i guess hey got the outcome they were looking for then...The President's condemning violence and bigotry on all sides was exactly right. Well done.
BTW, this Huffpo/Pro-publica article is everything you'd expect... white supremacist this, neo-nazi that. .. click if you want.
According to the 4chan kids they were forced to leave the park by the police who pushed them right into the waiting Antifa Crowd.
The police chief was quite emphatic that NOBODY was injured by law enforcement - in a case where some people clearly needed to be injured by law enforcement.
When you see the leftists moving against the Nazi-types, it is very clear who is starting the physical confrontation. They should have been arrested immediately, even if it meant bashing their widdle heads.
You got that right. I didn't read any of the articles, but the titles told me all I wanted to know.
Only an observation, but if you’ve ever been in Charlottsville...it’s kinda like Austin, Texas. The city survives only because of the University of Virginia campus and the pay-scale of the professors/elite of the school. Most everyone associated with the city just keeps their silence about the environment. The cops in this case? No reason to get injured or trigger any confrontation on their own....just let the whole thing play out.
The Antifa/BLM folks from around the Campus are asking for trouble if the fall semester is filled up with weekend run-ins with non-Antifa/BLM members. I’m not sure where the Governor can get the law enforcement to settle this unless he calls the National Guard into this.
For those of us over fifty and can remember Kent State...I think we are edging closer every month to a complete replay of Kent State somewhere in the nation.
From everything I’ve seen, the actual alt right group doesn’t have a history of violence, but antifa does. Yet McAulliffe was only worried about the alt right.
This is a lot like the worry about “violent Trump supporters” and is exactly the kind of thing the alt right complains about.
The alt right are white nationalists but they are not white supremacists. I don’t see them seeking to suppress groups nor seeking greater than equal rights, like all the non-white race-based groups in the country are looking for.
The government’s and SPLC’s “concern” over this group is starting to looking like the mentality that led to Ruby Ridge.
WHAT FRIGGIN’ HYPOCRITES! If the police had been more forceful then they would have been abridging free speech rights. Show restraint, and they “allowed it to get out of hand.”
They need to STFU.
I don’t think I can remember white people rioting......
A mob is just the perfect smokescreen for mentally ill and evil people to commit violence. They are to be avoided by responsible, thinking people, who would like to remain responsible and thinking.
I agree.
NAZIs were a political party.
Who are the NeoNAZIs running in the primaries?
I can point out who the damned Commies are running and endorsing.
The Police Chief should resign.
Chaos is a ladder.
The BLM/Antifa people were hoping for a incident like this.
That is why they chose a Neo-Nazi/White Supremacist rally.
Those idiots are far FAR less self controlled, reasonable and intelligent that real Trump supporters.
They have been trying to goad us into this reaction for a long time now and have been failing.
They get these morons to do something and get to paint us with the "Far Right Wing killer" brush.
Thus legitimizing all future violence against Trump supporters.
Yes. They allowed the communist-led counter-protesters to tear down marchers' signs, hurl objects and throw punches at them.
Gee isn’t it curious that the Lib Huff Po wants police action, but not when it’s BLM and all radicals protesting?
The left loves this. They are going to talk this to death. 24/7 coverage, with the expected hypocritical outrage.
When a non-White kills a White, no outrage, no hype, crickets.
Before this last election cycle, I had never heard of “The Alt Right”, until the words came out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth. A few months later, I’m seeing a video on facebook about a group of metro sexual business type males meeting in some city and acting like Nazis with salutes and loud chants in their business attire...really? Where did they come from all of a sudden? Now they seem to be in with the real white supremacists? Most of the videos I saw of yesterdays violence, I couldn’t tell the difference between antifas and white supremacists. Both sides showed up ready to fight the other with weapons, armor and masks. This entire thing was incited by powerful people, weeks or months ago. Probably around the same time as Governor’s very impressive speech was being written.
Clearly, a case of ‘pest control’.
When your enemies seek to destroy themselves.....
This is the real news. The police did nothing to keep the two groups apart.
I believe that Gove Terry Stupud wanted this to happen.
i guess hey got the outcome they were looking for then...