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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRichard Spencer and His Kook-Right Ilk Are Agents of Russian Influence
Richard Spencer and His Kook-Right Ilk Are Agents of Russian InfluenceKremlin intelligence is manipulating the far-right. Its time to push back.
By John R. Schindler 08/14/17 11:25am
Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The weekends bloody chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a far-right protest devolved into rioting and murder, has shaken the country and shocked the world. The bucolic college town was transformed into a charnel house when a right-wing young man barreled his car through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring 19, six of them gravely.
The accused killer, James Alex Fields, age 20, was quickly taken into custody, and he turns out to possess all the expected traits: a young man with an unstable home life and mental health problems serious enough to have kept him out of the military, possessing an affection for Nazi memorabilia and views. These are precisely the sort of maladjusted young peoplenearly all of them malewho under slightly different circumstances turn to jihadism. Our domestic radicalism problem knows no specific background, religion, or ideology.
The Charlottesville mayhem has concentrated minds on the continuing presence of the kook-right among us: angry young white men who assemble, brandishing flags of the Confederacy and Nazi Germany. Make no mistake: the weekend was their triumph, notwithstanding that most of them resemble cosplayers more than hard-bitten radicals. A movement which barely exists outside the Internet got a few hundred members together and garnered world attention. ..............
The weekends bloody chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a far-right protest devolved into rioting and murder, has shaken the country and shocked the world. The bucolic college town was transformed into a charnel house when a right-wing young man barreled his car through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring 19, six of them gravely.
The accused killer, James Alex Fields, age 20, was quickly taken into custody, and he turns out to possess all the expected traits: a young man with an unstable home life and mental health problems serious enough to have kept him out of the military, possessing an affection for Nazi memorabilia and views. These are precisely the sort of maladjusted young peoplenearly all of them malewho under slightly different circumstances turn to jihadism. Our domestic radicalism problem knows no specific background, religion, or ideology.
The Charlottesville mayhem has concentrated minds on the continuing presence of the kook-right among us: angry young white men who assemble, brandishing flags of the Confederacy and Nazi Germany. Make no mistake: the weekend was their triumph, notwithstanding that most of them resemble cosplayers more than hard-bitten radicals. A movement which barely exists outside the Internet got a few hundred members together and garnered world attention. ..............
ALL HANDS --- We need to identify this man TODAY.
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Richard Spencer and His Kook-Right Ilk Are Agents of Russian Influence (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
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UVA Prof on UVA's Historical Ties to KKK & White Nationalist Alums Richard Spencer & Jason Kessler
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
#2
White Supremacist Attack in Charlottesville: There's No Question, This was Terrorism
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
#3
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. Richard Spencer coined term "alt right" to normalize white supremacy, Nazism.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. UVA Prof on UVA's Historical Ties to KKK & White Nationalist Alums Richard Spencer & Jason Kessler
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)3. White Supremacist Attack in Charlottesville: There's No Question, This was Terrorism
Aug 14, 2017
https://democracynow.org - We spend the hour examining the "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend that erupted into violence, resulting in three deaths. After a torchlit march of hundreds on the University of Virginia campus Friday night, more than 1,000 white nationalists descended on the city on Saturday to oppose a plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a city park. They were met by anti-racist counterdemonstrators, and fights broke out before the rally began. Witnesses report police did little to intervene. Shortly after the protest began, a man later identified as James Alex Fields drove his vehicle into a crowd of counterdemonstrators in what many are calling an act of terrorism. A local paralegal named Heather Heyer was killed in the attack, and at least 19 others were injured. Two Virginia state troopers also died Saturday when their helicopter crashed en route to the scene of the violence. On Saturday, Trump addressed reporters at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, blaming the violence in Charlottesville on "many sides." We begin our roundtable discussion with Brandy Gonzalez, who survived the car rampage, and Lisa Moore, a registered nurse who assisted a victim of the car attack.
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(51,129 posts)4. The only reason for an American to hold a Nazi flag is if it has been captured in battle.