From the South Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans’ “SCV Heritage Defense” website:
I am certain I do not need to tell you that we are facing a crisis. In fact, we are facing the greatest threat to our heritage in modern times. The forces arrayed against us are formidable. Their first declared goal is to remove the Confederate Battle flag which flies beside the Confederate Soldier’s monument in Columbia, South Carolina. It was put there in 2000 as part of a political compromise. But do not be fooled into thinking they will stop there. The radical leftists who are driving this crisis are committed to the complete eradication of all things Confederate.
I will not belabor the point with a long list of examples; suffice it to say that if it’s Confederate, they are after it. One liberal group is already cataloging every Confederate monument, street name, and memorial in America. If you have any doubts about the seriousness of this just turn on the news. And don’t think these folks will be satisfied with just Confederate memorials. Many of these same ideologues have just as negative a view of our Revolutionary War heroes and the United States flag. Make no mistake, we are in a war to save American culture.
From a June 25 posting on the S.C. SCV website:
… On the 17th day of June … a mentally disturbed, racist individual entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina under the false pretense of worship. It was with Christian love and care that the Pastor and members of the congregation welcomed that young man.
While the worshippers' motives were pure in the Christian Faith, the motive of the young man was not … . Sadly, the murderer did not respond to the Christian love shown to him for his heart was far from that place of worship.
Thus the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemns the tragedy and we share in the mourning of the families affected by this tragedy that occurred … ..
Within the city of Charleston, the people of the South saw the passage of South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession and the Opening of our War for Southern Independence. It was there … that the Spirit of Liberty still animated the people to endure bombardment day and night from a foreign invader. So it was within that winter, that thousands of Confederate Soldiers turned their hearts to our Lord Jesus Christ and … that once our War for Independence ended in failure some 150 years ago, they endured the crucible of mistreatment, abuse and cruelty under the hands of an occupying Federal Army until 1877.
It was thus with dismay and sadness that we within the Sons of Confederate Veterans have observed a renewed assault upon all vestiges of our Confederate Heritage in the wake of this time of mourning. Those that are antagonistic towards our emblems of heritage have begun to wage an ethnic cultural cleansing, the likes of which have been unseen in quite some time. Legislatures have begun calls anew to change the locations or displays of Confederate-related statues, memorials, automobile plates, flags and other related icons of Southern heritage.
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