Director’s Report

           In the last couple of months much has occurred in the South Carolina League of the South.  As you probably know by now the SCLoS took on the nine Democratic presidential candidates at the state Democratic convention in Columbia on Saturday 3 May.  We had between 25 to 30 Red Shirt faithful standing across the road at Gate #6 at the State Fairgrounds “welcoming” the state Democrats and the presidential candidates.  We had planted in the ground along the road 32 Confederate and state flags of various styles and sizes covering a length of right-of-way of about 200 yards.  We had various signs that we held up to the Democrats as well as passing motorists.  We had at least two signs for each of the socialist candidates which read “The South Does Not Want John Kerry”, “The South Does Not Want Al Sharpton”, etc. On the reverse side of the candidate signs was the message “Go Home Yankee”.  We also had other signs with slogans such as “Go Home Carpetbagger”, “South Carolina For South Carolinians”, and  “Will Not Trade Flag For Yankee Industry”.  We also picketed the Democratic presidential candidate debate that evening on the University of South Carolina campus.  Our Ranger, George Forsythe, from New York provided us with bagpipe music, which irritated some of the passing Democrats especially when he played “Dixie”. 

 

James Layden, our State Chairman, and I promised you that we would practice “confrontational politics” as new leaders of the SCLoS and we are just getting warmed up.

 

After our success in taking on Jesse Jackson and the NAACP over the King holiday controversy at the Greenville County Council, we took on the Up State Forever group in north Greenville County.  Up State Forever is a land-use (control) organisation that follows generally the UN’s plan for controlling the use of private land, in other words, taking the use and control of the land from the owner, but allowing the owner to continue to pay taxes thereon.  We pretty much took over the two meeting this group put on, supported the local small land owners, passed out over one hundred applications and gained a few members

 

We appeared before Lexington County Council on 3 June to speak in favor of and in support of Confederate Memorial Day as a county holiday.  The council did vote in the Confederate Memorial as a county holiday, but unfortunately caved into political correctness and also voted in the King holiday.  A TV reporter/cameraman followed the only black to speak before council out into the hall when the black speaker left the council chambers.  The TV reporter/cameraman turned out his camera lights after he finished interviewing the black about the King holiday and started to take down his camera when I challenged him and asked if he was going to report only one side or if he wanted to hear both sides of the King holiday issue.  I asked him if he was a bias reporter.    He then asked me if I wanted to go on camera and I said yes and he then interviewed me. The interview appeared that night on the Columbia television station.  As James Layden says, “We aren’t going to take it any more”.  We are going to get in their face and demand that our side be heard also.

 

We also appeared before the Criminal Law Sub-committee of the Judiciary Committee of State House of Representatives to speak in favor of a pending anti-illegal immigration bill introduced by State Representative, John Graham Altman, of Charleston which basically states that if the federal government will not protect our state boarders from illegal invasion, then the state of South Carolina has the right to do so.

 

From all of this activity and exposure, we have had five newspaper articles written about the League of the South generally and the South Carolina League of the South in particular.  The article of 4 May which appeared on the front page of the Greenville News was on balance a fairly even-handed article even though they seem to think that they are obliged to get comments from that vile outfit, the Southern Poverty Law Center and a few far left wing college professors.

 

The article, which appeared in The State (Snake) Newspaper on 18 May, was anything but balanced.  It was a bias liberal attack on both the national League and the SCLoS.  It bent over backwards to portray us as a racist organisation.  Even though it was a vile article, we gained at least two new members and the League Building Manager estimated that the article increased his sales by about $3000.00 for the month.  The increase in sales resulted from increased sales of “Little Black Sambo”, “Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit” and the video “The Song of the South”.  Quite a number of people drove to Abbeville from up to a hundred miles away just to visit the store and we shipped orders of the above-mentioned items to Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky.  As a result of this very bias, one-sided article, Chairman James Layden, Board of Director member and attorney, Larry Salley and yours truly requested a meeting with Executive News Editor, Mr. Mark Lett.  We met with Mr. Lett in his office on 2 July.  Even though he indicated that we had a valid complaint against the bias reporting and reporter and agreed to try to cover some of our events, he did not send a reporter to Abbeville to cover the Tenth National Conference as he indicated he would.  Chairman Layden has just been informed by the Editorial Editor, Mr. Brad Warthen, that we will be allowed to write an editorial which will appear in The State (Snake) Newspaper.  We are now in the process of writing the said editorial.  Even if this editorial is accepted and printed, because of the liberal bias of The State (Snake) Newspaper we are probably going to do a little picketing in from of the paper’s headquarters.  We will keep you posted and hope that many Red Shirts will be able to ride when the call is made.

 

The Tenth National Conference was by and large assigned to the Abbeville chapter of the SCLoS to provide for.  And I can inform our state members that the Abbeville chapter did an outstanding job of accomplishing the task.  In addition to getting the Abbeville Civic Center ready for the conference, a Musical Showcase of League talent was presented to conference attendees on Friday night before the Saturday conference. All of the performers appeared on stage in front of a very large (12 foot by 18 foot) Confederate flag.  It was a site to warm your heart.  I tried very hard to urge and encourage all SCLoS members to attend the Musical Showcase and Conference.  I tried to convey to all members that the Musical Showcase would be special and you would not want to miss it.  Well, I am happy to state to you that the Musical Showcase was so much better and even more special than my greatest expectations.  I am very sad for all of you that had “other plans” and missed it.  You missed an event that was really special.  I am, however, happy to state that the response was so great that we are already planning another one for Spring of 2004.  I will now urge and encourage you not to miss the next one.  It should be even better if possible.  The Tenth Annual National Conference was by all account even more successful than last year’s which was also held in Abbeville.  The national conference had never, to my knowledge, been held in the same place twice and certainly not two years in a row.  We members of the SCLoS can be quite proud of the fact that we put on back to back the two best conferences in the League’s history.  The national conference will be held probably in October next year in Montgomery, Alabama.  I now urge all SCLoS members to set aside next October of 2004 and give the SCLoS a good representation in Montgomery.

 

As I mentioned earlier in this report, the SCLoS has decided to take on the cultural Marxist wherever and whenever we find them be it news media, politicians, academia, multi-national  corporations, etc.  As Chairman Layden has stated “We are not going to take it any more”.  But ladies and gentlemen of the SCLoS, even though Generals Lee, Jackson, Forrest and our own Hampton were great leaders, they were nothing without their troops.  Chairman Layden, the Board of Directors and I as State Director are more than happy to get out in front and try to provide some leadership in our fight for self determination, but we clearly cannot do it without our troops—the membership of the SCLoS.

 

You as members must come forward and provide the bodies to man the picket lines when the Red Shirt are called upon to ride.  If you truly value your freedom and the freedom of your posterity, you must be willing to sacrifice some of both your time and financial resources if we are to be a success as a political entity in South Carolina.  As I stated earlier, we are just getting warmed up.  We have made great progress since March of this year, and we yet have a long, long way to go, but God willing the future belongs to those of us willing to do what is necessary to obtain our freedom and the freedom of our children and grand children. 

 

I will close with one of my favorite quotes of General Lee.

 

“In all things do your duty; you cannot do more and you should never wish to do less.”