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Originally Posted by Guest
We are seeing a new phase in the violent confrontations between political extremists.
Legitimate "Freedom of Speech" rallies are being infiltrated by groups of people who not only accept violence, but also seek it. As the press has reported in Charlottesville, the demonstrators were seen getting off of buses wearing helmets and body armor, and carrying weapons. They sought battle.
When the issues involve Black grievances, the legitimate groups find their ranks swelled by members of the anti-police group Black Lives Matter, an outgrowth of the violence of the Ferguson, Missouri, riots.
On the issue of preservation of Confederate artifacts, concerned guardians of history find themselves joined by uninvited White Supremacists, Nazis, and many in Ku Klux Klan regalia.
Over a long career in law enforcement, federal and local, I have been involved in surveillance, investigating, confronting, and interviewing these people. It has been my experience that many of these White people base their grievances on perceived inequities of affirmative action programs, but there have been notable cases where I have seen the fiery gleam of a madman in the eyes of the person being interviewed. You can see this same thing in photos of Charles Manson.
What I found most disturbing, and even frightening, was the images of the torchlit parade in Charlottesville last night that was hauntingly reminiscent of the marches of Hitler's Nazis in 1930s Germany.
We have seen KKK members parading around on the fringes of demonstrations in their ludicrous regalia for decades, waving the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia (erroneously called the Confederate Flag, or the Stars and Bars.) We have seen neo-Nazis striving to get some press attention while wearing reproductions of Hitler's Brown Shirt uniforms and waving flags with swastikas.
But, a mass torchlight parade, in the style of 1930s Nazis, as we saw last night is something new, and must not be tolerated. I am horrified at how this movement seems to be catching on, and is attracting young people.
Carl in Tampa
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Your analysis is so well stated that I have highlighted it once again. We agree and we may be coming to the same conclusion but from different approaches.
Its difficult to change corporate cultural . However not all change is good. From the 1960's on the left sought to change American culture with its social justice warrior campaigns. The nation for the sake of the nation acquiesced.
However the old saw "give them an inch and they will take a mile" has application here. Because we have moved from a civil right paradigm to one of entitlement. Worse yet a demand to not only do right today but also yesterday. And so the campaign continued by the Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton's moving to the Black Caucus, which claims it will withdraw, all claiming racism still exists. So unless you destroy "all that is Confederate "the latest but not last demand,you are all still racist.
Moving froward Trump the blonde gets elected. so there is proof again that the country is racist...forgetting of course a black president was elected twice before .
A Colin Kaepernick and a Moshawn Marshall show their disdain for America. Black Leaders decry the police are racist. Black Lives Matter becomes a forced to beckon with. A white guy named James Damore speaks the truth about affirmative action programs and the CEO of Google fires him. My employer did government work and therefore had to implement an affirmative action plan. the program was totally political and total quantifiable,,it was only about filling in the numbers and not the quality of any employee
White hate groups that were forced back underground resurface because now there is credibility in their complaints and claims
Their claims the clear and intentional attacks made on Christians. The clear and intentional attacks made on white heterosexual males. colleges and universities no longer teach the classic etc because greatness was produce by white men. white men thought to be racist and misogynist . SO cultural diversity supersedes all elseto remove this white stink. Men of greatness whose names appear above a university building are removed because well they were deemed racist..yet they were men of their time and one should judge them as of their time and their net good
Trump represents everything the radical left hates. The political left, establishment right, liberal media and Hollywood were made to look foolish when Trump was elected. So all of the aforementioned have developed Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Notice all the illegality ,brutality and cause and reasons for this protest are not seriously debated because its Trump's fault. Trump did not to this or that...........
I see a very large, and borrowing the liberals favorite word "disingenuous", hole in logic here.
This is essentially a fight between nationalist with traditional values vis vis internationalist touting the new normal/ This is a fight about power and control and Charlotteville is just the latest eruption
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