Coca-Cola Boycott Update
Commentary by Dr. W. H. Swann
Southern Patriots:
Time after time we’re told we are too
few in number to make a difference. We are repeatedly told that we
lack the concentration or staying power to organize and maintain a
boycott. Yet we started a boycott of The Coca-Cola Company in 2002
and to date their volume sales in North America (Including Canada)
have fallen between 1.4% and 4%. The reason this number is so
varied is that Coca-Cola and CCE (Coca-Cola Enterprises) the North
American Distributor for Coca-Cola Products, can’t make up their
minds about how much the volume is really off.
Beverage Digest suggests the number is closer to the
4%, but Coca-Cola which recently admitted to the SEC that they
lied and
used faulty accounting practices to deceptively maintain sales and
profit levels, now reports that North American Sales were
flat. Since PepsiCo bottlers of Pepsi Products has been reporting
huge gains in sales and profits in North America (Up 5.5% in
Volume) it seems likely that they are taking the business from
someone, and that is likely the Coca-Cola Corp.
As of today (4/28/05), we now have over 1.6 million people
who have signed either paper on on-line petitions that say they
are boycotting Coca-Cola Products.
These petitions come from all over the world and some have
as few as 8 signatures on the petition to ones from Alaska with
over 30 pages of signers. There are undoubtedly some duplicates
between the paper petitions and the Online Petition created and
managed by Southern Party Vice Chairman and great Southern Patriot
Mike Crane.
There are undoubtedly some of you who boycotted for some
period of time and went back to buying Coca-Cola. The majority of
Southern Patriots have remained committed to defeating this
Corporate Assassin of Southern Heritage. To those who have
remained steadfast, its time to kick it up a notch, tell your
friends and family to keep buying anything but Coca-Cola Products.
Coca-Cola is counting on regaining momentum this summer, and
it is the duty of every Southern Heritage loving person to do
their part in this battle. It isn’t often that we have the chance
to make a statement and a difference by doing something that
doesn’t cost us money. We can adjust to a different tasting soft
drink.
A Gentleman wrote me with a petition from Maryland and says
it better than I could. “Every time a Southern Person buys a
Coca-Cola product it is roughly the equivalent of handing
Sherman’s Bummers another match with which to burn down a
Southerners home”. Mitch’s (last name with held by request)
comments may sound extreme but they are correct. Every Coca-Cola
Purchase funds anti-Southern activity, and while there is no
burning down of our current homes, they sure as the devil are
re-destroying the homes and honorable names of our Ancestors.
Strike a blow for Southern Heritage, JUST SAY NO TO
COCA-COLA PRODUCTS.
Dr. William H. Swann
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