— Scalawags of the month — 

When the Cleveland, Tennessee, City Council – Avery Johnson, Tom Rowland, Bambi Hines, Bill Estes, David May, Jr., Bill Robertson, George Poe and Richard Banks – ganged up on Pete Edwards, editor-publisher of The People News, a tabloid newspaper serving Cleveland and Bradley County, Tennessee ( www.thepeoplenews.com ), he responded to the hissey fit by those scalawags thus:

“Now it’s my turn to speak. This paper was unfairly accused of being racist by all members of the politically correct Cleveland City Council without debate, and they also violated the U.S. Constitution by resolving to run The People News out of business by intimidating its advertisers. I support their right to freedom of speech as individuals but not intimidation as government officials. ‘An eye for an eye.’ I trust they will equally support my right to ask readers not to do business with them for being un-American.”

Midway between the lines
By Olaf Childress

June Griffin’s anger was addressed only to the Blacks she had encountered, until you members of the Cleveland, Tennessee, City Council jumped in looking to rescue those poor, downtrodden slavery survivors who take every bait the big daily papers toss them. Yes, Blacks need defending, but not from the rare White who hasn’t been brainwashed and intimidated like all eight of you receiving this month’s Scalawag Award. They need protecting from media munchkins whose paychecks are endorsed by six million “holocaust survivors” turning them loose on the whole gassed world.

June’s Manifesto didn’t aim for literary laurels, and that’s not why we’ve reprinted her words that upset you so on page 7.

Have y’all no more important business than jumping all over a woman who’s got more backbone than the lot of you? Is there no humor in the Town Hall at Cleveland? Ah, but it’s safe to vent that spleen on one who dares direct her own rage toward the source of our problems; nay, more than safe: it’s insurance of continuance in office for yourselves and the media functionaries passing along hints as to what scores points with your masters and certainly theirs. You putatively hope the tabloid having printed June’s words will see the light and come around, apologize to the Racists-In-Charge with you for having imagined momentarily that Whites also have rights.

Yes, June’s writing might be termed a “diatribe,” if she had stormed a legitimate forum with it before proper introductions, and then we wouldn’t take her side. But that’s not the case here. The People News in giving her space, unlike so many daily newspapers, obviously feels that Whites retain rights at least equal to the freeloader class, if not preeminent, because of the burdens they bear and we’re not speaking code words here.

To Pete Edwards, Editor-Publisher of The People News, I say bravo! His is one of those free-take-one tabloids that depends on advertising, so he’s busy apologizing to his supporters who complain about June, while telling the Cleveland Council where to go. Fortunately The First Freedom is not dependent on finicky supporters. This paper’s backers expect the entire truth.

Lapdog media-industrial complex bites little old lady

Under its 5-column headline, “Cleveland council repudiates opinion column,” The Chattanooga Times played along with this story. Easy pickings…

“CLEVELAND Tenn. – The Cleveland City Council went on record Monday repudiating the comments in a personal opinion column in a local publication. “Councilman Bill Estes called the column by Rhea County resident June Griffm overt racism.

“ ‘I want to make an appeal to the better elements of our community,’ he said. In my 10 years living and working in Cleveland I find myself continually surrounded with thoughtful, intelligent people living their lives with purpose and dignity.’

“Mrs. Griffin began her column in the March issue of the monthly The People News saying she is ‘mad at the blacks.’ ”

The First Freedom’s opinion of those eight scalawag city councilpersonifications (page 2) is less matter-of-fact and more on target. June Griffin’s article in The People News – which shook them to their peecee heartlets – appears at the bottom of this page, and immediately following these quotes showing how The Chattanooga Times tiptoed around that story see the same lady’s letter to The Bradley County News, a local Cleveland paper of note which didn’t care to print it. What a shame! that, with most of the media dominated by money hustlers, a braveheart such as she rates ink only in backwater tabloids like this one.

The Chattanooga Times informs us that “[Councilman] Estes said he understands Mrs. Griffin’s and The People News’ First Amendment rights.

“However, Mr. Estes said in a prepared statement, ‘This bigoted and hateful speech is not acceptable. Her ideas are trash and should be treated as such.’…

“Councilman Richard Banks submitted a resolution urging [The People News] publisher Pete Edwards to ‘prohibit this lady from writing in his publication.’ The council approved unanimously.

“Mr. Banks said ‘people are entitled to their political and philosophical views.’ But he said he is surprised ‘we would have trash like this in our community.’ ”

Let’s see if we’ve got this straight. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of opinion and speech to Tennessee’s elected officials and newspapers of note. Also to patriots like Pete Edwards, June Griffin and Ernst Zündel, except when silenced by Feds on a homeland obscurity mission or a city council of similar resolution.

Mrs. Griffin, you and Pete Edwards and a good lawyer could turn this teapot tempest to the gain of all concerned: a replacement council team, an expensive constitutional education for the taxpayers and a goad that puts your State’s newspapers belatedly onto a sensational international abduction story concerning Mr. Zündel of Pigeon Forge.

Turns out she’s neither little, old, nor always a lady
Here’s that letter submitted to the Bradley County News but not printed by its discriminating editor.
By June Griffin
jb21@juno.com

Since the Cleveland City Council has adopted a unanimous resolution against my publishing The Tennessee Mockingbird, which flies in the face of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights, I would like to see what other resolutions those councilmen have passed.

Where is their resolution against Janet Reno who burned people alive at Waco? How about their resolve in condemning the murder of Randy Weaver’s wife who was shot in the back by the Clinton administration?

Have they passed a resolution against the whoredoms of Bill Clinton when he unashamedly polluted the White House office with deeds too unclean to mention publicly? Or how about his administration trashing the White House as they finally left office?

Where is your resolution, dear council, condemning the IRS for jailing Ken Hovind because teaching Creationism at his own facility in Florida?

Where is your resolution condemning the zoning of Bradley County, which was opposed by the vast majority of taxpayers turning out in force, more or less begging for their property to be left alone?

Did you pass a resolution condemning the speech of Amy Conley, “the Planner,” who threatened the freeholders of Bradley County that they must go along with her plans or “We will force you!”?

Have you condemned the arbitrary power of the judicial system with its habit of mandates which has made virtual slaves of every citizen in this country, made them subservient to the demands of a handful of tyrants in Washington? How many of you have labored under the 1040s, and had no mercy on independent businesses that are oppressed with the burden of paperwork for fees, certifications, permits on and on, as was mentioned in the excellent article by Pettus Read in The People News of Bradley County? He compared the permit system and its building inspectors with fighting the elements and savageries of the Revolutionary War. And where is your condemnation of those burdens on members of the Chambers of Commerce and on unaffiliated, honest businessmen? How about the tyranny coming from Washington via their EPA snoops, with a mandated economy which forces the taxpayer to buy “trashy” hardware – “for safety and security,” of course.

Perhaps you have secretly decried the mandated gun controls which other States now put on their people, but where is your public repudiation of those, and any open statement that no such tyranny will ever come to Tennessee?

These are only the beginnings of our sorrows, yet you’ve put me on your list as condemned when I merely report the facts about a system which would use women to gain votes for more arbitrary power, and you attempt to take away the Bill of Rights for which our veterans offered their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, when defaming us as a part of the “uneducated past!”

You owe me – and the rest of the entire nation, for your sins of commission and omission – a public apology. There are a few good cities left in this State, but dual governments by and large prove useful for nothing beyond double taxation. I believe we of the Uneducated Past would be better off tolerating only our county governments and allowing the Tennessee Constitution to have its own bride again.

“The doctrine of non-resistance to arbitrary power is abusive, slavish and absurd.” – Declaration of Rights (Tennessee Constitution, Article I, Sect. 2)

A Female Manifesto
Edited and abbreviated

To whom it may concern:

I, June Griffin, an American woman, am mad at Blacks. This morning after reading the Scriptures and thinking of all that has happened to our nation in the last 50 years, I reached the firm conclusion that of all the entities used by a licentious, alcohol-dealing press, people calling themselves Blacks are the worst of fools and pawns.

You have made yourselves tools of that union-organizer Baptist preacher, Michael King alias Martin Luther King, who set an example before you of one who can sin openly, provoke the police by your uncomely behavior laying in the streets, and when they react you use your White ACLU lawyer to sue for his legal fees to be paid out of my taxes, take away my right to teach little children the Bible and to post the Ten Commandments and every normal practice which we have had since this nation was civilized in 1620.

You have followed after vile comedians who drew awful mental pictures of those who stood by the Bill of Rights, which Almighty God Who created you gave to our forefathers. Citizens standing on the Bill of Rights and their traditional practice of historically showing their State flag you have called by the non-word “racist,” and made them feel guilty for doing what is normally and traditionally American.

Your music is awful; for, instead of the beautiful hymns which our forefathers taught you in Methodist Sunday Schools you have turned to the filthy and unclean authors of confusion from New Orleans and called it a good sound.

Your laws are oppressive. “Affirmative Action,” which has intimidated and forced good employers into bankruptcy rather than give in to the tyranny, has swelled the government bureaucracy to the breaking point with its attendant mandated economy.

Your labor union organizers, including government employee unions, have so corrupted the Democratic Party until what good people might be left want to flee in horror. Now you are looking to another union organizer whose middle name is Hussein, or to a woman whose licentious husband debauched the holy name of President of the United States while she did nothing to restrain him nor denounce his unspeakable behavior.

Your so-called integration is nothing more than a segregated voting block and a union of collectivists.

Your leaders have brought no salvation by the American standard. There is no individual among you who would stand and say: “I hold to the pillars of this Republic. I will stand by the Ten Commandments, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, so help me, God.” And, while public schools are now the stronghold of Darwin, Freud and Marx, where White teachers must hide to say a simple prayer, your schools in Black neighborhoods pray boldly when they want to and proclaim whatever they will, unmolested. Where is the equality in this?

Adding to all these transgressions, you have joined yourselves with the clarion cry of the Bolshevik: “Minority rule!” which includes the lawless invader, the alien from Mexico who breaks down our immigration walls, helps himself to your socialistic food stamps, hospital care and… we are now to “Push one for Spanish”!?

All these things you have liberty for, and we’ve accepted them. You are free to do whatever you please. Why didn’t you listen to the Julia Browns in the 1960s who tried to warn you about your polluted leadership and its Bolshevik partners?

The licentious press is saying that it was women who voted for Hillary Clinton. However, do not include me, an American woman, in your push to be a part of the minority-majority. I have given my life that your children may hear the Gospel and be saved from their sins. My work – traveling the whole State of Tennessee against the Bolshevik ACLU for our God-given right to post the Ten Commandments – cost you nothing. I did not sap off the IRS and their jaded tax-exemptions. The work was done out of pure love for the God of our Fathers, and godly people paid for this out of their own pockets.

I have sought to do business with Black people, suffered with them, often endured late payments accepting their excuses and praying with them that they might prosper enough to pay their mortgages. I have been tolerated in their shops because I wanted them to do well as private owners. A church of Black people welcomed me to their pulpit when I urged them to beware of sodomite laws which bring upon them the worst of diseases. I went from one Black church to another warning about the evils of voting for a lottery.

Furthermore, I have traveled with other godly American women as far away as Buffalo, New York and Atlanta, bringing testimony before the Pew Foundation that all of us may enjoy a Social Security Rebate of full payment with interest, and make this system voluntary. Did your biased press ever publish one word of this potential windfall and liberty? When I rescinded my so-called social security number in order to give liberty to untold millions who are slaves of this system and show them the power of God to take care of us in old age, what was my reward? Title 42 USC 666 took away my right to drive, work, fish or hunt without giving a social security number, all at the hands of your jaded benefactor, so-called “Health and Human Services.” My privately-funded lawsuit in Chancery Court brought down the wrath of the entire Department of Safety on my head. Why, why, I ask? Why should good people live in jeopardy of their God-given liberties?

Enough is enough. If you are going to join another mob to out-vote the traditional majority, don’t include me in your Diversity Club of Blacks, Hispanics, sodomites, Orientals and whatever collectivists want the groupie coverage. Leave the women out of it and particularly leave me out of it.

I am an American Christian woman. I want to prosper in my business. I desire to keep my home and drive my car without your forced safety devices and mandated economy. I refuse to be promoted or favored because God made me a woman. To do so would demean my own abilities and skills and curtail my incentive. I will not be destroyed by your unholy collective. To do so would fly in the face of what the Lord gave me, Bible Rights, the Bill of Rights, liberty unheard of in the history of the world.

What will I do with my anger? I am not going to speak to you except as a group. There is an old true saying: the exception proves the rule. If you want to come out from the collective of deluded women and stand for what is good and right, and leave me out of your minority-majority, then we will be friends and fight this evil together.

As for the rest of you, I will do as the woman in the 18th Chapter of the Gospel According to Luke. I will go before Jesus Christ the Righteous Judge and ask Him to avenge me of my adversary, to sanctify Godly women to the place of honor and holiness which such Christian women deserve. And I will continue to preach and teach Americanism.

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