AND NOW…THE REST OF THE STORY (ABOUT THE DAVID YEAGLEY CASE)

Okay, boneheads. Fun time’s over. Time for us to set a few records straight about this David Yeagley nonsense.

Daryle Lamont Jenkins

Don’t expect the various white supremacists that spent the past weekend high-fiving each other after some news that I lost a court case to them to come down to reality anytime soon. Like all of the things that go on in their world, they will stay in their bubble despite what goes on around them. Eventually as time goes on they will begin to ask why I am still around, why I haven’t paid the judgment and draw conclusions that ZOG stepped in to save me or whatever. So basically, what I am writing now isn’t for their benefit. It is for everyone else, the ones who live in reality and already know that this case was and still is a joke and will not amount to much. How much of a joke has not really been articulated, however. I maintained silence on the issue because BS or not, it was still an ongoing legal matter and now that the judgment is rendered – for what it’s worth – let’s discuss this.

On January 3, a court in Oklahoma awarded David Yeagley a $50,000 judgment in his lawsuit against me and One People’s Project for our role in shutting down the American Renaissance Conference in 2010, an event where he was supposed to speak. From the outset the case was not taken seriously enough to mount a real defense against it, and it still isn’t. Over the weekend, however because there has been so much talk about it over the past few days, and one really shouldn’t let this crowd get the last word on anything, let alone something this pathetic.

A little background: I and a number of fellow antifa sounded the alarm against a white supremacist conference in the DC area sponsored by the newsletter American Renaissance (AmRen) and got it shut down. We did it again when they moved to Charlotte, North Carolina the following year and  after two years of this, Taylor decided to start holding the event at the Montgomery Bell Park Inn in Dickson, Tennessee, where he has held it for two years and will again this April. None of this is in dispute. I didn’t even have a problem ribbing organizer Jared Taylor about it to his face in Towson, MD when he spoke there in October 2012. That thing about their freedom of speech that keeps bandied about? It goes both ways. Just as they have the right to say whatever they wish, we have the right to be critical of them. That what is meant when it is said that the best way to fight hate speech is with more speech, and that’s all that was done. Taylor & Co. can not make people accept the garbage they spew and that’s the reason why doors were shut to them.

David Yeagley, who is known for filing frivolous lawsuits, has always had a problem with that, as the lawsuits he has filed in the past has involved someone saying something bad about him. I guess it was my turn to get the treatment. He filed suit in Oklahoma – 1,343 miles from where the conference took place – and claimed I and the others called up hotels and “threatened to commit violence and murder” if they did not shut the event down. He even goes into detail about how I was supposed to have done this.

Now the things to ask when addressing this and why it will ultimately not go in the direction the racist crowd pretends it’s going to go is this: Why wasn’t it filed in Virginia where the tort originated? For that matter, why didn’t the organizer Jared Taylor himself file it, especially since he lives in Virginia? Most importantly, if things happened as Yeagley claimed, wouldn’t there be criminal charges filed? Last time I checked, making such threats was a felony. As an organization, One People’s Project has tried to find any record of this happening, but we cannot seem to obtain a police record, the hotels have not made any statements, and no arrests have been made. The only place that I can find that this could have originated is statements made by Jared Taylor, most notably on Russia Today, where he cited several “culprits”, among them One People’s Project. His supporters simply took the ball and ran with it.

For the record, I never did such things. If – and it is at this point a very big if – anyone engaged in such actions, there has been no evidence presented, only the self-serving statement of a white supremacist trying to save face. A technicality in a default judgment isn’t enough.

My own history with this case makes things even more laughable. I first found out about this case when I was surfing the internet two weeks after it was filed when I came across a Facebook post saying I was being sued, and it took me a little time to find the case record online at the Oklahoma State Courts Network website. In other words, I was never served. In fact, in the two years that this case has gone on, the correspondence Oklahoma courts had with me regarding this was zero. No notices, no official documents, nothing. This can be confirmed by looking at the case record on the OSCN website, which posts all documents related to the case that the court has.

When the 2010 American Rennaissance was shut down, some still got together at a local resturant to cry over plates of Italian food. Among them was David Yeagley’s attorney, Joe Sibley, second from right. The others in the pic are (L-R) organizer Jared Taylor, Matthew Tait of the British National Party, Canadian bonehead Paul Fromm, retired attorney Sam Dickson, and Louis March, a former aide on Capitol Hill.

Yeagley’s lawyer Joseph Sibley, an attorney licensed to practice in Texas but not in Oklahoma, who according to the court records had to special approval from the Oklahoma Bar Association to take the case, was the only one who attempted to correspond with me. If I did not hear from Sibley or check on the OSCN website, I would have never known how things progressed. I should also note that Sibley was in Washington, DC to attend the 2010 American Renaissance Conference, and ended up participating in a get together they ended up having that Saturday at a local family restaurant.

Over the past two years, Sibley’s office continued to send me letters requesting information about where I work, who I work with, where I live, etc. as well as letters requesting that I admit to their assertions. I never returned any correspondence. Obviously, there was nothing to talk about with the attorney of the guy suing me. I did however file a motion to dismiss due to the fact that Oklahoma had nothing to do with this case, save for the fact that Yeagley conveniently lived there. I was not able to trek out to Oklahoma for a hearing, so Yeagley was given a default overruling. That was August 2012. By June 2013 nothing was going on and the court must have grown weary of this case sitting on the docket like a turd. so they sent a letter to Yeagley’s attorneys (but again not to me) indicating that they were going to order a scheduling conference if they were not updated on the status of the case. Sibley sent them a letter in July saying they will b, ready for a final summary judgment in August or September, which came and went without any action, and then finally they got a hearing date for Jan. 3. And that is where we are today.

Now what
ever judgment they were able to obtain last week in Oklahoma courts is going to have a hard time being held up anywhere else, and I am sure they know it. That makes all of this nothing more than a glorified publicity stunt for Yeagley, and for me that meant a weekend of neo-Nazis trying to annoy me thinking that I actually have to pay $50K to them, that I am going to have to shut down OPP, have bounty hunters coming after me, etc. I have been through that before, and as I said, as time goes on it subsides with them angry that I am still going on unabated and still causing them grief. That’s exactly what is going to happen this time. I am still going to be out there to oppose the AmRen conference in Dickson, TN, this April, and I will still continue to report on and document whomever is out there trying to undercut the rights and freedoms of those they decided for themselves for whatever reason was not worthy of them.

The Yeagley issue is going to be addressed however. Frivolous or not, it’s important to deal with this so it does not indeed go too far. If there is anything that does tick me off it is the fact that I do have to waste my time with this, but that’s the nature of the business. That nature also means these idiots never prevail.

Ever.