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| Glenn K. Beaton: There were no good guys at Charlottesville |
| 2017-08-28 |
| [ASPENTIMES] "Two sides" didn't produce the horrifying violence at Charlottesville. There were many sides. All were bad in varying degrees. The worst of the bad guys, of course, was the homicidal loser who drove a car into a crowd of people for the purpose of killing as many as he could. This is the guy who once assaulted his mother and was drummed out of the Army after four months. The next worst were the neo-Nazis. Yes, other groups are equally violent, equally racist, equally hateful and equally stupid. But neo-Nazis are in a special category because their predecessors -- the ones that were just as violent, racist and hateful but not as stupid -- nearly succeeded in plots of worldwide genocide and totalitarianism. Neo-Nazis are even worse than the originals in some ways. The originals mistakenly believed they were in the right, while the new ones know they're not. Nazism is not the political philosophy of the neos -- what do these morons know about politics or philosophy? -- but is just an excuse for being ugly. The next worst at Charlottesville were the groups that have coalesced like sticky grime under the pseudo-mysterious and grandiloquent name "Antifa." That's evidently supposed to be a contraction of "anti-fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces-- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... The Orwellian irony to Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... and their name is that they're not anti-fascist at all. They're fascists. Like other fascists, they censor, shout down and sometimes physically assault anyone they don't like. And like all fascists, their rationale for their violent rhetoric and actions is that they're right and their victims are wrong, and so shut up. Some of the Antifa fascists and some of the neo-Nazi fascists were at Charlottesville for the express purpose of picking fights in front of TV cameras. That's what fascists do. These two groups with much in common succeeded in their common objective. The next-worst were the politicians. The mayor of Charlottesville and the governor of Virginia apparently gave advance orders for the cops not to intervene in the anticipated violence. This misguided order originates in the myth propagated in some political quarters that, as between a guy with a baseball bat who wants to beat the daylights out of a bystander and a guy with a badge who wants to stop him, the latter is the bad guy. And if only the latter will stay clear of the former, the former will put away the bat. It's time to reaffirm what we all used to know -- that the thin blue line of guys with badges who are sometimes killed are the good guys. At Charlottesville, the politicians ordered these good guys not to do their job. Next is the media. CNN, for example, has gone from a respected news source to a lame and partisan propaganda machine at endless war with President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States.... The media didn't exactly cause Charlottesville. But they have legitimized violence in the name of "resistance" to the president duly elected by people that the media thinks are too stupid to elect the candidate whom the media chose and too stupid to see the media chose one. This media is not only biased, but cheap. Before the dead woman was even buried, the media had already shifted away from news and onto their anti-Trump propagandizing. News reporting is difficult and expensive, but propagandizing is easy and cheap -- it requires no more than a free talking head talking out of his fat, lazy butt. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Once again a reasonable voice of reason. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-28 18:59 |
| #2 What everyone seems to be forgetting is that the whole thing was started by a group of First Amendment advocates who didn't want history erased, not by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, alt-righters, Brown Shirters of various flavours on the left, and the rest. There really were good guys at Charlottesville, but the mayor and governor fed them to the jackels -- with the assistance of the police. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-28 14:55 |
| #1 I think it's just the opposite. We know that nazis and commies are bad. But the politicians and media are still hiding behind the fantasy they are the good guys. The worst of the bad guys are: 1) The media, because they deliberately withheld important facts about the story. Then they focused on Trump's reaction to it and accused him of sympathizing with nazis. They ignored the obvious story which was the police not doing their job. Their obvious intent was to slant the news to make Trump look bad even though Trump had nothing whatsoever to do with it. 2) The Charlottesville mayor and police chief and the governor of Virginia because their job is to maintain law and order. They didn't just fail, they deliberately refused to do their jobs. The obvious and highly important question the MSM refused to ask these people was "Are you really that stupid or did you want violence so you could blame it on Trump?" 3) Antifa and BLM were determined to keep the white whatever-you-call-them from exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. 4) The white whatever-you-call-them. Nobody likes these people but that doesn't matter. If they lose their right to free speech we all lose it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-08-28 11:55 |