According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the alt-right organizer of the Charlottesville rally Jason Kessler has been an activist in the Occupy movement and a past supporter for President Obama.
“At one recent speech in favor of Charlottesville’s status as a sanctuary city, Kessler live-streamed himself as an attendee questioned him and apologized for an undisclosed spat during Kessler’s apparent involvement with Occupy. Kessler appeared visibly perturbed by the woman’s presence and reminders of their past association.”
Kessler’s apparent “red-pilling”, changing to a rightward shift in his views miraculously happened in just November, 2016.
“Relying on familiar tropes of ‘white genocide’ and ‘demographic displacement,’ Kessler has sought to parlay his status as a lonely dissenter in the “Capital of the Resistance” into notoriety on the larger far right circuit by organizing the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.”
The mercenary nature of Kessler’s involvement, combined with Governor McAulliffe’s stand down order poses more questions than answers. The way the Boston Police handled a crowd of over 40,000 the following weekend makes the Governor’s explanations that much more questionable.
Opinion: The fabricated protests around 130-year-old Confederate memorials is beginning to smell of an agenda, one that the band the Pixies might describe as “ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey”. In Norfolk, at the city council meeting that decided the fate of “Johnny Reb”, there were very few Virginia accents in the room.
This firestorm, so close to November elections raises a few eyebrows. Mr. Northam may assume, probably accurately, that the Eastern Shore is dyed in the wool and he can throw a large swath of the culture under the bus in order to secure the liberal Northern Virginia vote. It may, however, also be a signal to the electorate that it is time to be more critical about who we feel would best represent the interest of the region.
Paul Plante says
More like tactics and strategy, I would say, to fulfil an agenda, especially if the well-known Marxist and Alinsky-ite “community organizer” Barack Hussein Obama is in any way involved here.
To be a supporter of Obama, who in a speech to the African Union in Ethiopia on July 28, 2015, stated “I also stand before you as the son of an African and Africa and its people have helped shape who I am and how I see the world,” that is the man you are supporting, a “son of Africa,” whatever in the end that might mean, and whatever ideas came out Africa to shape who Obama really is, and how he sees the world are the ideas that you are supporting.
In an article in The Hill entitled “Rep. Steve King: Obama pushing ‘ideology of Karl Marx'” by Mark Hensch 05/06/15, we were informed as follows:
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Wednesday said President Obama was working to force the socialist “ideology of Karl Marx” on the country.
“And his calculation is not what’s true and just and right or even good for America, it’s how he can exploit his power base and move our country to the left towards the ideology of Karl Marx, how far he can go and get away with it,” King said on “The Glenn Beck Program,” according to BuzzFeed.
“There’s no conscience involved in this, no sense of duty to the Constitution or his oath to it,” he said.
“He has kicked that completely sideways.”
“The president has contempt for Congress, he ignores Congress,” he said.
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So whether the good congressman knows what he is talking about or not, that appellation of “Marxist” for Obama has some legs, but perhaps more important is the relation Obama has to the ideas of his community organizing mentor Saul Alinsky, who in the community organizing textbook Obama learned his community organizing trade from, entitled “Rules For Radicals,” Alinsky addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power in the opening paragraph as follows:
“What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be.”
“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power.”
“Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”
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That last sentence brings us to the agenda you are talking about above.
To achieve that agenda, like Hitler with his Reichstag Fire, the Alinsky-ites or Radicals need an “incident,” and the violence in Charlottesville fulfils that purpose admirably.
Consider the New York Times article “‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right” by THOMAS FULLER, ALAN FEUER and SERGE F. KOVALESKI dated August 17, 2017, wherein the following was stated about the times we are now firmly mired in here in the United States of America:
OAKLAND, Calif. — Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle.
He joined a human chain that stretched in front of Emancipation Park and linked his arms with others, blocking waves of white supremacists — some of them in full Nazi regalia — from entering.
“As soon as they got close,” said the young man, who declined to give his real name and goes by Frank Sabaté after the famous Spanish anarchist, “they started swinging clubs, fists, shields.”
“I’m not embarrassed to say that we were not shy in defending ourselves.”
Sabaté is an adherent of a controversial force on the left known as antifa.
The term, a contraction of the word “anti-fascist,” describes the loose affiliation of radical activists who have surfaced in recent months at events around the country and have openly scuffled with white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary supporters of President Trump.
Unlike most of the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville and elsewhere, members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy.
As explained this week by a dozen adherents of the movement, the ascendant new right in the country requires a physical response.
“People are starting to understand that neo-Nazis don’t care if you’re quiet, you’re peaceful,” said Emily Rose Nauert, a 20-year-old antifa member who became a symbol of the movement in April when a white nationalist leader punched her in the face during a melee near the University of California, Berkeley.
“You need violence in order to protect nonviolence,” Ms. Nauert added.
“That’s what’s very obviously necessary right now.”
“It’s full-on war, basically.”
Antifa adherents — some armed with sticks and masked in bandannas — played a visible role in the running street battles in Charlottesville, but it is impossible to know how many people count themselves as members of the movement.
Its followers acknowledge it is secretive, without official leaders and organized into autonomous local cells.
Driven by a range of political passions — including anticapitalism, environmentalism, and gay and indigenous rights — the diverse collection of anarchists, communists and socialists has found common cause in opposing right-wing extremists and white supremacists.
It has also supported niche groups like Black Bloc fighters, who scrapped with right-wing forces in Berkeley this year, and By Any Means Necessary, a coalition formed more than two decades ago to protest California’s ban on affirmative action for universities.
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So there is the cast of characters here who are ushering in the new revolution and new constitution, our team on the left, as The Who would have called them, and without an incident as Charlottesville, these people’s crusade to change our nation into some kind of anarchist’s paradise would never have gained the traction it has now.
Given all of that, it would not be surprising to find out the Kessler dude was really an agent provocateur whose duty to the Radical cause was to appear as a white supremacist in order to get those other white supremacists and silly fools who like to dress up as Nazis, notwithstanding that the United States of America helped to usher Adolph Hitler and his Nazis off the face of the earth, there to that park so that people who came from as far away as California (what do these radicals do for a living, anyway, that they can afford the air fare?) could then lock arms and cause the confrontation that happened that day.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get him on the line to ask him about all of that.
I for one would like to hear how he addresses that charge, and I would like to be the one to confront him with it, so with the courtesy of the Cape Charles Mirror, I’ll do it right here:
HEY, KESSLER DUDE, HELP US OUT HERE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ACTUALLY ON?
The candid world would really like to know.