Posted on 06/28/2018 5:08:18 AM PDT by Nextrush
"Today's indictment should sent a clear message to every would be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation."
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions statement 6/27/2018
"....Mr. Sessions has not determined whether to seek the death penalty..."
The "New York Times" 6/27/2018
President Donald Trump's Justice Department has indicted James Alex Fields Jr. already indicted on state charges including second degree murder, on federal hate crimes charges that could involve a death penalty.
Fields, after coming under attack by leftists who assaulted the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last August 12th, plowed his car into a group of protesters killing one of them and injuring others.
When the violence occurred in Charlottesville, President Trump cited violence on both sides and was condemned by Democrats, Republicans and the mainstream media.
Now the Uniparty and MSM narrative has prevailed in the Trump Administration.
The 30 count indictment, according to US Attorney for Western Virginia, Thomas Cullen, involved searching Fields social media accounts and said:
"We have to get into somebody's head and that takes time"
The "Washington Post" reported it will take several months until federal prosecutors decide on whether they will seek the death penalty in the case.
MSM reports describe Fields as a "Nazi sympathizer".
Observers of the events in Charlottesville last August believe that the control exercised by local and state authorities at the "Unite the Rally" herding people through a gauntlet of hostile and violently attacking Leftists was designed to trigger violent reactions.
It could be construed as entrapment.
An organizer of last year's Charlottesville protest, Jason Kessler, is planning an anniversary protest in Washington DC across the street from the White House on August 12th.
As one who went through the rigged and draconian federal charges associated with Oregon Standoff and Bunkerville Standoff cases as a reporter-writer on those matters count me jaded and cynical on this new federal case on the tragic events that happened last summer in Charlottesville.
And above all lets mince no words, a hate crime law is a thought crime law, a Nazi law, a Soviet law and an un-American law. For AG Sessions to be enforcing such law is defecation on the Constitution of the United States.
The state charges of simply causing bodily harm to other against Mr. Fields made more sense to me than this travesty.
Link below......
I was watching a live stream of the incident as it unfolded. The chain of events began when The Punk, Terry McAuliffe, declared a state of emergency and the police forced the rally members into the awaiting Antifa mob. It all could have, and should have been avoided.
I wonder if they’ll show the video of the Antifa thugs chasing him with clubs and an AR?
So the crowd pounding on his car when he jackrabbited out of there in panic did it with love and concern?
Well that would do it.
President Donald J. Trump was right to have condemned all violence that took place last August.
Is Sessions trying to undermine Trump’s view of the situation with his draconian prosecution of this person?
President Trump wants me to support Republicans like him when I vote in November. That’s a hard pill to swallow.
So called “hate crimes” should all be repealed.
Murder is murder, assault is assault, and all other crimes of one person against another person or persons does not need an additional name, an additional “crime” added to them, just to identify motive. And since when, before so-called “hate crimes” has motive ever been a crime itself.
Once so-called “hate crimes” were established, what soon began to take place, predictably, was the morphing of the idea that a motive can be a crime, but mere speech of a similar nature can too. “Hate speech” - actually a thought crime, was born. In some western countries, the concept is continuously expanding from various speech crimes on college campuses to speech crimes for public utterances.
If you understood the root concepts at the beginning, then you knew, like many of us did, that “hate crime” would slide down the slippery legal slope to thought and speech control. Though those concepts are opposite of many foundations of western civilization, it is in western civilization most of all that they are being perpetrated.
We need to repeal all “hate crimes” and start restoring the ideals of free speech as evoked in the words attributed to Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
Fields is going to end up OWNING C’ville. The crappiest lawyer will have no trouble getting an acquittal.
The evidence that I've seen suggests that only white people can commit a "hate crime"...which seems to be a violation of the equal protection clause.
Well,at least you lived to tell the tale.Having worked for years in a big city ER I assure you that many people (of all races) don't fare nearly as well in encounters with gangbangers.
My point exactly - We know it wasn’t out of love - so was it fear? Anger? Revenge?
No trial, no investigation, and while I got a police report number on the scene, it didn’t even get listed among violent crimes in my neighborhood.
Was this guy some sort of government or FBI operative or SPLC operative in an entrapment operation?
Does he still work for them since he’s actively planning another protest in front of the White House maybe to create a scene there?
Does this organizer Jason Kessler work for Southern Poverty Law Center or even Jeff Sessions? I seriously ask.
All great and dandy but they also have mad Max on video inciting violence and harassment of trumps cabinet members so when will the deranged *itch be indicted?! I FOR ONCE WANT THE EVIL LEFT CRIMINALS indicted! WHEN?!
IF he had merely shouted at the people in that crowd instead of hitting them with a vehicle, would he have still be guilty of hate speech?
Time and place would be the same, with words replacing deed.
I hope you’re right. He needs a change of venue to start with.
Didn’t conservatioes and libertarians used to be against hate crime laws because they are thought crime laws?
glad to see sessions doing useless things instead of the things he should be doing /s
I wonder if he thinks this little virtue signal will help him with the leftists, if so he’s dreaming.
>>“I can’t think of any occupation that I admire more than the professional provocateur, who has the courage & self-determination to court controversy despite all slings & arrows of the world”
>>That’s right! This man is living his dream as a “professional provocateur.” Now he can claim victory as a mastermind behind the worst racial violence to spill blood on our streets in over twenty years.
Acting as a provocateur of the violence that day, his role in the assault and death that occurred should be assessed and prosecuted.
I agree with you 100%. People should be judged on what they do, not on what they think. This slippery slope ends in judging us on what we think when there is no "doing". It is 1984 in 2019.
I believe a fair number of the charges will dissolve or be laughed over by a jury.
The one young lady dead....was fairly overweight, out-of-shape, and was fairly challenged by the heat of the day. She died because she was out-of-shape to handle this type of ‘march’.
The number of videos taken that day, suggests that some elements of the protest was ‘organized’ and that will play negativity in the court.
Not happening yet. In Congress they hold hearings demonizing what was done in 2016 to Trump only to win the next election this fall, not to seriously prosecute anyone.
When will we wake up to the Republican “Sham Wow” Act?
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