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PRESS RELEASE:
Contact: Kirk D. Lyons 828-669-5189
Confederate Vigil Promised
Black Mountain, NC - The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) goes on record as opposing Rep. Lon Burnam's attempts to remove all Confederate statues from the University of Texas campus through House Bill 953. If passed the new law would constitute legal ethnic cleansing against Texans of Confederate -Southern American ancestry. The SLRC promises to challenge the law in court if passed.
Further, if H.B. 953 becomes law and the statues of
Confederate Heroes are removed, the SLRC promises an ongoing weekday
Confederate Flag vigil on the University of Texas campus. "We will
put a uniformed Confederate soldier or a lady in widow's clothes
carrying a large Confederate flag in front of the site of every removed
Confederate statue on campus," promised Kirk D. Lyons, Chief Trial
Counsel of the SLRC and a 1978 graduate of UT.
The SLRC has the capability to carry out its
promise. Consider: It was the SLRC that recommended the current
Confederate flag vigil in front of the Texas Supreme Court Building
after the Gov. Bush removed the Confederate dedicatory plaques.
The vigil has been in force continuously every weekday since June. It was the SLRC that proposed a weekday
Confederate Flag vigil in front of the ALCOA plant in Badin, North
Carolina after company officials banned Confederate symbols from the
ALCOA workplace. From June to September, every workday, from 8 -
200 people showed up with Confederate Flags in front of the Badin ALCOA
plant. In September ALCOA caved in and now the Sons of Confederate
Veterans will be teaching sensitivity course to ALCOA employees. The SLRC staff was integral in planning the
largest Confederate flag rally held in modern times: the Heritage 2000
rally in Columbia, SC on Jan 8 where 12,000 flag waving Confederates
participated. "Let the Texas legislature do the wrong thing, and
I will be ready to pack my bags for Texas," said vigil veteran and
former NAACP branch President H.K. Edgerton, who serves as Chairman of
the SLRC Board of Advisors. The Southern Legal Resource Center, Inc. is a
non-profit, tax-exempt South Carolina public law firm that specializes
in cases involving victims of Southern Heritage outrages. PLEDGE TODAY!
If anyone has received this who does not wish to be on our distribution list, please let us know. Our address is SLRC, P.O. Box 1235, Black Mountain, NC 28711. Phone: 828-669-5189 Dr. Payne and Atty. Lyons SCV members, I.N. Giffen,758, Black Mountain, NC
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