Questions and Answers in the Aftermath of Charlottesville

Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2017 | Mark Davis

[palmer]

This event was staged with 2 leftist groups attacking each other. NAZI's are socialists, as is the Antifa group and BLM

That's exactly right. The answer is Trump's: reject violence.

WELL IT APPEARS WE'RE GOING TO WAR

Not in my county. We have no BLM, no KKK, etc. Not going to happen. Of course the outsiders might try to make it happen.

[wastoute]

And that outcome could be avoided by Trump instructing Sessions to do his job. Crush these Antifa types without mercy. Prosecute them, send in the 82nd, whatever but they have to be crushed.

[palmer]

he set back the cause of peaceful coexistence between people of different races for decades.

He definitely tried. But there are blacks marching under confederate flags too (civil war reenactments). The lesson from history is that the PTB are always eager to start wars.

But much like Trump's peace-through-strength strategy with NK, we can demonstrate peace through political strength.

[palmer]

Prosecute them, send in the 82nd, whatever but they have to be crushed.

Rule of law: if someone brings a bat to a peaceful protest they need to be locked up. If they show up without weapons to counterprotest, then they need to be protected from violence (e.g. some idiot with a car). It's very simple, either rule of law, or rule of the jungle. Trump always wisely chooses the rule of law.

That's also the reason he doesn't perp walk Hillary. If there's a crime there it will get prosecuted properly and quietly sooner or later.

[kabar]

Dumb article by someone who doesn’t know the facts.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

All this talk about the RESULT...nothing in the CAUSE. What caused this? The damned Democrats in the Charlottesville city council caused it by voting to remove a statue of Robert E Lee and changing the Confederate name of a park. This CAUSED the problem.

The Democrats erected those statues and named those parks, and now these are a tangible sign of THEIR DIRECT LINK to their support of slavery. So they must eliminate these to revise history to disassociate themselves from their participation in slavery, the KKK, etc. what we are seeing is DEMOCRAT judges and city groups eliminating THEIR links this sordid past.

The Confederate memorabilia are reminders of our our nation's VICTORY over that part of our past. Eliminating them hides the victory. History is TRUTH, revision of history is a LIE!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

The Confederate memorabilia are reminders of our our nation's VICTORY over that part of our past. Eliminating them hides the victory. History is TRUTH, revision of history is a LIE!

Removing, destroying these reminders of our past by the left is as evil as ISIS destroying monuments in the middle east.

[wastoute]

In regard to Hillary we been waiting 20 years and it seems later never comes...

[palmer]

Yeah, well Obama gave Hillary control over a chunk of the deep state. Her underlings were all granted immunity by Comey. There's nobody following the law that can do much about that immediately. Also her husband will never be prosecuted for sending hi tech to China, because there's a certain amount of automatic political deference to former presidents. (they will remove that rule for Trump)

However my belief is that the corruption in DOJ/FBI and some deep state problems can be slowly fixed, one quiet promotion at a time (the only way to get rid of some people is up). Or reorg their org into some meaningless org. But that's slow, no silver bullets.

[Kaslin]

It's an op-ed, not a News report.

Do you know what a op-ed is?

The op stands for opinion The author wrote his opinion about the events in Charlottesville, to which you can agree or disagree.

[wastoute]

And meanwhile the streets aren’t safe for people who support Trump. In some things patience is a virtue but I suspect in others it may very well be a vice. Tolerance of evil breeds evil and right now the perception is that a whole lot of evil is being tolerated. My patience is about at an end.

[palmer]

I'm an open Trump supporter and work in leftist land (Arlington/Alexandria VA). I got a little harassment after the election but not much since. Can't bother worry about someone scratching up my car, although I would worry about being assaulted. But it hasn't happened.

I believe in peace through strength and being open in my support is my message of strength.

[Steven Tyler]

Q: If that’s so obvious, why didn’t President Trump dwell at length on the racist/supremacist/Nazi flavor of that violence? Is it because he secretly harbors those views, or basks in the welcome support of those who do?

A: Because Trump is not 0bama, and 0bama would run his mouth before the facts are revealed, making everything worse.
Also, the Civil Lawsuits are going to be dropped (Celino&Barnes, injury attorneys, $$$$$what’s your case worth$$$$)
Best to stay above that fray and not be accused of tilting the scales of Justice

[wastoute]

I have a CCW and do carry. I would not even consider wearing a MAGA hat. I ain’t looking to have to kill someone.

[palmer]

I've taken the CCW class (mandatory in VA) and practiced a little. But I have not gotten enough practice to get the CCW and carry. It is on my to-do list. The main thing I learned from the class is that deterrence comes from being properly trained and prepared. The deterrence value goes up as more people carry. The number of actual uses of a weapon is not really relevant.

I think more people wearing MAGA hats is also deterrence, but I can see arguments either way depending on location and circumstances.

[wastoute]

But think about it. I can’t wear a MAGA hat because I don’t want to be forced to kill somebody?

[MortMan]

The author cannot be bothered to question the premise of the news coverage - no matter how many instances of anti-right bias have been identified in the past.

There are more facts that need discovery, but the author appears to be willing to accept the narrative at face value. That is a failed analysis.

[kabar]

Am uninformed opinion is worthless and needs to be called out. Here are several other "opinions" of what went on in Charlottesville by people who were actually there:

Organizer Of Charlottesville Rally Jason Kessler Speaks On The Aftermath | Virginia Protests

Infowars’ Millie Weaver interviews protesters and counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Notice the immediate appearance of "counter-protestors" after the car slammed into crowd and another car. They were helmeted and armed with clubs and attacked the car. The violence was initiated by Antifa and BLM.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Mark Davis says protesters (plural) were murdered. Maybe he considers the cops protesters.