In light of recent allegations that have appeared in national and international news stories involving Kirk Lyons in an espionage case and his ties to militia groups, perhaps it is time to look closer at CIC Ron Wilson's own ties and connections to extremist groups, including militia groups, which have advocated the overthrow of the United States government. 

R.G. "Ron" Wilson was for many years a regular columnist for the "Citizen Informer", the publication of the Council of Conservative Citizens. As a columnist here he was able to spread his own sort of propaganda. In Volume 21, Spring 1990 Wilson saw something sinister in the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Wilson wrote a column praising Joe McCarthy in Volume 22, Winter 1991 For the Spring 1991 issue Wilson wrote a column on Martin Dies and his activities with the House Committee on Un-American activities. In 1992 Wilson was writing about a conspiracy involving the Council on Foreign Relations. Wilson was active in the Council of Conservative Citizens for a number of years.

This same R.G. Wilson, now Commander-In-Chief (CIC) of the Sons of Confederate Veterans claims that he withdrew from the two extremist groups, the League of the South and the Council of Conservative Citizens, due to "some discomfort." Wilson apparently has no discomfort over broadcasting on a shortwave radio station sharing programming by various militias who oppose the federal government.

CIC Ronnie Wilson’s business website www.atlanticbullionandcoin.com home page encourages visitors to "Listen to our Radio Program on Shortwave WWFV at frequency 5.085 and 6.890, Sunday evening at 11:OO EST. Also, you may now listen to our Thursday night program at frequency 5.085 and 6.890 at 8:00 PM EST."

Nick Grace of the Clandestine Radio Watch Washington Bureau reports, "WWFV is a licensed short wave radio station owned and operated by Dave Frantz. It is known to relay programming by . . . various militias."

James Latham, co-founder of Radio For Peace International (RFPI) and host of "Far Right Radio Review," a show that seeks to expose extremists and their hateful programming on shortwave radio, reports that the United States has become home to hate radio. Latham states that "Overall, there are 21 U.S.-licensed, non-governmental shortwave stations and one illegal pirate [station]. . . . Of these, seven have broadcast far-right programming using high-power transmitters capable of reaching around the globe in the right weather conditions. They are WWFV in McCaysville, Ga., which has carried William Pierce [Pierce was head of the neo-Nazi National Alliance until his death in July 2002]; WWCR in Nashville, which has featured a wide variety of extremists; WBCQ in Monticello, Maine, carrying Hal Turner; WHRA/WHRI in South Bend, Ind., which has aired radicals like . . . Pete Peters and militia enthusiast Jack McLamb but now tends to tamer conspiratorial fare; WRMI in Miami, which has had on anti-Semitic pastor Robert Hallstrom; . . . and UPR, which has offered up hard-liner James Wickstrom, the former "director of counterinsurgency" for the violent and anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus."

Sometimes that programming can be scary. Save the SCV thinks that Ron Wilson should be feeling "some discomfort" from his associations with these hate-mongers.