By Elaine Magliaro
On February 12th, League of the South president Michael Hill wrote the following information on his organization’s website under a post titled Honoring John Wilkes Booth:
The League of the South looks to the present and future. However, from time to time we do look back at our past.
This 14th of April will mark the 150th anniversary of John Wilkes Booth’s execution of the tyrant Abraham Lincoln. The League will, in some form or fashion, celebrate this event. We remember Booth’s diary entry: “Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.” A century and a half after the fact, The League of the South thanks Mr. Booth for his service to the South and to humanity.
Stay tuned . . .
Michael Hill and the League of the South
Crooks and Liars said that the League of the South (LOS) “has been ramping up their hate rhetoric in recent years.” Last September, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that the LOS was gearing up to form a paramilitary unit intended to advance a second southern secession by ‘any means.'”
Writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ryan Lenz said:
After years of rhetoric threatening violence, the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) is training a uniformed, paramilitary unit tasked with advancing a second southern secession by any means necessary, Hatewatch has learned.
According to anonymous sources from within the LOS, as well as leaked internal communications, the LOS secret unit has been dubbed “The Indomitables” and appears to be stacked with white supremacists, former Klan members and neo-Nazis.
Michael Hill, in a note offered to encourage his Indomitables, said, “We desire that our women and children be warm and snug while the world outside rages. And as our due for that we must face the world.”
The Indomitables were conceptualized at the LOS national meeting earlier this year and appear to be coming online quickly, with Floyd Eric Meadows, 43, of Rome, Ga., who also goes by Eric Thorvaldsson online, in charge of “training,” according to sources within the group and internal documents.
Lenz added that the formation of the Indomitables came “after years of escalating and violent rhetoric from the League, as well as a search for more ideologically extreme white nationalists to enliven their membership –– a pattern that has been ongoing since 2007, when the LOS national conference was titled ‘Southern Secession: Antidote to Empire and Tyranny.’”
In The South’s true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious right, Paul Rosenberg also noted that the League of the South had recently announced that it plans to celebrate “the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination this coming April, in case there were any lingering doubts about where their sentiments lie.” Rosenberg said that LOS’s “official policy since its founding had been opposed to racial integration in the private sector—artfully phrased by saying, ‘we believe in a Southern society that…. Values and sustains true freedom of association.’”
NOTE: League of the South was founded in 1994.
From the Southern Poverty Law Center:
The League of the South is a neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by “European Americans.” The league believes the “godly” nation it wants to form should be run by an “Anglo-Celtic” (read: white) elite that would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate blacks and other minorities. Originally founded by a group that included many Southern university professors, the group lost its Ph.D.s as it became more explicitly racist. The league denounces the federal government and northern and coastal states as part of “the Empire,” a materialist and anti-religious society.
In Its Own Words
“Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?”
— Jack Kershaw, League of the South board member, 1998
“[T]he Southern League supports a return to a political and social system based on kith and kin rather than an impersonal state wedded to the idea of the universal rights of man. At its core is a European population.”
— Michael Hill, essay on League of the South website, 2000
That’s the latest news from post-racial America.
SOURCES
The League of the South Honors John Wilkes Booth (Patheos)
Neo-Confederate Group Plans Celebration Of Lincoln Assassination (Crooks and Liars)
EXCLUSIVE: League of the South Forming Paramilitary Unit Called the ‘Indomitables’ (Southern Poverty Law Center)
League of the South (Southern Poverty Law Center)
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Flowers For Socrates 
How about “Revenge for Sand Creek, or Wounded Knee” – forget Booth, – justice for Dr Mudd
My head hurts.
“God simply made me the instrument…”
Yes, ‘instrument’ being a fancy-schmancy word for ‘tool.’
And they’re certainly a tool collection.
You have to be kidding me. Next you’ll say the John Birch Society is up and running well.
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I’ll bet our old buddy from Mississippi, Brent Waller, is in this mix somehow. He got his fee-fees hurt when Gov. Haley Barbour nixed a license plate for Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Chuck,
Four years ago, I wrote a post for RIL about the proposed commemorative license plates. It got quite a response:
Mississippi Sons of Confederate Veterans Propose License Plate to Honor Civil War General Who Was Once a Member of the Ku Klux Klan
Elaine,
He was a founding member of the KKK.
On a side note could you contact me off site.
Sorry to all if this statement appears ill placed, but:
Who the fuck is the “new” Anonymously Yours; and should they be allowed this handle?
I only ask because the use of vernacular by the current AY is far removed from AY’s history of incomplete sentences separated by ellipses.
gbk,
Same ole one….. Or same old one….. Nothing’s changed but the grammar context….
gbk,
It’s OK. Same person. I checked to make sure. He was on an extended vacation, and is back.
AY,
How are you liking that new camera? I am considering a 70D for my next purchase. Better for HDR photos and a bigger screen on back….easier to see as my eyes get older.
Chuck,
I like it very much, bought a filter at your suggestion, It works well. Of course the all 35 mm lenses snap into the camera so now I have more lenses. Don’t ask me what I needed them for I haven’t fig out how to really operate all the functions to start with.
Now I am looking at the Nikkon D5500…. It has a touch screen for everything, the average price I have seen is about $950.00….One addiction leads to another….
I have some other stuff to say so I will catch you in your email….
AY,
“Same ole one….. Or same old one….. Nothing’s changed but the grammar context….”
That’s more like it! 🙂
Peace, AY; gracias, Chuck.
gbk,
We’re good…. More like it….
“League of Delusional Gentleman” think I’ll wait until it’s on HBO. Don’t want to go to the theater for this one.
I’ve told my friends in Austin if Texas secedes they should come to Wisconsin, but now that we have Walker we’re beginning to be called Wississippi.
AY: ” Next you’ll say the John Birch Society is up and running well.”
Did it ever go away? Fred Koch, founder of Koch Industries, was one of the founding members of The Birch Society.
Orolee,
That’s why I said it the way I did. The acorns do not fall far from the Bushes….
Wrong, Brent Waller is to busy trying to save this country to be at any memorial for a dead patriot.
And Chuck that tag is not dead yet.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/texas-students-flash-white-power-signs-during-basketball-game-against-mostly-black-high-school/ White power in the Dallas suburbs…….
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ron-paul-us-secession-already-happening Doubt he will still be for secession should his son become president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/north-south-divide-obamacare-states_n_6737866.html “The good news is the uninsured rate in the U.S. has fallen to a record low. The bad news is the benefits of health care reform aren’t reaching a large swath of the country.
Over the last year, the uninsured rate in the U.S. fell 3.5 percentage points, from 17.3 percent in 2013 to 13.8 percent in 2014, according to the latest data from Gallup. That’s the lowest yearly rate that’s been recorded by Gallup’s Well-Being Index.
According to Gallup, much of the decline can be linked to President Obama’s health care reform law, which implemented a number of new policies to help Americans afford health insurance. But some states’ refusal to adapt Obamacare’s key provisions are causing a startling gap in uninsured rates across the country.
The states with the highest uninsured rates in 2014 are pretty much all found in the South, the Gallup poll found. “