“Both sides at that protest are political garbage.”
Really? Because it looks to me like one side had a permit and was exercising its constitutionally protected right to free speech, while the other side presented itself with the specific intent and purpose of denying the first side its constitutional rights by attacking them violently.
What places the first side on the same moral plane with the second? Is exercising constitutional rights morally equivalent to denying them by violence?
Even if the first side moved to defend itself after the felonious assault by the second, that was just the exercise of another of their rights.
No, the only way the first side is at fault is in holding and speaking opinions that others find objectionable. That’s it. That’s the only thing they did wrong.
That's right, and Trump told the press that in the news conference.
However, for the record, there were fringe groups involved which others had zero control over...And like the alt left, they had no permit.
Both sides had permits. This is from an article in a local paper, the Charlottesville Daily Progress, from a day or two before the rally: "According to permits acquired from the city by University of Virginia professor Walt Heinecke, counter-protesters are expected to gather at the park and at nearby McGuffey Park and Justice Park, recently renamed from Jackson Park."
“That’s it. That’s the only thing they did wrong.”
Except one member of their group murdered a woman.
So what? Inasmuch as a portion of them were White Supremacists and KKK members, those people were "political garbage", just as much as the violent antifa fascist thugs are.
Political garbage is political garbage whether it has a permit or not.
We don't need any hate in this country—from the left or right.
The vast majority of the American people have no interest in or relation too any hate groups.
The previous poster was correct in noting that the number of KKK/neo Nazis/White supremacists in this country is a few hundred at most.
But there are thousands of violent antifa fascist thugs.
Somebody should start an "fight club" type "entertainment" venture that lets real haters "meet" with each other and "work out their differences"...