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struggle4progress

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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:17 PM Dec 2015

Klan figure to lead Stone Mountain rally [View all]

Posted: 5:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015
By Chris Joyner - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

... Billy Roper, a longtime activist in the white supremacy movement, issued a press release on the “Rock Stone Mountain” Facebook page promoting the planned April rally as a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement and promised the gathering would bring “white patriots from across the United States and around the world” ...

In the past, Roper was associated with the neo-Nazi groups the National Alliance and White Revolution, according to the Anti-Defamation League and news reports. More recently, he has been affiliated with the Arkansas-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ...

He created a stir in the mainstream press when he celebrated the Sept. 11 hijackers with a message posted on a website declaring, “The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend.

“Anyone who is willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is alright by me,” he wrote ...


http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/controversial-klan-figure-to-lead-stone-mountain-r/npgxQ/

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