America’s Most Wanted
This year it is more important than ever to rally around the Grand Old Party and save the country from those Democrat liberals. We just can’t let them take over!
Just imagine, if the Democrats get in we will have a huge national debt, undeclared and foolish wars, affirmative action shoved down our throats, federal take-over of education and everything else in sight, rampant abortion, “gay rights,” open borders, government catering and giveaways to foreign countries. We will even have more terrible Supreme Court justices like Warren, Brennan, Blackmum, Stevens, Kennedy, and Souter!
Sad as it is to contemplate, it is only too true that Obama and McCain do each appeal to large segments of American society as it exists today.
However, it makes little difference who is on the throne. Junior Bush has established that a President can do anything he wishes, at home and abroad, even in peacetime. Bush has lied to the people and Congress, blatantly usurped power, shredded the last rags and tatters of the Constitution, committed the country to an illegal and stupid war, and failed to guard against real enemies. The President cannot be effectively stopped by Congress or the people, even when he is, like Bush, of weak character and intellect and manipulated by unelected courtiers. He has suffered no punishment except low poll numbers. Thus the U.S. now in all but name meets the formal definition of a tyranny.
Where such power exists it will always be used. There is no rewind back over the Rubicon.
Since all candidates belong to the same ruler class, it only matters to them and their retainers which one sits on the throne. The personality of a particular emperor might make an insignificant, temporary difference. A contest between the candidate of the military/industrial wing of the ruler class and the candidate of the affirmative-action wing amounts to little, especially when both are merely creatures of the media wing.
What a tremendous and sad waste of time, energy, and hopes in caring which will sit on the throne, in evaluating the words of the candidates when their words are silly semantical games that would embarrass a high-school debate team and will cease to have any significance as soon as the polls open on election day.
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Prof. Wilson is sounding more like an eloquent prophet of old with each column. Reading Ezra, Isaiah, and Jeremiah lately, I notice the similarities of our current events with the history of the end of the kingdoms of Israel and of Juda: the chaos wicked government and immorality and particularly, the invasion of alien peoples, which threatened to end for ever the people of God.
If I believed that one was less likely than the other to lead us into another disastrous war (Iran, Pakistan) for no discernable national interest, I'd bite a hole through my lip and vote for the more cautious one.
I'm not persuaded, though. Obama is sounding bellicose about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, even if he's made some gestures toward diplomacy. He's surrounded by the people who brought us Bosnia and bombed Seriba for the sake of Kosovo. McCain is perpetually bellicose, Major Kong that he is.
As I live in a state that has become a yellow-dog Democrat state, I can vote for Bob Barr, despite all reservations, with a good conscience, even as I tremble for our poor Republic.
Neither of the candidates are of any significance. Real power no longer resides in Washington D.C., but in the meeting halls of the transnational business elites.
Why care about a nation of effeminate dupes if you already have millions in euros, gold, and real estate holdings ion the cote d'Azur? They can let the system collapse has the indulge schadenfreude--over a good bottle of Beaumes-de-Venise, of course.
"Prof. Wilson is sounding more like an eloquent prophet of old with each column."
Yes, yes! I have long enjoyed the good Doctor's essays (In particular, the one on 'Jimmy Madison', among others). But over time his pieces have gotten almost depressing. Not because he is a depressing writer, but simply because he is so blunt about the state of the country and our world - and because it is true.
I'm voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party
Dr. Wilson,
Your statement above ought to be shouted off the roof tops; printed and handed out as fliers at every street corner of the nation; nay, tattooed on every talking-head's forehead...
You have managed to speak volumes with very few words, words that MUST be spread far and wide if the USA is to be rescued from its downward spiral of political, judicial, and economic doom.
The question at hand is how???
What method or mechanism is available to break through the blanket of such wide spread ignorance and convince the population that things must change?
The evidence of continuing down spiral is practically in everyone's face: The double majority of the democrats in the last election and look what happened: NOTHING, no change except "Under new management continuing the same old lousy service".
Any ideas out there?
H.F. Wolff
I know I have taken more than my shots at Dr. Wilson but I have to say on modern politics, he is excellent. He really needs to spend more time in the current day and less time playing Southern saints and Yankee sinners. He really is a worthy heir to Sam Frances and that is the highest praise I can give any pundit.
Rob @ 6
For most of my life, until my forties, now being fifty-eight, I was under the thrall of the empire, although I did not recognize it as am empire but rather continued to be enraptured with a older phase of its metamorphosis, namely "the nation" or just "America."
I, in fact, few this horrible creature which has sucked out the last essence of the union of republics and poisoned republican men with a lethal sting in terms of the insect metaphor: Hamilton and others laid the egg from which this "thing" would hatch right into the Constitution itself - the the welfare clause of the Preamble, the the commerce clause and in the so-called elastic clause. Yet, for this egg to grow and ultimately hatch it would need nourishment which it got from men like Marshall, Story and Webster and the factions and interests which they represented. It hatched as a ravenous caterpillar in the form of the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln. In the post-Lincoln period began the larva stage - "the nation," which Lincoln had already called forth. The personification of this stage was Wilson. The adult empire would emerge from the larva stage under FDR and become the bloated but very dangerous empire which we have today.
For me, the thrall was broken when I returned to my Southern roots and discovered that men like Jefferson, Calhoun, Davis and in my day, within the political spectrum, Wallace (not a dime's worth of difference) understood what was happening, sounded the warning and actually tried to do something about it within their personal and historical capacities.
Thus, my emancipation from the leviathan, from the empire, was through the South and its commonwealths, customs, traditions and historical sacrifices.
Mr Peters, my own story could be an echo of yours. I was an ideologue (anarchist and sort of libertarian) without knowing it until I stumbled on an advert for the Southern Partisan, received a sample copy, subscribed, and was reintroduced, in a more intellectual way at times, to my Southern roots. Previous to that, I only had knowledge of those roots in a family context, and then only from the older generations who were passing on at that time, and neither I nor they could understand that heritage outside of family history, so we didn't understand it in a broader historical or cultural context.
This change in outlook - or rather a revival of one - had as much to do with the heart as with the mind.
Now, when I look at the ideologues, I cant help but think that if I hadn't stumbled on the Partisan, then but for the grace of God there go I.
I think that the reason why ideologues cant understand historical and cultural attachments or Christianity is because they are tied up in their minds and cut off from the deeper elements of the heart.
#6 Rob. It might be more accurate to say that I am Sam Francis's surviving predecessor.
This article really strikes a cord. I was at a meeting of DC "hardright conservatives" a few weeks ago, and was unpleasantly surprised when the proceedings were concluded with a multi-media McCain campaign strategy session by Rick Davis. The guy who invited me had me over to his place afterwards and offered to let me beat an Obama pinata with his autographed Lester Maddox ax handle. As much as my friend "hates" Obama, I would rather write-in "Lester the Puritan" than vote for either media candidate.
Man, I swear! I get as giddy as a schoolgirl every time I see Dr. Wilson has a new post.
Were to God that we had an army of him!
Keep on canin' 'em Doc!
Mr. Wilson @ 8
I will have to say that moral and intellectual weakness were the two major factors which kept me so long under the thrall of what one could call, the American Religion.
My moral weakness was my desire to belong or my quest for respectability. By embracing and expressing one's Southernness, one was sure to lose the quest for respectability in the academic and educational world in which I had chosen to work.
Intellectually, I realized deep down that Southern traditions and political thought offered some alternatives if not antidotes to the malaise of American political and intellectual culture; yet, I was too lazy to dig them out of the jumbled morass of American intellectual history and, referring back to the paragraph supra, I was afraid that if I looked to deeply into what I intuitively knew, iI would lose the quest for respectability.
The beginning of the end of the thrall came for me when the Holy Spirit, in His patience, brought me to a closer walk with the Christ, who, when followed, banishes idols such as respectability and gives one courage beyond one's own capacity.
Within this renewed spiritual framework, other things began to happened.
I became personally disillusioned with education and academe.
I joined the SCV and found within it a small cadre of men, a minority therein, who were not ancestor worshiping, who were not merely doing genealogy, and who were not merely WBS buffs, but who seem to grasp that there was something about our Southern ancestors that was worthy and needed today.
The Internet opened up sources: books, articles and men, such as Dr. Wilson.
I was privileged, in the last years of his life, to take care of my father. In his last months, we had conversations that time and circumstances had not before permitted us to have. Much of my awakening came out of those conversations.
All of these elements broke the thrall. I am very fortunate that these elements came to play on and in my life.
For me, the moral question is as follows: What do I now do with this understanding that has come to me and with the responsibility which comes with it?
I see no way out except prayer, substantially as in the script from A Man for all Seasons (Sir Thomas Moore), after Thomas Moore states to Cardinal Woolsey that he will pray for the king (Henry VIII to get a male heir):
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
England needs an heir.
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
Certain measures, perhaps regrettable...
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
...perhaps not, there's much in the Church
which needs reformation, Thomas.
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
All right, regrettable.
But necessary to get us an heir.
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
Now, explain how you, as a councillor
of England, can obstruct these measures...
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
...for the sake
of your own private conscience.
THOMAS MOORE:
I think that when statesmen forsake
their own private conscience...
THOMAS MOORE:
...for the sake of their public duties...
THOMAS MOORE:
...they lead their country
by a short route to chaos.
THOMAS MOORE:
And we shall have my prayers
to fall back on.
CARDINAL WOOLSEY:
You'd like that, wouldn't you?
To govern the country with prayers?
THOMAS MOORE:
Yes, I should.
My younger brother believed that this election came down to this: do you want same-sex marriages and legalised abortion, or a massive invasion of Iran and conscription. I corrected the lad: there is really little question that we will get both, with either candidate, in addition to a continuation of the massive Third World tide about to wash out the organic material of our country forever.
@13: Excellent one from one of the best movies in the canon.
Ah, my own roots are Midwestern isolationist (as far as I can tell my people were basically copperheads-and as long as I am on the subject, I have to thank Chronicles for running so many articles by H.Scott Trask-I finally was able to find a copy of his book and it is now next in the rotation). You know, the ole everything stinks since Robert Taft went down in 1952. Well to Dr. Wilson at #9, I cheerfully stand corrected. I'm more than happy to use your definition. With Mr. Sobran in such poor health, with Prof. Bradford and Mr. Francis with the Lord, may Dr. Wilson have many years of taking up the cause no matter how much I find myself quibbling over details of the coming of the War for Southern Independence (though these days, I generally think of it as the War for Industrial and Corporate Enslavement). Sto lat Dr. Wilson.
To quote Robert Barnwell Rhett " But if you are doubtful of yourselves - if you are not prepared to follow up your principles wherever they may lead, to their very last consequence - if you love life better than honor,- prefer ease to perilous liberty and glory: awake not! stir not! - Impotent resistance will add vengeance to your ruin. Live in smiling peace with your insatiable Oppressors, and die with the noble consolation, that your submissive patience will survive triumphant your beggary and despair".
Charleston MERCURY, June 18, 1828
Everything the good Doctor Wilson said in the header article may be true...nonetheless America may prosper and flourish for the next 300 years. No mere man KNOWS that she will not.
The Lord would have spared Sodom for the sake of 10 righteous souls. There are more than 10 just on the staff of Chronicles. Then there are some 16,000,000 Southern Baptists that seem to be, in the majority, putting forth a decent effort to live right.
Then add in the good practicing Catholics. How many Christians are there in America who are as serious about their faith as Dr. Fleming and Dr. Wilson...and the good man Buchanan, etc ?
Probably a whole herd...and for certain a lot more than 10.
Will the Lord throw out the baby with the bath water ? Why not assume that He will not, rather than assuming that He will.
The Lord is a Player in the out-working of history. Why not assume that He has decided to preserve America in spite of the moronic ruling class ? I don't KNOW that He has, and you don't KNOW that He hasn't.
Maybe the Lord will preserve America for the sake of His people in spite of our flaws and sins...and political indifference.
Maybe He will preserve America because the decesion NOT to preserve America seems to be certain world-wide geo-political-
military-economic catastrophe on a murderous scale.
I read. I know what the problems are. I have read PJB's The Death of The West 8 times cover to cover. If Buchanan saw my copy of his work he'd be complimented and pleased as a teacher.
Shaded every color I could find, under-lined every page, crammed with glued-in notes where I inter-acted with his text.
I've read most of Buchanan's major works. I've read America Alone. Read Londonistan (Phillips), read Eurabia:The Euro-Arab Axis. (Bat Ye'or)
Subscribed to Chronicles for 2 or 3 years (recently just ran out)
and read a good 80% of each issue...marked and shaded and kept in my library too. Good stuff there, for the most part.
I respect all you good people over here. You're salt of the Earth human beings, but not a one of you KNOWS how all these problems are going to actually play out in reality in the coming years.
You can be right everytime you identify a problem and still be wrong in how you suspect it will actually play out in the real world in the coming years.
Maybe God will have mercy on us poor slobs out here ...we sheeple...stupid though we certainly are in tolerating that whole gang of DC politicians...and bestow grace upon us..and not justice.
Anyway pray that He will.
I completely agree with Dr. Wilson. It does not matter who wins in November: Obama or McCain. I agree with David and will vote my conscience. I will definitely vote for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party even if I have to write in his name here in good 'ol Texas. I have not considered myself to be a "Republican" since 2001. I am a traditional conservative and have voted such.
Mr Peters @12: That's a very tough question, and I guess it's what's been addressed by members of the League of the South collectively. Of course, the question is very hard to address on a personal level. I guess the best many of us can do is pass what we know on to younger generations in the hope that it will benefit them and eventually lead to some kind of revival in the future. Other than that, I am at a loss to give advice to someone who knows and understands more than I do. Maybe the best we can hope for is that per Dr Trifkovic, some kind of meltdown of the current order will make a revival possible.
One thing is certain, the responsibility that comes with the understanding weighs heavily and makes one feel too small for the task, even in some sense unworthy, considering my own personal background. God's truth will set us free in the end, but Dixie's truth, though it can liberate one's mind from the disease of modernism, is itself a heavy load to bear. Even so, I would rather bear it even in impotent silence than be lost in the madness and soul killing emptiness of modern society and popular culture.
"......pass what we know on to younger generations......"
Yes, and I believe an excellent way to help this forward is to send them to the SCV's Sam Davis Youth Camp. We have just finished our second. It consists of seven hours of instruction per day, and the students yearn to come back.
Mr. Wilson @ 19
While I continue to gain knowledge, to acquire understanding, and to develop rational processes and rhetorical skills which help me to formulate and to articulate "Dixie's truth," I am nevertheless appalled at my own ignorance, with the awareness thereof growing at each glimpse of truth.
Ironically, for me, standing firm and presenting the truth to fanatic members of the New Left is not nearly as difficult as doing the same among fellow Southern "conservative" Christians, whose understandings have become so intertwined with the American national religion, that they cannot distinguish the Christ and His Church, whom and which they should be serving, from the national government and the abstract notions which it peddles.
Mr. Townsend @ 20
I applaud the work of the SCV's Sam Davis Youth Camp.
Dr. Wilson
The point of your article was today demonstrated on the Liberty News Forum into which I peer as a curious observer every now and then. One of the regulars, a pronounced Republican "conservative," posted on a thread calling liberals unpatriotic, that we were a corporatist nation with great power and wealth and that the liberals were trying to destroy said nation. Thus has the one hissing head of the two-headed leviathan identified itself: a corporatist nation. He has indeed done Mr. Lincoln right proud!
Robert Peters,
Excellent point about how many duped Christians on the Religious Right are confusing Christianity with state worship. This country is great for sure, but is not above reproach as to think we can actually be a true beacon of light(ie good witnesses for Christ) if we continually promote a way of living and political policies that absolutely contradict Christ's teachings. Our culture is predicated on mindless consumerism, uber sexuality, drugs and booze, etc. And on top of all this we seem to love blowing the hell out of poor Third World nations for half assed reasons or outright lies. God might have spared Sodom in a promise to Abraham if there indeed there was one decent soul living there, but the historical record, says otherwise. Since antiquity, all empries have traveled the same slippery slope both miltarily/politically and morally once they reached their zenith of power from ancient Babylon/Assyria to the present day. Everyone was conquered as they inevitably slid into moral/economic/political decline. I doubt we are going to buck this trend and be spared from the horrors we have unleashed on the developing world.
David @ 4: Make that 2 votes for Chuck Baldwin.
Mr. Peters:
Here is a link concerning this year's camp, and if anyone would like another four/five links with pictures, please let me know. I push this as much as possible. Also, scholarships are available for those who cannot afford it, ($495) so there is no excuse not to go.
If I Had A Thousand Lives I Would Lose Them All.......
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1469&highlight=sam+davis+youth+camp
The conflation of America and God was invented (or rather adapted from German "philosophers") and promulgated by New England Transcendentalists beginning in the 1830s. It was vulgarized and popularised by abolitionist evangelism, and solidified by worship of Father Abraham the humble carpenter (rail-splitter) who was sacrificed on Good Friday for our sins. It spread Southward in the early 20th century with the carnival tent religion created in the North, and grew along with the propaganda of two World Wars and the Cold War. Made possible by the catastrophic deterioration of intelligence and faith in the Southern clergy.
Mr. Townsend and Mr. Peters, don't forget another new-created endeavour of the SCV for enlightenment, the Stephen D. Lee Institute.
While it is true the Republican party is not a whole lot better than the other major party, it is less bad.
It's probably not fair to identify the modern Republicans (for the most part) with the party of Lincoln and Grant, since the two parties have, to a great degree, swapped political philosophies since about the mid twentieth century.
The "solid South" used to mean firmly in the camp of the Democrat party. Now the South is solidly --or nearly so--Republican. It evolved from Southern Democrats. It has been the center of the red States since that time.
Some of my cousins in a mistaken act of loyalty to our Southern ancestors have persisted in the camp of the Democrats, apparently unaware that it is not the same creature it was when my great grandfathers (three of them) fought under the stars and bars.
Unfortunately, the Republicans we have had recently (with the exception of Senator Helms and maybe one or two others) have been impotent in their response to bigger and bigger government and the cliches of political correctness and multiculturalism.
Dr. Wilson:
Yes, I have followed the event, but unfortunately have not gone yet.
http://sdli.scv.org/faculty.php
Dr. Wilson:
I have been privileged to attend the last two S.D. Lee Conferences. I learned much and look forward to attending other S.D. Lee Conferences.
Everything said by Dr. Wilson & all others here is absolutely true, all the sentiments honorable. I would be privileged to share a drink and a smoke with any of you wonderful gentlemen & would concede any of your arguments at the outset.
Nevertheless I shall, conscious of my sacred right to construct my own universe as zealously affirmed by Justices O'Conner and Kennedy, and fully aware that it may be last free act whatever happens, get drunk & vote 4 McCain. I would rather meet Dr. Wilson & all of you in hell than Ronald McDonald in blackface in heaven. I am hoping we can all meet Col. Custer there, who I sympathize more with every day, and continue this chat.
Mr. Jacko @ 29
If by "there" in your last sentence you mean "hell," I am afraid that I must miss the rendezvous for I have reservations elsewhere, with or without Ronald McDonald in blackface. However, I would venture to say that Col. Custer will be there, already having kicked his share of very hot cinders. Satan should watch his back with men like Sheridan, Sherman, Custer, Grant, Butler and Banks swanking through the sulfur. By my reckoning Custer is in hell, not because I deign to judge him, but, as Holy Writ states, "By their fruits shall ye know them." Thus, I am not a high judge but a lowly fruit inspector.
For my part, and for whatever its worth, I became sickened and disgusted with what passes for popular culture back in the early 70’s. I found something quite unsettling about a world where perverts, liars, and idolaters are considered the norm. I, therefore, sold my TV and have never once since regretted the loss. When a boy, I used to look forward to visits by my great grandfather, born in the early 1880’s. I used to follow him around everywhere he went, plying him with questions. I believe he deeply affected my understanding during the 15 or so years that I was privileged to know him. He, I believe, opened my eyes to the alien and depraved culture around me. When asked what quality was essential for the young to learn, both Lee and Jefferson answered: Deny yourself. Since both answered the same, it seems reasonable to believe it was widely embraced in the Old South. I can think of no better illustration of an alien culture to the present, as such sentiments today would undoubtedly be considered bad for business.
Alienation to the world around you is a difficult burden to bear. And, years later, it came as a surprise to me to learn that running beneath the ‘mainstream’ - and never given any recognition whatsoever by the ‘mainstream’ - is a current that runs directly and unbroken out of that proud, religious, and conservative culture down to the present time. When I discovered it, I knew I had found something that I can relate to. From Basil Gildersleeve, to the Agrarians, to Richard Weaver, to M. E. Bradford, to our learned Dr. Wilson (to name only a few) the line remains unbroken, though suspiciously ignored. The internet has probably done more to awaken than anything else since the rise of the Great Washington Tyranny and, no doubt, explains why control of it is so important to them.
As Jefferson Davis warned, the principals for which our ancestors fought will again reassert themselves, and they have. The centralisation of the government was a disastrous act. The Tenth Amendment, ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people’, was made totally meaningless, as no powers remain to the States. Once all restrants were removed there was left no way to control the growth of the central state and now it intrudes into every facet of our lives. The pages here at Chronicles and other conservative journals are crammed with articles relating to the problems arising from this great usurpation. But it is important to remember how this great tyranny began. I have read that the movement of the Confederate troops could be traced by following the trail of blood from their barefoot and bleeding feet. In all history have a people ever paid a higher price for the cause of liberty?
What about formerly "conservative" writers who back the same thing?
Will the S.D. Lee Institute ever hold another conference? It's been around for 3 years now, barely, and did not accomplish its mission. The current SCV leadership is just as "granny" and anti-activist as the old (which was infiltrated by the SPLC). The Sam Davis Youth Camp is mostly for religious separatists who don't have the money or don't have the testosterone to send their boys to military academy. What a sad state affairs the Southern movement is in. Even the Abbeville Institute seems to have plateaued, as did the League of the South years ago. And SCV membership has been dropping since 2005.
Tim #36 has no idea what he is talking about.
MAP you can add Washington and Calhoun to your list of great Americans who called for self-denial in service to the common good. And Stonewall Jackson.
#36. The SDLI is planning a major conference on our first President, Mr. Jefferson Davis, next February in Charleston.
Dr. Wilson,
Perhaps this will sound silly, but I wonder if the LOS or any of the Southern groups ever venture north of Kentucky/Virginia to hold conferences.
I am a former 'Copperhead' who is returning to his ancestral Southern routes, but I am unable, due to my job, to leave Ohio for more than a day or so. I would love to be able to come see you speak.
Mr. Maxwell if you can't get down to some of the League conferences you can check my YouTube channel. Just lookup "sumnemo". I have the last couple of conferences of the NCLS on there. Further there will be conferences later this month on August 9th and 23rd and they should be on my channel by the end of the month.
I'll be voting for Chuck Baldwin....
"Sumnemo." What a self-deprecating user name you've given yourself, Mr. Crews!
That there might be a shred of constitutional authority remaining in the USA is an illusion and has been for decades. Presidents and Supreme Court Justices only chatter about the constitution when it may serve their own manipulative purposes.
Political discussions often have the following tone, "if so and so happens this will be the end of freedom and the last vestige of any constitutional restraint." The proverbial frog in the boiling water does not seem to know that his legs have already been served for dinner. All that is left is the fascists dividing up the spoils of the American industry and labour, and there is little of that left.
I learned more about English grammer in my two years of Latin than those years of English classes. Thanks Mr. Collins. I do try to have a sense of humor.
Mr. T. D. Manning:
Sir, while I agree with your assessment of our situation, I would encourage you to keep up your pot shots at the enemy. After all we have to do something with the rest of our lives. As for me, I'm going out kicking and cussing.
Member,
Col. John B. Palmer Camp 1946
If I may pursue somewhat of a tangent, i.e. go off thereon, or chase a rabbit for a moment, I would refer to Obama's spectacle in Berlin and to McCain counter with Hilton/Spears. (Actually, I wish that precisely those two "ladies" were the Democratic and Republican candidates respectively. The essencelessness of the two factions would be revealed in all superficiality.)
However, to the point of Obama's spectacle in Berlin, with thousands cheering in a well-orchestrated public show from the Siegessäule to the Brandenburg Gate in the deep background, I sensed the wraith of Albrecht Speer spooking around. Therefore, had I been inclined to "spoof" the event as the McCain campaign has done, I might simply have imposed Hilter's face on Obama's.
Tim36:
The Sam Davis Youth Camp & the SCV
You obviously attended a different camp than I the last two years...... It is run by Ron Wilson, who certainly wasn't a granny when he was the CIC. Also, a new committee was formed at this year's SCV convention which will push buying lots to fly the Battle Flag 24/7, as has been done at Point Lookout http://confmemparkinc.plpow.com/
and recently in Florida.
And speaking of the S. D. Lee Institute seminar in February in Charleston, below is the info given in a couple of the last few Southern Heritage News and Views e-newsletters [Southern Heritage News & Views Keeping You Informed
http://www.thesouthernamerican.org/SHNV.html.
I understand that attendance is not limited to SCV members and their families. Very interesting topic as well as speakers.
JEFFERSON DAVIS v. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE 2009 STEPHEN DILL LEE SEMINAR
The Sons of Confederate Veterans are now taking registrations for the Stephen D. Lee
Institute seminar on February 6-7, 2009 at the Hotel Francis Marion in Charleston,
South Carolina. The cost for a registration is $150 per person. The cost for SCV members and spouses will be a discounted rate of $125 for a limited period of time.
Registration will include breakfast, lunch and banquet on Saturday February 6.
Friday evening February 6, 2009
Edwin C. Bearss A Conversation with Ed Bearss: The Assassination of Jefferson DavisThe Dahlgren Raid. 8pm.
Saturday February 7, 2009
Program begins at 8:30 am.
Thomas DiLorenzo Host and Moderator
Clyde Wilson ,A Sacrifice for his people: Jefferson Davis's Persecution and Imprisonment
Brian Cisco Davis, Lincoln and the Rules of War
Marshall DeRosa, The Confederate Experience in Constitutional Government.
Kent Masterson Brown, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist
Donald Livingston, Davis, Lincoln and Liberty
Samuel C. Smith, Davis, Lincoln and Christian Faith
Please register today. You can register by calling The Sons of Confederate Veterans at 1-800-MY DIXIE (1-800-693-4943).
Hotel reservations at a discounted rate can be made by calling the historic Hotel Francis Marion at 1-877-756-2121 or 1-843-722-0602 or by visiting their website at http://www.francismarioncharleston.com.
Thanks for your support of Southern history.
Brag Bowling
Event Chairman
bragdonb@verizon.net