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Leghorn21

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Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:46 PM Jun 2018

DC to host 'white civil rights' rally one year after Charlottesville -- outside the White House

The National Park Service has approved an application for a year anniversary commemoration of Charlottesville’s violent white supremacist rally to be held in Washington, DC.

DC’s WUSA9 reported that NPS approved the application but has not yet issued permits for the rally set to be held at Lafayette Square, a seven-acre park just north of the White House. The event is to be organized by Jason Kessler, the organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was hit and killed by an alleged white supremacist.



“This year we have a new purpose,” Kessler said, discussing the upcoming rally. “That’s to talk about the civil rights abuse that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia last year.”

Kessler claimed it wasn’t his fault that “that stuff happened,” and said that in the months since the rally ostensibly intended to “defend” a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, “white civil rights” have taken a hit.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/dc-host-white-civil-rights-rally-one-year-charlottesville-outside-white-house/

- approved application, but no permits issued yet
I remember these fkers tried to have a rally in Idaho or something, but they couldn’t get the $50 together to pay for the permit
I guess the location of this works really well for Stephen Miller, so good for him

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DC to host 'white civil rights' rally one year after Charlottesville -- outside the White House (Original Post) Leghorn21 Jun 2018 OP
Sounds like a good time to memorialize Heather Heyer gratuitous Jun 2018 #1

gratuitous

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1. Sounds like a good time to memorialize Heather Heyer
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:49 PM
Jun 2018

I'll bet that crowd would be bigger than anything Kessler can organize.

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