The John C. Calhoun statue may have new life breathed into it staying in Charleston, but it’s a breath and a prayer.
A Charleston-based organization is asking for the support of the general public in raising funds to save the John C. Calhoun monument of that city from being placed into the hands of a museum called LAXART which plans to display the statue and others in a demeaning manner for the public.
The group from the the Pacific Coast has a museum called LAXART (Los Angeles) which now exhibits derogatory displays downgrading both sacred America traditions, American foreign policy and normal sexuality, among many other topics.
Work crews working for the Charleston City Council removed the Calhoun monument under cover of darkness. The Calhoun monument and its base have been recognized and one of the most beautiful in the state prior to being ripped down by those seeking to remove SC history.
LAXART representatives are searching the South for monuments to include in an exhibit they have planned with an innocuous-sounding name called simply “Monuments”. Hardly innocent, however, it is planned to feature multiple Confederate statues including one of Robert E. Lee from New Orleans, the priceless “Stonewall” Jackson monument from Charlottesville—and also the John C. Calhoun monument from Charleston. The displays will include negative and derogatory markings in a campaign against the South’s history, character and integrity—which LAXART calls placing them in “context.”
Charleston’s Commission on History was approached by LAXART museum director Hamza Walker and considered before Christmas whether to accept the group’s offer to take the Calhoun monument to Los Angeles, at their expense, for the display. The Commission voted to allow LAXART to take this action. However, the fate of the monument still remained in the hands of the Charleston City Council, which reports stated would likely agree.
When descendants of John Calhoun and of the Ladies Calhoun Monument Association entered a lawsuit to stop the city from removing the monument outside of South Carolina, as well as to maintain their sacred trust in keeping the monument protected and displayed in honorable fashion, the City Council tabled their vote on the statue—which was to take place January 10th.
The American Heritage Association is working to help raise funds for legal expenses of the lawsuit to keep this priceless piece of South Carolina’s history within the boundary of the state and displayed in suitable fashion to promote an important part of this state’s history. Brett Barry, President of the Association, represents the agency stating that The American Heritage Association’s (AHA) mission is to protect our national memory and halt the pollicization and canceling of our American story.
Barry said in a news release that, “The American Heritage Association is proud to assist the petitioners with payment of legal fees. This is a South Carolina monument, paid for by South Carolinians, and it needs to stay in South Carolina.”
DAVID VS GOLIATH
The players in this legal battle are as dissimilar as the old Biblical characters of David and Goliath. The imagery is that David, a young man, not well funded or equipped, and not experienced in warfare, was taking on Goliath a well funded champion of the Philistines. Goliath had the armor, weaponry and experience to wage warfare against what he considered pipsqueaks like David.
George Soros has spent over a billion dollars to remake America into one that removes historical monuments and memorials, and erects a rioting, looting, and murdering society with no borders.
In June 2020, the National Action Network, the Charleston chapter of the NAACP, some members of the South Carolina General Assembly, and Rev. Nelson Rivers III, called for the removal of the John C. Calhoun monument. There are known financial ties, crime and lawlessness associated with George Soros. Soros is known to be the chief financial contributor and supporter of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, the NAACP, and the Marxist Antifa and Black Lives Matter. He has also been accused of being a NAZI sympathizer. Soros has a record of contributing to Mayors, councils, District Attorneys, Attorney’s General, and other political candidates through his Open Society organization and others for the purpose of destroying America.
Lawyers for this case are the Bill Connor Law Firm of Orangeburg, SC and Lauren Martel of the Martel Law Firm of Bluffton, SC. The suit alleges that the city has not kept the trust stated in an original letter describing the gift from the Ladies Monument Association in 1898. Named in the suit are the Charleston City Council members, Charleston Mayor John J. Tecklenburg, and SC Attorney General Alan Wilson. Plaintiffs include Mark Calhoun, Andrew Pickens Calhoun and Arthur Francis Doty, III, descendants of former vice President John C. Calhoun, and F. Preston Wilson, descendant of a member of the Ladies’ Monument Association. Wilson was quoted by Live5 News in Charleston saying in June 2020, that the Heritage Act “did not apply to the John C. Calhoun statue.” Mayor Tecklenburg was contacted for a comment regarding this story but did not respond.
“This is a South Carolina monument, paid for by South Carolinians, and it needs to stay in South Carolina.” — Brett Barry, American Heritage Association
The American Heritage Association encourages all interested citizens to come to the aid of their country and assist in the effort to protect the monument through this lawsuit. He asks that donations be made through their website at www.americanheritageassociation.org. For more information about AFA or the case, AFA President Brett Barry may be reached by email at amheritageassoc@gmail.com, or call their office at (843) 872-3067.
Lisa Carol Rudisill, M.T.S., is a magna cum laud graduate of NC State University and Liberty University where she earned a Master of Theology. She writes novels about her family history during the Civil War in North and South Carolina. She is a freelance writer, editorialist and a contributor to The Standard newspaper.
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