Bonne
nouvelle : le rassemblement antiraciste à Boston (19 août) s'est déroulé sans anicroche et comptait quelque 40 000 manifestants selon le chef de police William Evans. Bravo!
À l’autre extrémité, le site Unicorn Riot a colligé plusieurs messages d’activistes blancs
suprémacistes sur le réseau du serveur Discord.
Le rallye de Charlottesville avait été minutieusement planifié de A à Z – et ça sentait le Ku Klux Klan à
plein nez.
Pire encore, l’administration républicaine
actuelle encourage hypocritement, mais sans équivoque, l’assassinat pur et
simple des manifestants, qu’il s’agisse de dénoncer le racisme ou de barrer la
route aux projets de pipelines (voyez l’extrait de Backed by the Police Unions ... ci-après).
Mark Twain doit se revirer dans sa tombe!
“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant
sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the
human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” ~ Mark Twain (Letter to William T. Stead, 1/9/1899)
The
chat rooms whose contents we are releasing in our first batch of
‘Charlottesville 2.0’ Discord server screenshots are from the channels
#announcements, #dixie-lyrics, #mod_help, #confirmed_participants,
#shuttle_service_information, #code_of_conduct, and
#questions_for_coordinators.
Photo : via Unicorn Riot
They discussed legality of
plowing into protestors with a vehicle, less than a month before the rally. The shuttle service information chat thread contained messages advocating
for white supremacists to drive vehicles into crowds of counter-demonstrators
– a hint of what was to come on Saturday August 12 when 20 year-old Alex
Fields, Jr. drove his car into an anti-racist march, killing 32 year-old
paralegal and Charlottesville local Heather Heyer. (Unicorn Riot)
“Bring sticks, shields and
self-defense implements which can be turned from a free speech tool to a
self-defense weapon should things turn ugly. If you have legal permit to
concealed carry this should be fine. Check the local laws but Virginia is very
friendly on this issue.” (Discord posts)
Hymne suggéré pour la manifestation qui a eu lieu la
veille du rallye de Charlottesville. Si ce n’est pas un encouragement à la
violence armée...
Southrons,
hear your country call you!
Up,
lest worse than death befall you!
To
arms! To arms! In Dixie!
Lo!
all the beacon fires are lighted
Let
all hearts be now united!
To
arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie!
Chorus:
Advance
the flag of Dixie!
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
For
Dixie’s Land we take our stand,
And
live or die for Dixie!
To
arms! To arms!
And
conquer peace for Dixie!
Hear
the Northern thunders mutter!
Northern
flags in South winds flutter!
To
arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie!
Send
them back your fierce defiance!
Stamp
upon the cursed alliance!
To
arms! To arms! To arms! In Dixie!
Advance
the flag of Dixie!
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
For
Dixie’s Land we take our stand,
And
live or die for Dixie!
To
arms! To arms!
And
conquer peace for Dixie!
Full
article:
DATA RELEASE: Discord Chats Planned
Armed Neo-Nazi Militia Operations In Charlottesville | August 18, 2017
~~~
Les projets de loi visant l’immunité des
automobilistes qui percutent ou tuent des manifestants parce qu’ils bloquent la
circulation (!).
Backed by Police Unions, Legislators
Stand by Laws to Protect Drivers Who Kill Protesters
Zaid
Jilani, Lee Fang
August
14, 2017 | The Intercept
In
the aftermath of the murder of activist Heather Heyer in Charlottesville,
Virginia, state legislators who had previously pushed to shield drivers who
killed protesters with a moving vehicle are largely standing by their various
efforts, arguing that their legislation would not have applied in this
weekend’s attack.
Before
the killing on Saturday, a swath of bills had been proposed around the country,
largely in the South and primarily in response to Black Lives Matter and Dakota
Access Pipeline related protests. The bills targeted leftist demonstrators who
have increasingly shut down traffic by blocking roads and highways to bring
attention to their cause.
[Avant le meurtre de samedi, plusieurs
projets de loi ont été proposés à travers le pays, principalement dans le sud en
réponse à Black Lives Matter et aux manifestations
reliées au projet de pipeline du Dakota. Les projets de loi ciblaient les manifestants
de la gauche qui bloquaient de plus les routes et les autoroutes afin d’attirer
l'attention sur leur cause.]
Under
the proposed laws, motorists who struck and killed such protesters would have
special immunity in certain circumstances, as long as it wasn’t proven that they
acted deliberately. Heyer was struck by a car allegedly driven by James Alex
Fields Jr., a young man who is a supporter of white nationalist causes.
[En vertu de la législation proposée,
les automobilistes qui percuteraient et tueraient ce type de militants bénéficieraient
d’une immunité spéciale en certaines circonstances, en autant qu’on ne puisse prouver
qu'ils aient agi délibérément. Heyer aurait été percutée délibérément par le
présumé conducteur du véhicule Alex James Fields Jr., un jeune militant en faveur du
nationalisme blanc.]
None
of the proposed motorist immunity bills – debated in half a dozen states and
backed by far-right personalities and law enforcement interests – have been made into law. Rather
than backing away from the policy in light of the events in Charlottesville,
legislators are doubling down.
[Aucune des propositions concernant l'immunité
des automobilistes – débattues
dans une demi-douzaine d’États, et soutenues par des personnalités d'extrême-droite
et des responsables de l’ordre public – n’ont été adoptées. Plutôt que de
s'en éloigner à la lumière des événements de Charlottesville, les législateurs
les ont renforcées.]
In
Texas, state Rep. Pat Fallon introduced
a bill to limit the liability of
motorists responsible for hitting individuals who are “blocking traffic in a
public right-of-way while participating in a protest or demonstration.” The
Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, a statewide coalition of
municipal and county police associations, lists Fallon’s bill among legislation
supported by CLEAT. (Cleats are the spikes on the bottom of athletic shoes.)
In
response to criticism over the weekend, Fallon
doubled down on social media, implying
that his critics don’t know the difference between legal and illegal protest
(the Facebook status he links to has been deleted):
North Carolina’s version of the immunity
bill, HB 330, passed the lower chamber of the legislature in April. The text of the bill says that a “person
driving an automobile who is exercising due care and injures another person who
is participating in a protest or demonstration and is blocking traffic in a
public right-of-way is immune from civil liability for the injury.” The
definition of “due care,” of course, would be highly debatable.
On
Monday morning, the bill’s co-sponsors, state Reps. Justin Burr and Chris
Millis, released a joint statement defending their legislation and claiming it
would not apply in the context of Charlottesville.
Full
article:
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/14/backed-by-police-unions-legislators-standby-laws-to-protect-drivers-who-kill-protesters/
J'avais conservé cette photo truquée en me disant qu'elle pourrait servir un de ces jours.
Eh bien, je crois que c'est le moment.
Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life – And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville
J'avais conservé cette photo truquée en me disant qu'elle pourrait servir un de ces jours.
Eh bien, je crois que c'est le moment.
Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life – And He Isn’t Going to Change After Charlottesville
By
Mehdi Hasan -- The Intercept August 15, 2017
“Oh and
remember: we knew all of this before he was elected president of the United
States of America. He was elected in spite of all this (yet another reminder
that “not all Trump supporters are racist, but all of them decided that racism
isn’t a deal-breaker”).”
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