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2017-08-23 Home Front: Politix

Chaos Breaks Out at Charlottesville City Council Meeting

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Posted by Fred 2017-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 So the police finally showed up. Guess who they were protecting tonight.

Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-08-23 00:42|| 2017-08-23 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Some woman took an hour long (or longer) film of what happened at the rally. I only was able to watch 20 minutes of it, but it was enough to see her interview six or so participants of the original demonstration, who happened to pass by. None of those were white supremacists. One was concerned with freedom of speech, another wanted to keep historical objects in place, and so on. Others wanted to keep things peaceful.
The object of the "unity march" was to protest the removal of the statue of a Confederate.
I understand that some bad people attended this, but I do not understand why everyone calls this a white supremacist event.
Actually, the City Council vote to remove the statue was three to two, and the mayor was one of the two against it.
Why was the march described as a Nazi event?
Being against removal of the statue was apparently something about which reasonable people could disagree.
In the video that I watched a woman taking part in the protest, while walking from one site to another under instructions from the police, fell to the ground, apparently hit by a rock thrown at her. This caused a number of other protesters to hang around with her. I was surprised to see no policeman or medic come to help her, as she lay on the ground for quite a while. though fellow protesters were trying to help her. After a while perhaps a dozen of the protestors were standing around her. An angry young man came up to them and said, why don't you get out of here. We don't want you. Someone politely answered that a woman had been hit by a rock and they were waiting for someone to help. Meanwhile a crowd of anti-Mazi's accumulated around them. At this point I stopped watching.

Posted by Daniel 2017-08-23 02:10|| 2017-08-23 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 You know, if I were Putin, I'd offer to buy all the Confederate statues: "We'll keep them until American People want them back".
And if I was Bibi, I'd wait for the next Trump tweet and drop a FAE on Gaza - nobody would notice.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-23 02:32|| 2017-08-23 02:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Why was the march described as a Nazi event?

So they could tar Trump with it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-08-23 09:50|| 2017-08-23 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Why was the march described as a Nazi event?

The new definitions are that all whites are racist, and anyone who votes Republican is a Nazi.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-23 12:27|| 2017-08-23 12:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia is so yesterday.

Russian rocket motors to the Norks did not make a ripple in the MSM.

But get the Antifa, city officials, McAullife, et al in creating a made for tv scene, news outlets: not a peep on that story.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-08-23 16:06|| 2017-08-23 16:06|| Front Page Top

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