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Home Front: Culture Wars
Armed Nazis Descend On Tiny Kentucky Town
2017-04-30
Posted by:JohnQC

#14  I've been through Pikeville several times. It is a town of about 7000. Pikeville has a connection to East Tennessee in that a family was murdered north of here off I-81 20 years ago. A description of the murders was as follows: The Lillelid murders refers to a criminal case in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States in 1997. A Norwegian-Honduran-American family of Jehovah's Witnesses were carjacked and then shot; three of the four were killed. Six young people were convicted and sentenced for the crime. Norwegian Vidar Lillelid (age 34), his American wife Delfina (28), their daughter Tabitha (6) and son Peter (2) were shot on a deserted road in Tennessee on 6 April 1997. Vidar and Delfina were found dead, while Tabitha died after being transported to the hospital. Peter, who was found lying in a ditch, was the only survivor. He had been shot once in the torso and once through the eye. As a result of the shooting, he was left blind in one eye and permanently disabled The father worked at a Holiday Inn in Knoxville a few miles away. The trial for the murderers was held in Greenville, TN. Feelings were heated in Greenville and there was talk of lynching in the newspaper which turned out to be just talk. The murderers were from the Pikeville, KY area, were into witchcraft, satanism and the occult and were described as Goths. They are still serving time in the Tennessee prison system.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-30 22:36  

#13  My observation: of the various groups that showed to provide security, some were able to work hand-in-glove with BPD to provide a secure perimeter around the event which then freed up PD assets to corral and separate Ralliers and any Antifa that showed up. That force multiplier was crucial to clamping down on any potential for violence that day. We're seeing LE adapt the position that the best way to defuse the situation is to demask Antifa. Concur.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-04-30 18:36  

#12  From the article:

But most of the town’s actual residents want nothing to do with Nazis or their foes.

“We have no clue why they would even pick Pikeville,” said Elizabeth White, who is in her 50s and has lived in Pikeville her entire life. “Why don’t they go disrespect their own homes, their own people, their own families?”

She added, “We need Trump to tell them to go back to their own place.”


Just as well the police kept the visitors orderly. Next time they should charge each group a stiff per-head fee for providing security.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-04-30 17:30  

#11  "Today, people know that the street protest is a made for TV event and that the “protesters” are often paid to show up and make noise...."
Posted by: newc   2017-04-30 14:37  

#10  Pedestrian

You'd think...
Posted by: Pappy   2017-04-30 13:38  

#9  Why Pikeville, KY?
Recruiting where the desperate edge of depressed urban society meets Appalachia.
See The Outsiders
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-04-30 11:56  

#8  Antifa was neutered by LE as they were in Berkeley just a couple of days ago. All that is required is the enforcement of the "no wearing of masks" rule. Do that, and Antifa will not show as they spend quite the effort with recruits on how to avoid "unmasking" It shows how little Berkeley PD had been doing in the 1st place. Thursday was a beautiful day in Berkeley. So many folks gathering had not seen each other since 2nd Battle of Berkeley. Some of it quite emotional. It speaks to those bonds that can form under such situations.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-04-30 11:15  

#7  AntiFA really means Anti First Admendment.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-04-30 10:50  

#6  And socialist scribes write articles about what they want to believe in their daily hammer and sickle.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-04-30 10:25  

#5  Notice that there's no mention of where the counter protesters were from.
I refuse to use the term "antifa" because that implies anyone they are protesting is automatically fascist. That gives them authenticity which they have not earned.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-04-30 10:11  

#4  Pedestrian
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-30 08:51  

#3  Chili powder.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-04-30 08:50  

#2  Obviously popcorn time - but, what kind of flavoring?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-04-30 08:37  

#1  Headline ought to be "Armed Nazi fascists battle other armed fascists." Why in Pikeville, KY? Nobody can figure that out.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-30 08:20  

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