In a quaint, sparsely populated neighborhood in Decatur, a small town of fewer than 7,000 people to the northwest of Fort Worth, far-right lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke has been kept busy by two separate holiday season gatherings for Nazis and fascists.
Van Dyke recently sent a letter effectively giving up the privacy lawsuit he filed against Kris Goldsmith. Van Dyke sued on behalf of a neo-Nazi after Goldsmith spied on a large Aryan Freedom Network (AFN) gathering with an aerial drone—a conclave at which Van Dyke was an attendee, according to evidence reviewed by the Texas Observer.
“As the Aryan Freedom Network and the self-described fascist they hired as an attorney know well, the First Amendment and the Texas Citizens Participation Act provide strong protections against this kind of frivolous lawsuit,” Goldsmith told the Observer. “Task Force Butler will not be intimidated by nazis, fascists, and white supremacists anywhere—especially not in court—because justice is on our side.”
