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Charlottesville: State of emergency over US far right rally (attacked by Antifa Left)
BBC News ^ | 8/12/2017 | BBC

Posted on 08/12/2017 11:07:28 AM PDT by Nextrush

Officials in Charlottesville in the US state of Virginia have declared a state of emergency ahead of a large march by white nationalists......

Violent clashes between far-right groups and counter-protestors have left at least two injured, police say.

President Donald Trump has condemned the violence.....

Earlier police fired tear gas against demonstrators and said that arrests had been made after a declaration of unlawful assembly....................

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: altright; antifa; charlottesville; cvariots; terrymcauliffe; uva; virginia
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To: wild74
It’s all instigated by race, taking the monuments down is about race. Leave them alone and everything would be fine, take them down you bring out the worst in both sides.

If it is about race and hatred of the Confederacy, maybe the Antifa Left should be aware that Confederate General John C. Calhoun held "progressive" ideas, therefore he was one of them.

Why would they strike out at one of their own?

61 posted on 08/12/2017 11:40:21 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I don’t support ANY ‘identity’ groups....black life or white life who obviously can’t see any further than their own rage and victim hood.

But it is highly questionable how VA called this a “State of Emergency” yet black life matters protests...Ferguson...and Maryland were never called out likewise.


62 posted on 08/12/2017 11:40:30 AM PDT by caww
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To: Shady

“Soros behind all of it.”

Oh no, you must be wrong. I heard a little Cuckoo here on FR telling me that the Nationalists are backed by Soros and that they are bad, racist people.


63 posted on 08/12/2017 11:41:21 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Hot Tabasco

I doubt we will ever be allowed to know what happened. In the video a white driver (young male with beard, looks like Antifa if you ask me) accelerates into the back of another car. Why? Was it someone who innocently or not was trying to get away from violent protestors beating on his car? Was it ant “Alt Right” attacking Antifa? Was it an Antifa mistake line attacking his own?

One thing for sure, the MSM will vilify white males. So, deplorable freepers, the race war is starting. Believe what you will about violence, Christianity, whatever but the fact is you are born with your uniform in a race war.


64 posted on 08/12/2017 11:41:29 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Nextrush

I read the article. Did I miss the quotes from the organizers of the protest?


65 posted on 08/12/2017 11:42:10 AM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: Lopeover
My thinking is that if one group did not have a permit to peacefully assemble, that group is in the wrong. Police should have hauled them all away.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

I am wondering why they would need a permit to exercise their constitutional right to assemble peacefully.

66 posted on 08/12/2017 11:42:33 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Question: Do black Americans really feel that removing historical statues, change street names and banning a Confderate battle flags will take away the reality that there was slavery in the south?

Well, looks like Obama got his race War.


67 posted on 08/12/2017 11:42:37 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: xkaydet65

“Soros did not organize the protest. That is all on the KKK.”

The KKK did not organize the rally, they are attendees.


68 posted on 08/12/2017 11:42:49 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Gen.Blather
I am a bit confused as to who the alt-right is.

Well, it doesn't help their cause when someone is carrying a sign that says "White Supremacy" as I saw earlier......

69 posted on 08/12/2017 11:44:50 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: tennmountainman

“Yet the NG is called out immediately on a group that
peacefully assembled.”

This was a peaceful assembly?

“People were seen clubbing one another in the streets, and pepper spray filled the air.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-protest-white-nationalist.html


70 posted on 08/12/2017 11:45:17 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: HOYA97

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-12/caught-tape-car-plows-virginia-crowd-multiple-injuries


71 posted on 08/12/2017 11:45:49 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: grey_whiskers

“Don’t let the left set the narrative. “

The left has already set the narrative for the right. Many on FR are so terrified of being called ‘racist’ they’ll agree to almost anything. The virtue signalling is endemic among White people. The army of replacements that have invaded our Republic don’t have these worries. They just want what you have.


72 posted on 08/12/2017 11:46:25 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dljordan

Lie down with dogs, and you will get up with fleas.


73 posted on 08/12/2017 11:46:39 AM PDT by independentmind (In te Domine confido non confundar in aeternum s)
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To: Slyfox
I tend to think all groups, nationalities etc. gravitate to their own kind regardless of this diversity sing song being sung. They do so in communities, heck even the prisons separate them.

You cannot ‘force’ people to be inclusive with those they don't want....especially when their very ‘cultures’ are so vastly different. But all of them LIVE in America and should “Identify” as Americans....not these hyphenated jargon's they consistently identity with If you're in America then live like Americans and stop trying to Identify yourself otherwise.

74 posted on 08/12/2017 11:46:49 AM PDT by caww
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To: tennmountainman

Ferguson & Baltimore were race riots. Not the same thing. Not two different groups with different political views.


75 posted on 08/12/2017 11:47:14 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: HOYA97

Check Drudge or Fox News. It’s all over.


76 posted on 08/12/2017 11:47:33 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: TexasGator

one group had a legal permit.
One group didn’t.

Who do u think started the violence?


77 posted on 08/12/2017 11:47:51 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Nextrush

Obama’s race war.


78 posted on 08/12/2017 11:48:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: dljordan

Might David Duke be getting secret funding?


79 posted on 08/12/2017 11:48:47 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: tennmountainman

This is an all too obvious commie plan. They funded it, planned it, and picked their participants, with the goal of tying “white supremeists” to President Trump and the Patriots.

“See those racist guys over there? Those are the Deplorables.” That’s the reason for this staged rally, IMO.


80 posted on 08/12/2017 11:49:00 AM PDT by Kalamata (With haste and GodÂ’s divine intervention, may Liberty be restored to the People.)
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