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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: 3, Funny) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @02:57AM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @02:57AM (#697923) Journal
    Sorry, my white guilt prevents me from hurting my delicate friends.
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday June 25 2018, @04:28AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 25 2018, @04:28AM (#697962) Journal

    Thanks, khallow, we appreciate the thought. And Runaway can go fork himself. In fact, looks like he already did. No union for him.

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 25 2018, @05:23AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday June 25 2018, @05:23AM (#697973) Journal

    Since when were you capable of understanding the concepts of either guilt or friendship?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:20AM (#698469)

      Hey now! He is a human being unless my Turing tester is broken, that means he can dream right?