April 15, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, going across the South and worldwide, as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
You fought all the way, Johnny Rip.
Saw you were marching with Robert E. Lee.
You held your head high, trying to win the victory.
You fought for your folks, but you didn't die in vain.
Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name.
Because you fought all the way, Johnny Rip, Johnny Rip.
You fought all the way, Johnny Rip.
It was within your lifetime, Keith Alexander.
That was a big hit on the pop charts there by Johnny Horton.
I remember it, and that was about the time of the centennial of the Civil War.
And you heard him say that even your enemies speak highly of your name.
They don't anymore.
But, you know, they did back in the early 60s.
Now, of course, that is the song nearest and dearest to my heart out of the Johnny Horton catalog.
But I would have to say my favorite Johnny Horton song is North to Alaska.
What about you?
I bet you're a Battle of New Orleans type of guy.
I like both of those.
And, you know, he had a lot of songs.
He was a major country singer.
He married Hank Williams' widow, and he was killed in an automobile accident because back then they all had to travel all over the place to, you know, do performances in order to make a living.
You know, they didn't make the living off of their records.
The records got them popularity, but they made money off of personal appearances.
Well, when do we get to do that?
Well, you do.
I don't know about that.
No, you don't do.
You go around.
We get around.
Yeah, we do the appearances just without the money.
Yeah, that's it.
I don't know.
Anyway, welcome back, folks.
This is an interesting night tonight in that we had one guest making his debut appearance on our program during Confederate History Month to the next, who is most certainly a CHM mainstay for us.
I want to thank again John Hill for appearing in the last hour to tell us more about his relative, General A.P. Hill.
John Hill has in the last couple of years driven 11,000 miles going around Dixie and beyond to share presentations and give speeches about A.P. Hill and the Confederate cause.
A.P. Hill, of course, was like General Forrest dug up and reinterred by these savages of the schools on the left.
And he is now buried in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Virginia.
We didn't get a chance to get into that with Mr. Hill in the last hour, but we stayed with him after the break and talked to him off the air.
And he's there every month, he said, to make sure that the grave is being watched over and protected.
And so you can pay your respects to A.P. Hill, who was showcased tonight on our Confederate History Month series at Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Virginia.
And be sure to get in touch with John Hill and have him speak to your local group if you can.
Now, though, let's get to the anchor of tonight's broadcast as Confederate History Month mainstay, as I just mentioned, Mr. Kirk Lyons, Kirk the Lionhearted, as we call him.
Keith.
Kirk co-founded and serves as the chief trial counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center, a non-profit public law corporation, which offers legal support to defend First Amendment violations, violations of civil rights, and discrimination against advocates of Southern heritage.
Kirk is a longtime friend and a longtime guest on this show, and it's always great to have him on.
Kirk, how are you doing tonight?
Not doing too bad for a man of my age and bad habits.
I tell you what, man, if I had your vigor and if I had your ability in a party setting, you never run dry.
You never go empty.
Your tank is always brimming.
Glass never runs dry.
I don't know about that.
No, no, I mean it.
I mean it.
And it's always great to have you on.
Hey, and I heard, I heard, Kirk, that you're the newly minted general of the Confederate Air Force.
You were about to take to the skies for a recent operation, were you not?
Well, we've been doing that for several years on behalf of Save Southern Heritage.
And yeah, we were going to fly over the Carolina Cup in Camden, South Carolina last week, actually on April Fool's Day with a never Nikki message.
And unfortunately, tornadoes further west of South Carolina and just high winds all over made it too dangerous to fly.
So we weren't able to fly over the Carolina Cup, which is the first premier horse race in South Carolina in the spring.
But now we did get some people up to Lexington County, South Carolina, where Nikki Haley was having a presidential rally for about 100 people.
They had about 100 people show up, but we had flags and never Nikki posters outside.
And yeah, you still remember her treachery there when she was there as governor of South Carolina.
Well, it's good that she should be faced with the flag, that flag which stands for resistance to oppression and tyranny.
She will see it again.
That's right.
Now, you have done, as you mentioned, the aerial messaging for a few years now.
So it's not always, I'm sure that the messages sometimes rotate.
And perhaps it was for good that we saved the jet fuel this week because I think there might have been more people in the cockpit of that plane carrying the banner that are actually going to be voting for Nikki Haley in any Republican primary election.
But what are some of the other messages you take with these aerial assignments?
Well, for a while, we were picking on NASCAR.
We've done several NASCAR flyovers to great acclaim.
We've done several picking on Jacksonville for their takedown itis of Confederate monuments.
So the message changes depending on which venue we decide to pick on.
I hate to quote Churchill for any reason, but Kirk kind of reminds me of we will fight them in the air.
Give me the quote and give it somebody give me the hedges and the something wrong.
We will fight them in the fight them on well my favorite quote for Winston Churchill always this.
Churchill knew how to use the English language.
Oh my, he weaponized the English language.
I mean, there's no doubt about it.
If only he was as good a military strategist and a political scientist as he was a speechmaker.
I remember one of his famous comments was that bugs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs consider us equal.
Well, I was going to say, Kirk reminds me of Churchill, and pardon the comparison, Kirk, in so much as you're fighting them in the air with these with these plain messages and also in court with the SLRC and on the streets as well.
Go ahead, Kirk.
Well, I have a Churchill quote you might like.
All right.
Hey, I tell you what.
I tell you what.
Teases.
I want people to try to imagine what this could possibly be because we got to come up on a break.
And when we come back, we'll get that quote from Kirk Lyons of the Southern Legal Resource Center.
We're going to find out more about his work in the courtroom on behalf of these issues as Confederate History Bus rolls on this April.
Stay tuned, everybody.
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Saw the bullets soaken up the wounds in your side.
I saw the young boys as they began to fall.
You had tears in your eyes, cause you couldn't help it all.
But you fall all the way.
Johnny Rip, Johnny Rip, you fall away, Johnny Rip.
Always great to talk with old friends, new and old, I guess, as we're doing tonight, but always great to talk to Kirk Lyons in any capacity, whether it be on the phone, in person, on the radio, or wherever.
Kirk has been a longtime friend and a longtime champion of a free and independent South and of Dixians here alive and well today.
His work with the Southern Legal Resource Center.
You can read more about it at slrc-csa.org, s-l-r-c-c-sa.org.
Now, Kirk, we just switched over to a landline with Kirk.
You said you have a Churchill quote people will appreciate.
Well, during the Indian independence movement, you know, Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the breakaway, you know, trying to break India away from the empire.
And Churchill was quoted as saying that he would not shake hands with Mahatma Gandhi because he wouldn't shake hands with an adult that wore diapers.
You know, it is interesting.
I've never heard that before.
That's funny.
It is interesting, though.
I mean, even our adversaries like Sherman and even Lincoln himself would say things that we would agree with wholeheartedly from time to time.
You know, it's just a shame that they wasted their lives in service of the dark side.
But in any event, they did.
I mean, there were things that these people say that they're 100% agreement.
It just does.
And, you know, another thing that we mention often here is that, you know, all the issues that existed then that called for secession still exist today, and maybe even in a greater degree than they did back in 1861.
I would wholeheartedly agree with that.
Let's talk about it if it's possible than we were in the 1850s.
Well, that's something that's been, we've been drum beating that for quite a while now on this show.
And Kirk, I do want to get in, but since Keith brought it up, and I'm glad, Keith, that you did, I do want to get in with you in a moment, Kirk, about some of your work in the courtroom, some of your cases, some of the things you do with the SLRC, some of the things that you're fighting right now.
But yeah, I mean, that's been something that we've sort of revolved around here in the last few weeks is this new poll out.
47%, according to Ras Musson, say that they, 47% of Republicans say that they're in favor of a national divorce is what they're calling it.
So, yeah, what do you think?
I mean, do you think that the prospects of some sort of a balkanization or secession are more likely now than the city?
I think we just got a lurch upward to that probability when the so-called rogue nations, Russia and China and India and OPEC, have agreed on a common currency.
And my understanding is that that is going to be the rupee, going to be the reserve currency for them.
But I think that they will eventually choose the yuan.
And that's going to put the dollar in a tailspin, in my opinion.
And so, you know, I've always thought that economic implosion of this evil system would be the best way to break it up peacefully if that's possible.
If that's possible.
The same way it has to be.
It's a silver lining in every dollar countries.
Well, you know, it's amazing because Keith was just talking about that earlier in the program tonight.
And I don't guess it should be amazing that smart people have commonality on or agreement on certain issues and outcomes.
But let's let you hold forth there a little bit longer on that, Kirk.
I mean, the idea that perhaps there's a greater probability now than at any point in our lifetimes that this thing could come apart, it seems.
I mean, we're talking about economic collapse, the situations relative to what you just mentioned.
And then also nobody can advance our position like our opponent.
Yeah, go ahead, Kirk.
And what the hell is it with Russia?
What is the thing we've ever been before?
Trillions and trillions, and that just cannot go on forever.
Cannot.
And, you know, the man thinks that he can control the economy like he control the weather, maybe?
No.
You know, we learned in 1929 that man can't control the economy forever.
And it can happen again.
I've gone far beyond that now, Kirk.
You're not controlling human sexuality.
Yeah.
You know, the dollar is in decline and even more, and it's being supplanted by a good bit of the world.
We could see an economic implosion in D.C., in which case there will be opportunities for states or clumps of states to break away from the empire.
See, people forget.
I mean, the Great Depression of the 20s directly played a role into the world wars.
So to imagine that you can have a great economic collapse and there not be some reverberations is, I think, folly.
If it does happen here, and of course, you know, even in the Great Depression, America wasn't hit as hard of it as Europe was, especially Germany, if you can believe it.
But America came out of it through the wars.
But if that happens, or through the Second World War, but if you think about it in Ukraine, there's going to be a reshuffling of the deck, and I don't think America is going to be at the top of the deck anymore.
Well, even in the 20s, when that happened the first time, you still had mostly homogeneous nation, and you still had a lot of commonality amongst the American people, even though there was still a big difference between the South and other parts.
We were certainly more connected at that point than we are now.
I mean, now we agree on nothing.
I mean, not only do we not agree, I mean, there is a visceral hatred between the Reds and the Blues.
It's not the blues and the grays right now.
It's the Reds and the Blues.
And if it does fall apart, Kirk, and I believe that it will, I agree with you on that.
I mean, what potentially does it look like, though?
I guess my concern would be not if it will fall apart.
I'm hoping that it will, but that when it does, we get re-sorted into a sort of civic nationalist, nominally conservative.
I mean, certainly better than what we've got now, but we're not addressing the root issues.
I mean, what would you think?
Well, avoiding war is one of the things that will have to happen if it's going to be peaceful.
And I'm concerned about NATO nonsense and this stupid regime that we live under weaponizing this war to the point that it goes nuclear in the Ukraine.
And, you know, you've got stupid stuff like the Brits sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine.
I mean, that's madness.
That's absolute madness.
And, you know, we have no vital interest in the Ukraine.
I mean, the system does, but real Americans do not.
American people do not have anything.
We were going to throw down with the Soviet Union over missiles 90 miles from us.
You know, what are we going to do?
And you know, the other big flashpoint, though, Kirk, is this.
We've got also China and Taiwan.
And that's too much on our plate.
We can't handle that.
I'm just asking.
Obviously, I would hate that this would ever happen.
I'm just asking for a friend.
If New York City and Los Angeles got hit with a nuclear bomb, could the South survive?
I guess if they hit D.C., Virginia would be in bad shape.
But I'm just wondering.
But yeah, I mean, we joke, but I mean, there is a very serious possibility now that they could mismanage the situation with Russia to the extent that it becomes a nuclear war.
I mean, who could have imagined that they would be that reckless?
I really think the people running the West, NATO and America, are more of a danger to push the button than the Russians or the Chinese.
If we start losing over there, they just are not going to accept it.
That's the left that wants to spread global homo all over the world.
Well, that's my great fear.
All right.
So in any circumstance that facilitates a balkanization or separation of this 50-state union as we know it, or disunion, how do you think, I mean, again, we're getting way too far ahead of ourselves.
But Kirk, what would be a plausible outcome for that for the South?
I don't know if we're going back to where we were in the 1860s, but how could we be bettered by what may be coming?
Well, I think that we should, we're watching Texas right now because they're actually trying to get it on a referendum.
And I suspect that the apparatchiks in Texas will try to prevent that any way they can.
But if Texas is able to get a vote on breaking away and starting that process of de-annexing from the United States, I think other states are going to want to get involved.
And they may either ally with the new Republic of Texas or their own secession movements will begin.
You just got to have a lot of people.
Who do you think is leading state?
Is it going to be available deannexation in Texas?
Who do you think is going to lead the pack?
Do you think it's going to be Texas or Florida or some other third state in the South?
Well, Texas is further along.
And Texas has already wisely started building its own reserve currency based on gold.
So it's making steps towards that.
And it'd be interesting to see what happens by the end of the legislature if the stupid party people in Texas are able to prevent a vote on referendum.
All right.
Hold on.
I want to come back with Kirk Lyons and continue this thread of conversation right after the break and still more to come on his work in the courtroom with the Southern Legal Resources Center.
So stay tuned.
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For this fair land of freedom, I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit against it.
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pawn for anything I've done.
Well, there's just no doubt about it.
Righteousness did not prevail during that war.
I don't think any of the belligerents could have ever, in their worst nightmare, imagined what America would become.
Just how crazy those Yankee abolitionists in New England are.
God.
They're the ones driving the philosophy behind the Democrats to this day.
Well, we are talking during Confederate History Month, and I think as you've seen us thread in and out of this throughout the first three weeks of our annual celebration here on the show, is we're talking about, yes, some of the heroes, some of the stories during that period of our people's history, but also the cause in general and how it can be continued even to this day.
So last hour with John Hill, we're talking about A.P. Hill.
We're talking about one of the heroes of the Confederacy.
Now with Kirk Lyons, we're talking about continuing the battle, how he fights now, and some issues that we're watching that may provide us with an opportunity to do even more still.
But Kirk, you were talking about Texas and how they may be leading this thing or how they may prove to be the leaders of the next.
Well, the Texas National Movement has 400,000 members.
I don't know any political organization on the right that has that kind of membership.
And they are movers and shakers in Texas right now, and they have mainstreamed.
And they're serious.
You know, so they are doing rallies all over the state of Texas.
How are they represented in these 400,000 members?
That may not be enough to push the Stupid Party, which has a lot of rhinos in the Texas House and Senate.
But, you know, they've grown exponentially in the last few years.
Well, I want to mention this to you, Kirk, in answer to Keith's question and get your take on this.
Because, yes, I mean, some state, some group, some organization, somebody somewhere somehow is going to have to take the lead.
I was actually in Dallas.
It all blurs together now.
Three weeks ago, I think.
Three weeks ago, I was in Dallas to give a talk, and we were talking about some of the things that have happened in the Republican Party of Texas.
Now, you got to remember, of course, that the delegates who attend the state party convention aren't necessarily the representatives that are charged with facilitating the action.
But what's happening on a grassroots level in Texas, Kirk, is nothing short of extraordinary.
Now, we've talked about this before, but last year, last summer, last summer in Houston, the summer of 2022, I'm reading now from Salon magazine.
All right, this was how Salon covered the Texas Republican Party Convention.
And Salon writes, In Houston, Texas, Republicans got a taste of just how far right their party has become.
At the state's GOP convention, delegates officially declared Joe Biden to be an illegitimate president, proposed repealing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and voted for a platform calling on schools to teach that life begins at conception and to avoid all discussion of gender identity, discussion of gender identity or sexuality.
They went on to add additional planks doing away with so-called gender-affirming medical care for transvestites.
So, on a grassroots level, Kirk, you've got something really big going on there.
And they also voted at that same state party convention that the question of secession be put on the ballot.
Now, again, whether the current leadership that's representing this party does it is another thing, but the people are already there.
Yeah, and that's the disconnect: that's not reflected in the GOP leadership in the House, which is lousy.
You know, the legislature, you know, is, you know, they're the GOP speaker of the House is into power sharing with the Democrats.
That's ridiculous.
That's insane.
But, you know, he hands out committee chairs to Democrat and Republican alike, and that's just wrong for a majority party to act that way.
And that's why they can't get anywhere.
Plus, you've got these do-nothing governors.
I mean, they do some good things, Patrick and Abbott, but by and large, you know, the bigger issues they avoid.
Well, I mean, they could avoid it.
They've never done anything on monument reform and won't, and won't.
They won't rein in the University of Texas Board of Regents, and they won't defund these stupid, damned, woke universities in the state system.
They should cut off every penny to the University of Texas that they can and won't do it.
Won't do it.
Yes, you're right about all of that.
Obviously, clearly, you're right.
But I still think that you have to invest a little bit of hope in that the delegates of the biggest Republican state party convention in the country is going gone so far to want to put secession on the ballot and repeal the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which, you know, that's really above and beyond.
You're really wrong.
I agree.
That's one of our big bugaboos.
That's why we have all this electoral fraud because of the 65 Voting Rights Act.
Now, let me ask you one thing about Texas.
I understand that the governor is for the state on its own dime finishing the border wall on the border of Texas and Mexico.
Now, is that one of those?
I have heard that it's really important.
Is this going to be one of those things where Winala said?
He's not talking about everything.
He's picked that issue to push because he knows it's good for votes.
And, you know, so he has come out to finish the border wall.
If the South, this is, again, just getting way ahead of ourselves, but you have seen, I think, just here recently, I mean, the Tennessee state legislature has done some good things recently.
The state of Tennessee, the Senate of the state of Tennessee, the Tennessee Senate, has just issued a proclamation declaring April 2023 to be Confederate History Month.
I mean, look, this is all, I guess, window dressing when you're talking about the very death of our people spiritually and physically and everything else that's going on right now.
But here's the point: you're talking about some of the things that the Republican Party of Texas voted into their official state platform last summer.
You're seeing some good things in state legislatures like in Tennessee.
And I think if you could envision a free and independent South today, they're obviously not going to be exactly where we are in terms of racial realities.
But I do think you would see, for lack of a better term, Kirk, you correct me, or tell me you see it a different way.
I think you would see a sort of a Christian nationalist type of government that is entirely different than the federal government we've got today.
Well, you're probably right, especially if as this government continues to self-destruct and shows itself to be nothing more than the bootman for the deep state.
So, yes, it probably would look more like that.
Give us, there's always reason to be discontent.
There's always a black pill out there waiting to be swallowed.
You see anything else going on out there in your travels and in your work?
And again, and to close the thing out tonight, it's all about the SLRC and your work in the court and what cases you're fighting right now.
But anything else going on out there that gives you say, hey, you know, that's something that's happening that's good that we can do it.
Well, the blaming commission's recommendations, which are being carried out right now, has led to a feeling among a lot of southern military men that they will never, ever again encourage anyone in their family or anyone they know to join the military because the military is saying in no unsuiting words, we hate you, we hate your ancestry.
Now, that brings it down to the state.
And we actually have some affidavits that we filed in our Arlington National Cemetery case that say just that.
We will never, ever encourage anyone to join the current woke military ever again until that's changed.
Kirk, that brings up one more topic.
What about a militia unrelated and not part of the National Guard in southern states?
I've heard some murmurings about that in different parts of the state.
There is, I can speak to unorganized militias that are forming in Virginia and North Carolina, and I assume in other states as well.
That has been ongoing for the last few years.
And they have competent leadership.
It was far.
Florida was one I heard that actually had the governor behind it, and he was creating a well, they're making a Florida state guard there, which is not under the purview of the federal government, and that's by the Sandis's own military.
We need a governor behind it in each of these states.
Well, I mean, a militia, a well-trained militia, you know, so on and so forth, as it goes, is certainly valuable.
But so that's the thing, though.
I mean, that's one thing that happens if you withdraw from the armed forces.
You take away your ability to be trained in tactics and firearms, basically.
You know, these with a rogue government, a regime, You get possession of situations where we could, under weird conditions, end up with firecrackers going off somewhere and get a Lexington and Concord.
That's also a possibility.
Well, I think here's the thing.
Whatever's going to happen, I think we're close enough to it now where we very well may live to see it.
And that's something we couldn't have possibly said 10 years ago.
This country is so divided, and it's just firing out of control.
We'll be right back.
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Got wounded in three places and starved in Patrick.
I got to rule the tears on a camping in the snow.
But I killed the chainsaw, Yankees.
I'd like to kill us for 300,000 yanks You know, that was something Robert E. Lee himself said after the war.
He would have gone back and fought to the last man.
That was just something.
You see the stakes now.
You see where it went.
That was just something you had to fight a guerrilla war.
You had to fight on.
In hindsight, I mean, everybody.
It's easy for me to say I wasn't out there four years starving to death and fighting with no shoes and leaving my family behind and all of that.
But man, that was a cause worth fighting one way or another, that's for sure.
I want to share a letter here that Keith and I have been looking at tonight.
It comes from a listener in Kerry, North Carolina.
And she writes, Dear TPC family, I'm writing to let you, all of you know, how much I enjoy the show.
You provide a lot of news that you can't get anywhere else, insightful commentary, and a wide range of guests.
I also enjoy the archives of your programs, but most importantly, I think I enjoy the optimism.
I really get the feeling that the fight is not over.
We are not destined to end in destruction.
And I love the sense of camaraderie with other like-minded individuals.
Keep up the fight.
Well, we thank you so much, listener, in Kerry, North Carolina.
We hope you'll appreciate the package that we have sent to you.
Kirk, would you agree that the fight isn't over yet?
We might not be destined to end it over.
Jefferson Davis predicted that the fight would carry on in another time and another age and under different circumstances.
He predicted that.
That it ain't over, not by a long shot.
Well, you know, it's ironic.
That's one of the things I really much like President Trump is because it was his election that brought the deep state out into the open.
That's right.
It was all tin hat wearers and conspiracy nuts before, and now he brought the deep state out of the open where we can attack it, talk about it, and not be treated as nutsy cuckoos for talking about a deep state.
Well, it's ironic that we got a letter from Kerry, North Carolina.
I've heard before that Kerry is an acronym for containment area for relocated Yankees in North Carolina.
What we need to do is, you know, there is an awful lot of discontent out there in Red State America generally.
And the best thing driving it is not having a Republican administration under Trump, but basically under a Biden administration and the Democrats, I mean, they just cannot control themselves.
They have gone off the deep end.
And no rational people of any religious background anywhere in the world supports their initiative to make sexual depravity a civil right.
And that's, you know, that's the best thing driving.
You know, that is what is bringing people to our cause more than anything else.
You know, the rest of the world says no.
You said it a moment ago, Keith, that and we've said it before.
I don't remember exactly how you worded it this time, but that the enemy has done more to bolster our ranks than we could have.
Absolutely.
I want to agree also with this lady who sent in the letter about what she enjoys most about the show is what we enjoy most about producing it, believe me, after all these years, is not the sense of camaraderie, but the very real camaraderie that we share with great men like Kirk Lyons, who has been fighting this battle his entire life.
Now, we've talked with Kirk about present-day issues and scenarios and had some fun with him about some of the work they're doing with getting the message out via airplane.
But Kirk is a trial attorney by trade, and that is where he's made a name for himself.
And that's why you need to know more about the Southern Legal Resource Center.
Kirk, you have been engaged in countless battles in the courtroom relative to our issues.
But I know every time you're on, you talk a little bit about the SLRC.
But for the benefit of anybody tuning in for the first time tonight, or for the benefit of everybody who's heard you many times before but need to hear it again, give us the who, what, where, when, and why about the SLRC, what your purpose is, how people can support you, and some of the things you're fighting right now.
Well, the SLRC has been around since 1996.
We're a nonprofit 501c3 public law firm that specializes in southern heritage cases.
We have defended heritage groups' right to march in parades with their flags, usually Confederate flags.
We have helped in license plate cases, which now that we have government speech and government speech is tyranny, by the way, we've had that right taken away from us and we weren't able to hold on to, but we still maintain that that is tyranny to take that speech away from us.
There is no such thing as government speech, by the way.
And right since 2015, we've almost been exclusively fighting on behalf of saving our monuments under the rubric that first the monuments and then us are going to be taken off the chessboard.
And so currently we are joining in a coalition with other groups to fight the Biden regime.
It's not a presidency, it's a regime, over their blaming commission recommendations that include taking down the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery.
And we think we have an intelligent chance of winning that if we pull out all the stops and are able to keep going.
We filed a federal lawsuit in the District of Columbia.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans have filed their own lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, which is, of course, where Arlington National Cemetery is.
And so we're pushing those all we can.
And we just recently got a resolution from the South Carolina State House instructing its congressional delegation to oppose the demolition or removal of the Confederate monument in Arlington.
So that's a leg up for us as our lawsuit goes forward.
That's wonderful, Kirk, because as we were joking earlier, I mean, it's not a joke.
We have to fight everywhere we can to the fullest extent of our ability.
Not everybody has the ability to get on the radio and do what we do here, and certainly not everybody has the ability to go into a courtroom and practice law on behalf of defending our monuments and preserving our history and our heritage.
But you do.
And you've done it, as we just mentioned, for a very long time.
And, of course, you know, these courts are enemy-occupied territory, too.
We don't always prevail there, but we do fight.
And the balance of power between us and the left, the left has the National Lawyers Guild, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund with millions of dollars backing them and limitless resources.
We have the SLRC and Kirk.
So he deserves all your support because he's out there on the front line fighting the fight that mainstream conservatives aren't willing to fight.
Kirk, how can people learn more about your efforts and support those efforts?
They can join us on Zuckerbook page, Facebook, under the Southern Legal Resource Center.
They can send us their email address to KDL at slrc-csa.org, and we'll put you on our email update.
You can get our printed newsletter, which we do still send out on a limited basis, or mail a donation to SLRC, P.O. Box1235, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 28711.
And if you request the mail update, we will certainly put you on our mailing list and send it to you.
And folks, as I said about John Hill, the descendant of A.P. Hill, who we had on in the first hour, you go to our Twitter handle, you go to the website, thepoliticalfest.org, go to the weekly blog entry promoting tonight's broadcast or this week's broadcast, and we link over to the SLRC.
Take down all the notes that Kirk just mentioned.
And if that's too much, if you're driving, just go to our website and you can link right over to his and get all that information there as well.
So, Kirk, with that said, God bless you, brother, and God speed to you as you continue to work on behalf of our people in the courts.
But I would ask this final question of you before we run out of time this evening: What does Confederate History Month mean to you, and what does it mean to be descended from these brave fighting men?
Well, it's a pride in ancestry that provided some of the greatest soldiers that ever fought on the North American continent under some of the most inspired leadership, followers of a Christian army who manfully went home after the defeat and rebuilt the South under great adversity and have shown that they were right in every step of the way in what they fought for.
And as long as their descendants are able to promote the cause for which they fought, which was resistance to an illegal and hellish invasion, to an overwhelming tyranny, which we now face ten times worse today, their name will live forever.
And, you know, they we might have lost the war, but my friend John Weaver always, Pastor John Weaver, has always said that, no, really, the South won the war because we kept our faith in Christianity.
And the North lost the war because they dissolved into empire building, mammon, and money making.
And so he always considered that the South won the war.
And I didn't agree with that.
That is a great way to look at it as we close this program tonight, one week removed from Resurrection Day.
Keith, final word to you.
And thank you for sharing that, Kirk.
Yeah, I think that it's really important to realize that hope is not lost.
We have much to be hopeful for.
Basically, things are breaking in our direction internationally and nationally.
We just need to be prepared to take action at the appropriate time.
We've got a government that is so tyrannical in America now that it is in disrepute all over the world.
And of course, I think we need to remember, and this isn't cliché and this isn't hokey, our Confederate dead aren't even dead.
They're still alive in us, and they can take down the monuments.
But so long as one of us breathes, we will have the ability to continue the fight.
And there's still a lot of us out there, and the number seems to be growing.
Kirk Lyons, thank you so much, brother, for John Hill, Keith Alexander.
I'm James Edwards, the entire staff and crew.
We will see you next week as Confederate History Month rolls on.
Be sure to support Kirk Lyons at the Southern Legal Resource Center.
We need men like him fighting these battles in court.