There's a saying that a sucker is born every minute. So, a con man like neo-Nazi sympathizer, Aryan Nations defender and neo-Confederate leader Kurt Lyons should be able to continue making a living by fleecing his supporters. However, recently, cracks in his facade that could cause some of his followers to get a clue have become more obvious.

Lyons has supported himself by filing frivolous lawsuits for years. During the last decade, after a relocation to a far Right Wing redoubt in North Carolina, he has clothed those suits in the rubric of defending 'Confederate Americans,' a group he says is an oppressed minority. He and his organization, the Southern Legal Resource Center often set up the situations they then represent plaintiffs in. For example, parents in the neo-Confederate movement will be told to send their children to school wearing tee shirts from Dixie Outfitters that depict black people picking cotton in front of a big Confederate flag. When, as foreseen, the students are disciplined, Lyons shows up to file a lawsuit claiming they have been discriminated against. He then uses the 'oppression' of those 'Confederate Americans' to raise funds online and from far Right groups. What he 'forgets' to tell people is it is settled law that public schools can discipline students who engage in disruptive behavior, including those who wear clothes that might incite conflict. Despite the scores of these cases Lyons has filed, he has never won one. Most fail to make it pass the initial motion to dismiss.

Lyons has been getting away with his shenanigans for so long he likely thought no judge would hand him the setback he so clearly deserves. His carte blanche to waste courts' time expired recently.

Back in 2000, Neo-Confederate leaders urged employees at DuPont's Spruance plant in Richmond to wear clothing depicting the Confederate flag to work and place such emblems in their work areas and on their vehicles. Several, longterm members of the movement, responded accordingly. Unaware of their limited rights as employees at will, they apparently thought they could spit in the eye of a behemoth and escape untouched. Their supervisors at DuPont told to stop bringing disruptive imagery to the workplace. When they refused, some were suspended and threatened with dismissal. Lyons, as planned, filed a frivolous lawsuit against DuPont, claiming a non-existent right to behave as one's pleases in a workplace had been breached. He was probably hoping DuPont would consider the case just another nuisance claim and settle it, putting a few easily earned dollars in his pockets. The company did not balk. The judge presiding over the lawsuit is equally unimpressed. Judge Henry Hudson dismissed the case and sanctioned the plaintiffs more than $60,000. Lyons himself was subjected to a $10,000 fine and a share of DuPont's legal fees.