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| Nazis, the League of the South and Rockwellians |
| 12.26.05 (11:12 pm) [edit] |
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In previous posting we have discussed the bizarre associations of the Mises Institute and LewRockwell.com. One such association was the overlap between them and the League of the South. League of South officials have spoken to Mises Institute seminars and Mises Institute scholars have spoken to the conferences run by the League of the South. Thomas Woods, a prominent Rockwellian, is a founding member of the League of the South. Another prominent Rockwellian identified as a League member is Charley Reese. He is part of the ultra-Catholic group that revolves around Rockwell. Woods complained that one author expressed concerns about Wood’s membership in the League. In fact he was a founding member and co-founder of the group. Woods dismissed the concerns. He wrote a long piece that skirted around the League and it’s racist record and implied it couldn’t be racist because “white supremacist organizations have repeatedly and vocally condemned the League.” Of course such groups routinely condemn each other as even a cursory look at the history of racists groups will reveal. In previous posts I covered some of the extremist positions of this group. Woods pretends that the most extreme view they take is one on secession which he points out prominent American politicians supported in the past. If that were all it was then there would be no issue. I was doing some research today about the extreme Right. These are people who are authoritarians, often violent, almost always racist, etc. In the process I came across an article about the Southern Patriot Shop which is owned by the League of the South which paid $158,000 for the building. The manager is David Sutter. All this is easily confirmed via League of South web sites. The bookstore has a massive Confederate flag flying outside. Really massive. Inside is Joshua Caleb Sutter, an employee and the son of David. Now David Sutter is not unknown in among radical racists. He was known as a major activist in the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist Nazi group. He called himself Wulfran Hall, High Counsel of Aryan Nations. Sutter lived at the compound of the Aryan Nation for awhile. And when the group split the new leader, and Sutter’s mentor, August Kreis, moved the “headquarters&rdquo ; to a trailer not far from the Southern Patriot Shop. Joshua Sutter was previously arrested when he tried to purchase a firearm with the serial number ground off. Sutter also was a member of the Church of the Sons of Yaweh, a racialist Identity church, that preaches that only whites have souls and that Jews are the physical offspring of Satan. After the 9/11 attacks Sutter was appointed by the Aryan Nations as their Minister for Islamic Liaison. His job was to start building alliances with radical Islamic groups. Sutter also penned a “message of solidarity and support” to Saddam Hussein where he expressed his desire that “the evil regime of the United States... shall be utterly wiped off the face of the earth. He apparently got of jail in November and found employment working for the League of the South in their bookstore. The main founder of the group, Michael Hill, has said that people other than white Christians will be allowed to live in the new Confederacy which they envision but only if they acknowledge “the cultural dominance of Anglo-Celtic people and their institutions”. And he has allegedly said that slavery is “God-ordained.” This is a view shared by many extremists, especially individuals associated with the Christian Reconstructionist movement, a movement with close ties to Rockwell and crew. In one article about the bookshop the author interviews one of the League members visiting the shop who says: “People today misunderstand what slavery was all about. Slavery is a natural part of man. It explains that in the Bible. And that’s what really separated the North from the South, is that the South recognized the Bible as the true word of God when it came to slavery.” Rev. Steven Wilkins is a Reconstructionist minister and a board member of the League. Prominent League officials attend his church. He repeats a message very similar to that of Thomas Woods in his infamous essay on the South. The Woods essay, which we covered earlier, was written for a Reconstructionist publication. Wilkins says the major conflict between North and South was one of culture, particularly Christian culture. He claims the North wanted “not merely to destroy slavery and its evils but to destroy Southern culture.” He says: “There was a radical hatred of Scripture and the old Theology, which they felt were so bad for the country. They saw the South as the embodiment of all they hated. Thus, the northern radicals were trying to throw off this Biblical culture and turn the country in a different direction.” This is virtually the same thing said by Woods who approvingly quoted remarks by a theologian who argued: “The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slave-holders — they are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, jacobins on the one side and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battleground, Christianity and atheism the combatants, and the progress of humanity is at stake." This is not a view alien to Woods. He shares it and wrote: “So the War Between the States, far from a conflict over mere material interests, was for the South a struggle against an atheistic individualism and an unrelenting rationalism in politics and religion, in favor of a Christian understanding of authority, social order and theology itself.” Another prominent Reconstructionist involved with the League is John Cripps of Lumberton, Mississippi. He pastors the ‘Confederate Presbyterian Church”. One article on Cripps says relies “in part on racist sources like the 19th-century theologian Robert Louis Dabney. By coincidence, no doubt, Dabney is also favourably quoted in the Woods defense of “Southern culture” against Northern atheism. Cripps had been the state leader for the League but decided to take his group independent. He has also been active in the Far Right Constitution Party. Numerous Rockwellians have used the Rockwell site to promote that party. But that’s for a future discussion. |
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