Nativist Rally Canceled Over White Nationalist Speaker
A major nativist rally scheduled for this Saturday in Shenandoah, Pa., the coal town where an all-white jury recently acquitted two high school football players in the July 2008 beating death of a Mexican immigrant, . The move came after some of the groups involved learned that rally organizer Joe Miller had invited a well-known Pennsylvania white nationalist to speak.
The scheduled speaker, John DeNugent, is a frequent contributor to virulently anti-Semitic and racist online forums and writes regularly for The Barnes Review, a Holocaust denial journal.
鈥淚 guess they were concerned about his political views, and him being 鈥� I鈥檓 not really sure of what group he鈥檚 even affiliated with 鈥� and being a white supremacist, or whatever they called him,鈥� Miller told The Republican & Herald.
Miller鈥檚 fellow activists had good cause for concern. DeNugent has posted more than 1,000 messages to the racist online forum Stormfront in recent years. However, he was banned from that forum earlier this year after he apparently threatened Stormfront moderator Don Black following Black鈥檚 request that DeNugent tone down the implied threats of violence in his posts.
DeNugent was enraged by the arrest of Henrik Hollapa, a young, Finnish neo-Nazi who fled to the U.S. last year after he was charged with inciting violence against Finnish citizens of Somali descent. Hollapa was living with DeNugent in a rural Pennsylvania home when he was taken into custody by federal agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
鈥淚 thank the Jews for making me more determined that ever to bring them all to conclusive world justice that all psychopaths merit,鈥� DeNugent posted to Stormfront after Hollapa鈥檚 arrest. 鈥淚 will transmute this rage I felt at my very core into a newer and icier resolve.鈥�
鈥淛ohn, you鈥檝e really lost it,鈥� Black wrote in a post announcing that DeNugent was banned. 鈥淏ack in the early 90s when you were just 鈥楯ohn Nugent鈥� and came to our house to visit when you were selling a trust package for [leading anti-Semite] Willis Carto to the lady across the street, you told me you鈥檇 found a psychiatrist who was politically supportive who鈥檇 helped you. You need to leave here and find him.鈥�
Miller said he plans to reschedule the planned May 30 Shenandoah rally for a date in the near future that will give him enough time to carefully examine the backgrounds of invited speakers, who include representatives of United Patriots of America, a nativist extremist group, and You Don鈥檛 Speak For Me!, a 鈥淟atino鈥� front group for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
