Secession Gala and NAACP Protest Against Southern Heritage

On 20 December 2010 the NAACP protested the Secession Gala in Charleston, SC marking the 150th anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the United States back in 1860. This video from SNN documents the NAACP's protest of the event and includes interviews with various protesters as well as Southern heritage supporters and even modern secessionists. Thanks to everyone who allowed SNN to interview them!

Southern Nationalist Network

Southern Secession and the Liberal Mind

When a Confederate heritage group decided to hold a "Secession Ball" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of South Carolina leaving the union, it made national headlines--and the controversy that ensued said more about the event's critics than the attendees.

Southern Nationalism

The Southern people are a distinct nation of people in the world. That’s where the argument for Southern independence should begin. This is not a legal debate; it’s a fact of reality here on this planet. All we want is self-determination.

Sorry for one mistake...in the video – the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were in 1798, not 1898.



Southern Nationalist Network

League of the South Statement

As the disintegrating entity known as The United States of America goes into the proverbial "dustbin of history" because of fiscal irresponsibility, greed, sloth, avarice, and apathy, we in The League of the South remind you all that over a decade ago we told you what was going to happen. In fact, in our Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence, we spoke on behalf of our people (most of whom were too busy to listen at that time) and warned them of what was ahead. If you are still today pinning your hopes on reforming Washington, DC, then please take a few minutes and read the words below. Then, if you still think the present system can and should be reformed, by all means get to work at it. For those of you who see that the DC system cannot be reformed, then we ask you to join with us in creating a Southern republic in which liberty and prosperity can thrive once again.

In short, we're asking you to begin thinking and acting "outside the box." On the one hand, if you stay in the current box, which the corrupt Establishment wants you to do, you will go down with the current system. On the other, if you indeed step out of that box, you will see opened up before you the possibilities of a bright future for you and your progeny.

Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence

Interview With John Morlan

Disassembly Instructions for America

When somthing falls apart before your eyes look to how it was built to gain insight into its failure.. This is the potential case with the United States. We have Mexico pressing into territory that was ceded to the United States in 1848, Language and individual flows of people represent an unstoppable tide. The most disaster prone area of the country was ceded in 1819. The people in this Louisiana Alabama Texas Panhandle Florida area are sick of the federal government forcing failure on the region. This weakens the glue holding that region to the country.. Not mentioned in other places but the time lapse map was the independent states of Vermont and the Republic of Texas. Both states are still fiercely independent. Focusing money into Washington and New York hastens any potential for domestic destabilization. Of course, insolvency could be the trigger for collapse... We could however have a false flag war or terror event in an attempt to glue the country into place. Any withdrawal from Iraq or Afghanistan could be an economic trigger to failure.

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Abraham Lincoln The Tyrant

When Abraham Lincoln launched his military invasion of the Southern States to prevent their peaceful and democratic assertion of independence, he ushered in a radically different Union than the one the Founders intended.

Whether it was slavery, tariffs, or a redefinition of Federal powers matters little. The question of whether we live in a voluntary government or a compulsory one, enforced at gunpoint, was answered with the death and maiming of almost a million Americans from 1861 to 1865.

At the heart of the ever-encroaching State that we find ourselves living under is the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Every tyrant, from Karl Marx to Woodrow Wilson, FDR to Adolf Hitler, George W Bush and Barack Obama, have embraced the Lincoln mantle in both their writings and their actions.

For Liberty to reemerge, the Lincoln myth must be shattered and exposed.

from the YouTube video description by CauseAndEffectPost

I’ve been occasionally watching Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel and think he has done an admirable job of smoking out and identifying the shockingly hardcore, radical socialists who dominate the Obama administration. He has also done a generally good job talking about the libertarian founding principles of America, how they have been lost, and our duty to regain them. But he has been absolutely abysmal when discussing the subject of Lincoln, the War to Prevent Southern Independence, and its legacy. I suspect that the reason for this disconnect with historical reality is that: 1) The Fox News Channel is essentially a propaganda arm of the neoconservative political cabal that has captured the Republican Party; 2) One of the cornerstones of neocon ideology is Lincoln idolatry and hatred of the South and Southerners. (Professor Paul Gottfried, for one, has written extensively about this.) 3) Therefore, if Glenn wants to keep his gig at Fox, he must toe the party line on Lincoln. Being otherwise libertarian – while the Democrats are in power – serves the purposes of the neocon cabal nicely.

Glenn Beck’s Lincoln Contradictions

The Hypocrisy of the Union Position

This video contrasts the positions of Lincoln and the Republican-controlled Congress on whether or not the Southern States had actually been outside of the Union from 1861-65. Lincoln claimed they had not while the Congress claimed they had and put certain requirements upon them to be re-admitted. Which was right? They can't both be correct.

Dennis Steele for a Free Vermont

Dennis Steele of the Second Vermont Republic (the first Vermont Republic was founded during the Revolutionary War and existed for 14 years as an independent nation before it joined the Union in 1791, becoming the fourteenth state) runs for governor.

Below you can listen to an interview with Steele on Vermont Public Radio:

VPR_Interview by Radio Free Vermont

Steele’s political philosophy can be summarized by the following statement, “The gods of the American Empire are not the gods of Vermont.” He is committed to the return of Vermont to its status as an independent republic as it was between 1777 and 1791. When he is elected governor, he will call a statewide convention to consider articles of political independence. He will simultaneously do everything in his power to bring home Vermont’s National Guard troops immediately.--from the candidate's campaign website

The Practical Side of Secession

Third Palmetto Republic

Happy Independence, Secession and Overthrow-the-Government Day

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.”-Declaration of Independence



FKN Newz

Perhaps the best evidence of how American history was rewritten, Soviet style, in the post-1865 era is the fact that most Americans seem to be unaware that "Independence Day" was originally intended to be a celebration of the colonists’ secession from the British empire. Indeed, the word secession is not even a part of the vocabulary of most Americans, who more often than not confuse it with "succession." The Revolutionary War was America’s first war of secession.

America’s most prominent secessionist, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, was very clear about what he was saying: Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and whenever that consent is withdrawn, it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish" that government and "to institute a new government." The word "secession" was not a part of the American language at that time, so Jefferson used the word "separation" instead to describe the intentions of the American colonial secessionists.

The Declaration is also a states’ rights document (not surprisingly, since Jefferson was the intellectual inspiration for the American states’ rights political tradition). This, too, is foreign to most Americans. But read the final paragraph of the Declaration which states:

That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other things which independent states may of right do (emphasis in original).

Each colony was considered to be a free and independent state, or nation, in and of itself. There was no such thing as "the United States of America" in the minds of the founders. The independent colonies were simply united for a particular cause: seceding from the British empire. Each individual state was assumed to possess all the rights that any state possesses, even to wage war and conclude peace. Indeed, when King George III finally signed a peace treaty he signed it with all the individual American states, named one by one, and not something called "The United States of America." The "United States" as a consolidated, monopolistic government is a fiction invented by Lincoln and instituted as a matter of policy at gunpoint and at the expense of some 600,000 American lives during 1861–1865.

Jefferson defended the right of secession in his first inaugural address by declaring, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it." (In sharp contrast, in his first inaugural address, Lincoln promised an "invasion" with massive "bloodshed" (his words) of any state that failed to collect the newly-doubled federal tariff rate by seceding from the union).

Jefferson made numerous statements in defense of the defining principal of the American Revolution: the right of secession. In a January 29, 1804 letter to Dr. Joseph Priestly he wrote:

Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation [i.e., secession] at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power.

In an August 12, 1803 letter to John C. Breckinridge Jefferson addressed the same issue, in light of the New England Federalists’ secession movement in response to his Louisiana Purchase. If there were a "separation" into two confederacies, he wrote, "God bless them both, & keep them in the union if it be for their good, but separate them, if it be better."

So on July 4 stoke up the grill, enjoy your barbecue, and drink a toast to Mr. Jefferson and his fellow secessionists. (And beware of any Straussian nonsense about how it was really Lincoln, the greatest enemy of states’ rights, including the right of secession, who taught us to "revere" the Declaration of Independence. Nothing could be further from the truth.)
-by Thomas J. DiLorenzo at LewRockwell.com.

South Carolina Secession Movement

The day after South Carolina seceded a red flag, with two tails, a large white star and an upside down crescent moon at the top by the flag staff was raised over the Charleston Custom House. It then spread to other cities as a symbol of secession.

In the second video:

Tom Utley, the Chairman of Third Palmetto Republic....answer[s] some questions about the secessionist effort, the reasons secession is necessary and his vision of a free South Carolina.





Third Palmetto Republic: The South Carolina Independence Movement

“You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas”

Last week, the feds sent the Environmental Protection Agency out to harass the sovereign state of Texas. Texas needs to reclaim the spirit of Davy Crockett, when he famously proclaimed “you may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas”; and send the federal agency packing. Here’s why and how.

h/t Liberty Pulse

The Benefits of a Free South

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again)

The case for 'Texas nationalism'

See this group's website here.

If Texas ever secedes from the evil empire, I'll be on the first plane there.

July 4th: a good holiday, but ultimately a failure

Hans Hoppe lays down the need for a second American revolution.

Secession?

Secessionist Talk