April 19, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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James Edwards and Sonny Thomas dissect Southern History Month, focusing on the Lee family's 2023 legal battle to restore a Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery. Thomas argues the Civil War stemmed from state sovereignty rather than slavery alone, advocating for a Southern Wars Memorial Museum honoring generals like Nathan Bedford Forrest while rejecting renaming bases after abolitionists. The discussion extends to Lyndon B. Johnson allegedly orchestrating MLK's assassination to halt Vietnam opposition and the promotion of white tribalism against federalism. Ultimately, these claims suggest a radical reinterpretation of American history driven by specific legal and political grievances. [Automatically generated summary]
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Southern Issues and Restoration00:14:29
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
I'll bid farewell to my wife and child, farewell to my aged mother.
I'll go and join in the bloody strife until this cruel war is over, till this cruel war is over.
Listen to that song.
Go and listen to it.
I think it's the first time we've actually played it, Keith, on the show, even after all these years.
That's Southern Soldier, one of the camp songs.
It is a beautiful song.
We'll play another verse from it in the next segment.
But joining us now to give you an international perspective on Southern History Month is Sonny Thomas from Ohio.
He's at the Buckeye perspective.
Sonny is the ultimate one world sophisticate.
Well, we certainly would not call Sonny a Yankee.
Even though he's north of the Mason Dixon line, we will call him the Ohio native, Sonny Thomas, the founder of the Resolution Radio Network.
Go to our promotional blog posting at thepoliticalcesspool.org tonight to click over to that there.
Sonny carries quite a few great shows, including TPC at Resolution Radio Network, and gives us further syndication.
But he's going to offer a Buckeyes view of the Confederacy tonight.
Sonny, you were with us last year to do the exact same.
How are you tonight?
Very good, my friend.
How are you and Keith?
We're doing great.
Can't wait to talk with you again.
I know that we're not getting the typical Ohioan viewpoint on these things, but we really value your experience and your intellect on all of these matters.
So, Sonny, with that having been said, take it away.
You've been listening tonight, you've been commenting.
So, give us your take on what we're doing here and your take on it from Ohio.
And I want you and Keith to kind of take the next 30 minutes to yourselves.
Go ahead, Sonny.
Well, a couple different things.
I wanted to talk specifically about Southern issues.
I recently just did a little quick research, and Keith has often talked about the United States versus Lee case, where the Lee family sued the United States government for taking the Arlington property and they purposely buried their dead on it as a screw you to Lee for not deciding to take Lincoln's call.
And I find that very offensive on multiple levels because.
His grandfather, I do believe, was Larry Lighthorse Lee.
He was one of the signers of the Declaration, if I remember correctly.
And so, for someone like General Lee, which, as we've seen in the movie Gods and Generals, did an excellent rendition of exactly how Lee and his position about the Confederacy that was to come was that he could not raise a sword against Virginia because he saw Virginia as his country first.
And that's something that we've lost since the Civil War, gentlemen, is that we are no longer.
Members of our individual states, we become zip codes within the federal government.
And I find that personally offensive because the fact that we are our blood and soil of our states.
In my case, I'm a proud Buckeye from the great sovereign state of Ohio.
You guys are both from Tennessee, the volunteer state.
So these are things that resonate with many Southerners because they see themselves, especially if they have a long ancestry connected to those times, that they are of that state first.
They would say, I'm a Virginian, I'm a Georgian.
You know, I'm a Tennessean long before they would ever say American.
And so I think those things still resonate well today.
And I think many people, such as John Hill with his A.P. Hill Foundation, has also underscored that, that these men stood up for what they believed in.
And besides the fact that all the stuff that the history tries to say is, oh, it was all about slavery and this, that, and the other.
Oh, no, no.
The first secession conference South Carolina was putting together was not in 1860, it was in, I believe, 1833.
They were already talking about secession back then over taxation issues.
And so these are some things that need to be addressed this had been brewing for a very long time.
And New England was already.
I was going to just say, since you're on the subject of secession, the first succession movement was in New England, and they wanted to secede back around the time of the War of 1812.
Death.
And now that the issue of slavery was brought up during the founding of this country, and they said, we need to table this for now because if not, this will never happen.
And so they did put it off, but it just obviously happened generations later.
But when we talk about certain things, one of the things I want to definitely see is that when it comes back to the Arlington situation, the Confederate monument was taken down in 2023.
Also, there's only 430 Confederates buried at Arlington.
So, not only do you have a bunch of Union blue bellies in there, you've also got veterans from all sorts of other wars that the Unionists and the globalists have pushed all over since then.
And they, again, they're just basically urinating all over the Lee family legacy by taking the property.
So, this is something I want to see rectified.
First, I want to see the Autumn Cemetery restored and make sure there's a decree that it can never be removed ever again.
More importantly, I like to see some sort of Southern Wars Memorial Museum where basically Southerners are our warrior class, to quote Ann Coulter.
Is that more southerners have been decorated with the congressional medal of honor than any other region of the country?
And they are a warrior class.
I mean, you look at the Confederate generals, someone as simple as Forrest, starting enlisted as a private, goes all the way up to a general and is no military training whatsoever, had a natural talent and a tenacity to be a warrior.
These are some of the guys we need to emulate.
And like I mentioned last time I was on your program, we don't have songs.
Dedicated to these generals or to these movements, like you do in the South.
You guys mention it frequently.
You have statues everywhere.
You have schools and everything named after generals, bases.
The whole thing with Biden changing, like, for example, Fort Bragg, who's named after a Confederate general, is completely unacceptable because Bragg has become its own cultural center of military prowess for decades.
So, regardless of the fact it was originally named after a Confederate general, Bragg has become its own institution.
And so, at least Trump did restore the name.
So, if you want to start a new base and name it after some politically correct individual, fine.
But the existing bases, absolutely not.
They need to be kept the way they are.
That's tradition.
Well, I'd go a little bit further than that.
I'd say not so fine.
We don't need to have a Harriet Tubman military base, okay, or a Sojourner Truth military base or a Frederick Douglass military base.
What we need to do is allow, you know.
Everything that has happened to the South since the Civil War, and particularly in the Civil Rights Movement, was a massive exercise in gaslighting, making people feel guilt about something, one, they didn't do, or two, if they did it, they should feel no guilt about it.
The Civil Rights Movement was based upon the premise that the South should feel guilt about racial segregation.
Isn't it funny that the two groups that were leading the charge against the South, blacks and Jews, Have much stronger segregationist instincts for their own type than white southerners did.
But that's, and also, you know, besides gaslighting, there was just an effort to transform the South against its will and against common sense.
We need to understand when, you know, you were talking about Forrest and Lee.
Let me bring this up before I forget it.
There's a school of thought that is gathering steam that basically it was a mistake to have Lee in charge of the military.
Basically, or to be the primary general, they should have had someone like Forrest.
They should have fought a guerrilla war because.
I don't know.
Lee was okay.
Maybe Forrest over Braxton Bragg, but Lee was okay.
Well, the thing is, it gets down to the two types of war you can have.
You can either have a standard war like the Napoleonic Wars, where you have two large armies massing against each other and fighting, or you could just have guerrilla outfits that every time the North came into the South and tried to do something, somebody like Forrest would come and cut their supply lines and leave them stranded and run them back.
See, that's there are all sorts of things that could have been done that were not done, but we need to understand that the big lesson I draw from the Civil War is like Leo DeRocher said nice guys finish last.
We should have fought a guerrilla war.
I think we would have won it, and I think that basically both parts of the nation would be happier with the result.
From today's vantage point, if they had done that, what do you think, Sonny?
Not that, but because we know they are obviously pretty good swamp fighters.
I mean, you look at South Carolinians during the Revolutionary War, they gave the British hell.
And they've always been known to be very fierce fighters, and they'll get you better than your meanest buck.
I mean, seriously, you go out there trying to look for trouble, you found it in South Carolina, that's for sure.
But what I want to see again is I want to really see Southerners embrace their heritage and embrace.
Their culture as a people, because the fact that just the stuff that I've read, someone like Audie Murphy is an incredible story in and of itself.
And it needs to be remembered for future generations.
I've met a lot of great people throughout TPC's 20 year run, and one of the very first was Michael Gaddy.
He was down on the border with the Minutemen Project back in those days, calling into the studio from a payphone with live reports.
He was fighting to preserve our nation then, and he still is.
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Would white civilization, would western civilization, white civilization, western civilization, interchangeably, of course, would it have been better off had the South won the war between the states?
I believe so because I'm a big fan of federalism.
And federalism is basically sovereign states coming together, giving a little bit of power to a central government for a very specific purpose, as enumerated in the Constitution.
And the Bill of Rights, which is a very contentious issue, obviously, as Keith has mentioned on here many times.
That these are negative laws.
The Proposition Nation Idea00:12:28
These are laws that basically what the government cannot do.
So, unfortunately, well, let me say, not the 10th Amendment reaffirmed that the power goes back to the people and back to the states.
In other words, it says if we don't mention it, you can't do that either.
Unfortunately, the Patriot Act nullifies the majority of the Bill of Rights.
So, the Patriot Act needs to be absolutely abolished and gotten rid of because we know it's a farce to begin with.
But what I've mentioned to you on here before, and I've spoken at events with Dr. Hill and others, and I said specifically talking about a 50 state secession.
And rendering this district of criminals superfluous.
That's the way how we take care of this business.
I think we should just fire all of Congress and start over because they're all compromised.
The only ones or two that are actually really good, someone like Thomas Massey, is the ones that would be given automatic exemption.
Everyone else, I think, should have a military tribunal and be dealt with accordingly.
But you look at what's going on in Ireland right now, gentlemen, and you see they were starting to remember their past.
They're not just singing them in songs.
They remember their leaders of 16 and what they did.
They remember what Connolly, Plunkett, Clark, and Pierce all did.
They fought for a united Ireland and to be ruled only by Dublin, not by Westminster, as they call it.
What I want to see is a completely united Ireland, the six counties of Northern Ireland back into the Irish Republic, have only Ireland decide the fate for the Irish and have only answer to Dublin, not to Brussels, and not to Westminster.
This is the same argument that we had in the South in 1860 the fact that we got tired of getting rained down with overreach by Washington, and basically we said, to heck with this, we're out of here.
So, to this very day, not only do your Southern generals and leaders have inspired people for centuries, but you see the Confederate flag being the flag of choice when it comes to symbols of rebelism all over the world, and you see other people quoting Confederate generals and what they had to say from their time.
For secession.
I mean, we've talked about this before.
We've got counties from blue states wanting to secede the red states.
In some cases, that's already happening.
Even, was it Alberta in Canada has enough votes, has enough signatures now that they're planning on voting for independence.
Now, that says a lot.
In Alberta, yeah.
Well, you know, Jefferson had the theory of subsidiarity that he's talked about, which was that the closest.
Part of the government should have the most power over the individual citizen's day to day life.
Like, for example, your county government or your state government should have the most power over your day to day existence, not a distant federal government.
And that type of theory would basically fall in with.
We were talking with Michael earlier on this show.
Mike Wharton.
Mike Wharton.
And what he talked about, what I would do to basically reinterpret it, is that we need to return to tribalism.
You know, whites do not have a sense of tribalism.
Blacks, Jews, Arabs, all these people have a strong sense of tribalism.
And surprisingly enough, Jews and blacks have been the biggest critics of tribalism.
Tribalism in white people, particularly white southerners, but they practice it among themselves in a stronger and more aggressive fashion than any other groups.
That's what we need to do.
We need to have, you know, we're talking about blood and soil.
And the opposite of a blood and soil nation or government entity would be the proposition nation, which says basically if you believe a certain set of ideas, you can be just as good a German or an American or whatever.
As anyone else.
Well, if you go to Japan and have a kid, your kid will never be Japanese.
That's right.
And the Japanese have a strong sense.
Basically, the nations that are strong and surviving in this new, brave new world that we live in now are the ones that have a strong sense of tribalism and a homogenous population.
And we need to remember that.
We need to strive for it.
America is the only place where you can come here and be from everywhere else and eventually become an American.
That's the unique experience of the American experiment.
But the thing is, you have to have some unity.
Theodore Roosevelt said it best you come here, we fly one flag, we speak one language, and we follow one set of laws.
You can't come here and speak your gibberish from the Middle East.
You can't be pushing surreal law.
And you can't be saying, well, my culture beliefs supersede yours.
I'm sorry.
If I go to their country and say, you know what, I'm pagan.
I'm going to go up and I'm going to say, I want Odin to be worshipped here in your mosque, they're going to kill me.
So, I mean, seriously, it's like, hello, but we allow that here.
And we got to say, enough is enough.
So, one of the things I've been pushing for is, as you see in some of these, there's a lot of fiery speeches being said over in Ireland right now.
And this one gentleman named Ken O'Flynn stood up, and he had a really powerful speech talking about getting to the government and everything else.
And it's like, man, it's like listening to Southern secessionists.
In 1860, raising hell about wanting to have their own sovereignty.
But the thing is, where are we today?
We need to start stepping up and go to our city council meetings, county commission meetings, state, whatever it takes to get up there, school board meetings, and start really asserting what we believe in because all it takes is a couple of us to lead the way and everyone will follow.
If it has to be me, if it has to be the next guy down the road, if it has to be any one of our guests that come on TPC or the Sonny Thomas show.
Let them lead the way because people will follow.
Because people have a natural tendency to want to be led and they follow strength.
I don't care if it's George Washington, Robert E. Lee, or Adolf Hitler.
If they stand up for what they believe in and people hear what they have to say, people will follow them.
They're not going to follow someone like Stalin who's going to kill them if they don't do what they tell them to do or if you don't go forward and kill these Germans who can put a bullet in your back.
We don't play like that.
The difference between Russia and Germany.
Was that Stalin was just a figurehead, basically, and the whole operation was run by Ashkenazi Jews.
Okay?
On the other hand, Hitler was an anti communist grassroots leader who cropped up as going to the head of the class.
And he found out, just like Franco and Mussolini and other grassroots anti communist leaders found out, was that the Communist Party in their own nations tended to be 75% or more Jewish.
So, you know, there's.
Yeah, well, we need to understand basically where the problems are coming from.
All of our problems are coming from the same source the civil rights movement, the homosexual rights movement, the feminist movement.
All of those were not indigenous inspired revolts.
They were basically brought about by the same group of people that we're talking about.
And we need to understand who our enemies are and why they are our enemies.
All right.
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Sonny, are you carrying Lou Moore's Hour Decision yet?
Oh, yes.
I've been carrying him for several months now.
And if you haven't listened to it yet, I highly recommend you listen to his Eisenhower series.
He has really exposed just how much of a neocon and a globalist Dwight D. Eisenhower was.
And as you mentioned earlier about his brother sending that letter to him, Lou had mentioned that on his program.
And I was just like, I mentioned it in the back.
I said, wow, man.
I was wondering about him, but I said, you really have opened a book for me to look into because Brown versus.
Board of Education.
Yeah, so all that needs to be rescinded because the fact that we've already seen blacks don't want to segregate or be assimilated with us.
They want to segregate.
We see it every day.
So we realize we just want a bigger piece of the pie.
Yeah, but at the same stroke, it's like you keep on posting every major street for Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, but yet you never do anything for Malcolm X. How can you sit there and promote a commie and a fraud, but not promote a true black nationalist?
I don't understand that.
How do you not promote a true black nationalist?
We're still the majority in this country.
We're still the majority in this country, Sonny, and we shouldn't allow anybody who is not a member of the majority to set majority standards for America.
There's only one Sonny Thomas, and I'll tell you this, Sonny.
This is why I love doing this show to bring people like you on, to bring people like Rick Tyler on.
We were talking about all the different events we're promoting and talking about.
Rick Tyler last week, talking about an event earlier this month.
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A series of reported tornadoes have torn through the Midwestern U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Shenard.
So a lot of those states did have pretty widespread severe weather yesterday.
Wind and hail were the most common reports, a lot of large hail.
A lot of strong winds.
But there were also several tornadoes scattered about within that corridor as well.
So definitely an active day of severe weather yesterday across the middle part of the country.
The U.S. and Iran are locked in a standoff off the Strait of Hormuz.
Saturday, Iran fired on a ship trying to pass through, escalating tensions.
The U.S. continues its blockade of Iranian ports while Iran restricts passage in the Strait.
A gunman goes on a shooting rampage in Ukraine's capital.
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Ihor Klemenko says before entering the store, the gunman shot and killed four people at point blank range and a fifth person inside the store.
A sixth person died of her injuries at a hospital.
Klemenko says after officers tried negotiating with the man for about 40 minutes, they stormed the building, killing him.
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And an American delegation has met recently with Cuban government officials in the island nation.
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A senior State Department official met with the grandson of retired Cuban leader Castro last week during a trip.
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Fear no danger, shun no labor, lift up rifle, pike and saber, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, isn't Dixie?
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder, let the odds make each heart bolder, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, two arms, isn't Dixie?
Advance the flag of Dixie, hoorah, hoorah, for Dixie's land we take our stand and live or die for Dixie.
Good one who arms, two arms, and conquer, peace for Dixie.
Good one who arms, two arms, two arms, and conquer.
are, who aren't, who aren't, who aren't, and conquer peace for Dixie.
Well, we all know the national anthem of the South, Dixie.
We sing it at every TPC event that we do in person and even the live broadcast that we do in person.
That's the sort of unofficial war version.
You know who sang that one, Keith?
I don't know the words of that one, but I sure know the other one.
And one of my favorite recordings is the Old Miss Marching Band playing Dixie.
I remember that vividly from my childhood.
And I bemoan the fact that it's no longer done.
That was Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Yeah.
The version he's singing was written by Albert Pike, a Massachusetts man who was a Confederate general.
And the head of the Scottish Rite of the Masons.
He wrote the definitive book on masonry.
Well, you know, he predicted three world wars, too, by the way.
And the first.
Two thirds of them have come to pass.
Well, I will tell you this no other place than TPC would you get this information, which I had not even known.
I love that war version of Dixie.
We've sang it at TPC conferences, Kirk.
I believe we sang it at the one that you spoke at a few years ago here in Memphis.
But I did not know that Albert Pike was that person.
Hey, listen, you would only learn that from somebody as learned as Kirk Lyons, a lion of the courtroom, indeed.
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But hey, Kirk, before we get into all the good work you do and all the battles that you've fought in the courts on behalf of our people and our issues and our monuments and our ancestors and everything else, I would ask you this just very simply.
It's April 18th, 2026.
Been a long time since the war.
Why are we still doing this tonight?
Because the enemies of God are still fighting us, and the fighting is not over.
We are called to a new generation to fight the same evil that our ancestors fought in 1861.
If when we, and any American should be able to understand it today, you look at the demo Bolsheviks, the Pelosi's, the Schumer's, the Bernie Sanders.
You see the same monsters that our ancestors saw in 1859 when the radicals were praising John Brown, who wanted to kill every Southerner in his bed, and his women and his kids.
And they looked at those men as monsters, just like we do today, to the Marxist, socialist, Bolsheviks that are moving and shaking all of the monument removal that is just the preface to getting rid of us.
Hey, you know, that is what we talk about.
That's why we're still fighting.
Hey, that's a great point.
That's a point, you know, I was saying before tonight, Kirk, you know, we've done these Confederate History Month series for every year we've been on the air.
This is our 22nd year.
It's impossible to recount all the guests, all the heroes, all the battles, all the reasons for doing these things.
But you just touched on one that would have not been mentioned this year had you not just said something.
And that is, they come first for our fabrics, our flags, our monuments, and then they come for our very flesh and blood.
There is a direct line of what they are coming for.
Absolutely.
Is there not?
They're not going to be satisfied with what we are.
It matters what we are monuments.
That's why we cannot stop proselytizing our ignorant GOP conservative friends, many of them who live up north, that they have a common fight with us.
That they need to get over their anti Confederate bigotry because they are being played just like everything else in this country is being played by our enemies.
Well, what we were saying earlier on the show with some of our other guests was that we need, as white Southerners, to rediscover our sense of tribalism.
You know, every other group has a strong sense of tribalism.
And they're not criticized for it.
We're gaslighted for it, made to think that somehow, for example, in the civil rights movement, we were wrong to have segregationist instincts.
Of course, we were being lectured about this by blacks and Jews who probably have stronger segregationist instincts than any other two groups on the planet.
But see.
But we have a window.
We have a window of openness, and we need to take advantage of it while it still exists.
Go on the internet now, and you'll find lots of black criticism of Martin Luther King.
You'll find there's a guy named Chad O. Jackson.
He's a minister and also a plumber in Fort Worth, Texas.
And he has got King nailed, just like our grandfather's generation did.
But it's coming from a black man, a committed black man and a Christian.
And he nails the Marxist, Martin Luther King, who was not a Christian in any form that we would recognize.
And he's talking about that today.
It has a following.
Well, not to digress, but I will, you know, when you bait the trap like that, you'll catch James Edwards every time, as Big Jim Folsom once said.
But now I would say I wish the man that you, I haven't heard of him before, but I wish he was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention because they could use a little help on that matter.
But I would ask you this, you know, do you think next year is the year, we are digressing now, we're chasing a hare, we are southerners, we can do that.
But next year is the year that the King files are supposed to be released.
Do you think that's going to happen?
Yeah, really.
How much do you want to bet that they don't?
That's next year.
While they're opening the Epstein files.
Yeah, sure.
But do you really think Trump will stop the release of the King files?
I don't think so.
Depends on what Netanyahu tells him to do.
Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, I don't think they'll be released.
Well, if they were released, what would they find?
Although other people have confirmed everything that's probably in them.
But what they're afraid of is what Jack Kershaw told me, and why they're not going to release him is that the truth is going to condemn the people that had King killed.
The documents and facts.
Who was that?
Pray tell.
Tell us who killed Martin Luther King.
I think that LBJ had a hand in it.
And I am not without some documentation on that.
I knew Jack Kershaw and I knew Mark Lane, who were both attorneys for James Earl Ray.
And both of them said LBJ had his fingers in that assassination.
Well, he had his fingers in the CIA's assassination, too.
I believe it was basically a massage operation, and he was they knew that he would be in their hip pockets.
Hey, Keith, what were you doing in Memphis the day King died?
You were here.
I was an egg, but what were you doing?
I was working at the Memphis Publishing Company that put out the commercial appeal.
They were doing an ad, I think it was a Thursday night, and I was working on the Whirly Bird machine.
And when we got out, they had everything shut down, and we basically had to sneak home on back roads.
Exactly.
Because we were supposed to just stay put, and I wasn't going to stay put in the Memphis Publishing Company for an indefinite period of time.
But that was exactly, you know, I was there.
I saw all this stuff going on.
You were in Memphis at the time.
Yeah.
And Henry Loeb was the mayor, and he was the.
He was a Jewish white segregationist.
He was a Jew that I would like to have set loose on the entire nation.
He was Jewish and had an Ivy League education.
And that's not cucking for Jews.
That is just to say that.
This Jew who happened to be the mayor of Memphis was a white segregationist.
We won't call him white.
I mean, Jews are Jews, but he was a segregationist.
Well, what he did was he was basically, unlike Ross Barnett and George Wallace, he never apologized for the positions he took during the Civil Rights Food.
And he said, I was right, and history will prove me right.
All right.
So, I mean, anyway, we have digressed here as Southerners do when we have.
Let me finish, though.
Why did LBJ whack?
King, because King turned on him and came out against the war in Vietnam, which led to him not running for reelection.
And he paid King back for that.
You don't cross LBJ.
And then some.
Yeah, is there a particular book where that theory is set out?
Well, LBJ has pretty well, I think the research has shown that James Earl Ray did not do it and that the King family even.
You know, so it was not James Earl Ray, so.
Well, there was a lot of lone guns.
I was a lone gunman, right?
That could get away with all of it back in that era, particularly.
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Upon your country's altar, never to submit or falter.
To arms, to arms, to arms, to arms, to arms, to arms, he's a Dixie.
Till the spoilers are defeated, till the Lord's work is completed.
To arms, to arms, to arms, to arms, to arms, he's a Dixie.
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know, Kirk, if we were the only people left in the world who believed this way, I would still do this series every year.
And by we, I mean native born southerners.
But we're not.
I'm thankful and have a greater affinity for those who share this southern blood.
But we're not the only ones.
We were talking earlier this month, going into actually the last week of March.
You know, Steve King, who was, you were there.
You were there at our Will to Power conference a couple of years ago.
I would say a couple of years.
It was last year.
It wasn't even a year ago.
It was 11 months ago.
You were there.
Right.
And Steve King was there.
And, you know, we had talked about him having the Confederate flag on his desk in Washington, even though he was a member of Congress from Iowa.
Philip DeWinter, a member of Congress.
That was a great conference, by the way, James.
My hat's off to you.
That was a wonderful conference.
Made better, I assure you.
I hope you pulled off something.
It really was something.
And it was something made better by your attendance and your appearance.
And to have you there.
And that group that you had with you, too.
That was great.
Well, everything was, you know, to have Kirk there.
But, I mean, it was something, though, to have Steve King, a former member of the United States Congress from Iowa, talking about.
And he had with him, I will say this, I don't think we've ever talked about this.
He had with him on display, he displayed it during his speech, the actual Confederate flag that he had on his desk in Washington, D.C., as a member of Congress from Iowa.
And then Philip DeWinter.
The member of the Flemish parliament in Belgium.
He was on our show just two weeks ago.
He had makeup.
Indeed.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
But Philip has on his channel.
Philip has on his wall in the Belgian parliament a Confederate flag that he got from Dixie Republic.
So, around the world, this is a symbol of freedom, of resistance to tyranny.
And, you know, if it was only us, it would still be worth doing.
But it is people all over the world.
Let's talk about your work in the court.
Well, respond to that, and then we'll talk about the Southern Legal Resource Center.
I want to be sure to close on that.
But talk about that.
Well, we're still fighting in Arlington.
We're part of the Arlington Coalition.
And we want to make sure that the monument gets put back up.
And we'd like it done this year.
And we've had, we've tried, we filed a lawsuit against the regime's Secretary of Defense who took down the reconciliation memorial.
And we sued them, we went through the courts, and then we started lobbying.
We were able to get the Secretary of War to agree to put the monument back in 2027.
We think it needs to be sooner, but before the Wicked Witch of the East took over in Virginia, Governor Youngkin gave the memorial, the Reconciliation Memorial, To the Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation.
And we've been talking to them, and they are committed to restoring it to Arlington.
They are committed to making sure it comes back.
Let me ask you this, if I could, Kirk.
Sure.
Is this going to be an exercise in futility if Trump doesn't?
Well, first of all, if the Republicans don't win the midterms, or if a Democrat becomes president in 2028, they'll just reverse it?
And I guess that kind of leads to another question, which is do you think that we should basically forget about our problems, if we have any, with Trump's foreign policy and vote for him?
Because we know that if he doesn't get in, all of any progress that we're making regarding Confederate monuments, for example, and a whole host of other issues will have been in vain because the Democrats are not changing their attitude and they will do anything they can to punish white Southerners.
And of course, they know how to wield power.
They'll come back in with a vengeance.
And all of the do nothing GOP who won't prosecute SWAT, they will correct all that and start the treason trials immediately.
And they know how to wield power.
So we've got to firm things up while we can.
And we want to get the Reconciliation Memorial back up while we can.
And then it's going to be.
Up to the scarecrow's justice to make sure it stays there, if you know what I mean.
Well, how about this?
The way that we do it eventually is it by voting for Trump or voting for the Republicans or some other route?
Well, whoever we vote for and whoever wins, we've got to stay focused lobbying politically and figure out how to play this game better than our enemies do.
I really don't think we're going to be able to persuade.
I don't think we're going to be able to persuade the governor of Virginia or a Democrat.
Well, we're not going to persuade Spamberger, but we need to make sure that as much of her.
Program as foxes as possible, and we need to stay with the rural counties in Virginia who are virulently opposed to her.
Yeah, most of Virginia is.
She only wins because she controls all of the metropolitan areas.
That's what we've heard before.
There are no such thing as blue states and red states.
There are red states and red states with blue tumors called the urban areas.
Virginia is ruby red except for that one little.
Part of There by DC, and we've all been there.
But, Kirk, I would ask you this.
I mean, you have fought the battle in the courts from the length and width of Dixie, from Texas to Virginia.
To say it's a win some, lose some proposition in the courts would probably be too kind, but the Southern Legal Resource Center deserves your support.
Listen, if you don't fight in courts, you're guaranteed a loss.
Kirk is one of the very few capable attorneys who have taken our issues to the court.
He's defended in courts.
He's advanced in courts.
He's bloody but unbowed.
S L R C. CSA.org.
Yeah, Kirk, I mean, how are we doing in the courts these days?
Well, right now we're using.
All of the tools that are available to us.
We're playing the legal angle, and there are still legal initiatives going on with Arlington.
We're not done there yet.
And what we're doing there might very well solidify the inability of the government to tear the memorial back down again.
But I can't say any more than that right now without giving away the game.
And we've got to learn how to lobby.
Our friends and our enemies, and we need to play the information game.
And we've got a very, very, very good ally right now, and that's Amelia.
You all heard of Amelia in the UK?
No, I don't.
My goodness, she is a viral phenomenon.
The government in Britain created a goth anime character.
To teach kitties to be woke and diverse.
And the Patriots captured her, turned her, and now she fights for the good guys.
And she is all over the internet.
They're doing videos against Islamic grooming gangs and rape gangs.
She does traditional music.
She's got purple hair and she sings wonderfully.
And she is turning around the dynamic.
She is a viral sensation.
There's now a German.
Called Maria.
There's a French Maria, and we've even got a Dixie Amelia.
We call her Agnes Lee.
Heaven forbid a purple haired Confederate.
Well, she won't have purple hair, but check, go to YouTube and search Amelia UK.
This thing is incredibly, it's everywhere, it's viral, and it's unstoppable, and the left are going nuts about it.
And she's making inroads in Britain.
You know, if they're.
Rising up in Ireland like they seem to be right now, you can put part of the credit to Amelia.
And the same could happen in the UK.
And we want to do the same thing here.
I'm even working on a Copperhead Amelia who can talk about Lincoln's journey in the North.
So check it out on the internet.
Check Agnes Lee and Amelia.
It's incredible.
And we need to get with it and we need to learn how to crank.
These kind of videos out and expand the breach in the wall that Amelia has created.
It's incredible.
And in terms of getting the information out and reaching Generation Z, this is a way we can do it and afford to do it and start changing minds and making friends and pushing our message and demonizing and mocking our enemies.
I'm already working on Amelia for Arlington.
We would not have known about it if it had not been for the Southern Legal Resource Center.
Kirk Lyons, man, I remember reading about you in the 90s, going back to Oklahoma City and Randy Weaver and all the things.
I mean, Kirk has been there forever.
When I was growing up cutting teeth, Kirk was fighting for these issues as a champion.
He's been there, done that, and got the t shirt.
SLRC-CSA.org.
Yeah, he's the best.
We love you, Kirk.
Always great to talk to you.
Nice to all of you.
Thank you.
We'll talk to you again.
Good to talk with you again, Kirk.
God bless you and your beautiful and magnificent and very numerous band.