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'It's almost as if they wanted us to fight each other'
WND ^ | 08/17/2017 | Liam Clancy

Posted on 08/17/2017 2:33:10 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

ACLU, reporters point fingers at police, McAuliffe for street warfare in Charlottesville!

In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one dead and at least 38 injured, many members of the national media were quick to blame the “Unite the Right” rally attendees for the outbreak of street warfare between “alt-right” and “alt-left” protesters.

But according to the ACLU and reporters covering the rally, the violence escalated due to what many believe was an intentional lack of police oversight, with the blame aimed squarely at Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

“The police actually allowed us to square off against each other,” one counter-protester told CNN. “There were fights and the police were standing a block away the entire time. It’s almost as if they wanted us to fight each other.”

The ACLU also contends the “passive” police presence may have been intentional to allow authorities to declare an “unlawful assembly” and justify shutting down the rally.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; democraticblackops; mcauliffe; nolink
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1 posted on 08/17/2017 2:33:10 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: ForYourChildren

"But according to the ACLU and reporters covering the rally, the violence escalated due to what many believe was an intentional lack of police oversight, with the blame aimed squarely at Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe."

Interesting.

2 posted on 08/17/2017 2:34:25 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: ForYourChildren

Link?


3 posted on 08/17/2017 2:36:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ForYourChildren

Isn’t this something that happens in prison yards?

Hmm.


4 posted on 08/17/2017 2:37:37 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Yes, I believe that is exactly what they wanted.


5 posted on 08/17/2017 2:37:50 PM PDT by EasySt
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To: ForYourChildren

Where is Jason Kessler now?


6 posted on 08/17/2017 2:38:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat Party supported KKK, lynchings and blocked school integration.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Where is Jason Kessler now?
With Seth Rich.
7 posted on 08/17/2017 2:41:34 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch

Do you think they SRed him to keep him quiet?


8 posted on 08/17/2017 2:42:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The Democrat Party supported KKK, lynchings and blocked school integration.)
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To: ForYourChildren
I've been saying this from the beginning. When I first heard this violence was going on I went online to find photos. There were no police in most of them.

Might just as well poured gasoline over the town and lit a match. Given that loudmouth mayor has been all over TV attacking Trump it is a very reasonable inference that he got the exact result he wanted. He knew the media and left would fly cover for the alt-left people.

9 posted on 08/17/2017 2:43:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Link?

You want a link?

I forgot it...

But here it is..

http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/police-stand-down-behind-violence-in-charlottesville/


10 posted on 08/17/2017 2:45:56 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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Hmmmm. Let me think about this for a moment.

McAuliffe.....Clinton......Obama.....Alinsky.

Makes perfect sense for those that aren't afraid of the truth.

11 posted on 08/17/2017 2:46:11 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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“There were no police in most of them.”

I read somewhere that the police actually funneled the two groups into each other. Sounded too conspiratorial to me, but now I don’t know.


12 posted on 08/17/2017 2:47:44 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: workerbee

Oftentimes yes. But not in Florida this weekend. Every single prison in this state has been put on lockdown.

Feeling tense.


13 posted on 08/17/2017 2:51:27 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: ForYourChildren
Not a dissimilar tactic from Obama’s Gun Walker program.

Facilitate the circumstances to create violence, then use that violence as justification to effect a course of action.

14 posted on 08/17/2017 3:09:16 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ForYourChildren
Code of Virginia

http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/section18.2-422/

§ 18.2-422. Prohibition of wearing of masks in certain places; exceptions.

It shall be unlawful for any person over 16 years of age to, with the intent to conceal his identity, wear any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place, or upon any private property in this Commonwealth without first having obtained from the owner or tenant thereof consent to do so in writing.

However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons


15 posted on 08/17/2017 3:42:25 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Yo-Yo

Excellent observation.


16 posted on 08/17/2017 3:53:48 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: ForYourChildren

“The police actually allowed us to square off against each other,” one counter-protester told CNN. “There were fights and the police were standing a block away the entire time. It’s almost as if they wanted us to fight each other.”


It is not “as if” - they DID want you to fight each other. This was a complete set up from the start, with the organizer of the “White Supremacist” side being Jason Kessler, a well-known Lefist Obama supporter who “miraculously” became a conservative or libertarian the day that Trump got elected. Well, BS to that - the guy is working for the other side, he never stopped doing that, but it more effective if he **looks** like he’s the head of a “right wing” organization and has it do outrageous things.

The pity is that the folks following him are too stupid to have looked him up (well, those that aren’t flying a false flag, like he is doing).

This whole thing just STINKS - but at least President Trump is smoking out residents of the Swamp in the process.


17 posted on 08/17/2017 4:25:55 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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“Where is Jason Kessler now?”

“With Seth Rich.”


Uh, no he isn’t (dead, that is). Why would you say that if it wasn’t true?

The scumbag is, regrettably, still around. We might LIKE him to be with SR, but he isn’t.


18 posted on 08/17/2017 4:30:16 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ForYourChildren

I remember years ago a demonstration by Civil Rights marchers through a White area. Nothing happened.

The news media on the scene did everything to get a fight response from those watching the demonstration telling the watchers to “Make a fist! Frown! Look mad!” They got nothing.


19 posted on 08/17/2017 4:58:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Liberal Democrat Mayor, Black Panther deputy Mayor, Clinton machine Governor.

This has nothing to do with Kessler. These leftists, infuriated at their loss in Federal court set this up as a trap.

Only the governor or mayor could order the police stand-down. Only the governor could call the state of emergency. It was the police who renagued on plans for safe possession and access. Without these things there likely would have been few problems.

All the authorities had to do was keep Antifa/BLM separate from the permitted rally goers and the rally would have gone off peacefully. Pikeville, Kentucky managed to do this in similar circumstances.

Remember: Unite the Right brought shields, Antifa/BLM brought clubs.

Antifa/BLM are the problem. That is where conservative and Republican ire should be focused.


20 posted on 08/17/2017 5:22:31 PM PDT by evilC
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