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posted by janrinok on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the fetch-the-popcorn dept.

From Raw Story

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.

"We're not able to peacefully assemble. We're not able to speak," he told WUSA. "I keep telling people if your right to rally and your right to protest means that someone else's life might be in danger, then it is no longer free speech but it is hate speech."


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @06:53PM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @06:53PM (#697661)

    Who knows who (or what) will show up? One thing is clear: Trump will wave to them from an upstairs window as he sighs "I wish I could play outside with my friends".

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:01PM (#697664)

    I hear Qbama will lead the parade while holding Hellaries paw.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by idiot_king on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:23PM (13 children)

    by idiot_king (6587) on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:23PM (#697670)

    Funny you should ask that. THIS is exactly what "goes wrong" when you elect Trump.
    Or rather, if you are a racist white guy, this is exactly what goes right when you elect someone like Trump...
    I don't like living in this country right now. But with this country's history, I suppose it's what you have to unfortunately expect...

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:27PM (9 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @07:27PM (#697672)

      Damn SJW'ers are worse than racists. In fact, SJW'ers keep racism alive.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by idiot_king on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:21PM (8 children)

        by idiot_king (6587) on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:21PM (#697685)

        Yes, those Abolitionists and Civil Rights Activists, as well as the modern reaction to Trump are all secretly working to keep racism alive and well.
        C'mon, dude.

        • (Score: 3, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:39PM (1 child)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:39PM (#697691) Journal

          Oh butbutbut y'seeeee, it's about the HANDOUTS. You're not having a LEVEL PLAYING FIELD if them MINORITIES GET STUFF F'R JUST BEING MINORITIES, don't you SEE? We have to give everyone equality of opportunity by cutting out all social programs and making sure no one gets more than they started with, because as Any Fule Noe, every single person is born exactly in the same circumstances!!1111 And if they're poor they DESERVE it because they don't love Jesus enough! MAGA!

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          • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 25 2018, @02:35AM

            by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday June 25 2018, @02:35AM (#697912) Homepage Journal

            The great American people elected me to save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We’re going to save your Social Security and we’re going to save your Medicare. We are going to save it because we’re going to make our country rich again, we’re going to bring back our jobs. We’re not going to let our jobs go. And we’re going to be able to afford. You’ve been paying in it for a long time and a lot of these guys want it to be knocked to hell. It’s not going to happen, OK? Remember that. It’s not going to happen.

            I would never support what has to be the craziest ideas in the history of U.S. politics: allowing the government to invest Social Security retirement funds in the stock market. Not only would a market downturn spell disaster for millions of retirees, but the process by which government would choose stocks would also be entirely political, making lobbyists and other political hacks the new masters of the universe. The solution to the Great Social Security crisis couldn’t be more obvious: allow every American to dedicate some portion of their payroll taxes to a personal Social Security account that they could own and invest in stocks and bonds. Federal guidelines would make sure that your money is diversified, that it is invested in sound mutual funds or bond funds, and not in emu ranches. The national savings rate would soar and billions of dollars would be cycled from savings, to productive assets, to retirement money. And unlike the previous system, the assets in this retirement account could be left to one’s heirs, used to start a business, or anything else one desires.

            I say it’s high time to separate Social Security from the general treasury. It is time to lock-box it and throw away the key. The rich will scream. Only the top 1% of people -- those with a net worth of $10 million or more -- would be affected by my plan. The other 99% would get deep reductions in heir federal income taxes.

            I'm going to save Social Security. You have tremendous waste, fraud and abuse. We have in Social Security thousands of people over 106 years old. You know they don't exist. There's tremendous waste, fraud and abuse, and we're going to get it. But we're not going to hurt the people who have been paying into Social Security their whole life and then all of a sudden they're supposed to get less. We're bringing jobs back.

            Let me tell you, I'm doing NO CHANGES to the Medicare and Social Security. Until Day 1 of my 2nd term!!!!

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:27PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:27PM (#697722)

          The abolitionists and civil rights activists were against segregation and treating people differently based on the color of their skin. "Social justice" just loves those concepts.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:27PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:27PM (#697801)

            Whoooooooossssssssh! .914 of Lightspeed Whoosh!

          • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 25 2018, @06:59AM

            Take Abraham Lincoln: his take on what to do with the freed slaves was to send them to Panama, at the time a malaria- and yellow fever-infested swamp.

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          • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Monday June 25 2018, @08:05AM

            Actually, That's not at all true.

            Most white abolitionists and fellow travelers were all for segregation and were really big on recolonization/repatriation too.
            https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Colonization-Society [britannica.com]

            Don't try to rewrite history. It'll come back to smack you in the face.

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          • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 25 2018, @05:28PM (1 child)

            by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @05:28PM (#698213) Journal

            I've always been a bit dubious about that policy. I understand the rationale, but I don't think it's valid, and I expected that it would lead to backlash. The backlash took longer than I expected to really develop.

            That said, the backlash is a worse mistake than the original policy. What should have been done is remove allowing special privileges based on ancestral abuse. It would be nice if there could be some proper amends made, but I fear that any way of doing so causes so much social damage that we are better off avoiding it.

            OTOH, the voting rights act should be rigorously enforced for decades in any place ever caught violating it.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @06:03PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @06:03PM (#698234)

              We could still easily do 40 acres and a mule (I guess that would be rototiller nowadays?). The federal government owns a ton of land, and the farming population is getting older every year.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @08:37PM (#697690)

      You say you "don't like living in this country right now", and that this is what you expect.

      I suggest you act on that. You could visit Mexico, and then just make yourself at home, "undocumented" as your type is inclined to say. Never return.

      BTW, many countries are gun-free zones, so you'll be extra safe. This includes Mexico and Venezuela.

      If you actually have money, a number of countries will pretty much sell citizenship to you. The Bahamas will hand it out for a $500,000 investment, which could just be your house!

      You don't have to live with whites. By the liberal definition of "diversity" at least, you can have almost 100%. Wouldn't you love that? Do it. Cultural enrichment awaits you.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 25 2018, @04:03AM (1 child)

      Best example ever of defining freedom of speech as "freedom to agree with me or else". Thank you.

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      • (Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Monday June 25 2018, @08:24AM

        by jmorris (4844) on Monday June 25 2018, @08:24AM (#698025)

        It isn't like they are hiding it anymore. Even the ACLU is out and proud against free speech. They never were for any of it, they are Communists.