LORD NELSON | 2007-06-04
Remember you asked ME for MY assessment.
The Conservative Citizens meeting in Greenville had three main speakers who had all been on national television repeatedly. Jared Taylor and Sam Dickson demonstrate that the movement is going mainstream. But James Edwards is the spokesman we NEED and no one seemed to notice.
I met Gordon Baum, the head of CC a generation ago, and I am flattered that he wants me there. It is important that such meetings take place. This is about the only organization we have that goes out in public and it is essential.
Jared made some points I could use so I asked him if I could get a copy of the events he described. His response was to tell me he writes from notes. What I needed was not the point. He wanted to make the point that Jared Taylor is one hell of a speaker.
He interrupted me to take congratulations so I walked away.
Jared Taylor shows we are going mainstream, as is Pat Buchanan and Joe Sobran. Sam Dickson has always been a class act and a hell of a speaker.
Their appearance was the point of the conference.
But are they GOING anywhere?
Gordon asked me why I didn't join Conservative Citizens and I told him that since my friend Sam Francis died my part in their publication, Citizen's Informer, was cancelled without notice. He walked away and may not speak to me again.
So I am not a morally superior being to Sam and Jared. I am interested in MY message, and I say so. If you are in serious power politics, you had damned well be sure that you know your OWN motivations FIRST. That is why I had so little to say about the conference.
I could have been at the same meeting fifty years ago, when the main speakers would have been Governor Ross Barnett or Lester Maddox. CC is an army in being. But it is the guerrillas who win the war and the Jareds and Sams and Pats who take the enemy's sword at Yorktown.
I have been in this game too long to know what will succeed. It is the tide in the affairs that decides who is there at the right time to take credit.
No speakers emphasized any of our points, but they got in there, some, as they do everywhere. That's what us guerrillas are interested in.
But that is not what people came to hear. They want to hear amnesty denounced and whatever else is in the papers. They come and they pay their dues, which is the lifeblood of an organization. Don't ask an elephant to climb a tree.