by Mary W Maxwell
Picture me sitting in the Brekkie room of a nice motel here in the US. So what was on the big screen in the Brekkie room? Why, CNN of course. ( I’ll bet motel owners are not allowed to change to another channel.)
While others around me made pancakes and spooned out some grits, I sat mesmerized. The coverage was strictly about the Charlottesville tragedy. A morning TV host and his female co-host (a locum, he said) stared out at us. Their names do not appear on the screen; I guess every American knows who they are.
Frequently they popped other faces onto the screen; each gave his “take” on the matter – these, too lacked a printed identification. So I will call them the rabbi, the rellie (a brother of the man who drove the car into protestors), the co-worker of the deceased girl, and the political analyst – you know, the one who estimates how this will affect voting.
The Rellie
I think after you read what the rellie said you will understand the nature of this whole thing. By the way, he spoke at length, never saying Um or Er, yet never looking at notes. He was dressed “tough” — I suppose to match up with the toughness of the (alleged) brother. The Rellie claimed that Bro used to be far Left but moved to the right. He became radicalized (I am not quoting verbatim in this article but the word “radicalized” is verbatim.) Guess who radicalized him? Infowars. You know all that conspiracy stuff.
“And I am ashamed of him,” said the Rellie.
The Rabbi
Next we saw the very rabbi who gave the prayer at Trump’s Inauguration. He said Neo-nazi’s are harmful, well I suppose that’s a truism. And before you could say “Ernst Zundel” the rabbi pointed out that IRAN is the only country in the world that says the Holocaust never happened. Talk about plugging the cause. IRAN!
(But the time this CNN show finished, all the bases had been covered – though I know Gumshoe editor Dee McLachlan is going to hone right in on the “being radicalized by Infowars.” That, it was claimed — the guy’s conspiracy extremism — caused him to plow his car into a crowd of protestors.)
The Co-worker
Naturally we heard that the lady who died, Heather Heyer, was a person of exceptional altruism. Being the very opposite of her killer, she was a person who insisted on tolerance.
The Political Analyst
I’m not going to go into the particulars but this part of the show was to let us know that what Trump said (about there being good people and bad people on both sides) will soon be his undoing. “Everybody knows” that a president should get right down to the heartbreaking aspects of the event. (I think they said that, in addition to the death of Ms Heyer, two cops died.)
Trump’s failures were seen as part of his instability, and/or his incompetence. In fact, the overall tone is that Trump’s lack of rainbow sensibilities is what caused White Supremacy to bloom in the first place.
Naturally the analyst estimated how this would affect everyone’s career.
(Oops, a new headline just came in: “Lady Gaga’s fans are angry at her stance on Charlottesville.”)
The Show’s Host Concern with “Moral Agency”
I can’t tell you how many times the host of the show, with a shocked look, broke in or made supportive noises with the rellie, the rabbi, the co-worker and the political analyst. His much repeated phrase was that a president “should be a moral agent.”
I wish the prez would be moral enough to remind the Department of Justice that it — the DoJ — has a mandate to enforce the Sherman Anti-Trust Act against monopolies.
For example, against media mega-types.
Reuters
The Reuters news gatherers brought us this from Thomas Oliphant (formerly of the Boston Globe, oh dear, and Jeff Mason:
“Even before the horrible events in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, President Donald Trump was having a bad August.
He had already single-handedly escalated tensions with North Korea to the point that a nuclear strike suddenly seemed like a possibility for the first time in many Americans’ lifetimes.
His legislative agenda on Capitol Hill had stalled.
The White House departure lounge was starting to look like a clown car. And the president’s 34 percent approval rating was the lowest for a new president in the summer of his first term, since Gallup began polling presidential popularity.
Add to that the president’s increasingly waffling response to the terrorism in Charlottesville….
Yahoo
Under the Yahoo headline “Former CIA chief: Trump’s Charlottesville comments ‘a national disgrace’” we learn:
While many members of the GOP denounced Trump’s comments, Graham was one of the few Republicans to call out the president by name.
“President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer,” Graham said a statement Wednesday. “I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency.”
Trump fired back at Graham, who ran against him in the 2016 Republican primary.
“Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms. Heyer,” Trump wrote, invoking Heyer’s death and Graham’s failed presidential bid in the same tweet. “Such a disgusting lie. He just can’t forget his election trouncing. The people of South Carolina will remember!”
CNN Rises to New Heights
Here is a typical outburst of morality, this time from the CIA (Emeritus).
“Former CIA director John Brennan blasted Donald Trump over statements the president made at Tuesday’s defiant, impromptu news conference in New York at which he spoke at length about the violence that followed a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.”
Now you think the CIA guy is going to carry his righteousness to the appropriate source, yes? Well, I guess he carried it to the one he thought – perhaps correctly – to be the most important leader in the United States. The next paragraph, following the preceding one, is:
“Brennan wrote a letter to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer with his impressions of Trump’s performance, the network said, in which he took issue with the president’s ‘ugly’ and ‘dangerous’ rhetoric.
Me and Trump
I have been a bit put off lately by some of Trump’s comings and goings. But after the scourging of Trump for his “part’ in the Charlottesville tragedy, I can only start liking the guy again.
His voice is the only sensible one of the whole lot.
Mary Maxwell is the author of Prosecution for Treason.
Mary I do not know if you are aware but many of us Jahar supporters have been disabled on facebook. I am not sure way. Any group supporting Jahar is for the most part respectful. No reason or warning was given, to me anyway.
Wow. That’s awful. I have no idea how one protests these things. Anyone who sees this and can advise, please do.
There seems to be a purge of sorts being carried out by various net-based (nominally private) companies against all sorts of opinion streams judged not acceptable in the post-Charlotteville environment. Its akin to the closing of newspapers and magazines that used to be seen after takeovers, coups etc. in years past. It appears that Charlotteville was less a tragedy than it was an opportunity, and they are hitting hard and fast. Now we can see why all that surveillance law and policy was so desired by the PTB. The likes of Google, Cloudflare etc have usurped the prerogative of Government in deciding arbitrarily who may have freedom-of-speech and who may not. One could call it a soft coup of the Corporations. First they came after the “Nazis”….
Oh, and who else noticed that Barcelona featured another convenient passport?
And another set of blurred-out “disturbing images”
What are you referring to, Berry?
Speaking of both sides being to blame, let me quote a 1892 item by poet Walt Whitman:
Of course many and very contradictory things, that went to make up the origin of the war—but the most significant general fact is that, the controling “Democratic” nominating conventions of our Republic——were getting to represent and be composed of more and more putrid and dangerous materials.
. (Remember they had come to be the fountains and tissues of the American body politic, forming, as it were, the whole blood, legislation, office-holding, &-c.) One of these conventions, from 1840 to ’60, exhibited a spectacle
The members who composed it were, seven-eighths of them, the meanest kind of bawling and blowing office-holders, office-seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom-house clerks, contractors, kept-editors, spaniels well-train’d to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, mail-riflers, slave-catchers, pushers of slavery, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents, spies, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, ruin’d sports, expell’d gamblers, policy-backers, monte-dealers, duellists, carriers of conceal’d weapons, pimpled men, scarr’d inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people’s money and harlots’ money twisted together; crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combings and born freedom-sellers of the earth.
These conditions were mostly prevalent in the north and west, and especially in New York and Philadelphia cities; and the southern leaders, struck hands and affiliated with, and used them.
— end of quote from Whitman
Another view on Who Fired on Fort Sumter?
In the Georgia legislature in 1860:
Alexanser Stephens
The first question that presents itself is, shall the people of Georgia secede from the Union? My countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly, and earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. …It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country. To make a point of resistance to the Government, to withdraw from it because any man has been elected, [Lincoln] would put us in the wrong.
We are pledged to maintain the Constitution. Many of us have sworn to support it. Can we, make a point of resistance to the Government, without becoming the breakers of that sacred instrument, by withdrawing from it? Would we not be in the wrong? Whatever fate is to befall this country, let it never be laid to the charge of the people of the South,
Let the fault and the wrong rest upon others. If all our hopes are to be blasted, if the Republic is to go down, let us be found to the last moment standing on the deck with the Constitution of the United States waving over our heads. (Applause.) Let the fanatics of the North break the Constitution, if such is their fell purpose.
But it is said Mr. Lincoln’s policy and principles are against the Constitution, and that, if he carries them out, it will be destructive of our rights. Let us not anticipate a threatened evil. If he violates the Constitution, then will come our time to act. Do not let us break it because, forsooth, he may.
If he does, that is the time for us to act. (Applause) I do not anticipate that Mr. Lincoln will do anything, to jeopardize our safety or security, whatever may be his spirit to do it; for he is bound by the constitutional checks which are thrown around him, which at this time render him powerless to do any great mischief. This shows the wisdom of our system.
The President of the United States is no Emperor, no Dictator– he is clothed with no absolute power. He can do nothing, unless he is backed by power in Congress.
[Whew!]
“The Rellie claimed that Bro used to (sic) be far Left but moved to the right.”
Sounds like this guy …
• The Dark Past of Jason Kessler – Charlottesville Organizer – Professional Provocateur
• https://nationonenews.com/2017/08/16/part-2-dark-past-jason-kessler-charlottesville-organizer-professional-provocateur/
Here is E.T. Williams’ take …
• Jason Kessler Was An Obama Supporter Before He Became A Nazi “Unite The Right” Leader
• https://youtu.be/Qe1iFQnZaBU
Fish, your second offering says the guy was in the Occupy movement. Need we say more?
Now Fox says this guy Jason Kessler, “Unite the Right” says he’s in hiding.
Marry.
Time to escape from your ‘Neminis’ and come home?
Oops, sorry.
‘nemisis!!
Have, you been on the ‘turps’ Neddy?
Did anybody get my joke?
the CIA guy “carried it to the one he thought – perhaps correctly – to be the most important leader in the United States.” CNN the new prez… (was elected in 1980)
Mary, gatesofvienna.net, has an ‘in-depth’ article on the motivating factors behind Charlottesville that you may wish to look at. It’s titled, ‘We’re being played’.
Another good tongue in cheek article, Mary. Well done!
CNN is now being referred to by many, as the ‘terrorists network’, and I believe for good reason.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/08/were-being-played/
Excellent post, however my take is that said “Controllers” have bitten off more than they can chew.
I hope you are right Berry.
As the First world destroys the third World with first World militaristic activity, this perpetual destruction of countries making these countries unlivable as the infrastructure is unable to function? the population of these countries invariable migrates to the countries having a infrastructure of survival for the victims as migrating from conditions that having little chance of survival from death or being maimed.
This condition of racial characteristics being eroded for white identity as organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, are worried that the erosion of white culture is diminishing, this fear of this group has some merit strange as it seems that as a racial group they are in decline, at this point I acknowledge it seems as if I support this group? I suggest many others such as Anglo Saxons white or predominately white are worried?
The integrity of racial characteristics has some validity, in terms of characteristics of say the vegetation kingdom? say we reduce the the grain of wheat to a choice of 4 or 5 varieties from what once hundreds of varieties of wheat?to create a soup of general characteristics a amalgam of one variety is a loss of variety which the Universe reflects in all things?such as our planetary family, differences of natures varied characteristics of almost everything i.e trees.
Is our job on our planet to make everything the same? such as manufacturing of sameness? I am suggesting the variety of existence is significance, to return to the Ku Klux Klan is not so much as to their fear of becoming eroded but the method of panic, seemingly out of control and a manifestation of violence, that becomes a fear of many that they are able to kill all that does not reflect their values?
The innate desire for the human race a need to reflect what we need for our comfort zone is not always possible, the solitary planet we inhabit is of little comfort that we need to find life in other parts of the Universe shows our anxiety of what is possible we are alone as a life form that may well suggest we as human beings no other life will ever be found exactly like us, this is not to say other life are not there but we should rejoice that we may be unique in the Universe and as such cherish our differences.
The use of our planets resources such as energy now regarded as plentiful as a cheap commodity denies the value of the time scale taken for our Earth to create these commodities, if we are are able to obtain energy from nuclear fission our luck will be in, that is if?, it would sound ruthless of me to suggest to a close associate who studying child birth for me to say the future energy suckers? more to the point is the debris and pollution ls a strain upon our planet to cope with our end use of a consumer appetite having no limits?
As the reader can know the direction of this letter is opening up a vast plethora of a existential dilemma that effects us all and is not so satisfying as a night out of dancing to the refrain of “Knees up Mother Brown”
The loss of diversity is one of greatest threats to survival
Don says:
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So what does John McCain have to say ?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/mccain-stands-with-neo-nazis-in-kiev-experts-say-us-fueled-rise/article/374226
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/
More importantly. What do Obama and Soros have to say ?
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2017/Xproof%20Nazis%20in%20Ukraine.pdf
I’m glad that Karen mentioned the problem at Facebook. There may be a connection in the fact the computer I have been using lately failed about Tuesday or Wednesday and I cannot get it started again.
Regarding the Gallup poll ratings which you stated his popularity to be at 34%, is actually good for him. After doing some calculations based on the actual number of votes he got out the registered voters in 2016 (that voted for the presidential office); of the 58% that voted he got 48% of their vote. The poll represents all registered voters so an approval rating of 34% of the total would give him an increase of people liking him above those that voted for him by over 12,000,000. I guess he should celebrate!
Isn’t it common knowledge that the ’92 FBI murders at Ruby Ridge were triggered by Randy Weaver’s refusal to participate in the spook infiltration of a “neo-nazi” group?
https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Ridge-Tragedy-Weaver-Family/dp/006000794X/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PY
Or has everyone just forgotten ?
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