[Vision2020] A Response to Chasuk

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

I'm happy to answer Chasuk's question about the neo-Confederates.  The 
several versions of my column define them in terms of the mission statement 
of the League of the South (LOS), of which Wilson's buddy Steve Wilkins was 
a founding director.  I believe that Wilkins has cut all ties to the LOS 
primarily because we have made it an issue in our criticisms of 
Wilson.  What is significant is that neither Wilkins nor Wilson for that 
matter has rejected basic LOS principles.  All that Wilson has said is that 
he does not think that secession will work.

The LOS has declared that 15 southern states should withdraw from the union 
in order to protect the prerogatives of a white Anglo-Celtic elite.  They 
would establish a Calvinist theocracy in which there would be voting rights 
only for propertied males.  Wilson and George Grant nodded in agreement in 
My Town when Wilkins made this incredible claim.

In Wilson's Credenda Agenda (vol. 3: nos. 9, 11), Greg Dickison, member of 
Wilson's Christ Church and a Moscow public defender, states that "if we 
could have it our way," then there would be capital punishment for 
"kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing 
one's parents."  Dickison also quotes biblical passages (without 
qualification) that support slavery as "ordained and regulated by God," 
death for apostasy (Deut. 13.6-9), and cutting off a woman's hand for 
touching a strange man's genitals (Deut. 25.11,12).  I take this as a 
preview of life in the New Confederacy.

I agree with you Chasuk that there are conditions under which Americans 
should rebel and, if absolutely necessary, take the blood of tyrants if our 
liberties are threatened, but I think you will agree with me that these 
guys are not even close to proving to us that things are that bad.

So it is not just secession, but Calvinist theocracy and a rejection of 
formal equality before the law that defines the neo-Confederates.

Nick Gier

"The god you worship is the god you deserve."
~~ Joseph Campbell
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