Georgia Capitol police put out alert on gun-toting, anti-Islam rally

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

State Capitol police put out a warning Monday about a Martinez man planning an unpermitted,gun-toting, anti-Islam rally outside the statehouse on April 18. The organizer has promised to shred a Koran as part of the event.

The Georgia Building Authority had earlier turned down a request for a permit for a “United against Islam and Islamic immigration refugee rally” at Liberty Plaza from James Stachowiak, who dubs himself the founder and editor of “Freedom Fighter Radio.”

In a February email obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Stachowiak says the rally is to “raise public awareness to what we perceive as a threat to our nation from Islamic immigration and refugees. Also the dangerous agenda of the current administration.

“The Georgia Department of Public Safety and the Georgia Building Authority anticipate a non-permitted, anti-Islamic protest on the sidewalks of the Georgia State Capitol,” said Capitol Police Director Lewis G. Young, in his advisory to state employees. “You are hereby notified that protest organizers have encouraged their participants to carry loaded long guns.
Stachowiak said those attending the rally would march on the sidewalks to the front of CNN “and speak again against the threat of Islamic immigration and refugees and the dangerous agenda of the Obama administration.” He added that “A Koran will be desecrated on the sidewalks on the public right of away (sic) at the front entrance of CNN.”

Stachowiak predicted 200 would attend.

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