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A first hand account of what happened at Charlottesville with pictures of it. The media is lying about what happened.
1 posted on 08/13/2017 4:10:40 PM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Mechanicos
“From our plan, to ensure the safety of our citizens and property, it went extremely well.’’

Brian Moran, Virginia’s secretary of public safety on the Charlottesville violence

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/charlottesville-protests-white-nationalists.html

2 posted on 08/13/2017 4:12:23 PM PDT by NoLibZone (He's racist,homophobic,misogynist and has a concealed carry permit- God how I adore that man!)
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To: Mechanicos

I am a Christian conservative from Alabama. I don’t know of anyone that I associate with that has a nazi flag. I am in my mid-50’s and have never seen anyone hold up a nazi flag in my state. The media want to smear conservatives by associating extremists with us. They can all rot.


3 posted on 08/13/2017 4:16:00 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Mechanicos

interesting read
thanks


4 posted on 08/13/2017 4:25:34 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Mechanicos
"About 11:10 or so a group of about 50-75 statue supporters were making their way down Market street toward the park from the South. As they approached the southern entrance to the park is when the first violence started. Bottles of water, balloons of paint and bags of urine were thrown at them from the crowd.

When that happen the shoving started, fist were flying and people hitting each other with sticks. Of course the right stood up for themselves. Now I'm not saying some on the right wouldn't be violent anyway BUT I can say for a fact they didn't start it.

Exactly the opposite of what the media are reporting all over the place. I know someone who was there and he says the exact same thing: It was the left who started it and were throwing bottles of urine, bags of feces, using flamethrowers and fists against the protesters.

5 posted on 08/13/2017 4:25:52 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!!)
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To: Mechanicos
The media is lying about what happened.

Of course they are lying. They are ginning-up false outrage simply by controlling the narrative. Then you have some weak and opportunistic gopE politicians that reenforce that false narrative. We need to keep pointing out the truth. Damn near a dozen police officers have been executed by antifa and blm associated scum, a senator was shot and another pol killed in his front yard. Not to mention people at Trump rallies violently attacked and injured, where was the outrage then? I for one will not accept the msm meme. Don't accept it, get in their face and confront them with the truth, the violence was initiated by antifa and blm. Name one gathering of ether group where there was no violence, you can't.
6 posted on 08/13/2017 4:26:01 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Repeal and replace the gopE.)
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There’s a pattern here. The left is organized, subtle and very evil

The left sends large groups of protesters to confront what they perceive as racism. They are really just puppets and useful idiots organized and bused in by leftist organizations

During the confrontation the democrat mayor orders the police to stand down.

The left instigates violence.

The left controlled media records the violence distorts the facts and uses the lies to blame the right and President Trump.

The organizers, the puppeteers, are George Soros, the Clintons, Barack Obama, the DNC, and others who want a revolution and civil war so they can have an excuse the scrap the Constitution and install a full fledged socialist government.

If I was President Trump I would order the Justice Department to investigate all the groups on the left that show up at every disturbance for collusion and conspiracy, and prosecute them and their backers under the RICO laws as organized criminal enterprises.

http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?522547-What-I-saw-yesterday-in-Charlottesville&s=b8e4b386845c9f2d39f8da36ce1633a2&p=6561937#post6561937


8 posted on 08/13/2017 4:31:15 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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I am aghast at this take on the event.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/08/12/the-many-sides-of-injustice-in-charlottesville-riot-paradkar.html


9 posted on 08/13/2017 4:43:28 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Mechanicos; Grampa Dave; Fernet Branca
This is the letter I sent today to about 40 papers and commentators.

From: Retain Mike Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 11:50 AM To: WSJ Letters (wsj.ltrs@wsj.com) Subject: Civil War Military Heritage

This country owes as much of its enviable martial heritage to Southern as Northern soldiers. But in subservience to popular morality, we must now banish the Confederate battle flag and those who served under it.

Responding to such assertions Ulysses Grant would repeat from Appomattox, “I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. I do not question, however, the sincerity of the great mass of those who were opposed to us”.

When Joshua Chamberlain received the Confederate surrender he said, “Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond;—was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured?”

The bloodiest conflict this country ever endured resolved the issues of states’ rights, secession, and slavery. Great men like Grant, Sherman, Lee, and Johnston and their soldiers ended this terrible war, that fire-eaters of both persuasions had stumbled into and could not contain.

Now similar intellectual dwarfs would rewrite this history.

Partial Bibliography:

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

Joshua Chamberlain https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain

Rewriting American History http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams061417.php3

Were Confederate Generals Traitors? http://walterewilliams.com/were-confederate-generals-traitors/

11 posted on 08/13/2017 4:45:35 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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It was posted by a freeper here.

Sheesh


12 posted on 08/13/2017 4:46:31 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Mechanicos

thank you for your post. it’s great to have the facts.


20 posted on 08/13/2017 5:03:38 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Altura Ct.

ping!


21 posted on 08/13/2017 5:03:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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The original essay appeared for the first time this morning on FR:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3576803/posts


22 posted on 08/13/2017 5:05:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Mechanicos
The media is lying about what happened.

The only thing that is going to matter about yesterday is some racist idiot, probably mentally ill. ran over a bunch of people with his car. "But urine balloons" or "but cops" might have resonated without the murderous driver overshadowing it, but that's not what happened, So might as well deal with the reality. The media doesn't have to lie because they got the story they wanted served eight up to them. Now the story they want is "conservatives support white nationalist terrorist" so don't fall into that trap too.

23 posted on 08/13/2017 5:09:45 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Mechanicos

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24 posted on 08/13/2017 5:10:10 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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"The media is lying about what happened."

Yeah.... Satan is the king of liars and the press seems to be working hand and hand with him.

26 posted on 08/13/2017 5:11:02 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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Cliffs notes:

The Neo Nazis had a 1st amendment right to assembly and peace was maintained until the violent leftist counter-demonstrators escalated things into a fight.

I hate Neo Nazis, but the 1st Amendment guarantees the speech I hate or by people I hate. They still are guaranteed the RIGHT to offend me, as long as they follow the laws and the process.

The left cannot handle free speech. They always oppress free speech - hence the violence at this rally. The left alawys starts the violence because they cannot handle free speech.


28 posted on 08/13/2017 5:52:30 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world yet loses his soul?)
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To: Mechanicos

This has the ring of TRUTH. Like addicts who can’t get enough, leftists keep going to the MSM, which has been proven over and over and over to lie, distort, and bury real news. They no longer provide a public service and should be shut down. Freedom of the press is founded upon presentation of truth. When that isn’t done they no longer are press, but propaganda machines, and should no longer have constitutional protection.


32 posted on 08/14/2017 6:38:36 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Mechanicos

Bttt


33 posted on 08/14/2017 11:35:17 AM PDT by aberaussie
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