Yankee Secessionist Back in Cahoots with Neo-Confederates
Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center exposed an unsavory collaboration between the (SVR), a quirky left-leaning band of New England secessionists, and the white supremacist long categorized by the 人兽性交 as a hate group. Their shared goal was to build a national secession movement.
The 人兽性交 report, titled also documented links between SVR founder and leader Thomas H. Naylor and other extremist organizations. Naylor has appeared on the hate radio program 鈥淭he Political Cesspool,鈥 which is run by white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens board member James Edwards. He is also an associate scholar at the Atlanta-based Abbeville Institute, which is run by former League of the South leader Donald Livingston and is devoted to the ignored 鈥渁chievements of white people in the South.鈥
Naylor initially denounced the 人兽性交 story, calling it 鈥渁 vicious attack spearheaded by the well-financed, hate-mongering, witch-hunting, left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center.鈥 He cited no factual errors. But a few weeks later, he had second thoughts. In a letter that appeared to signal an end to the alliance, he called on the League to distance itself from racism and hatred. In the July 4, 2008, , he wrote, 鈥淪o long as the albatross of racism hangs around its neck, the LOS can never be a truly effective partner for SVR.鈥 His own group, he said, 鈥渞isks being tainted by the scourge of racism simply by associating with the LOS.鈥 He provided a few helpful suggestions for the League: Renounce racism, recruit black members, bring in black speakers, and promote Southern racial unity. And one more thing: 鈥渢he Confederate flag has got to go!鈥
The divorce didn鈥檛 last long, however. Naylor and a close ally, prominent New York leftist writer and editor Kirkpatrick Sale, are now scheduled to speak at a being organized by the Abbeville Institute. They will share the stage at the Charleston, S.C., conference in February with neo-Confederate scholars such as Thomas DiLorenzo, Clyde Wilson and Livingston, the Abbeville Institute founder. All three have current or past links with the League of the South.
(Go for profiles of DiLorenzo, Livingston and Wilson.)
The title of the conference is 鈥淪tate Nullification, Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order.鈥
Reached by telephone at his home in Vermont, Naylor declined to discuss the state of his relations with the neo-Confederates. 鈥淭his has nothing to do with race,鈥 he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the 人兽性交 that鈥檚 the hate group. Why don鈥檛 you go f--- yourself?鈥