KKK Basically No-Shows at the Stone Mountain Rally

For weeks, Spelunker/De'Stroy (allegedly the screen handle of one Jacob deNobel, although I have no confirmation of that) has been claiming on his hate blog that the Stone Mountain Rally planned for November 14 was a KKK rally.

 ~ It's not really a KKK rally but, by golly,

we'll make it look like one! ~

However, the Atlanta Magazine's coverage of the event says (in the language of spin), "No KKK members or white supremacists made their attendance known, though some people were later photographed making a four-fingered salute in front of the Confederate flags flying near the base of the mountain." -  http://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/protesters-defend-stone-mountain-against-proposed-mlk-monument/#sthash.yux68iga.dpuf

What kind of KKK rally is it if "no KKK members made their attendance known"? The "four-fingered salute" photo was made AFTER the rally.

Judging by event photos, there were four people caught by the camera giving that salute:
http://m.ajc.com/gallery/news/photos-confederate-flag-supporters-arrive-stone-mo/gCX6t/

Four people. FOUR.

That's about twelve percent of the purported attendance. What kind of rally organizers show up in such small numbers, and don't make themselves known during the event?

See more at: http://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/protesters-defend-stone-mountain-against-proposed-mlk-monument/#sthash.yux68iga.dpuf

Coverage by the Atlanta Journal Constitution was minimal, too.
http://www.ajc.com/photo/news/protestors-want-keep-stone-mountain-pure-its-confe/pCszTM/
and
http://www.ajc.com/photo/news/confederate-rally/pCs2RK/
and
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/pro-confederate-flag-rally-underway-stone-mountain/npNDz/

There were photos posted at Yahoo.com. No mention of KKK that I could find.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/john-estes-hapeville-ga-carries-confederate-flag-supporters-photo-004817433.html;_ylt=AwrC1DFM9UhWfT0A2DPRtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTB1NTJzaDk0BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNpbWFnZQstone-mo/gCX6t/

The event was planned to protest the placement of a monument (in the form of a bell tower) to Martin Luther King, Jr., atop the mountain. Stone Mountain is, by Georgia Law, a dedicated Confederate memorial, and many people felt that a King monument was irrelevant to that, at best, and a violation of the law, at worst.

However, several days before the rally, several news outlets reported that plans for the MLK memorial had been "shelved" (although now that is disputed). Several Facebook pages dedicated to planning the rally received questions about whether the rally would be canceled. The purported shelving of the planned King monument likely accounts for the relatively small attendance -- one report said about 50 people attended.

Jacob/DeStroy pasted text from this article on his hate blog: Ernie Suggs at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution   It's an obviously non-journalistic article, replete with bias language, which no doubt has Jacob/DeStroy quivering. If I get time, I will analyze the piece here on Backsass and expose the biased writing, as I did to an SPLC "Intelligence" report years ago: http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

~ Facebook to the rescue

and spin, spin, spin ~

Although apparently delighted with the biased and slanted press coverage of the event, Jacob/DeStory is up to his usual desperate tactics -- ignoring reality and combing Facebook for photos and text about the event that he can spin with his obsessive viewpoint. For example, he showecases a comment written by somebody who wasn't even at the rally.

The reality of the rally makes Jacob/DeStroy look like a fool, with absolute zero credibility. His almost comical attempts at spin adds a touch of desperation to his dearth of credibility.

How sad a life must be when spent in the service of demonizing good people by falsely associating them with bad ones. Isn't demonizing people what the KKK allegedly does? What does such a pursuit do to a person's soul, I wonder....

Is Brooks Simpson Making Himself Irrelevant

His crusade against the Virginia Flaggers, especially Susan Hathaway, continues, despite the fact that they are none of his business and have done absolutely nothing to him. And despite the fact that heritage folks don't think his opinions amount to a handful of desert dirt.

Nevertheless, his hobby of beating dead horses continues, too -- the Tripp arrest dead horse and the Rob Walker dead horse, both of which are years old, and a new one, the airplane banner dead horse.Yawn....

Are these worthy obsessions for a man in a responsible position at an institute of higher learning? I don't think so.

But the one he loves best -- the "Silent Susan" or the "Scared Susan" dead horse -- is unworthy of anyone claiming to be a decent human being. But then, we're dealing with somebody who leaves fraudulent book reviews at Amazon.com under a fraudulent I.D., so perhaps it's about what we should expect.

Apparently, it just KILLS him that Susan has a very good working relationship with her employer, because evidently he wants to see her get fired for her activism or something... in any case, he keeps bringing this up, apparently expecting it to finally get traction with somebody besides a few of his hater floggerettes...

Of course, nobody in Southern heritage pays any attention to that. Except me. And I note that his obsession with it recently took an absolutely hilarious turn. Sed Simpson:

"Friday the 13th proved to be an unlucky day for Susan Frise Hathaway’s reputation as a a staunch defender of Confederate heritage. Having told Confederate heritage advocates to “rise up,” Hathaway apparently stayed away from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the War Memorial Chapel on November 13."

Unlucky day for Susan's reputation as a heritage defender?  Is that an absolute SCREAM or what!  Exactly who does he think he's fooling? Susan is one of the most admired and appreciated people in the entire heritage community. She's been honored with countless certificates, tokens and proclamations of appreciation from heritage groups.** And it isn't hard to see why. She is extremely dedicated. Her accomplishments rest one upon another, rising higher and higher, like a lofty peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

And who cares about Simpson the way heritage folks love Susan? Well, maybe a handful of hypocritical floggerettes who visit his blog because they love how he pushes their hate-buttons....

Otherwise... nobody that I know of. Kinda pathetic that rallying hate is how one must stay relevant....

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** In order to save face, or maybe to cover his butt (because it was online and anybody could see it, and see what a liar he is), Simpson grudgingly posted a photo of Susan at the Capital of the Confederacy Civil War show her holding a beautifully framed certificate of appreciation presented to her by the Jackson Rangers Camp, SCV. Obviously, Susan's reputation is better than fine -- it's growing, polished and glowing... 

This 'n' That -- In the Aftermath of Paris and Columbia....

Interesting items found around the web.... 

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 At Politistick.com....

Author Stephen King: "Hating all Muslims for what happened in Paris is like hating all Christians because of the gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church."

Matthew K. Burke responds:

Westboro Baptist Church, as vile and hateful and despicable as they are, is one ‘church’ in America, among tens of thousands. In fact, they are not even associated with the Baptist faith. It is a small handful of nutjubs practicing a religion that in no way represents the teachings of Jesus Christ of The Holy Bible.

Islamic groups like ISIS, however, are accurately representing the actual tenets taught in the Koran (or Quran), which are to “kill the infidel,” i.e., those who aren’t Muslims. (Emphasis added.)

As TheReligionOfPeace.com points out, there are at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of totalitarian Islamic rule.

Read more at http://politistick.com/author-stephen-king-defends-islam-after-islamic-parisattacks-makes-ridiculous-moral-equivalency/

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"The attacks on Paris are a wake up call. This is not a grievance-based conflict. This is a clash of civilizations. Either they win or we win." ~Marco Rubio (Emphasis added.)

He wouldn't make a good president, but he's right about this.

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Mizzou Protesters Are Furious the Paris Terror Attacks Are ‘Stealing the Spotlight’ -- See Tweets here:

http://toprightnews.com/unbelievable-mizzou-protesters-are-furious-the-paris-terror-attacks-are-stealing-the-spotlight/

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Facebook post edited New York Post article, with comments added by the poster. Chilling....

The jihadis’ master plan to break us
By Amir Taheri
http://nypost.com/2015/11/15/the-jihadis-master-plan-to-break-us/

The islamic State is already referring to the Paris attacks as another “ghazva,” promising many more. The aim is to terrorize all mankind into submitting to the diktats of The Only True Faith.

This is how Sheikh Abu-Bakr Naji, the late theoretician of the Sunni version of the Islamo-apocalyptic movement, put it: “No one should feel safe without submitting, and those who refuse to submit must pay a high price. The aim of our movement is to turn the world into a series of wildernesses in which only those under our rule enjoy security.”

The sheikh recommends “countless small operations” that render daily life unbearable rather than a few spectacular attacks such as 9/11. The idea is that the “infidel,” leaving his home every morning, should not be sure whether he would be alive in the evening. ( FELLOW INFIDELS ..DO U SEE WHY MORE MUSLIM IMMIGRATION WILL ALLOW THIS HORRIFIC SCENARIO TO COME TO PASS ...MUSLIMS ARE NOW ATTEMPTING JIHAD BY IMMIGRATION AND POPULATION JIHAD... do the math, the more muslims the higher the % of jihadists among them and the higher the statistical risk of this scenario being realized.... )

The sheikh believed that if subjected to constant intimidation and fear of death, most non-Muslims, especially in the West, would submit to Islam in exchange for a minimum of tranquility. The only Western power still capable of resisting was the United States. But that, too, would change with a new president. (That was before Obama was elected). In any case, the sheikh quoting historian Paul Kennedy, has no doubt that “America is destined to fall.”

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“For those of you who are just now getting attuned to what’s happening during the day, the University of Missouri’s embattled president has resigned. His name is Tim Wolfe. He just quit, just resigned, because of committing the crime of being a white male.”  ~Rush Limbaugh

So is it a crime for all white males to be white males, or just some? And when will it become criminal to be a white female?

http://www.westernjournalism.com/listen-rush-just-nailed-the-real-reason-missouris-president-resigned-no-one-wanted-to-say-it/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=WesternJournalism&utm_content=2015-11-15&utm_campaign=manualpost

Pray for Paris...Learn from France

Per some reports, one of the terrorists that helped with the horrific attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th was a Syrian "refugee." Another terrorist, captured alive, reportedly told authorities in Paris, "I am from ISIS."

My sympathy goes out to the families and loved ones of the victims of Friday's terrorist attacks, and I hope and pray the authorities in France -- and indeed, the West as a whole, especially the United States -- will stop suicidal mass immigration and start the process of sending illegal immigrants and potential Islamic terrorists back to their own countries.

Let other Islamic countries take Islamic immigrants.

Here Come De Judge

From Simpson's filthy hate-blog:

Hathaway’s protest (of the hoax Anonymous list -- cw) revealed her fundamental hypocrisy, because she declared that no Flagger would behave the same way** … overlooking the widely suspected antics of Virginia Flagger Norwood “Tripp” Lewis, who reportedly styled himself “Anonymous CSA” in an effort to go after people. It should be noted that none other than Connie Chastain had no problem with those antics, and hypocrite Hathaway, who rushed to deny that she was a member of a white supremacist group, remained silent when it came to defending Lewis.

This little exercise in judgmentalness, based on information "suspected" and "reported", is typical blogger fare, especially Simpson fare, made all the more outrageous by the fact that it comes from somebody who likely posted fraudulent book reviews on Amazon.com using a fraudulent identity (that got changed three times), in an effort to hurt the targeted author's books.  He has been asked about this and refused to deny it.

Note, too, that this selfsame self-appointed thought-cop judge (1) made accusations, or implied accusations, that the Virginia Flaggers would "disturb Confederate graves" with the raising of their Chester memorial battle flag; (2) accused two Flaggers of putting Kristen "Wonder Woman" Konate's address on the Internet when she did that herself (called them Susan's "henchmen"); (3) hosted Liberty "Kill Whitey" Lamp's threat to the VaFlaggers on his blog... (4) hosted comments accusing the Flaggers of reporting Grayson's excavator stolen for "publicity" or insurance money (i.e., insurance fraud); (5) implied the Flaggers, specifically Grayson, illegally cut trees on the VDOT right of way... and on and on....

That's just the tip of the iceberg of Simpson's hate, lies, and persecution of the Virginia Flaggers and Southern heritage in general, and Susan Hathaway in particular.

Methinks Simpson does not have a scintilla of moral authority necessary to accuse and judge.


** "...because she declared that no Flagger would behave the same way..."  Another baldfaced Simpson lie.

Here's what Susan actually said: "This latest assault serves, once again, to accentuate the clear and very real differences between those of us who have decided to take a public stand for our Confederate Ancestors, and those who are clearly threatened by our very existence." 

This kind of deliberate distortion of what someone says, which sometimes completely changes the meaning, is a Simpson hallmark. 

Communists Are Better Than Racists?

Jimmy Dick thinks so.  That's what he sez, anyway....

That means he thinks these guys....

 

Communist leaders ... mega-murderers, authors of untold human misery

...are better than these guys.

USA's founders ... slave-owning racists...

But lets look at this a little closer.

The Founders of the USA, including the racist slave holders, gave the United States the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and they founded a country where the government was answerable to the people, and where the liberty of the people would lead to great accomplishments for generations to come -- in medicine (developed cures, vaccines and treatments that benefit the whole world) invention (the airplane, the electric light bulb, the telephone, motion pictures, skyscrapers, air conditioning, the factory assembly line) and social enlightenment (outlawed child labor and inhumane treatment of animals) and on and on. Of course, the high ideals they bestowed upon the nation have been severely eroded since then, but still ... that was what they gave their posterity.

And what did the great communist/socialist leaders give the world? Governments that encouraged liberty and invention that benefited the whole world? Why, no. They invented government that murdered their own people by the millions....

According to R. J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, the appalling figures are...

Murder victims of Communist Soviet Union -- 61,911,000
Murder victims of Communist China -- 76,702,000
Add in the communist murders in North Korea, Yugoslavia, Cambodia and elsewhere and the total body count for communism in the 20th century comes to about 149,469,610. That's one-hundred forty nine million, four hundred sixty-nine thousand, six hundred ten. http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/ These figures are independent of battle deaths in war (38,000,000).

You can't expect rational thought and discussion from somebody who believes those responsible for this unfathomable carnage are superior to racists -- a term and a concept that, in common, popular usage, doesn't even have an objective definition anymore, but is used as a tool of attempted control of individuals and society by socialists (socialism being "communism lite").

Socialism, and a tolerance for communism, has sadly become more commonplace in the USA's institutions of learning. This is a big part of the reason why the war against Confederate heritage is planned and waged partly in the halls of U.S. academia.

What makes Jimmy Dick different from most communist-friendly academics is that they don't get on the Internet and say things like....

De'Bunking De'Stroy

This blog entry and some others to come are about recent posts at Destroying the Honor, a blog run by an a cowardly Confederate-heritage-hater hiding behind anonymity, whom I have nicknamed De'Stroy. The blog posts I will be discussing have to do with a Nov. 14th rally to protect Stone Mountain's Confederate memorial status by protesting a proposed monument to Martin Luther King, Jr.

The blog posts I will deal with are:

Virginia Flagger Barry Isenhour claims the group denounces the Ku Klux Klan despite their promoting a Klan organized rally -- dated Nov 3

I don't think so Connie No-Brain, you're not going to come onto my blog and call me a liar -- Nov 2

Hoods Off: The Virginia Flaggers are promoting a White Power Klan rally at Stone Mountain -- Nov 1

The Invisible Empire rides again: The International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are claiming that 76 Klansmen are planning on attending a "Confederate Heritage" styled rally at Stone Mountain, Georgia on November 14th -- Oct 28

Hoods Off: Ku Klux Klan and Confederate Heritage activists to converge on November 14th at Stone Mountain, Georgia for joint rally -- Oct 22

I will deal with parts or all of these blog entries as I have time. This post deals with the first one dated October 22.

On that day, De'Stroy uploaded a post that claims "Confederate heritage activists" were going to "converge" with the KKK for a joint rally at Stone Mountain. Yet nothing he posted proved that.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's document he pasted into his blog entry will be dealt with at the end of this post; for now, suffice it to say the rich lawyers at the SPLC have given zero proof of KKK involvement in the planning of the rally.

Now back to De'Stroy.  Following a graphic depicting comments between Billy Bearden and Southern Rebel Patriots, one group claiming to be the planners of the event, De'Stroy wrote this caption:  Georgia Flagger Billy Bearden converses with the Klan rally organizers.

But to the best of my ability to determine, Southern Rebel Patriots are not the KKK and are not planning or organizing a KKK rally, and De'Stroy offered not a dab of proof that they are. The Facebook event page, Defend Stone Mountain" is the work of a group called "Protect the South" which also claims to be planning the rally.

DeStroy then linked to the  event page, "Defend Stone Mountain," which contains no confirmation whatever that either the group or the event have any connection to the KKK.

Following that is a pic of Shaun Winkler in KKK garb with an excerpt from the SPLC document: "The protest demonstration is being promoted by the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and one of its leaders, Shaun P. Winkler." Winkler has posted a couple of comments on FB about the rally that could be considered promoting it, but neither that, nor the picture, prove he or the KKK are PLANNING and ORGANIZING it.

Next, a graphic meme of Nathan Bedford Forrest posted by Winkler that says "White man rise November 14 noon where it all began - blood may be shed - 1000 Robert E Lee Blvd  Stone Mt GA 30083"

This is certainly an offensive and outrageous prediction, but not guaranteed, and it certainly doesn't prove the KKK is planning and organizing the event.

Next we have a Facebook screenshot about the event, wherein someone asks, Is it okay to wear my klan shirt?

Southern Rebel Patriots replies: I want to keep this just about the flag and stone mountain. I don't want to give the media any fuel to use against us. ...And.... That's Thor saying that. They will be looking for any reason to get what they want, NAACP will. So we aren't going to let they (sic) have it that easy. Thank u for asking.

Now look at this. Patriots spokesman clearly thinks a KKK shirt would be "fuel" the media could use against rally-goers ... i.e., heritage folks. Also suggests the NAACP would use it to try to get what they want (presumably, Patriots spokesman thinks a King monument on Stone Mountain is what the NAACP wants although right now, it appears to be the Stone Mountain Memorial Association pushing the monument).

That statement is the closest thing in the entire blog post to indicate familiarity between Confederate Rebel Patriots and the KKK, but could indicate little more than Patriots' Facebook acquaintance with a couple of individuals who are KKK members, or purport to be. 

But the real point is to see how De'Stroy, in his caption, distorts what was said:  The Southern Rebel Patriots would prefer that you not wear your Klan shirts. You know, so they can fool the public. "Wink, Wink".

There is nothing in the statement that even comes close to the meaning De'Stroy is trying to give it. The caption gives us a lot of insight into how De'Stroy's mind works.

Next we have a photo of somebody else (Greg Calhoun) in a KKK shirt, but no proof the KKK is involved in planning or organizing the rally. (I mean, really, just posting a pic of somebody in Klan garb is supposed to prove something De'Stroy?)

Following this, De'Stroy posts a screenshot from the Patriots' FB page, which include a post and comments that say:

Southern Rebel Patriots -- Good Morning everyone!! Today is the day the lord has made let's rejoice and be glad in it! Hope everyone's hump day is going well. We are trying to contact the Sons of confederates veterans and any other organization today to see if they would like to stand with us at Stone Mountain. So if anyone has any friends with any of these groups please let us know. Any help would be great. We have to unite together for our heritage and our beliefs.

Armond Watkins --They canceled a public hearing yesterday because no one came. My problem is if it was a public hearing why didn't anyone know about it. Call StoneMoutain Park and find out when the meeting was postponed till.

Southern Rebel Patriots -- Ok i will cause ive not heard about it either.

Note how De'Stroy restates this conversation:  The "Southern Rebel Patriots" say they have reached out to the Sons of Confederate Veterans and other Confederate Heritage organizations to see if they will stand in unity with the Klan at Stone Mountain.

Patriots did not say that, plain and simple.

De'Stroy finishes his blog entry with this:

We're waiting for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Virginia Flaggers, the Mid-South Flaggers, the Alabama Flaggers, the Army of Northern Virginia Mechanized Cavalry, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and all other Confederate Heritage groups to speak out and send a message loud and clear to the Ku Klux Klan that they are not welcome in Stone Mountain. So far, Confederate Heritage activists seem to be embracing the Klan organized rally.

Obviously, De'Stroy, only you and the lyin' SPLC are calling this a "Klan-organized rally." If it is, you need to provide some proof that Southern Rebel Patriots are the KKK. If it isn't, you need to quit presenting it as if it is. 

It's obvious that Southern heritage folks don't believe this is a KKK event. They don't believe the groups organizing and planning it are the KKK. Some of them probably n know that a handful of individual KKK types are promoting the event, or plan to attend it, but that's not the same thing, is it?

The most that's happening that I can see after combing several Stone Mountain event sites is that a handful of folks identified, or self-identified, as KKK, say they are going to attend the event -- maybe six, seven people. But that is a far cry from planning and organizing the event. And it means that those planning the event, and the vast majority planning to attend it, are not KKK. So why does DeStroy and the SPLC focus on that handful, and not on the vast majority? Because their method is to taint the majority with the handful.

Now, to that SPLC document, found here:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/10/22/kkk-plans-rally-stone-mountain-georgia-park-considered-mlk-memorial

Analysis of the SPLC document:

Title and Paragraph 1 -- unproven assertion that KKK and various pro-Confederate groups are planning the rally.

Paragraph 2 -- Info on the proposed MLK memorial bell.

Paragraph 3 -- background info on Stone Mountain.

Paragraph 4 -- info that the rally is being promoted (PROMOTED, NOT PLANNED) on social media by various groups, some created to promote the event. No info on WHO is PLANNING it.

Paragraph 5 -- SPLC report next includes this passage: “Please stand with us against the traitors who wish to tarnish our Ancestors Heritage by placing a Monument celebrating Martin L. King on Stone Mountain,” a group calling itself “Defend Stone Mountain” says on Facebook." The SPLC gets this wrong. "Defend Stone Mountain" is the name of a Facebook event page, not the name of a group. That group actually calls itself Protect the South. And nothing about that passage indicates the group is affiliated with the KKK.

Paragraph 6 -- Statement that the International Keystone Knights of the KKK and Shaun Winkler are PROMOTING the event -- NOT PLANNING it.

Paragraph 7 -- Info that Winkler and some others of his group protested at the U of Mississippi over their vote to remove the state flag from campus. Info irrelevant to the Stone Mountain issue.

Paragraph 8 -- A quote on a social media allegedly from Winkler urging "hard action" instead of peaceful flag waving, in order to "secure a future for tomorrow." No proof of Winkler or the KKK planning the Stone Mountain event.

Paragraph 9 -- Info on Winkler which is irrelevant to the Stone Mountain event and contains no proof he is planning it.

Paragraph 10 -- Info on a group Winkler was allegedly connected with burning crosses in Mississippi as a fundraiser. Irrelevant to Stone Mountain claims.

Paragraph 11 -- Info on an imprisioned Kluxer that has nothing whatever to do with the current issue.

Paragraph 12 -- More info (yawn) on a KKK group (alleged "racial violence") that has nothing to do with who is planning the Stone Mountain event.

Paragraph 13 -- Yet MORE irrelevant "Keystone Knights" info that has nothing whatever to do with the Stone Mountain event.

Paragraph 14 -- SPLC opinion that Stone Mountain is becoming a "battleground" between Klukers and pro-Confederate groups promoting the "ideas to remove society away from hate symbols..." No proof of Winkler or the KKK planning the Stone Mountain event.

Paragraph 15 -- Statement that the SCV and League of the South "showed up" at a previous Stone Mountain pro-flag rally. No proof... but you know that by now...

Paragraph 16 -- Very lame quote on Stone Mountain background from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Paragraph 17 -- Info that the Stone Mountain Memorial Association wants to place the MKL bell atop the mountain.

Paragraph 18 -- More info (yawn) on the bell.

Paragraph 19 -- Quote from Gov. Deal that Stone Mountain is a Confederate memorial protected by state law.

Paragraph 20 -- Excerpt from NYTimes saying the Georgia SCV may file a suit to stop the bell memorial.

No proof, no hint of proof, not a SYLLABLE of proof, in the entire flippin' document, that the KKK is planning the November 14th rally.

DeStroy writes with the assumption that Southern Rebel Patriots are really a KKK group, but he presents no proof at all ... not even any evidence, or any likelihood.  Without proof, we can assume he has been severely duped by the lyin' SPLC, or he's lying himself.

Or both....

Hoax List Incites Hate and Threats

Although the Anonymous hacker collective has verified, via statements reported by various news outlets, that the list of KKK members released before November 5 are not part of their Operation KKK, and although the list containing names of heritage people posted at Pastebin is an obvious hoax, it nevertheless generated lots of hate aimed at the people on the list. At the end of this post are just a few Tweets sent to the Virginia Flaggers twitter account as a direct result of the hoax kkk list.

Posting information like this is likely to elicit commentary in the floggosphere (especially from folks like Preacher Sandi Saunders and Liberty "Kill Whitey" Lamp) that Confederate heritage folks are always "playing the victim" or "claiming victim status." I'm not posting this small sampling of tweets to claim victimhood (and the person they were sent to would be the last to proclaim herself a victim), but to show the kind of people our critics and opponents are.

The recipient originally shared these tweets with me privately, via instant message, just to illustrate for me what the hoax list had resulted in, but when I suggested that I put some of them on my blog so my readers could also see, she agreed. Other heritage folks on that list have received similar hateful and threatening communications, some via the Internet and some by phone. What you see here on Backsass is just a sampling.

Remember these tweets the next time a flogger writes about how hate-filled and threatening heritage folks are... and note how often they do not acknowledge this kind of hate and threats aimed toward our people from folks on their side.

My apologies for the filthy language in some of these Tweets...

Fake Anonymous Hate List Targets Innocent Heritage Folks

Recently, rumors in the media indicated that the hacker group Anonymous was preparing to release the names of 1,000 "secret" KKK members. Operation KKK, or "Opkkk," was scheduled to be released November 5th.
    
Over the weekend of November 1st, people in the Southern heritage community, including myself, received via the Internet a link that took us to a document at a text hosting site, Pastebin, comprising a list of people's names followed by varying information about each person. The document hosted on the anonymous text storage site is accessible by anyone who has the URL.

There were other lists on the site, but the one I'm discussing comprises 35 entries for 36 people, as one entry listed two individuals. The closest thing to a title for the document is: kkk  Presumably, this list is supposed to comprise the first 36 of those thousand people, although it is highly questionable whether the group listing the KKK information is actually Anonymuous.
    
    First,  the information appears to be only that which can be easily gathered online, with Google, not with hacking. The real Anonymous would have posted private emails sent and received (not just email addresses), passwords and other protected online information -- the sort of information that cannot be accessed anonymously without hacking.  As noted, none of the information on the list is hacked; it is all readily available online to anyone who takes the time to get it.
    
    If this is the work of the real Anonymous, they are plummeting in hacking expertise. Some of the information is ludicrous as "proof" of kkk affiliation or anything else. The type of automobile the individual owns, the VIN, IP addresses indicate kkk affiliation? These items aren't even proof of identity, let alone group membership, be it the Shriners, the Weekend Anglers' Club or the local high school band boosters. Moreover, the information also included blatantly misspelled names -- the correct spelling of which is readily available online -- and other inaccurate data. The information is not uniform but varies by individual, and is not presented in a coherently formatted manner. In short, this is the work of amateur sleuths presenting what they could find -- not what they hacked.
    
    A few other things to note about this list.
    
    --Only four names on the list are identified with the KKK in any way.
    
    --A number are associated with what has been identified as white supremacy groups, although some have been defunct for years, something the real Anonymous would know.
    
    --At least one name is not showing an affiliation with any group whatever, or to a blog, or any sort of connection to anything -- which is either very sloppy "hacking" -- or a blatant example of deliberate deception.
    
    --The rest of the names on the list are of people who are in various Confederate heritage and history groups which are not white supremacist groups, or individuals who publish personal writings in support of Confederate heritage.
    
    For several years, and especially in the past few months, there has been a concerted effort by some individuals affiliated with the radical political left and with academia to use the mendacious "links and ties" method of guilt-by-association to attribute hatred and violence to Confederate heritage supporters by implying affiliation with racist groups. Many heritage supporters believe this fake "Anonymous" development is just the latest attack in that effort.
    
    It is further noted that the non-hacked information-gathering of the "kkk" document is the exact type of info-gathering exhibited by several anti-Confederate bloggers in an ongoing effort to lie about, harass and persecute the Confederate heritage community.
    
    There is also concern that the people behind this fake Anonymous attack on Confederate heritage wish to bring violence and physical harm to heritage supporters. This has prompted several individuals targeted on the "kkk" list to notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation and appropriate law enforcement agencies in their areas.
    
    The inclusion of Confederate heritage supporters in a "kkk" listing -- even a fake one by a fake hacker group -- is a baldface lie that starkly illustrates the moral bankruptcy of people who put out the list, and the dupes who believe it.

But what's worse are the vile verbal attacks and implied and overt threats sent to these heritage folks because of the list, most of they via Twitter. The filthy language and the instructions (for example,  "die, bitch") are simply breathtaking. And remember, they are coming from that segment of the population that's supposed to be oh, so tolerant and loving.

UPDATE  UPDATE  UPDATE  UPDATE

Interestingly, about 24 hours after I first learned of the Pastebin list, the real Anonymous Hacker collective issued statements that begin showing up in various media outlets.  They confirm my statements that the first list was not released by them and is thus a fake, a hoax, and the implications that heritage folks are kkk members are baldfaced lies.

BAM!
http://www.newsweek.com/politicians-respond-names-alleged-kkk-list-389874

BAM!
http://www.inquisitr.com/2537912/early-anonymous-klu-klux-klan-leak-disavowed-the-confused-world-of-hactivism/

I know this is going to greatly distress and disappoint some heritage haters who want to see heritage folks hurt, injured and otherwise victimized ...  but there's no help for it. Truth is truth.

Master-level Busybody

So Kevin Levin gets on his blog and tells Southern Miss what it should do.

TELLS Southern Miss what it SHOULD do.

He's secondguessing the President of Southern Miss, Rodney Bennett, suggesting that Bennett doesn't want to get specific about what makes the current state flag "objectionable" (race, race, race, race, race, race, of course) on account of  'cause he's African American.

(And yes, I put that term in quote marks because I don't believe the state flag of Mississippi is at all objectionable.)

So then Leo from Mississippi, who has lobbed quite a bit of criticism at me from Simpson's XRoads hate blog, snarls at Levin for criticizing Bennett:

"Your criticism of the USM president is unwarranted. He took action and it is well received by those of us here working to heal our state and for a new flag."

Levin replies:

"It’s not really a criticism as much as it is a question of why a more explicit statement was not issued. I agree with the decision, but I also believe that it is important to be transparent given that this was the work of one individual and not a response to a more widespread campus vote."

Leo responds,

"It sure reads like a criticism to me. He took a stand and that’s enough for the people on the ground here in Mississippi engaged in this issue. If anyone here deserves to be called out, it is Governor Bryant."
http://m.wapt.com/news/governor-calls-out-ole-miss-over-state-flag-removal/36081494?utm_campaign=16%20WAPT%20News%20Jackson&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_source=Social

And then we have this snappy comeback from Levin:

"Since when do you speak for all Mississippians?"

LOL! Since when do you, Levin? Since when do you have the authority to TELL Southern Miss what it SHOULD do? At least Leo lives in Mississippi ... you're in Massa-flippin'-chusetts.

I have an idea. Why don't you mind your own freakin' business, Levin?