by Keith Hartzler
Seeing the First Amendment abrogated; seeing, yet again, left-wing violence; seeing the fiasco’s primary victims anathematized by pseudo-journalists & self-serving politicians … I was aghast & felt myself crossing some sort of ontological Rubicon. After the false accusations of rape at Duke & UVA; after numerous cause célèbre black deaths; after myriad hate-crime hoaxes; after the SPLC & “The Trump Effect”; after the violence directed at Trump supporters during the campaign, at conservative speakers on college campuses, at those attending right-wing conferences; after the disruption & cancellation of speakers & conferences (H.L. Mencken Club, American Renaissance, VDare, Institute for Historical Review, National Policy Institute); after Mel Bradford, Paul Gottfried, Joe Sobran, Sam Francis, Peter Brimelow, Kevin MacDonald, John Derbyshire, & Jason Richwine were cast into outer darkness; after misbegotten foreign policies (over & over, again & again) throughout the Middle East & Balkans (& coverage of same); after the fast-track marginalization of anyone opposed to (or even uncomfortable with) gay marriage, drag queens, & the transgendered … after these repetitive assaults on my default assumption that the cultural Left & political Right are as interested in truth & accuracy as I am, the stage was set for me to experience those involved in creating the mainstream Charlottesville narrative as my enemies. I felt (& feel) profound contempt for Antifa, BLM, the Virginia authorities, “respectable” news outlets, & politicians of both parties. What follows is not a comprehensive, start-to-finish account of the Unite the Right rally & left-wing counter-protest. But it is a reasonable, honest effort to sort through eyewitness reports & second-hand responses, zeroing in on two violent episodes.
Writing for The New Yorker, Doreen St. Félix calls Corey Long a “man of fortitude,” a “figure of elegance,” a “graceful man.” This after viewing the picture of Long spewing fire from an aerosol can at a legal demonstrator trying to exit the park. Her bias I just can’t abide. As Unite the Right demonstrators walked to their cars, they were followed—closely—by Long, DeAndre Harris, & others. The latter were taunting & brandishing weapons (broom handles, baseball bats, & a mag lite).
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