Defense of league is disingenuous

To the editor:

Clint E. Lacy's response to the charges that the League of the South was simply promoting Southern culture was disingenuous. The league is promoting the dismantling of our beloved country. Its enemies include both right and left.

The league's Web site (www.dixienet.org) features quotes of the day such as: "We all have a common enemy -- an enemy that is dangerous, powerful and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government." -- D. Barry.

The Missouri chapter has a Web site (www.missouriacsa.com/) which will link the inquirer with the Southeast Missouri chapter. Lacy is chairman of this latter association. The Southeast chapter refers to the League of the South as "the premier Southern Nationalist organization."

The league is promoting "The Grey Book, a Blueprint for Southern Independence." In a society which did not value diverse points of view, in a country with a constitution which did not protect free speech, such material would be considered offensive, illegal and seditious.

I thank God that we live in a free country where Lacy may spread his treasonable opinions far and wide. But, friends and neighbors, be advised: This movement is dead set against every principle of the government and constitution that makes him free to attack the same.

Lacy's campaign to plant a Confederate States of America flag at the gravesite of Confederate hero, William Jeffers, (who already has a monument at the Jackson cemetery) is neither an act of patriotism or a gesture of Christian devotion.

The Rev. BOB TOWNER, Cape Girardeau