Category: Exposed

Introduction

We are exposing Jamie Lee Mallard of Georgia as longtime racist and extreme-Right propagandist “James Futurist”. Mallard, whose other aliases include “James Egoist”, James Rockwell, Jameson Blackwell and NeoNationalist, has been active in the white power movement since 2012, including that movement’s most extreme neo-Nazi fringes. For years Mallard promoted IronMarch (IM), a website that birthed other white supremacist organizations such as Vanguard America and the murderous Atomwaffen Division (AWD). Jamie Mallard collaborated with IronMarch’s webmaster, “Slavros”, and had contact with early AWD members including its founder Brandon Russell – now imprisoned on federal explosives charges – and Devon Arthurs, who killed two other members of the group. As “James Futurist”, Mallard appeared on several episodes of IM’s “Mysterium Fasces” podcast.

Jamie Mallard states that he currently lives in Smyrna, Georgia, part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Before his 2019 move, Mallard lived in several southern Georgia communities such as Tifton and later Moultrie. Mallard is a veteran of the US Air Force but now works in information technology. While living in Moultrie, Mallard claims to have had access to the “entire town’s sensitive data” as part of his job. Mallard currently fantasizes about an approaching civil war, or “Boogaloo”. While Mallard maintains a nihilistic and despairing persona, he remains in contact with key players on the racist scene, such as Alt-Right podcaster Mike Peinovich (AKA “Mike Enoch”) and members of the fascist Patriot Front.   

Identification and Online Presence

Jamie Lee Mallard had two different accounts on IronMarch, an influential neo-Nazi forum which existed from September 2011 until it vanished in late November 2017. The forum’s contents were leaked online in November 2019 and are now hosted in a searchable format by The Jewish Worker. 

Jamie Lee Mallard registered his first account on IM, “Malhard”, in July 2012, using an email address beginning with “j.lee.mallard”. The “Malhard” account last logged in to IronMarch in September 2015.

In August 2015, “James Futurist” registered an account on IM. This account existed until it was banned in December 2016. We will discuss the reasons for this ban later. After the ban, another IronMarch user commented:  

“Fun fact, James has been gassed [banned from the forum, a reference to Nazi gas chambers] before. If you go back through the site you’ll find a user called MalHard which was James’ first account here. […] If any of ya’ll remember NeoNationalist on tumblr that was James as well.”

While the “Malhard” account may have actually been abandoned rather than banned from IM, the rest of the user’s comment is accurate. In a private message, “Malhard” admitted to being the person behind the “NeoNationalist” account on Tumblr. The same Tumblr account is referenced in a private message exchange between “James Futurist” and IM’s webmaster.

The first online archive of the NeoNationalist Tumblr account dates from September 2013, but it had already produced seventeen pages of content by that time. The account was banned by Tumblr in late September or early October 2015. The NeoNationalist account included pictures that are clearly Jamie Lee Mallard. In addition, the account posted a photo of a house on Love Avenue in Tifton, Georgia, where Jamie Lee Mallard once lived.

From this starting point, it was easy to locate other online personas used by Jamie Mallard. Our records revealed that Jamie Mallard once used the name “James Futurist” on Disqus.com, but the Disqus account (@NeoFuturist) has now changed its name to “Jameson Blackwell”. Mallard now also uses the name “Jameson Blackwell” on Instagram and on the Russian social networking site VKontakte. Reddit user @jfuturist is also clearly Jamie Lee Mallard, based on the username, writing style, worldview expressed in comments, and personal details about his life. Other aliases used by Mallard include “James Rockwell” and “James Egoist”.

Current Workplace and Work History

On LinkedIn, Jamie Lee Mallard states that he is currently employed by Shiji Group doing Point of Sale support. Shiji Group is a Beijing-based company that provides technology solutions for the hotel, retail, entertainment and food service industries. The company’s International Office is in Atlanta. Mallard has been working for Shiji Group since September. On LinkedIn and also on a PayPal link we found, Mallard gives his current location as Smyrna, part of Metro Atlanta. 

Prior to his job with Shiji Group and apparent move from southern Georgia, Jamie Mallard worked for almost two years doing tech support for Charis Technology in Moultrie, Georgia. While working this job, Mallard wrote as “JFuturist” on Reddit that it was easy to access “the entire town’s sensitive data” and “passcodes to every single fucking government PC in this town”. Mallard made these comments out of concern that weak security protocols would lead to the City of Moultrie’s information being compromised from outside, with Mallard being the fall guy for the data breach. From our perspective, an active white supremacist having inside access to the City’s data is equally alarming.   

Before his work with Charis Tech in
Moultrie, Mallard had two workplaces in Tifton: Plant Telecommunications where
he was a network specialist and before that, MacKinnon Equipment, which sells
materials handling equipment. 

Mallard is a US Air Force veteran. On his “NeoNationalist” Tumblr blog, Mallard stated that: “I was a SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape] specialist for my first enlistment and then cross trained to an air crew job on board the [Boeing] E-3 [Sentry] AWACS [Airborne Warning And Control System].” In another post, Mallard shared an image of his Air Force wings and his SERE patch alongside some of his firearms.

Mallard’s first job upon leaving the military was as a Veteran’s Service Representative at Valdosta State University, where Mallard worked from September 2010 to May 2012. By Mallard’s account, it was there he began moving toward fascist politics. In his introductory post for his second account on IM, “James Futurist”, Mallard claims that it was the “rabidly anti-white identity politics” of Occupy Wall Street while he was working on campus, that “rattled” him and led him to racist and antisemitic conclusions. If there is any truth to Mallard’s claims about his radicalization, the transformation must have occurred very rapidly. Occupy Wall Street began in September 2011. Jamie Lee Mallard registered his first account on IronMarch – an openly neo-Nazi forum – in June the next year. 

IronMarch

From its launch in September 2011 until the site went offline in November 2017, IronMarch recruited and indoctrinated a new multinational generation of zealous fascists. The forum was the birthplace of the Atomwaffen Division, a militant neo-Nazi organization which has now been linked to multiple murders, as well as Vanguard America, which the current white supremacist organization Patriot Front splintered from. One of the IM administrators based in the UK was a founder of National Action, a neo-Nazi organization now banned as a terrorist group. IM’s founder is “Slavros” – believed to be Alisher Mukhitdinov – who operated the forum from Russia.

A large part of IM’s legacy is its popularization of Siege within the white power movement. That book – which compiled a series of newsletters published by James Mason for the National Socialist Liberation Front during the 1980s – endorses terrorism to hasten the collapse of society and pave the way for a fascist order. IM promoted Siege heavily from 2015 onward and even produced its own edition. Accelerationist neo-Nazi groups such as AWD and The Base have adopted Siege as a key text.

Even before the forum embraced Siege, Jamie Mallard was an active promoter of IM. In a private message exchange from December 2013, “Александр Славрос” (“Alexander Slavros”) asked Mallard to circulate a new propaganda graphic by Slavros on Mallard’s “NeoNationalist” Tumblr. A July 2014 archive from the NeoNationalist Tumblr account also shows propaganda by Slavros. A short-lived successor to Mallard’s NeoNationalist Tumblr, “WhiteFuturist”, also shared a long essay by Slavros in early 2016. 

Jamie Mallard not only promoted Slavros’ materials on Tumblr but recruited for IM on a different site, TheRightStuff (TRS), which was closer to the Alt-Right. An October 2015 post on IM by “Hyperborean Shitlord” stated: “I have been shilling, along with NeoFuturist [i.e. Jamie Lee Mallard …] for A Squire’s Trial and Hammer of the Patriot [over the] last couple of days” on TRS forums. Hammer of the Patriot is a guide to winning debates written by Montreal, Quebec IronMarch moderator and neo-Nazi propagandist Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, also known as “Zeiger”. A Squire’s Trial is an introduction to fascism written in the form of a fictional dialogue. It was authored by Sohier-Chaput (as “Charles Chapel”) and IM site admin Slavros (Alisher Mukhitdinov). 

In mid-2016, Mallard and other IM users were banned from TRS forums. According to IronMarch user “Hyperborean [Shitlord]”, this was because “James Rockwell [Jamie Mallard] triggered them [TRS leaders] in a private FB [Facebook] group” and TRS reacted with a forum ban. In a private message exchange between Mallard and Slavros earlier that year, Mallard discussed his motivation to “funnel” TRS users to IronMarch. Mallard was frustrated with “TRS, alt-right stuff” because of its residual libertarianism – many Alt-Right members arrived from libertarian political backgrounds – and also because of its “complete apathy about f[*]ggotry”. Perceived tolerance toward homosexuality on the Alt-Right was used by Mallard and some others on IM to position themselves as uncompromisingly fascist, in contrast to the Alt-Right which they portrayed as compromised. The month after he was banned from TRS forums, Mallard posted a video on Vimeo attacking the “Alt-Right” over its alleged leniency toward homosexuality.

By 2015, IM was actively promoting James Mason’s Siege, which celebrates small-group terrorism to bring down the “system” and usher in a National Socialist society. At least initially, Jamie Mallard seems to have shared IM’s enthusiasm for Siege, since his now-deleted “James Futurist” YouTube account hosted a video of its author, James Mason. In leaked chats from the Traditionalist Worker Party – a now-defunct neo-Nazi organization – Mallard/“James Futurist” is referred to by one user as a former “prophet of Siege” who subsequently “left our cult [around James Mason and Siege]”. Mallard’s departure from IM and the “cult” did not mean that he left white supremacist and fascist circles. 

Mallard also endorsed early propaganda by Atomwaffen Division. Commenting on a 2016 Daily Stormer article by Sohier-Chaput (“Zeiger”) celebrating AWD posters placed on Boston University campus, Mallard commented: “This [the neo-Nazi posters] is how it’s done”. 

In late 2016, Mallard participated in several episodes of “Mysterium Fasces”, an IM-affiliated podcast “dedicated to the discussion of Christianity and Fascism”. (Several of its guests were non-Christians.) Mallard appeared as “James Futurist” in the first episode of October 2016, as well as episodes five, six, eight, and finally episode nine in early December 2016. On the podcast, Mallard appeared alongside Daily Stormer webmaster Andrew Anglin (once), Traditionist Worker Party leader Matthew Heimbach (once), Slavros (twice) and Gabriel Sohier-Chaput/“Zeiger” (three times). On episode eight, the Mysterium Fasces host “Florian Geyer” gave Mallard half the episode to present his views on the “PizzaGate” conspiracy theory. 

While Jamie Mallard was a busy propagandist during his time on IM, he periodically went through periods of dejection. In September 2014 Mallard/“James Futurist” wrote in a private message that white people have “been defeated on a level that the world has never seen” by “Jews” and that Mallard was “done”. Despite this claim, Mallard remained active on the forum and in the white supremacist movement. In March 2015, Mallard posted publicly on IM that “1945 was our last stand and we lost”, yet he again continued with the racist movement.

Mallard was finally banned from IM in December 2016, approximately the same time as his final podcast appearance on Mysterium Fasces. One month earlier, Mallard had commented favorably on an article written by “Gregory Hood” (real name Kevin DeAnna) for the white nationalist Radix Journal. In his post, Mallard claimed that direct “armed insurrection or violent revolution” endorsed by Siege was unrealistic in the context of the US, and that Siege adherents were actually engaging in a form of “LARPing” (Live Action Role Playing) as criticized by “Hood”/DeAnna. Mallard cited the neo-fascists of Italy’s Casa Pound movement and Greece’s fascist Golden Dawn as providing better models. This appears to have gone over poorly, with another IM user mocking Mallard as “James Conservative” for the comments following Mallard’s forum ban.

In May 2017, a few months after Mallard’s IM ban, Devon Arthurs killed two of his roommates in Tampa, Florida. Devon Arthurs was a co-founder of AWD who was active on IM as “TheWeisseWolfe” but had converted to Islam. Arthurs’ victims were also AWD members. A fourth roommate, Brandon Russell, was “Odin” on IM and led AWD. Russell is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for bomb-making materials discovered at the shared apartment following Arthurs’ killings. By the time of the killings, Mallard had established a new account on TheRightStuff forums as “James Futarist” (sic) and commented: “I’ve tried talking sense into Devon [Arthurs] and Odin [Brandon Russell] on many occasions.” By that time, Mallard had expressed concern about Siege-style Nazi insurrectionism, while continuing to promote fascist and white supremacist movements. Mallard had also spent years promoting and recruiting for IM, the site where AWD developed.

Jamie Mallard and the Broader
Alt-Right

We discussed how Jamie Mallard tried to set himself apart from much of the Alt-Right, for example by using severe homophobia to distinguish his brand of fascism from others. However, to some degree this was a kind of friendly rivalry. Even the task of funneling TheRightStuff members to IronMarch entailed some level of good relations with the host site, since otherwise bans would have occurred much sooner. Shortly after being banned from TRS forums along with other IM supporters, Mallard claimed in a private message that he was still “cool with Enoch” – an alias for Michael Peinovich, the head of TRS. Mallard appeared as “James Rockwell” in a list of “Enoch”/Peinovich’s Facebook friends from January 2017. Mallard was eventually able to start posting again on the TRS forum. 

Without a home on IM – which went offline completely in late 2017 – Mallard became a floating personality on the white nationalist scene. Mallard’s propaganda activity may have slowed from the years he was on IronMarch, but it never stopped. To this day, Mallard maintains ties with key fascist and white supremacist organizers.

Even before Mallard’s time ended on IM, he was supporting other fascist projects. In 2016, he won a contest to design a new masthead for The Daily Stormer, an antisemitic and white supremacist website that Mallard’s IM associate Sohier-Chaput also wrote for. Mallard’s retro-wave design for The Daily Stormer spotlights the insignia of the Nazi SS and was featured on the site in October 2016. 

In May 2017, Mallard cheered for The Daily Stormer after it published a misogynist rant, “Just What are Traditional Gender Roles?” by Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer. Auernheimer argued – with tongue only slightly in cheek – for marital rape, to reduce the status of women to property, and to beat or kill any woman who complains. The underlying hatred of feminism and women’s rights is sincere, and apparently shared by Mallard.

Mallard appeared under the name “James Egoist” in leaked far-Right channels from the Discord chat platform, which were published online by the Unicorn Riot independent media collective. Mallard’s handle in these chats is seemingly a reference to the “Egoism” of individualist anarchist Max Stirner, whose writing has occasionally been appropriated by the far-Right. (Jamie Mallard is explicitly not an anarchist, however.) One of the Discord servers Mallard appeared in, “Gabber Hangout”, was a means for far-Right users of the Gab social network to coordinate away from that site. Mallard’s posts in the “Gabber Hangout” date from December 2016. In April 2017, Mallard/“James Egoist” also appeared in the “Vibrant Diversity” server, described by one member as “the most elite discord server in the Alt Right.” While that server later helped with planning for “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, Mallard’s chat on the server is limited to April 2017 and does not concern the rally.

On the day of Unite the Right, 2017, after Heather Heyer had been murdered and dozens of others injured, Jamie Mallard commented on Breitbart News that “the Jewish wing of your organization is going to have to deal with the fact that half of their reader base was at this rally or supported it” and urged the site not to condemn the “people at […] these events.” Two days after the rally, Mallard joked about anti-racist protester Heather Heyer’s murder. On Voat – a more Alt-Right-friendly version of Reddit – Mallard posted an image asking how one’s views had changed since the Charlottesville rally, then quipped: “I’m reconsidering getting a Dodge Challenger actually.” White supremacist murderer James Alex Fields, Jr. used his Challenger to plow into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing Heyer. 

Past Two Years

Since late 2017 and the Alt-Right’s reversal of fortune after Charlottesville, Mallard has continued his extreme-Right propaganda. Among his other many other posts, Mallard posted a Holocaust-denial rant to Reddit in June 2018. Mallard seems to have been involved with a Facebook meme page with thousands of followers, “Black Pill Memes for Fatalist Teens”, though few traces of that page currently remain.

Recent online activity shows that Mallard is a sympathizer – though possibly not a member – of Patriot Front, the white supremacist organization which broke off from Vanguard America soon after Unite the Right. On Voat, Mallard shared a video by Patriot Front in April 2018, highlighting the organization’s recent efforts. Patriot Front is one of seven pages followed by “James Futurist” on the Busy social media platform, which Mallard joined in December 2017. Since November 2019, Mallard has been active on the Russian social networking site VKontakte (VK) under the name “Jameson Blackwell”, where he gives his location as “Atlanta”. As well as his connections to TheRightStuff head Mike Peinovich and affiliated antisemite “Morrakiu”/“Tyrant Fashister”, Mallard’s VK account is linked to several Patriot Front members. On VK, Mallard associates with Texas Patriot Front organizers “Braxton Bragg” (Joseph Nicolas Brown), “Alexander Reese” (likely Erik Sailors), and Joffre Cross who recently pleaded guilty on federal weapons charges.

In addition to VK account, Mallard is currently active on Twitter. From August to December of last year, he maintained an Instagram account sharing memes about the “Boogaloo” – a far-Right term for an approaching civil war. In one of his posts from December 2019, Mallard displayed what looks like an AT4 unguided rocket launcher. However, these are single-use weapons and according to open source arms researchers the image likely shows a used tube. Although Mallard describes his Instagram page as “satire and jokes”, a glance through his posts shows that Mallard endorses the violent, apocalyptic fantasies of the US far-Right.

Conclusion  

We have spent a long time tracing Jamie Lee Mallard’s history, since he is a well-connected member of the white supremacist movement with many years of propaganda and recruitment behind him. The forum which Mallard initially recruited for, IronMarch, was the birthplace of several notorious neo-Nazi organizations and spawned a new wave of neo-Nazi terrorism. Mallard not only worked with key members of IM such as “Slavros” and “Zeiger”, but by his own admission discussed with the initial leadership of Atomwaffen Division “on many occasions”.

Since being booted from IM, Mallard has supported other white supremacist projects, such as promoting The Daily Stormer website and Patriot Front. While he was living in Moultrie, Georgia, Mallard claimed he had easy access to local government computers. According to his recent online information, Mallard is currently based in Smyrna, Georgia and working for Shiji Group. After many years as an anonymous but influential white supremacist, Jamie Mallard can no longer lead a double life. 

If you have further information on Jamie Lee Mallard or other white supremacists in our state, please get in contact.

Update 3/27/2020: We have now identified the International Keystone Knights of the KKK supporter discussed in this article as Robert Timothy Dickenson.

Introduction

Since late last year, longtime white supremacist Chester Doles has attempted to build an organization – American Patriots USA (APUSA) – in north Georgia. Doles held a far-Right “Patriots” rally in Dahlonega, Georgia in September 2019 that was greatly outnumbered by counter-protesters, and started APUSA shortly afterwards. Although Doles’ September rally was not the success he’d hoped for, Doles has held regular meetings for his new organization since December. 

Recently, APUSA seized on “2^nd
Amendment Sanctuary” proposals as their main organizing issue. As this article
discusses, APUSA is dominated by active Klansmen as well as neo-Nazis, and is
an attempt by ideological white supremacists to broaden their base of support
in North Georgia and gain conservative electoral credibility. Our update will
also discuss a newly identified business manager supporting APUSA; local
militiamen doing security for the organization; a planned APUSA candidate for
Sheriff in White County who became a community laughing stock; and finally, a
new business linked to the APUSA front group. We hope this information is
useful for North Georgia locals challenging Doles’ organizing.

Meetings so far

To date, Doles’ American Patriots USA has had two formal meetings, both held at the Lumpkin County Parks and Recreation Center where Doles rented a room. The first meeting was held on December 14, exactly three months after Doles’ far-Right rally in Dahlonega. The main goal for this meeting appears to have been signing up members for the APUSA organization. After the meeting, new members briefly distributed The Conservative Action Report in downtown Dahlonega and also went to a local bar (more below). The Conservative Action Report is published by William Carter of South Carolina, who was listed as a speaker for Doles’ September 14 rally but failed to appear. Carter was previously the SC state leader for the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, and in 1992 ran that state’s presidential campaign for neo-Nazi and former Klan leader David Duke.

The January meeting, held on the 11^th, focused on preparing for the anti-gun-control rally in Richmond, Virginia on the 20^th. APUSA had by then seized on the issue of “2^nd Amendment Sanctuaries” as an issue for the organization to push in north Georgia. Paul Lovett of Grovetown, GA and key member of the racist “Nationalist Liberty Union” gave a talk at the January 11 meeting, as did Christy Howle of Clarks Hill, SC. Howle is the designer for the APUSA website, attended the September 14th rally in Dahlonega with Lovett, and is Lovett’s “girlfriend” according to Chester Doles’ 10/2/19 appearance on The Right Voice white nationalist podcast. 

APUSA aimed to have their third meeting on February 8th. That meeting was intended as a “muster call” for their efforts to make Lumpkin County a “2^nd Amendment Sanctuary” which would not comply with any state or federal firearms restrictions. This is an ideal issue for APUSA, since overstated fears of a gun grab play directly into the organization’s main narrative: that the US is careening into civil war, and that “Patriots” must prepare to battle the menacing forces of “socialism”. White supremacists using the issue to position themselves as community leaders is dangerous, whatever one’s actual position on 2^nd Amendment rights and firearm restrictions. Local paper The Dahlonega Nugget gave APUSA’s efforts front-page coverage and failed to push back on Doles’ claims that the current APUSA campaign is “not a race thing”. The February 8^th meeting was canceled due to snowfall and has been rescheduled for February 22^nd, with the organization offering a free meal and auctioning an AR-15 in an attempt to attract numbers.

To examine the white supremacists at
the core of APUSA, we return to their first meeting.

Neo-Nazis and Klansmen at Core of
Group

Following the first APUSA meeting on December 14 and propaganda distribution in downtown Dahlonega, APUSA’s new members visited Johnny B’s restaurant and bar in the downtown area, where they posed for a group photo. Johnny B’s is a notable choice for a spot to celebrate, since that is where Chester Doles and other white supremacists attacked the family and friends of an interracial couple in December 2016. Not only has Johnny B’s failed to bar Doles from its space, but the establishment seemingly welcomes business from white supremacists despite their knowledge of how this endangers other customers. 

The group photo from Johnny B’s following the December 2019 APUSA meeting shows how Klansmen and neo-Nazis form the core of the “Patriots” group. Of the eight individuals pictured, all are either documented Klansmen or neo-Nazis. Michael Carothers (AKA Michael Weaver) is a longstanding neo-Nazi who served a prison sentence for assaulting a Black man in Columbus, Georgia. Doles himself is a self-proclaimed “fourth-generation Klansman” who was also active in the National Alliance – once the most important neo-Nazi organization in North America – and later with Crew 38, the auxiliary support group for the Hammerskin Nation gang. Another, currently unidentified, individual in the group photo has appeared in public wearing International Keystone Knights of the KKK apparel. Four individuals in the group photo – Cody Cantrell, Robert McDuffie, Gayle Hathcock Maddox and Justin Maddox – are affiliated with the SCK Klan group which we wrote about last year. At the time, we portrayed Cantrell as a KKK supporter even though he had been photographed giving Klan salutes. As we will discuss later, Cantrell has now admitted that he is “affiliated” with the Klan. We will discuss the eighth person from the group photo, Sean Charles Keena, in a separate section below. 

In addition to those pictured on December 14, Robert Craig Korom of Cumming, Georgia is listed as an official American Patriots USA member on the registered users’ section of the APUSA website. Earlier, Robert Korom appeared with Ku Klux Klan members (from the SCK group) at Dole’s September 14, 2019 rally in Dahlonega. Korom has publicly stated that he is “proud” of the KKK and that he believes the Klan exists “to help the white community”. 

Since Klansmen and neo-Nazis dominate American Patriots USA, there is no doubt that the organization exists to further these white supremacists’ goals. Portraying themselves as “Patriots”, they aim to build a broader base of support in the community, while their extreme-Right and racist politics remain unchanged: they simply recycle their typical calls to attack Black and Jewish people as calls to attack “socialism”.

Sean Charles Keena

Sean Charles Keena, who took part in the group photo with other white supremacists following the APUSA December meeting, also attended Chester Doles’ “American Patriots USA” far-Right rally in downtown Dahlonega in September 2019. Keena is an old friend of the Doles family and is linked through his social media accounts to not just Chester Doles but to his wife Teresa Doles and son Pierce Doles (AKA “Chevy Doles”). Keena uses the alias “Sean Cooley” for social media.

On social media, Keena celebrated Hitler with a “smiley Adolf” image. He uses eliminationist language against Jewish people, who he refers to as “rats”. In another post, Keena mocked the Holocaust, posting a picture of the cattle car tracks that led into the Auschwitz concentration camp with the comment “I’m staying at the motel 6 million tonight.” Keena promotes conspiracy theories blaming Jewish people for a wide range of evils. For example, Keena promotes a book on “false flags” by deceased American Free Press writer Michael Collins Piper, which blames Jewish conspiracies for everything from the Kennedy assassination to the Oklahoma City bombing to the Sept 11, 2001 attacks. Facebook comments made by Keena also suggest that he used to have a swastika painted on his motorcycle. 

On his Twitter account, Keena posted over a dozen supportive comments to neo-Nazi and former KKK leader David Duke in late 2019. Keena also follows the account for Kevin MacDonald, an antisemitic propagandist who claims that Jewish people are evolutionarily predisposed to subvert societies. Interestingly, Keena’s antisemitism and far-Right affiliations may predate his online activity of recent years. According to Federal Election Commission records, in 1999 Keena made two $200 donations to Pat Buchanan’s Reform Party-ticket run for president. Buchanan’s lifetime of racism and antisemitism is well documented.

According to the Better Business Bureau, Sean Keena currently manages the Bennett Piano Movers company and its affiliated piano tuning service. The Bennett website lists customers such as Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Marietta High School, the Chastain Amphitheater and Coca Cola. The Georgia Governor’s Mansion and the Atlanta Symphony Hall are listed as historic customers. 

Keena also plays bass in the rock group Wild Knights, which performs infrequently around Georgia.

Militia Support for “American
Patriots USA” Group

In our article about Dole’s September far-Right “Patriots” rally in Dahlonega, we noted that William Tex Simmons and his Brotherhood of Constitutional Patriots / American Brotherhood of Patriots (BCP / ABP) militia appeared to be drawing closer to Doles’ circles following the event. (Brotherhood of Constitutional Patriots is the name for a Facebook group for militiamen administered by Simmons, while the local group operating in North Georgia also goes by “American Brotherhood of Patriots”.) We have previously noted that ABP/BCP leader Tex Simmons knows about Chester Doles’ white supremacist agenda but plays stupid. 

In December, Chester Doles announced that, following “several private meetings”, Simmons’ militia group would provide “security” for all upcoming meetings of APUSA. Simmons is currently a full member of APUSA according to the registered users’ section of the APUSA site.  

The alliance between neo-Nazi Chester Doles and Simmons’ militia makes sense, since they share similar political impulses. On the BCP Facebook page, one post approved by Simmons alleged that a “kosher mafia” controls events behind the scenes. In February, Simmons posted footage of a march by the white supremacist and antisemitic Patriot Front in Washington, DC to the BCP Facebook page, seemingly endorsing the rally. Despite Patriot Front being a white power group, Simmons claimed that calling the organization “racist” was just “spin”. This follows a pattern of Simmons promoting and assisting white supremacists, while pretending that there is nothing racist going on. Indeed, Simmons has publicly stated that designations of “white supremacist” or “neo-Nazi” currently mean “nothing”, and that people should “grow a spine” and not care about being considered racist.

Unsurprisingly, Simmons has been active in the drive to make Lumpkin County a “Second Amendment Sanctuary”. In the process, Simmons normalizes the white supremacists steering APUSA as acceptable community leaders, since APUSA is the main organization behind that campaign locally.

The Klansman who Wanted to be White
County Sheriff

At the end of December, Cody Steven Cantrell announced his plans to run for Sheriff of White County in north Georgia as an American Patriots USA candidate. Cantrell’s announcement was published on the “White Information Network” blog operated by Georgia neo-Nazi and APUSA organizer Michael Carothers (AKA Michael Weaver). Carothers also reposted the announcement of Cantrell’s planned candidacy on two notorious white supremacist forums, Stormfront and the Vanguard News Network. APUSA member Joshua Noah Mote of Gainesville, Georgia was listed as “Mr. Cantrell’s Campaign Manager” on the White Information Network post for Cantrell. 

Prospective candidates for Sheriff would have to file paperwork with the County in early March in order to qualify as a candidate. Until then, individuals may announce their candidacy, but nothing is official. In the second week of January, a north Georgia resident who had seen a flyer about Cantrell for Sheriff posted about it on Facebook. White County locals began discussing a picture of Cantrell and others giving Klan salutes, circulating it widely in the community. In the hubbub that followed, Cantrell admitted that he was “affiliated” with the Ku Klux Klan but claimed the KKK does not have “racist views”. “Campaign manager” Josh Mote meanwhile insisted that Cantrell was not a Klansman. Having become a laughing stock, Cantrell’s Facebook profile disappeared. An incredible story blaming everything on “antifa” hackers briefly appeared on the APUSA website. While a restart is possible, nothing has been heard of Cantrell’s campaign since. 

New Business

In January, a new website appeared
for a “Patriot” clean-up and junk removal business based in Dahlonega. The site
is designed by Christy Howle who maintains the APUSA site and features a phone
number used by Doles for APUSA as well as a picture of him. The junk hauling
business appears to not only be an effort by Doles to bring in additional
personal income, but to bankroll the APUSA group beyond dues and merchandise
income. The business could also be a possible source of employment for Doles’
white supremacist associates if it grows. Any resident of North Georgia should
know that support for “Patriot Clean Up and Junk Removal” means financially
supporting organized violent racists. We hope any posters or business cards
that spring up in north Georgia are promptly removed.

Conclusion

While the APUSA website claims that
there is “No Home for Hate” in the organization, Doles’ several decades in the
white supremacist movement, as well as the individuals he brought in for the
core of his new organization, make a mockery of that claim. APUSA aims for
influence in the region, for example through its Lumpkin County ordinance
campaign or running its own candidates. Although the Klansman for White County
Sheriff campaign appears to have flopped on its own, other efforts may need to
be actively opposed. If Doles’ group grows, it is reasonable to expect more
harassment or worse against those Doles views as his enemies.

In our last major article on Doles, we wrote that anti-racists in North Georgia are “better connected, better organized, and most importantly confident” following their September counter-protest in Dahlonega. While this remains true, in recent months Doles has demonstrated that he has no intention of stepping back. Locals must organize to challenge his white supremacist front group, which will be harder to drive back if it grows.

If you have further information on APUSA members, please get in touch.

We are publishing documents from
Atlanta attorney and white power leader Sam Dickson’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
These documents not only give a clear picture of Dickson’s business interests
but also provide details on Dickson’s political activity and associates.
Dickson filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2014 (Case 14-29781-LMI,
Southern District of Florida US Bankruptcy Court). Then, in March 2015, his
“Hickory Hill 1185” company also filed for bankruptcy (Case 15-13854-LMI,
Southern District of Florida). The two bankruptcy cases are now jointly
administered.

We have published two earlier articles highlighting Dickson’s and other white nationalists’ activity on the Atlanta property market. For readers unfamiliar with Dickson, we suggest reading our 2017 article, “Right-Wing Gentrification Gangs”, which explains his method for profiting from tax lien purchases in Black and multiracial working-class neighborhoods. Dickson has a history spanning decades in the white nationalist movement. As a participant in the secretive yet influential Charles Martel Society – where Dickson is listed as a Director – and also as a mentor for younger white nationalists, Dickson continues to influence the white power movement to this day.

Our articles so far have focused on Dickson’s dealings in Atlanta. By publishing Dickson’s bankruptcy filings, we broaden our picture to include information on Dickson’s property in Florida and North Carolina. Dickson’s properties in Atlanta are mostly but not exclusively vacant lots, which make a profit once sold. However, properties such as Dickson’s “Villas Key West” vacation rentals in Key West, Florida, bring in regular income. 

Dickson’s bankruptcies are Chapter 11. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows a debtor to restructure debts while the business typically continues to operate. Dickson had previously built a “multi-million dollar business” from his property dealings. According to filings, the recession hurt both his practice as a real estate lawyer, as well as his Florida vacation rentals. Chapter 11 was Dickson’s best option to hold on to as many of his assets as possible. 

These bankruptcy cases represent a gap in our earlier writing on Sam Dickson’s business. Our first article may have overestimated Dickson’s ability to expand his personal business operations in Atlanta, since Dickson is burdened by Chapter 11 restructuring. However, as Dickson’s filings show, he maintains significant assets in Georgia and elsewhere. In addition, other far-Right figures active in the Atlanta property market are not harmed by Dickson’s Chapter 11. Our concerns around the broader Dickson network remain unchanged. For example, Beltem Trust – administered by UK far-Right organizer and Dickson associate Adrian Davies – owns a large collection of property in Atlanta. Sam Dickson has worked as an attorney for the Beltem Trust and is also a source of property for that Trust, with several of Dickson’s properties being sold to Beltem since Dickson filed for Chapter 11. In addition, Dickson protégés such as Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement organizer Evan Thomas Anderson continue to be active on the Atlanta property market.

The Filings 

The proximate cause for Dickson’s initial bankruptcy filing in September 2014 appears to be the foreclosure sale of a Key West, Florida property, 522 Margaret. In one of his earliest Chapter 11 filings, Dickson objected to this foreclosure sale, although ultimately to no avail. (Dickson still co-owns neighboring property.) At the very beginning, Dickson’s attorney was listed as Paul Orshan, but he was soon replaced as counsel by Michael D. Seese of Ft Lauderdale who continues representing Dickson in bankruptcy matters to this day.

Dickson’s “Hickory Hill 1185 LLC”
filing for bankruptcy in March 2015 was seemingly to avoid foreclosure on his
115-121 Ridgeland Way property in Atlanta. The Hickory Hill 1185 LLC Chapter 11
is now jointly administered with Dickson’s individual bankruptcy case. 

There are currently over 400 filings
for Dickson’s Chapter 11. At the end of this article, we are publishing a
selection, particularly filings which give an overview of Dickson’s various
properties. Remember that if a document is now dated, properties listed as
owned by Dickson could have subsequently sold.

Florida and Georgia Residences

In order to file for bankruptcy in the Southern District of Florida, Dickson had to reside there. In filings, Dickson listed his address as 518 Rear Margaret Street, Apt #2 in Key West, Florida. However, Dickson also spends much of his time in Atlanta. In some recent filings, Dickson provided a PO Box in Atlanta as his address. Dickson’s presence in Atlanta is corroborated by his continued property holdings and legal work here, his TV appearances, and our personal sightings of Dickson around Atlanta. Dickson’s residence in Atlanta is the Ridgeland Way property in Buckhead which we have profiled before.

The property next to 518 Margaret Street in Key West, Florida – 522 Margaret – was previously co-owned by Dickson. In fact, Dickson’s initial Chapter 11 filing allowed him to object to the foreclosure sale of that property (though the sale went through in the end). Interestingly, when UK Holocaust-denier David Irving’s emails were hacked a decade ago, the 522 Margaret address was used by Irving when setting up online payment processing. Irving is known to stay at Dickson’s properties while in the United States. When Irving mentioned this March that he was in Key West, this was almost certainly at one of Dickson’s current properties there.

Business and Politics

Filing for bankruptcy has not stopped Dickson’s efforts for the white nationalist movement. In Dickson’s first Monthly Operating Report (for September 2014) under his Chapter 11, Dickson noted “the heavy expenses of the attorney’s fees and accounting costs related to the Chapter 11.” This did not stop Dickson from making a $100 donation to the Committee to Elect Keith Alexander in this same period. Keith Alexander was running for Property Assessor in Shelby County, Tennessee that year. Alexander co-hosted the white nationalist Political Cesspool podcast and at the time was listed as a Director for the racist Council of Conservative Citizens. Despite these ties to the white power movement, Alexander ran again for the Assessor position in 2018 and got almost 40% of the vote. Like Alexander, Dickson has been involved with the Council of Conservative Citizens.

In January 2015, attorney John C. Hall, Jr. was authorized as an accountant for Dickson in the bankruptcy. Hall, who lives in Dublin, Georgia, has his own ties to organized racism. Hall is active in the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia, which purports not to be racist. Hall’s profile on the VKontake (VK) social networking site was connected to the official group for the Southern secessionist/white nationalist League of the South. On VK, Hall has stated “Hitler was right!” and “Hitler was correct in cleaning up Berlin and then Europe.” During the 2018 gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, Hall harassed an event for Stacey Abrams as well as organized against her. When anti-fascists exposed Dickson’s white power hub on Ridgeland Way, Hall traveled to Atlanta with a firearm and fantasies of “Antifa […] being eliminated.”

An operating report for Dickson’s Hickory Hill 1185 LLC filed in September 2016 stated that “at the time of the filing, Mr. Dickson was traveling out of the county.” We are aware that some of Dickson’s overseas travel is for far-Right networking, for example his attendance at the “International Russian Conservative Forum” at St. Petersburg in 2015. We do not however know the destination of Dickson’s 2016 trip, or whether it served a political purpose. We would welcome further information.

Overview of Properties

Dickson’s Chapter 11 filings list
many properties owned by him or his companies. Some of these properties may
have changed title since the time of the filings. The following is a quick
summary of Dickson’s properties in three states, gleaned from the bankruptcy
filings.

In Key West, Florida, four properties still make money for Dickson as part of the “Villas Key West” vacation rentals. On Margaret Street, Dickson co-owns the buildings at 518 and 1124. Further, 512 and 516 Angela Street are part of “Villas Key West”. 512 is owned by the Dickson-managed 512 Angela LLC; 516 is owned by 516 Angela LLC, also managed by Dickson. In addition to these four properties, 1128 Margaret Street is owned by Dickson and used for longer-term rentals, outside of “Villas Key West”.

In Highlands, North Carolina, Dickson owns one building on Hickory Hill Road, which according to bankruptcy filings he rents. The property is owned by Dickson’s Hickory Hill, 1185 LLC. Dickson also owns one lot under his own name next to the building.

In Georgia, Dickson’s properties are concentrated in Atlanta. In addition to vacant lots in areas such as Lakewood Heights, Dickson’s Hickory Hill 1185, LLC owns the 115-121 Ridgeland Way property in the Peachtree Hills neighborhood of Buckhead. According to filings, this building is divided into four spaces, one of which Dickson lives in while in Atlanta and the other three being rented. We have discussed other white power militants based at this building. 

Presently, Hickory Hill 1185, LLC is still listed as owning one building on Donnelly Avenue in the Oakland City area of Atlanta. Oakland City is a majority-Black, working class area. The house is currently unoccupied. The Hartford Trust, a Dickson-linked company not mentioned in the bankruptcy filings, owns lots behind and to one side of this building. 

Documents

We hope that these documents – a selection of the most relevant filings from Dickson’s bankruptcy – are useful to other anti-fascist researchers. Please get in touch if you have further information on Dickson, his associates, and their business and political ventures.

Sam Dickson bankruptcy case, Case
14-29781-LMI, Southern District of Florida US Bankruptcy Court:

Voluntary Petition (document 1, filed 09/02/14)

Debtor’s Emergency Motion for Relief from the Automatic Stay (document 10, filed 09/11/14)

Debtor’s Motion for Authority to Use Cash Collateral (document 39, filed 09/26/14)

Debtor’s Monthly Operating Report for September 2014 (document 80, filed 01/02/15)

Application for Order Authorizing Employment of John C. Hall (document 92, filed 01/22/15)

Debtor’s First Amended Plan of Reorganization (document 222, filed 12/29/15)

First Amended Disclosure Statement for Amended Plan of Reorganization (document 223, filed 12/29/15)

Confirmation Affidavit of Sam G Dickson (document 296, filed 02/25/16)

Confirmation Affidavit of Jane Goodwin (document 297, filed 02/25/16)

Hickory Hill 1185 Post-Confirmation Operating Report, April – June 2016 (document 344, filed 09/13/16)

Sam G. Dickson Quarterly Operating Report Oct – Dec 2018 (document 413, filed 09/26/19)

Sam G. Dickson Quarterly Operating Report Jan – Mar 2019 (document 414, filed 09/26/19)

Sam G. Dickson Quarterly Operating Report April – June 2019 (document 415, filed 09/26/19)

Hickory Hill 1185 LLC Operating Report Oct – Dec 2018 (document 416, filed 09/26/19)

Hickory Hill 1185 LLC Quarterly Operating Report Jan – Mar 2019 (document 417, filed 09/26/19)

Hickory Hill 1185 LLC Quarterly Operating Report April – June 2019 (document 418, filed 09/26/19)

Hickory Hill 1185 bankruptcy, Case
15-13854-LMI, Southern District of Florida, soon became jointly administrated
with Dickson Chapter 11:

Voluntary Petition (document 1, filed 03/02/15)

Declaration on Behalf of Corporation or Partnership (document 3, filed 03/02/15)

Order Directing Joint Administration of Related Chapter 11 Cases (document 10, filed 03/05/15)