Meet the League: Chief of Security/Intel John Mark 鈥淭iny鈥� Malone
Michael Hill, president of the Neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS), has gone to great lengths to mark himself as a radical and distance himself from his prior aversion to being called racist. Not every ranking LOS member has been as willing to publicly offer a full-throated explanation of their abhorrent beliefs.
Take for instance John Mark 鈥淭iny鈥� Malone, the LOS鈥檚 Director of Security and Intelligence and June 21st guest on David Duke鈥檚 radio program. Despite issuing comical, authoritative threat level announcements to the LOS Facebook group, Malone goes out of his way to mask his identity.
In fact, Malone鈥檚 duplicity goes so far as to suggest his LOS activity amounts to a secret life.
On one hand there is the automobile and photography enthusiast, a church leader who has shared warm videos of a black pastor singing hymns. On the other is a virulently racist, anti-Semitic zealot who rages about the upcoming race war against the puppets of organized Jewry.
Asked during his guest appearance with Duke whether 鈥淐hristians should support the state of Israel,鈥� Malone responded, 鈥淎ll it takes is a simple reading of the Bible to know... as a Christian is Jews, they hate you, they are killing your people, they are doing it across the world, they have done it historically, they are doing it right now.鈥�
Malone then asserts Jews are guilty of 鈥渆very form of perversion,鈥� and that Christian Zionists have been 鈥淛udaized.鈥�
Earlier in the interview Malone, who is listed as a 鈥淧raise & Worship Song Leader鈥� at the Southern Hills Church of Christ in Shreveport, Louisiana, agrees with Duke that, 鈥渟omebody [calling] themselves a Christian Zionist is kind of like calling themselves a Christian Satanist.鈥�
Malone can thank Michael Hill鈥檚 blind ambition and hunger for attention in an age of increasing right-wing militancy 鈥� and his own desire for the spotlight 鈥� for his two lives crashing into one another.
Hill, who is more outspoken in his anti-Semitism than ever before, received lavish praise during a May 8 episode of Stormfront Radio for the LOS鈥檚 performance at the 鈥�Battle of New Orleans.鈥� After Duke boasted of a recent 鈥渙utpouring of nationalism,鈥� he told his listeners, 鈥淗is head of security, I met with him last night in Baton Rouge...He鈥檚 just a great, great guy. We had a great meeting, and we鈥檙e also coming up with some other options 鈥� he is 鈥� he鈥檚 been in finance and he鈥檚 got some options that we鈥檙e going to try to do to help with some of the credit card shutdown issues.鈥�
Securing convenient forms of online payment has been a perennial problem for the far right. Stormfront鈥檚 founder Don Black has resorted to repeated pleas for funding after having his PayPal account canceled and finding himself unable to secure a merchant account to process online transactions after a recent ban from his previous processing company.
The LOS and one of its affiliates, Occidental Dissent 鈥� a favorite white nationalist blog of LOS members 鈥� recently lost PayPal accounts for terms of use violations. While Hill has attempted to skirt this loss by using his personal account to accept payments and donations, others have been put in a precarious position with no clear avenue to raise already scarce funds.
Malone, however, had the solution.
Less than a week after Duke鈥檚 meeting with the LOS head of security, both Stormfront and Occidental Dissent were using new, nearly identical donation forms powered by a company named Donate.ly that allows organizations 鈥� primarily social good and non- profit groups 鈥� to process donations made by credit card.
When contacted by Hatewatch about Stormfront and Occidental Dissent using their platform, a company spokesperson explained, 鈥淒onately is a service that allows organizations to start taking online donations simply and without a contract. As such, we don鈥檛 approve or deny the organizations that use our service before they create an account.鈥�
After describing a recent decision to ban an account opened by Kyle 鈥淏ased Stickman鈥� Chapman, the spokesman continued: 鈥淲e don鈥檛 allow violent hate groups to use our services. The 鈥楤ased Stickman鈥� incident just happened recently and since then we have been consulting with our legal council to amend our Terms of Service to be more clear on what is not allowed on the system.鈥�
A simple search on Twitter for @TinyMalone explains how the LOS鈥檚 head of security would know how to solve one of the radical right鈥檚 most nagging problems: fundraising. @TinyMalone鈥檚 profile identifies him as an 鈥�#SEOExpert & COO @SphereControl.鈥�
Various other profiles match 鈥淭iny Malone鈥� with Sphere Control SEO and several locations including Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston and Baton Rouge. One such profile on Flickr includes a lengthy description of the user鈥檚 interests: 鈥淗ere in Las Vegas, though I am a Southern Gentleman at heart having come from Texas and Louisiana. My other interests include cars, competitive target shooting, bass fishing and reading. ... I am an apologetic believer, though not a Bible thumper.鈥�
His LinkedIn profile also shares the same photo and lists him as a graduate of Abilene Christian University and COO at Sphere Control SEO in Baton Rouge.
A YouTube account with the username Tiny Malone sharing the same photo from his LinkedIn, Twitter and various other accounts has shared five videos. In each of the videos, the same man from the aforementioned photographs sings various church hymns at Church of Christ gatherings.
Multiple requests for comment to Southern Hills Church of Christ were not returned by press time.
As Hill has embroiled the League in more and more openly militant and aggressive public displays as part of a recent PR drive, some of the most prominent LOS members, like Malone, have nevertheless attempted to keep a low profile and maintain anonymity out of recognition that a large part of the populace might choose to not conduct business or maintain relationships with them were they found out.
Malone鈥檚 recent appearance on Duke鈥檚 radio program is a surprisingly brash move for the otherwise cautious Malone. When Duke finally relinquished the microphone after a lengthy self-promotion of his upcoming speech at the LOS鈥檚 annual national conference in Wetumpka, Alabama, Malone took the opportunity to hit on familiar themes like white genocide, Jewish control in politics and the assertion that Israel is behind ISIS.
While these anti-Semitic ramblings were once taboo among LOS members, they have recently become a favorite crutch for the aging Hill to explain away the problems besetting poor whites in the South and why the LOS 鈥� which rallies behind the slogan 鈥淔or the Southern People!鈥� 鈥� hasn鈥檛 managed to alleviate any of them.
Hill, who is insulated from the working world in a comfortable role as LOS president, doesn鈥檛 face the same challenges as rank-and-file members who must find employment in the real world and carefully mask their vitriolic hate for blacks, Jews, gays and essentially any non-鈥渨hite Christian southerner.鈥�
In seeking to raise the profile of this weekend鈥檚 LOS Conference by inviting Duke, Hill has at the same time allowed Malone, an asset that has heretofore sought to keep at arm鈥檚 length, to be burned.
In a recent admonition to LOS members after Michael Peroutka, an elected Ann Arundel County, Maryland, councilman denounced Hill, the LOS president wrote, 鈥渋f you cannot take the heat, be warned: The League may be a place that鈥檚 much too hot for you.鈥�
Tiny Malone appears to have hardened himself to participate in Hill鈥檚 coming 鈥渃onflict.鈥� In September of 2015, Malone shared the following post:
