<DIV>Libertarian leader Harry Browne dies
Ran as party's presidential candidate in '96, 2000
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=49093
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Harry Browne, RIP
Lew Rockwell remembers a great libertarian.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/harry-browne.html</DIV>
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Otto Scott died in May. A GREAT loss, albeit one that escaped our attention for the most part.
Otto Scott was one of the four or five men that founded the Christian right of the past half century -- the one with a brain, I mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Scott
Went searching for info on one of my all-time heroes of pen and press, W.W. Mims, and found that he had died in February. I don't know if any of your saw my tribute to him in the Nov. 01 Dixie Diary—it's below, after his obituary. You can read the Augusta fishwrap's version (hmmm, it spells his name two different ways) and then the truth.
Trying to newly memorialize W.W. Mims and Robert E. Lee in the same evening.......it doesn't seem the words want to come forth. Thank God, great men live forever in memory and lore.
I will mention that the great newspaper he produced each week is no longer—a few potted details below.
W.W. Mims(EDGEFIELD, S.C.)
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EDGEFIELD, S.C. - The "bold editor" of The Edgefield Advertiser (so called by Bass and Thompson in their book on Thurmond), William Walton Mims after fighting hard at the end of his life with several stays in the hospital, relinquished the fight to pass peacefully into death on the morning of February 12, 2007. Mims ended his four years of retirement from editorship of the Advertiser with his death at 95. Mims assumed the position of editor of the oldest newspaper in South Carolina at the death of his father in May of 1937, to remain in this position for 66 years. Born to Florence Adams and Julian Landrum Mims on September 11, 1911, William Walter Mims was baptized into the Edgefield First Baptist Church at an early age. His Education was at Edgefield County Public Schools, Randolph Macon Academy in Virginia, and The Citadel, leaving there to marry Sue Padgett of Edgefield, deceased Nov. 19, 2003 (they celebrated 70 years of marriage before her death). In1943, he entered the Navy; first as an editor of the a Navy publication in Newport News, Va; later, on board the U.S.S. Randolph which met with open battle in the Pacific arena in World War II. Returning home from the war, he began anew his work with the Advertiser, in his off-time seeking to help develop Edgefield County. He served on a committee that chose the name for the Central Savannah River Area. In 1949, Mims acquired the Savannah River farm that was called the Pickens-Bauskett River Plantation. As he developed part of this land into a cattle farm, his lifetime interest in nature, hunting and fishing grew. He joined others in restocking the county with deer and wild turkey, some of those animals going to the wilds of his farm, always seen informally as a wildlife preserve. He offered himself for political office several times, but lost each time. Through his editorial columns he strongly supported and pushed for new industry, local control and less government intervention, agricultural development, and better schools, but one's that were community based. This put him in opposition to the large comprehensive high schools that developed away from community centers, an unpopular at the time. One of Mims greatest struggles was with the local government's wish to develop a water line coming from the Savannah River, first mentioned in the late 60's. He wished it to be directed to areas of the county for development. Those working to get the waterline were allegedly an influence in boycotting the advertising in his newspaper. Mims sued the "powers that be," and won on an anti-trust verdict that awarded him a sum of money and the chance to reclaim his advertising, which he never did. Mims will be laid to rest in a family cemetery, behind the site of a monument that he built and dedicated to "The Great Triumvirate" - Dr. Richard Furman, Dr. Wm. Bullein Johnson and Dr. Basil Manley. He developed Academy Gardens, the monument site open to the public, doing most of the work himself. After the early 80s, his newspaper moved more from a community newspaper to that of a conservative political organ that reached beyond the county, where his conservative views gave voice to many as the "un-politically correct newspaper.'' In 2003 he transferred the ownership to a family member who has since returned the Advertiser to a more community spirited publication. He is survived by his daughter Suzanne Mims Derrick, present editor of the Advertiser, and William Walton Mims Jr., MD, of Orangeburg. W.W. Mims will be buried beside his wife and close to two children who preceded him in death: Florence Mims Bryan and Thomas Adams Mims. Pallbearers will be his grandchildren. From these grandchildren are 20 great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. Mercantile Funeral Home is handling the services: a visitation at the Edgefield Advertiser building (formerly Baptist Association building), 117 Courthouse Sq., Edgefield, from 5 to 7 p.m. Wed., Feb. 14; burial designated private on Thursday morning at Academy Gardens. Contributions may be made in his memory to The Edgefield Hospital, P.O. Box 590, 29824 Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com storyPhotos();
<DIV>Sept. 11 -- You know what the main headline of the day was. The second most significant news item is Mr. William Walton Mims, Sr., turning 90 years old. </DIV>
<DIV><X-TAB></X-TAB>Who is William Walton Mims? Only the editor and publisher of my weekly column's flagship paper... and aside from his service as an Army Air Force pilot during World War II, he's occupied the editor's chair at theAdvertiser since 1937! In a better world Mr. Mims' name would be known and respected more than any politician's, because he's been a fearless warrior for truth all his working life. He used to do aerobatics in his plane above the SC capitol for relaxation.</DIV>
<DIV><X-TAB></X-TAB>The Advertiser is SC's oldest newspaper and the emblem of a district that has birthed more statesmen than you can count. Besides all these fine qualities the paper has an indescribable aura of old-fashioned decency about it. If you think you already know who all the great columnists are, you may be missing a few if you've never seen this humble, homemade-looking but power-packed eight-pager. All who send me any feedback this month will receive a free sample copy. </DIV>
<DIV>The Advertiser has few ads, allegedlybecause a controversial son of the district named Strom Thurmond has made war against it for years because of its fearless exposure of his and others pols' nefarious deeds, a fact mentioned in the recent Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography. In the Sept. 12 edition, veteran commentator Robert L. Slimp writes of how the paper has had influence far beyond its turf, especially during the "civil rights" period. Slimp says this prompted "the late great Bill Loeb, editor of the Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire, to write [Mr. Mims] a letter saying `Walton, it seems you and I are about the only two editors left in the country who are willing to stand up for the truth and defend the Constitution.'"</DIV>
<DIV><X-TAB></X-TAB>Much of the SC legislature reads the Advertiser. A friend recently complimented me on a piece in it and I asked him how he knew about it. He replied that former GA Gov. Lester Maddox had given him a subscription . . .</DIV></DIV>
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Pastor Chuck Kuhler has gone to his reward. I never met him but the world was a brighter place for his presence. He was one of the Christian Identity leaders who who had an active ministry, reaching out to (for instance) celto-germanic people in prison with new, or further,knowledge of their heritage as today's literal, physical Israelites.
He published a Directory of Christian Identity, which included anybody who wanted to be listed, and a newsletter full of horrible badnews and great exciting Bible insights on them.
His correspondence revealed him a gentleman as well—it, like his newsletter et al, were editorially flawless.
Michael Reed is a friend and former editor of mine. We need him doing a newspaper again—somehow. I just had a most edifying visit wth his family. Anybody want to attendBro. Reed'sWednesday night Bible studies, contact me.
Some of you will know of Dick Niemela, who helped us work against SPLC's brainwashing programs on military bases:
http://www.scripturesforamerica.org/html2/jm0100a.htm
The arrangements for the funeral service of Pastor Charles Kuhler who passed away on Saturday, 4 August 2007,are scheduled for Friday afternoon, 10 August 2007.
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<DIV>Pastor Kuhlerhad been formally ordained and held a B.S. and M.Theology and was also the publisher of the Virginia Christian Israelite as well as numerous booklets, papers and articles on the Christian Faith and the truths of Christian Israel: that this land of America with its "unwalled villages","gathered out of many people, brought forth out of the nations" (of Ancient Israel), andis the final gathering locale of those who are the focus of the Bible, the lost sheep of the house of Israel.</DIV>
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<DIV>This service will be held at the Loudon Funeral Chapel, 158 Catoctin Circle, S.E. Leesburg, VA. 20177.</DIV>
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<DIV>Visitation will be held at 1300 hours (1:00 P.M.) and the service will be held at 1400 hours, (2:00 P.M.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Burial services will follow the Chapel service which will be conducted by Pastor Michael Reed of South Carolina, and Mauertown, VA. Pastor Reed was one of the young men whom Pastor Kuhler had ordained into the service of Christian Israel, several years ago. </DIV>
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<DIV>For more details, feel free to email me or call. (703) 834-1037.</DIV>
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<DIV>J. Richard Niemela</DIV>
<DIV>Reston, VA.</DIV>
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D. James Kennedy has gone to his reward. The message below (from the wonderful people at Grassfire) starts with some good Ron Paul news and segues into the other subject.
Before Dr. Kennedy went neocon on the war, he was one of the strongest influences for truth in the entire country. He remained such even afterward if you can manage to look beyond this strange sellout in concert with Adrian Rogers, RIchard Land (SBC) et al. He was a great inspiration to me. His radio show was indescribably positive, hard-hitting, politically incorrect, and strongly, orthodoxly Christian.If his successors know the value of truth, the great man's huge, sprawlinglegacy of recorded interviews, lectures, sermons et al. will be forever maintained as an example of what the church is really supposed to be doing.
Unlike most conservative and fundamentalistministers (or Reformed, whatever) Dr. Kennedy knew the meaning of good versus bad church music, and often upheld the highest standards in it at Coral Ridge. Coral Ridge and his other organizations were meccas for all these disciplines.
DJK was articulate, perspicuous, sometimes (rightly) derisive, and seemed cut out of the same cloth as the founding fathers he admired and championed. I've long since gravitated away from hisempire but am deeply saddened to know he's gone.
<DIV>** Grassfire Report to key team members</DIV>
<DIV>Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance</DIV>
<DIV>Date: 9/5/2007</DIV>
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<DIV>Grassfire just released to the national media the results</DIV>
<DIV>of last week’s Straw Poll, which thousands of Grassfire</DIV>
<DIV>team members took part in. To our knowledge, this is the</DIV>
<DIV>largest national scientific survey of grassroots conservatives</DIV>
<DIV>in the nation, with over 39,000 people participating.</DIV>
The results were fascinating:
--On the very eve of Fred Thompson announcement, Thompson has increased his lead among grassroots conservatives and now holds a 2-to-1 margin over his nearest competitor, Mitt Romney.
--Ron Paul saw the biggest gain and now is third amonggrassroots conservatives.
--As far as grassroots conservatives are concerned,
<DIV> John McCain is done.</DIV>
--A Hillary nomination is now seen as inevitable.
Please go here to view the full results, with statistical breakdown on the key questions. Also, please post your reflections here.
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<DIV>+ + Thoughts on Dr. D. James Kennedy</DIV>
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This morning, I learned that Dr. D. James Kennedy, founder</DIV>
<DIV>of Coral Ridge Ministries and many other world-impacting</DIV>
<DIV>outreaches, went home to be with the Lord. For 50 years,</DIV>
<DIV>Dr. Kennedy called our nation back to the Gospel and to</DIV>
<DIV>our biblical heritage.</DIV>
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<DIV>For many years, I had the opportunity to serve Dr. Kennedy's</DIV>
<DIV>ministry in a variety of support roles. When we launched</DIV>
<DIV>Grassfire, one of the first organizations we worked with</DIV>
<DIV>was Dr. Kennedy's Center for Reclaiming America.
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<DIV>Dr. Kennedy often issued the charge for Christians to be</DIV>
<DIV>both "salt" and "light" in society -- to offer the hope</DIV>
<DIV>of the Gospel as a beacon for souls while working to</DIV>
<DIV>preserve our culture as faithful citizens. We would do</DIV>
<DIV>well to follow his example.
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<DIV>Steve Elliott, President</DIV>
<DIV>Grassfire.org
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<DIV>P.S. If you want to read more about Dr. Kennedy, go here:
</DIV>
<DIV>http://www.coralridge.org/blog/BrianFisher.aspx?mid=
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<DIV>+ +</DIV>
<DIV>(Note: Please do not "reply" directly to this e-mail message.</DIV>
<DIV>This e-mail address is not designed to receive your personal</DIV>
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Go to FireSociety.com and post your comments so that the Grassfire staff along with thousands of citizens can benefit from your thoughts and opinions.
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September 05, 2007
D. James Kennedy Dies
<A href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070905/D8RFCFJ80.html" target="_blank">The Associated Press:
</A><A name=more></A>The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a Presbyterian pastor who became one of the nation's most prominent Christian broadcasters and a key figure in the rise of the religious right, died Wednesday, a church spokesman said. He was 76. Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church spokesman John Aman said Kennedy died at about 2:15 a.m. at his home in Fort Lauderdale. He had suffered a heart attack in December and announced his retirement last month.<A name=more></A> Kennedy took the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale from a congregation of 45 in 1959 to a megachurch of nearly 10,000 members today.
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To me, Dr. Kennedy was the last of the old generation of well known pastors who stood up for God andTruth. This is the first I have heard of his death and it saddens me. I too enjoyed his messages on the Christian founding of this country and the intellectual arguments he made for advancing Christ and the Truth.
From today's post of Alan Stang's latest article in "News with Views," I read sadly of the "late great Dr. Susan Huck," I was unaware that she had passed away. A great loss to the anti-NWO movement. I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Huck some many years ago when she wrote frequent articles for the now defunct Conservative Review which was based in Arlington VA. I also bought and read several of her books, including a classic called "Why Do We Americans Submit to This?" During my last phonecon w/ Dr. Huck she mentioned that she was in failing health, and it seems it's true. Requiescant in Pace
How interesting—sorry I never came across her or her work. If you know of any online, say on.
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Straws in the Wind was a great little newsletter. I first knew it (ca. 1990?) as Patriots Co-Operative Mailing. It carried terrific news plus ads for 100% natural dairy products. A few years thence Palmer (alias Gabriel) announced he couldn't afford to keep publishing (or something), but would go on with it if all who were enjoying it would send $5. We did, and PCM was reborn as the equally irresistible Straws in the Wind newsletter.
Too bad you only get some top patriot bios when they die!
Memorial for Lloyd Earl Palmer</span></font><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Those among us who were acquainted with a most dedicated and courageous Christian, Lloyd Palmer of Albert Lea, Mn. are advised that he has recently passed on from this life -- But only to emerge in a future date as one of His Overcomers: a rare and most distinguished person, who through his life and works, became a very devout Christian Israelite and leader to those in America's Christian Israelite congregation. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">A true pillar in God's temple, someone whom I came to know and rely upon from within the Christian Israelite leadership, Lloyd Palmer was a mentor and true candidate for what the Lord outlined in Revelation 3:12 as being the unique qualifications for His Overcomers: </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is a new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name."</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">In 1985, and as revised in 2000, Lloyd had written a popular and controversial book whose contents still reverberates within the Christian Israelite congregations; the book titled -- The Two Creations--Elohiym and Yahovah in Genesis. Its rare insights delve into the words of Genesis about our origins as Adamic and subsequent Israelite people as opposed to the common concept that all humans came from Adam. The book's content defies the current promotion of a "Catholic" Universalism; the "brotherhood of man" concept that denies the special and unique status granted to true Chosen Israelites with the Lord; with their Kinsman Redeemer. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Lloyd's other popular book, his "Bible Glossary" provides some deeply thought-through commentary on many of the Bible's seemingly complex wording and doctrinal issues. Lloyd's rare and gifted insight into these issues clarified them and helped the reader to associate them with the Bible theme of a Chosen people of the Lord. It was recently republished and both books are yet available.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Lloyd was also noted for his bi-monthly publication, "Straws in the Wind" which he continued to prepare and mail up to the very end of his life. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">We look forward to meeting with him at the resurrection when those whom He has chosen will appear, having met the qualities that the Lord promised when He said in Matt. 25:21:</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">"Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">J. Richard Niemela</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Reston, VA.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> Lloyd Palmer </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Memorial for Lloyd Earl Palmer</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota on Aug. 11, 1937</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Departed on May 22, 2009 and resided in Albert Lea, MN. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"></span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Visitation: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Service: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Cemetery: Hillcrest Cemetery </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Please click on the links above for locations, times, maps, and directions. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Lloyd Earl Palmer was born on August 11, 1937 to Clayton and Juanita (Schmidt) Palmer in Albert Lea. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. Lloyd graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1955. He was very athletic in school playing football and track. He was also the captain of the track team. Lloyd married the love of his life, JoAnne Hansen, on April 2, 1955 in Iowa. The couple made their home in Albert Lea where Lloyd worked in the family owned Minnow Wholesale Business. He was a member of the John Birch Society and Elks Lodge. Lloyd was an avid poker player, hunter and fisherman. He was also a writer having published two books and a newsletter called "Straws In The Wind". Lloyd enjoyed gardening, photography and growing apples in his orchard. He loved being able to provide for his family through his hunting, fishing and gardening. The highlight of Lloyd's Life was spending time with his grandchildren.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Survivors include his wife of 54 years, JoAnne Palmer; children, Pam (Dennis) Gilbertson, Laurie (Tim) Kasper, Julie (Walter) McKoskey, Lynn (Brad Bartness) Williams, Cheryl (Paul) Erickson; grandchildren, Christopher Williams, Sara Luna (Gilbertson), Rhianna (Wayne) Iverson, Doug Gilbertson, Bryce Williams, Thomas McKoskey, Joshua Kasper, Chad Erickson, Adam Erickson, Tana Erickson, Ellie Erickson, and Lauren Erickson; eight great-grandchildren; mother, Juanita Palmer; sisters, Joan (George) Carlson and Karen (Dallas) Breamer; brothers, David (Lois) Palmer and Bruce (Patty) Palmer; many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Lloyd was preceded in death by his father, Clayton Palmer. </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Lloyd was a loving husband and father and will be dearly missed by his family.</span>
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Incredibly, we've lost two of our most storied, rightly renowned Jewish truth crusaders in the space of six months. Alan Stang died what, 3-4 weeks ago, with a few appropriate tributes in the patriot media.... but on trying Schwarz's name in Wikipedia on a whim, I'm shocked to see he died in January aged 96 without a word being said by anybody within my hearing or reading.
We who got into the real world over the past 20 years were perhaps aware of Dr. Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade but, well, other than that (and a few copies of his newsletter glimpsed at friends' house) I for one never got around to checking his stuff out much less distribulting it or thanking him for his lifetime of service to the Cause.
Wikipedia: <br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">In 1940, Dr Schwarz, in the aftermath of a debate with an Australian
Communist, became compelled to learn all that he could of Communist
ideology, and subsequently became an expert on Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He founded and was the chairman of the not-for-profit CACC, based originally in Sydney, and subsequently in Long Beach, California,
and remained in this position until the late 1990s. During his time
with the CACC, Schwarz gave many lectures and seminars across America
on the subject of Communism, placing an emphasis on the role of
education in understanding Marxism-Leninism from the source documents
of that movement, by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong
and others. Under Schwarz's leadership, for some decades the CACC also
paid for an orphanage in India, for underprivileged children.
His Southern California School of Anti-Communism filled the 16,000-capacity Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena from August 28</span> - September 1</span>, 1961. According to Morrie Ryskind, writing at the time in The Los Angeles Times,
"The evening sessions, featuring nationally known speakers, were
televised, and those who should know tell me that some three million
people listened in nightly. At any rate, I can honestly say that in my
25 years in Los Angeles I have never known a local event that so
completely captured the enthusiasm of the city."
Dr Schwarz wrote a fortnightly newsletter for nearly 40 years, and three books. The first, You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)
was first published in 1960 and sold well over one million copies
worldwide when its copyright was with Prentice Hall, and hundreds of
thousands of copies later, when Dr Schwarz regained the copyright.
The second was The Three Faces of Revolution published in 1972.
His autobiography, Beating the Unbeatable Foe: One Man's Victory over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy was published in 1996. In it (Foreword, xix), is published a photo of a letter in which US President Ronald Reagan, with whom Schwarz had been friendly for many years, wrote (on 4 January 1990), inter alia,
"Fred, you're to be commended for your tireless dedication in trying to
ensure the protection of freedom and human rights ...". The book also
published accolades by William F. Buckley, Jr., Reed Irvine, John Stormer, et al..I try to reach and commend our living legends -- but of course, they're usually so active it doesn't mean that much to them. I guess if I have time to do that I must not be fighting hard enough?[img]smileys/smiley5.gif[/img]
The Idaho Observer is another of the last handful of real national newspapers in existence. Let's hope it survives the loss of Mr. Harkins!<br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><div>
IN
MEMORY OF DON HARKINS</font>
http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri124.htm
</font>Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO
September 27,
2009
NewsWithViews.com</font>
Whenever I
called Idaho over the last ten years to ask advice, to get reassurance or to
just mull over life’s unexplainable events, Don would most often answer the
phone. His chipper, lilting voice would greet me with, "Idaho Observer!" I
would smile and retort, "So, what are you observing today?" </font>
Never missing
a beat, he would recognize my voice, and with unforgettable charm and that
hallmark giggle, he would respond, "Well hello there!" He’d then launch into the
“hot story” of the day, sharing what he was writing, researching or pondering.
No matter how busy or how pressed for time, Don always carved out space to share
his wit, generate a few laughs, and tell unforgettable stories. He made me feel
special, like I was the most important person in the world for which he’d drop
everything at a moment’s notice and give full attention. More likely than not,
he had the same effect on all his friends. </font>
While his
assessments of world events were sometimes disturbing, they were always spot-on.
Don’s wisdom ran deep, and the years of banter and debate contributed
substantially to my personal growth. I will cherish the many thought-provoking
“Don-isms”, delivered in a way that all of us knew so well as “typically Don.”
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The world has
lost a Giant Placeholder for truth, freedom and liberty. Don’s work will live on
through the hundreds of amazing pieces he crafted with insight and style. Two of
my favorites, “Are Americans Dying for Martial Law?” and “Slavery and the Eight
Veils” will remain timeless examples of his quest to explain the madness in the
world around us.</font>
Don Harkins was instrumental in shaping and
guiding thousands who have the eyes to see. As a gentle man and a gentleman, Don
will long be remembered for his laughter and the love he selflessly gave to so
many persons, from all walks of life. I am proud to be counted among his
friends.</font>
http://proliberty.com/observer/</font></div>
My longtime associate Dr. Clarkson died March 1. Within the same month of each other we lost him, Eustace Mullins and the great but little-known Dan Gentry of Christian Research in Eureka Springs, AR.......and got the Obama Health Dictatorship. Chile got its earthquake. Other strangely assorted losses occurred too, including the death of Clarkson's sister-in-law.
Clarkson was my main associate in the Cause, my boss and hero. Below is my obituary for SHNV -- alas, it conveys nothing of the actual scope of the man's work or character. What J.S. Bach was to music, Robert was to freedom technology -- that's about the best I can do for a summary. Neither man was appreciated in his lifetime. I only hope the world has what it takes to remember and benefit from him as it should through coming centuries.
The obit was most recently updated for sending to a reporter at the Florence (SC) daily. Everybody who reads this is a freer man, woman or child because of him.
A true Confederate hero died this week
I (Nelson Waller) know many of you were aware of the extraordinary life of Dr. Robert Clarkson and his many, many years of all-out warfare against the new world order. And I know how tragically few people in the South and the country have ever heard of this great man. Ten whole installments of SHNV might begin to sum up his saga, but it would be a tight squeeze at that.
I and other SHNVers were privileged to work and celebrate life with Robert in, around, and thousands of miles beyond his native South Carolina, and it's my extremely unhappy duty to report that he died last Sunday morning after half a year's struggle with stomach cancer and other conditions.
For purely tactical reasons of space my draft obituary of him (below) didn't include a word about his Southern service, but that, too, was lifelong and remarkable. Robert was a direct descendant of many Confederate heroes (including a drafter of the CSA's Constitution) and of Thomas Heyward, a signer of the US Declaration of Independence. Every time you would mention meeting anybody who was anybody in SC -- even a jeweler whose Greenville store I once noted in giving him directions -- he would truthfully allow how he was related to them, had known them in school, trained with them in the army or whatever. The Chief Justice of South Carolina was aware of our hero -- he'd accidentally dropped a tree on her father's house in their younger days! (No real damage.) The present SC Attorney General is his cousin -- second or third or so. They grew up in the same large, extended family together. Mr. McMaster gave him some help with his 1990s stay in the federal gulag.
Schooling untold thousands of citizens in Constitutional self-defense against predatory bureaucracies was what put him on the map of patriotic history. He held thousands of informational meetings and appeared on hundreds of radio and TV talk shows. A video of his appearance on the Brian Wilson TV program has sold many copies in the PN catalog of materials. But suing the high and mighty was his other main mission -- always where it was most deserving, be it the tax thieves, DOJ or co-President Hillary. He probably had a dozen such actions going at any given time. He sued to get SPLC demons and their brainwashing schemes thrown off of military bases, and we suspected some were.*
As tax court victories were racked up under his guidance, they were piled up in our newsletter and website <www.patriotnetwork.info> where they can still be read.
SHNV readers may remember a suit by Robert, Patriot Larry and me on the Stephens County, Georgia school system over their hate crimes against us in a Confederate flag demonstration in Toccoa. We "lost" that one but not without bringing the educrats there lots of really bad publicity and almost certainly costing them in 6 figures for legal bills. (Wonder if the citizens of Stephens ever noticed how expensive their illustrious paper shufflers got?)
Robert instigated and produced many save-the-flag rallies in SC, Georgia and NC. He was a walking encyclopedia of American, Southern and South Carolinian history and on the American and South Carolinian systems of law, justice and "income" taxation. His store of general street smarts and practical knowledge was equally vast. Our hero was a dealer in Southern goods throughout the main Confederate flag conflict and a protagonist in many C-Flag protest actions. He founded (and headed for 30 years) the Patriot Network, a national circuit of local Constitutional tax freedom study clubs which has doubled when needed as the Southern Rights Association.
All of this and infinitely more he carried out modestly, selflessly, engagingly, ironically, and often hilariously. He stopped many patriots' tax audits cold right in IRS examining rooms, often wearing a red cape on which his self-parodying "superhero" name, The Great One, was emblazoned in in big gold letters. A page on some of his early work:
www.patriotnetwork.info/news_articles_by_robert_clarkson.htm
What words will never convey is what an unaffected country boy Robert remained till the end despite his great learning, nonstop fierce fighting, and real inner gentility. For those of you who never met him, try imagining one of the Little Rascals grown to about 6 feet tall and close to 300 pounds with a legal mind like a steel trap and a Founding Father's view of tyranny and corruption. Or picture a teddy bear of those dimensions -- a living, giving, friendly, totally benign and disarming one that the has caused the IRS more damage than almost anybody else by its own admission! A mustachioed, bespectacled ursid that typed his killer legal pleadings with two fingers, that quite naturally spoke and spelled like a Carolina low country Huckelberry Finn till the end, even as his siblings went for "mainstream" (even military) careers and personal styles.
Robert's memorial service was held in March in Anderson, S.C. where he had lived for 31 years excluding his years in federal and state gulags. Afterward, we did what Clarkson cohorts have alway done -- PARTY at a local steakhouse. Copies are available of both the program used -- by the family's wishes, shorn of everything not socially proper -- and one drafted earlier which recalled the man in all his politically incorrect glory.**
The Patriot Network (dot info) continues its work full time. It has historically included Constitutional study groups holding monthly meetings in a dozen or more cities, some of which continue as such.
Here are my rejected obituary, followed by my Southern View newspaper column containing many of RBC's malapropisms:
<<<Robert Barnwell Clarkson II, J.D., died March 1 after a struggle with stomach cancer. Born in Sumter, he served as a platoon commander in the 25th Infantry in Vietnam. After the war he graduated in economics from Clemson and earned the Juris Doctor at USC. Classed as a disabled veteran by way of PTSD to the end of his life, he nevertheless dedicated it to training and helping citizens defend themselves against predatory bureaucracies. Already in his college years he was litigating against illegal misuse of fees -- the student government association was financing an abortion hotline (when feticide was still illegal) and donating to socialist political candidates.
As a young attorney after the War he realized the IRS and state Department of Revenue were taking advantage of often weak and ill-informed working people, and the redressing of lawless tax collections became his primary focus -- often fre of charge. His Patriot Network "clubs" in cities around the country met (and still meet) in restaurants and celebrated life as they educated attendees. He produced and distributed thousands of books, videos and other resources and appeared as guest on hundreds of radio and TV talk shows. The organization continues since his demise.
Known for conviviality and hospitality as well as dedication to his work, Dr. Clarkson answered friends' phone calls with a jocular "Sue 'em all." He started making headlines in 1979 by turning an IRS appointment at his home into a "tea party" with real tea, a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the sun in the agent's eyes at the picnic table. As reported with photo in the Greenville News, the agent left in a state of total confusion. Tea parties for many other taxpayers followed. Arrested for leading a demonstration in front of an IRS office in Greenville, Dr. Clarkson filed a First Amendment suit and "got a new roof out of it."
Archly dubbing himself "The Great One", he procedurally foiled thousands of tax proceedings. His work became nationally recognized and legally embattled. It often took him into courtrooms where he helped citizens apply what they had learned in his seminars. Called twice before the state Supreme Court for his activities, Dr. Clarkson and his associates successfully defended against the charges and sometimes had the dour justices laughing in spite of themselves. His third of a century in legal and political work brought awards from the Justice Times, Freedom Law School and similar organizations.
A libertarian icon and occasional candidate for political office, Dr. Clarkson put the Constitution Party (then the Taxpayers Party) early and permanently on the ballot in South Carolina.
He was a member of the Western Carolina Sailing Club and a life member of VFW.
Scion of a large family long notable in South Carolina history, he is survived by his daughter, Caroline Hinkelman and her husband, Travis, of Lincoln, Neb.; grandchildren, Gabby and Owen; mother, Frances Clarkson of Sumter; brothers, Jim Clarkson of Columbia, twin brother Dargan Clarkson of Sumter and brother Thomas Clarkson of Kingsville, Texas; and sisters, Fran Clarkson and Bess Long, both of Pawleys Island.
Memorial gifts may be sent to:
Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation </font>
This list is getting too long too fast. Latest casualties:
Hans Schmidt</span> was one of the fireballs of pro-German truth when I and a lot of people went real for the first time 20 years ago. His GANPAC Brief was one of the most sheerly zestful, irrepressible as well as brilliant and edifying journals in the pro-white field -- surely some of you remember it?
It was always clear reading it that he had done a lot of living in these issues and was a generous, warm spirit. Writing him would bring a priceless litpak with his personal and personable response, making yo feel a bit of a dolt for having wandered in the wilderness all those years before getting real. It was a shock to learn he'd had a stroke, what, 10-12 years ago? And that his family had no use for the Cause and nobody would be continuing the Brief.
Searching for the full story, I was pleasantly stunned to find this site with an obit.
http://johndenugent.com/jdn/2010/06/19/10108/
After surrendering to US troops just two days before the end of
fighting in Europe, he was held — along with many tens of thousands of
other German prisoners of war — under brutal conditions in primitive
stockades without shelter. Thanks to the kindness of individual
American GIs, he was spared transfer to Soviet imprison*ment, or
prolonged custody in US internment.
He soon migrated to the United States, where he became a successful
businessman and a naturalized US citizen. He married and became the
father of two daughters.
In 1983 he founded the German-American National Political Action
Committee (GANPAC), which was devoted to countering anti-German bias in
the media. For years he ran GANPAC, first in southern California and
then in Florida. He wrote and published two GANPAC newsletters, one in
English (Ganpac Brief) and one in German (USA-Berichte).
In June 1985 the GANPAC office in Santa Monica, California, was set
on fire. The arson attack was carried out by the Jewish Defense League,
a Zionist terror group, apparently because of Schmidt’s skepticism of
familiar Holocaust claims
Schmidt was the author of several books, including SS Panzergrenadier: A True Story Of World War II (published in late 2001), Hitler Boys in America: Re-Education Exposed, and Jailed in Democratic Germany.
In his SS Panzergrenadier memoir he told why he
volunteered, as a teenager, for military service during the final,
desperate months of the war. Written from an unapologetically German
point of view, he provided a frank, “politically incorrect” explanation
— with a keen regard for American sensibilities — of the appeal of the
Third Reich regime, and the realities of the Hitler Youth and the
Waffen SS.
In August 1995, the 68-year-old Schmidt was arrested in Frankfurt,
Germany, during a visit to the land of his birth to meet with his
elderly mother. He was charged with “popular incitement” (“Volksverhetzung”)
for remarks in his US-based newsletter and in a few private letters to
individuals in Germany. State prosecutors cited his references to
Jewish control of the media, to “Jew- and Freemason infested” German
political parties, to derogatory references to German politicians, and
to mention of “Holocaust tales.” After five months in prison, he was
released on bail in January 1996. Instead of appearing for trial, he
returned immediately to the US.
Hans Schmidt died on May 30, 2010, age 83, in North Carolina, where he had been living with his wife...........At the opposite end of the spectrum of erudition -- but not of patriot passion -- a msg I've just posetd to SHNV:
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</style><div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">RIP Art Barnett -- a great Southern soldier
It is with deep
regret that I report that Arthur Barnett, who was active in the Cause for too
many years to count, has gone to his reward at age 86. His socially proper
obituary, including services:
<a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=arthur-barnett&pid=143760924" eudora="autourl" target="_blank" target="_blank"> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gre...ine/obituary.a spx?n=arthur-barnett&pid=143760924
</a>I
met Art, his sweet wife Florence, and a number of their descendants soon after
moving to SC from greater NYC in 1992. It was instantly obvious that they were
real country people, unvarnished and uncensored, but full of good spirits and
character. Above all, Art and Florence loved everything good and hated evil -- a thing that
doesn't so much as enter most people's minds ( Amos 5:15).
Wherever the
Southern cause went in upcountry SC or Columbia, Art went in his famous pickup
truck, which he was still driving till recently. During one of Rebekah
Sutherland's runs for public office he had a huge campaign sign made and
installed it in his truck bed. He'd misspelled it "Southerland", but who could
complain?
When (for instance) we picketed Chambers of Comm(unism) in
Greenville and Spartanburg for over a year after the great C-Flag betrayal in South Carolina,
Art was there -- Florence too, until she died maybe eight years ago.
Art had twice the passion of some of our younger stalwarts. His speech was often
colorfully unprintable but he always said the politically unsayable in ways that
made you laugh in spite of yourself. He and I were once idly contemplating the
Seal of the Confederacy, and I pointed out that George Washington was the man in
the center of it. "What's that Yankee doing on there?" he scoffed.
Coincidentally I had just been reading up on some of the less Constitutional
aspects of Washington's work such as his strongarming of the so-called Whiskey
Rebellion.
Once in front of the Greenville Chamber, a hot-headed yuppie
pulled over and started angrily ripping our flags out of the ground. Art reached
in the guy's back seat to reclaim them; the gut wheeled around accidentally
jabbed Art hard in the eye with his elbow. We called the police, the perp was
caught (having driven off), but Art (despite his gruff, craggy exterior)
declined to press charges.
I absolutely love it when people "get"</span> a very
pertinent message that everybody should but few even notice. Art, who may have
never finished (or started?) high school, could be counted on for such perspicuity in that
department. During the Clinton nightmare I nabbed somewhere a beautiful
JBS-style bumper sticker reading
PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT
AND HER
HUSBAND
THEY ARE SICK PEOPLE
Our hero cackled perspicuously when he
saw it and insisted he had to have it. Coincidentally, I had an extra for him,
even though he and I weren't getting along all that well just then.
As I
understand it Art and Florence ran eateries in SC and Maryland years ago. They
had a large, agreeable family, many or all of whom are still in the Greenville
SC area. The old boy loved his wife tenderly and from what he reported about her
final illness it sounded like a case of serious mishandling by medics -- but
what can an old redneck working man do? It was poignant to go out to Florence's
grave with him.
He loved every possible patriotic get-together and was
always urging me to meet him for a sandwich at Dixie Republic (dot com), which
is unfortunately an hour from where I live, if a heavenly stopover when in the
area, e.g. when heading to Patriot Network meetings in WNC. Dixie Republic is in fact a temple of truth like few others you'll find anywhere on this earth
-- when they added a lunch counter it was the icing on the cake.
We need
characters. </span>Those in the generation now fading away are irreplaceable. Goodbye,
Art -- salute Stonewall and Uncle Robert for us. </div>
LATER....... hmm hmmm
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John Kucek died tonight. I just called his number to see how he was doing and whether he might be willing to advise a compatriot on some legal stuff, and his daughter gave me the news: having beaten cancer 25 years ago and suffered a prolonged relapse over the past 6 or more years -- and shown some improvement just recently -- he had a couple of bad days and went all the way downhill.
John was the raging force in the Populist Party of NJ when it surged up in 1988 for several years' intense activism. Wish I had time to write a small book about the period. I was chair for a year or two. John was a great patriot mind, a staunch Christian in his way who knew how to use Strong's Concordance in support of the Right, and one of the most uproariously funny and ironic movement leaders anywhere..... thanks in no small part to his intensely "Newark" accent and personality.
One of his own campaigns for office had the establishment taking our big newspaper and magazine ads warning that if he were elected, "Jews would be put in gas ovens again". The national thought police "discovered" him as a result and started warning the world he was coming. The Wiesenthal Center's mag misprinted our state as "Jew Jersey" in their piece on him, little knowing John had pioneered use of the gibe.
John had been employed by one of the Big eight accounting firms but was freelancing when I met him and the PP gang (including Nationalist Times editor Don Wassall) via Instauration magazine. A great tax fighter, John would do your books as a nontaxpayer, a taxpayer or any shade in between according to your wishes and level of enlightenment.
A lifelong New Jerseyan before moving to PA in the mid 1990s, he was born of East European extraction the day Lindbergh completed his historic fight -- May 21, 1927 -- gaining thereby the middle name Lindy. Wickedly irreverent when it came to race and the gews, he worked on the Wallace for President campaign in 1972 among many other worthwhile doings. our newsletter page on John's ca. 2000 candidacy reprinted a picture of his mother and him happily flanking and holding the hands of the smiling, wheelchair-bound nationalist legend.
John is survived by his daughter Cindy and her family, with whom he was very close; his daughter Diane (a sometime compatriot in the old days); and several grandchildren. It's just unbelievable that John's not with us any longer. he was a towering presence even in the background since gravitating out of activist work some years ago.
Sometimes tempestuous and irascible if not impossible, he was a gentleman of the old school beneath it all -- and they are a vanishing breed. Give me a fighter anytime -- it's fighters this world is in need of!
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Wow, as Oxenstierna noted elsewhere, we've lost Birdman Bryant too.......
http://thebirdman.org/Index/Index-DailyReads.html
Note on the same page his alternative
TRUE PATRIOT'S
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE</font>
</font>
"I pledge allegiance to the
Constitution, and to limited government and personal freedom for which it
stands: Free speech and press, the right to keep and bear arms, limited
taxation, secure property, sound money, the right to associate and do business
freely, the right to preserve our nation and culture as the communally-owned
property of its native citizens, and in general the right to be free of alien
influence and government intrusion without urgent
reason."</font>
Originally Posted by Nelson3
John L. Kucek was one of my very favorite people in patriotic circles. I was stunned when he told me he was a WWII veteran as he was always so youthful and vibrant. It's hard to believe he's not with us.
Johnwas a tireless activist on many levels. I had many an informative and enjoyable conversation with him as he had a keen sense of humor. He also excelled at identifying what he called the "double agents" in the movement.
Just a big loss. He'll be missed by many.
Jack Kershaw, 1913-2010
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2010...ershaw-1913-20 10.html</font></font>
Misery and woe! What an impact he had on so many. One of the few real mainstream crossovers on the "hard right".
ANUN:
<h2>
Joseph Sobran, 1946-2010 R.I.P. </span></h2>
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The 20th century produced many great conservative writers, but none
brought together wit, erudition, and humanity on a single page so well
as Joseph Sobran. He was a remarkable man: even seeming quite frail at
a gathering in his honor last December, he had a mind as accurate as
precision clockwork, able to recall Shakespearean verses he had
memorized decades earlier. He lived T.S. Eliot’s dictum that there are
no lost causes because there are no gained causes, and he hated cant
and injustice. News of his death today is a terrible shock, despite his
long illness. He will be missed. </div>
A dignified, non-epileptic JYT obit per JS's Wikipedia article -- offers more personal details than some:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/bo...bran.html?_r=1
<h1 style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><nyt_line version="1.0">Joseph Sobran, Writer Whom Buckley Mentored, Dies at 64</nyt_line></h1>
<nyt_byline style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </nyt_byline><h6>By WILLIAM GRIMES</h6>
LATER via ANUN:<br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><h2 style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">
Chalmers Johnson, Visionary Scholar on Empire and Decline of America, Passes Away </h2>
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"I began to study our continuous military buildup since World War II
and the 737 military bases we currently maintain in other people's
countries. This empire of bases is the concrete manifestation of our
global hegemony, and many of the blowback-inducing wars we have
conducted had as their true purpose the sustaining and expanding of
this network. We do not think of these overseas deployments as a form
of empire; in fact, most Americans do not give them any thought at all
until something truly shocking, such as the treatment of prisoners a
Guantanamo Bay, brings them to our attention. But the people living
next door to these bases and dealing with the swaggering soldiers who
brawl and sometimes rape their women certainly think of them as
imperial enclaves, just as the people of ancient Iberia or
nineteenth-century India knew that they were victims of foreign
colonization." http://www.alternet.org/news/148952/...ohnson%2C_visi onary_scholar_on_empire_and_decline_of_america_pas ses_away </div>
Last week also saw the passing of another upcounty SC compatriot of mine, Terry Odom. She had recently lost her husband and mother, too.
Edited by: Nelson3
Roger Milliken is gone and that is indeed tragic, even for a man his age.A fine tribute to his many good qualities, and then some --per ANU News:
http://vdare.com/buchanan/110103_requiem.htm
January 03, 2011
<H1>Requiem for a Patriot</H1>
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Parentheticals you'd only see here: It appears the company was started as a carpetbagger operation. The family may be former yankees -- not only did he pressure Wofford College to desegregate as per the above link, but he opposed us on the South Carolina Confederate flag issue. Double [img]smileys/smiley11.gif[/img]
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A provisional lowered flag for Linda Thompson in hopes that this is incorrect about her having died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_T...%28attorney%29
She was one of the topmost freedom movement leaders for years and made an all-time devastating video on freemasonry. Some years ago she simply dropped from the record -- nothing more from her n Waco or any other subject, no mention of her anywhere in any context, as if she'd never existed. It was neither reported that she'd disappeared, retired, been imprisoned, switched sides -- nothing.
Since then I've tried to find some lead on her or the video, which I probably still have somewhere -- no luck til I thought to try Wikipedia.
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