Mark Alexander of The Patriot Post writes about the
hypocrisy of the Dems, Leftist MSM, and RINOs reporting on the Charlottesville
rumble. It’s a great follow-up on my post “Charlottesville Violent Participants Pt ONE”.
JRH 8/16/17
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Antifa v. Alt-Right in Charlottesville — and America
The coming battles between sociopathic Leftists — the
socialist "anti-fascists" and the "alternate-right"
anarchists.
Aug. 16, 2017
(Email Alert Sent: 8/16/2017 2:39 PM)
“It is the manners and spirit of
a people, which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker
which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson
(1787)
Last weekend, according to NBC Chicago, there were nine people killed and more than 30 wounded in
gunfights on the streets of Chicago — and those figures don’t include the
deaths and injuries from other weapons within that Democrat Party pit.
This is a recurring tragedy in Chicago, and yet it’s highly
probable that 99.999% of Americans have not heard about those
deaths. Indeed, even though most of the murdered were black, who beyond the
immediate family and friends of the deceased can name a single unfortunate
victim of all the hatred and violence that is commonplace there?
The reason their names and faces are anonymous is that their
lives have no value as political fodder for the Demo/media propaganda machine or its so-called “Black Lives Matter” constituency. Those victims are simply
tossed onto the pile of 430 homicides in Chicago thus far this year, to the
horror of those of us who believe that “all lives matter.”
Now consider this: Last weekend, there was one person
murdered in Charlottesville, Virginia, by an Ohio man, and the whole world
knows the name of that unfortunate victim.
Charlottesville is, as anyone who has been there can attest,
a great town. In January, I declined an invitation to attend the Trump
inaugural fanfare, opting instead that weekend to meet my son in
Charlottesville for a few days visiting friends and re-visiting historic sites.
This area is, in my opinion, the richest historic region in
America.
Charlottesville is the site of Declaration of Independence
author Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home, which sits just above the town, and
his beloved University of Virginia. Just beyond Monticello is James Monroe’s
Highland home place. To the north is Montpelier, home of our Constitution’s
author, James Madison. To the west is Lexington, home of Washington and Lee
University and Virginia Military Academy — and burial place of Virginia sons
Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Northeast is George Washington’s
Mount Vernon, and the home of George Mason. To the east are Richmond,
Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown — the final battle site of the American
Revolution.
Despite being the epicenter of such extraordinary history,
Charlottesville is also lorded over by a disgraceful mayor, Mike Signer, and
his Leftist city council — a group of Berkeley wannabes who have led local
historical purges of Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee.
It was the planned removal of a small statue of the latter
from a city park that was the catalyst for the obscene riots last weekend in this otherwise quiet and
idyllic town.
That riot was a clash between sociopathic forces — the
antifa, the ironically self-styled “anti-fascists” leading the Leftist intifada
against anyone supporting Liberty or any economic system other than socialism,
and the alt-right, an anarcho-fascist fringe movement of white supremacists.
Notably the alt-right racists had an ACLU-defended permit for
their protest hate speech. The antifa
socialists and black supremacists showed up in mass without a permit.
Eight years of racial antagonism by Barack Obama and his radical regime led to mass riots
in more than 20 American urban centers, fomented by Leftist groups operating
under the banners of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, antifa, et al.
That violence erupted in Oakland, Akron and Pittsburgh in 2009; Santa Cruz,
Oakland and Los Angeles in 2010; Oakland in 2011; Chicago and Anaheim in 2012;
Brooklyn in 2013; Ferguson and New York City in 2014; Baltimore in 2015;
Anaheim, Chicago, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Standing Rock, Oakland and
Portland in 2016; and DC, Berkeley, Anaheim, Berkeley part 2, Berkeley part 3,
Olympia and Portland in 2017.
While Republicans, Democrats and the mainstream media have
correctly tagged one side of the hateful antagonists in Charlottesville as
“white supremacists,” you won’t find any reference by any
Democrat, or their Leftmedia propagandists, to the “black supremacists” who
were at the center of, or significant participants in, all the aforementioned
urban violence.
Nor did a single politico or media outlet rightly tag Micah
X, who murdered five police officers in Dallas a
year ago, a “black supremacist.” He was just the latest manifestation of the
Democrats’ playbook, which endeavors to foment disunity to rally constituencies. To them, dead
police officers are just collateral damage.
Remarkably, the riot in Charlottesville has already received
more mass media bandwidth than the attempted mass assassination in June of multiple Republican congressmen in
Alexandria, Virginia, by a hate-filled Bernie Sanders supporter.
Perhaps “Virginia is [not] for Lovers” after all? Actually,
Virginia is a great state when it’s not baiting anarchist haters.
Given the media feeding frenzy inspired by the riots in
Charlottesville, allow me to impart a few observations.
First: Regarding President Donald Trump’s repeated condemnation of both the
racists and the socialists…
Assessing the violence, Charlottesville police chief Al
Thomas noted, “Other groups [opposing the alt-right faction] began amassing
along the street and in the park. Gradually, the crowd sizes increased along
with aggressiveness and hostility of attendees toward one another. … We did have mutually
combating individuals in the crowd.”
This mutual violence was evident to everyone present, and it
was affirmed in real time by New York Times reporter Hawes Spencer, who
observed, “Protesters maced each other, threw water bottles and urine balloons
— some of which hit reporters — and generally beat the crap out of each other
with flagpoles.”
However, Trump should not have dared to suggest that the
violence was from both sides of the idiot line. According to the Leftmedia, the
antifa groups are just a bunch of wholesome all-American “counter-protesters”
defending our country against an epidemic of right-wing (Republican) hatred.
After concurring with the police chief and other observers
about “mutually combating individuals,” Trump said, “We condemn in the
strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence
on many sides. On many sides. No matter our color, creed, religion or political
party we are all Americans first.”
But that denunciation wasn’t sufficient for the Leftmedia —
or for establishment Republicans, who knew full well that the Demo/MSM
would label them as “soft on
supremacists” because Trump dared to identify both ugly factions.
Sunday, the White House communications staff followed up
with: “The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he
condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes
white Supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups. He called for
national unity and bringing all Americans together.”
But even that was insufficient for the Leftmedia. Trump had
failed to elevate the standing of the conflict to the level that best serves
the Demo/MSM agenda and the need to cash in on the chaos for ad revenue and
political contributions.
So Trump on Monday called a press confab and repeatedly
condemned the racists in what was to be a unifying speech.
But that was too little too late for the Leftmedia.
On Tuesday, in a contentious confrontation with MSM
agitators, Trump dared again to suggest
that the violence was mutual: “You had a group on one side that was bad, and
you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to
say that. But I’ll say it right now: I think there is blame on both sides and I
don’t have a doubt about it and you [reporters] don’t have a doubt about it
either.”
He also condemned the removal of historic markers, saying,
“This week it’s Robert E. Lee. I notice that Stonewall Jackson’s [statue is]
coming down. I wonder, is George Washington next week, and is it Thomas
Jefferson the week after? You really do have to ask yourself, when does it
stop?”
Of the Leftmedia “outrage” over Trump’s responses, Vice
President Mike Pence said, “I take issue with the fact that many in the media … have spent an awful lot of
time focusing on what the president said and criticisms of what the president
said, instead of criticizing those who brought that hatred and violence to the
streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.” He is correct.
Second: The Bannon problem…
While I believe Trump’s response to the violence was
measured — if very Trumpian — I also believe he has a problem on his staff by
the name of Steve Bannon, chairman of his 2016 campaign and now his chief
strategist.
Here’s the problem.
Jason Kessler is the white supremacist organizer of the
“Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville. He’s a University of Virginia
graduate who lists on his résumé his last job as being a writer for “Daily
Caller,” an online “conservative” news website co-founded in 2010
by Fox News host Tucker Carlson. For the record, despite the fact that I like
Carlson’s commentary, our staff considers Daily Caller a well-funded
titillation tabloid, and for that reason, it undermines the standing of genuine
grassroots conservative publications. Indeed, as of this week, Daily Caller has
scrubbed the commentary it hosted from Kessler.
Kessler’s colleague, Massachusetts native Richard Spencer,
also a UVA graduate, was agitating the
hatefest in Charlottesville.
Spencer is the founder of AlternativeRight.com, the
alt-right homepage espousing, among other things, white supremacist views.
After Trump’s election, Spencer led an alt-right conference group with “Hail
Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” chants. When Trump tapped Bannon to be a
senior advisor, Spencer claimed he was in “the best possible position” to
influence policy.
That brings me to Bannon himself, who took control of
Breitbart News in 2012 after the death of Andrew Breitbart. Bannon did to
Andrew’s popular website what Jeff Bezos is doing to the once-respectable
Washington Post — adulterating its content to comport with extremist political
views.
Breitbart News described Spencer’s website as the “center of
alt-right thought,” and in 2016, Bannon declared Breitbart “the platform for
the alt-right.” Spencer concurred, noting that Breitbart “has acted as a
‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and writers.”
This, of course, doesn’t make Bannon or Trump “white
supremacists.” Bannon, like Trump, has a propensity for shooting from the hip
and saying stupid stuff. And most
Trump supporters would have no idea what the “alt-right” is because, in fact,
it’s nothing more than a minuscule fringe political identity group. But the
Leftmedia would have you believe it’s the very foundation of the Republican
Party.
In November 2016, Trump responded to questions about
Bannon’s appointment, saying, “I’ve known Steve Bannon a long time. If I
thought he was a racist, or alt-right …
I wouldn’t even think
about hiring him.”
But can you detect the problem here?
All you need to know about Bannon is that he does not have
enough humility, in the interest of Trump’s agenda, to resign.
Third: Regarding the Orwellian trend of “historical
cleansing” underway by Leftists…
The “progressive” use of violence to force the removal of historical monuments from public spaces
should concern Americans of all political stripes. This extremely dangerous
trend by Leftists, like those sitting on the city council of historical hub
Charlottesville, smacks of socialist Soviet “airbrushing” and the Maoist
“Cultural Revolution.”
Longtime friend of The Patriot Post,
distinguished George Mason University professor Walter Williams, has issued
erudite warnings about the consequences of historical ignorance here and here, including the removal of historic markers to Confederate generals and the rewriting of American history.
The vast majority of Americans, including me,
who strenuously object to tearing down and stamping out our historical heritage
do not object because of some racist affinity. We object because this is our
story, and because whitewashing it is an affront to American history and to
our legacy of Liberty.
Predictably, seizing the mindless momentum, the Black
Congressional Caucus issued demands for the first phase of monument removals in the U.S. Capitol
building.
As 20th century philosopher George Santayana concluded in
his treatise, “The Life of Reason”: “Progress, far from consisting in change,
depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages,
infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it.”
English writer Aldous Huxley put it more succinctly: “That
men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of
all the lessons of history.”
Fourth: The ACLU and Charlottesville Police…
Notably, ACLU observers on Twitter were among the first to
report that the Charlottesville police had stand-down orders, allowing the
violence to escalate: “Clash between protesters and counter protesters. Police
say, ‘We’ll not intervene until given command to do so.’” But that order never
came.
This was affirmed by Fox News reporter Doug McKelway, who
was in the middle of the combatants. “When the tear gas started to fly, thrown
by protesters, the police themselves began to evacuate. I asked the guy who was
in charge, ‘Where you going?’ He said, ‘We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.’
They had a chance to nip this thing in the bud and they chose not to.”
If police officers are wholly unprepared for the level of
violence, they should retreat. But this retreat looked more like the
“stand-down” order that accelerated the 2015 Baltimore race riots.
Fifth: Who is funding antifa, Black Lives Matter and all
the other Marxist/black supremacist groups that have emerged since 2008?
Judicial Watch is suing America-hating billionaire socialist
George Soros for his funding records of Leftist
political groups. Keep a sharp eye on the outcome of this lawsuit.
Finally, regarding the Republicans’ stampede to distance
themselves from phony Leftist charges of racism, seeking to distance yourself
from something already far removed actually feeds the narrative that maybe it
is not so far removed.
To paraphrase a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “Republicans
doth apologize too much, methinks.”
The Democrat Party and its Leftmedia outlets are colluding
to publicize, and thus politicize, upcoming alt-right-versus-antifa venues for
conflict in order to advance their agenda. In doing so, they hope to hang these
riots around Republican necks.
But let’s be clear: Every drop of blood that’s shed in these
riots — and there will be more of them — is on the hands of the Demo/MSM propaganda
machine that is fomenting the disunity that propagates them — and Republicans
had better start shining a light on that, as Donald Trump has done, rather than
cowering behind a microphone.
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
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