantag celebration, marking the 100th anniversary of Prussia's decisive victory at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War, which paved the away for the unification of the German Empire.

These two images mark the highly distinct political and social views which Americans and Germans came to develop toward the concepts of nationalism and patriotism.

The United States of America, a diverse nation of immigrants founded on the broad-spanning democratic ideals of the American Revolution, influenced heavily by the internationalist outlook of socialist ideology, and having seen the worst ravages of racial hatred carried out by the Freedom Party, came to view nationalism with suspicion. Horrified by the Population Reduction, and with a pressing need to incorporate the inhabitants of the former Canadian and Confederate lands into the United States, American leaders after the Second Great War instead came to espouse a sense of universalism and international egalitarianism, appealing to all North Americans, as well as others around the world, to unite under a common purpose and pursue universal goals of democracy, economic equality, and liberty. To this day, Independence Day celebrations in America tend to be limited, in favor of the unifying calls for peace and reflection inspired by Remembrance Day, and it is quite rare to see American people wave the Stars and Stripes.

In contrast, the Empire of Germany had been formed by leaders and people united by a common German language and cultural heritage. Upon this unity, the empire had gone from triumph to triumph. Its military was undefeated in war, its industrial power and work ethic made it the largest economy in Europe, it was a cultural powerhouse which produced great works of art, music, and cinema, and its citizens were at the forefront of major scientific advances, from nuclear energy to space exploration. All of these accomplishments instilled in German leaders and people a strong sense of national pride. And although the country was also wounded by the Second Great War, and although various European nationalisms played a role in that conflict, their victory and sense of historical righteousness from being on the opposite side of the aggressive Entente Powers further fueled their sense of national greatness. And the fact that the Population Reduction, while shocking to the vast majority of German people just as much as anywhere, took place an ocean away meant that it did not scar the European psyche the way it did in North America.

To this day, while there is not any serious animosity between the American and German people, these different worldviews can bring about cultural clashes. Germans, especially Prussians, are sometimes annoyed by what they perceive as Americans' hypersensitivity toward displays of patriotism, self-righteous claims of universalism and self-identification as "citizens of the world." By contrast, Americans are often shocked to see boisterous Germans frequently waving the imperial flag and singing "Die Wacht am Rhein" in public, and are off-put by the perceived supremacist undertones German pride can take.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Famed Sports Commentator and U.S. Wartime Propaganda Radio Announcer, Ronald Reagan.

When the Second Great War broke out Reagan found his talents better utilized in the recording room rather than the battlefield and as a result he voiced many of the propaganda rallying broadcasts to encourage and keep up moral amongst both the civilians and soldiers. He was also famous for making many of the responses to Featherston's "I'm here to tell you the truth" rants. A notable catchphrase he developed in dismissing Featherston's rants and lies was "There he goes again". Treating Featherston as if he were some kid who wasn't getting his way and throwing a temper tantrum.

When the true horrors of the Population Reduction were revealed, Reagan found voicing over the films depicting the liberation and exposing of the camps the hardest thing he ever had to do.

Following the war he returned to sports broadcasting for Football and even lent his talents to the relatively minor but still popular sport of Baseball. He was courted by the three major parties at different points in his life for running for Congress but turned them down. Regrettably however he was assassinated in 1981 [1] by a mentally balanced man. His death however did lead to a wider public calling for more funding towards helping the mentally ill.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame and there has been calls for his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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[1] Based off a picture a ton of pages back on this thread.

 

[VidaLaVida]

A view of the Park Avenue, New York City headquarters of the North American branch of Mitsui & Co. Ltd, the major subsidiary of one of the "big four" of Japan's zaibatsu corporate conglomerates, involved in businesses ranging from banking, manufacturing, consumer goods, and more. Mitsui opened up their first American office in New York City in 1965, and as the sign indicates, all signs in the building are bilingual in English and Japanese.

A plant in southern Alabama in 2005, first opened in 1968, owned and operated by JX Nippon Oil and Energy USA, Japan's largest oil company and a subsidiary within the Mitsubishi zaibatsu. The plant supports the company's oil extraction and refining operations along the Gulf of Mexico. Nippon Oil's North American headquarters lies in San Francisco, California, with another important office in Houston in the Republic of Texas, from which the company provides access the Japanese economy access to one of its most crucially needed resources: oil.

The Second Great War ravaged the industrial and economic infrastructures of North America and Europe, and both areas took a long time to rebuild and recover. During this time, however, there was one major world power whose industry and infrastructure was completely unscathed by war: Japan. Sensing the opportunity, Japan's four major zaibatsu conglomerates (Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Yasuda) invested heavily throughout North America and Europe. The zaibatsu had long been involved in the expansion of the Japanese Empire, as Japan itself, a resource-starved nation, needed access to new markets and resource extraction opportunities to maintain its economy. Now, with America and Europe in ruins, they saw the opportunity to permanently cement their economic dominance.

The investment by Japanese corporations throughout the world has been a mixed phenomenon. On one hand, they provide thousands of people with jobs and steady income, and played a role in the economic recovery of America and Europe. On the other hand, they were able to secure access to foreign markets under highly advantageous and, critics would say, opportunistic terms, a situation which did nothing to dispel the negative stereotype which Americans and Europeans had of Japan and its people as conniving, untrustworthy, and two-faced (a criticism to which some Japanese responded by pointing out the double standard that the western powers had in regards to the unequal treaties imposed on Japan in the 19th Century). And over the years, the zaibatsu have used their economic hegemony to influence national economies in ways which have been called monopolistic and anti-competitive, leading to no small amount of legal battles with the governments of the United States, Germany, Britain, France, etc.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

William Sherman, the commanding officer in charge of the U.S. Garrison in San Fransisco during the Second Mexican War. Noted by later historians as one of the few officers in the war interested in taking action rather than incompetently waiting around. Following the U.S.'s defeat in the Second Mexican War he was discharged from the army as a scapegoat for the British naval bombardment and raid on the city.

Following his discharge he became a bit of a skeptic of the Remembrance ideology as he saw it as falsely glorifying the horrors of war but he still remained an ardent opponent the Confederacy and supported the National Draft aspect of it, so his views were mixed on the movement as a whole.

In addition he wrote what would turn out to be a very prophetic book titled On the Prospect of War With the Confederacy. The overall point and theme, based off his experiences in the two conflicts with the Confederacy, was that the best course of action for a hypothetical future war between the U.S. and C.S. was for to focus on the Western theater and drive for the heart of the center of the Confederacy not on Richmond or any of the Eastern cities as cutting the Confederacy in two by "marching to the sea" would hinder the Confederacy more than capturing a non-strategically important capital city. This would turn out to be a very similiar stragety to the one used by Second Great War general, Irving Morrel. There exists no evidence however that Morrel came to this strategy by reading the book as it was out of print by the time of the Second Great War.

Sherman died in 1890 in relative obscurity.

 

[AK47Productions]

The Day of the Jackal is a novel written by British author Frederick Forsyth in 1971 dealing with the attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm III's life following the revelation of German atrocities in the Congo in 1961. The novel is mostly grounded in reality with the author going to great lengths to get all of the facts and historical occurrences correct.

The plot follows Claus Loewe, deputy commissioner within the Reichspolizei as he is enlisted by the German Minister of Interior to track down "The Jackal", an assassin hired by a rogue element of the Imperial Preservation Front (German: Reich Erhaltung Vorder), a fringe nationalist political party in Germany whose primary goal were the expansion of the German Empire. In the aftermath of the Congo Affair, the Kaiser had decreed that the German Congo will receive independence in twenty years time. As a result, a number of members within the Preservation Front deems the current Kaiser a traitor to the Reich for giving up a part of the Empire and decides that it would benefit the Reich to assassinate him. The IPF tries numerous times to kill the Kaiser only to be thwarted every time due to police informants within their ranks. In an act of desperation, the organization hires "The Jackal", an assassin with no links to the IPF or Law Enforcement.

Throughout the novel, Loewe goes through great lengths to capture "The Jackal" though the investigation and manhunt does prove to be frustrating to the commissioner as The Jackal continues to lead the detective on a wild goose chase throughout Germany. The novel ends with The Jackal captured and the Kaiser living, though Jackal's real name is never revealed.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Nice one, though I think you mean Wilhelm III as Wilhlem II died in 1940 I believe.