Lee-Jackson Friends

Via Nancy

As you no doubt have heard, due to international media attention, the bigoted Lexington City Council passed their flag ban ordinance to prevent the public display of the flags that General Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson fought under from being displayed along the streets of Lexington for Lee-Jackson Day.

We are going to begin the process of moving forward with a legal challenge to this ordinance and will continue our public relations campaign against these actions. Furthermore, we are going to call for a selective boycott of the City of Lexington and ALL businesses who do not ask to be listed as flag friendly. This will be accomplished with an online travel guide that will be made available online. We will advertise this boycott in publications related to the War Between the States and others.

The city's actions are a direct slap in the face of all descendants of Confederate Veterans and lovers of history.

Please visit the website www.saveourflags.webs.com

This website will stay live and has many updates currently including links to media stories. It will serve as the initial host site for the boycott and travel guide as well. Please feel free to send city council a warm thank you! Their contact information is there as well.

If you would like to contribute to the fight, please send a donation to The Stonewall Brigade Camp #1296 SCV at PO Box 466 Lexington, VA 24450.

As far as Lee-Jackson Day goes, we are going to consider our options at this point. If we hold the event as usual, the city council will feel correct in assuming that tourists will continue to flock to town despite their actions. We are considering everything from outright cancellation of the event until the issue is resolved to hosting it in the adjoining City of Buena Vista. ( I vote to hold it in Buena Vista. BT)

Below is an email I received from H.K. Edgerton who came to Lexington to help us oppose this matter, I think it sums up what happened pretty well.

Sincerely,
Brandon Dorsey

--Commander The Stonewall Brigade #1296 SCV

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Dixie and H.K. at the conclusion of the H.L. Hunley Funeral/Parade, April 17 2004.

Dear Commander Dorsey,

Having the Honorable Mayor of the Sister City of Lexington;" Buena Vista, Virginia ", come out and not only welcome those of us who gathered at the home place of the Honorable Confederate General Paxton to began our 10 mile March into Lexington alongside his Police Chief and other staff , but the words of kindness and support of our efforts was heart warming; in lieu of the fact that the Mayor of Lexington who is a descendant of the man who would deliver the oath of office to CSA President, the Honorable Jefferson Davis, would lead the charge to ban the Southern Cross. And to make matters worse the Publisher of The News-Gazette being a direct descendant of General Paxton where we stood, proclaiming his shame of the General and his stand against tyranny.

I wish that these scalawags would have joined us and witnessed the show of love and support from the populous that we experienced as we made our way to Lexington City Hall.

I must add that I was quite put back to learn that a Russian so called history professor from W&L (Washington & Lee University) would initiate the these matters against our Flag and Heritage, especially with the profound horrors Russia committed in the African slave trade then and now. And then the shame of the Black transplant former marine (Al Hockaday) who now own a shop (Shenandoah Attic and Victoria Parlor) in downtown Lexington proclaiming his hate of the Christian Cross of St. Andrew, while at the same time not only displaying a pewtered copy of the Confederate submarine ship the CSA Hunley in his store front window, but also having his shelves packed with it for sell. I now can truly say that I have a sense of what folks felt about Benedict Arnold.

The public hearing was a farce and a sham and a disgrace to any rules of public decorum as we were forewarned. The Mayor had clearly packed the room with naysayers and allowed them to spit out there lies, and in typical treacherous political fashion set the rules of engagement allowing these folks to rant and rage while calling those of us gathered in the hall; racist, bigots, truck drivers, Nazi's and a whole variety of other demeaning descriptors, and at the same time telling us that should we respond in kind , we would be removed from the city property.

The Public Hearing was a sham, the decision had been made prior to any comment from the public.The target of this ban in this Sacred City of Lee, Jackson, Shields, Miller, and Lewis was the Honorable Symbol they were sworn to defend and in that defense watch so many lives come to an end.

I could not have been more proud than I was when you made your presentation to this traitorous body with the exception of councilman Cox, who like Southern Legal Resource Center Chief Trial Counselor, the Honorable Kirk D. Lyons has serious reservations that this Ordinance with pass Constitutional scrutiny and review. Even though the Council would ask for a legal opinion from a Constitutional Professor of W&L who would say that it would. I was troubled that they would ask about this legal matter from this person and not their own attorney.

This decision is tantamount to an act of war against the Southern people and their social and cultural norms. And Sir, I stand at your disposal to do battle against those traitors who turned their backs on not only their very own ancestors, but also on the people of the South who have suffered far for too long for making an honorable stand in defense of their homeland and our now broken Republic. God bless you, and please invite my little brother, Terry Lee and I again.

Your brother,

HK