December 18, 2000

An organization called the "Federation of States" was established on July 4, 2000 which is designed to serve the functions of an Executive Director. The Federation is organized as a common law trust. Only elected or provisional State Chairman (or later SIP elected Governors) are to be voting members. The various State Chairmen of such State Southern Parties are requested to be bound together under a contract whereby they become Trustees or voting participants of such a council of Governors (State Chairmen). The coordinating value of such a council and the value as a think-tank group is obvious. Still, the agreements or plans made by such a council of Chairmen (Governors) is not binding upon the various State Parties until they assent thereto by vote of their respective State Party organizations or Legislatures in the case of Governors.

After (6 or 8) States establish initial SIP organizations which are ready to move forward we shall convene in a national organizational convention to establish the Southern Independence Party. Once the SIP is established, the overseeing control by the Federation of States becomes greatly diminished to more of a think-tank coordinating organization and the repository of the Constitution of the Southern Independence Party.

At this time, there are no paid positions either in the Federation or any of the State affiliated Southern Independence Parties. Also, the treasuries of these parties and the Federation are very scant. We are new and growing fast. We are different in the sense that this is no game for political players to have fun with. The awesome reality of responsibility stares us in the face.

Also, we have already had the familiar attempt of wealthy individuals to control the organization. The original Southern Party fell under the control of a dictator who was financed by a wealthy "angel" which caused an early split. Meanwhile, serious efforts of infiltration have been underway to divert, neuter, or destroy the effort. We look closely at each other for the fruits we produce as being one of the best gauges of what a person really is and what they stand for. We know we shall always have various agents as members who are from State and Federal (U.S.) governments as well as paid agents of enemy Tax Exempt Foundations and organization such as Southern Poverty Law Center, for example. There is no way to prevent this, but we can usually spot such before too much time has elapsed by their fruits which they will eventually bear.

There are several Southern organizations which contribute to the movement in various ways. There is the League of the South (an educational club-type organization), there are various re-enactment groups who re-enact historical battles, there is the SCV which is an organization called the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of Confederate Veterans, the Southern Legal Resource Center, Black Confederate Soldier Foundation. There also are heritage organizations and historical societies and museums.

But, only in the last couple of years has there been any real effort to organize legal political parties throughout the South to run candidates for county and State offices and no Federal (U.S.) offices with the goal in mind of the eventual restoration of the Confederate States of America. This new movement has the very unique position for a political party in that we are attempting to organize a distinct cultural people, the people of the South and Southerners are a people and not a race. We are organizing a people with a distinct national origin, that of the Confederate States of America.

We are organizing a people who have a greater interest in Constitutional law than most other people in various northern States and, we are offering Liberation and Independence to an Occupied people who want their freedom and who are finally willing to take the legal and political steps to achieve these goals as their ancestors did in 1776 and again in 1861. The people of the South are very tired of the yolk of economic (IRS) slavery, political control, civil harassment, educational cultural cleansing, genocide against them for their national origin and even governmental interference with their religious beliefs and practices.

We are not now planning on organizing States which do not at least share some of the independent cultural heritage of the South such as California, Oregon or Washington State as part of the new Confederacy because of historical and cultural differences. We would, however, welcome individuals and/or groups as supporters of the Federation of States and put you on the Chairman''s monthly report list for a donation of $50 or more to Federation of States, 1402 Carol Ave., Lancaster, Texas 75134 USA.