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2003-03-11 19:11 | User Profile
Supremacist held on gun charges Feds grab him at "compound" in North Georgia
3/11/03 1:41:20 PM Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia -- [LSN: Note how when you are a "white supremacist" that your house, convieniently "isolated" in the greater Atlanta metro region, becomes a "compound".
Also, for the record, the federal law says that felons may not own a gun. Under Clinton, the law was "interpreted" by an internal DOJ memo stating that anyone convicted of a misdemeanor who may have been eligible for a sentence of more than two years, regardless of whether or not they received that sentence, or whether or not their crime was a "felony" is a felon. Thus, someone who commits an act of simple assault in Washington DC, where you could face up to 180 days imprisonment, is not a "felon", whereas someone who commits the same crime in Maryland, where you could receive up to 10 years imprisonment (in theory), is a "felon". Because of this irregular enforcement, this internal policy has been the subject of legal challenges in Maryland and elsewhere, under the premise that Congress meant to prohibit "felons" from owning firearms, and the arbitrary Justice Department regulation "felonizing" certain misdemeanors is not in accordance with the law.]
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Supremacist held on gun charges
Feds grab him at compound in North Georgia
By BILL RANKIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A former leader of a white supremacist group is being held on weapons charges after dozens of federal agents descended on his isolated Dahlonega home to arrest him over the weekend.
Chester James Doles, once a local organizer of the National Alliance and a longtime Ku Klux Klan activist, will remain in federal custody at least until Wednesday, when prosecutors will ask that he be detained until trial. Doles was charged with being a felon who illegally possessed a number of rifles and handguns.
Doles, 42, will plead not guilty and ask to be released on bail, his lawyer, David Trainor, said. During a brief hearing, Trainor asked U.S. Magistrate Linda Walker to segregate Doles from the general prison population because of his ties to the Hillsboro, W.Va.-based separatist group.
"I think it can pose a serious threat to him," Trainor said. "I'm afraid for his safety."
Walker said she would make the request to U.S. Marshals officials.
After the hearing, Doles, who has a swastika tattooed on his wrist, embraced his wife before being taken back into custody. The National Alliance has advocated the establishment of all-white "living areas" in the United States and other Western nations.
[LSN: Note little mention of the crime, but several paragraphs on his viewpoints, as if they were what was relevant here. The Journal-Constitution is a Jew-owned newspaper.]
According to a federal search warrant unsealed Monday, an informant who has been cooperating for two years with federal authorities helped in bringing the charges against Doles. The informant, whose identity was not disclosed, attended monthly National Alliance meetings with Doles at his fenced-in complex in Lumpkin County, the warrant said.
[LSN: If someone sends us the informant's name (or likely suspects) we will publish it here.]
The informant told authorities he saw Doles wearing a pistol on some occasions. Last month, Doles told the informant he had a rifle in his closet and had buried nine other guns in the ground "but could get to them quickly if he needed them," the warrant said.
Doles was convicted in a 1993 assault on an interracial couple in Elkton, Md., and was sentenced to seven years in prison. In 1997, he pleaded guilty to a burglary offense and was sentenced to three years in prison but placed on probation.
[LSN: That interesting, because simple assault in Maryland -- the same crime that carries 6 months in DC and 18 months in Virginia, used to carry 10 years under common law, because common law crimes could carry any penalty that was not "cruel and unusual". A few years back, it was then made into statuatory law with a 10 year maximum penalty. Thus Doles could have committed a misdemeanor assault, and still been sentenced to seven years for a crime that, had he committed it across the Maryland state line in DC, would have carried 180 days at most -- thus there was no guarantee on that basis alone that he is a true "felon".]
Trainor said he expects to attack the charges against Doles, saying those offenses are not felonies in Maryland.
[LSN: Which now makes sense why a certain individual asked us to send them over the current precedent regarding challenges to the DOJ ruling that are active in Maryland.]
But in December 1997, Doles signed a court order advising him of a federal law prohibiting offenders from possessing a firearm if they have been convicted in a state court where they could have been sentenced to more than two years in prison, the federal search warrant said.
[LSN: Note again that the federal law only mentions "felons". The thing about two years is a DOJ interpretation, and this arrest may have been made specifically to try to win a court ruling upholding that faulty interpretation, which is in danger of being overturned.]
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2003-03-11 19:35 | User Profile
Be careful in all your dealings with others. Assume everyone you associate with is a federal/Mossad/SPLC/ADL agent, and that whatever you say to them could be used against you. Do not crawl under your bed and suck your thumb, but do not give ZOG excuses to go after you. If you are a felon and the law does indeed forbid you to possess a firearm, don't walk around with a pistol on your side in view of people you haven't checked out. Don't tell those same people anything they don't need to know. Be prepared for all eventualities.
2003-03-12 04:57 | User Profile
You're spot on, Hugh. Things aren't bad enough - yet - where it's safe to make your real thoughts on many things known. They need to get much worse. It's not surprising that we have become the new version of the Soviet Union, where so many people now have to be paranoid, lest they be ratted out - for nothing more than engaging in rights that were guaranteed by The Constitution (note I choose to say 'were'). One slip of the tongue, and the NKVD come a runnin'! Keep your business to yourself, inside your "compound".