Director’s Report … Robert Hayes

Since this is the last issue of the year of the South Carolina Patriot, I want to talk about the past year. And what a year it has been. Let me list a few of our accomplishments of the past twelve months.

We have added quite a number of new Southern freedom fighters to our ranks.

We have organised a new county chapter and reactivated two others.

We have continued to improve the South Carolina Patriot and the SCLoS website.

We have developed the on-line store website and have put on line three other websites— www.palmetto.org and the Southern Cultural Centre www.sccsc01.com and the Red Shirts www.redshirts.org We now have five active websites.

We provided every law enforcement department in the state of South Carolina with a letter stating the true nature of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

We have produced a 1^st South Carolina Ranger application brochure.

We went to the Hunley funeral and passed out three to four thousand League application brochures.

We have been interviewed by newspapers, on radio talk shows, for television news and have been discussed in numerous internet chat rooms. In most cases, secession has been discussed.

We demanded and received permission to write an op-ed piece in both The State and The Greenville News.

We continue to get a lot of news coverage and interviews. We believe that any press coverage is better than no press coverage.

Larry Salley held a news conference in front of The Greenville News.

The SCLoS is now a house-whole name in most of South Carolina.

We are coordinating with the CSA Project in getting like-minded people to move to South Carolina.

We are working closely with Christian Exodus in also getting like-minded people from across the united States and indeed some foreign countries to move to South Carolina to help us gain independence.

We purchased Secession Hill.

We are in the early stages of developing a park for Secession Hill.

We have obtained ownership of Abbeville’s first Confederate monument, which we will place on Secession Hill.

We are now in the process of opening our second cultural centre in Cayce.

We put the Confederate Air Force into flight on three separate occasions during our flagging of scalawag Beasley.

We took on and flagged for three days the NAACP in Augusta, Georgia.

We took on and flagged for two days the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.

We are now a political entity in the state of South Carolina.

At the Eleventh Annual National League of the South Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, in October, several speakers recognised the South Carolina League of the South as being in the forefront of the fight and at least one individual referred to us as the vanguard of the movement.

I saved the best until last. We flagged across the state of South Carolina, nineteen times and defeated scalawag David Beasley.

We are winning and I can tell you that it feels mighty good. We , indeed, are taking the fight to our enemies. While we will continue to react to attacks of our enemies, we will not simply sit by awaiting attacks and react defensively, but we are now in the attack mode and will take on our enemies whenever and wherever we think it is appropriate. As Chairman Layden is fond of saying, “We are not going to take it anymore”.

As reported above, we now own Secession Hill and we are in the process of planning a park for the Hill. And as stated we have purchased our second cultural centre, which may be open by time you receive this newsletter. As you know, it is our goal to have twenty cultural centres across our fair country of South Carolina. It was the dream of the SCLoS to have a cultural centre in Abbeville and it has been a reality now for three years. It was our dream to own Secession Hill. It is now a reality. It was our dream to open our second cultural centre by the end of 2004. It too is a reality. It is, of course, our dream to have eighteen more cultural centres with two more before the end of 2005. It is our dream to build the park on Secession Hill by the end of 2006. As you see, the SCLoS has big dreams, but we have worked hard and are working very hard to make those dreams come true. My advice to one and all—don’t bet against the SCLoS, for you will probably lose. We believe in what we are doing and we believe that our dreams will come true. Please, each and everyone of you, do what you can to make our collective dreams come true.

As has been stated by Chairman Layden, we believe the cultural centres will provide us with needed revenue to carry our fight to the enemy, give us the opportunity to get our message before more people and provide us locations to promote Southern culture through art, word and song. Revenue from our cultural centres hopefully will provide us the resources for additional, much needed, staff in order to become more politically active. As I have stated in the past, freedom is not free and as we become more and more politically active we are finding that freedom, also, is not cheap. It is very important that our members step forward today and give us some of you time, energy and financial resources.

I started this report by saying what a great year 2004 has been and folks, with your support, the year of 2005 will be much greater.