What The Traditional South Wants And Doesn't Want: A Statement To The Rest Of The World

As the only extant Southern Nationalist organization, The League of the South has taken upon itself the responsibility of speaking for the Traditional South. Someone else will have to speak for the New South; we want no part of it.

What we want:

To live in peace with the rest of the world, if possible;

To engage in fair trade with Europe, Asia, Latin America, and other emerging world markets;

To avoid entangling political and military alliances with all other nations;

To return to a sound currency and to re-establish a solid manufacturing base in the Southern States;

To help Southerners become freeholders by the ownership of family farms and small businesses;

To halt illegal immigration completely;

To protect our natural environment from the effects of over-population and irresponsible business practices;

To eschew aggressive war as a means of foreign policy, especially in the volatile Middle East;

To preserve the South for Southerners by establishing a Southern constitutional republic based on historic Christian principles and mores;

To withdraw from all international bodies which threaten national sovereignty;

To oppose globalization and the elite class that profits from it;

To destroy the Establishment’s political stranglehold by the Republican and Democrat parties.

What we don’t want:

To engage in “perpetual war for perpetual peace” nor to witness the shedding of any more Southern blood for the advancement of the American Empire;

To rule the world by spreading global capitalism and global democracy;

To engage in unfair trade practices with other nations, either through so-called “free trade” agreements or through the establishment of protective tariffs;

To extend “most favored nation” status to any country;

To force the “Southern way” on any other people anywhere in the world;

To continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or to go to war with Iran;

To go to war against any nation except in self defense;

To continue the outsourcing of Southern jobs to other countries with lower wages;

To continue to live in the godless, multicultural American Empire.

Though there are in 2007 relatively few Southern Nationalists, our ranks grow daily. As the perceptible decline of American society continues, thousands upon thousands will be added to our numbers. It is clear to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear that the entity we call The United States of America is in its death throes. It is hated abroad for its unprovoked aggression, especially in the Middle East; it is plagued by a rapidly declining dollar and a woefully bad economy, at least for the working classes; it has become a Third World-type exporter of raw materials and an importer of finished goods; it has run up massive trade deficits that cannot be sustained; it has become the world’s largest debtor nation and is in thrall to other nations which hold its outstanding debt; it is unwilling to protect its own borders against a huge influx of illegal immigration; it has abandoned the Christian principles and mores that once made it a stable and productive society; it has exported to the world a corrupt and corrupting culture of death; it has cast aside its own governing document, and its elites now rule its citizens-turned-subjects by fiat backed by force or the threat of force; it no longer has an independent press that serves as a watchdog of government; it has demeaned true patriotism and replaced it with a dangerous and chauvinistic nationalism; and it has demonized anyone who speaks ill of the regime.

After World War Two, the phrase “Ugly American” was used to describe the pushy, know-it-all visitors who descended on the centuries-old civilizations of Europe with unwelcome advice on how to live the good life. Please understand, however, that these American travelers were not Southerners, who were largely still too poor in the middle of the 20th century to go to places such as London and Paris. Instead, the Ugly Americans were Yankees (not righteous northerners), who claim as a birthright telling others how to live. Today, it is still supercilious Yankees who give America a bad name. We are not they and they are not us! Please learn to distinguish between the two.

Unfortunately, over 140 years of propaganda directed toward a defeated and occupied South has convinced many of our Southern brothers and sisters that the Yankees were right. We believed we were a poor and backwards people, living in a benighted region with no hope for the future. But in reality, nothing was further from the truth. Today, the South, with a population of over 100 million and an economy behind only those of the remainder of the United States, China, and Japan (and considerably ahead of Germany, France, and Britain), is truly the epitome of an authentic nation. That is, we are a distinct people, steeped in tradition, living on our own lands. We have all that is necessary to offer a bright future of freedom and prosperity to our children and grandchildren. The only thing lacking at present is the will to use it for our benefit.

Though Southerners have been a patient and patriotic people, our patience is wearing thin, as is our willingness to sacrifice for those who use and exploit us for their own benefit. We Southerners are the blood descendants of those who played the largest role in carving a civilization out of the North American wilderness over the past few centuries. We have seen our accomplishments belittled and our civilization stolen from us. We will no longer tolerate living under an alien ruling class motivated by an alien ideology.

To the rest of the world we proclaim our allegiance to our own people and to our God. By the same token, we withdraw whatever allegiance we might once mistakenly have given to the present regime. Henceforth, we seek to rule ourselves by our own principles and for our own well being. 

May God vindicate our noble and just Cause. 

Michael Hill
The League of the South
Killen, Alabama

The Real Domestic Terrorists

Dr. Michael Hill - LS President

Those who support States rights, constitutional government, and the right of secession are now commonly called by the ruling elite right-wing extremists and potential domestic terrorists. We traditional Southerners are indeed familiar with this game. Had the term been around then, our ancestors—from Washington and Jefferson to Lee and Davis—would have been called domestic terrorists by the Brits and Yankees, respectively. As it was, they were simply called “traitors.” We reject the use of both terms for ourselves and for our forebears. Instead, we can make a good case that the real threats to domestic peace and quiet are on the other side. And yet we continue to pay them tribute and allow them to rule over us.

Who They Are?

The real domestic terrorists were (and are) those who oppose ordered Christian liberty and the worldview which upholds it. Indeed, Abe Lincoln and his minions have sired a long line of domestic terrorists, including most recently George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama (and all who aid them in their misrule). We might throw the larger part of Congress into the mix as well.

Most of what the U.S. government does is beyond the bounds of its constitutional limitations. That makes it unlawful. That which is unlawful ultimately terrorizes society. Jefferson told us that the fundamental law of the land should be viewed as chains to bind a singularly dangerous beast (the general government). For a while the beast was successfully bound; however, he slipped his chains for good in 1865 and our republic of republics was lost. Today, we live under a strange combination of socialism and fascism that would surely please a Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, or Mao as much as it would disgust our Founders.

How we came to this point is fairly clear—there was a slow and steady revolution, and most Americans were asleep while it patiently worked its way through virtually every institution in the land. Some of our fellow subjects still don’t realize what has transpired. But they soon will.

Things were bad under Bush II. But because he and the GOP masqueraded as “conservatives,” most Americans thought all was well. But as a famous Alabamian once said, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two major political parties. And he was right. Bush I or Clinton; Bush II or Obama—the rhetoric may differ but the results are still the same: bigger, more intrusive, and lawless central government and less liberty and prosperity for the rest of us. Now, what little we have left in terms of liberty and property is being taken from us openly without any meaningful resistance on our part.

An Organized Criminal Enterprise

That the U.S. government is an organized criminal enterprise cannot be doubted by anyone who has kept abreast of the on-going, broad-open-daylight effort to loot the country’s wealth. The multiple trillion dollars’ worth of bailouts and related schemes have enriched even further the Money Men who pull the strings that animate the politicians, and the fleecing shows no sign of abatement. In case you’re wondering why this is being allowed to happen, remember this—your Congressmen and Senators don’t work for you; rather, they work for those who fill their campaign coffers and make election and re-election possible. They work for the Money Men, and the Money Men own “your” government lock, stock, and barrel. And they are about to own everything else . . . unless they are stopped.

Don’t expect an appeal to the Constitution or to common decency to stop the criminal class from further terrorizing the country. Of the latter, they have none. And to them, the former is but a mere scrap of parchment. In fact, wasn’t it George W. Bush who called it just a “G-d damned piece of paper?” Well, in a way he was right (but for the wrong reason, of course). The great Southern political philosopher John C. Calhoun also noted that the Constitution was but an inanimate object, incapable of enforcing itself. Rather, he said, it is up to the people, in their capacity as citizens of the several sovereign States, to make sure it is enforced. He also told us: “Only power can check power.”

So, in reality, we are in the mess we’re in because we have not done our job of keeping the singularly dangerous beast chained down. It has broken free and become our master and we its servants. In the process it has become exceedingly powerful as well. It holds us in the balance of life and death, or so it seems.

Mounting The Resistance

Any form of tyranny deserves a hard resistance. The current crop of domestic terrorists will not stop looting our wealth and our inheritance of liberty until we make them stop. It’s as simple as that. We Southerners ought to be the first to resist; such audacity is in our blood. But what can we do in the face of such irresistible power? First, we can psychologically withdraw our consent from the criminal class that rules over us. Our system is supposedly based on the “consent of the governed.” If you believe it still is, then withdraw your consent. Not even the hardest tyranny can exist without the support of the “drawers of water and hewers of wood” (to use an old Irish example). Once we withdraw our consent psychologically, then we can begin to withdraw it physically. Simply put, don’t work for them in any capacity and don’t give them anything you can keep out of their thieving hands. Don’t patronize their institutions. Don’t vote for anyone who runs in their pack. Remember, they are robbing you (and your posterity) blind under color of law without fear of reprisal. Make them earn what they steal from you.

I have been asked by some: “How do we resist this criminal element when we have no way of getting at them?” That’s a logical question. After all, who is going to march into the bowels of DC or Wall Street and arrest the President, the Fed Chairman, the Treasury Secretary, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, or even your garden-variety Congressman or Senator? They live and work like royalty in veritable fortresses constructed and guarded with the money they’ve looted from you, the peasants. They’re also protected by “the law” (which they get to make and interpret), and if you break it they’ll lock you away or shoot you. So how do you stop this criminal element? While you may not be able to exert any direct influence on the big fish, you certainly can make life very uncomfortable for the smaller fish—the enforcers who do their dirty work on the State and local levels.

History is full of examples of how occupied peoples socially ostracized their occupiers. If your community has enforcers of the present tyranny, make sure everyone knows who they are and what they’re up to. Isolate them and give no voluntary cooperation. Our rights to life, liberty, and property come from God and not from any government. Behave as if you believe this. If they tell you it is illegal to grow your own food to feed yourself and your neighbors, then grow your own food in spite of them. This restriction is not as farfetched as you might think. If they tell you to turn in your firearms, hide them away. If they show up at your door to collect them, resist. The law of self-protection is fundamental and Biblical. If they tell you it is forbidden to worship the true and living God, then do it openly in the public square. If they come to take your children, then behave like a cornered animal. Under no circumstances should you voluntarily give up your God-given rights to tyrants. They are used to a soft and acquiescing populace. Surprise them. Again, make them pay a high price for what they steal.

Resistance From The States

If you want to defend your community from the domestic terrorists, first use the proper constitutional vehicle—your State. This is where ultimate temporal sovereignty resides in our system. Of course, most (if not all) of our State governments are in the hands of men who seek the favor of the criminal class, are a part of it (or at lease aspire to be), or are scared to challenge it. But it is a much easier task to take control of your State government than it is to affect policy in Washington, DC. If your State has already passed a Sovereignty Resolution or is considering one, you have some hope. Talk with your elected State and local officials about strengthening your State Militia or State Guard (and I’m not speaking here of the National Guard—that organization is subject to federalization. It is actually part of the U.S. Army). And if you’re so inclined, join up.

We can also use our counties as bulwarks against the criminal class. The County Sheriff is the principal peace officer in his jurisdiction. As such, he can lawfully tell the Feds to “Go to Hell” and stay out of his territory. He also can deputize as many of the county’s citizens as he wishes and have them armed to the teeth. No one can over-rule him within his boundaries. Make sure your current Sheriff knows his authority and to whom he answers (you and your neighbors). If he is unwilling to use his authority for the good of the people of his jurisdiction, replace him at the first opportunity.

I discourage the formation of private militias except as a last resort. If your State and local officials refuse to serve the citizens and to protect them by the historic means of Nullification, Interposition, or Secession, then you may have reached the “last resort.” In that case, you have no other alternative except to bow to the will of your masters. Every free man and woman should exercise their rights as expressed in the Second Amendment. Moreover, they should be prepared to defend themselves and their families from actions that jeopardize life, liberty, and property. When political alternatives are no longer available, this is how it boils down. Let’s hope we never reach this point.

All We Wish Is To Be Left Alone

We common Southerners (and most other Americans) prefer to be free to work, worship, and raise our children under the arrangement bequeathed us by our Founders. We do not wish to take that which is not ours or to deprive others of what is rightfully theirs. Nor do we wish to tell others how they ought to live. We are not driven by utopian ideologies or perverse fantasies. We do not wish to conquer the world and ride it, booted and spurred, to satisfy a lust for power and position. As Jefferson Davis said, all we wish is to be left alone. But we are not being left alone; on the contrary, we are being robbed blind by the biggest, most blatant and shameless heist in the history of the world. And not only is our wealth being taken, but our liberties as well. We are also being overrun by an alien population as a result of unlimited and illegal immigration from Latin America.

So, you tell me who are the domestic terrorists? Those who wish to live in peace according to the original American arrangement or those who seek its overthrow for their own greed and ambition?

That the criminal class that now runs America has tried to make us out to be the domestic terrorists ought to tell you something. They are projecting onto us the very characteristics they themselves possess. This dishonest process is called The Law of Preemptory Accusation—they hit you before you can hit them. If they’re thieves, they accuse you of theft; if they’re liars, they accuse you of lying. If they’re haters, they accuse you of hatred. You get the picture.

It is not too late for the domestic terrorists that control this regime (both Democrats and Republicans, Washington and Wall Street) to back off and behave as they should. In truth, I believe they should apologize for all their crimes, return all they have stolen (with penalties and interest attached), pledge henceforth to obey the true and fundamental law of the land, and lock themselves up for a long stint in prison. In short, I believe they ought to be our servants and us their masters. I also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.


J. Michael Hill
Killen, Alabama


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League of the South Institute

The History and Literature of the South
Lecture Series [Video]

The League of the South Institute for the Study of Southern History and Culture proudly announces its "History and Literature of the South" video tape series.

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Forming A Local LS Chapter

The League of the South will succeed only insofar as it succeeds in forming vibrant and active county chapters. This is where the real work of our organization gets done. One of our most important organizational goals is to have a League chapter in every county in every Southern State. The energies and resources of the League National Office and the individual State chapters should be focused primarily on this goal. While we have succeeded in organizing numerous county chapters across the South, much more remains to be done. What follows are some ideas and guidelines for establishing LS county chapters. Please feel free to copy this tract and distribute it to our membership.   I. STARTING A COUNTY CHAPTER The League presently has a number of local chapters located in various towns and cities. If there is only one of these local chapters in a particular county, then that chapter is the natural nucleus for a countywide chapter. Where there are two or more local chapters extant in a county, the State Chairman should confer with the existing chapter heads about forming a larger county organization. These county chapters should serve as the League’s basic organizational building blocks. To aid him in starting county chapters, each LS State Chairman should determine his membership in every county in the State (a large wall map with coloured push pins is a good method of doing this). If he then finds that there are several members in a particular county—but there is no countywide organization—he should then act immediately to bring them together in order to form a chapter. It is not necessary to have a large membership in a county to begin a chapter. In fact, all that we need are a few active and dedicated members who are willing to act as organizers and officers. Once the State Chairman has brought together the disparate members (or local chapters) within a county, the following things should be done: 1. A Provisional County Chairman should be appointed 2. The Provisional Chairman should then select Provisional Officers from the County LS membership 3. Those officers should consist of A. A Vice-Chairman B. A Secretary-Treasurer C. A Recruitment Officer D. A Public Affairs and Media Officer E. A Political Affairs Officer Once the chapter is formed and staffed with Provisional Officers, the County Chairman should determine a date, time, and place for regular meetings. All meeting should be conducted according to League of the South protocol. Ideally, county meetings should be held weekly. Upon the establishment of a regular meeting schedule, the chapter, in cooperation with the State Chairman, should select permanent officers. To enhance communications within the chapter, an e-mail list and a telephone tree would be helpful.   II. PROMOTING A COUNTY CHAPTER Once the county chapter is formed, the next item of business should be to promote it throughout the county. In order to do this, all meeting should be held in a public venue and be open to the general public. The League does not operate in secret conclaves. A good way to publicize the county chapter and its goals (as well as the overall goals and objectives of the League) is to run advertisements in local newspapers, spots on local radio stations, and by word of mouth among friends and kinfolks. The intent should be to inform the county’s citizens of the existence of the chapter, its general principles, and information about its regularly scheduled meetings. Moreover, local LS leaders should approach elected and appointed officials on the city and county level and inform them of the chapter’s existence and goals. Prominent citizens should also be contacted for the same reasons. One of our intermediate goals in every county ought to be to make the League’s message palatable to average citizens. To do this, we do not water down our message or abandon our principles. Rather, by example, we show our fellow citizens that we are respectable and responsible, and wish only to advance the well being of our county. We simply have a new perspective (which is really an old, tried and true one) on how best to accomplish this objective. If we can convince mayors, councilmen, commissioners, sheriffs, police chiefs, judges, and other officials that we hold true American (actually Southern) principles about politics and society, then they perhaps will be more likely to work with us. Also, do not neglect approaching newspaper editors and reporters and television and radio station managers and personnel. As our chapters grow larger, they will become real political and economic forces with their respective counties. We must act as ladies and gentlemen in all that we do. The most effective way to persuade is by good example. The Bible tells us “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Let us bear good, sweet fruit for our counties by standing firmly on our commitment to the furtherance of Christian liberty.   III. FUNDRAISING Most League activities demand the expenditure of funds. Therefore, each county chapter must pay heed to fundraising. As League members, we are pledged to give “blood, treasure, and sacred honor” to our Cause. Our ancestors in both 1776 and 1861 dug deeply into their own resources (however meager they were in some cases) to finance their struggles for liberty. Within reason, we must do the same. However, there are other ways to raise resources. For example, a county chapter might assess regular dues from its members to fund local projects. Also, the chapter might produce and sell items such as bumper stickers, t-shirts, car tags, flags, etc. Be creative. You may decide to sponsor a barbeque, a car wash, a bake sale, or some other money-generating event. This is a good way to have some fun and meet local folks who may one day become members of the chapter. From time to time, you may find it necessary to confer with your State Chairman about securing funds from the State treasury for special projects.   IV. ACTIVITIES This is a random list of fifty activities in which county chapter might profitable engage: 1. Attend city council, school board, and other public meetings to express League positions and concerns. 2. Write letters-to-the-editor or guest editorials in your local newspaper. Always note that you are a LS member. 3. Donate pro-South books (e.g. The South Was Right!) to your local library. Be sure to have a local newspaper photographer or TV camera crew there when you make the presentation. This makes a good local story, especially in small towns. 4. Find local merchants who will allow the distribution of League literature on their premises. 5. Distribute League literature personally to family and friends. 6. Set up a League booth or table at every public event in the county (e.g. Trade Days, Mule Days, Heritage Days, craft shows, historical commemorations, and assorted other events). 7. Have your own customized League of the South banner made to use at all public events. 8. Get involved in local “conservative” social causes (e.g. protests against abortion clinics). This likely will put you in contact with potential recruits for the County chapter. 9. Start a local “Buy Southern, Buy Local” economic campaign. Your local farmers and merchants will love this. Discourage people from doing business with out-of-State chain stores that drive locals out of business and hurt the “little man.” Some of these chains include Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Burger King, and . . . well, you know who they are. 10. Give League award certificates to those who are patriotic enough to fly a Confederate flag at their residence or business. 11. Offer to work in the campaigns of local candidates who hold our principles. 12. Run a local LS member for office. For instance, the county sheriff is the supreme law enforcement officer in the county, and this includes both federal and State officials. Of all countywide offices, this is the one that our people need to control. 13. Sponsor a LS Institute “Hedge School” in your county. To arrange one, call Dr. Don Livingston at (404) 377-2812. 14. As individuals and as a community of Southern Patriots, become as self-sufficient as possible. For instance, form a Farmers’ Co-Op to encourage local agriculture; grow your own garden; if possible, raise chickens and keep a cow to provide eggs and dairy products for your family and friends; learn a new and practical skill and acquire the tools to do it. Use your imagination, the possibilities are virtually endless. 15. Form a “Shooting Club” to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights and to learn gun safety and proficiency. 16. Consider joining a good, solid, Biblically based church. Our ultimate goal, after all, is the restoration of Christian liberty to the South. 17. Homeschool your children, or at least put them in a private, Christian academy. The public (or government) schools are nothing but anti-Southern, anti-Christian propaganda mills. Make this sacrifice for your children. 18. Initiate local petition drives on various issues within your community. This is also a good way to build up a local mailing list. 19. Issue “scorecards” on the voting records of local and State officials in your county. These, if publicized, put pressure on them to do the right thing. 20. Arrange for public showings of LS videos (e.g. the 4 March 2000 “Southern Independence Day Celebration” in Montgomery). Also, check public access TV channels in your area and ask about showing our videos. 21. Inform local leaders that less federal power means more local power. This appeal works with most politicians (when they have taken time to reflect on it). 22. Support only local charities so you can determine how and where your donations are used. Form an “Emergency Response Team” to help out victims of natural disasters (i.e. fires, floods, tornados, hurricanes, etc.). Start a local LS charitable organization to help the worthy poor and destitute in your area. But remember the Bible’s admonition: “He who will not work will not eat.” 23. Publish a local newsletter for your members. 24. Use billboard ads for recruiting. 25. Place LS brochures on vehicles that have pro-South bumper stickers or tags. 26. Start a monthly reading club (for those so inclined) to discuss books on historical, literary, theological, or other subjects. 27. Organize picket protests when necessary (e.g. at businesses that display anti-Southern actions and attitudes). 28. Provide assistance (financial and otherwise) for new parents who are local LS members. We need to populate the South with Confederates; however, having large families is often a strain on the resources of young couples. Help them out if you can. 29. Buy time on a local talk radio station (say, one hour per week) and find someone to do a show on current events from a pro-South perspective. 30. Organize a Confederate Memorial Day Parade or some other event on the appropriate occasion (e.g. Jefferson Davis’s birthday, etc.). 31. Fly Confederate flags at your residence or business every day. 32. Download and distribute copies of our tract entitled “On Secession and Southern Independence.” It is located on our website (www.dixienet.org). 33. Work with other pro-South and conservative groups in your county, and encourage cross-membership in the organizations (e.g. HPA, SCV, CSA, CofCC, etc.). 34. Buy and distribute LS audio- and videotapes. See www.dixienet.org for a complete list of these tapes. 35. If you have attorneys among your membership, introduce them to the newly formed Southern Bar Association (contact Mr. Jack Kershaw at (615) 292-2316). 36. Encourage all County chapter members to attend the annual State Convention and the LS National Conference. Make plans to share rides and hotel rooms. 37. Identify all Southern (including Confederate) historical and cultural sites in your County and preserve and protect them. 38. Develop a phone tree and e-mail list to enhance local communications between officers and members. In cases where the transfer of information is sensitive, establish a secure means of communication. 39. Establish regular communications with your State Chairman and Regional Director. 40. Develop emergency rendezvous points throughout the County in case of natural disasters, etc. We want to be able to help our neighbors during a crisis. (See point #22 on “Emergency Response Team”). 41. Secure detailed topographic maps (including all back roads) of your County to familiarize yourself with the “lay of the land.” This resource will be invaluable should your Emergency Response Team have to react to a natural disaster. 42. Read, study, and educate yourselves. Turn off the television and shut out the bankrupt culture of post-modern America. Promote the LS “Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence” at every opportunity. 43. Always carry League literature on your person or in your vehicle. You never know when you might meet a potential recruit. 44. Memorize the LS Statement of Purpose: “We seek to advance the cultural, social, economic, and political well being and independence of the Southern people by all honourable means.” 45. Make regular written reports (at least once per quarter) of your activities and plans to your State Chairman. 46. Always be ready and willing to help other counties in your State get organized. Let them know what has and has not worked for you. 47. Be good stewards of your own property. God demands this of us, and it makes a good impression on the community. 48. Bring together like-minded musicians in the LS to form a band. Southerners are highly motivated by good, patriotic music (e.g. “Dixie,” “The Bonnie Blue Flag,” etc.). 49. Sponsor a local conference and Confederate Ball once a year. The League will, if you wish, provide speakers. 50. Pray daily that God will bless our Cause. This is really the first (and most important) thing we should do at the beginning of each day. Thus, we saved the best for last. The above fifty activities are by no means an exhaustive list. The particular circumstances within your respective counties may permit others. Be creative and use your imagination. Should you have questions, comments, or suggestions about County Chapter formation and activities, contact your State Chairman or the LS National Office. Deo Vindice!

Obama Still Pressing for Changes on Handling Detainees in Defense Bill

President Seeks Broader Power to Choose Venue for Suspects

 

by Jason Ditz, December 09, 2011

Even though Sen. Carl Levin (D – MI) claimed weeks ago that he had placed enough loopholes in the wording to render the question moot, President Obama is reportedly still unhappy with the current military spending bill, complaining that the law regarding the treatment of detainees “challenges the president’s authority.”
As written the bill, certain loopholes notwithstanding, demands that every “suspected terrorist” be placed immediately into US military custody, and that even American citizens captured in the United States on allegations related to terrorism cannot have access to the civilian legal system.
Indefinite detention of American citizens without due process, incredibly, is not an issue that either side of the political process is debating. That ship sailed long ago, of course, and instead the question is if the president can order people indefinitely detained wherever he wants or if he has to disappear them only into a military brig.
Republican Senators McCain (R – AZ) and Graham (R – SC) have pressed for the “military only” version on the grounds that anyone accused of terrorism “doesn’t deserve” to have access to anything but a military brig. The president’s argument isn’t any better for the detainees, and just claims that he, as the decider-in-chief, should get the decide exactly where people get disappeared to.

Serfdom, Revolution, Or Southern Independence

J. Michael Hill - LS President

As the boot of centralized fascist-socialist tyranny pushes harder on our necks, we have three choices: 1) serfdom; 2) revolution; or 3) Southern independence. I would hope those reading this would have already omitted option number one from consideration.

However, serfdom will likely be the choice of the majority of Americans (and maybe even of Southerners). Why? It is the easiest path. It requires one to do nothing out of the ordinary, to take no risks nor face any danger. Because most people like their bread and circuses and don’t want to be taken out of their comfortable day-to-day existence, they will chose serfdom and convince themselves it is the reasonable and even the patriotic thing to do. Others who might know better will choose this path because of fear.

The revolution option is infinitely better than serfdom, but it has its downside, too. Most revolutions, historically speaking, are bloody affairs that often, as it is said, “devour their own children.” Before you remind me of the successful American Revolution, please remember that that event was a secession movement against the British Empire and not a turning of the world upside down as was the French Revolution. Modern revolutions normally degenerate very quickly into chaos. Before you advocate letting the revolution genie out of her bottle, know this: the Feds may be inept at most things, but they have proven themselves expert at killing people and destroying things. Yes, it may have to come down to an armed stand off; however, there is a better way than out-and-out revolution that leads to this point.

I prefer option three: Southern independence. Our States are historically the loci of ultimate temporal sovereignty within our federated, constitutional republic. The Founders intended it to be that way. Any of the Southern States (or any of the fifty) can assert that sovereignty anytime it wishes by withdrawing from the voluntary union of the States united. By withdrawing (or seceding) through the action of its legislature or another body elected for that specific purpose, the State is on solid legal and moral ground. Our lesser magistrates would be doing exactly what they should to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the State’s citizens against the encroachment of tyranny.

A proper prelude to secession might be Nullification and Interposition. If the federal Congress, the President, or the federal courts (or any combination of the three) should commit unconstitutional acts against the States and the citizens thereof, a State could simply declare that action, be it a law, an executive order, or a legal ruling, to be of no effect within the State’s borders. Should the feds press the issue (which they likely would), then the State government (again, the lesser magistrate) would have the duty to interpose itself between its citizens and the federal forces arrayed against them. This might take the form of the mobilization of a true State Militia (not the National Guard, which can be “federalized”). This is why you should take the right to keep and bear arms seriously.

The use of Nullification and Interposition (and a subsequent secession) might, it is true, lead to armed conflict just as revolution would. However, the former would have the force of history and law on its side whereas the latter, though justifiable, would be more desultory, disorganized, and chaotic. I think it’s always better, at least for as long as possible, to have some lawful and time-honored precedents on your side.

Under present circumstances, brought upon us by both major political parties and our own lack of vigilance, I don’t see any other options but the three I’ve briefly outlined above. Because serfdom is out for most of those who will read this, we had better think long and hard about the other two options. We will have to choose one. I pray we choose wisely.

Audemus jura nostra Defendere!

Michael Hil
President, The League of the South
Killen, Alabama
21 March 2010 

Dr. Michael Hill is President of the League of the South as well as a noted author and historian.

Why Do You Hate America?

 

Dr. Michael Hill - LS President

From time to time, folks who read my essays and articles and hear my speeches will send me a sincere private query that can properly be summed up as such: “Why do you hate America?”

My short answer is always pretty much this: “I don’t hate America. In fact, I love America. My home State of Alabama is part of America. Why would I hate America? But I do have great misgivings about our governing system and the people who are (and have long been) abusing it. And I would like to see Alabama and the rest of the South get out from under this corrupt system before it all sinks beneath the proverbial waves.”

But allow me to elaborate a bit. What these folks are calling “America” was a great experiment in liberty brought to fruition by our Founding Fathers over two-hundred years ago. We were given a republic, if we could keep it. However, not all influential Americans at the time were supportive of the experiment and the constitution that provided its foundation. Patrick Henry of Virginia was one of many Southern skeptics who warned his fellow countrymen of placing too much trust in Yankees. Mr. Jefferson and other fellow republicans (please notice the lower case “r”—they had nothing to do with the later Party of Lincoln) echoed the sentiment and warned that the States and their citizens must have protection from the perils of a consolidated national government, hence the Bill of Rights.

Well, the experiment of the late eighteenth century ended in 1860-61 when South Carolina and several other Deep South States thought it best to leave it and start another one of their own designs. But the new Republican (please notice the upper case “R”—they had nothing to do with the Jeffersonian republicans of an earlier era) Party administration of Abe Lincoln would have none of it; his threat to raise troops and force the wayward Southern sister States back into this voluntary union caused several other upper South States to join the CSA experiment. At the point, the “Union” army—which in reality was the U.S. Army (Southern men, don’t forget this when you consider enlisting)—invaded, and after four years of terrorizing the South with overwhelming force (including lots of European mercenaries and Socialists) they forced the South’s armies to surrender.

The old voluntary union given us by the Founding Fathers was no more by mid-1865. The dire warnings of Mr. Henry and others had indeed come to pass. Lincoln and the GOP had overturned the work of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and the defeated Southern States were forced back into the new, involuntary creation. Once rich and politically influential, the South, albeit a new and reconstructed version, was to be poor and politically disenfranchised for decades to come. As the Rev. Robert L. Dabney, a Presbyterian minister and officer under Stonewall Jackson, told the victorious Yankees (and I paraphrase): “You won. Now the responsibility for the nation’s future is in your hands alone. We of the South are poor and weak. We can be of no effect in this matter.”

Dabney probably knew the Yankees, in their great power axis from Washington to New York to Boston, would blow it. And he was right. The corruption we see today on the Potomac and Wall Street began right away with the Grant administration. Subsequently, we got an empire (the Yanks were just practicing on Dixie), a Federal Reserve system, an Income Tax, the 17th Amendment (which practically destroyed the 10th and States Rights), two World Wars, taken off the gold standard, a Great Depression, another invasion of the South through the civil rights movement (what we Southerners rightly call the Second Reconstruction), the moral rot of the 1960s, sunk up to the neck in the Middle East, three clueless Baby Boomer Presidents (Bill, George, and Barry), the USA Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security, a police/surveillance State, and now bankrupted by the Banksters and their political whores in Congress. And I’m supposed to cheer all this on by singing the National Anthem, saluting the Stars and Stripes, and saying the Pledge of Allegiance? No thanks, I’ll pass.

You see, the men I admire, from Henry and Jefferson through Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, knew that this American experiment, if it were to work, had to be an agreement held sacred among principled and virtuous men. And they knew the character of the Yankee (and I’m not talking about righteous Northern Copperheads who supported the South). And that bad character has not changed one iota since the Late Unpleasantness of 150 years ago. But in the bargain, many Southerners have thrown over the principles of their ancestors and have joined in the looting and pillaging. If you can’t beat the Yanks, then join them. I’ll pass on this, too, thank you very much.

The result of all this is that the U.S. government has become an organized criminal enterprise. Let that phrase sink in for a minute. If you still don’t believe it, then just pay attention for a little while; it’ll come to you.

Coming as I do from the old Southern traditionalist/conservative position of Henry, Jefferson, Calhoun, Taylor of Caroline, et al, I cannot and will not give my allegiance to a counterfeit. I will not confuse true patriotism with the chauvinistic nationalism that cheers “puttin’ a boot up the ass” of the enemy de jour of the American empire. I will not keep quiet while all that my ancestors sweated, bled, and died to give me as an inheritance is stolen away by an alien people with an alien ideology. I will not keep quiet while my motherland—Alabama and the South—can still be saved from the clutches of a predatory ruling elite. And as a Southern Patriot, I will fight every day of my life to save her as long as God gives me the strength and resources to do so.

And this is why I don’t hate America (at least the real America).


J. Michael Hill
Killen, Alabama
16 November 2011

For more information, call the League at (800) 888-3163 or contact us via email.

Memorial Service Honors Confederate Prisoners

Scotland, MD - 11/7/2011
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By Dick Myers

Guest speaker Adbur Haymes

In the midst of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, one of war’s many dark spots was remembered Saturday in St. Mary’s County. More than 4,000 Confederate soldiers died at Pt. Lookout prisoner of war camp between 1863 and 1865 of the 50,000 soldiers held there. A memorial service in their memory was held at the National Confederate Cemetery in Scotland just north of the camp which is now part of Pt. Lookout State Park.

The event was hosted by Captain Vincent Camalier, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Camp #1359 and the newly formed Southern Maryland Chapter #48, Order of the Confederate Rose, Private Jane Perkins.

Camp Commander Larry Messick welcomed everyone attending the event on the blustery day. Many of the attendees were dressed in re-enactor costumes. During the presentation of colors re-enactors representing a number of units surrounded the base of the Confederate monument.

Newly appointed Baltimore National Cemetery Superintendent Dr. Martha Rankin was on her first visit to Pt. Lookout. She said the area evoked different responses from different people, but she noted, “I can’t imagine anyone visiting here and not being moved. We share the inability to wrap our minds around the number of soldiers killed and wounded in the Civil War.” She added that sites such as Pt. Lookout are, “places for future generations to learn from.”

Guest speaker was Adbur Haymes, director of operations at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond and a retired U.S. Army Sgt. Major. Haymes, an African-American and an unabashed southerner, said “I say y’all and drink sweat tea.” He added he brought greeting from Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

Haymes said of those who wound up at Pt. Lookout, “They were proud soldiers who did their duty following the orders of their president, Jefferson Davis and following the orders of their general, Robert E. Lee.”

Haymes spoke lovingly of Gen. Lee and told how he agonized about joining the Confederacy. He told of leaving Arlington House after making that decision, never to return. He told of how soldiers were buried on the front lawn of Arlington House. Lee’s son filed suit in the 1890’s to regain control of their ancestral home and won that suit in the U.S. Supreme Court. The family was given the option to disinter the bodies, but realized that Gen. Lee would have not wanted that. Instead they sold the property to the U.S. for what is now Arlington National Cemetery.

Haymes called both Davis and Lee great men and said he is on a mission to rehabilitate the legacy of the president of the Confederacy.

Commander of the Southern Maryland Chapter #48, Order of the Confederate Rose Monie Harper told the story of Private Jane Perkins, after whom the chapter is named. She and her brother immigrated to America after the Irish Rebellion, ended up in Massachusetts, where they were not welcome and eventually settled in Virginia where she became a school teacher.

Jane’s brother enlisted in the Army of Northern Virginia and she joined him, first incognito as a man. She was captured during a battle in Hanover, VA and sent to Pt. Lookout, where she was the only woman. She was strip-searched upon arrival and she gave birth to a son while there (father unknown).

Buck-Thompson described a feisty woman who told her captors, “I can straddle a horse, I can jump a fence and I can kill a Yankee.” After being sent to another prison her son was kept at Pt. Lookout and both of their ultimate fates remain a mystery today.

During the ceremony the Pledge of Allegiance was recited and the National Anthem performed, the Salute to the Confederate Flag was also recited and Dixie performed. Maryland My Maryland, with its words “Despot’s Heel is on Our Shore” was also performed by musician Wally Ivanov. Wreaths were laid at the monument from several organizations.

Many of the re-enactors camped at the park on Friday evening.

Great News! Wigginton's Will Have A New Home Thanks To You!

LS News Service

Editor's Note: The following is related to the League's ongoing efforts on behalf of the victims of the Spring 2011 tornadoes.

Compatriots:

I'm happy to report that Mrs. Joyce Wigginton of Hackleburg, Alabama, our "adopted" tornado relief family, has now received enough funds to have built her foundation for her new home. The builders may come as early as today to start actualy construction of the new house.

She wanted me to thank you all for your generosity and kindness. Moreover, I would like to thank you as well. By God's grace we were able to help Mrs. Wigginton and her family through this crisis to the point that they will now have a new home in which to live. Once it's completed and the family moves in, Sara and I will go down and take a look. We will take pictures and post them so you can see what your donations help us do for this family.

Again, Many thanks!
J. Michael Hill

For more information, call the League at (800) 888-3163 or contact us via email.

Point Lookout Memorial Service

Point Lookout Memorial Service

November 5, 2011

Scotland, Maryland

11 AM

Sponsored by the Captain Vincent Camalier Camp #1359,

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Guest speaker will be Sgt. Major Abdur Hamyes, (US Army Ret.) of  The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA.

Present will be the award winning SCV Maryland Division Color Guard.

Also, Friday evening Nov. 4^th at 6:30 PM. at Confederate Memorial Park, The Private Jane Perkins Camp #48, Order of the Confederate Rose, will be sponsoring a Paranormal Investigation of the park and cemetery.

Trent Hall Media Group will lead the investigation. There is a fee to join the investigation teams Friday evening but it will be so much fun.

We plan on setting up camp Friday and spending the night. Confederate Memorial Park is located 1 mile north of Point Lookout State Park, site of the infamous Point Lookout Prison Camp which housed 52,000 Confederate P.O.W.'s during the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War). Come join us!

Special Request from Dr. Hill

The League of the South has a message all freedom-loving Southerners ought to hear. It is the message of Southern independence from a sinking, corrupt, and destructive regime in Washington, DC. When our people hear this message, they usually react positively to it. After all, no one in his right mind wants to go down on an obviously sinking ship.

But how many of them never hear our message because we stay "under the radar?" As much as we hate to admit it, our organization is still unknown to most Southerners. Why? One reason is the clutter of mass information - we get buried beneath the crush of topics that dominate both the conventional news cycle and the internet. Another is the nature of our message. It is unpopular with the "powers-that-be," including the news media; therefore, it is ridiculed, marginalized, or simply ignored. But perhaps the main reason we remain under the radar is the lack of funds to advertise our message.

The League of the South Board of Directors has approved a major publicity campaign. It will take money to do a test run of this project. Though we are not yet at liberty to divulge all the details of this project (mainly because we think our enemies would try to prevent it), we are to the point where we are ready to raise the money to fund it.

As President of the League, I am asking for at least 50 members or supporters to pledge $30 quarterly, $60 semi-annually, or $120 annually to this test project. Our ultimate goal is to raise $6000 ($1500 per quarter) over the next 12 months to put this publicity campaign to a real live test run.

You can make a quarterly or semi-annual pledge (for which we will send you a "coupon book" as a reminder of your pledge) or you can simply make a one-time annual donation for the amount you wish to pledge. Anything we raise over and above the necessary amount will be placed in a special fund to help with the continuation of this project.

Though initially we are running a test (which we will be able to closely monitor), we believe the project has merit and thus will prove successful in getting us out from below the radar and into the eye of the Southern public. I am asking you to make a pledge today. Once we have the necessary funds committed and all the plans in place, we will announce the launching of this important project, first to League members and supporters and then to the general public.

If we fund and plan it well, the project will draw a great deal of attention to our message.

Please make your contribution to the League office today by sending your donation by mail to: LS, PO Box 760, Killen, Alabama 35645 or by visiting our website at http://dixienet.org/members/Outreach_Project.php. 

Michael Hill

President, The League of the South

Maryland League of the South launches new website

The Maryland State Chapter of the League of the South launched a brand new website this past Monday that will reach many new prospective members and provide some basic information on what the Maryland League is all about. "The launch of the Maryland website, is yet another indicator of the growing momentum and viability of the League's message in the Old Line State!" said Maryland LS State Chairman Joyce Bennett.

The new website can be accessed by going to:  http://www.marylandls.org/index.php

Come Home to Old Maryland Retreat

Be Our Guest at the

Come Home to Old Maryland Retreat

Saturday 11 June 2011

Noon to 4:00 PM [Or So]

Bushwood, Maryland

Our Program

Mini-Hedge Schools

[Two 45- Minute Presentations]

The Maryland Constitution

Reverend David Whitney

Institute on the Constitution Senior Instructor

The Origins of

Old Maryland and Virginia Speech

Pete Wigginton

Unreconstructed Philologist

Dinner at 12:30

Chaptico Market Fried Chicken, Greens, Potato Salad, Country Ham Biscuits, Dessert

We will supply tea and coffee. Folks can bring other beverages if they wish.

To register, email Joyce Bennett at jbennett@chesapeake.net or call 240-298-5281.

Registration required by 4 June. Directions will be sent to all who register.

Those coming from a distance are invited to stay overnight. There are limited lodging accommodations in the house. Camping on the lawn is an option too. Our meeting place is a gently restored historic home at the confluence of the Potomac and Wicomico Rivers in St. Mary's County. The house is not air conditioned. We will hold the hedge school sessions on the grounds and will be dining there as well , weather permitting. In case of rain, we will convene indoors.

The rebirth of the Free State

By MDMyMaryland

 

A renewed interest in small government at the northernmost end of Dixie

Contrary to the beliefs of some commentators on certain low-ratings national “news” agencies, the “Free State” didn’t earn its second nickname by being pro-Lincoln. Quite the contrary, Lincoln recieved less than 3,000 votes in the entire State, which voted for Breckinridge, and the nickname originated from a newspaper editor who called it so in response to Marylanders being called traitors for refusing to enforce prohibition at the State level. Yep that’s right folks, up until 35 years ago, Maryland was a reliable State’s rights zone. Today, so many Yankees have migrated to the central portion of Maryland that many don’t even identify with the rest of the State as “Southerners,” let alone hold a positive view of the League of the South or secession movements sponsored by other regions of the State. But despite multiple organisational setbacks, the Maryland Division League of the South has seen a recent boom in State-wide interest. Just two months into the year, the division has made appearances on radio, and been defended by various local newspapers. This year’s first meeting was held at the end of January in La Plata, MD. While there was much lament over the state of affairs in Montgomery county, a virtual cancerous extension of Washington, D.C., the major activist planning revolved around bumper stickers and supporting businesses that serve sweet tea and display proper manners. Both important to the preservation of our culture, but hardly means by themselves for the resurrection of a sovereignty movement.

When Thomas DiLorenzo, economics professor at Loyola University in Baltimore, was viciously attacked by a Missouri congressman for being tied to a “hate group,” a front page story in the Baltimore Sun raised many an eyebrow across the Old Line State. Even more shocking than the front page mention of the organisation, was the unbiased reporting normally lacking from the left-leaning news source. Members of the League of the South reported outsiders holding conversations about the article with positive reviews for the group and Ron Paul’s defense of it. For the first time in the history of the Maryland League, the League was publically on the offensive, and the detractors looked like the poverty pimps they are. Even Loyola University, which said it would certainly investigate any ties to “confirmed hate groups” by member professors, issued statements saying that the web site for the League of the South did not to their knowledge have anything hateful about race; in fact, the “free thinking” society called for an open debate and the issues the League claimed to represent were appropriate for discussion. Finally, consistency. The effect was that a large amount of Marylanders who had never before heard of the League were now introduced to it. Before they could be brainwashed into dismissing it as a hate group, such claims were already discounted. A barrier that often impedes even groups in the deep South was, at least temporarily, pushed aside. The time to advertise official positions of the Maryland League had come.
Most bills in Maryland have two facts in common. First, it’s all about the dollar in Annapolis. Second, if it’s a liberal bill, it is generally only supported in the D.C. metro area. The reason for this second observation is because while Maryland’s counties may be very conservative overall, over half of the residents live in the counties surrounding the Washington region. Case in point: Montgomery county. Just 50 years ago, the county was reliably conservative, and one of the largest businesses in the county was tobacco farming. Fast-forward 50 years later, and the amount of Yankee (mostly New England) transplants to Montgomery county alone has increased 2,600%. Yes, you read that right. For every Yankee living in the county 50 years ago, there resides 26 more today. And what could possibly draw so many Yankees to an area of Dixie that is well inland of the beaches and not exactly “endless summer” territory? Government jobs. And government workers almost always vote their paychecks. So not only did they bring their humanistic worldview, but their big-government voting paterns as well.

There are the areas such as northern Prince George’s county (also adjacent Washington, D.C.) and Baltimore City, which have a majority black population, historically democratic. But it is the gerrymandering that prevents a lot of these areas from being competitive politically. When a black man such as Charles Lollar, a conservative who proved he could hang out in the Confederate flag-waving bars of St. Mary’s county for a half hour and walk out with $5000 in donations just by showing who he really represented, can win three quarters of his district by county and lose because of an area stretching out 15 miles from Washington, thereby losing the election, it is hard to see any real change. The result of such politics is areas like Solomon’s Island, with it’s pleasant Southron people and even a welcome sign reading “Welcome Y’all,” being “represented” by “men” like Hoyer who have no respect for the South as a whole, let alone his own district.

The fact of the matter is, if the entire eastern shore of Maryland, one third of the State’s landmass, all of western Maryland, all of Southern Maryland, and even the central portions excluding those two counties by D.C. and the city of Baltimore votes reliably conservative on every issue, there is still usually a good chance they don’t get their way. The only logical solution is secession. Not only from the United States federal regime, but from the corrupt State government as well. Counties have pushed for it in the past. A decade ago, several eastern shore congressmen pushed for the secession of all 9 eastern shore counties. Just last year the commissioners of Frederick county in western MD considered a resolution to explore the ramifications of becoming their own State. But until now there has not been a unifying issue to push the eastern, southern and western portions to move on their threats together.

With the economy tanking and the stability of the entire federal empire on the brink, the state legislature in Annapolis has decided it is a good time to tackle two primary issues: changing the State’s law defining marriage, and raising the tax on fuel at a time when $5.00 regular unleaded is being threatened for 2011. While the world focuses on the liberals in Wisconsin complaining about what the government may no longer give them, Annapolis is getting jammed daily with truck drivers and protestors afoot, taking a stand against a fuel tax that could increase as much as 13% in an already overtaxed State. This act by the legislature only serves as an attention getter to those otherwise sleeping throughout the land, screaming the need for a more permanent solution. And of course, the Maryland League of the South is here with solutions, advertising in the local and city papers and weekly services. The other bill, redifining marriage to be, for all intents and purposes, between anyone other than a man and his goat, may not even make it to the governor. The House of Delegates, otherwise more liberal of the two chambers, wrestles with how to vote for a “law” that even much of their constituents in the D.C. area (many of whom are either black or Catholic) are opposed to. The Senate president has already vowed that if the law is signed, he will personally see to it that there is a referendum on the 2012 ballot. Should the law be passed, don’t expect the news media to report on the possibility of a referendum until just before the election next year. They know once it is given to the people, it doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Miami. With this issue, the Maryland League of the South has even gained permission from some of the top talk radio stations in the State to run pro-traditional Southern values commercials during peak listening time. These commercials are running, and even advertise Dixienet.org and the Maryland League of the South by name.

The fight here, just below the Mason-Dixon line, is not so much one to prove our postion, as it is to unify the people under one banner against all overbearing government. In Maryland, we can take several examples. The first being just how corrupt a State government, even in the South, can become when enough outsiders with hostile views inhabit one area. It is a warning States like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia should heed sooner, rather than later. But the second example is how fast a foothold can be gained when people decide they have been pushed too far.

It is time all Southrons stand up and decide they have reached this point. Some of us are worse off, and some of us have yet to have our lives altered by this beast. But we all must take a stand for the cause of our independence. The sun is setting on this day and rising on a new one. It’s too late to be apathetic. It’s never too late to stand for the truth.

2011 LS National Conference

~ CONFERENCE AGENDA~

Note: Both Online and Mail-In Registration Forms Are Provided At http://DixieNet.org.

Note: For location, and accommodation details please mash here

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Thursday, 28 July

• 8:00-9:30 p.m :: Annual League of the South Board of Directors Meeting, location TBA

Friday, 29 July

• 8:00-9:00 a.m. :: Registration
• 9:00-9:15 :: Welcome, Opening Prayer, and Entrance of Color Guard: MC Alex Cheek and TBA
• 9:15-10:00 :: Speaker One - Pastor John Weaver: “When It Is Time”
• 10:00-11:00 :: Workshop One - Mike Tubbs & Steve Walker: “Why Reforming the System Is Not Possible”
• 11:00-11:30 :: Break and Musical Entertainment
• 11:30-12:30 p.m. :: Workshop Two - Steve Kropelnicki, Esq.: “General Preparedness For A Societal Breakdown”
• 12:30-2:00 :: Dinner (on your own)
• 2:00-3:00 :: Workshop Three - Mike & Caleb Whorton: “How to Build and Maintain A Local League Chapter”
• 3:00-3:30 :: LS Awards Ceremony: Alex Cheek and Michael Hill
• 3:30-4:00 :: Break and Musical Entertainment
• 4:00-5:00 :: Workshop Four - Franklin Sanders: “Building Community For Independence”
• 5:00-5:10 :: Announcements and Closing Prayer: Alex Cheek and TBA
• 5:10-7:30 :: Supper (on your own)
• 7:30 until . . . :: An Evening of Southern Musical Entertainment

Saturday 30 July

• 8:30-9:00 a.m. :: Registration
• 9:00-9:15 :: Welcome, Opening Prayer, and Entrance of Color Guard: MC Alex Cheek and TBA
• 9:15-10:15 :: Workshop Five - Mrs. Wade Rabun: “Stocking and Maintaining A Home Pantry”
• 10:15-10:30 :: Break
• 10:30-11:30 :: Workshop Six - Wade Rabun: “The Craft of Hunting & Tracking” 10:30-11:30
• 11:30-1:00 p.m. :: Dinner (on your own)
• 1:00-2:00 :: Workshop Seven - Dennis Blanton, Mike Crane, and David Jones: “Emergency Communications”
• 2:00-2:15 :: Prize Presentations
• 2:15-2:30 :: Break
• 2:30-4:00 :: Workshop Eight - Pastor John Weaver and Ed Wolfe: “Basic Gun Safety and Maintenance”
• 4:00-4:15 :: Break
• 4:15-5:00 :: Speaker Two - Michael Hill: “What Would It Take To Get You To Fight?”
• 5:00-5:10 :: Announcements and Closing Prayer: Alex Cheek and TBA
• 5:10-5:15 :: Singing of Our National Anthem and Adjournment

Circle of St. Andrews Supper for LS Presidential Fund Contributors, time and place TBA.

Note To All State Chairmen: There will be no joint meeting of the Board and State Chairmen this year; instead, during the two-day conference, LS President Michael Hill will arrange to meet individually with each State Chairman (or his appointed delegate) to discuss matters pertaining to that particular State League chapter. These meetings will take place both during the conference breaks and in the evening on Friday. Each meeting should last no longer than 15-30 minutes.

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