Posted on 08/17/2017 2:06:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Almost everything about the Charlottesville riot was disgraceful except the conduct of the president. The move to take down the statue of General Robert E. Lee was nonsense. Lee has few rivals as the greatest general in American history (Grant, Sherman, MacArthur, and Eisenhower perhaps). He opposed the secession of Virginia from the Union but, as was common in the South then (and has not entirely died out in any region of the United States today),believed he owed his first loyalty to his state over the United States. He was less dedicated to the virtues of slavery than was Charlottesville’s most famous son, Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University, neighbor at Monticello, and, of course, author of the self-evident truth “that all men are created equal.”
This terrible incident started as a reasonable civic demonstration by Southern traditionalists who were not hostile to African-Americans but object to the shamed renunciation of a great American heroic and folkloric figure from “Gone With the Wind,” to The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” to “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Robert E. Lee was not a precursor of Bull Connor, Strom Thurmond, James Earl Ray, or the unreformed George C. Wallace.
These original local groups did not wish or seek the attention of the Ku Klux Klan, or the American Nazis or the violent hooligans who appeared in strength flaunting vivid racist symbolism, who were the most remarkable feature in Saturday’s tragic events. As the day approached, it became clear that the other side of the issue, whose core was reasonable townspeople who put the ultimate fact that the Civil War was fought to suppress an insurrection and to promote at least the gradual elimination of slavery above the gallantry of the Confederate Army, was being reinforced by more militant leftist organizations. Antifa, which purports to find fascists at every position of authority in the United States, Black Lives Matter (whose name suggests that any sane person had ever said otherwise), and other far-left groups with a propensity to violence, made no secret that they too would be there.
As the day unfolded, it was clear that orders had been given to the local police to ensure that a serious fracas occurred. The police did nothing to disperse the armed groups on each side, on several occasions herded them toward each other to encourage combat, and then withdrew at times to facilitate the violence. It must be assumed that orders for an insufficient law enforcement and ineffectual rules of engagement emanated ultimately from the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, the ne plus ultra of Clintonian zeal and cynicism, and former Democratic Party chairman.
The debacle ensued; the peaceful majorities on both sides were shouldered aside by the violent thugs on the extremes, with the Klansmen and neo-nazis being more vocal and recognizable by their signs and costumes. Since one of their number appears to have been responsible for the (mercifully) sole fatality, the white supremacists and neo-nazis seem to have been the more violent group. But the entire incident had almost nothing to do with the issue of what should happen to Charlottesville’s statue of General Lee, (who would have been as disgusted as we are by the extremists of both sides).
President Trump’s comments on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were accurate and appropriate, and as usual the national media either eagerly grasped the flame-thrower handed them by the professed Nazi demonstrators and accused the president of mollycoddling David Duke and the Klan (who were very aggrieved by Trump’s chastisement of them on Saturday), or they were gulled by the anti-Trump spin of the media and Virginia officials into condemning the president for ambivalence between Klansmen and Nazis on one side, and decent advocates of racial equality on the other, as if any such clear confrontation of wrong with right had occurred.
Virginia’s U.S. senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, are as rabidly partisan as McAuliffe, and the Virginia authorities, local, state, and national, have a hand in this outrage. Kaine thinks Jared Kushner might be guilty of treason and Warner thinks Trump really might have organized the golden shower of urinating prostitutes in Moscow.
The facts of Charlottesville should be ascertained by impartial investigation, prosecution, and exposure, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has promised they will be.
This incident is of a piece with the mindless violence at Berkeley and other university campuses. The nihilists and anarchists of both sides want bloody conflict and vandalism, and most of the Democrats and the anti-Trump Republicans and the national media are trying to pin the phenomenon on Trump. This became clear as the weekend unfolded, explaining Trump’s calibrated escalation of anti-racist comments.
We have come full circle. In the absence of any positive argument to vote Democratic last year, the Clinton campaign accused Trump of misogyny and racism. That failed and evaporated and was replaced in post-electoral denial by the Russian collusion nonsense. With the end of visible White House disorganization following staff changes, and after a cameo appearance of Trump the alleged Korea-warmonger last week, we are back to Trump the friend of the Klan, Obama’s infamous campaign charge.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts this week claimed the leadership of the Democrats; they are close to becoming a far-Left party, in likely fulfilment of the Obama plan, which had to be partly concealed to ensure Obama’s reelection. Donald Trump is a policy moderate, but an activist enemy of gridlock.
The campaign of defamation against Trump will fail, and if the Democrats and pseudo-Republicans don’t get to higher ground soon, Trump will pull together the responsible Right and most of the center and wax the Warren Democrats by a margin that will make the Nixon and Reagan reelections look like photo-finishes.
What is the significance of this ?
What connections ?
Freepmail welcome.
Even Fidel showed up! He’s behind circled flashlight guy, to the left...in white cap.
I think this is the same guy who started a GoFundMe - that has now received over $350K - as he claimed to have been injured at the riot.
I think people had said they hit (him) back, after he’d clubbed them upside the head with a Maglight flashlight and baseball bat. (See pic)
I could be mistaken, but that’s what I’ve surmised.
Credit for the graphic goes to FReeper Travis McGee.
The whole affair reeks of a government psyop/setup.
PING!!
Back to the thread.
Post #56
Charlottesville police comes forward:
Charlottesville Was Inside Job to Ignite Race War:
http://yournewswire.com/charlottesville-inside-job/
“We [Charlotesville police] were ordered to bring the rival groups together. As soon as they were in contact with each other, we were told to stand down. It was outrageous. We weren’t allowed to arrest anyone without asking the mayor first. We weren’t even allowed to stop the driver as he sped away.“
“The event was being set up as far back as at least May and it went like clockwork.”
Thanks, toldyou & H/T WildHighlander57
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General Robert E. Lee appears prominently in all 3 cultural/media vehicles mentioned. In fact, General Lee *is* a vehicle in that last.
Thanks good, blame Stevens and the ACLU!!
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1976/76-1786
I don’t quite understand the technical aspects of this case, were the Supreme just ruling on the stay of the injunction and not the merits of whether Nazis had a right to march?
Probably wouldn’t be too hard to do either.
Pray for this LEO’s protection.
NYC for part of the year.
The Charlottesville Riot could not have happened without the deliberate police retreat. See tagline.
My take as well.
And Kessler was really a hard left operative. Was the entire Unite the Right organization composed of them?
Agree. To say he’s a Hillary supporter requires some basis.
Now, I have heard that his mother is Jewish, which makes him Jewish. Don’t know many Jewish Nazis so that is worth exploring.
Also heard he is schizophrenic. Also worth exploring.
MSM though just runs with their pre-scripted narrative provided by Deep State.
“The current DOJ & FBI investigation will spell it all out, in clear fashion and truth. “
Don’t hold your breath.
Millie Weaver tells the story like no one else, she was there reporting for Infowars and doing a stellar job.
According to Millie Weaver the white nationalists(I have no use for either side)got their permit, were protesting peacefully when a bunch of police show up in riot gear,what did they know?
Next the antifa and the BLM start showing up raising hell and carrying ice chests loaded with balloons filled with feces,urine,chemicals and the massive amounts of pepper spray. They quickly used everything on the white nationalists seemingly for no reason at all.
This is what got it all started.
Of course the fix was in when the police show in in full riot gear and then refuse to let the white nationalists to leave in an obvious safe pathway,telling them their permit is no longer good and forcing them “to leave the way they came in” a direct quote.
This one move alone ensured the riot would commence and was all orchestrated by law enforcement at the command of the chief of police who took orders from the mayor to stand down who was undoubtedly working with the punk— aka Gov.Terry McCauliffe.
Did other groups play a part as well?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3576909/posts
Check out post #2 here,clearly there were two cars,with different license tags,different models. One was driven by what was described by a resident as “a young white middle eastern appearing man who quickly got into a black suburban and drove off.”
Find out who he was, who he worked for, who was in the black Suburban, and we will have far more information than we have now.
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