CONFRONTING TOTALITARIAN SOCIAL ENGINEERS AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT BULLIES

 

by Tim Manning

Civil confrontations by private citizens with various levels of government agencies and "law-enforcement" agencies and officers have multiplied exponentially in the USA during the last 150 years as egalitarian socialism has destroyed (notice the use of the past tense here) the moral and legal constitutional rights of USA citizens.

The SCV, the UDC, Southern history and heritage societies, the League of the South, the Southern National Congress, Pro-Life and othervery valuable Southern political activist groups remain, all too often, joyfully reconstructed and unknowingly ignorant in keeping their members uninformed and ignorant concerning American laws that could benefit them in their freedom of speech, public assemblies and other activist events that seek to educate the general public about their particular social, moral and political issues. This problem is exacerbated by almost their unanimous dependence upon willing and well-meaning volunteers, meaning unpaid staff, who are not trained professionals with leadership and administrative skills, even when those volunteers may be local church leaders, attorneys or university professors.

This is especially important for "national" and multinational organizations that operate in more than one city, state, region or country. This unfortunate situation often prevails in our movements because of the limited number of people from which to select willing volunteers.

The failure here is almost always NOT DUE to any lack of positive intent and overwhelmingly good will by those who head our various organizations, SCV Camps, etc. Too often skilled people are either not motivated to "serve" the good causes they have joined, because of overwhelming responsibilities in our businesser and/or in our family responsibilities. In the case of Southern organizations there is professional, skilled and well-trained opposition at all levels of society.

Freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of public assembly are specialty areas of American jurisprudence. It is more important than ever that ALL focused special interest religious and Southern groups and their staff receive systematic professional education and regular updates in many areas of our possible influence; in this case, especially training and updating on our legal and moral rights and how to relate to the various levels of law enforcement. Our activities are often more limited and less effective because we do ot understand due process and the legal means available to us. Leadership in most of our Southern organizations that are largely staffed by volunteers who means well, but are not professionally trained for leadership and administrative skills, do not understand the importance of this kind of training, and are relying on their personal judgement and experience which is not sufficient in the American centralized statist society.

My son Christopher recently gave testimony in the NC State courts questioned by the NC State Attorney Generals representing attorney (DA). One of the questions the DA for the State of NC asked my son was "Don't know that you have to do whatever a law-enforcement officer instructs you to do?" My said "No, I do not. It is usually prudent to do so, but increasingly more often it is a violation of my constitutional rights to do so which in the kind of work I do could endanger the lives of others as well as my own life." My son was correct and the NC Superior Court Judge soon instructed the DA about the error of her thinking on this issue. My son had sued the NC Department of Issurance over some important issues that affected his work, and without the expense and benefits of hiring a professional attorney to represent him he won his case. We were told that this was the first case of its kind in the State of North Carolina, and possibly the first of its kind in any State. He broke new legal ground that led to the termination of some staff in that department.

Attorneys generally may specialize in some single area of law. We make a mistake to think that they know more than they really know, even in their specialized areas. My son is 23 years old and knew more about his constitutional rights than did this DA and more than most judges know. My son has a very creative mind and has had specialized training in this area of North Carolina law.

What I am saying is that it is exceedingly unlikely that things are going to improve for those of us in American society who are "distinctively" and "self-consciously" Southern in our culture and constitutional points of view about the governance of our people who deserve freedom and liberty unless we get more serious about support and leadership in our Southern organizations that assert such reasonable positions.

Confident incompetence and arrogant ignorance, no matter how willing and well-meaning, are not enough to faithfully fulfill the wonderfully magnificent Gospel commission given to God's people, not is it enough to help our Southern people survive in this centralized totalitarian state muchless bequeath to our children a country and a form of governance that values and practices the great principles of freedom and liberty. My generation has failed the generation of my children and grandchildren, but we can do better and we have a spiritual obligation to do better than we now do and have done in the past. Before we can convince others of the righteousness of our cause we need to get ourselves better trained, better led and better organized.