CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE SUMMER 2006

The success of the SCLoS is causing problems for our enemies and for us as well. Our enemies have changed tactics in an effort to find something that works and we must change tactics to become more successful.

Our news media enemies simply cannot devise a campaign that will destroy the power and influence of the SCLoS. They have tried to reduce our effectiveness by calling us a racist hate group. This strategy failed, because they were confronted in every case and made to provide equal coverage for our side of the issue. They know we cannot be intimidated and they do not want to be individually identified and singled out for special attention.

They changed from the attack mode to just ignoring our existence. This technique also failed because locally owned weekly print media, talk radio and a few honest TV stations exposed their agenda to the public and the public reacted. The State newspaper was recently sold because of low profits and others like the Greenville News are concerned about their circulation.

The SCLoS organization and the Cayce Southern Patriot Shop had excellent coverage recently. The latest being a documentary of the Cayce store by Fox News. Most news outlets are still ignoring us, but this will change with time.

The SCLoS was viciously attacked in its formative stage, but our ranks continued to grow as more people became aware of our existence. Our first response was writing letters to newspaper editors, building a state chapter, developing a web site to promote our agenda and forming the 1^st South Carolina Rangers as a support group.

The second response dealt with building a statewide organization at the county level and formalizing our structure by adopting Constitution and Bylaws. A building in Abbeville was purchased for the sale of Southern merchandise and members were invited to meet with other like-minded individuals at an annual state conference. The attacks continued and some of our members were fired from their jobs by politically correct industries and institutions.

Our third response was fashioned around the awareness that there was nothing we could do to make our enemies like us and stop their attacks. We realized that change would not occur unless we confronted our enemies in their environment and that a paid professional staff was needed to get the job done. With this perception a plan of attack was formulated to show that we were not going to be treated like second-class citizens in our own land or in its simplest form; “We are not going to take it anymore.”

From this starting point we have: Appointed a SCLoS Director, Opened an internet store, Picketed the NAACP at welcome centers to counteract their economic boycott of South Carolina, at an out of state meeting in Augusta, GA, and at the Martin Luther King holiday celebration at the State House, Met with newspaper editors, TV station managers and others to protest coverage and obtained op-ed columns and equal airtime, Supported political candidates for local and state wide offices, Appointed a Director Southern Cultural Centre, Picketed and helped defeat former governor David Beasley in his bid for a U. S. Senate seat, Picketed Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery AL and Columbia, SC, also handed out literature inside the building at the Morris Dees meeting in Columbia, hanged Lincoln and Sherman in effigy on the State House grounds in Columbia, opened a new store in Cayce, sold large quantities of Southern merchandise at the Abbeville and Cayce stores and held numerous events at the stores including book signings by our authors.

We also expanded our influence by building coalitions with other groups, the South Carolina Red Shirts were formed to honor the historical significance and the role played by General Wade Hampton’s Red Shirts and we are now in the process of breaking the second reconstruction period by taking our message to the people.

Robert Hayes was appointed Director of the Southern Cultural Centre and our effort to develop Secession Hill has accelerated. A brochure was published for Secession Hill and advertisements were placed in two magazine. With your help we will provide a permanent monument to our Confederate ancestors by building a Memorial Park on Secession Hill in Abbeville, SC.

The fourth response is now underway and includes doing what we have been doing, but with more participation and dedication. We must neutralize our enemies and turn them into friends if possible, network with other groups, promote a Biblical world view, influence all governmental bodies (Freedom under God’s Law), and make an economic and ethical appeal to the masses.

To be successful we must have a larger number of dedicated individuals and a physical presence in the community. We have elected to start a training program to show how dedication can produce results that benefits the individual and the community. We have chosen to open Southern Patriot Shops to show our symbols and promote Southern culture as it relates to ordinary citizens.

The success of the SCLoS has made our name a household word and secession is now a socially acceptable topic of conversation. We believe we will prevail if we can raise moderate sums of money, hire a professional staff, train a large number of dedicated activist, open at least 20 Southern Patriots shops, and add other support media such as Radio stations, Newspapers, TV stations, a Credit Union, and billboards. With this power base we will be able to form more enduring coalitions, elect our members to public office, and encourage churches to carry the gospel to the community.

Please review the last paragraph and give some thought to the results that are likely to occur when each item is implemented. Also give some thought as to how you can be of more service. Independence for South Carolina is our goal and God willing we will prevail.