Alt-right rallies in Charlottesville, VA

[*jason*]

(08-16-2017, 06:52 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: I saw the Vice News show the other night, too. I generally think they're scum. I couldn't disagree with them more. I don't agree with businesses like GoDaddy giving them a means to disseminate their message. I've been critical of this board tolerating White Nationalist rhetoric cloaked as something else.

But, I do believe in their right to free speech and assembly even though I disagree with their message.

There was a part in the Vice episode in which a spokesman for one of the racist groups was assaulted by at least one person in the crowd. I disagree with that as much as the racist messages.

Plus the police on scene didn't do enough to seperate the two groups and maintain control to prevent the racist spokesman from being assaulted.

I've heard that the Nazis were supposed to enter the area from one direction. From what I hear, they did not do that, and it quickly got out of hand. The police shut it down from there. I did hear that police escorted the Nazis out thru Antifa... Probably not a great idea. Who knows? It's all fake news... amiright?

I have a hard time blaming the police for any of this. The last thing they wanted were viral images of them stomping out protesters. On top of that, they lost two of their own because of this shit show.