Director’s Report . . . Jim Hanks, Jr.

The last few years have seen the South Carolina League of the South engaged in several confrontations with turncoats and neo-reconstructionists. We have won those contests. How have we done it?

We do not have a million dollar endowment. We have not enjoyed favorable press coverage. We operate on a shoestring budget and rely on our members for – well, for everything. How then have we gone up against political candidates awash in money and defeated them? Or the likes of organizations like the SPLC with its multi-million dollar war chest—how have we neutralized its attacks on us? These victories did not just happen.

When the NAACP rabble-rousers brought their bogus rhetoric to the capitol steps, what was the message over the AP wire? The message was that those blow-hards met with vigorous opposition. That did not just happen.

When the Christmas season approached in Abbeville, there was a joyous Southern celebration, complete with period costume, a parade with Confederate cavalry and Southern flags, and a costume ball. It was a time and place set aside for us to relax and enjoy a little slice of Dixie, unbowed, unrepentant, and unreconstructed. That did not just happen.

When the Boykin Christmas parade came around, its planning committee tried to deny the Confederate flag a place. Kershaw County LoS stepped in and changed all that. They showed up with a cannon and re-enactors and gave out hundreds of miniature flags and brochures along with over a thousand candy canes. That did not just happen.

South Carolina LoS activists are keeping the scare on. While they are doing their job, South Carolina LoS intellectuals are turning up the heat as well. The new edition of The Sack and Destruction of Columbia, including Dr. David Aiken’s insightful introduction, did not just happen. Nor does his vigorous promotion of this eyewitness account of Yankee barbarity just happen.

On February 18, there will be a program on the destruction and occupation of Columbia at the State museum. However politically correct they try to make it, we will tell another story. At 10:00 AM, we will hold a trial and hanging on the Statehouse grounds. Our message will be clear. The criminals are well known and will get what they deserve. These men are, of course, Sherman and Lincoln. This will not just happen.

On February 27, Morris Dees of the SPLC is scheduled to appear at Koger Center in Columbia at 8:00 PM. We will be there to expose him. He will not get to come and go unopposed. Neither the attending public nor Morris Dees himself will soon forget our reception - the one he deserves. The press will take note of our presence and what we have to say.

These recent and upcoming events do not just happen. That they actually happen is the result of dedication and leadership—in other words, consistent hard work by highly motivated and well organized men and women. These individuals see their duty and do it. They are not afraid to stand up in public and be counted. They neither forget nor shut up. That is why our campaigns succeed. While others sit at home watching TV, we are out making history. Won’t you please join us and help make history?