Hi Joey,

Thanks for responding. Let’s put aside the question of whether you yourself are a racist. In fact, let’s go one step further and assume for the sake of argument that you are not a racist. Personal beliefs notwithstanding, your organization and the events that it holds still cause harm that you are responsible for.

While no one to date has managed to catch you spitting an n-bomb into a hot mic or anything like that, it is beyond dispute that neo-Nazis regularly attend your events and use them as a venue to recruit. It’s also well documented that your lieutenant Tiny associates with Neo-Nazis online and in real life.

The fact is I don’t have to prove that you are a racist for my main point to stand: You launder racist ideas. The way money laundering works is that dirty money (drugs, gambling) is mixed with a clean income stream (a nail salon that is a strictly cash business). You’re the nail salon in this analogy.

Post-Charlottesville it has been increasingly difficult for Nazis to march openly, so you provide them a valuable service—and that’s frankly all you do.

You call yourself a “protest group” but you don’t actually protest anything, do you? I’ve been in activist organizations most of my life and without exception, they have a concrete, often immediate, political objective, i.e. stop a war, prevent a pipeline from being built, end the death penalty, etc.

Your organization protests some intangible threats to the “First Amendment,” which hasn’t recently come under credible assault from any specific government policy. When it has, the attack has come from the right. For example, laws against flag burning, deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson, are consistently proposed by Republican politicians, including so-called libertarian Ron Paul.

From what I can tell, the sole purpose of your group—aside from providing a venue for Nazis to march openly and an opportunity for thugs like Tiny to brawl in the streets—is to satisfy your vanity.

Am I to take from the name of your group that you are a person of faith? I was raised in the church, and a particular scripture comes to mind:

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

The fruit you produce is violence. If you want people to remember you well as a person who does good in the world, the best thing you could do is disband your group and work toward something meaningful. There are plenty of real injustices in the world for you to fight against.