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pwillie
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from the S.Carolina...SCV
South Carolina Division - Sons of Confederate Veterans
June 19 at 6:32pm ?
Notice from the South Carolina Division Commander
Compatriots and Officers,
Once again we are under attack. I have spent much of the day monitoring and returning calls to various (and sometimes not very friendly) news agencies, etc. I know some of you are experiencing the same. If anyone from a news agency or press contacts you, please direct them to me. I along with Heritage Operations Chairman Sutton will address their concerns. You are free to give them my phone below as the need arises. Our staff at the national level stands ready to assist us.
Please consider this:
1. The events of recent at Emmanuel AME Church were the premeditated acts of a racist coward. He is in noway nor has he ever been associated with us. We have a very strict hate policy, which is stringently enforced.
2. He DID NOT have a state issued SCV license tag on his vehicle. He did have a tag on the front of his vehicle with Confederate Flags. This type tag can be purchased by anyone from any vendor selling such.
3. SCSCV DOES NOT have the authority to place the Flag at the Statehouse at half mast. Such authority can only come by order of the State Legislature. I don't think even the governor has the authority to do so. Our Flag is not a government flag. It is a Memorial Flag placed at the Statue honoring our Confederate Veterans. If it were still on the dome, it would be at half mast this very moment.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
The acts that have taken place in Charleston have absolutely NO connection, relevance or relationship to the Confederate Battle Flag.
I am now at home and available to receive your calls. If you need to contact me, do so without hesitation.
Camp Officers--please see that each member of your Camp receives this message.
Your obedient servant I am,
-L.
T. Leland Summers, Commander
SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION
Sons of Confederate Veterans
803-235-8322
SCDivCommander@gmail.com
South Carolina Division - Sons of Confederate Veterans
June 19 at 6:32pm ?
Notice from the South Carolina Division Commander
Compatriots and Officers,
Once again we are under attack. I have spent much of the day monitoring and returning calls to various (and sometimes not very friendly) news agencies, etc. I know some of you are experiencing the same. If anyone from a news agency or press contacts you, please direct them to me. I along with Heritage Operations Chairman Sutton will address their concerns. You are free to give them my phone below as the need arises. Our staff at the national level stands ready to assist us.
Please consider this:
1. The events of recent at Emmanuel AME Church were the premeditated acts of a racist coward. He is in noway nor has he ever been associated with us. We have a very strict hate policy, which is stringently enforced.
2. He DID NOT have a state issued SCV license tag on his vehicle. He did have a tag on the front of his vehicle with Confederate Flags. This type tag can be purchased by anyone from any vendor selling such.
3. SCSCV DOES NOT have the authority to place the Flag at the Statehouse at half mast. Such authority can only come by order of the State Legislature. I don't think even the governor has the authority to do so. Our Flag is not a government flag. It is a Memorial Flag placed at the Statue honoring our Confederate Veterans. If it were still on the dome, it would be at half mast this very moment.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY:
The acts that have taken place in Charleston have absolutely NO connection, relevance or relationship to the Confederate Battle Flag.
I am now at home and available to receive your calls. If you need to contact me, do so without hesitation.
Camp Officers--please see that each member of your Camp receives this message.
Your obedient servant I am,
-L.
T. Leland Summers, Commander
SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION
Sons of Confederate Veterans
803-235-8322
SCDivCommander@gmail.com
Comments
Appropriate and concise.
Who could take issue with anything they said?
A well thought out response.
Appropriate and concise.
Who could take issue with anything they said?
...far left nutcases..?[:o)]
A well thought out response.
Appropriate and concise.
Who could take issue with anything they said?
You're kidding right? Good luck, there is nothing other than complete submission that will please the progressives.
quote:Originally posted by bigoutside
A well thought out response.
Appropriate and concise.
Who could take issue with anything they said?
You're kidding right? Good luck, there is nothing other than complete submission that will please the progressives.
Then you're missing the point of contention.
SOCV said (my synopsis only).
We have a mandate to honor confederate dead.
A bunch of * holes showed up looking for a fight.
WTH
We don't need NAZIs "helping" us.
They aren't us.
We weren't there.
WTH someone got killed over this crap!
We already had legal standing and a court order. No one was removing anything.
We got this. If you disagree, see you in court.
What's not to love?
Sometimes the high road might not be available when it's needed, and once it is gone for good, it will be too late. What then? Plans are being made within the SCV in the field to defend our people and our monuments, but this might change. The next communication I get might change the last one to this end. We'll see.
My take only.
Anything you aspire to accomplish in life, is easier done without NAZIs at your side or in your camp.
Hirohito and Mussolini agree.
It's never too late to get on the high road.
I've eaten crow prepared a million ways.
Paul, I do hope that you and your chapter members are not going to buy off on the response from SCV HQ as being satisfactory to deal with the issue of our memorials.
James, I haven't talked my Commander as of yet...