We have been having serious issues the last two weeks with the new store (credit processor company) We have not posted an update until we knew more about the situation. The situation is that we are having to get a new credit processing company.
What this means for you. Right now we are not accepting any credit card orders. This means that any links from this site to renewals, uniforms, Page CD orders, books, etc. is not online. If you click the link button, you will go to a blank page. You can still send in a check or money order for items you want and we will take care of those for you ASAP!
We also were not able to process any monthly automatic donations. If you were previously signed up for this, we ask that you still please send in your monthly pledge, since we were unable to process your card. And whether you were signed up or not, we urge you to get your monthly pledges in. The majority of our funding comes from the online store and credit card sales from non-members and right now this is not occurring. I don’t know how long until we have a new card processor. It could be a few days or a couple of weeks. Please pray that it is not any longer.
This is a very stressful time for us as the bills are coming due and are organization due to its heavy public prominence world wide has been under unceasing attack. They hope they can knock us down, but we trust that God will pull us through. Often times the battle remains unknown to most of you, but the attacks on our sites is a very real thing and as the most effective means of outreach to our brothers and sisters, we must prevail!
We have several news teams visiting with us during the month of June, our new sublimation system is about up and running, another Victory Report is due back from the printer, our video editing is soon to be up to date (after the death of our previous editor in the fall) and new shows are scheduled to be taped on Thursday. We have a couple Youth Focus shows that have been edited and put online for conversion, but a size problem meant they had to be redone so we will be loading those up again.
And a side note: Many of you are aware that the Rhino Times in North Carolina took The Knights to court several years ago which ended up in a two year court battle before a black judge. The charge was unlawfully placing leaflets in their free newspapers and then tossing the papers into yards. Our contention was that 1) there was no proof (admitted by them) that this had even been done 2) there was no injured party or people coming forward saying they had received a paper and 3) if this had been done, it was admitted by the paper that the alleged copies used were purchased at a recycling facility – thus no longer property of Rhino Times. However, they won a $25,000 judgment against us. Many who hate us say that this was outrageous and should have been at least a $million.
Well, Rhino Times has closed up shop. The newspaper, which touted itself as a voice for the Republican Party was an avowed enemy of our white Christian ideals and endeavored to destroy our mission to our people. Read the story below:
“The Rhinoceros Times newspaper in Greensboro closes”
“After more than 21 years, Rhinoceros Times publisher John Hammer says Greensboro’s conservative weekly newspaper has published its last issue.
“We just ran out of money,” Hammer said in an interview Tuesday.
In a post to the free weekly’s website Tuesday morning, Hammer wrote that the paper is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. He asked for reader donations to help pay off creditors.
The paper’s website will keep going for as long as it can, Hammer said — but having laid off all his paid staff Tuesday, he isn’t sure what it will look like.
“I’m still enormously interested in local politics,” Hammer said. “That hasn’t changed just because we’ve run out of money.”
Hammer said print advertising just dried up. An aborted attempt to expand into Charlotte also lost the company a lot of money, Hammer said. The paper pulled out of Charlotte in 2008.
Hammer said he met with a series of potential buyers and investors but couldn’t put together a deal to save the paper. It isn’t yet clear what will become of the paper’s offices on Market Street, he said.
Scott Yost, the paper’s Guilford County editor and columnist, said staffers will land on their feet but the community will feel the loss of the Rhino.”
We say, good riddance!
In closing of this update; please make it a priority to get us through this temporary setback. We are using it as an opportunity for us all to pull together while the general store funding is unavailable (yes, we still take checks from those on the store wanting to get items, but as most of you are aware many people don’t even have checks these days, just debit or credit cards.) And we are in the process of updating the forum software in order to facilitate better networking between members.
Thanks again for all your continued effort on behalf of this great crusade!