The Punic Wars and the Council of Conservative Citizens Six Months After Obama Enters the White House
| June 30, 2009
The Punic Wars and the Council of Conservative Citizens Six Months After Obama Enters the White House
by Leonard Zeskind
The Zeskind Fortnight No. 17
Sam Dickson's soliloquy on how "Aryan Europe" was saved from the "Semites" when Rome crushed Carthage has to be the high point of the Council of Conservative Citizen's meeting in Jackson, Mississippi on Friday and Saturday June 26 and 27. Winning the Punic Wars was part of Dickson's two millennia-long list of victories for white people. An Atlanta attorney who speaks regularly at Council and related events, Dickson usually spends his time at these affairs making his crowd feel good about themselves. But alas, he had no recent victories to speak of at this conference, and so he also spent time berating white liberals--and I must confess that my own name was mentioned several times along with the names of others who Dickson decided to deride.
Of the Barack Obama victory in the last election, Dickson argued that, "it is a good thing that Obama is in the White House...so that we can see that the people that hate us are running this country." Such an assessment was part of his rationale for the statement that "we are no longer conservatives, we are revolutionaries."
Emphasizing the good effect that Obama's election was having on the Council was also the task of the organization's executive director, Gordon Baum, also an attorney (he practices in the St. Louis metro area). The "last four months have been the best for us in many a year," Baum averred. But he also conceded that the next four years would be a "rough ride." According to the Council, Obama's election has ushered in a period of "black rule," a dubious proposition at best. His election did, however, break the white monopoly on the presidency and does by extension challenge at least some of the perquisites of white majority-only power that the Council seeks.
For the last five months, spokesmen for the Council of Conservative Citizens have been claiming that their organization is growing like Topsy. Last February, the webmaster wrote a note claiming that their internet traffic "has averaged 75% higher per day since Obama was elected," and that "the rate of new members coming in has been double or triple," what it normally was.
While there were new members, young people, at the organization's semi-annual board meeting and conference in Jackson, the Council may not be growing fast enough to replace its aging and less mobile members. The Council's after the event write-up claimed