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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 06:40 AM Aug 2017

Torch-bearing white nationalists march ahead of alt-right rally

Source: CNN

(CNN)Alt-right activists held torches and marched late Friday through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville.

Chanting "blood and soil" and "one people, one nation, end immigration," the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before they clashed with counterprotesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported.

The march came hours before a Saturday rally that police anticipate will attract as many as 2,000 to 6,000 people, in an event that could be the "largest hate-gathering of it's kind in decades in the United States," as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Before the group left the university's grounds when police arrived and ruled it unlawful assembly, outraged city and UVA officials condemned Friday's gathering.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-white-nationalists-rally/index.html

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Torch-bearing white nationalists march ahead of alt-right rally (Original Post) jpak Aug 2017 OP
Those jackholes were carrying tiki torches from pier 1 & home depot irisblue Aug 2017 #1
Picture of thousands of them giving Sieg Heil salute Not Ruth Aug 2017 #2
Do you think they have an assigned spot and WhiteTara Aug 2017 #20
That's not alt-right. That's white Supremacists, fascists, neo-nazis, racists & extreme bigots. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #3
tomato tomato Blue_Adept Aug 2017 #8
Yeah. In other words, joshdawg Aug 2017 #16
Tiki torches. deminks Aug 2017 #4
They're mad that their participation trophy is being taken down? GoCubsGo Aug 2017 #5
Those protesting these hateful bigots need to chant "Donald Trump Sucks" and Dustlawyer Aug 2017 #6
Surprise surprise, Trump has emboldened the racists. Good, now we have their pictures flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #7
Texas agrees with you (so do I) HAB911 Aug 2017 #10
Chanting "blood and soil" Lebensraum (living space) Botany Aug 2017 #9
Good point on history... GetRidOfThem Aug 2017 #19
The tiki torch still sets a light dreamland Aug 2017 #11
That still doesn't change the imagery.. paleotn Aug 2017 #17
True, but the imagery I'm seeing dreamland Aug 2017 #25
They also changed you will not replace us, Jew will not replace us Danmel Aug 2017 #12
republicans have degenerated to become freaking Latter Day Nazis Achilleaze Aug 2017 #13
Fucking shithead robots without an ounce of originality or redeeming value dalton99a Aug 2017 #14
Tiki torches.... paleotn Aug 2017 #15
....and a tweeter points out: Leghorn21 Aug 2017 #22
someone spent lot of money buying tiki multi-packs 'spears' & gallons of oil fuel. & NO permit. Sunlei Aug 2017 #18
Make that gesture in today's Germany nocoincidences Aug 2017 #21
Counter-demonstrating is appropriate. David__77 Aug 2017 #23
PWT Rustyeye77 Aug 2017 #24
Over 600,000 people died in the American Civil War Girard442 Aug 2017 #26
Their holy book OUGHT to say: "Thou shalt not suffer a white supremacist to live" FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #27
+1000 byronius Aug 2017 #28
It was an illegal march. DK504 Aug 2017 #29
Last night: FIRE AND FURY Unite the Right torch rally ends in violence at the Rotunda mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 #30

irisblue

(32,975 posts)
1. Those jackholes were carrying tiki torches from pier 1 & home depot
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 06:49 AM
Aug 2017

The mosquitos of #Charlottesville were in more danger from the torches. If there were POC with tiki torches marching, you know the militarized police & national guard would have been there. Hell with those Nazis & alt Right trash.

WhiteTara

(29,715 posts)
20. Do you think they have an assigned spot and
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 09:42 AM
Aug 2017

have to go to that spot for every rally? Or is it as they arrive they are placed in proper rows?

deminks

(11,014 posts)
4. Tiki torches.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 07:47 AM
Aug 2017

Hard to fear them when they are carrying patio furniture. That much citronella in one place might have been overwhelming.
/sarcasm off

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
6. Those protesting these hateful bigots need to chant "Donald Trump Sucks" and
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 07:57 AM
Aug 2017

get them all to defend Trump, that would make for Must See TV! Having a bunch of KKK, Skin Heads, Nazis, and other hate groups show their support for their President!

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
7. Surprise surprise, Trump has emboldened the racists. Good, now we have their pictures
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 07:59 AM
Aug 2017

to repost everywhere, at their place of work, at their children's schools, at their churches and supermarkets.

Let's see how proud of themselves they feel when their disgusting behavior is turned into a campaign of shame.

PS: Why are the most disgusting physical and educational representations of human beings always the one promoting "white pride"? Have they really got no clue what they look like to the rest of the world? Want to borrow a mirror, you repulsive Deliverance rejects?

PPS: Can we please let the shitbag South secede already? Experiment over; dismal failure, stop even trying. Everything except the Northeast and West coasts can now be officially renamed "Jesusland", and they can do whatever the fuck they want. I'm tired of being associated with these ignorant assholes. Good riddance, enjoy your racism, poverty and "freedom" from healthcare.

Botany

(70,504 posts)
9. Chanting "blood and soil" Lebensraum (living space)
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 08:08 AM
Aug 2017

Last edited Sat Aug 12, 2017, 09:30 AM - Edit history (1)

Why don't they just go back to the old school German word? Lebensraum.
That was one of Hitler's reasons for his war in the east because the superior
German people needed the land in order to build the 3rd Reich's need for
food and raw materials.

Trump has given evil a public voice in America.

GetRidOfThem

(869 posts)
19. Good point on history...
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 09:32 AM
Aug 2017

Another point to make is: how did it end for uncle Adolf, Josef Goebbels, and Mussolini? Could ask the same question about Ceaucesco of Romania: in the end, how did he fare? People forget that when dictator strongmen fall, it can be disastrous for the dictator/strongman.

dreamland

(964 posts)
11. The tiki torch still sets a light
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 08:42 AM
Aug 2017

It the modern day equivalent to real torches which can't be found easily. Modern society is about adapting, so they now use the tiki torches. We can laugh at their torches but their message is real.

paleotn

(17,913 posts)
17. That still doesn't change the imagery..
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 09:14 AM
Aug 2017

...of lazy Americans, buying their "torches" at a big box retailer. Imagery is important and that was pathetic.

dreamland

(964 posts)
25. True, but the imagery I'm seeing
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:21 AM
Aug 2017

...is one of a sea of haters in the night. From a distance it shows only as a stream of fire which is powerfully scary. True, up close they are pathetic.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
13. republicans have degenerated to become freaking Latter Day Nazis
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 08:49 AM
Aug 2017

Disgusting. Anti-American. Freaking TraitorWeasels.

nocoincidences

(2,218 posts)
21. Make that gesture in today's Germany
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 10:14 AM
Aug 2017

and spend a few years in prison.

Too bad we haven't adopted the same policy.

David__77

(23,402 posts)
23. Counter-demonstrating is appropriate.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 10:51 AM
Aug 2017

For people who do counter-demonstrate, it's god to think of physical security.

Girard442

(6,072 posts)
26. Over 600,000 people died in the American Civil War
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:37 AM
Aug 2017

Over 60 million people died in World War II. People showing off the swastika or the Confederate flag are nothing less than mass-murderer wannabes.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
27. Their holy book OUGHT to say: "Thou shalt not suffer a white supremacist to live"
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:44 AM
Aug 2017

In any case, that's what I say.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
29. It was an illegal march.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 03:30 PM
Aug 2017

Where were their permits for a march involving torches and trying to intimidate people gathered in a church during prayers. Not only did they put the neighborhoods in danger but the church and the lives of all involved.

Fuck the police, they did nothing because it was a bunch of white Bitch Brook bros. snowflakes.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,446 posts)
30. Last night: FIRE AND FURY Unite the Right torch rally ends in violence at the Rotunda
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 03:56 PM
Aug 2017

FIRE AND FURY
Unite the Right torch rally ends in violence at the Rotunda

The Daily Progress staff reports 15 hrs ago

Members of the Alt-Right {sic} led a torch march through the grounds of the University of Virginia Friday night in Charlottesville, Va. Photo/Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress

The building in the background is the Rotunda. The demonstrators are north of the Rotunda. They are facing University Avenue and a statue of Thomas Jefferson.



That's Old Cabell Hall in the background on the left. The low buildings across the middle of the picture form the West Lawn.



This is the statue of Jefferson facing University Avenue. The building across the street is Madison Hall.



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