On August 21, 2000, at the height of the Black Lives Matter moral panic, some local Leftists held a BLM protest in Berkeley Springs. Perhaps unique in the country (but this is West Virginia), there was a massive counterprotest. The Leftists were totally swamped and humiliated.

This especially annoyed a local Leftist called Ted Stein.

Stein accused VDARE of having “organized this violent counter protest to locals having a BLM vigil in the park. Biker gang. A militia. And hundreds of armed racists.”

However, as Peter Brimelow writes:

In August 2020, the Brimelow family had not yet even moved to Berkeley Springs.

We knew absolutely nothing about the Mountaineer Warrior Alliance, the local motorcycle club that reportedly organized the counterprotest, although they certainly sound like fine people.

In the current environment, with the Biden Department of Justice launching “Garland Raids” against Trump supporters even remotely involved in the (unarmed, Mostly Peaceful) January 6 Protest, Stein’s allegations were obviously extremely serious. Accordingly, our lawyer sent him a letter requiring him to simply retract the allegations.

But he did not retract. In fact, he did not respond in any formal way at all.

This forced us to sue him.

After a long fight, Stein has now settled with us. He has:

• Published his retraction as an advertisement in the June 15 issue of the local Morgan Messenger weekly newspaper
• Paid us $20,000.

In his book on Antifa, Unmasked, Andy Ngo reported that bookstores are often the organizing hubs for radicals in Red State towns like Asheville, NC. In Berkeley Springs, the hub appears to be a coffee shop which hosted the small 2020 protest meeting that was boosted by the SPLC’s Michael Edison Hayden after our purchase of the castle—resulting in his Twitter followers making open plans to firebomb us.

Whatever the local Left was up to in Berkeley Springs, WV, we have disrupted it. We have even successfully held our first conference.

Peter Brimelow writes:

In the end, this straightforward lawsuit has paid for itself (more accurately, Ted Stein paid for it). But we would not have been able to launch it at all if we had not been able to put up the money for our lawyers' retainers in advance.  We can only do this because of our wonderful donors.

Help us continue to fight the Radical Left’s Reign of Terror by making a tax-deductible donation to the VDARE Legal Defense Fund.

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