Last month, members of the Aryan Freedom Network (AFN)--a militant neo-Nazi organization--held a small "hiking & campout" event at Stone Mountain. An image posted to Telegram shows just three Nazis posing with an AFN flag. (A fourth presumably took the picture.)

As we have stressed before: the State of Georgia purchased Stone Mountain Park and completed the Confederate carvings on its mountain face as a show of opposition to Civil Rights. The site has an earlier history as the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan.

As long as the racist carvings remain, the Park will continue to attract organized white supremacists. This obviously creates danger for the surrounding community, especially residents who simply enjoy the Park as a pleasant hike or place to exercise.

An interesting article on the history of Stone Mountain and its carvings is here:
https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/stone-mountain-georgia-its-history-monument-controversy-and-commemorative-stamp.html

For our article from last year exposing the hosts of AFN's "Aryan Fest" in Georgia, see here:
https://atlantaantifa.org/2024/11/01/meet-george-raymond-haynie-iii-and-shannon-ashley-haynie-aryan-fest-hosts-and-neo-nazi-pregnancy-crisis-housing-organizers/

#StoneMountain #StoneMountainGA #Georgia #racism #antiracist #neonazi #antifascist #antifa

I got a lot of refusals at a different lake last night, but they were ready to roll at Stone Mountain tonight. I've been trying out a sort of heavy deer hair bug. Fishing with a Tenkara, I am holding the fly on the surface of the water. The "too long" hook allows me to give it a lot of motion on the surface.

#FlyFishing #fishing #largemouthbass #greentrout #ditchpickle #tenkara #deerhaircaddis #lake #sunset #nature #stonemountainga #georgia #hiking

Sunset season.

#sunset #evening #dusk #lake #hiking #outdoors #nature #stonemountainga #Georgia

An article published late last month connects Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Martin K. O’Toole to the circulation of a notorious piece of neo-Nazi propaganda.

The article--written by Spencer Sunshine and Hannah Gais, and published on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hatewatch” blog--concerns the 2003 reprint of James Mason’s Siege. Siege was first released as a book in 1993. It has become a key text among neo-Nazis who favor terrorism to achieve their goals. A mass shooter who murdered three Black people in Florida last year cited Siege. The book also inspired “accelerationist” neo-Nazi groups such as Atomwaffen Division and The Base.

You can read Sunshine and Gais’ article here:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/03/28/how-mainstream-racist-group-revived-terroristic-tome-siege

According to the new article, Greg Johnson and Ryan Schuster operated Black Sun Publications, responsible for the 2003 Siege reprint. Schuster claimed that the venture was a publishing imprint of the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). FHU, founded in 1973, was a tax-exempt organization promoting racist pseudoscience which disbanded in the mid-2000s.

FHU’s Internal Revenue Service filings for 2001-2005 are available online:
https://beta.candid.org/profile/7749884

These filings show that Martin O’Toole was President of FHU at the time of the Siege reprint. Interestingly, the filings for the years when Johnson and Schuster arranged the reprint, claim that FHU had just over $200 in assets. The filings do not refer to Black Sun Publications or any new publishing venture.

The new findings about Black Sun and Siege suggest that FHU hid much of its true activity while O’Toole headed the organization.

This is not the first time that Martin O’Toole has been tied to unambiguous neo-Nazi propaganda. During the 1980s he produced and mailed newsletters for neo-Nazi Gary “Gerhard” Lauck:
https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/04/28/notes-on-martin-kenneth-otoole-and-white-supremacy-part-one/

The Sons of Confederate Veterans will yet again gather at Stone Mountain Park for “Confederate Memorial Day” on Saturday, April 27th. The SCV will predictably claim to be about “heritage, not hate.” However, their own Georgia spokesman gives the lie to this claim, through his long history in the white nationalist movement and his role promoting violent neo-Nazism.

#antifa #antifascist #StoneMountainGA #SonsOfConfederateVeterans

The Stone Mountain Action Coalition is rightly calling for Stone Mountain Park to cancel the upcoming April 29 "Confederate Memorial Day" event:
https://stonemountainaction.org/cancel-stone-mountain-park-confederate-event

The racist nature of this event is obvious. The keynote speaker for the Sons of Confederate Veterans event is John Weaver, a notorious segregationist preacher.

The SCV's Georgia spokesman is Martin O'Toole, a leader of the white nationalist Charles Martel Society who we have written about previously.
https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/04/28/notes-on-martin-kenneth-otoole-and-white-supremacy-part-one/

Last year's SCV rally also featured entertainment from a family tied to white supremacist "Christian Identity" circles. The event attracted Sam Dickson, a longtime white power leader and close associate of O'Toole, as well as at least one member of Patriot Front.
https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/05/06/ruining-confederate-memorial-day-a-report-back-from-stone-mountain-april-30th/

For as long as the giant Confederate carvings remain on Stone Mountain, it will attract white supremacist organizers. This in no way excuses Stone Mountain Park's decision to facilitate white supremacist gatherings, which endangers others visiting the park as well as the surrounding community.

#StoneMountain #StoneMountainGA #antiracist #antifascist