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Web designer George Kalas wanted to re-fight the Civil War. Instead, he started one in his own movement.

A A A Comments By Randall Patterson Thursday, Jul 22 1999

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Nah, said Fleming. "I've been around the block enough to know that human nature can be infinitely bizarre."

But then again, how could the political party have been discredited more?

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Gone with the Wind put Kalas on the road to the man he is today.

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The board voted to divest itself of both political parties. The League was just not going to get into it. When Kalas heard the news, he took it like a man. Then he began fomenting discord again, declaring on a rebel bulletin board that the board lacked that "essential fire in the belly," which he so abundantly had.

The board wasn't going to take this anymore from the Rebmaster.

"Although we have all appreciated your contributions to the League," wrote Thomas Fleming, "your unfortunate propensity to personalize every issue, to leave no remark or insult unanswered, and to avoid no quarrel that might damage LOS has made it increasingly difficult to justify your actions."

The Web site was taken from the Rebmaster. He was declared persona non grata and expelled from the League.

"The possibility exists that George Kalas was a plant for the left from the beginning," Wheeler observed.

Kalas went on to do more of the hard work of freedom for the Southern Party. The great secession party is August 7, and Kalas hopes that people come. His name has been in the newspaper quite a lot lately, usually with suppressed laughter ("Secession Again?" tittered the AP). But George Kalas is never laughing.

For several days after his expulsion, Kalas sulked around. He complained a lot. And then, though he will never admit it, Kalas realized Lincoln was right. Perhaps this duplex thing was a bad idea.

He sat down and wrote a message to the League's board of directors. "The Southern Party Olive Branch," he called it. He wrote that he hoped for "a general reunion of all parties involved." He sent out "overtures of camaraderie and friendship." He waited for days, but there was no answer at all.

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