2011 LS National Conference

~ CONFERENCE AGENDA~

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

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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.

Posted by Mark Jenkins at 3:53 PM

What is States’ Rights?

by Mike Crane

“Our Rights are like a cookie. No matter how big the cookie and how small the bites, eventually you run out of cookie.”

—Mike Crane

A very wise man, one for whom I have great respect, recently issued what seemed to be a challenge, “Was all y'all's talk about states' rights just whiskey talk, or do y'all really believe it?” Then he followed with, “If you do really believe it, then get liquored up and write an article!” 

So this POOR (Plain Ole Ordinary Redneck) mountain moron got to thinking about that. In my younger years it has been rumored by some that I got liquored up once or twice, but I can’t remember a thing about it. Some said that was the effect of the liquor. Now that I am kind of the opposite of a youngun, I can’t remember getting liquored up at all. Some say that isn’t the effect of liquor. Life is like that at times -- what was isn’t, and what is wasn’t. 

Of course, English majors will just go berserk over that last sentence; but it does apply to a discussion of States’ Rights in the year A.D. 2010, even if it is some of the poorest English grammar of the year. What was State’s Rights isn’t what it is today. What is States’ Rights today isn’t what it was.

To begin, I will put on my virtually unused and in brand new condition English grammar hat and point out that the apostrophe is in the wrong place. It should be State’s, not States.’ And the word Rights should be Powers. 

Why States’ vs. State’s? In the founding concept of American liberty, the primary purpose of government is to guarantee the rights of the people, which are derived from God. To accomplish this primary function of government, the power to govern was divided between a person’s State and The (several) States as a group (or the central government). States’ is the plural possessive. It references The States as a group and is thus the same as saying Federal Rights. So you could argue that people today who speak of States’ Rights have lost part of the basic concept before they even get started. 

Why Rights vs. Powers? The second word of the phrase is also misused. Rights are given to the people by God, not to their State, a group of States, or to a central government. States do not have rights; they have powers to govern that have been granted by the sovereign people. That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is the concept of American liberty. Government at every level is supposed to execute only those powers for which the people have granted the authority. Any debate that begins with the “Rights” of any government at any level has most likely been lost from the outset. Even if the effort seems to have initial success, in the end it only winds up chipping away at our God-given Rights. 

But for the sake of this article let’s just leave the above for consideration, thought, and prayer by the reader. Of those three, prayer should be the most important, giving thanks for the Rights that have been bestowed upon us by our Maker and asking forgiveness for being so complacent in giving His gifts away. 

From my perspective it is easy to identify what States’ Rights (or more accurately, State’s Powers) are not. States’ Rights are (is) not a slogan to be used to stop ObamaCare or Obama Cap and Tax or any other of the Obama socialist programs coming out of Washington City like a swarm of katydids. States’ Rights are (is) not a slogan to stop the Bush Patriot Acts or Bush CAFTA and other expensive trade agreements. By the same token, States’ Rights are (is) not a slogan to stop DFACS (Department of Children and Family Services) from illegal search and seizures, or some idiot in Atlanta telling me I do not have the proper permit to raise a duck unless the duck’s great grandmother’s owner had a proper permit! 

Now think about that last example. When someone says that States’ Rights will solve all of our problems, are they suggesting that it is proper to require a documented duck’s ancestry of suitable quality for a citizen to feed the duck and give it a home? Is such nonsense acceptable simply because it's being perpetrated by an idiot in Atlanta, Montgomery, Nashville or Columbia instead of an idiot in Washington City? A silly example, maybe. But once you concede Rights to any government entity you have lost that Right – most likely forever. Even worse is that your children and grandchildren will not even know that it is something that you lost and that they were denied! 

Today the debate should be about how State Powers will be used as a check on Federal Powers to guarantee our God-given Rights. It should be about how delegated Powers given to the Federal government will be used to guarantee our God-given Rights in areas that extend beyond the State in which we live. Otherwise, all of the rhetoric, all of the campaigning, and all the elected officials' use of today’s (improper) definition of States’ Rights will only determine how fast we go over the cliff. 

American liberty is rapidly approaching the cliff. It's up to you the citizen to change that direction if it's going to be changed. You have only this recourse at your disposal. Demand that all levels of government keep their hands off your God-given Rights unless the people grant them a Power to do so. Elect only those officials who are willing to abide by this restriction. Retire any elected official who abuses or usurps that which God has given you. 

Arguing about which level of government will do a better job abusing your God-given Rights makes for interesting partisan battles, but it's a formula for failure year after year, election after election, and decade after decade -- as we have seen. After all, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. In summary: what was State’s Rights isn’t what it is today. What is States’ Rights isn’t what it was. What your Rights will be is up to you.

What is States' Rights - Part 1
What is States' Rights - Part 2
What is States' Rights - Part 3
What is States' Rights - Part 4
What is States' Rights - Part 5
What is States' Rights - Part 6
What is States' Rights - Part 7

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Mike Crane is a member of the League of the South Board of Directors and LS Communications Coordinator. Mike has a long track record as a hard worker within the Southern Heritage and Independence movements including being first chairman of the Florida League of the South, serving on the board of the Georgia League of the South, and an enthusiastic member of the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Additionally, Crane is a Georgia Delegate to the Southern National Congress and serves as Chairman of the Internet Technology Committee for that organisation. Mike has been politically active since 1965. Within that time, he has run for the Georgia Senate twice and the Fannin County, Georgia Commission Chairmanship. Mike is also one of the principle founders of the Southern Party of Georgia.

Hog Heaven

by Joyce Bennett 
 

Not too many years ago in the county where I was born, summer morning mists would hang over acres and acres of tobacco, a crop we have been raising for almost four centuries. Today, however, because most of our farmers have taken a government buy-out, it is, sadly, a surprise to come across a field topping out along a back road in August. If there is anything I associate more with my country upbringing and Southern heritage than the gummy weed so despised by anti-smoking crusaders, it would have to be that other staple of Southern agriculture, the hog.

In years gone by even county people who were not farmers kept three or four of them, and every fall our hogs met their inevitable demise. By the time I was in junior high school, I was far too sophisticated --and deracinated-- to appreciate the rustic rituals of autumn, wishing with all my heart I had been born a city girl and not some hick who had to live on a tobacco farm and eat "hug" meat. 

 

But as a child, I had happily run barefoot up the path behind our house to the pen to watch my father feed the animals we raised each year. I enjoyed watching them eat and liked the mealy aroma of mash and water feed and how it coated their pretty pink snouts as they dipped them in the trough. I liked to scratch their backs and hear them grunt. I even liked the "smell" of the hogs themselves. Somehow it was not unpleasant to me. 

 

Daddy loved his hogs and hated killing them. To spare them suffering, he hired a highly-regarded black neighbor to shoot them before slitting their throats. In pork-pie hat and galluses, a cigar in his mouth, Spencer Barnes aimed his rifle at each beloved head dropping one after the other to the hard ground. The Pennsylvania Dutch, who had come to the county in the thirties, did not kill their hogs before bleeding them, and my brother saw an Amish farmer beat with a board one poor thing that had broken its leg and wasn't moving fast enough to the slaughter to suit him. But my people were gentle. 

 

To them hog killing was a big event. Family came to help; and also Agnes, the woman who had taken care of us children over the years and who was given to the telling of ancient and quite often gruesome tall tales. Until late into the night everyone sat around a large table in the kitchen cutting up the meat. It fell to my mother to prepare the country sausage, and she took great care in seasoning this delicacy, adding just the right amount of red pepper and sage and expertly twisting the plumped up casings into the links that would hang from tobacco sticks in the unctuous chill of a December meathouse. In the spring, we would take down from the rafters a moldy Easter ham and scrub it off, stuffing it with greens and onions and boiling it in a pillowcase for the holiday dinner. 

 

I am proud of such experiences and proud of my Southern agrarian roots-- now. Though I returned to the county from the North almost thirty years ago, as a young woman I was anxious to shake off the sandy soil of a Maryland tobacco farm and eventually married a Midwesterner, moving to exotic places such as Minnesota and Iowa. It was in Iowa one gray winter day when the snow lay in dishwater dingy piles, that I saw a semi rig hauling some hogs to market. My heart broke for them. Hogs should not be treated this way. They should live in a small pen and be loved by tender-hearted people who speak softly to them and scratch their backs and who kill them with mercy and respect for the sustenance they provide. 

 

But I have not turned into a militant vegetarian. No one loves country ham more than I do. I baste it in Jack Daniels. And I pride myself on my greens and fatback. As I grow older, however, I feel increasingly guilty about buying corporate meat, about buying that plastic tube of Old South-style sausage at the supermarket. Animal rights types are not necessarily wrong in calling attention to the miseries that most livestock endure before their final terrifying moments in a gigantic slaughter house. And right-wing radio talk show personalities might ridicule anyone who protests the plight of corporate farm animals, but, in truth, a little kindness towards the creatures over which God has given us dominion isn't left-wing or radical. It is simply Christian. 

 

Because most people today might not find it practical to keep hogs out back, buying meat on the hoof or meat products from a farmer we know and trust would seem a good alternative to supporting the big agricultural conglomerates. The totalitarians in DC, however, through increasingly complex regulation, threaten small farming operations, and the Southern National Congress has now called on the federal government to end its sponsorship of big agribusiness and to "restore the common law rights of farmers to sell at farm gate."

In first and foremost defending the Christian agrarian substrate of Southern society, we begin to frustrate the American Empire's plans to control even the most seemingly mundane aspects of our lives.

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Joyce Bennett is the Chairman of the Maryland League of the South and a Maryland Delegate to the Southern National Congress.

Why Reform Is Impossible

Chapter 3 in The Grey Book; Blueprint for Southern Independence

1. The US Constitution, for all practical purposes, is irrelevant because it can mean anything a federal judge says it means.


2.The federal government is utterly unaccountable to the people, and no mechanism exists for checking it.


3. The ballot box has been compromised and no longer offers the prospect of meaningful change.


4. Even if the election process had not been compromised, no real choice exists as long as the two major parties are in control.


5. Third party ballot access is almost impossible to achieve and maintain.


6. Voters in large blocs, especially those who profit from the policies of the current regime--legal and illegal immigrants, Social Security recipients, minority interest groups, ad others who benefit from public spending--have a vested interest in preserving the status quo.


7. Major media outlets, the 'fourth branch of government,' control the flow of information and allow no real expression of dissent.


8. The people are afraid of losing their tenuous hold on prosperity and personal peace by 'rocking the boat.'


9. The USA PATRIOT Act and the Department of Homeland Security have undermined the Bill of Rights in the name of national security and provide the blueprint for a police state in teh US. Dissent is squelched through labelling it 'terrorism.'


10. Huge annual federal deficits and the accumulated national debt have mortgaged the wealth of future generations and will have to be repudiated.


11. The Left took the offensive at least fifty years ago and has held it, and the momentum, ever since.


12. Serious problems of scale exist. With only one representative in the House to approximately 618,000 citizens, the people would be justified in saying, 'No taxation without representation.

The South As Its Own Nation

The eleven Confederate States – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia -- plus Kentucky and Oklahoma currently form the most consistent and cohesive political South. The premier US publication tracking congressional votes and US politics, the Congressional Quarterly. The same South appeared in a highly significant 3-9 March 2007 special report in London’s influential Economist magazine. State by state, this political South parallels rather closely the present cultural South, though in certain areas of these thirteen States (southern Florida and south Texas) Southern culture no longer dominates. On the other hand, areas beyond these thirteen States maintain their Southern culture to varying degrees. Much of Missouri remains basically Southern, as do parts of southern Maryland and Maryland’s eastern shore. Some say southern Delaware is Southern still.
West Virginia is a difficult state to sort out. Formed unconstitutionally under the Lincoln presidency to drive a wedge into the South and increase Republican congressional representation, many West Virginians believe their interests differ strongly from those of the Old Dominion, and while culturally Southern seem to prefer the description of “mountaineer” to “Southerner.” Maryland and Delaware have become so liberal that they fit with the Northeast politically, even though some areas there remain politically conservative and definitely Southern in outlook and culture.
The US Census Bureau continues to place West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia within the South. However, the Bureau classes Missouri as a Midwestern state, although today it is politically more conservative in a traditionally Southern sense. Of the thirteen States constituting this “South,” Florida ranks overall as the least southern, primarily because of the massive numbers of Northern, Cuban, and Haitian immigrants who have settled in the Sunshine State. Yet measured by congressional votes, it remains politically a Southern State. Texas is in a category by itself, the western South.
The loss of south Florida and south Texas from the cultural South sharply illustrates what happens when large numbers of immigrants arrive. Culture follows demography. For more than twenty years south Florida has been described as part of the Caribbean, because of the huge influx of Cubans and Haitians. Both south and central Florida are so dominated by Yankees that Southern culture there has been stretched very, very thin – much of it has become wholly unSouthern. As parts of Florida have become Caribbean, so, too, south and southwest Texas have become part of greater Mexico. 

A Place & Name Among The Nations

 
In spite of these losses, the South remains one of the most important nations of the earth. Today “nation” usually refers to an independent political sovereignty, but originally it meant “a people with a sense of their own identity, occupying a certain territory that is their historic homeland.”
A politically independent sovereign state is not required for “nationhood.” Scots form a “nation” although they do not have their own state. The South remains very much a nation even though it has not been an independent sovereign “nation-state” since 1865. Even then the Confederate States of America were not a unitary state but a confederation of independent sovereign States.
The Latin root of “nation” comes from a word that means “to be born.” Blood, kin, family, past, tradition, place, and culture are all bound up in what it means to be a nation. Once Southerners understand that they are a classic nation by the core meaning of the word, they would be cowardly and disloyal not to preserve their own unique culture and society.
The West, including the United States, has taken the path of wholesale national suicide, driven by a multi-cultural globalist agenda. Today’s Western regimes are building a global state, reducing peoples and nations with all their wonderful variety to one homogenized Big Mac. An unbridgeable chasm separates Southerners’ values and vision from the leaders of these regimes. Against their citizens’ wishes, they want to replace national loyalty with loyalty to a universal abstract state under the banner of spurious “equality.”
Western regimes (including the US) are attempting to re-build the tower of Babel, creating their own version of “heaven on earth.” Southerners have wisdom enough to know that whenever fallen men set out to create heaven on earth it always becomes “hell on earth.” (Southerners may not be perfect, but we are realistic.) 

Nations Without States

 
The 2002 Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations, in four volumes, followed a 1996 publication of a one volume work, Nations Without States. We have heard of only a handful of the many nations who want their national status recognized and a nation-state of their own. Scotland and Quebec are probably the two stateless nations you have heard most about, but since 1946 over half of the nation-states of the earth have achieved independent political status by secessions or separations from larger political entities. Centralized states are dying. Secession is the wave of the future.
After Lithuania seceded, the Soviet Union broke apart into the separate nations which had been forcibly yoked together under communism. Eastern Europe, formerly under Soviet hegemony, has also seen new nation states emerge from ancient nationalities.
The Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations describes no fewer than 350 nations without states! To be listed, the nation must have 1) a flag; 2) a sense of identity as a special people; and 3) an organization(s) working to achieve a greater degree of recognition and autonomy, including, for many, nation-state status itself. 

Does The South Qualify?
 
The South easily meets these criteria. Southerners have many flags. The Encyclopedia describes the Confederate Battle Flag as “the Southern national flag,” but also gives the Stars and Bars as a national Southern flag. We have a very well developed and extremely widespread sense of Southern identity, and the Encyclopedia lists nineteen organizations as Southern national organizations.
In the article on “Southerners” under the subtitle “People and Culture” we find this assessment:

“Southerners are considered one of the major branches of the American nation, being the descendants of the original European settlers of the southern colonies established by settlers from the British Isles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By far the largest of the three original Anglo-American cultural areas, the South has always been the most idiosyncratic with respect to national norms. Although there are great regional differences between the inhabitants of the vast area, the cultural heritage of the Deep South remains the focus of modern Southern culture. Southern culture is still observable in almost every realm of activity, including the rural economy, regional dialects, diet, folklore, politics, architecture, recreation, and social customs.”

Amazingly, Southerners are the second most populous stateless nation included in the encyclopedia, after the Tamils of southern India.
Astonished? There’s more. The South’s world status is further substantiated by the March 2007 Economist, published in London. This presents the South to the world as a great place for business, with a surging economy growing faster than the US economy, a region with “song, flavour and charm,” building on its “traditional” strengths of “southern hospitality,” southern cuisine, and attractive weather. Eighteen of the top 30 “best performing” cities in the US lie in the South. Since 1990 the number of jobs in the South has risen by a third while their number in the US as a whole has risen only by a quarter. The Economist also notes that the Southern share of US gross domestic product (GDP) has risen from 22% in 1963 to 31% today. The Economist recognizes that areas of the South, especially rural areas and some cities, such as New Orleans, remain poor, and that prosperity is “unevenly spread.”

What About Racism?

 
The editors see the South as “A good place to be black,” citing a Pew Research Center Poll of 2003. That poll found a higher percentage of Southern than non-Southern blacks saying that discrimination against them is rare. Blacks are materially better off in the South where their income is 99% of the black US norm and their living costs lower. Three times as many blacks move to the South each year as leave it. The special report also points out that although the South contains only slightly more than half of American blacks, two-thirds of the 9,101 US black elected officials reside in the South. Mississippi alone has 54 black mayors.

Are We Populous Enough?

 
In 2006, 101 million people lived in the South. In 1993 the South had 81 million people, about the size of then recently united Germany. Today Germany has grown to only 82.4 million, and is already losing population due to birth rates well below replacement levels. The other leading Western European nations, France with 60.9 million people and the U. K. with 60.7 million people in 2006 have far fewer people than the South. European population is growing very slowly, and in some cases already falling. In spite of rapid Third World population growth , the thirteen State South remains twelfth in population of all the nation-states of the earth, as it was in 1993.

Are We Prosperous Enough?

 
Under the old method of calculating GDP (gross domestic product), which used official currency exchange rates instead of purchasing power parity, the thirteen Southern States had the world’s fourth largest economy 1990, behind the US, Japan, and united Germany. Today we have moved to the third strongest economy in the world, easily surpassing Germany by almost a trillion dollars (Southern economy: $3.548 trillion dollars in 2004; German economy, $2.741 trillion dollars in 2004).
Under the purchasing power parity method developed in 1998 for determining GDP, the thirteen State South again has the fourth largest economy on earth. Under the new method, China’s economy has grown so fast that Asian super tiger is rapidly catching up with the entire US economy. The GDP figures for 2005 in trillions of dollars under the new method are:

• United States, 12.36 trillion
• China, $8.86 trillion
• Japan, $4.02 trillion
• The South, $3.73 trillion
• India, $3.61 trillion
• Germany, $2.504 trillion
• United Kingdom, $1.83 trillion
• France, $1.82 trillion
• Russian Federation, $1.59 trillion
• Brazil, $1.56 trillion
• Canada, $1.11 trillion
• Mexico, $1.07 trillion
• Spain, $1.03 trillion

In area the South’s vast territory stretches essentially as far as all of Western Europe north of the Pyrenees and the Alps (though including Switzerland). Subtract the almost uninhabited cold northern regions of Norway and Sweden and the South would have more land than all of Western Europe. The South’s homeland has more territory than the nation-states of France (close to the size of Texas), Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (minus the latter two’s frozen regions), with the tiny nations of Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Monaco thrown in for good measure. These countries have over 260 million people and include the three dominant nation-states of Europe, Germany, France, and the U. K. Even the smallest Southern State, South Carolina, has more land than Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Israel, Lebanon, Kuwait, and many other nation-states of the earth.

But Don't We Already Have The Best Of All Worlds?

 
The South has the population, land area, economy, resources, knowledge, and innovative skill to be one of the most formidable nation-states of the earth. But why, many might ask, should the South give up a good thing when it has so much going for it?
A basic and practical answer is this: “the world the South would make for her people differs vastly from the world the US regime is constructing.” Time and again on issues affecting a people’s most basic values and institutions, the rest of the US has overridden Southern beliefs, values and policy choices. This radical difference in values between the South and the rest of the US is reflected in the US congress’ actual votes.
The George W. Bush Republican ascendancy has not changed this. If anything, it has made things worse. The US congress continues to override Southern congressmen on key issues affecting our way of life. A sample of these congressional votes further confirms that if the South were in charge of her own destiny, life would be much closer to what we as Southerners believe, value, and desire.

Immigration

 
One outstanding example is the May 2006 McCain – Kennedy Immigration Bill which passed the full Senate by the substantial margin of 62 – 36. This bill put millions of illegal aliens on track for US citizenship and, some have argued, would have increased legal immigration from around one million immigrants each year at present to at least two million annually. This was a major piece of special interest legislation, benefiting big corporations with dirt cheap immigrant labour at the expense of the native-born American worker.
Seventeen Southern Senators voted against this horrendous “abolition of America” bill, while only nine voted in favour. Outside the thirteen Southern States, the vote in favour was 53 against only 19 against. The South voted essentially two to one against McCain – Kennedy, while the remainder of the US voted close to three to one for it.
The list of lickspittle lackeys promoting the South-busting American Regime is long, and includes both Republican and Democratic leaders as well as the American educational establishment, mainstream media, entertainment industry, corporate business community, and many religious, cultural, and societal leaders. The pattern of overriding our wishes has been so consistent over the past four decades that every observer must admit the truth: irreconcilable differences separate Southerners from other Americans, and the South would be much better off as a politically independent Republic steering her own destiny.

Impeachment

 
Another stark Southern – US split occurred when the Senate voted on President Clinton’s impeachment verdict. The whole Senate voted to acquit Clinton on both impeachment charges while Southern Senators voted two-thirds in favour of convicting Clinton of obstruction of justice (18 to 8). If the South had been in charge, President Bill “the Lecher” Clinton would have been the first president in U.S. history to have been removed from office by impeachment.

Election

 
If the South had had its way, however, Clinton would not even have been elected in the first place. In both 1992 and 1996 the South voted for the Republican nominee for President, i.e., the candidate generally perceived to be more conservative (regardless of the reality).

Taxes

 
On tax policy, the South almost always votes for lower taxes, and is sometimes overridden by the US congress. In 1998 the thirteen State South voted by the required two-thirds margin for a constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds vote of both houses of congress to raise taxes. Southerners voted in favour of this constitutional amendment 90 to 41. In the full House the amendment failed by 238 to 186 opposed, far short of the constitutionally required two-thirds margin.

Religious Freedom

 
Also in 1998, Southern Representatives voted by the requisite two-thirds “super majority” to submit to the States the Religious Freedom Constitutional Amendment. It would have guaranteed an individual’s right to pray and recognize his religious beliefs on public property, including schools. The house of representatives as a whole rejected this amendment by a vote of 224 in favour to 203 opposed, falling miserably short of the necessary two-thirds margin.

States' Rights

 
In 1997 Senator Hutchinson of Arkansas offered an amendment to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and transfer its fiscal 1998 funding directly to the States. The South voted for this State Rights proposal by the ample margin of 17 to 9, whereas the full Senate rejected this affirmation of the rights and duties of the States by the almost equally strong margin of 63 against to only 36 for.

Conclusion

 
Living under the yoke of the Yankee empire has already damaged our Southern culture. Will we be able to leave any of it to our children and grandchildren? Not if the yankee empire has its way.
The South as its own nation is more than powerful, populous, and prosperous enough to assume its place among the nations of the earth today. For the South, secession is the only practical, the only realistic, and the only moral choice.

Free the South

Southern Tornado Outbreak Update

League of the South Statement

Compatriots: The devastation from the recent tornado outbreak in Alabama and other Southern States is truly unbelievable. Likewise, the needs of our people are great (some of them League members). If you would like to help, please send a donation via our secure credit card system (see link below) or send your check or money order to the League office here in Killen marked Tornado Fund. I'll make sure it goes to buy what's most needed--bottled water, non-perishable food items, ice, gasoline (in short supply in many places) for running chain saws, generators, etc. Even if you can send only $10, that will buy a couple of cases of bottled water. I plan on making several runs next week to some of the small towns here in NW Alabama. Of course, I would very much welcome any aid you might give by helping me make some of these deliveries both in Alabama and elsewhere.

Please send whatever you can (as quickly as you can) using your credit card:

Rather send a check or money order? Send it to:
League of the South
PO Box 760
Killen, Alabama 35645.

If you would like to assist in other ways, call me at (800) 888-3163. God willing, I'll begin making these deliveries Tuesday of this coming week. I have a health issue of my own that will keep me down until then.

Thanks in advance for your help and God bless.

FSI,

Michael Hill
Killen, Alabama

2011 League of the South National Conference

The 18th annual conference will be held in Abbeville, SC, at the Civic Center on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 July A.D. 2011. 

The theme of this year's conference is "When the Day Comes . . ." [Conference Agenda]

Admission for the conference is the same as last: $50 per individual, $75 per couple, and $100 per family. Help make this years conference the best ever by pre-registering today!

Vendor tables are available for the extremely reasonable price of $15 per table per day. To arrange for your table please contact the LS office.

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