Prattville Dragoons Commander's Column for February 2019

The SCV’s Southern Victory Campaign – Vindicating the Cause

Donnie Kennedy presented the new SCV Southern Victory Campaign – Vindicating the Cause to those attending the recent Army of Tennessee workshop.  These are my notes which all in the camp should consider and act upon.  He asked everyone what was the Cause?  This is something we should all be able to articulate.  The Cause was a struggle for liberty, freedom and, independence…same as our colonial ancestors fought for in the preceding 18th century. Just fifty years ago our country honored our Confederate heroes with Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy speaking of the great Confederate leaders, with US postage stamps commemorating the Confederate generals, with the Confederate flag on the cover of Sports Illustrated with Ole Miss majorettes, and with troops flying the Confederate Battle flag in theatres during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. 

But today we are experiencing a Southern cultural genocide despite 84% polled in favor of leaving Confederate monuments in place (Aug 2018), 88% of whites and 47% of blacks in Louisiana polling to keep the Confederate monuments in New Orleans in place (Sept 2018) and, even the left leaning CNN showing a 2017 poll that 57% support keeping Confederate monuments.  We have failed to convert public opinion and support into political pressure.  We have assumed that the public’s 70% support translates but we have failed to recognize the War is not over and they wish to exterminate us as a people.  Our enemies are secular, humanist, post-modern, neo-Marxists detesting European Christian values.  This did not start with Obama and Hillary.  This has been ongoing since before the War for Southern Independence.  I would add that it has accelerated with the decline in education especially in history and social studies – how can we expect the young people who attack our monuments to appreciate and honor the historical significance of Confederate monuments when they don’t recognize the parallels between the colonial founders and the Confederate struggle for independence and when they don’t understand and appreciate the perils of a multicultural humanist progressive socialist culture and instead embrace it.

Looking at recent political maps you can readily see that Dixie is still One Nation Under God, a Bible Belt across the heartland.  But, our Southern heritage is the low hanging fruit that they attack when they aspire to control our entire country.  With constant media barrages, PC politicians grandstanding and militant attacks, a Dec 2018 poll showed a recent decline in support of Southern heritage.  We must counter and capitalize on public support quickly before it wanes.  The Southern Victory Campaign has been established to take this offensive.  MakeDixieGreatAgain.com has been created as a website apart from the SCV’s main website to present a public face for this Southern heritage movement.  The main page provides sections to view including: a Confederate Legion with membership to support the campaign, Radio Free Dixie to place radio advertisements to support efforts, The Rest of the Story with audio and video clip messages supporting the Cause, Operations and Tactics presenting productive initiatives, Local Support enumerating resources to use in the fight and, Commander’s Comments providing a monthly video from the SCV CiC, marching orders.   For instance, the https://www.makedixiegreatagain.com/operations-and-tactics.html link provides downloads for responses we are encouraged to make, contacting our US Congressmen to object to the taxpayer-funded biased slanderous Smithsonian article “The Cost of the Confederacy”.  This is an example of the objective of this Southern Victory Campaign, to channel the efforts of our 30,000 members to more effectively lobby our politicians, to promote Southern heritage with positive advertisements and. to provide a consistent message to the public. 

We need strategic and not tactical victories.  We need 3000 in the Confederate Legion, 1000 from each Army to defeat those Anti-Southern forces bent on a Southern cultural genocide.  The cost to join the Confederate Legion is $50/year and the Division has already appropriated funds supporting the Legion and camps can also support with memberships.  These funds will be used to finance a pro-south public relations campaign, to remind and encourage our political representatives that we want our votes to protect and promote Southern heritage and, to convert passive support to Southern heritage activism.  The strategic plan to be implemented seeks to recreate a South where the majority respect their Southern heritage and to force politicians to support our Cause, fearing us and those who support us more than say the NAACP and SPLC.  The campaign seeks to establish a Radio Free Dixie network of stations who support us and/or allow our advertisements to broadcast our message and, to establish an Internet Free Dixie network.  At the local level, the Campaign would provide communicate on and provide guidance to camps and coordinate national initiatives (such as the Smithsonian rebuttal). Locally, at the camp level, we need to encourage Confederate Legion membership and actively coordinate and act on national efforts/initiatives.  This Southern Victory campaign provides outstanding concrete actions for the SCV to engage in to stem the tide of the attacks against our heritage and to vindicate the Cause and we should all consider fully supporting with our time and resources.