To Honorable Alan Wilson, Attorney General for
the State of South Carolina and Candidate for
Governor.
Re: Your Statement of June 10, 2025
From William J. Hamilton, Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC,
Citizen, Attorney, Writer, Activist
Dated June 11, 2025
Related You Tube Video now online.
Mount Pleasant, SC, USA - As a public official sworn and obligated to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the people of South Carolina, regardless of their race, state of poverty, sexual orientation or ethnicity, you have vastly more important priorities than setting yourself up up for a four year stay on Arsenal Hill as our next Governor.
You are correct that there is a massive, coordinated effort to protest the campaign of civic vandalism and possible treason by Donald Trump. It is called No Kings Day. We are citizens and your constituents exercising our 1st Amendment rights.
This statement peaceful protesters “radical and anti-American” is a dog whistle to Trump’s MAGA nation, standing by as always for an opportunity for violence with the hope of a pardon.. You represent law enforcement for every citizen of this state. Characterizing us this way is inflammatory and dehumanizing. In advance of these protests, you are fomenting a dangerous misinformation campaign. If your statements are not immediately corrected, SC will suffer for it
Why the SC Lowcountry is Standing Up and Resisting
Millions of Americans are preparing to stand up. In the Lowcountry our organization will choose June 14 as the day to open our Liberate Our Lowcountry, Five Weeks for Freedom Campaign That will be part of what I can assure you will be the most profound and determined campaign of resistance seen in the Palmetto State in over 50 years.
We are not out to ruin Trump’s Birthday, though he deserves it. Trump decided to squander over 30 million dollars on a Soviet style military parade less than a mile long while the nation’s economy stumbles downward, food banks empty without replenishment and hard working people who struggled to reach America face hunters who behave like Nazis.
We are citizens standing up to save our Nation and state. As for Flag day, our free speech demonstrations would be recognizable to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. We are proud of our effort. We aim to make it peaceful, inclusive and powerful.
The Probability of Violence in SC
It is possible that somewhere there will be violence. SC is a state where people get stabbed to death with hand tools in Walmart Parking lots, shot at children’s birthday parties and where you are adamant that nearly everyone should have the right to carry a loaded gun.
Given our high levels of alcohol and drug use, SC’s culture of violence and our miserable state of civic socialization, many people here simply can’t deal with the challenges of poverty, poor mental health and ignorance. If you, the state’s ultimate Law Enforcement officer, have been unable to keep people safe, it is hardly reasonable to expect ordinary citizens equipped with cardboard protest signs and bullhorns to do so.
Instead of threatening peaceful demonstrators, the state’s attorney general should spend the weekend trying to reduce the shootings sure to mar life here, even if that might reduce income at your families firearms retail stores. Ironically, I need to become your customer so I can pick up kevlar inserts for my bullet proof vest. I must admit the system works for you.
All of the organizers I know in SC are working with local law enforcement to have peaceful demonstrations this weekend. Even in Charleston, where we are suing the City Government over its anti-free speech ordinance in US District Court, the planned demonstrations are permitted, organized and socially constructive. They are based on plans coordinated with local police departments. These demonstrations are likely to be the largest in SC of my adult lifetime.
I myself will be working as a legal observer, monitoring compliance with First Amendment protections in Summerville and Charleston. As the 10th. Anniversary of the Emanuel 9 shootings approaches next week, Lowcountry Liberals have no appetite for more violence.
I Would Rather Go the Beach
I would rather be going to the beach. We all would. However, Trump refuses to govern with kindness and respect. A nightclub was raided in Ladson. Scores of families were terrorized so that a handful could be legally arrested while dozens of others were incompetently and deliberately swept up for political effect. The brave people of Ukraine pay for their enduring freedom with their lives daily. In Gaza people starve and die because no leader involved is brave enough to end it. Neighbors go hungry after thousands of tons of supplies were landfilled on Trump’s orders while privation appears on SC’s streets again.
America has become hungry, unjust and scared.
If the No Kings demonstrations aren’t big enough, we’ll hold larger ones. They will continue until decency and justice returns, even here to red SC.
Threats of Prosecution
Your threat to prosecute people attacking Law Enforcement or destroying property, while appropriate under the circumstances, is hollow. Your prosecutors and courts aren’t capable of trying these cases to jury verdict in large numbers.
SC’s legal system, over which you preside as chief prosecutor, is largely equipped to convict the poor with little resistance. It relies on endless guilty pleas obtained by economic coercion to keep the machine greased. The City of Charleston’s Municipal Court is already struggling to manage the prosecution of 9 peaceful protestors arrested last year, several during their walks home after police allegedly informed them their protest on Marion Square was not a problem. Juries are not going to like these cases. In the current political environment, convictions worthy to be upheld on appeal will be nearly impossible to obtain.
You promise “active coordination” to suppress our Constitutional guaranteed right to assemble, speak and petition our government for a redress of grievances. Where is this “active coordination” in dealing with our states staggering rates of domestic violence, child abuse, and opioid addiction?
We know far more South Carolinians will be beaten, wounded and killed in their homes this weekend than at any of our planned demonstrations. Your law enforcement agencies already know who the people are that will be erupting that violence this weekend from previous reports. Little or nothing will be done because, unlike writing traffic tickets, there is no money in it.
In the end, you ask that people report information “relating to potential riots or crime this weekend.” I am happy to assist. This is my report.
My Report
The United States of America has come under the control of a known Insurrectionist who on Jan. 6, 2021 incited a riot at the US Capital which resulted in the death and injury of many people, including law enforcement.
With the assistance of a foreign born billionaire and Vladimir Putin using unprecedented AI powered internet communication at a total cost of over 300 million dollars almost all of which was provided by 10 billionaire families, he has returned to power. Trump is a convicted felon, a known criminal. Trump has violated the constitution of the United States and its laws thousands of times and is currently in contempt of several court orders. He has destroyed valuable public records and sold pardons to other criminals like himself. He has and continues to encourage acts of violence. He is currently illegally sending Federal troops into the City of Los Angeles against the wishes of its Mayor, Governor and Police Chief to provide and sustain violence and civil unrest.
In response to this, citizen activists across the State of South Carolina have risen up in protest and planned a weekend of No King’s demonstrations and social justice actions across the state on June 14 and 15th. 2025.
It is your obligation as the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, acting with SLED, other law enforcement agencies and the Governor, to guarantee the safety and security of these citizens as the exercise their highest duty and work as an American,
the peaceful and determined presentation of a demand that our nation return to the practice of decency, kindness and justice which we have imperfectly, but determinedly pursued though our long history. It is your obligation, by oath, to protect these citizens from MAGA threats and attacks which are or might be made by your own supporters and gun store customers.
We are ready to do our duty as citizens this weekend, with peace and dignity and to turn out from our ranks any who cannot conform to those values. We hope you are ready to do your duty as our Attorney General.
END END END
William Hamilton is a 13th generation South Carolinian, Executive Director of Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC. Leader of Pettigrew Free Speech Defense & Counsel of Record in Brown v. Charleston, the free speech case currently pending in US District Court
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