The Nationalist Movement was founded by Mark Watts on January 20 , 1987 in Cumming, Georgia , in opposition to civil rights activists in Forsyth County, Atlanta.
The Nationalist Movement's goal of an "all-American America" were set out in its twelve-point Forsyth County Covenant. Thousands marched in its initial parade on January 24 , 1987 , but sixty-six were arrested and police broke up the reading of the Covenant at the Forsyth County Courthouse. The Covenant was adopted at a meeting, led by Watts, in a chicken house in Forsyth County on February 22 , 1987 and ratified by Jimmy Wynn, at the courthouse, after Nationalists won a lawsuit, allowing them to assemble on March 14, 1987. The Covenant was promulgated at a rally, led by Greg Myers, on the steps of the National Capitol in Washington, D.C. , on May 19 , 1987 . It was adopted by the Nationalist National Convention in Suwanee, Georgia , led by Bob Smith, on July 16 , 1988 , at which the Nationalist Platform was adopted and its headquarters moved to Learned, Mississippi.
1. Majority rule. The majority -- not the minority -- must rule. The democracy of the American People must be inviolate.
2. Equality. Special favors, privileges, quotas and preferences for minorities must be abolished. The equality of the American People must be re-established by repeal of the oppressive and punitive Voting Rights' Act and Civil Rights' Acts. 3. Labor. Oppression of those who honestly toil and labor must end. Those who loaf must not be supported by those who work. 4. Freedom. The cause of freedom embodied in the American flag must ascend over communism -- throughout the world and within our own borders. The Communist Party, subversive fronts and black-power anarchists must be outlawed. 5. Heritage. America's heritage as a free, white, Christian, English-speaking democracy -- uplifting the work ethic and guaranteeing private property -- must be advanced. Nationalist love of country and fraternal love of countrymen must overcome the hatred of those who despise us. 6. Independence. America must be an independent, sovereign and unitary nation. All efforts to make us a bi-lingual, bi-sexual or bi-racial society must be defeated. 7. Social justice. The American working man must have social justice -- free from the tyranny of profiteers, money-changers and unearned wealth. Artificial barriers between "rural" and "urban," and "management" and "employees," must be broken down in order to draw us together and lift us up. 8. Work. The American People must be assured decent work, an uplifted standard of living and prosperity in agriculture, commerce and industry. The American People must be guaranteed liberty and justice. 9. Patriotism. Racial integration in America must end and non-white immigration must cease. The burgeoning non-white population explosion within our borders must be brought under control. 10. Morality. The nation's demoralization of youth, decline in education, plummeting of morality and proliferation of crime must be reversed. The family, marriage and protection of women and mothers must be strengthened and the poor, sick and aged must be relieved of their distress. 11. Democracy. The Constitution must be strengthened. The American People must be able to vote across state lines -- by referendum and initiative -- in order to preserve, protect and advance majority rule and democracy in our nation. 12. Destiny. Harassment, intimidation and brutality by government, police or highly placed privilege against the American People must cease. Government exists to advance, not to retard, the destiny of the American People. February 22, 1987. Read by Mark Watts and adopted at a mass meeting in a chicken house in Forsyth County, Georgia. March 14, 1987. Read by Jimmy Wynn and ratified by acclamation of the people at the Forsyth County Courthouse after Nationalists win lawsuit to assemble. May 19, 1987. Read by Greg Myers and promulgated at the National Capitol in Washington, DC. July 16, 1988. Read by Bob Smith and adopted by the First Nationalist National Convention in Suwanee, Georgia. July 17, 1988. Read by Richard Barrett and proclaimed at the Georgia State Capitol, although rally is aborted by police due to rioting by minorities. January 18, 1989. Read by Richard Barrett and re-proclaimed at the Georgia State Capitol, under massive protection by the National Guard, despite major rioting by minorities. September 11, 1992. Read by James Jones and re-proclaimed at the Ventura County Courthouse, under massive protection by the State Police, cementing bonds between East and West. January 19, 1997. Read by Matthew Atkins and re-proclaimed at the Forsyth County Courthouse in celebration of victory in the United States Supreme Court and the breaking of the final parade-bans. January 20, 2003. Read by Michael Cook and re-proclaimed at Henry Schaad Day at City Hall in York, Pennsylvania, cementing bonds between North and South. February 22, 2006. Twentieth-Anniversary Edition published on George's Washington's Birthday, which is, also, the day of the initial signing, under the title, Dude, Where's My Country?.
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January 21, 1987. Reading by Richard Barrett halted by police at the Forsyth County Courthouse.
The Forsyth County Covenant is a founding document of The Nationalist Movement.
Freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly and to petition the government. Important guarantees of the Bill of Rights used by Nationalists to gain social change in a lawful manner (distinguished from unlawful acts by subversives).
When The US Supreme Court agreed with The Nationalist Movement in The Nationalist Movement vs Forsyth County, it was a victory for the First Amendment.