Silencing the Right Over the Violence

 

There has been a rash of “Free Speech” rallies and “Support the Constitution” rallies which have had their permits pulled due to the inevitable rioting which appears to be part and parcel of their coming together. Who can blame any protection oriented city council and mayor for pulling or refusing a permit to gather and hold a rally to any group which might erupt into violence and destroy their downtown or other area. The intended “Patriot Prayer” Rally which was cancelled in San Francisco was a perfect example. Only a day earlier the rally to celebrate the Trump Presidency at the Berkeley campus became a melee where the chief organizer of the “Patriot Prayer” Rally, Joey Gibson, according to police reports, had to be taken into protective custody as he became a specific target of some of the protestors and was endangered. This was reported by Lizzie Johnson on her Twitter Feed where commentary that follows depicts two opposing views of the events. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your positions and review of the video, the entire scene was videoed and can be viewed below. The man with his hands raised and backing away, while being assaulted intermittently and having something sprayed towards his face, is reported to be Joey Gibson. He apparently was accompanied by a large gentleman in American football shoulder pads apparently attempting to protect and guide him eventually turns him over to the police where we lose him behind the police wall (see video below). At about the 0:49 second mark a brick like appearing object bounces off the guard’s head with little apparent affect.

 

 

The violence against the pro-Trump rally attendees was the given reason for the cancellation of the “Patriot Prayer” Rally by the city officials of San Francisco. San Francisco is not alone, as other cities have stated intent to disallow right-wing rallies, as they will result in violence which the city officials claim is sufficient reason to prevent such rallies. Nobody has made any references to cancellations of leftist rallies but, then again, there has been no violence at leftist rallies, only at right leaning rallies such as pro-Trump, Free-Speech, Prayer, pro-Military and similar such right-wing rallies. This tendency was further proven at the Boston Free-Speech Rally where over twenty-thousand protestors threw urine-filled bottles and other objects at police as they were kept well over two-hundred-meters from the stage and the organizers who basically gave their speeches to one another. There was rioting at another pro-Trump rally, only this time in Phoenix, Arizona. The same has been reported from a Costa Mesa pro-Trump Rally in Orange County fairgrounds where police were posted around the entire area and the Fairgrounds Board of Directors announced they were changing their criteria for approving gatherings such that only those without any threat of violence will be granted license. Another Trump Free Speech Rally drew hundreds of demonstrators to a public square near City Hall in Portland, Oregon on June 4, 2017, where a far larger throng of counter-protesters and onlookers massed on three sides of the park in a heated encounter that grew tense but at least physical violence was avoided thanks to a heavy police presence. There have been violent protests disrupting virtually every free-speech, prayer, pro-veteran, Republican Townhall meeting and pro-Trump rally since the election of President Trump. The catch is the media is covering these violence prone rallies now more so than before the election. If we remember back, there was a cancelled Chicago Trump rally due to threatened violence and violence at virtually every campaign stop made by either Trump or Pence as well as numerous Republican candidates’ gatherings if they were endorsed by Trump.

 

Top Berkeley Trump Rally Members and Promise Keepers Clash with Protesters
Bottom Anti-fa with Red Communist Flags Group Before Assault on Trump Berkeley Rally

 

The idea that any rally or gathering by conservatives or those who support conservative causes can be made to appear bad in the media if rioting should break out, especially should there be injuries to any leftists who can then make a full report of their encounter to the media is nothing new. This was the script during much of the late sixties and early seventies anti-war movement and other leftist causes. The left learned early that violence gets covered while nice, polite, quiet and peaceful rallies get next to no coverage beyond the people who attend them. The left learned that if you wish to be heard across a wider range of people and audiences, then simply riot and force arrests and make as much noise and created mayhem as humanly possible. Some of the most militant leftist groups such as the Weather Underground resorted to real violence and murdered police and bombed police stations and even conservative rallies in order to gain publicity. The left believed that all publicity is good publicity, and that included bad publicity. Back then, it was all about making sure they were heard from whether it was for their message or for the protest turned riot. Now the whole idea is that nobody they disapprove of be heard or even permitted to speak.

 

The left, actually the extreme left led by Anti-fa, have found their magic eraser with which they believe they can squelch all speech which offends them. What is even more frightening is that a plurality of college students questioned believes that the First Amendment should only apply to approved speech which meets speech codes and is proven inoffensive. Even more disconcerting is that they believe that their college leftist professors’ idea that speech must offend nobody before it can be permitted to be spoken in public is the best course to maintain a decent society. They have proven their great inability to be offended by the most basic ideas to such an extent that their universities and colleges have put in place safe spaces where students can gather and not be challenged by any terse or edgy talk or comment and have specific places on campus well off the beaten path where conservative and other controversial speech can be screamed to one’s hearts content without reaching an ear which may be offended. The entire liberal arts university scene is designed not to challenge the unquestioning minds of the student population but rather to protect them from those things which they may find disturbing. These poor young children are sensitive and must not be disturbed or made distraught. They are to be coddled and after four years, they will go out into the “big bad world” and demand to have their world made safe and their ideas spoon fed just as it was in university. These youth are going to be the future of the United States and will be the ones making and enforcing the rules within the next ten to twenty years. Imagine the method in which the First Amendment will be interpreted and applied in such a manner that speech codes will be applied and people fined for using speech deemed challenging to people’s sensitivities. The Second Amendment will be completely turned on its head such that instead of the people being armed to prevent an overreaching government, the government will have all the weapons and the people will be unable to reach for liberties they once enjoyed. We can forget about the Fourth Amendment as all your papers and personal information will be stored in the cloud where the NSA can read anything anytime. The Fifth Amendment’s disallowing self-incrimination will be ineffective as the government will see all, hear all and know all within reason and beyond so there will be little if any secrecy, well, unless you live out in the woods and completely off the grid in a well camouflaged residence which also prevents heat signatures from being detected from above and are knowledgeable of when satellites will be overhead and thus schedule your outside activities around these times. The new age and the college educated new age wunderkind will destroy all freedoms for which the Bill of Rights was demanded. What a sad commentary it is to hear that free speech must have strict restrictions so people are not offended which is a commentary on the coming future, such a far cry from the people of the era of the founding Fathers who understood individualism and freedom. Now the schools start from first grade conditioning the students to work in groups such that nobody can be judged and everybody will be considered as a member of the group and the group will be judged as a whole. This way nobody can be considered inadequate which might endanger their self-image, and that would be terrible for their sensitive temperament. We can see a world where students are grouped at an early age and then proceed through life as a group, are hired as a group and get fired as a group and each member is responsible for the other members of their groups and these groups follow them through their entire lives. Well, except for those terribly unfortunate experiences where one may get injured or otherwise leave the group for a period or permanently, then the entire group will require deep counseling, that we can assure you. Yes, should the New World Order that the Anti-fa desire enacting come to pass and all their earth-shattering new concepts become reality, well, if I am still breathing I will be on the first spaceship leaving the new Eden and off to elsewhere.

 

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Charlottesville Car Ramming Suspect Identified as James Alex Fields Jr.

 

The Charlottesville, Virginia protests and crash car ramming suspect has been identified as James Alex Fields Jr. Below we have a picture of him shown with the white supremacists holding one of their identifiable shields with others before the attack thanks to a Tweet by Nicole Hensley. The New York Daily News photographed Fields with the Vanguard America white nationalist group in the hours before the crash. This removes any doubt as to the orientation of the ramming suspect. The inserted mug shot was thanks to a tweet by Henry Graff‏. The attack injured nineteen and murdered a 32-year-old woman crossing the street who has been identified buy a GoFundMe site as Heather Heyer. James Alex Fields has been confirmed as a member of ‘alt right’ group as was initially suspected.

 

Charlottesville Car Ramming Suspect
James Alex Fields Jr Shown with
White Supremacists Before Attack

 

From what we can gather, he was attending a pro-Nazi – White Supremacist – Alt Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and became infuriated at the opposition group which had opposed his side’s rally and it had broken out into a melee between the opposing groups of protesters. In his anger and rage and possibly with hate crime type motives, James Alex Fields used his vehicle to ram the counter protesters with intent of bodily harm and probable intent to murder as many as possible. The idea likely was a result of similar attacks in the past which have resulted in mass casualties, thus he had to know that at the least he was going to severely injure numerous people. There is absolutely no way this was an accident or an unintentional action. James Alex Fields should face the maximum charges and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. His crime should be charged as a series of hate crimes and his sentencing should be as heavy as the law allows. But these charges need not be the sole charges brought for actions that day of extreme hate and violence as the counter protesters arrived armed with rods, boards and other clubbing weapons and possibly knives and even firearms, though thus far the media has given scant accounts beyond the weapons which were obvious.

 

Further, had only one group had a permit to demonstrate, the other group was not a protest but a lynch gang and they should be prosecuted as such. It does not matter how much Americans may be revolted by white supremacists, Nazi sympathizers and neo-Nazis, not even with the alt right or how riled up they are over Hillary Clinton losing the election to President Trump. There is a First Amendment which provides that all people get to speak their minds as long as their words are not incitement to violence against others. The protections of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are intended most for that which people disagree most as that is the kind of speech which most requires protection. That is also why groups such as the one which originally gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia had every right to protest and make vile speeches which the majority of the people in Charlottesville, Virginia and probably the United States, even Donald Trump supporters, not only disagree with but find particularly disgusting and revolting. They have that right until they threaten any other people or groups of people. That is their right and it is the right of people to in return get a permit and demonstrate against these people even right across the street from their rally. What nobody has the right to do is attack people assembling legally and peaceably. That is when law enforcement need intervene to keep the two groups separate and if one group did not have a permit, then they should have been dispersed and not permitted to gather, especially into a formation and then attack people with a legal right and permit to hold a demonstration.

 

The fact that these altercations even occurred and that it was raised to the point where lives were under threat on both sides begs a question; where were the Charlottesville, Virginia police force? From reports, they were stationed on side streets to contain the rally. This means they witnessed the attacking group arrive carrying weapons and remained in those side streets to keep everything from spreading outside the area where the original protest was held and where the counter protesters arrived armed and ready for a fight. There was no attempt to keep these two groups apart which would have prevented one death and numerous serious injuries, some requiring hospitalization. That should have been the assigned duty of the police and somebody up the chain of command, either on the sight or in the police department who defined the instructions given the officers, is criminally responsible partly for what occurred. Even if it was the Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia who instructed the Police Chief that the officers were to remain in a containment configuration and ignore anything which was to occur on the protest field, then he need face charges and be removed from office as he failed to serve the public good. There were reports that the National Guard was also deployed at some location distant from the protest and were not deployed when the violence broke out.

 

Why were they deployed in the first place, that is a question begging an answer. Somebody expected some serious violence and feared it might spread to the rest of the city, that is our guess. So, probably somebody most likely in elected position knew there was going to be a violent counter-protest and did nothing to prevent the violence and actually aided and abetted the violence by ordering city law enforcement and even a military contingent that they were merely a precaution to keep the violence located where the alt right people were most likely to be harmed as they were going to be the victims of a riotous assault by people without a permit gathering illegally with intent to injure people lawfully protesting. If the roles had been reversed and there had been a people’s rights rally and a legion of alt right anti-protesters gathered with weapons and then charged the lawful rally you can bet there would have been three quarters of the police force there with orders to use whatever force was required to prevent the alt right from disturbing the lawful protesters because that protest was one the general public agrees with to a larger part. That is not how the law is supposed to function in the United States of America. All people have a right to assemble and to do so without the fear of being assaulted, even if their message is vile and reprehensible.

 

There is a war brewing inside the United States and it is being initiated by the far left. Somewhere a decision has been reached that conservatives no longer have a place within American society and must be opposed at every turn. We wrote an article day before yesterday where we disagreed that the weapons of politics should be used to force the Silicon Valley corporations to offer politically free services and that it is their right to taint their service with any political filter they choose. We stated clearly that they should be competed against by companies which either offer the conservative equivalent or a fair and non-political service where the best ideas and best answers to queries are returned and all videos and all messages are posted or allow the people to choose. We stand by those principles and in this particular case desire to point out that it is the job of public servants such as the police, the Mayor, the City Council and other public officials to protect and serve all the people fairly and with equal zest and understanding whether they agree with them or not. It is understandable for elected officials to go that additional step to assist the people who support them when they need assistance like clearing up a problem with the water bill, but not when it comes to protecting their rights and lives. If an investigation shows that there was in place a plan to allow the violence to be brought against the legal rally by officials in the Charlottesville, Virginia government or the Virginia State government, then Federal charges should be brought against these officials and they also should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and if their actions qualify as hate crimes, then that too should be part of their charges. Just as the actions of James Alex Fields are reprehensible and deserve the harshest prosecution and sentencing should he be found guilty, the public officials who ordered law enforcement and National Guard to stand by while such violence was being brought against a legally assembled group, no matter their politics as that is what was in play, they too should be forced to answer for their crimes in a court of law, and their crimes were against the constitution making them Federal crimes. This is one investigation from which United States Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III should not recuse himself. Yes, we agree that there should be an investigation into the entire situation and everything which occurred from the planning and orders given the police, why the National Guard was called out, who ordered who and what they ordered, who decided that no intervention was required and who attacked who between the groups and all appropriate and necessary charges should be brought against every person who violated any statute, law, regulation, and especially any parts of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and all Federal Laws including Civil Rights laws. This should be a legal free-for-all.

 

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