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sometimes along with their contact information, address
and family members’ information.
M says doxing is used by both sides, and that the
efficacy of the tactic is up for debate.
Douglas says the goal of antifa’s doxing is to make
vulnerable populations aware of who is organizing in their area.
“Doxing as a strategy originated in the sort-of shady
online havens,” Douglas says.
Though Douglas doesn’t spend time researching and
doxing alt-right agitators, he says it’s a useful tool. If he had
a racist Nazi neighbor, he says, “it would be a tool of security
for my community to know that person is a fascist agitator.”
Several antifascist organizations publish articles
and Facebook posts doxing right wing organizers,
most notably the website ItsGoingDown.org and local
groups like Eugene Antifa and Rose City Antifa. These
organizations spend time and resources ferreting out
the identities of fascist organizers and publishing that
information online.
Steve Shallenberger, a veteran who lives in West
Eugene, has had numerous articles about him published
on these websites. He wears a T-shirt emblazoned with the
American flag — he’s proud to say he bought it from a
veteran-supportive company. He is quick to point out that
he has friends of different races, but says he won’t correct
anyone who calls him a racist.
Shallenberger admits to being a skinhead in the 1990s,
and still attends rallies with numerous right-wing groups
like Patriot Prayer, Overpasses For America and the 3
Percenters militia — much of which is documented in
online articles published by rosecityantifa.org.
But Shallenberger says of the articles: “It’s a third truth,
a third half-truth and a third lies — like straight blatant lies.”
“All this stuff they’re talking about is in ’92 or ’93,
it’s been a long time,” he says. “Back then they called us
racists and stuff and sometimes we bought into that.”
Shallenberger mentions a few instances of violence
by antifascist activists, adding that “they contacted me a
couple times, and they said ‘if you renounce racism or if
you renounce this person for racism, we’ll stop messing
with you.’ Well, that’s nice and all, but under threat it’s not.
Under threat I’m not doing it.”
At a recent rally, Shallenberger says, he hit a few antifa
protesters. “The guy pulled a weapon out so I charged
him. And then someone hit me with a bottle from the side,
so then I peeled off to that side and just started punching
anybody who was there, and then I kicked some guy after I
pushed him on the ground.”
Doxing hasn’t stopped Shallenberger from attending
these rallies, even though his actions are continually
documented by antifa. He says his friends email him
after each article comes out, telling him they know that
what’s been written about him isn’t true. He does worry
sometimes that antifa might come poison his animals. “I
am biased. I am biased. I don’t like antifa,” he says. He
says they’re communists.
“They’re supposedly antifascist, but with how they
talk, I think they’re honestly like the definition of fascist
because if you say something they don’t like they’re going
to attack you for it,” he says.
A SCREENCAP FROM WOLFCLAN ARMORY'S YOUTUBE VIDEO
Another local who has been doxed by antifa is 35-year-
old Jake Laskey. Laskey works at Wolfclan Armory in
Creswell, a gun store owned by his family. He went to
prison in 2007 for throwing stones etched with swastikas
through the window of Temple Beth Israel synagogue in
a 2002 attack. He came out of prison covered to the chin
in tattoos, including swastikas on his knuckles and an
American Front tattoo on the back of his neck.
Antifascist articles claim that Laskey has organized for
the racist organization American Front, and that he may
continue to do so. Laskey, for his part, claims he’s out of
the political game.
EW tried to interview Laskey, and he agreed to meet
in TJ’s restaurant in Creswell. However, when the
reporter arrived, Laskey wouldn’t get out of his truck
(complete with a Confederate flag sticker) in the parking
lot and left after about five minutes. He later published
a YouTube video answering the questions that had been
posed to him.
Laskey says in the video that antifa’s doxing has
“brought in more business, especially others that they have
doxed in articles in which we would never have met if it
weren’t for antifa.” Laskey’s message to antifa in his video
is: “You’re all a bunch of fucking bitches.”
Laskey says of his 2002 crime, “We were drunk on
Jaegermeister, we were high on pot. We were punk-ass
kids, we were angry. And when I got indicted, it was a huge
mess.”
“Am I a white supremacist? I’ve never called myself a
white supremacist, especially not in these videos,” Laskey
continued. “We at Wolfclan Armory do not discriminate
against anyone’s race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation
or anything of the like.”
Wolfclan Armory is known to fly Confederate flags and
sells Islamaphobic “proud American infidel” caps that read
“raised on bacon and bullets.”
“I am a family man; I am a businessman,” Laskey says.
“Unlike antifa, I don’t discriminate against anyone.”
Laskey claims he supports true antifascists and true
anti-communists. “But antifa today are the fascists, not
me.” Laskey demands that antifa “take off their masks.
They renounce violence, worldwide, and they dissolve into
society like I was trying to do.”
The effectiveness of doxing is murky. As Laskey points
out, doxed individuals can easily find each other and meet
up thanks to social media. But antifa also knows who they
are and what they represent, and their communities can do
that research as well.
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