PRESS RELEASE:  Contact: Kirk D. Lyons 828-669-5189
11 SEPTEMBER 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Comments on Terrorist Activities

Black Mountain, NC - I write this note within hours of the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The staff and affiliates of the Southern Legal Resource Center sends its prayers and condolences to all the families of the victims of this attack.  We  pray for the speedy recovery of the survivors.  As judicial activists we universally condemn the tragic loss of life caused by fanatics willing to wage war on innocent people to gain their ends.  We support the closing of our borders as long overdue.  Perhaps in the midst of tragedy our country can regain some of its lost sovereignty.  The problem is with foreign nationals who are terrorists, not the overwhelming number of law abiding Americans.   We pray that there will be a measured response to this outrage that will punish the guilty without taking away even more essential liberty from the American people. Erecting a police state around us will not insulate us from a foreign foe.

I  want to counsel our fellow Americans that it is not unpatriotic, in this new era we are entering,  to be a Confederate.  Confederate Southern Americans want justice to be served the same as the rest of our fellow
citizens.  We mourn the loss of innocent Americans, the same as the rest of our  fellow citizens. I caution our fellow citizens not to lash out at our children wearing Confederate flags as “un-American.”   I caution American workers and employers to respect the rights of Confederate Southern Americans in the workplace and not discriminate against them because of false notions of patriotism.  No one people have done more to build this country or defend it than Southerners.  And our fellow citizens need to remember that now.

In this new era of turmoil that began today I predict a very hard and rocky road for Confederate Southern Americans and Southern heritage in general.  The mildest response we can hope for from the rest of the country is : "your struggle is unimportant now.  The cause of your civil liberties needs to take a back seat until the national emergency has passed."  Those of us unwilling to wait for our rights to be recognized by a benevolent government (after the crisis has passed) will be, I predict, the victims of varying levels of persecution.  Prepare for it and remember that we Confederate Southern Americans are a Christian people and that our weapon against tyranny is the justness of our cause and non-violence.

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