The British media is on a ‘hate Trump’ kick at the moment. The BBC in particular, going by some of the radio news items that I heard whilst I was driving round recently, appears to have abandoned all pretence of moderation and impartiality. The BBC engaged in intense criticism of President Trump for saying that the violence at Charlottesville in the Commonwealth of Virginia came from all sides. They, along with others in the increasingly left-aligned mainstream media in the UK, are putting all the blame for the violence at Charlottesville onto what they are referring to ‘white supremacists’ and are ignoring the long history of the far Left groups such as Antifa of starting violence and calling for violence.

British mainstream media is using tones of shock and horror to describe President Trump’s honesty in calling for the violence that is coming from on both political sides to stop. They are also reporting with some sense of glee the fact that some anti Trump Republicans are criticising the President for his assessment of the situation. What both the BBC and other British mainstream media along with it seems some anti-Trump Republican politicians in the USA seem to want is for only one side, that of the alt right, to be criticised, whilst violent Leftists and their crimes and their authoritarianism is ignored.

President Trump was in my view absolutely correct to call for the violence from both the Left and the Right to stop. This violence hurting ordinary people in the areas where this violence is happening and is causing more copycat violence and emboldening the Left to call for yet more cultural destruction and historical vandalism.

I have to say that I despise the sort of blood and soil racists and Jew hating jackboot lickers that appears, from the video I’ve seen, to have made up the bulk of those attending the ‘Unite The Right’ rally. However, I also despise the sort of intolerant authoritarian thugs of the Left and their new analogue of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts who are often bringing violence to events that would, if ignored, probably go off peacefully and be quickly forgotten. Although I find the views of the likes of the KKK, Richard Spencer and others who were involved in the Unite The Right rally disagreeable at best and repugnant at worst, this group should have been allowed to have their say before quietly going back to their smelly bedsits to wank off over pictures of Adolf Hitler. That there was no a peaceful resolution to this matter is mostly down to the Left.

There seem to be many occasions when the violence and intolerance of both the Left and the Right in connection with Charlottesville could have been either avoided or ameliorated. Firstly the initial complaint about the statue of General Lee (who incidentally is said to have counselled against the secession of the Confederate states) to the local authorities should have been ignored. All countries have public art that some people don’t like whether for artistic or political reasons. The UK especially has many statues that some would find offensive but they should be left alone. To give but two examples: The Irish may have an issue with the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside Parliament because of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Left have sometimes made colonialism themed whines about the statue of General Henry Havelock in Trafalgar Square because it was Havelock who helped to break the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. But, these statues have been up for a long time and, unlike the public art associated with the former Communist and Nazi regimes in Europe, there is nobody left alive who has direct memory or either Cromwell or Havelock and both these figures have become part of the warp and weft of history. As with Cromwell and Havelock so it is also with General Robert Lee. He’s part of American history and to try to erase him and others with whom the Left disagree is a blatant attempt to rewrite American history. It is a microcosm of the wanton societal and economic destruction that has characterised too much of the Left over the last half century. If the local authorities had taken a measured approach to the issue of the Lee statue instead of caving into what appears to be a few complaints from a couple of permanently enraged Lefties and Black Lives Matter thugs, then we would probably not be looking on appalled at what has gone on in Charlottesville.

The second chance to avoid violence was the attempt to stop the racist lunatics from holding their meeting about the statue removal. This caused more publicity for what was probably going to be a one man and his dog type of event. The local authorities in the area failed to comprehend that by using legal means to try to prevent the demonstration they were helping to amplify the events reach. If the local authorities had allowed the KKK types and others to meet as they originally wished to then in all likelihood they would have turned up, spouted their racist bollocks and gone away again. Sadly by tying to prevent them speaking the local authorities made things worse. The extra publicity and the feeding of a sense of grievance among those who are on the fringes of the Right almost guaranteed that one or more violent nutcases would turn up at the event when it eventually went ahead.

Once the event was given the go ahead, the local authorities in Virginia failed to take note of previous instances, both in the USA and elsewhere, where peaceful gatherings of those on the Right or other events which ‘offended’ the Left were physically attacked. There has been ample evidence from places as diverse as Missouri University, Berkeley, Germany and elsewhere that the Left are ready and willing to use violence to silence the views of those with whom they disagree. From what I’ve seen from various videos out there (too many to list here) this event was woefully under policed and may even have been policed in a partisan way with the rightists being seen as ‘the enemy’ and their opponents being seen as heroic anti fascists. Unfortunately this naïve and possibly bent view of the Leftist opponents to the Unite the Right rally has failed dismally. Horrific fighting and violence that resulted in the death of a woman in Charlottesville and the death of two police officers in a helicopter crash, is what has come from the way that the local authorities has handled this issue.

Although there were obviously thugs on both sides of the Charlottesville violence it is the Left who seem to have brought a very large amount of the violence that has occurred. It is the Left who brought their own version of the Blackshirts in the form of Antifa to a demonstration that if ignored would most likely to have ended up being of little or no greater political consequence than the sort of animal rights lunatics who stand outside shoe shops and scream about the evils of leather. Ironically the actions of the local authorities and the Left have given the likes of Richard Spencer and others involved in the Unite the Right march much more publicity than they would have had if they merely had been left to their own devices.

The way that the Charlottesville protest and the counter protest was handled has been appalling. The local authorities seem to have tried to deny the lunatic Right their First Amendment rights by using the courts and they did little to prevent the equally lunatic Left from using violence to also deny this small band of racialist head cases their constitutional right to speak.

President Trump was absolutely correct to say that the violence and the violent rhetoric and incitement was coming from all sides. He has rightly condemned actions that have disturbed the peace of the Republic no matter where they have come from. I perceive that outlets such as the BBC and others in the UK are so stuck on their hatred of President Trump that it has caused them to defenestrate the idea of impartiality. Listening to the BBC recently on the subject of Charlottesville makes me recall George Orwell in ‘Animal Farm’ which concluded with one of the characters not being able to tell the difference between the ruling pigs and the men who their animalism ideology had told them to hate. It’s not good that I can listen to the BBC and wonder whether I’m listening to a once respected broadcaster or a podcast from the likes of the Socialist Workers Party.

The facts of Charlottesville as I can see them, are that what could have been a non event demonstration from the dregs of the once powerful KKK and their hangers on, was made into a violent tragedy by politically motivated and incompetent local authorities and the violent political Left. The President is right on the money to call for the violence on all sides to stop. There are no pure innocents in the Charlottesville situation, all are to some extent guilty of ramping up the tension or even of encouraging or committing violence.

I fear that the results of Charlottesville are not going to be good either in the short or the medium term. The Left and the various scroats that have made a damn good living out of picking at the scabs of racial division such as Jesse Jackson, have been emboldened and Leftists are committing other acts of vandalism against statues and symbols that they don’t like. The fact that the Left and their allies have been so emboldened is down to the fact that the authorities in Charlottesville appeased them in the first place by agreeing to remove the Lee statue. As expected, such appeasement never ends with just one act of surrender and those groups who called for the removal of the Lee statue are demanding many other symbols of US history also be removed. Despite the whines of Leftists and Trump’s opponents in the Republican party, by highlighting the fact that both sides have encouraged hatred and committed violence Mr Trump has told the truth and for some the truth really does hurt.

Links

On the subject of the Charlottesville situation there is an excellent video by Sargon of Akkad called ‘Weimar America’. In this video Sargon speaks about the extreme Left and Right and how they hate each other but hate true liberalism even more. Sargon quite rightly points out that both the Antifa types are both collectivists who hate individuals and individualism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSYhTWk6E8

It’s also worth watching these Gavin McInnes and Jay Fayzer videos on why they disavow the Alt Right and how they can see them for what they really are and which they have become, which is segregationists and neo Nazis.

Gavin McInnes

Jay Fayzer on how the Alt Right are modern segregationists