Mr Ketcham produced a very good article. It was balanced and treated the subject justly – right up to the predictable, and always unsubstantiated, parenthetic accusation, ‘(Several Southern secessionist groups are vocally racist…)’. This act of smallmindedness was then seconded by Mr Sugg in his comment above.

This is the old marxist canard, leveled at the League of the South for probably the millionth time either verbally or in print. The enemies of liberty, self-government, and freedom of speech love this communist tool for suppressing debate/demeaning an enemy, because they have firmly established it as a totally SUBJECTIVE TERM. Think about it. Have the, ‘politically correct’ uberfuhrers EVER defined exactly what it means? No! They simply hurl it like dung at anyone with whom they disagree, dislike, or is getting the best of them in an honest debate of the issues.

Our President, Dr Hill, has given you our national website address in his post. Go there and see for yourselves, folks. What you will find is simply this. Statements that express our pride in who we are as a people, our reverence for the accomplishments and contributions of our forebears, a defense of the ameliorating and stabilising virtues of western Christendom, and our desire to preserve and perpetuate the same for ourselves and our posterity. When any other racial or ethnic group does this it is praised and celebrated by the ‘pc’ uberfuhrers. When we do it – it is racist. Hmmm…. as we Southrons like to say, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

The other thing you’ll find is principled opposition to things like affirmative action, quotas, so-called ‘voting rights’ and ‘civil rights’ laws, uncontrolled 3rd world immigration, imperialism (meaning aggression abroad and despotism at home), corporate-government collusion (properly known as fascism), fiat currency, government schools, gun control, abortion, sodomy, etc., etc. Despite their proponents’ claims to the contrary, all of the above things have produced far greater injustices and animosities than the supposed wrongs they were intended to right.

Therefore, it always has been, and always will be, the League of the South’s position that the problems plaguing Dixie are best solved by Southrons, for Southrons, in our own way, by our own principles. Outside intervention by the meddling yankee government in Washington City has been the bane or our existence for 143 years. Obviously, the only way we can set about a solution to the Southern Problem, is to separate ourselves culturally, socially, economically, and politically from the rest of what may then constitute the remaining united States of America.

As I said at the first Secessionist Convention in Burlington, Vermont, ‘Liberty is a bitch!’ Those of us who seek our independence from the U.S. Empire won’t do things the same way once we have it – THANK GOD! That one size fits all mentality is what we are abjuring. I mean, just what, exactly, don’t you like about liberty? Is there such a lack of political imagination out there that you can not conceive of several independent countries existing where once there were 48 contiguous, forcibly coerced States? Coexisting and cooperating peacefully with one another?

Liberty like that may be a bitch, but she’s one with which I’ll happily live. God Save the South! and the 2nd Vermont Republic, and Alaska, and Hawaii, and California, and …….

Mark A. Thomey

League of the South

Board of Directors

Mr Ketcham produced a very good article. It was balanced and treated the subject justly – right up to the predictable, and always unsubstantiated, parenthetic accusation, ‘(Several Southern secessionist groups are vocally racist…)’. This act of smallmindedness was then seconded by Mr Sugg in his comment above.

This is the old marxist canard, leveled at the League of the South for probably the millionth time either verbally or in print. The enemies of liberty, self-government, and freedom of speech love this communist tool for suppressing debate/demeaning an enemy, because they have firmly established it as a totally SUBJECTIVE TERM. Think about it. Have the, ‘politically correct’ uberfuhrers EVER defined exactly what it means? No! They simply hurl it like dung at anyone with whom they disagree, dislike, or is getting the best of them in an honest debate of the issues.

Our President, Dr Hill, has given you our national website address in his post. Go there and see for yourselves, folks. What you will find is simply this. Statements that express our pride in who we are as a people, our reverence for the accomplishments and contributions of our forebears, a defense of the ameliorating and stabilising virtues of western Christendom, and our desire to preserve and perpetuate the same for ourselves and our posterity. When any other racial or ethnic group does this it is praised and celebrated by the ‘pc’ uberfuhrers. When we do it – it is racist. Hmmm…. as we Southrons like to say, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

The other thing you’ll find is principled opposition to things like affirmative action, quotas, so-called ‘voting rights’ and ‘civil rights’ laws, uncontrolled 3rd world immigration, imperialism (meaning aggression abroad and despotism at home), corporate-government collusion (properly known as fascism), fiat currency, government schools, gun control, abortion, sodomy, etc., etc. Despite their proponents’ claims to the contrary, all of the above things have produced far greater injustices and animosities than the supposed wrongs they were intended to right.

Therefore, it always has been, and always will be, the League of the South’s position that the problems plaguing Dixie are best solved by Southrons, for Southrons, in our own way, by our own principles. Outside intervention by the meddling yankee government in Washington City has been the bane or our existence for 143 years. Obviously, the only way we can set about a solution to the Southern Problem, is to separate ourselves culturally, socially, economically, and politically from the rest of what may then constitute the remaining united States of America.

As I said at the first Secessionist Convention in Burlington, Vermont, ‘Liberty is a bitch!’ Those of us who seek our independence from the U.S. Empire won’t do things the same way once we have it – THANK GOD! That one size fits all mentality is what we are abjuring. I mean, just what, exactly, don’t you like about liberty? Is there such a lack of political imagination out there that you can not conceive of several independent countries existing where once there were 48 contiguous, forcibly coerced States? Coexisting and cooperating peacefully with one another?

Liberty like that may be a bitch, but she’s one with which I’ll happily live. God Save the South! and the 2nd Vermont Republic, and Alaska, and Hawaii, and California, and …….

Mark A. Thomey

League of the South

Board of Directors