In the summer of 2011, Michael Tubbs, the chairman of the Florida League of the South, spoke at the League’s national conference in Abbeville, SC about why reforming the system has failed and will never work. Essentially it boils down to the fact that the US population is not a single people with a common culture and civilisation. Traditional Southerners have one view on things while New Englanders and West Coast folks have another. And we are a minority party in a forced-Union. All our attempts at reforming Washington, DC have largely failed. Rather, we are reduced to a situation in the US of trying to stop the ever-advancing agenda of radical Northerners to remake society according to whatever moral fad and social movement they are inspired by at the moment. SNN has just ripped the audio from this speech and made this important message available to our readers in mp3 format.
Click here for the audio (duration: 49:16)
For those of y’all who would prefer to watch the video, it can be seen below:
And here is the interview I did with Mr Tubbs following his speech:
Great video; thanks for posting. I have a few comments.
1. It was great that he made the distinction between a natural nation of people and the artificial nation-state that (sadly) most Southerners identify with today. That has to be a key point to be made in educating people.
2. I do like the fact that he hammered the point that the conservative media personalities (Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Levin) are only concerned with their financial gain. They are beneficiaries of the current paradigm. They serve as a relief valve for conservatives to vent their frustration with liberals. However, it is against their personal interest to have any meaningful change to occur. They are better off perpetuating the status quo. That’s why their solution to every problem is to vote Republican.
3. I can tell the speaker doesn’t like Ron Paul. Although RP discusses restoring the Republic, he really hasn’t presented himself as a messiah. I think he has used his Presidential runs as a platform to educate the public regarding his positions on war, monetary policy and war.
4. I really liked his suggestions on how we can begin to secede on a personal level. In addition to what he said, I would recommend that people secede from the Yankee fractional reserve debt-based monetary system. When I first started purchasing silver I felt that I finally took the first step in seceding from the empire. The Yankee banking system survives only on our willingness to accept that the dollars in our pockets and the money (I use this term very loosely ) in our bank accounts represents real tangible wealth. Southerners should workearnestly to eliminate all of their Yankee bank/credit card debt. Any debt accumulated should be based on savings of real tangible wealth (e.g. gold, silver). Also, we should begin to ignore all of the Fed’s legal tender laws, dump the Fed’s worthless debt money and conduct trade using hard currency. Any Federal reserve notes can be used to trade with hapless Yankees who will gleefully accept the. We can begin doing this today without formally seceding from the Federal union.