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2005-02-17 01:51 | User Profile
He will be missed!
God save the South Christus Victor, BR
[url]http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/02/author_and_colu.php[/url]
Author and Columnist Sam Francis Dies
Columnist, author, and frequent AR contributor Samuel Francis died on the evening of February 15th of complications from heart surgery two weeks earlier.
Mr. Francis was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 29, 1947. He was educated at The Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1969) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he received a Ph.D. in modern history in 1979. From 1977 to 1981, he was a policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., specializing in foreign affairs, terrorism, and intelligence and internal security issues. From 1981 to 1986, he was legislative assistant for national security affairs to Senator John P. East (Republicanââ¬âNorth Carolina) and worked closely with the Senate Judiciary Committeeââ¬â¢s Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, of which Senator East was a member.
Mr. Francis joined the editorial staff of The Washington Times in 1986 as an editorial writer. He served as Deputy Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Times from 1987 to 1991, as Acting Editorial Page Editor from February to May, 1991, and as a staff columnist through September, 1995.
Mr. Francis received the Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in both 1989 and 1990. He was a finalist for the National Journalism Award
(Walker Stone Prize) for Editorial Writing of the Scripps Howard Foundation in 1989 and 1990.
His twice-weekly column was nationally syndicated through Creators Syndicate.
Mr. Francis was the author of several articles and studies of international and domestic terrorism, including The Soviet Strategy of Terror (1981; rev. ed., 1985).
A prolific writer on issues of public policy, he published articles or reviews in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, National Review, The Occidental Quarterly, of which he was Associate and Book Editor, and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, of which he was a Contributing Editor and for which he wrote a monthly column ââ¬ÅPrincipalities and Powers.ââ¬Â
He wrote often for American Renaissance, and was a speaker at every biennial AR conference, beginning in 1994.
He was the author of Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham (1984) and Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (1993).
Sam Francis was a dear friend, a brilliant thinker, and a courageous writer. American thought and journalism have been greatly diminished by his untimely death
2005-02-17 02:03 | User Profile
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]R.I.P.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
I great loss for all of us!
2005-02-17 09:27 | User Profile
Brother Rat,
They left one out. Dr. Francis used to write for Southern Partisan magazine as well. His columns about Michael Eisner and what he wanted to do the Manassas Battlefield were quite good.
2005-02-17 14:44 | User Profile
I will miss Mr. Francis and I got kicked off FR once for posting one of his columns. If he wrote for Southern Partisian, was he a member of SCV?
2005-02-17 14:53 | User Profile
SK,
I don't know if he was or not. I also got booted for posting Sam Francis columns from FR. Wear it as a badge of honor, I do.
2005-02-17 17:53 | User Profile
Aw, shit. This is the worst thing that's happened to America since George W. Bush managed to steal the Ohio delegation to the Electoral College.
Good luck out there, Dr. Francis, and thanks for lending a hand.
2005-02-17 18:01 | User Profile
I'm back on the Hannity forums after a year's rest. I post Vdare material every chance I get... especially Sam's.
I'm back with a vengeance, but trying to get the point across without getting banned is a tricky balancing act.
Today's been a good a day. I had the gall to bring up the '65 Immigration Act to a gentlemen with a Chinese wife. He responded by threatening me with physical violence. :nerd:
2005-02-17 18:07 | User Profile
[QUOTE=skemper]I will miss Mr. Francis and I got kicked off FR once for posting one of his columns. If he wrote for Southern Partisian, was he a member of SCV?[/QUOTE]
I doubt it. Secessionists brought out the worst in Francis. He regarded their goals as "fantasies." In fact I believe that was the title of one of his columns on the subject for Chronicles.
2005-02-17 18:10 | User Profile
This is literally the worst thing to happen to America since George W. Bush's minions managed to steal the Ohio delegation to the Electoral College.
Dr. Francis was a truly great and brilliant man, and his valiant and patriotic efforts on behalf of the authentic American nation, his beloved Southland, and the very structure of Western Civilization itself, shall be remembered and praised by future historians. His tragic demise contributes to the peril we all presently face, and we owe him our most sincere and hearty thanks for having done so much, and worked so hard, for arguably one of the least rewarding (in the sense that the ruling class does not issue rewards for its pursuit) fields of human endeavour: The noble and just, and for that matter sacred, struggle to defend and preserve our European-descended folk, here in America, and around the world.
God Bless Dr. Francis. We are unlikely to see his like again, perhaps, and yet it is precisely his like that is needed to stave off the imminent cultural apocalypse of our society, and the literal destruction of all that is good within it. Thus it behooves us all, most forcibly, to emulate his sterling example.
Good luck out there, Dr. Francis.
2005-02-17 19:27 | User Profile
I'm not quite as despondent. Let's face it. What Francis had to say has been said many times over for many decades. He wasn't coming up with anything new. His articles took on a sameness to me, and I always finished one thinking, "Fine words, but when are we actually going to DO something." The last time anyone tried was the Buchanan campaign(s), and we all know what a disaster they were on the race issue. As for secessionists, Francis not only dismissed them, he mocked them.
We don't need verbiage, we need action--a populist figure who can scare the bejesus out of the Establishment, and I don't see any on the horizon.
Maybe Mel Gibson can run for office a la Reagan or Arnold?
2005-02-17 19:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Buster]Maybe Mel Gibson can run for office a la Arnold.[/QUOTE]
Mel Gibson may have been raised in Australia, but he was born in California, and has never repudiated his American citizenship; he is eligible for the Presidency.
2005-02-18 00:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Mel Gibson may have been raised in Australia, but he was born in California....[/QUOTE] I thought he was from Syracuse.
2005-02-19 04:13 | User Profile
An Article I found:
[QUOTE]Great-Compromiser Sam Francis Left His Mark
Columnist derided "neo-con" takeover of "conservative" cause Writer used code-words to further segregation
He was a barrel of contradictions, who, nonetheless, could barrel over the most-potent of foes. Samuel Francis had once worked for Sun Young Moon, the vaunted miscegenationist, yet professed being a staunch segregationist. At fifty-seven-years-old, he was extremely obese and worn with age, yet he always published a photo of himself from twenty or thirty years ago. When Francis died on February 15, 2005, of complications from heart surgery, he was regarded by many as the "Great Compromiser" of his day, akin to Henry Clay of yore. When the battle raged for the Confederate Flag in Mississippi, Francis wrote in his syndicated newspaper column that the banner did not signify the white race, a claim which drew the ire of flag-supporters fighting for their very survival against attempts by Richard Henry to impose the "Republic of New Africa" upon their state. Nonetheless, partisans retorted that Francis was, actually, trying to support the flag, by denying its meaning.
Francis was best-known for taking what he termed the "neo-cons" to task. An "old-line," even "hard-line," "conservative," Francis had built up a national following of intellectuals, who had bucked the Great-Society of Lyndon B. Johnson. He bewailed that the "conservatives" had been taken over and sold out largely by Jews and, in his final column, characterized George W. Bush as just another "liberal" and shill for the "neo-conservatives." In later years, Francis had aligned with Gordon Baum, who had tried to revive the mailing-list of the once-powerful White Citizens Council. Baum would constantly tell newsmen that he was not opposed to miscegenation, although Francis would use such code-words as "Southern heritage," "states rights" or "conservatism" to convey the segregationist message through the Council of Conservative Citizens. His closest associate remained Robert Patterson, who established white, private schools throughout Mississippi.
From crude to classy
Francis had served as editor of Baum's newsletter, the Citizens' Informer, raising it up from a small, crude publication to a classy tabloid. Long-winded on articles and loaded with intellectualism, the paper had kept the flame of "racial integrity," promoted by the forerunner Council, alive, although Council-spokesman Bill Hinson had told reporters lately that his group had nothing to do with the "race issue." Francis would write, instead, against immigration, "liberalism" and the 1954 Brown decision, which he termed "the most dangerous and destructive Supreme Court decision in American history." He derided immigration as the revolutionary "displacement of one people and its culture by others." Francis saw himself as anything but a "revolutionary." He envisioned returning to the "good, old days" solely through the power of the pen. He once shut down his popular on-line forum, because he said that he could not control irresponsible posters.
The Chattanooga-native would skirt invitations to rightist events, which he considered too "revolutionary," and refused to write for militant rightist publications. However, he editorially supported efforts by George C. Wallace "to build a mass anti-establishment movement as opposed to an elite cadre of intellectuals." He called his doctrine the Populism of the Right. Still, some of his "populist" readers found him to be on-target, but overblown. One said, "Barry Hackney could say in one paragraph what it would take Sam Francis two pages to say." But the Francis legacy is unmistakable. He repudiated the Southern Baptist Convention for adopting a resolution "apologizing" to the Negro race. He, almost single-handedly, revived the fortunes of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, of which he was a proud member. And he brought the "true conservative" cause back from cow-pastures onto college-campuses, beyond taverns back into libraries.
[url]http://www.nationalist.org/alt/2005/francis.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
2005-02-19 06:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Buster]I doubt it. Secessionists brought out the worst in Francis. He regarded their goals as "fantasies." In fact I believe that was the title of one of his columns on the subject for Chronicles.[/QUOTE]What does that have to do with being a member of SCV? Is it required to be pro-secession? I thought it was about honoring one's ancestors?
Too bad that some Southerners are rather uptight on the secession issue; plenty of loyal Southerners happen to think secession is/was a bad idea; that doesn't make them "disloyal" or "beyond the pale". General Lee himself thought it was a bad idea.
If that was why they had "disagreements", it only confirms my opinion that Thomas Fleming is....well, never mind. I'm not going to waste time stating my low opinion of Mr. Fleming.
2005-02-19 06:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Buster]I'm not quite as despondent. Let's face it. What Francis had to say has been said many times over for many decades. He wasn't coming up with anything new. His articles took on a sameness to me, and I always finished one thinking, "Fine words, but when are we actually going to DO something." The last time anyone tried was the Buchanan campaign(s), and we all know what a disaster they were on the race issue. As for secessionists, Francis not only dismissed them, he mocked them.
We don't need verbiage, we need action--a populist figure who can scare the bejesus out of the Establishment, and I don't see any on the horizon.
Maybe Mel Gibson can run for office a la Reagan or Arnold?[/QUOTE]Francis was a writer and an intellectual, not an activist.
Rarely, if ever, do intellectuals or theoreticians make good activists or politicians.
I really wish people would stop asking the intellectuals to become their political saviours, because it isn't going to happen. Intellectuals themselves would be the first to tell you how inept they are at such a task. Just look at how inept Buchanan was.
Francis was about waking people up and getting them to think and read about things others in the mainstream media weren't talking about. He wasn't writing for the hard core white nationalist, who already knew much of what Francis was writing about. He was writing for those who were just waking up; go read the threads elsewhere and notice how many people credit Francis as part of their intellectual awakening.
How many two bit activists active today can claim to have ever converted anyone to white nationalism, who wasn't already coming over to our side for other reasons? Francis was the only intelligent voice of white nationalism (however coded) which could reach the great mass of our people through the filter of the mass media.
He did more for our cause than all of his critics put together could ever hope to do.
2005-02-19 08:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=mwdallas]I thought he was from Syracuse.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/]He[/url] was born in Peekskill, NY.
And I wouldn't want him as president. He'd just flood the country with even more Mestizo mongrels -- provided they were Roman Catholic, or course.
2005-02-19 15:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=grep14w]I really wish people would stop asking the intellectuals to become their political saviours, because it isn't going to happen. Intellectuals themselves would be the first to tell you how inept they are at such a task. Just look at how inept Buchanan was. [/QUOTE]
Precisely, which is why I don't think his death is the tragedy people are making it out to be. His body of work is what it is. He said what he had to say.
If he was a member of SCV, fine. I just think it interesting that a person would bitterly ridicule secession and pay homage to the confederacy at the same time. Perhaps he thought it was a good idea once, but not today.
2005-02-20 02:37 | User Profile
grep14w,
I think many Southerners know the problem was the Federal Government not the "Yankee," it is in good part the "anti-racist" morons who do the worst ranting about the "Yankee." Somehow hating "Yankees" is good, but telling the truth about Afros is evil.
See Dennis Wheeler's Home Page [url]http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/[/url]
A Review of White Like Me: Dennis Wheeler comments on the original article by Dr. Thomas Fleming [url]http://www.mindspring.com/~dennisw/articles/white.htm[/url]
Wheeler is a great writer. I love his un-PC articles!
[QUOTE]Until it's explained better, this statement seems to show more dislike for Southern nationalism than anything I've heard from the white nationalists. Here were our people, our Confederate soldiers and their brothers, struggling to preserve themselves from the new order as best they could, and now Dr. Fleming is saying the blacks have a right to hate them for it. What gives?
Actually, the original Klan won an important victory, although the full imposition of the Confederate ideology and the restoration of the original America did not ever come to fruition. But the original Klan ran the Union troops out of the South by 1877. This allowed the Southern states to regain control of their internal affairs. And what was their reaction to this newfound freedom? They instituted Jim Crow and saved America from the implementation of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act for nearly 90 years.
By 1927, the President of the United States led a procession of several hundred thousand robed Klansmen down Pennsylvania Boulevard which showed how that white America had buried the hatchet from the Civil War and were committed to maintain their control over this country. But the North "broke faith" again after WWII by allowing Asians rights of citizenship and then imposing Civil Rights legislation on the South to the detriment of the entire country and Western civilization.
It took nearly 100 years for the Equalitarian religion to work its way into the American law books and policies. But once done, it has produced devastating effects for all concerned. [/QUOTE]