Posted on 08/14/2017 12:32:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
One sentence stands out as a unifying principle in the aftermath of a bleak weekend in Charlottesville. After that, everything devolves into the pandering and posturing which are the daily din of the current age. So here’s that statement, and a Q and A flowing therefrom:
The intentional vehicular murder of protesters Saturday was an act of domestic terrorism, seemingly motivated by supremacist hate. Such acts need to be identified as such by every American, starting with the President of the United States.
There. Now the complexities:
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: No. It is because he knows his haters stood ready to beat his brains in if he didn’t exude precisely the right flavor of revulsion, not just toward violent racists, but toward the ill-defined “alt-right,” or portions of his own staff who have been conflated into supremacist, even Nazi status by the left. His calculation was to deliver broad criticisms of bigotry and hate, which could be criticized by no one, thus driving his most inflamed critics crazy.
Q: How did that work out?
A: Not well, due to one problem: Basic human decency, as well as proper presidential decorum, required a calling-out, by name, of precisely the ideology that led to the murder of Heather Heyer. This was a particularly glaring omission from a President who spends a lot of time (rightfully) busting the chops of anyone reticent to identify radical Islamic terrorism by name. Other Republicans did it effortlessly; they should have been led by the President of their party.
Q: So did critics go after him with skill and precision?
A: Of course not. Democrats in particular overplayed their hand exponentially, suggesting Trump has a Klan base he wishes to satisfy, and a racist heart he wishes to conceal.
Q: But isn’t it problematic that a portion of the Trump base harbors those poisonous views?
A: Of course. Every politician would love to be supported by nothing but virtuous souls. But Republican voter rolls will contain the occasional racist, just as Democrat voter rolls will contain the occasional Communist and a bevy of violent radicals they rarely distance from at all.
Q: So is Charlottesville evidence of a growing wave of active racism rearing its head, energized by Trump?
A: Hardly. Most of the protests taking place at confederate monuments around America are not foremost about race. They are a response to the voices who seek to erase every vestige of the Confederacy as if failure to do so equates to wistful nostalgia for slavery. If a black man walked into a crowd at a Robert E. Lee statue and said, “I’m no fan of this guy, but I don’t think we should erase every Southern monument,” he’d be met with handshakes.
Q: So are there non-racist reasons to support leaving the monuments alone?
A: Of course there are. Most of the people arguing against their removal do not wish the South had won the Civil War.
Q: But if the monuments are becoming a rallying point for actual Nazis and supremacists, isn’t that a reason to dismantle them?
A: This was a point made by National Review’s Rich Lowry and others, and it is highly regrettable. You don’t let a sliver of idiots determine public policy on monuments, or anything else. If a broad and thoughtful debate leads to the removal or relocation of some statue or another, that’s one thing; knee-jerk haste is another.
Q: “A sliver?” How widespread are the people who embody the actual racism and virulence on display in Charlottesville?
A: A tiny minority, and it continues to shrink. An unfortunate by-product of the Trump ascendancy is that the micro-culture of ugliness within his base feels a spark of energy of late, bringing them out of the caves into which they had been chased in recent decades. This is how you get idiots like David Duke on video talking about the Charlottesville protests as “fulfilling the promise of Donald Trump.” (After the President’s Saturday condemnation of bigotry, Duke lashed out at Trump for “attacking” the original protesters.)
Q: So what’s the best thing President Trump can do now?
A: Show up a little late with what he should have shown up with at the outset—a specific rebuke to racists, and a clear statement that while some of them may support him, it does not mean he supports them.
Q: And what’s the best lesson for the nation?
A: That while our society’s racial enlightenment has been a remarkable journey, not everyone has traveled that path. When real hate is discovered, there should be no delay in identifying it and denouncing it by name.
But we should also be aware that the vast majority of Americans have long displayed exactly that behavior, and there are Trump-haters afoot, trying to paint him (and thus his millions of voters) as partners in that vile intolerance. This cheap political opportunism must also be resisted at every turn.
Was the videographer of the attack and main source of interviews immediately after the attack a former State Department / CIA KONY psy operative?
Yes. His name is Brennan Gilmore and he now works for a Soros-funded politician:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article166923347.html
This guy is a clown. He has no idea if it was an “intentional murder” let alone “domestic terrorism.” There’s plenty of reasons to suspect it was self defense, or panic leading to a tragedy. ANTIFA was throwing rocks at cars, using bear pepper spray, and even tossing feces.
No, I'm not from the South.
Bullshit. It was just “White Supremacy” at fault, they leave out little details, you klnow, like Antifa and a Governor and Major that set violence in motion.
How many protesters were murdered, according to Mark Davis? His statement is foolish in so many ways.
Sessions’ crack DoJ Civil Rights fake news team will be investigating to get to the bottom of this and lock Trump up.
But when a Muslim does it, let’s just move on to something else.
This must be the sucky Mark out of the platoon of Marks who guest host for Rush. Of course the one really good Mark is Mark Steyn.
Soros was funding both sides. I’m going to keep praying because the Lord is answering prayers that these International Elites are exposed.
Had to be an operative driving that car, too.
People are waking up to the fact these are all political war games, with tragic consequences for innocent bystanders, staged with murderous crisis actors who are paid to stir up national strife
“Was the videographer of the attack and main source of interviews immediately after the attack a former State Department / CIA KONY psy operative?
Yes. His name is Brennan Gilmore and he now works for a Soros-funded politician:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article166923347.html";
The author’s opening premise is total BS and his attempts at nuance in the Q&A don’t enhance his resume as a political writer, either. The MSM were going to take Trump to task no matter what he tweeted or released in a formal statement. Nothing would have satisfied that mob and that needs to be a central operating principle.
The opening premise is BS for the multiple reasons already noted by other posters. Attempting to be out front in leading the charge in every instance before full information is developed will quite often lead to backtracking and the media mob would be just as glad to take Trump down with that as anything else. “Ideology” did not kill Heather Heyer, a specific person behind the wheel of a vehicle did that and information is developing that mental capacity is at issue.
Put Brennan Gilmore in front of a TV camera and ask the hard questions.
The Fields kid’s lawyer is undoubtedly going to subpoena him.
It’s all rigged manufactured Sturm und Drang... to keep us riled up.
And to keep us from remembering:
1. The RINOs DID NOT REPEAL and REPLACE OBAMACARE AND EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD SUE THE RNC TO GET THEIR MONEY BACK IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
2. TRUMP IS WINNING THE NK WARGAMES AND HE’S WON IN EVERY ARENA HE’S BEEN ALLOWED TO FREELY WORK
3. HILLARY BELONGS IN JAIL AND ALL DEMS FROM OBAMA’S TENURE NEED TO BE FIRED
That’s why they’re desperate to stage a race war.
“The intentional vehicular murder of protesters Saturday was an act of domestic terrorism, seemingly motivated by supremacist hate. Such acts need to be identified as such by every American, starting with the President of the United States.”
Maybe. Maybe not:
- The vehicular manslaughter of a protester Saturday may have been an act of domestic terrorism, motivated by supremacist hate. [Evidence: the mainstream media narrative.]
- It may also have been an act of panic after a mentally ill man, who came to the protest because his issues triggered that decision, found himself surrounded by Antifa terrorists and saw that his vehicle was under attack. [Evidence: reports that the driver had a mental illness, and police statements that when arrested he seemed frightened of the mob rather than malicious.]
- The entire event may even have been stage managed for this result, with democrat operatives searching for men with desired personality issues and paying their way to the gathering specifically to place enough mentally ill people in a pressure situation to improve the chances of a photogenic outcome to support their narrative. [Evidence: Parallels the pattern of behavior in Project Veritas election videos.]
Such acts need to be identified as what they are by every decent American, and hopefully even by democrats. But first, we need the facts, something that we do not have yet in this instance. In particular, we need complete and unedited video of the 30 seconds before the attack. Oddly, despite the large number of cell phones obviously recording everything, the crash videos do not show the car in question immediately before the incident. If I did not trust liberals, I would assume they were cherry picking which segments of each video to release.
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Soros and his astroturfers fake paid protesters left out again.
The thing that also needs to be reinforced is that Trump made his statement BEFORE the car slammed into the crowd.
At that time there was a lot of video of people beating up each other.
Here is a question... Why is the media using the term ....”White Nationalist” ...... ?
By def it is a white person who supports an independent country.
He gets his info from the BSM. The BSM was not happy with the single digit death so they added the two cops in the helo to the body count. So if you weren’t paying careful attention you would think there were 3 people killed by the car.
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