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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."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 25 2018, @02:58AM
It's alright - you can wake up now. I've been pulled over on a pretext so many times, I couldn't count them. I've posted about my son's run in with some assholes who wanted to search his car. It happens to (gasp) WHITE PEOPLE!!
You may or may not make a good case that after being pulled over, a black person is more likely to be arrested, assaulted, or even killed. And, other people might argue your case. But, only in your imagination are white people "safe" from arbitrary and capricious run ins with John Law.
Of course, that goes back to the old saying, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Those who would like to create a police state are only too happy to see the peasants squabbling among themselves. Divide and conquer. While you're whining and bitching about how good white people have it, the cops are busy increasing their power, and their authority to use that power.
When the police chief holds his little pep rally, telling his troops that the court needs more money, he doesn't tell them to target more blacks. He tells them to go find people from whom money can be extracted. Police state. The cops don't care a whole lot who has the money, they just need it to make their quota.