The website you are currently viewing is the template for the latest version of DixieNet.Org. You may notice that some of the pages are 'under construction.' The reason for this is because we had not planned to launch this version of the website for another 48 hours. Had we been able to maintain our website launch time table there would have been no unfinished pages on our site.
So why launch so early?
The answer to that question transforms a simple website launch issue into a prime example of how the free speech rights of Americans are at serious risk of being taken away. Particularly when the viewpoint being presented calls into question the political status quo here in these united States.
This week the League of the South, along with a number of other pro-secessionist organisations from all across North America are participating in the North American Secessionist Convention (NASC) in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This event is the largest gathering of secessionist in the world. In addition to the NASC the League will also be holding its annual national convention in the same city.
These events have generated a considerable amount of interest in the media. In particular, our President, Dr. J. Michael Hill was interviewed by the Associated Press about the League's involvement in the NASC. That AP article has been carried in newspapers, the Drudge Report, and TV stations in both America and Europe. Part of the article included a link to one of our secondary domain names (leagueofthesouth.net) . At some point this morning (3 October 2007) we discovered that our website was not available on the Internet. After some investigation we discovered that despite the fact that all of our fees were paid our website had been suspended. We purchase our web space from a company that acts as a reseller of hosting services. While this company has control over who they choose to do business, it was not the reseller that suspended our website.
Apparently, it was one of the larger companies that sells these services wholesale to our provider that decided to suspend our website, and they choose to do this without informing either our provider or us of this action. After using the same provider for quite an extended period of time, we find it quite the coincidence that this decision was made on the day that one of the biggest news stories in the history of the modern secessionist movement was to go global!
We are compelled to ask is someone trying to prevent the message of the League of the South from reaching a wider audience? If so, who would have the kind of power required to force our provider to pull the plug on our website and effectively silence our message on the Internet?
It certainly concerns us, and we hope that all freedom loving people everywhere (regardless of how they feel about the League of the South or the secessionist movement) would be as equally concerned, for if the free speech rights of the League of the South are not safe no one's free speech rights are safe!
