Director’s Report

Something Positive is Happening

When Jennifer Timmons called requesting an interview at the store I was sure that Fox News would be looking to skewer us. Why else would a TV station want to feature the Southern Patriot Shop? Haven’t we been the media’s favorite all-purpose kicking post? Doesn’t the media follow the lead of the Southern Poverty and Law Center’s Intelligence Report, which, only last summer, ran an article about the store entitled "Heritage or Hate."

And yet the Fox News coverage of the store was 100% positive. They highlighted Mr. H. K. Edgerton’s eloquence, according it the dignity it so richly deserves. Then followed Ms Timmons’ interview with me, in which I invited everybody, white, black, hispanic - everybody who loves the South - to proclaim their love and be proud of it, all of it.

New customers continue to mention the Fox News report as the place where they first heard about us.

This could not have happened two, or even one year ago.

Here’s what has happened. The media blasted away at us for a generation or more, only making us better. We became more determined, better organized, more resourceful, better advocates for our cause, better showmen, even. All the while, the media, with gazillions of bucks and all the fresh talent and gewhizzery money can buy, finally woke up to the fact that opposing us is far less popular than they thought.

Newspapers, especially, are on the skids. If they could sell papers by continuing to attack us they would do so. They can’t! South Carolinians know that we are not the bad guys.

We have put our arch enemy, Morris Dees, on the defensive. Our campaign informing the major news media of his extremely unsavory character and unconscionable tactics has worked. And our twin raids, at Koger Center, on the USC campus, and at Western Carolina University, in Asheville, North Carolina, are just the beginning. The Southern Poverty and Law Center’s star is now waning, in no small part because it took on the South Carolina League of the South.

We are adopting new tactics. While the State Museum held its politically-correct Sherman Fest, effectively celebrating proud Columbia’s desecration by invading barbarians, we gave them hell! We took the truth onto the State House steps. It was old-time street theater. We gave Lincoln and Sherman the party they truly deserve. We hanged them. This bold act shined daylight onto the public forum, exposing the timeless truth our present rulers would obscure. This truth is that the despoilers of Columbia are still here, still lording it over South Carolina, taking the best for themselves and despising us, our pride and our freedom-loving heritage. No longer will the truth run and hide. We put it on public display. We are learning to perform, both figuratively and actively, and we will take our act on the road!

We have not yet won the big battles. We South Carolinians are still oppressed in our own land! Many babies are still murdered with impunity, and we aren’t yet able to save their lives. Most children are still being indoctrinated in pagan seminaries. The value of our fiat currency is rapidly evaporating. The Empire invades our personal privacy, tapping our phones without restraint. And the alien invasion of our territory proceeds apace.

However, every skirmish we have entered we have won. And in thwarting the ambitions of scallywag politicians, we are winning battles, too! At one time outcome of this war for the hearts and minds of South Carolinians was in doubt. Today it hardly seems so.

Tyrannical government always sows the seeds of its own downfall. And we are blessed to live among a people than which no other on earth has ever been more willing, nay eager, to offer personal sacrifice in the cause of self determination. The scales are rapidly falling from the eyes of our long suffering countrymen. Historical memory is reasserting itself in our time. Fortified with spirit of our forefathers, from here on out our struggle for independence will only intensify.

What the South Carolina League of the South has done is this. We have changed the parameters of the public debate. We are the advance guard who say what untold others wish they could say and will soon be shouting. We give others courage because we speak the truth and we speak it well; we neither let up nor doubt that we will win. Every time we appear in the news we weaken our opponents and stiffen the resolve of our like-minded friends. We are the backbone of resistance and the harbinger of things to come. We are our enemy’s worst nightmare.

Yes, time is running out. And yet time is always running out. But because we are such people as we are, exceptional individuals engaging in a historical struggle, unwavering, always learning, always seeking a slight advantage and making the most of it, the future will be shaped by us. We, who are the South Carolina League of the South, are playing the part that is our destiny.

No more independent-minded, grab-on-and-hold-on determined individuals can be found anywhere on earth. And by the principle of like-attracts-like, we are destined to prevail. So much now depends upon us.