Klan rally in Virginia today. Guess who's side the police are on.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 07/08/2017 - 1:53pm

There will be a KKK rally in Charlottesville today, and Klan members are clear about their intentions.

Ku Klux Klan members will be armed for their own protection when they rally against the removal of a Confederate statue on Saturday, according to an organiser.
James Moore, a member of the Loyal White Nights of the Ku Klux Klan, told The Washington Post that Klansmen would defend themselves if attacked at the demonstration in Charlottesville, North Carolina.
“It’s an open-carry state, so our members will be armed,” he said, adding that he expected as many as 100 people to turn out in protest at Charlottesville City Council’s decision to pull down a statute of General Robert Lee.

OK. So about 100 armed a**holes will be gathering to defend racism.
This is not new, and normally I would just ignore it. However, what has happened in the weeks leading up to today makes this story noteworthy.

Virginia police are using intimidating surveillance in an attempt to stop left-wing and anti-racist protesters as far-right groups increase demonstrations in their state, anti-racist activists tell Al Jazeera.
Pam Starsia, a local activist with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), delivered a letter detailing a series of complaints to the Charlottesville Police Department (CPD) on June 23.
According to the letter, police have made unannounced visits to homes, places of work, and arrested activists.
..."The issues of police surveillance and racial targeting have always been there. The statues have made it so that white people can't ignore it any longer," Starsia said, going on to detail that the only activists who received home visits from police were people of colour.
"The arrest of Veronica Fitzhugh is another example."
Fitzhugh, a local activist and artist publicly confronted local white nationalist blogger Jason Kessler on May 20.
She and members of SURJ gathered around Kessler and three friends and chanted "Nazi go home", and other slogans.
During the confrontation, Kessler and Fitzhugh had a heated exchange. Kessler claims Fitzhugh shook his chair and screamed in his face. He admits that no physical contact occurred. Still, Fitzhugh was charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
As a misdemeanour offense, the charge would usually result in a summons, or order for Fitzhugh to report to the police station on her own. However, Fitzhugh was arrested by five officers at her home on June 1.

This looks like an open and shut case of police intimidation.
Funny how this only happens to groups on the left, never to groups on the right.

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Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 07/08/2017 - 2:29pm

Fuck the klan...

an irony close to me involves sharing a short story: Mother's family came with others by wagon train from New England shores to NC in the 1600's, settling on Grassy Creek, the first family church settled in 1703; the board of trustees for the church were white and black and lived peacefully side-by-side in central NC until after the civil war when, apparently, race relations and carpetbaggers combined destroyed the mutual culture that had thrived for around 200 years, no plantations in 100 miles, a free area of NC.

Now, not a mile down a hill from Mother's where i grew up with moccasins on that creek another kind of snake gathers every weekend: trucks sporting large Confederate Flags roasting pigs, a mirror image of themselves. The fucking clan openly celebrating on sacred ground to me. GD it!

Submitted by boriscleto on Sat, 07/08/2017 - 2:31pm

This reminds me

That I saw a fine "patriot" wearing a "Veterans before refugees" t-shirt at Wegmans a little while ago...

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 07/08/2017 - 8:20pm

Several white people(liberals?) have discussed the travesty

of destroying our history. If we hide it, we won't learn from it.
I did some research, found there are almost 400 civil war battlefields. (387 is the number I remember.) 19 are federally controlled. (Again, that is the number I recall.)They are open to the public at little or no cost. I am pretty sure I have seen them all, as well as some State controlled battlefields.
When going to Vicksburg, Mississippi, you do not want to miss going down to the bars and restaurants and shops along the river. There is a wall. It is full of bullet holes fired from Union boats during the siege. Plenty of plaques educate you as to you what you are seeing. Unhidden history. If they cover up the holes, that is hiding history.
Now, statues. All over the world, artists render statues that make the hero larger than life, handsome or beautiful, and majestic. Handsome Robert E. Lee on his mount, Traveler. The biggest, bestest horse ever! Except I have seen the horse. He was mounted by a taxidermist, on display in Richmond. A pony, sloped hips, not up to breeding standard.
I can't think of another time in our country's history when we were risking killing anyone over art, except for that Piss Jesus thingie.

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Sun, 07/09/2017 - 8:41am