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Confederate group fighting what some call war of Southern regression
al.com ^ | 12/08/01 | ALLEN G. BREED

Posted on 12/09/2001 3:44:54 AM PST by shuckmaster

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To: shuckmaster
Put me on the ping list, please.
21 posted on 12/09/2001 8:18:28 AM PST by unamused
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To: shuckmaster
count me IN!

BTW, i KNOW kirk lyons- he is NOT a racist & a pretty good guy for a LAWYER!

22 posted on 12/09/2001 10:34:00 AM PST by stand watie
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To: shuckmaster
Add me to the Dixie ping.
Thanks
23 posted on 12/09/2001 10:36:47 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: stand watie
So why was he married by the Aryan Nations. Was it his wife's church or something?
24 posted on 12/09/2001 11:27:08 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: shuckmaster
There is nothing wrong with judging someone by association. If someone running for office went to the Bahamas with Bill and Hillary I wouldn't vote for them. Neither would I vote for John Walker due to his association with the Taliban.

I'd also not vote for anyone demonizing people with terms like "granny" or "eat, meet, and retreater" and who seeks to reduce membership in the SCV by driving out people who are not sufficiently radical for them.

If someone comes to the SCV and volunteers to "polish headstones" and has no interest in politics, going to meetings, or doing anything else then I will welcome that person as an official "headstone polisher" because the headstones of Confederate soldiers actually need polishing. If someone comes to the SCV and wants to do NOTHING but write articles for local historical publications then I will welcome them because historical articles need to be published. If someone comes to the SCV and wants to do nothing but pay his dues and hang a certificate on the wall then I will welcome him because his dues are needed and his friends need to see that certificate on the wall.

If someone wants to form a white separitist group then they should go do it and leave the rest of us out of it. If they want an organization that focuses exclusively on attacking the NAACP and excludes "headstone polishing" then go form it. They should, however, stop trying to increase dissension and argument inside the SCV and reform it into something it is not and never has been.
25 posted on 12/09/2001 12:16:03 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: D Joyce
Dixie bump!
26 posted on 12/09/2001 3:47:00 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: warchild9
I don't know the man, or his true motivations, but the leftist/Yankee media can rightfully point all this dirt out, and we've no defense.

I know the man, and his motivations. As a criminal defense lawyer, like Kirk, I have defended murderers...No one calls me a murderer. I have defended drug dealers, and I despise their trade, but no one would dare call me a drug dealer. Kirk Lyon's "crime" in this respect is that he successfully defended members of "politically incorrect" organisations, and got acquitals.

The media conveniently forgets that Kirk Lyons defended and represented 42 Black Branch Dividians after Waco, and was called upon by the FBI to successfully resolve the FBI-Freemen standoff in Jordan, Montana, without bloodshed. I know, because I was there with him.

The media forgets that Kirk Lyon's best friend, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Southern Legal Resource Center, is a Black Confederate, H.K. Edgarton (who was the Ashville Chapter leader of the NAACP), and was excommunicated because he is not a rascist.

We have no way to defend ourselves?? Let's try the truth. It works.

So why was he married by the Aryan Nations. Was it his wife's church or something?

When they start attacking someone based on who they married, that is low. Kirk's wife is one of the finest ladies I have ever known. She is a wonderful wife and mother. I did a lot worse by marrying long-legged, neurotic blondes, twice.

Still, he does capture the boredom, suspicion, and exasperation that Southern Nationalism awakens in most people.

Funny you would mention that. Morris Dees, and the other "hate mongers" talk about how we "Southern Nationalists" are the most dangerous, right-wing organisation" today, not because we "advocate violence", but because of our "ideas", like: limited government, and decentralisation of power, and individual freedom. Even after September 11th, Confederate flags outnumber US flags in the ccountryside of SC, not because Southrons are unpatriotic, but because we are patriotic.

Southerners (or Southrons) have come to understand that "we are a people", and because we are a "people", we are a "nation by God's own hand", (as the song says.) Boredom? Come to the League meetings, filled with writers, academians, professionals, historians, and hungry Southrons, relearning that they have a right to be free. Suspicion? There is nothing suspicious about Southern Nationalism. The basis for it is contained in the Declaration of Independence. Exasperation? You will find none among us. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales found freedom from their centrist, English masters. Perhaps we can find freedom from our "New England" masters.

Southern nationalism is the nightmare for yankee conservatives. If we were to leave their "precious union", they would be a minority. My advice to them is: move South, learn to speak Southern, eat grits, buy guns, trade your BMW for a pickup truck, listen to country music, and, above all, don't tell us how ya'll "did it up Nawth", we don't care.

For Southern Independence

Larry Salley

27 posted on 12/09/2001 4:38:33 PM PST by l8pilot
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To: l8pilot
Had he been married in a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Jewish or any similar church it wouldn't have raised any eyebrows. But since he chose to be married in a church associated with the Aryan Nation then I'm going to assume that he subscribes to their beliefs and I won't apologize for it.
28 posted on 12/09/2001 4:59:58 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
Had he been married in a Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Jewish or any similar church it wouldn't have raised any eyebrows. But since he chose to be married in a church associated with the Aryan Nation then I'm going to assume that he subscribes to their beliefs and I won't apologize for it.

So, you are a member of the, "attack him for who he fell in love with camp". Let me introduce you to ex-wives: Blonde, neurotic, unfaithful, beautiful but stupid. Go chase "Miss March", or whoever.

Kirk did better than most. He has a wonderful, faithful, loving mother of his children, who is home-schooling their well behaved children as young adults. We should all be as lucky.

Your attacks are uninformed, personal slanders against a good man,and his wife and children. You ignore the service he performed for the FBI in Montana, as well as the service for the survivors in Waco and in those that avoided death in Jordan, Montana.

Where you have done nothing, Kirk Lyons has placed his life in the service of freedom.

For Southern Independence

Larry Salley

29 posted on 12/09/2001 6:32:58 PM PST by l8pilot
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To: shuckmaster
""I think we ought to take the neo-Nazis, the white supremacists and the skinheads and show them to the door," he told the assembly ..."

I don't think these groups represent what my ancestors fought for.

30 posted on 12/10/2001 4:34:24 AM PST by 4CJ
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To: shuckmaster
Even though I don't respond to all, I appreciate the reading. It amazes me that the least little positive thing you say about the White race or Confederate type material, you will be labeled as a racist, I for one am tired of that kind of B.S. You can say what you want about Black power or the United Negro College Fund or BET or what ever. But the first time you mention anything with furthering rights of Whites and you are attacked. Well for you people I say this, if and when you attack understand that some of us can & will black both your eyes so you best stay out of our face.
31 posted on 12/10/2001 4:56:47 AM PST by HELLRAISER II
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To: warchild9
but the leftist/Yankee media can rightfully point all this dirt out, and we've no defense. Deo Vindice. The Kid.

I suggest you re-read the article carefully.

If you are willing to throw men like Lyons to the wolves while allowing the ilk of this "writer" to quote Mo Dees & Co. favourably then you are not worthy of the heritage that you apparently would attempt to insipidly embrace.

Granny be gone.

If you run and hide every time the usual suspects shout BOO! at you by calling you a "racist" or a homophobe then you'd best leave the fighting to your betters.

Any questions?

32 posted on 12/10/2001 7:26:11 AM PST by LadyJD
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To: Non-Sequitur
i have no idea whether he was married in that church or not-there are so MANY lies told about ALL SCV members, that i just don't know.

the naaLcp and the southern poverty law center has waged a campaign of lies,innuendos,mis-statements and pure FILTH against our organization for at least ten years. they are LIARS of the 1st order.

as an example, a PRIEST who belongs to the SCV was accused by the naaLcp of being BOTH a homosexual and of being a "notorious womanizer"! (which is SILLY-never met a homosexual that chases women-have you?)

33 posted on 12/10/2001 9:52:25 AM PST by stand watie
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To: stand watie
About half way through the article he defends being married by the Aryan Nation. If he isn't denying it or defending it then I suppose it's true.

I suppose that if I were the Yankee anti-christ you think I am then I should be rooting for Lyons to be appointed so I could sit back and watch the feeding frenzy. But I'm not. I hate seeing people tarred with sins that they don't deserve (which is why I disagree with you so often) and I would hate to see open season on the SCV by the mainstream press. But you have a man here with a whole hell of a lot of baggage and people are going to use that to smear the SCV. I cannot believe that somewhere in your organization there isn't someone who can provide the strong leadership and vision that you want without the Aryan Nation/KKK connection. I hope for your sake that you find him.

34 posted on 12/10/2001 10:12:44 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
just once more, i KNOW Kirk and he is no racist, no matter what church he either did/did not get married in.

as for his right to run for CDR of ANV, it's his right and i for one wouldn't have that THANKLESS job if they begged me to. (also as a serving CDR of the organisation i can't take sides)

no matter who wins (Kirk is NOT the only person running - at least 3 other candidates are in the race) i feel sorry for them-being an army commander is NO FUN. being a serving Brigade CDR is PITA enough-ask me,i know about that.

the liberal haters will attack WHOEVER wins because they HATE the SCV, every member and our sacred flag. that's what HATERS do-they HATE!

for dixie,sw

35 posted on 12/10/2001 10:23:22 AM PST by stand watie
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To: shuckmaster

"and somehow I've committed a crime because I had to marry her at the Aryan Nations Church. That's guilt by association."

Gee ... what a knob head! When someone sees him hanging out with the Nazi's, and White Supremacists they tend to naturally lump him in with them. Its guys like this Lyons puke that helps to paint that big fat target on the Confederate flag. We need to get rid of ethnocentric boneheads like him, and get the people in power who want to give a true representation of what the flag is all about. His comments about mixed racial couples and immigration smack of bigotry and racism. He is bad juju for the message that we are trying to get out.

AND I sure as hell won't be sitting in the closet flying my Confederate Battle Flag!

36 posted on 12/11/2001 5:38:14 AM PST by Colt .45
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To: shuckmaster
Considering that a few years ago the NC Highway Patrol stopped traffic near the busy intersection next the State Fairgrounds to allow NC Central University student members of the Nation of Islam to distribute their filthy, vile, and racist screed, (I know I was there) I really don't give a shit what Morris Dees and his idiot left-wing, commie bigot henchmen in the SPLC think or say, or what their dumbass acolytes and slavish bootlickers believe. The FACT that openly racist, reactionary, and militant anti-American and anti-white organizations not only exist on taxpayer supported campuses, but are encouraged to flourish makes the concern that the SCV will be seen as embracing intolerance, utterly laughable. Leftist hate organizations abound not only on college campuses, but in public schools and government bureaucracy. How do you think nitwits like Non-Sequitur came about?
37 posted on 12/11/2001 10:57:31 AM PST by rebelsoldier
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To: D Joyce
Hear, hear!
38 posted on 12/11/2001 1:50:33 PM PST by Nellie Wilkerson
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To: Non-Sequitur
First, he's not running for "head" of the organization. Second, our enemies and the press are already doing what you described, so what difference will it make whether he's elected? Except that if he is, the SCV might start being more effective at preserving Confederate heritage?
39 posted on 12/11/2001 1:54:19 PM PST by Nellie Wilkerson
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