The organizer of South Carolina’s Tea Party Convention on Sunday had to take the microphone from a speaker who was advocating secession from the U.S. and armed revolt against the government.
“It’s time for some revolt!” said Ron McNeil, who runs a group called Patriot Restoration of America. “The next time we have a tea party like the one up in Boston, we’ll probably sink the ships!”
Though McNeil speculated that Texas would be the first state to leave the Union this time around, he strongly supported South Carolina’s potential secession as well. “There were some good things that happened in South Carolina around 1860,” he said, explicitly referring to the attack on Fort Sumter, “and it may be time to take back that fort and give it to a state-run patriot militia.”
Waving his cowboy hat in the air, the 68-year-old McNeil said he would gladly serve on the front lines of a second Civil War. “When you boys get ready to secede, I’ll be here faster than Davy Crockett to the Alamo!”
It was at that point that Joe Dugan, the Myrtle Beach tea party leader who organized the convention, took the microphone from McNeil and offered a disclaimer. “We don’t want anyone to get the impression that we are for secession,” Dugan told the crowd and cameras in attendance. “We have other means of accomplishing our goals, and we don’t want to take any radical steps.”
McNeil apologized, and said he was not in fact advocating for secession. However, it’s unclear how his previous statements could be interpreted as anything but a call for South Carolina and other states to leave the Union.
Despite Dugan’s efforts to dissociate the tea party from McNeil’s outrageous rhetoric, it’s worth noting that at multiple times during the convention, he called for speakers to “take political correctness and put it in a ditch, and bury it.”
It appears he got his wish.
You can watch the official convention video of McNeil’s speech below. (Dugan takes the microphone at 14:00):
If Dugan were a better student of history, he would not want to emulate Davy Crockett at the Alamo.
Dugan isn’t the one who said that. It was this whackjob McNeil.
Since many of us were at the convention we know what happened. Dugan told the speakers they can tell the truth about how things are on their topic. My guess is McNeil went off topic and Dugan had to get him back on track. Now if the liberals did this wouldn’t things be much better?
McNeil’s topic was “Restoration Solutions For America.” I’m curious, what exactly did Dugan expect it would be about?
That’s too bad. Secession is really the only way any Southern state is going to maintain any semblance of liberty. The federal government is crushing us and we are outnumbered nationally by statist leftists.
The good news is that secession will probably come about in a similar way it happened in the USSR. At some point, the feds are just going to run out of money.
Thats the reason they want your guns dude.
That and for some good reading
http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/wssd/summarypublication.pdf
Globalist opportunities. We don’t have the time window that the USSR had.
Joe
Pipe down half pint or we’ll have to come down there and slap you traitors around again.
The federal government cannot run out of money b/c it’s monetarily sovereign…you knob.
This is why the Tea Party is worthless. Secession is the best weapon at the disposal of those who wish to retain their ancient liberties. The real “lost cause” is trying to reform DC. All avenues of reform, as the Tea Party will discover, are controlled by those who most need reforming. They will not willingly surrender their power, position, and influence. If you are serious about restoring your rights and liberty, check this out: http://www.dixienet.org
While I can sympathize with your sentiment, that really didn’t work out too well for us last time, did it?
SC Patriot Girl:
I’m so sick of hearing that sophomoric and worn-out rhetorical question. It betrays as sense of fear and a lack of historical or contemporary political understanding.
This is NOT 1860. The paradigm now is so different that comparisons to it are ridiculous. As uttles pointed out, the u.s. will surely collapse like the old ussr did – morally, politically, and financially bankrupt and unable to do anything about it. The u.s. is the most hated regime on the planet now. I’m sure that there are a multitude of other nations who’d like to see it bite the dust, and who would be happy to establish diplomatic and economic relations with the several, smaller and more homogeneous, and less imperialistic republics that would emerge.
The only question I have is – why wait around for the chaos of the collapse? It would be far better to secede now, repudiate the immoral and illegal debt to the private banking cartels that was accumulated fraudulently ‘in our name’, and move into a future with some hope of liberty and prosperity.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,…… It has past the point of being necessary.
How about instead of going through with the complicated and legally messy process of secession, all the Tea Partyers and fellow travelers should just get a one way ticket to Mogadishu. Somalia is the perfect country for the Tea Party. No government to speak of, so naturally no taxes to pay. Somalia also has some of least restrictive gun laws in the world. You don’t have to worry about permits or assault weapons bans. Oh and the people are some of the most socially conservative, religious, and God-fearing people. And to top it off it has a thriving laissez faire maritime industry.
I think it would be easier for the Tea Partyers to just move to country that already has implemented most of the policies they support, instead of trying to force normal Americans into buying their nihilistic and archaic view of society.