20 août 2017

Indice Dow Jones de la violence organisée

Liberté d’expression n’est pas synonyme de liberté de tuer.

Un gamin de 7 ans, tué à Barcelone, Espagne. (Photographe inconnu)

Heather Heyer, 32 ans, tuée à Charlottesville, Virginia USA. Photo : Sam Levitan, 2016

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.

Chic & Swell. "Heureux soient-ils car le Royaume KKK est à eux." 
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

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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
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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