A Special Edition of News From Around the Confederation: June 21, 2004
The North Carolina Purge Letter
Reproduced below are the letter and questionnaire that were sent to North Carolina compatriots by the North Carolina Division of the SCV. These compatriots have been given a chance to "see the error of their ways and repudiate" Save the SCV. The recipients' names were taken from the Save the SCV supporters list which appeared on this public website approximately eighteen months ago. Our analysis of the documents appears at the end of this page after the letter and questionnaire.
When our supporters started being harassed, threatened, and dismissed from their positions in the SCV by the Wilson regime, we took the list off of the website. At that time, there were approximately one hundred different messages of support on the list; some from individuals and some from SCV camps, representing approximately 350 North Carolina SCV members. There were also a number of messages from compatriots in other states.
Seven of the North Carolina camps were suspended for supporting Save the SCV. Two or three camps purged their Save the SCV supporters, took the "Wilson loyalty oath" and were readmitted with reduced memberships. (For instance, the Greensboro Camp went into the process with 108 members and came out with 54.) One or two camps and several SCV Life Members simply resigned. Many individual members let their memberships lapse at the end of 2003. The DeArmond Camp in Matthews, North Carolina was disbanded against the will of the members. They were reassigned to the national headquarters camp. They plan to appeal this whole matter to the new SCV administration after the Dalton convention.
An unknown number of compatriots have not received this questionnaire. Apparently, the North Carolina Division's "purpose of protecting your rights as a member in good standing" (see the fifth paragraph of the letter below) extends only to the compatriots who actually received the letter. For the rest of us, we are permanently suspended compatriots or compatriots who have been reassigned to the HQ Camp. As such, we have no SCV voting rights and aren't likely to get any. This questionnaire process is designed to exclude, in one way or an other, any remaining anti Wilson/Sweeney North Carolinians who might show-up at the Dalton convention.
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Save the SCV's Analysis of the Questionnaire
1. The trial in absentia that will result from these questionnaires will apparently be the closest thing to due process that any of these compatriots will get from the North Carolina Division. (The rest of us have had no due process at all.) There has been no "right to face one's accusers" offered by the commission. Presumably, the commissioners will meet in private session with no unbiased observers.
2. Questions # 1 and 2 are designed to enforce the Memphis Resolution, a non-binding resolution that forbids any SCV member from criticizing any other SCV member in any public forum and in particular, to the media. Of all the public name-calling that has gone on in the SCV since the Memphis Resolution was passed in 2002, no one but Save the SCV supporters has ever been charged with this violation.
3. Question # 3 is simple enough and is the REAL reason for the questionnaire.
4. Question # 4 is the "bloody shirt" issue in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Ron Wilson, Denne Sweeney, Kirk Lyons and their representatives, Frank Powell, in the case of this letter, want to make sure that the membership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans stays focused on their designated demons: the SPLC and the media, while Wilson delivers the SCV into the clutches of modern political extremists.
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