Please forgive the double negative in the title, but it was a good way I thought to bring focus to the point of this posting.
      Over the course of the past couple of months, in cyber world and in real life I have read, and heard with my own two ears, some most disparaging words in regards to being a member of the SCV. Frankly, I am pretty much filled up to my eyes with it.
      I think it is spitefull and flat out wrong to "lump" all members of the SCV as Grannys, who do nothing more than meet, eat , then retreat, and there are those in it's ranks who do more than polish gravestones and attend the occassional parade. When I read something from some non SCV member stating such, it just brings back into the light, how once again that the Southern Movement is one of it's own worst enemies. Instead of focusing on the battle with the Pee Cee Feces crowd, there are some from within that seem more comfortable bashing our own.
      We should look back to the WBTS for examples of how not fight the enemy as well as how we should fight them. The troubles that plauged our ancestors are still hanging around today. Most of the time it is nothing more than one man's perception of how something should be approached and how that differs from his neighbor of sorts. The Confederate government itself was the cause of the loss of that war, not the soldier. Even the greatest of our Southern heros, screwed up. Had Marse Robert and some others not held the opinion that Partisian tactics should be avoided in the early going of that war, there could have most certainly been a different outcome to the war.
      As someone who has been in a warzone, I can tell ya first hand, when you take the fight to someone's backyard, it is tough to deal with.
Sure it just made the South stronger and fight harder, but the people of the North would not have been so big on following the Linconites if it had been their farms, towns and cities being layed to waste. But because of a difference in opinion such tactics were all too frequently used on friendly forces.....
      The SCV or any Southern org for that matter is faced with the same pitfalls and problems as our ancestors. Fortunately we don't have folks shooting at us yet; and I for one damn sure hope that day never comes. I have been shot at all I care to be !!!!!!!!
      Most who know me, know how I feel about the SCV.......for those that don't, well let us say " I am just damn proud to be a member." Now, it's the only organization that I am a member of that isn't made up primarly of American Indians . However there are several of us included in the ranks of the SCV. Sometime I would like to learn just how many. I am hoping that the numbers would correspond to the numbers that served the CSA in various units during the war 61-65.
     I don't belong to the LoS, but I have a ton of friends who do! I respect them and their organization, and I view them as allies in the fight. We don't always agree, but the respect is there non the less. The same can be said of several other Southern organizations of whom I have friends in and have worked with. I would never bad mouth these folks or their orgs.......unfortunately that can't be said in return as to some opinions of the SCV.
      What I am trying to express here is how wrong it is to judge all by the actions of others. Of course I still hold to the teaching that only God has the right to judge, and that belief makes me as old as the ark itself I suppose. Judging all by the actions of some is exactly what the enemy does, TO ALL OF US!!!!!!!!! I won't be a part of that. There are some in the SCV that don't like me for sure. Some think me too active, some think me too granny. I don't think I'm either. I know for sure I ain't a granny, and I believe in my heart I should be more active than I am. I do as good a job as I can considering I am so far from Dixie geographically.
      It is infuriating to me and to mine, to be here in the land of the great Ape, and try so hard to be pro South. We have made more than our share of sacrafice for the Cause. When an attorney here in the county likened us to the 9 11 terrorists, well it hit really hard. Imagine how that feels, when someone with way more power and money than you, makes a verbal attack and there isn't a thing you can do about it. Imagine having your tires slashed, and windows in your home busted out...........imagine losing your employement because of your beliefs in the South and her people...........Does that sound like a granny? I think not. Yet these are the things we have endured for the Cause over the last two years. As far as to the terrorist name calling....well that's ridiculous.......and from where Im sitting, it appears that it is me and mine who has been terrorised. When people make threats towards your wife and child well that's terror. Now, I can take care of myself. I'm free, red / white, and long past 21, and been around the block once or twice and there aint alot that skeers me. Threats to my loved ones scares me. However, that doesn't make me a coward now does it? No it doesn't! Nor does believing my CSA ancestors were right in their fight, and that Abe Lincoln was the worst thing that ever happened to this nation make me a terrorist.
     For the record, living in Illinois does not always make one a lincoln loving yankee either. I wrote an article last year called "Dixie Knows no Boundries", I believe that to this day the only boundries to Dixie are in one's heart and soul.
In that area, my borders are wide open.
      So having covered the things of late that have personally "ticked me off", I will close by wishing all reading this think about pulling together as one Southern Unit, instead of a hundred splinter groups. I certainly am not saying we all join one organization, I mean let's stop badmouthing each other. Leave that BS to the real enemy. As many friends as I believe I have, there certainly is room in my life for more. As to enemies ....well ,let us say I have my share.
     For the glory and grandeur of the Old South, and for the people of the New South yet to come.....

T Warren
Heritage Officer Knox camp 2022 Ga. Div. SCV
Past Commander Blankenship camp 1802
Former Illinois Div. Heritage Defense Officer