Notes From Charlottesville On Our State Of Emergency

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The Federalist

Notes From Charlottesville On Our State Of Emergency

The ominous warning of Charlottesville's riots is that we are letting politics descend into a brutal, unprincipled brawl between two illiberal caricatures.

 

By Robert Tracinski AUGUST 13, 2017

Virginia’s governor, Terry McAuliffe, just declared a state of emergency for Charlottesville after violent battles between white nationalists and far-left “antifa” counter-protesters. I made it into town Saturday evening, and it certainly did look like a place in a state of emergency, though without any sign of the emergency itself.

The streets were eerily empty for a Saturday night, both downtown and on campus, and there was a much higher than usual police presence everywhere. Even the grocery store where I stopped on the way out of town had extra security guards on staff, chatting idly with each other in a corner because they had nothing to do.

Around Lee Park, the center of the riot, most of the roads through the downtown area were blocked off, and when I turned down one side street trying to see the extent of it, I came across a group of about 40 police. They were the only people there. Downtown Charlottesville has basically been shut down.  

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Rich Lowry on Charlottesville: “There was violence on both sides”

Posted by Mark Finkelstein    August 13, 2017 at 11:35am

Takes on Joy Reid Over “Anti-fascist” Violence, “White Nationalist” in White House

Joy Reid doesn’t brook much dissent on her own MSNBC show, regularly shutting down, as here, here and here, conservatives who have the temerity to disagree with her. Fortunately, when Rich Lowry of the National Review took on the Reid this morning, it happened on Meet the Press, where Reid was a fellow panelist rather than host.

The topic was the violence between neo-Nazi/white nationalists and Antifa, in which numerous people were injured and one woman killed. President Trump has come under withering media and political attack for a statement condemning violence “on many sides.”

Lowry made the point that the so-called “anti-fascists” in Charlottesville also engaged in violence, and the violence was not one-sided, as the videos show. Reid refused to admit that there was violence on both sides, claiming “there was certainly not.”

(more…)      http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/rich-lowry-on-charlottesville-there-was-violence-on-both-sides/

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7 Things You Need To Know About The Charlottesville Violence And White Supremacist Terror Attack

Ben Shapiro

August 13 2017

 

In the aftermath of Saturday’s Charlottesville, Virginia chaos — a physically violent conflict between disgusting white supremacist alt-right thugs and repulsive Antifa thugs, which culminated in a murderous attack by an apparent alt-righter on the Antifa crowd and other miscellaneous counter-protesters, resulting in the death of one person and injuries to another 19 — the hot takes have been coming fast and furious.

Here are some of the things you need to know about the awful events of yesterday.

1. The Alt-Right Is Not Conservative. One of the hottest takes from the Left is that the alt-right represents the entire right — that what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia represented conservatives broadly. That’s factually incorrect, and intellectually dishonest. The alt-right is not just conservatives who like memes or who dislike Paul Ryan. The alt-right is a philosophy of white supremacy and white nationalism espoused by the likes of Vox Day, Richard Spencer, and Jared Taylor.

Here’s Jared Taylor explaining the alt-right:

 

 

 

They openly acknowledge their antipathy for the Constitution and conservatism; they believe that strong centralized government is necessary to preserve “white civilization.” They label all their enemies “cucks” — men in favor of “race-mixing.” Here’s a solid guide to what the alt-right actually thinks.

2. The Alt-Right Has Successfully Created The Impression There Are Lots Of Them. There Aren’t. Thanks to the hard work of alt-right apologists like Milo Yiannopoulos, the widespread perception has been created that the alt-right is a movement on the rise, with a fast-increasing number of devotees. The media have glommed onto the alt-right in order to smear the entire conservative movement with it. The alt-right is quite active online — according to the Anti-Defamation League, I was their top journalistic target in 2016, and I received nearly 8,000 anti-Semitic tweets during the election cycle — but they aren’t particularly large. They fill up comments sections at sites like Breitbart, and they email spam, and they prank call people, and they live on 4chan boards, but the vast majority of alt-right anti-Semitic tweets came from just 1,600 accounts.

Thanks, however, to their online vociferousness, they convinced members of the Trump campaign, apparently including the president, that it was important not to knock them.

 

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Charlottesville, Sacramento, Berkeley — we’re watching a microcosmic re-enactment of Weimar Republic brownshirt-vs.-reds violence in real-time, complete with the same flags being flown. Just as then, some leadership condemning the evil of alt-right white supremacy, the viciousness of hard-left Marxism, and the violence anyone commits in violation of basic rights should be unceasing and thunderous.

It’s not.

And so the problem is likely to metastasize.

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Why this all ends in civil war: Radical Left-wing fascism and intolerance meets right-wing nationalism and resistance

Saturday, August 12, 2017 by: Mike Adams
 

(Natural News) The entire Left-wing media has erupted today over the so-called “white nationalist” protest in Charlottesville where right-wing groups are protesting the systematic destruction of war monuments and white history in general. It’s worth noting that if the same event were flipped to Muslims, or African-Americans or women, it would be heralded by the Left-wing media as “courageous resistance” against tyranny and oppression. But because the attendees are mostly white conservatives, the event is portrayed as a neo-Nazi, almost “KKK” rally-ish in nature, which is of course a wild misrepresentation of what’s actually happening there. As usual, the Left totally freaks out over everything and sees pointy white hats everywhere they look.

The core assertion of the Left, by the way, is that white people have no right to history or culture. Thus, all monuments, flags and history of “white” America must be wiped clean in a kind of “cultural genocide” run by the intolerant Left. While the culture of African-Americans, Muslims and “progressives” must be celebrated and rewarded, all symbols of “white America” are to be demolished in a style that frankly looks a lot like communist China’s Cultural Revolution.  http://www.naturalnews.com/

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State Of Emergency Declared In Virginia After Clashes At Far-Right Rally; Car Slams Into Protesters: Live Feed

by Tyler Durden Aug 12, 2017 1:43 PM

Update 3: A car has plowed into a group of counter-protesters at the Charlottesville rally, with local media reporting numerous heavy injuries. Video footage taken at the scene shows a damaged light-colored vehicle which appears to have been rammed by a larger, darker car at the scene. Local media describe the incident as a hit and run, with the vehicle, which reportedly had no license plate, quickly leaving the scene after the attack.  

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-12/fighting-and-out-control-clashes-break-out-far-right-rally-virginia-live-feed

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WATCH: Trump Slams KKK, Neo-Nazis, Says 'Racism Is Evil'

Daily Wire

August 14, 2017

 

After 48 hours of recriminations about his handling of the Charlottesville, Virginia violence between the alt-right and Antifa, and a terror attack by an alleged alt-right white supremacist on a crowd during that event, President Trump finally denounced racist groups by name on Monday. Trump originally responded to the terror attack on Saturday by condemning “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” without name-checking the alt-right or any of its constituent groups, or Antifa on the hard left. Over the weekend, various members of the White House stated that Trump meant to condemn those groups in his broad wording.

On Monday, Trump corrected the record himself.

 

 

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The Andrew Klavan Show Ep. 363 - The Devil Goes Down to Virginia

 

 

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Well Said, Mr. President

Jamie Lockett

August 14, 2017

65 COMMENTS

 

President Trump’s statement today on Charlottesville was very good:

“Racism is evil,” Mr. Trump said. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”

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Some excellent and much needed articles and blogs have been posted on this thread. I have learned a lot and my education has me deeply concerned, troubled and distressed.

Reality when talking or posting with "friends" validates so much that we have warned and posted about here over the years. "they" call for dialogue but there is no dialogue - just "us" going on defensive. Words have subtly become evil and racists and we in the "white" group are considered unable to understand or we are fake allies pandering.  Its impossible.

Btw "Christians" on both "sides" are being deluded and deceived also and its getting worse and worse.

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Federal Civil-Rights Case Can Wait — Let Virginia Prosecute Field

Andrew C. McCarthy

August 14, 2017

 

I have a new column up on the homepage about the murderous assault during this weekend’s horror show in Charlottesville. The thrust is to argue that the vehicular attack by James Alex Field, which killed Heather Heyer and wounded at least 19 others, was obviously a terrorist attack; but it is a domestic terrorist attack, which is the purview of the state law-enforcement authorities, not the feds, under U.S. law.

The prudent thing would be for the Justice Department and FBI to provide as much assistance as necessary to Virginia prosecutors and police, but defer to them – i.e., don’t elbow them out of the way so the federal government can prosecute. The Commonwealth’s criminal laws – which include capital punishment for intentional homicide and domestic terrorism, as well as severe penalties for violent assault – are a better fit for prosecution than federal penal statutes. As the column explains, for example, there is no federal crime of domestic terrorism – the U.S. penal code has a definition of domestic terrorism, but for sound policy reasons it reserves prosecution for international terrorism crimes.

In the column, I surmise that the sound legal strategy of letting Virginia proceed is apt to be overtaken by political concerns. Specifically, the Left’s narrative that the Trump administration is sympathetic to white supremacists may make the administration so eager to show this is false that it attempts to federalize the prosecution … even if that would not be good for the prosecution.

My fear is reinforced by President Trump’s statement at the White House early this afternoon.

 

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VICTORY: Judge Rules Against Tarps in Charlottesville Lee Park

For the moment, sanity has arrived.  Whether it lasts rests entirely on whether the extremes can be tamped down by the center.  

By / Shaun Kenney /  February 28, 2018

 The day of the ruling, the tarps came down yet again, much to the horror and screaming of the progressive hive in Charlottesville.

In the end, for all the violence and yelling and harm done by the controversy?  None of it mattered.

In a tersely worded ruling, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore followed up on his earlier ruling, ordering the tarps come down within 15 days, citing that the local city council’s decision to cover the war monuments did indeed violate state law, according to the Associated Press via the Virginian-Pilot.

This morning?  The City of Charlottesville had the tarps removed from both the Lee and Jackson memorials in Lee Park.       https://therepublicanstandard.com/victory-judge-rules-tarps-charlottesville-lee-park/

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The Virginia Flaggers

Posted: 28 Feb 2018 09:47 AM PST

Victorious sunrise! The tarps are down... for good this time! In a move that caught us by surprise, city workers removed both tarps at 6:00 am this morning, before the official order could be written or the 15 day countdown begun! Lee and Jackson ride again!

We have had several inquires about the ongoing boycott, wondering if it would be lifted now that the tarps have been removed.  

Yes, the tarps are down, but only because of an order by a judge. Wes Bellamy and City Council are STILL trying to remove the monuments and STILL siding with the leftist extremists and promoting their false narrative of tying our memorials to “white supremacy” and “racism”.

The boycott has been very effective and is still VERY MUCH in place! By all means, go see the monuments, newly unveiled, but do not spend a dime in the city of Charlottesville.