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TORCH-wielding white supremacists are marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, shouting 'unite the right' and 'you will not replace us' — and calling for a split from the United States.
Hundreds of protesters have today clashed briefly with counterprotesters on the Charlottesville campus of the University of Virginia ahead of a planned rally tomorrow.
Punches were thrown and placards used as bludgeons before authorities reacted.
Police used teargas to disperse the groups, which have been assembling in the flashpoint Southern State town of 45,000 residents over a dispute relating to the statue of a Southern Civil War hero.
"I am beyond disgusted by this unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation on a college campus," Mayor Mike Singer said in a statement.
Virginia's governor has urged people to stay away from the weekend rallies of far right and white supremacist groups in the university town of Charlottesville.
Some 2000 to 6000 'Unite the Right' supporters are expected to march later this weekend. The National Guard is on alert because of a believed high risk of violence.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has said extremist groups have threatened to try and turn the rally into a fight.
McAuliffe, a Democrat, said many of the people at the rally will "express viewpoints many people, including me, find abhorrent. As long as that expression is peaceful, that is their right." He said he had given security forces instructions to act quickly and decisively if violence breaks out.
"I want to urge my fellow Virginians, who may consider joining, either in support or opposition to the planned rally, to make alternative plans," McAuliffe said.
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AN Ohio man accused of driving a car into a group of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally has been charged with second-degree murder and other counts.
The Charlottesville Police Department said in a statement that James Alex Fields Jr, 20, also faces three counts of malicious wounding, and one count related to leaving the scene.
Col. Martin Kumer, superintendent of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, said Fields was in custody, the New York Post reported.
It came after a white nationalists' rally erupted into deadly violence when a car ploughed into a crowd while demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed.
But as the death toll linked to the rally rose to three — one in the car crash and two in a helicopter crash outside Charlottesville — President Donald Trump's apparent refusal to criticise far-right hate groups sparked sharp criticism, even from members of his Republican Party.
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Picture: AP
Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after an white nationalist rally. Picture: AP
A 32-year-old woman was killed and 19 were hurt in the ramming, police said, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
Two others died in a nearby helicopter crash. The cause of the helicopter crash, which occurred in a nearby wooded area, was under investigation, Virginia State Police said.
Authorities did not say how the crash was linked to the violence in Charlottesville, through it appeared state police were on-board
Another 16 people were treated for other injuries linked to the rally, including from "individual engagements," Charlottesville police chief Al Thomas said.
Police were treating the incident as a "criminal homicide".
Hundreds had descended on the city either to march in or rail against a "Unite the Right Rally," a major gathering of white supremacists, nationalists and other supporters of the so-called "alt-right."
Rescue workers and volunteer medics tend to people who were injured when a car ploughed through a crowd of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators. Picture: AFP
Police and members of the National Guard patrol near the scene. Picture: AFP
A vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Picture: AP
A vehicle reverses after driving into a group of protesters. Picture: AP
"We had folks who came here to cause mayhem and chaos and mischief that resulted in three fatalities here in the city of Charlottesville," city manager Maurice Jones said at a news conference.
President Donald Trump has condemned "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides" in response to the tragedy.
Meantime, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer tweeted: "I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will — go home".
One eyewitness told the New York Post that the attack was definitely "intentional".
"The car was travelling at (65km/h), hit about 15-20 people, crashed into the two cars in front of it, and then backed up and sped away while cops were standing on the side of the road and didn't do anything."
The car ploughed into the crowd two hours after police shut down a white nationalist rally before it could even begin in a Charlottesville park.
Trump: "We have to heal the wounds of our country"
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe had already declared a state of emergency in order "to aid state response to violence" at the rally in Charlottesville, which is about 160 kilometres outside of Washington, D.C.
"It is now clear that public safety cannot be safeguarded without additional powers, and that the mostly out-of-state protesters have come to Virginia to endanger our citizens and property," McAuliffe said.
Speaking at a press conference, McAuliffe directly addressed the "white supremacists and the Nazis" who were behind the attack in Charlottesville, telling them to "go home and never come back" and saying "you are not wanted in this great commonwealth".
Meantime, Mr Trump addressed the "terrible" tragedy, speaking a press conference in New Jersey.
"We're closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia," Mr Trump said. "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides."
President Donald Trump pauses while speaking about Charlottesville. Picture: AP
"It's been going on for a long time in our country," Mr Trump said. "Not Donald Trump. Not Barack Obama. It's been going on for a long, long time."
Mr Trump was criticised for taking "hours" to make a statement. First Lady Melania Trump tweeted her thoughts before anyone in the White House.
Mr Trump also stopped short of attacking the white supremacist groups in his tweets or in his public comments.
"We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!"
Mrs Trump was the first voice out of the White House to condemn one of the largest race hate rallies in the US for decades.
"Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence," Mrs Trump said.
The white nationalist rally was declared an unlawful assembly after the group were initially granted a permit to hold the event.
Bearing shields and chanting racist slogans, thousands of white nationalists descended on Emancipation Park — formerly Lee Park — in downtown Charlottesville.
White nationalists, Neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Emancipation Park. Picture: Getty
Hundreds of counter-protesters were also there, and both sides hurled plastic bottles and sprayed each other with chemicals.
White nationalists, Neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Lee Park. Picture: Getty
It's the latest confrontation in the city since it voted earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park.
US President Donald Trump condemned the violence via Twitter.
However, the president was criticised for only tweeting about the violence after First Lady Melania Trump had herself taken to Twitter.
PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT
Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other.
Men dressed in militia uniforms were carrying shields and openly carrying long guns.
White nationalists, Neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters. Picture: Getty
Police move in to stop the violence. Picture: Getty
Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler planned what he called a "pro-white" rally to protest Charlottesville's decision to remove the General Lee statue.
About 6000 people were expected to attend before it was declared an unlawful assembly.
Mr Kessler says the speeches will go on regardless.
Democratic Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency. Picture: Getty
Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler. Picture: Supplied
It came after a night where torch-wielding white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, shouting "unite the right" and "you will not replace us" while calling for a split from the United States.
Punches were thrown and placards used as bludgeons before authorities reacted.
Police used teargas to disperse the groups, which have been assembling in the flashpoint Southern State town of 45,000 residents over a dispute relating to the statue of a Southern Civil War hero.
"I am beyond disgusted by this unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation on a college campus," Mayor Mike Singer said in a statement.
Virginia's governor has urged people to stay away from the weekend rallies of far right and white supremacist groups in the university town of Charlottesville.
Some 2000 to 6000 'Unite the Right' supporters are expected to march. The National Guard is on alert because of a believed high risk of violence.
Gov. McAuliffe has said extremist groups had threatened to try and turn the rally into a fight.
"I want to urge my fellow Virginians, who may consider joining, either in support or opposition to the planned rally, to make alternative plans," Gov. McAuliffe said.
The white nationalists, including supporters of the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group, and anti-fascist activists have turned out in Charlottesville, as the othwerise sleepy town is planning to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who led Confederate forces in the US Civil War.
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"The Charlottesville event could be a potentially historic showcase of hate, bringing together more extremists in one place than we have seen in at least a decade," said Oren Segal, director of the Center on Extremism at the Anti-Defamation League, a group that monitors and combats anti-Semitism.
Units of the Virginia National Guard have been placed on standby, he added.
On July 8 a few dozen Ku Klux Klan marchers gathered in Charlottesville to protest plans to remove the statue of Gen. Lee. But they were outnumbered by hundreds of jeering counter protesters.
This time the extreme right hopes to have a stronger showing thanks to the presence of various leaders of the "all-right" movement that has been emboldened by Donald Trump's ascent to the White House.
Police are covered in tear gas used on counter-protesters following a Ku Klux Klan rally in July. Picture: AFP
CALLS FOR BREAKAWAY SOUTHERN NATION
As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed to do: secede from the Union.
It's not an easy argument to win, and it's not clear how much support the idea has: The leading Southern nationalist group, the Alabama-based League of the South, has been making the same claim for more than two decades.
But the idea of a breakaway Southern nation persists.
Police escort members of the Ku Klux Klan past protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Picture: AFP
The League of the South's longtime president, retired university professor Michael Hill of Killen, Alabama, posted a message in July that began, "Fight or die white man" and went on to say Southern nationalists seek "nothing less than the complete reconquest and restoration of our patrimony — the whole, entire South."
"And that means the South will once again be in name and in actuality White Man's Land. A place where we and our progeny can enjoy Christian liberty and the fruits of our own labour, unhindered by parasitical 'out groups,"' said Prof. Hill's message, posted on the group's Facebook page a day after a rally in support of the a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville.
The group's website says it is "waging a war to win the minds and hearts of the Southern people".
While white-controlled government is its goal, the group says in a statement of beliefs that it offers "good will and co-operation to Southern blacks in areas where we can work together as Christians to make life better for all people in the South."
Ku Klux Klan protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Picture: AFP
CIVIL WAR STILL SIMMERS
According to the US Census, 55 per cent of the nation's black population lived in the South in 2010, and 105 Southern counties had a black population of 50 per cent or higher.
Hill said they're not advocating for a repeat of a Civil War that claimed 620,000 lives or a return to slavery, the linchpin of the South's antebellum economy.
Statue of Robert E. Lee, Confederate Civil War General, at Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"We have no interest in going back and recreating an un-recreatable past," Hill said in a telephone interview. "We are future oriented."
The group has erected billboards that said "SECEDE" in several states, and it even has its own banner — a black and white version of the familiar Confederate battle flag, minus the stars.
Secession also finds support on some websites that support white nationalism, including Occidental Dissent, run by a Hill associate, and the openly racist, anti-Semitic Daily Stormer. Extremist watchdog Heidi Beirich said strict Southern nationalism seems to have been swept up into the larger white-power agenda in recent years.
"I think it's mostly subsumed into the white nationalist movement," said Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "There might be a little Southern softness to it. But I can't tell a whole lot of difference between the League and white nationalism."
Members of the KKK escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally in Charlottesville. Picture: AP
GROWING DIVIDE
Secession isn't the sole property of Southern white nationalists.
A group that wants California to secede from the United States is based mainly on liberals wanting to exit the United States because of President Donald Trump's election. They are collecting signatures to place a secession ballot initiative on the 2018 ballot.
The initiative would form a commission to recommend avenues for California to pursue its independence and delete part of the state constitution that says it's an inseparable part of the United States.
A member of the Ku Klux Klan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Picture: AFP
The "Calexit" initiative also would instruct the governor and congressional delegation to negotiate more autonomy for California.
Secession also has been discussed on and off for years by the far right in states including Texas, particularly when Barack Obama was president. Online, many Southern nationalists seem animated by drives to remove Confederate memorials, as happened in New Orleans and is planned in Charlottesville, Virginia. Not everyone who supports Confederate monuments wants to remove the South from the United States once again. Some supporters of the Old South say they simply want to honour ancestors who wore the grey during the Civil War. But some want to make a break.
Perhaps the United States should just let the South leave, said author Chuck Thompson.
Thompson's 2012 book "Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession" argued that both the United States and the South might both be best served if Southern nationalists won the argument and succeeded in forming a new nation.
The South has been at odds with the rest of the nation for generations over issues including education, race, politics, shared history and religion, Thompson said in a telephone interview, and some things just don't change. "It's not that just the rest of the country would be better off without them," he said. "It's that everyone would be better off without them, both sides."
Originally published as Driver charged over Virginia horror.
A 32-year-old woman was killed and 19 were hurt in the ramming, police said, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
Two others died in a nearby helicopter crash. The cause of the helicopter crash, which occurred in a nearby wooded area, was under investigation, Virginia State Police said.
Authorities did not say how the crash was linked to the violence in Charlottesville, through it appeared state police were on-board
Another 16 people were treated for other injuries linked to the rally, including from "individual engagements," Charlottesville police chief Al Thomas said.
Police were treating the incident as a "criminal homicide".
Hundreds had descended on the city either to march in or rail against a "Unite the Right Rally," a major gathering of white supremacists, nationalists and other supporters of the so-called "alt-right."
Imagine if the car used was the Dukes of Hazzard General lee? This situation already has clout but that'd be interesting.
Who feels the South is better off splitting from the rest of the US?
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Looks like the KKKay have a new street sport they like to PPPlay!
Quote from: Rev.HardyLloyd on Sun 13 Aug 2017
That's just too funny, brother...
....and we know what is comming next?!
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Part of my response to this atrocious, anti-White act by PA storekeepers:
Quote from: Rev.Cambeul on Thu 17 Aug 2017"It's better to rule in Hell, than it is to serve in Heaven."
Follow the quoted link above for the rest of my response and advice on what to do.
Commentary from Australia:
Quote from: Our Friends at United Nationalists AustraliaCHARLOTTESVILLE WAS NEVER A POPULARITY CONTEST
Extract: Whether or not what transpired is even relevant to us Bruces and Sheilas here down under is debatable. However, on the Left side they sure think so. A Negro stubbing its big toe in Chicago is considered grounds for them to express a sympethetic flash demonstration here in Oz.
This is why a gaggle of gimps and geeks from an over-caffeinated cosplay group calling itself Campaign Against Racism and Fascism turned out at the American consulate in Melbourne on Monday to show solidarity with cupcake anti-racists from Virginia. It was impossible to watch the first two seconds of their 'demonstration' without hitting the floor in crippling spasms of laughter.
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It was like the Care Bears had discovered the Gender Reassignment Clinic on their way to a Refugees Welcoming Committee.
No one from Unite the Right is laughing, although possibly they should be. There seems to be no shortage of analysis occurring and the more critical voices point to displays of overt "Roman Saluting", Larping NS wannabes serving up the perfect images for a biased liberal media, lousy organisation, ego shines from the 'leaders' and the absence of an overall cogent message.
For the complete article, visit: https://unitednationalistsaustralia.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/charlottesville-was-never-a-popularity-contest
As for what I think: A mix of Hobbyists and genuine White Racial Activists without self-discipline allowed
anarchy to transpire.
I would never for a second suggest that they should have backed down and allowed themselves to beaten to death - because that's exactly what would have occurred had they been stupid enough to play the Gandhi game - all I'm saying is that a little self-discipline along with a reliance on
independent media coverage would have turned the day into a useful promotional tool for the White Racial Cause ... rather than just being yet another day of violence in America.
Only White is Right - Unite the White!
@Cailen.
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Quote from: Wha! Wha! on Sat 19 Aug 2017A local statue of Christopher Columbus in Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA, was spray painted and NO local jew media is reporting it!!!
This is the most they will report ... probably because they are campaigning to get rid of him next:
https://twitter.com/CailenCambeul/status/898764028968939522
It's a war on anybody who is White! There is no respect from anybody about anybody who established a western colony in the new world!
I feel I don't belong in these times and I am stuck in a Stalinist nightmare!
Over here the Abos want Australia Day moved. They grizzled about a shirt saying "Australia: Since 1788." They had no right to because there was no name for this place before 1788.
These people were taught ownership by us. The land owned them.
It isn't just America that suffers! C&nts here protest when there are European colonisation re-enactments going on in Sydney. At the Gumeracha madeavel fest a coon turns up to do a smoking ceremony to give us consent to showcase our culture.
I too have been politically persecuted for trying to gave civil discussions about history.
It is a war! We are the only people with any brains now. The rest seem like miscegenators, reds, lemmings, traitors.
Hell, the Gay community don't want Father's Day in schools because some kids don't have fathers now!
I hope this Jennifer Lawrence - whomever she is - does a movie where she's gutter stomped. I may even pay to see that one.
https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLawrence/posts/10154627430071793
Take a look at my face, bitch. Take a good long look and don't forget to report me ... I could do with the free publicity.
@Cailen.
http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/08/16/petition-urges-removal-confederate-monument-ft-sanders/572351001/
The monument still had wet paint on it as of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
"Obviously we don't condone vandalism of any property, public or private," said Jesse Mayshark, director of communications for the city, in an email. "We encourage people to express their views through other means.
A petition asking Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero to remove the statue was started Tuesday has garnered more than 1,100 signatures.
Mayshark said Rogero's staff had read the petition and "understand the concerns of those who signed it," but that no one in the mayor's office was aware of the monument. When reporters inquired Monday about whether the city had seen any pushback from residents on monuments in the city, communications staff said they hadn't received any.
"To be honest, none of us in the Mayor's Office were even aware of the monument, even though we have probably walked or driven past it thousands of times. We're researching the history and legal details of its ownership."
Because it's not yet clear who owns the statue, Mayshark said it's unclear whether the city would have a role in cleaning it.
When asked if Knoxville Police Department was investigating the vandalism, spokesman Darrell DeBusk said in an email shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon that no one had reported it.
Knoxville resident Ben Allen created the petition on change.org Tuesday and urged Rogero to follow the example set by leaders in Charlottesville, Va., Lexington, Ky., and Gainesville, Fla., and push for the removal of the monument.
Knoxville must stand up to white supremacy and remove these monuments that have provided spirit in enabling neoconfederates and alt-right to collaborate in terror tactics across the south," Allen wrote in his petition.
Allen said he started the petition Tuesday and that the accumulation of more than 1,000 signatures over just 24 hours shows how Knoxvillians feel about the monument.
"I've been very pleased to see the response with it, and it shows exactly how people feel about this stuff," he said. "We're asking the mayor to make right decision that she can make as a person with political power."
Mayshark said the city would not make a decision on how to move forward until it had determined who has ownership of the monument but encouraged residents to reach out either through the petition or by emailing the mayor's office at communications@knoxvilletn.gov.
"If it is on public right of way, which it appears to be, a state law passed by our Legislature forbids the city from unilaterally moving it," Mayshark wrote. "That would take a request for a waiver from the State Historical Commission."
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Quote from: Rev.HardyLloyd on Sun 20 Aug 2017
When you read the online posts of these self hating Whites you see how utterly insane they are. Examples:
'We hate racism.' Followed by 'We hate Nazi's'. Thats hypocritical.
'Promote love thy neighbor.' Followed by 'Get Nazi's out.' More hypocracy.
These ARA faggots are mentally deranged!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faNge-o0V-k
Reminds me of this situation."no racists on our streets"!
The black man beaten in a Charlottesville parking garage by white supremacists after a "Unite the Right" rally has been charged with a crime in connection with the incident, even as police continue searching for some of the people who kicked him to the ground and pummeled him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-brutal-beating-of-black-man-by-white-supremacists-still-roils-charlottesville/2017/10/10/e5994132-a515-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html?pwa=true&tid=pm_national_pop&utm_term=.32ae956818a0
A local magistrate issued an arrest warrant Monday for DeAndre Harris on a felony charge of unlawful wounding after a man, identified by Harris's attorney as Harold Ray Crews, reported that he was injured by the 20-year-old during the August brawl. Crews, who describes himself as a "Southern Nationalist" and an attorney on Twitter, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
The magistrate's charge against Harris, who suffered a spinal injury and a head laceration that required 10 stitches, came less than 48 hours after a second rally by white supremacists and white nationalists in Charlottesville and caught the city's police department by surprise.
"We were not expecting this. We were expecting to do our own investigation into the man's allegations," said Detective Sgt. Jake Via, who is supervising the parking garage case.
But alleged crime victims can go to magistrates for warrants after they've filed police reports.
Harris's attorney, S. Lee Merritt, denounced the charge and said it was orchestrated by the League of the South, an organization labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Crews, who runs the group's North Carolina chapter, was not injured "in any way" by Harris, Merritt said.
"We find it highly offensive and upsetting," Merritt said, "but what's more jarring is that he's been charged with the same crime as the men who attacked him."
The brutal attack, which occurred in a garage next to police department headquarters, was captured in a video that went viral in the days after the rally. The confrontation has come to symbolize the racial hatred that was unleashed in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, when white supremacists, Klan members and neo-Nazis clashed with counterprotesters. The violence left one counterprotester, Heather Heyer, dead.
Harris's beating has inspired a social-media campaign by activists to identify his six attackers, two of whom have been arrested. A third man, Jacob Scott Goodwin, a 22-year-old from Ward, Ark., has been accused by the online sleuths, who are led by journalist and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King.