ALERT: Neo-Nazi Organizing a “Salute to President Trump” Rally, September 14 in Dahlonega, Georgia
Chester Doles is organizing a rally for Saturday, September 14th at the town square of Dahlonega, Georgia. Despite downplaying the event and his ties to white supremacy there’s a clear timeline of this guy’s history. Here’s a newspaper article from 1992 on the planning of an event for the Klan that features Doles where he stylizes himself as a “fourth-generation Klansman”:
Chester J. Doles, a 32-year-old Cecil County roads worker who calls himself the state leader of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said the group wants to march as part of an effort to have the town declare April “White History Month.”
In 1993, Doles was sentenced to seven years in prison for attacking an interracial couple in Elkton, Maryland. Doles admitted to beating the black man because he was riding in a truck with a white woman. He was later arrested again in 1997 on burglary where he violently attacked the homeowner.
He eventually fled to Georgia where he was picked up on gun charges in the 2003. Doles formed another white supremacist group while living in Georgia and testified during this time that he had a support network of law enforcement within his organization. The FBI’s terrorism task force has even had this to say about Doles:
FBI Special agent Joseph Thompson, a member of the joint terrorism task force that investigated Doles since July, 2001, said “Mr. Doles is a very active member of a group the FBI considers a terrorist group. That group is known commonly in law enforcement as the most dangerous group in the United States.”
Thompson also testified that a confidential informant who met with Doles since 2001 told authorities about the law enforcement ties to the group. No names were mentioned in court.
“That shows that Mr. Doles has a support network including law enforcement” members, said Thompson. “You vastly increase the capacity of the network,” by having authorities as members. They “can look the other way.”
As recently as 2016, Doles has still be openly active in white supremacist gangs such as Crew 38 and Hammerskin Nations, who he gave a speech for at the Hammerskin Nations’ national gathering at a Atlanta Klan bar alongside fellow white supremacist Matthew Heimbach.
In order to distance himself from the upcoming rally, Doles recently withdrew his name from the permit application for Sept. 14th’s event. On August 1st he filed for the initial permit and by August 9th he withdrew it and added Dahlonega resident Dustin Penner’s name. However Doles clearly is still actively the organizer as shown by his social media posts both before and after he withdrew his name from the permit:
Now tell me - Why was a violent, decades-long active white supremacist, who was literally identified by the FBI as a terrorist, and imprisoned for viciously beating a black man in an admitted hate crime given a permit to march through town square? Maybe y’all wanna know too???
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Sept. 11, 2019 UPDATE:
As of today the neo-nazi rally is still going to happen at Dahlonega, Georgia’s town square and they recently announced they will be going to Yahoola Creek Park after the rally where neo-nazi Jovanni Valle will be speaking:
Atlanta Antifa has already mailed out a couple hundred fliers in the area warning residents of Saturday, if you live in the area and would like to post/hand out fliers here’s the PDF.
Final update now that this event has passed:
The 40 to 50 neo-nazis marchers were outnumbered by 600 antifascist counter protesters on Saturday. The town essentially shut down in preparation for these nazis:
Many business owners and residents were afraid to show up to the counter-rally, Arsenault said. Instead, they hung the ribbons as a message that Dahlonega doesn’t welcome white supremacy, she said. The gold ribbons served too as a nod to Dahlonega’s history as a gold rush town. There were also messages, such as “Get Hate Off Our Streets,” written in white chalk by Dahlonega residents last night on the roads surrounding the Gold Museum, a popular tourist attraction that highlights the city’s gold mining past.
Business owners were encouraged to shut their doors for the day. The economic loss Saturday was a blow for local retailers, said Steve Hallock, owner of Outlaw Jerky.
After the rally the police department posted this:
A whole fucking town gets shut down because of neo-nazis and who do the cops blame? Ah of course, the people protesting the nazis.
Michael Stark, 55, lives in Newnan. He said he attended a counterprotest of white supremacists and neo-Nazis last year in his town. He traveled the 105 miles to Dahlonega to make a stand once again.
“I’m not a paid protester; I’m just a normal average guy,” Stark said. “But when Nazis come to my town, a neighboring town or any town, I’m gonna be there to counter it. Half my family died in pogroms and concentration camps, so I’m not staying home.”
Oh my literal fucking God. I was there. It was like 50 schmucks on one side and Atlanta antifa didn’t announce or plan a presence. Instead it was the Socialist Coalition of North Georgia. 150 of them tops.
The present police said there were roughly three police representatives from each county in the state. 159 counties meant roughly 477 cops. News reported it as 600 cops. They shut down the university campus adjacent.
No one was permitted on grounds with any form of weapon. They searched you before entry.
And before you all across the country act like you get a real effective say on what happens in Dahlonega, know that multiple county residents and even area republicans tried to get the district GOP to publicly disapprove and got nothing in return.
Lumpkin County, like most of our mountain counties, has a mini landowning aristocracy. The most notable is an ancient lady notable who in the past few years also allowed a large KKK banner to be displayed on her lands.
And I swear to God if you come after all mountain people over a few radicals from both sides of the spectrum, I will come and gut you like a possum.
Most people left town for the day to avoid it. What was more surprising was that some people, rather than doing anything to protest the events, simply drove around the perimeter videoing what they could.
And lastly fuck y'all for only caring 3 days later when we’ve spent 6 weeks dreading it and trying to raise awareness
“fuck y'all for only caring 3 days later when we’ve spent 6 weeks dreading it and trying to raise awareness“
this post is literally weeks old - the last post was an UPDATE