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White Supremacist Leader in Charlottesville Jason Kessler Was Obama Supporter – Occupy Protester
GP ^ | 08/14/17 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 08/14/2017 1:02:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1

White supremacist and ‘Unite the Right’ leader, Jason Kessler, was once reportedly a supporter a former President Obama and the Occupy movement.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that is certainly no friend to Conservatives), Kessler revealed his political transformation around November 2016, the same month then candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Southern Poverty Law Center reports:

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.

At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.

Kessler himself has placed his “red-pilling” around December of 2013 when a PR executive was publicly excoriated for a tasteless Twitter joke about AIDS in Africa.

Regarding the incident, Kessler stated “… so it was just a little race joke, nothing that big of a deal, she didn’t have that many followers, she probably didn’t think anybody was gonna see it,”

Regardless of Kessler’s past politics, the rightward shift in his views was first put on display in November, 2016 when his tirade against Wes Bellamy began.

On Sunday, a violent leftist mob shut down a press conference by white nationalists Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler outside of Charlottesville City Hall.

The mob reportedly chased Spencer and Kessler back to their waiting vehicles.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; jasonkessler; obama; occupy; oops; ows; supporter; unitetheright
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To: caligatrux

This is all possible.

But the elephant in the room is that Richard Spencer - the man who coined the phrase alt-right initially - set the event up with this Kessler.

So, for this to be true, Spencer has to be a dupe of the highest order or has been living a public lie for ten years.

An extremely dangerous public lie, I might add, since a lot of people would cheer if he took a bullet at one of these events.


101 posted on 08/14/2017 3:05:23 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: wastoute

If the guy in question is a patsy, they created the most down the middle stereotype of an alt-righter you can find:

1. 20something white guy who
2. Lived at home with his mommy well into adulthood and who
3. Had a fantasy of being a soldier but flunked out

All that’s missing is a high school girlfriend who told him that she was saving herself for marriage and then had sex with, like, Colin Kaepernick.


102 posted on 08/14/2017 3:09:26 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: WVMnteer

You’re right, those are all good points.


103 posted on 08/14/2017 3:14:28 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Enlightened1

Virginians mostly support the monuments, no matter the politics. Jason was the one in the right here and I hope he gets all the money he deserves from a lawsuit. The other side , the antifa were the ones who were violent. The guy in the car possible panicked after being surrounded by antifa. I ‘ll reserve my judgement on that until the evidence comes out. Other than that the state of Virginia, the governor,and the govt of Charlottsville needs to be brought up on charges.


104 posted on 08/14/2017 3:16:04 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Enlightened1

False flag.


105 posted on 08/14/2017 3:16:48 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: WVMnteer

This is turning into a JFK assasination type thing. We may never know just what the hell happened in C’Ville.


106 posted on 08/14/2017 3:17:18 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Celerity

Also, what kind of white supremacist owns a cat.


107 posted on 08/14/2017 3:19:44 PM PDT by american colleen
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To: LongWayHome
Looks more & more like this “event” was staged....to damage Trump & his supporters.

I want to know who paid for the Confederate Flags. I'm guessing it'll be hard to track back but it will eventually find it's way to the democrat party.

108 posted on 08/14/2017 3:20:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (Shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety-James Damore-fired for speaking truth)
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To: JBW1949
I have never heard of “Unite the Right” until Charlottesville.... Never saw it mentioned here in FR.... Has anyone else????

Nope. Never.

109 posted on 08/14/2017 3:22:24 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: All

It is a matter of puhlic record in Canada that a neo-Nazi group known as the Heritage Front was organized in the 1990s by an agent of the federal government and that this was done to keep an eye on actual neo-Nazis. It was also observed that having some convenient swastika wavers available for show might play into certain government objectives from time to time (oh look at all these dangerous Nazis, best we keep the internet under very strict surveillance).

Also having the government guy in charge would limit the actual accomplishments of the group, his job was to appear competent enough to lead, but not so competent that the cause ever gained much momentum. Mind you, trying to organize a Nazi party in Canada is about as stupid an idea as there could possibly be. Organizing a communist party is much more sensible, and this is probably why we have five or six. Some actually use the name communist.


110 posted on 08/14/2017 3:23:34 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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The leadership of various extremist groups in the US, “right” and “left,” have been known to accept funding from interested parties, even nations - the USSR, Iraq, Qatar, Soros, British billionaires, Iraqi arms dealers, etc ....to run campaigns and put on street theater... and do it whether or not their followers are aware of it.
In the Gulf War Saddam Hussein paid American white supremacists to protest against the war, some even traveled to Iraq to put on a little play there.

Ever hear of front groups? Muslims of the Americas is a front for Jamaat ul Fuqra. CAIR is a front for Hamas- but that doesn’t mean that everyone who joins CAIR knows this or believes in Hamas’s “Project.” But the leadership does.

Now that doesn’t mean the car crash in Charlottsville was orchestrated by some higher power, I don’t think it was, more likely a peon who fell into their orbit and sincerely believed the front group’s spew. But in Alinsky’s view, any crisis could be an opportunity, and organizers should be prepared to take advantage. To whose advantage did it work? Who benefits? Certainly not his supposed cause. He only damaged it.

The USSR backed the Nuclear Freeze movement, the same movement Obama belonged to when younger. Doesn’t mean the then-peon Obama knew that, as he had no need to know... but whoever accepted the money and ran the accounts certainly did. There was no reason to advertise that and every reason not to.

Speaking of Obama- here he was, friends with and a co-worker in the Joyce Foundation with a guy who wanted to be leader of the white army in a race war to complement the Black Liberation Army, a guy who plotted to bomb a dance hall at Ft Dix. And yet the same Obama spent 20 years attending a “Christian” church led by Rev Wright, who was openly friendly with heretical “Muslim” and black nationalist Louis Farrakhan of NoI, who’s all cuddly with the late Moamar Qadaffi [killed by the Obama admin of all things] and cuddly with Duke and Stormfront to the point their groups published each other’s articles in their publications.

Look up David Duke’s position on Iran. Look up Louis Farrakhan’s position on Iran. What’s the difference? You’d think they would hate each other, being, at least vocally, racists, and Farrakhan’s group wanting a separate black country formed out of southern states [which of course they’re never going to get]. But these leaders don’t hate each other, instead they treat each other as allies.
Why is that?
It’s because the race angle is superficial to their other objectives; the race crap is merely the tool which gives them warm bodies - a following large enough not to be ignored by the press. Their less obvious objectives are to cripple the US’s foreign policy and destroy Israel as a nation.

This isn’t outlandish; it’s the same thing though on a smaller scale than what the two major parties do when in primary races the GOP candidates run to the right... and the Democrats run to the left, only those two parties objectives are merely money and power for themselves rather than the destruction of the US and the dems in particular won’t shed any tears over Israel.

After the primaries, these two parties run back towards the center; the problem is that if elected, they more and more ignore their base and heed only the big donors, who are willing to sit quietly through the primaries listening to their candidates spout hardline positions only because they knew the harsher rhetoric designed to capture warm bodies was just bullsheiss all along.
If the major parties can pull off crap like this to win, then individual radicals with vision can and will do it as well.

Farrakhan and Duke both lead small groups composed of people either dumber than a box of rocks- the dumber the better for them, because stupid is what you need to put on a good show in the streets to move public opinion to what the backers [not the street people] want. So what if a few get hurt? They can also just as easily use sharp people who are selfish and proud, because these will never entertain the thought that they are dupes once they are emotionally invested in a cause. these can be the face of the organization while the leaders remain in the shadows.

This fusion of seemingly disparate groups to advance a singular objective also isn’t a new idea... this is what the Weather Underground wanted decades ago - they were to be the white army to complement the Black Liberation Army. The objective was to overload and break society down into weaker factions and set them against eachother, in the aftermath, the agitators would divvy up the scraps and form them in their own image. [Or as in Iran, one group of agitators ends up stabbing its former partner in the back.] So we should not discard the possibility that both antifa and the white separatists share the same covert support.


111 posted on 08/14/2017 3:31:08 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Enlightened1



The claim at the link:
Vice Mayor of Charlottesville, VA. is a Black Panther. Another supremacy group.
This was supposed to be a civilized protest UNTIL!

112 posted on 08/14/2017 3:33:30 PM PDT by onyx (Donate Monthly ~ Join 300 Club!)
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To: SteveH

The youtube video has been pulled.


113 posted on 08/14/2017 3:36:18 PM PDT by MWestMom (If you believe in everything, you believe in nothing and you will fall for anything.)
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To: wastoute

You don’t need to pay protestors, all you need do is pay the organizer.


114 posted on 08/14/2017 3:38:21 PM PDT by piasa
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To: wastoute
So for this conspiracy theory to be true it is a pretty sophisticated plot.

Yup. It would need to be a very sophisticated plot.

You would need several operatives in a hotspot area with ready cameras in case of an incident.

You would need a "useful idiot" who could be encouraged by his handlers to do something violent . It takes time to cultivate such people and they would not be very reliable, so you would need several of them in the pipeline at any given time.

You would not be able to tell exactly what might happen (if anything), but if something did, the odds would favor that one of your cameramen gets a recording.

The key factor after that would be to get any available recording to useful media very quickly.

None of these things is beyond the capabilities of our Government or even of a well-funded private organization. Perhaps there are even volunteers who might participate - with suitable direction from the handlers.

But of course it is all just a crazy conspiracy theory that can be dismissed of hand.

115 posted on 08/14/2017 3:46:29 PM PDT by flamberge (What next?)
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To: flamberge

I wouldn’t say dismissed out of hand but at least some attempt made to calculate the probability. Seems to me, vanishingly small. More likely, as we all did, this CIA guy just realized something was going to happen and he ran around recording everything and got lucky.


116 posted on 08/14/2017 3:50:59 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Enlightened1

I share that bet.


117 posted on 08/14/2017 3:55:11 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: wastoute
I don't think the car crash was planned by anyone but the driver. The protest orginizers may have had something else in mind when this incident landed in their lap like a giftwrapped present.

It is about as believable as thinking the alt right guys were paid to get acid thrown in their face.

Haven't heard about any acid attacks, but assuming there were, who but the attackers would have expected those if they occurred rather than the usual fisticuffs, feces and brawling? Do you think it's that hard to get white nationalists, bikers and the like to end up in a brawl if they are stupid enough to think the public is going to be swayed to save some confederate statues rather than be turned off by speakers with reputations like like David Duke's? If the Westboro Baptist Church is dumb enough to test the restraint of fathers who have lost their sons in war, do you think it would be hard to find nationalists and nazis who also won't quiver in fear of someone carrying a rainbow flag, bottle of Drain-o or not?

Are you denying that Democrat thug Bob Creamer, even though he and his minions were captured on video by Project Veritas, arranged for actors to go into Trump rallies and try provoke a violent response? Were they not in effect 'paid' to take the risk of being tackled after squirting people in the face with pepper spray? Would they not expect to get punched in response or roughed up? Did it matter to Creamer if they were stupid enough to take the risk and did get hurt? Why would he care? Stupid people are a dime a dozen.

118 posted on 08/14/2017 4:01:40 PM PDT by piasa
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To: GOPJ

Good point


119 posted on 08/14/2017 4:03:44 PM PDT by piasa
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To: wastoute

Who’s going to prosecute any of them?


120 posted on 08/14/2017 4:29:56 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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