'Pro-white' rally prompts protests and arrests at Confederate monument

[umbertino]

‘Rock Stone Mountain’ rally drew a few dozen activists and hundreds of counter-protesters, with police in riot gear forming a wall between the groups

Max Blau in Stone Mountain, Georgia

Saturday 23 April 2016 22.01 BST

 

Georgia police arrested at least nine people on Saturday at a “pro-white” rally at one of the south’s largest Confederate monuments, after counter-protesters clashed with the demonstrators and officers in riot gear intervened.

The long-planned “Rock Stone Mountain” rally was supposed to draw thousands to the state park, just before Confederate Memorial Day. In response, progressive activists planned a demonstration of their own to denounce public acts of discrimination. Only one group showed up in numbers.

On Saturday morning, roughly two dozen “pro-white” protesters gathered at Stone Mountain, a half hour east of downtown Atlanta, to wave Dixie flags and wear “White Lives Matter” stickers. Hundreds of counter-protesters, including groups chanting “Black Lives Matter” and against the Ku Klux Klan, lined up across from them. Between the two sides, police in riot gear formed a wall, and officers made arrests, broke up scuffles and shut down the park’s main attractions.

Rally organizer John Estes said his group’s presence at the public park, which is home to a behemoth granite sculpture of three Confederacy leaders, was necessary to slow what he called the desecration of Confederate symbols important to his heritage.

“There is no separation between heritage and race,” said Estes, who was clad in a red shirt with a Confederate flag bearing the words “Rebel Son”.

“If you destroy the roots of a people, that tree is easily pushed over and conquered,” he said. “That’s what happens: to erase history, they erase heritage first, then they erase and liquidate the people. That’s what going on here.”

The “pro-white” event, scheduled two days before Confederate Memorial Day, an official holiday recognized by Georgia and other southern states, was expected to draw as many as 2,000 attendees. Because the rally had been planned months in advance, at one point with the help of KKK members, progressive groups had spent weeks planning a counter-protest.

Khalid Kamau, an organizer with Black Lives Matter’s Atlanta chapter, called for visitors to boycott the state park until its officials stopped giving permits out to groups who embrace white supremacy. Early in the morning, his group coordinated an effort to block all the tollbooths to the main entrance to prevent visitors from entering the park.

“If Isis wanted to have a rally, if a Syrian group wanted to have a rally, those [groups] probably wouldn’t be given a permit,” Kamau said, using the acronym for the terror group Islamic State. “As long as it’s a state park, and the association’s board members are appointed by the governor, we should have a say in who gets permits for rallies.”

Half a dozen different law enforcement agencies were called into action to keep the protests separated. Since Estes had obtained a permit for the demonstration, roughly a hundred corrections officers in all-black riot gear, many of them African American, formed a perimeter around the area to protect the protesters waving Confederate flags.

Most protesters demonstrated peacefully, but several fights did ensue between the competing protesters. When police blocked the counter-protesters from approaching the “pro-white” demonstration area, a handful of people started fires and hurled rocks at officers in riot gear. Police officers also dodged smoking canisters and fireworks that were lobbed in their direction.

John Bankhead, a spokesperson with the Stone Mountain police, said law enforcement officers arrested a total of nine counter-protesters. Eight activists were charged with refusing to take their masks off on public property, a law originally created to deter the Ku Klux Klan from wearing white hoods, and three of them were also charged with obstruction of justice.

Ultimately, Estes said, the heavy police presence scared many supporters out of attending the rally. Later in the afternoon, the National Socialist Movement had scheduled a separate Confederate Memorial Day event in Rome, Georgia, 85 miles north-west of the state park. Once both rallies ended, the “pro-white” protesters planned to stage a cross burning.

Jim Barry traveled from Detroit, Michigan to Georgia to attend the ‘Rock Stone Mountain’ rally.

Photograph: Max Blau for the Guardian

 

 

A protester sitting on the ground raises his hands in front of a row of law enforcement officers clad in riot gear at Stone Mountain park.

Photograph: Max Blau

 

Officers in riot gear dodge an exploding firework at Stone Mountain Park.

Photograph: Max Blau for the Guardian

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/23/pro-white-rally-prompts-protests-and-arrests-at-confederate-monument

[umbertino]

Mississippi's Confederate Heritage Month proclamation prompts outcry

Governor Phil Bryant faces backlash after announcement, which fails to mention slavery as it establishes 25 April as ‘Confederate Memorial Day’

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Mississippi state flags wave in front of the state capitol in Jackson.

Photograph: Rogelio Solis/Associated Press

 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/03/mississippi-confederate-heritage-month-backlash-phil-bryant

 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Yuh, black lives matter more than anyone else's... Our Flag can be burned and stomped on...

Our sacred sites can be desecrated... Our Veterans' Memorials wrecked and destroyed...

Our Religion now must take a back seat to their 'gender' and their muslim 'religion'...

Our Courts undermined by their sharia 'law'...

Our children put at risk in 'anything goes' latrines...

Our Veterans' Rights usurped by 'rights for illegals' over our Heroes' Rights....

Our Rights to Freedom of Speech shut down...

Our God-given Right to be born being taken away and sold by the body part peddlers...

Our right to choose our own Doctors and Insurance companies is gone...

Our right to bear arms being infringed upon inch by evil inch...

Our Right to Vote and select the Candidate of Our choice hijacked by evil power-mongers...

Our right to run our own businesses our way taken away by an over-reaching illegal administration...

Our Right to Peaceful Enjoyment of our own premises can now be invaded without due process...

Our bank accounts raided -- also without due process....

Our Parks and Lands handed over to the evil U.N. without We The Peoples' Consent...

Our water and natural resources claimed by that same over-reaching illegal administration...

Our Armed Forces forced to 'fight' to protect illumanti assets and punished when performing an

act of humanitarianism or kindness...

now our Right to Peacefully Assemble aborted...

Had enough yet Patriots...?

 

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[DinarMillionaire]

Nice, accurate  list gals. +1 Right on target.

The OP...Ironic that the KKK was started by the Demoncraps and the BLM and NSM (National Socialist Movement ) as well, all creations of the left. A perfect example of the lefts "Useful Idiots" in action. But yet, idiots will say it's the right that are the problem. Oh that scary TEA Party, which actually has Patriotic Americans from both sides, trying to keep check on an out of control government. Not a group against color, race or political affiliation. But ooh how they pit the "Useful Idiots" against us too. Who says Idiots aren't useful? 

 

 

 

[bohica]

If there can be black pride, brown pride, red pride; then there can be white pride.  

[moose 57]

40 minutes ago, bohica said:

If there can be black pride, brown pride, red pride; then there can be white pride.  

That Would be...

 

[George Hayduke]

 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Perfect vid post, GH...!

"CryBullies"... perpetual victim mentality !

 

Just how TPTB want it....

easy take-down of these sniveling little ratbasturd cowards will be a cinch for them 

when they enslave the lot of 'em...

 

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[George Hayduke]

I thought you'd like it.

He states the obvious and yet there is an underlying sense that it borders on promoting White Supremacy.  It doesn't of course but during these turbulent times anything a white person says or does, particularly a white male, that exposes the leftist cry bullies that person is then labeled a racist and bigot.  The irony is those labels are usually spat through clenched teeth with vitriolic hatred... for no other reason than those persons who shout those labels are themselves the racists and bigots.

But then again, I'm not telling you something you don't already know.

How we deal with it, is the challenge of our times.

God help us if Hillarious is elected and her pending indictment is swept under the rug.  I'm afraid that will signal 'open season' on anything or persons that advocates God given prudence, hospitality and conservatism.

[Shabibilicious]

There is no such thing as a Christian KKK member.  FACT.  

GO RV, then BV

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

There is no such thing as a Christian KKK member.  FACT.  

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Yup... demoncrat satanists who wear alarmingly similar outfits of those worn by

the  pedophile set in the Vatican,

burn Crosses and hate God's children couldn't possibly be.

 

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[Shabibilicious]

5 minutes ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

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Yup... demoncrat satanists who wear alarmingly similar outfits of those worn by

the  pedophile set in the Vatican,

burn Crosses and hate God's children couldn't possibly be.

Never mind.   

GO RV, then BV

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Use your words, SHABS, use your words.... ....!

 

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[Shabibilicious]

3 minutes ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

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Use your words, SHABS, use your words.... ....!

Pointless.....You must attend a "robeless" church.  

GO RV, then BV

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Only Choir Angels should wear robes ! 

Not even the Admiralty Law satanists should have them ! 

Especially those sell-outs on the hijacked Supreme Court should not wear them ! 

 

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[George Hayduke]

6 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

There is no such thing as a Christian KKK member.  FACT.  

GO RV, then BV

I agree completely Shabs.  There are far too many organizations claiming Christianity as their core when their beliefs and actions prove otherwise.  That is not to say that a Christian couldn't wander into such an organization but in short order would 'Discern' the truth and move on.  

[gymrat76541]

Racism will never go away! There will always be someone stupid in every part of America. They have for the most part gone underground!

What I find interesting is many people think that racist are white. Racism comes in all colors!

Edited April 25, 2016 by gymrat76541

[bohica]

Shab, please if you are going to make statements understand your history and facts.

[Shabibilicious]

21 minutes ago, bohica said:

Shab, please if you are going to make statements understand your history and facts.

By all means, enlighten me.    

GO RV, then BV

[bohica]

 I love it when people use terms like 'never' or 'always'.  Please check out the origins of the KKK prior to the Democrat influence post Civil War.  You will even find black members of the KKK.

[umbertino]

http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan

[bohica]

Before just following 'History channel' read some of the writings by black men from that era.  Documentaries of leading black men by black men confirms the membership of some black men in the KKK.  

[Shabibilicious]

14 hours ago, bohica said:

 I love it when people use terms like 'never' or 'always'.  Please check out the origins of the KKK prior to the Democrat influence post Civil War.  You will even find black members of the KKK.

Those are two strangely odd things to love about people......But, to each their own.  

There is no such thing as a Christian KKK member.  FACT

There is no such thing as a Christian (any color) Supremacist.  FACT

But please, feel free to champion their cause if it suits you.......the Constitution and American patriots of all colors, dead or alive, past or present, gives you the right to do so.  

GO RV, then BV