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In the past few days, much has been made of President Trump not condemning the violence in Charlottesville in strong enough terms. The media and social media are percolating with people claiming that the President should have named names and condemned the KKK and Neo-Nazis as hate-mongering terrorists. Many people are furious with the President and interpret his condemnation via generalities as a tacit endorsement of the acts of the radical groups.

Believe me, I understand their frustration. I know exactly how they feel because it is precisely how I felt during the last few years of President Obamas administration with his refusal to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Its an awful feeling isnt it, wishing your President would speak out in no uncertain terms against something that is clearly evil, leaving you wondering why the individual in Americas highest office wont condemn something that clearly contradicts our core American values?

The Black Lives Matter organization is a racist terrorist hate group launched in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomeki in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims, which fits the Black Lives Matter movement perfectly.

This extremist hate group has stoked riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Oakland, and other cities that have resulted in violence, the murder of police officers, and massive property destruction complete with signs and chants about killing white people and police officers.

The members of this hate-group vocally advocate violence against white people and the murder of individuals in law enforcement. In an essay on the Black Lives Matter Facebook page, leaders expressed unflinching support and breathless admiration for Fidel Castro, a brutal dictator, along with Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, Charles Hill, and Huey Newton. All cop killers.

Toronto Black Lives Matter co-founder Yusra Khogali has argued that whites are subhuman and suffer from genetic defects and has tweeted about killing white people. Then there is Eric Ukuni, a Denver Black Lives Matter acolyte who proclaimed, Three people will die today and proceeded to steal a truck by stabbing the owner in the neck with a screwdriver before intentionally driving into pedestrians, killing an elderly man this time last year. Sound familiar? The examples could go on and on.

Did President Obama condemn the hate-group? No, President Obama embraced it, inviting its leaders and other Ferguson protesters to the White House on more than one occasion and appointing one, Brittany Packnett, to a task force on policing. He defended the slogan Black Lives Matter when asked, Dont all lives matter? and he went out of his way to defend the group at a memorial service for five Dallas policemen murdered by a black sniper at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Be thankful that President Trump hasnt gone that far.

The media, which is now obsessed with the Alt-Right, Nazis, and the KKK, did no better than the President, constantly giving fawning coverage to Black Lives Matter. In 2015, Time named Black Lives Matter a runner-up for its annual Person of the Year. Can you imagine living in a country where the KKK was a runner-up for Person of the Year for a major mainstream publication? You think things are bad under President Trump?

We cannot afford to have selective memories and selective outrage. We cant be against hatred when it suits us. You cant condemn Charlottesville but try to justify Ferguson. You cant decry Neo-Nazis and the KKK and support Black Lives Matter. If you do, you are the worst kind of hypocrite. Hatred is hatred is hatred. Lets stand together against all of it.

Paul Rivers Chattanooga

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Mr. Rivers hit a home run with this post!

The nut cases that riot at a legal protests need to be locked up and the police share some fault in this one taking their time to react (a la Baltimore). No one should disagree that those bent on destroying American values (KKK, BLM etc.) are on the edge BUT the Constitution gives them the right to be as nasty as they wish as long as they don't physically harm another.

I wrote Obama off when he went to play golf as an American's blood was still running into the sand after his head was cut off. I most definitely applaud President Trump for waiting for ALL the information to come in before making statements that could come back on him (remember "the police acted stupidly)?

Face it America, this President absolutely cannot win regardless of what he does/says as far as the media is concerned. I liked what Ms. King had to say today, she too hit a home run.

Sue White

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Selective Outrage Is Unacceptable - And Response - The Chattanoogan

In the past few days, much has been made of President Trump not condemning the violence in Charlottesville in strong enough terms. The media and social media are percolating with people claiming that the President should have named names and condemned the KKK and Neo-Nazis as hate-mongering terrorists. Many people are furious with the President and interpret his condemnation via generalities as a tacit endorsement of the acts of the radical groups.

Believe me, I understand their frustration. I know exactly how they feel because it is precisely how I felt during the last few years of President Obamas administration with his refusal to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Its an awful feeling isnt it, wishing your President would speak out in no uncertain terms against something that is clearly evil, leaving you wondering why the individual in Americas highest office wont condemn something that clearly contradicts our core American values?

The Black Lives Matter organization is a racist terrorist hate group launched in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tomeki in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman after the killing of Trayvon Martin. Terrorism is defined as the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims, which fits the Black Lives Matter movement perfectly.

This extremist hate group has stoked riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Oakland, and other cities that have resulted in violence, the murder of police officers, and massive property destruction complete with signs and chants about killing white people and police officers.

The members of this hate-group vocally advocate violence against white people and the murder of individuals in law enforcement. In an essay on the Black Lives Matter Facebook page, leaders expressed unflinching support and breathless admiration for Fidel Castro, a brutal dictator, along with Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, Charles Hill, and Huey Newton. All cop killers.

Toronto Black Lives Matter co-founder Yusra Khogali has argued that whites are subhuman and suffer from genetic defects and has tweeted about killing white people. Then there is Eric Ukuni, a Denver Black Lives Matter acolyte who proclaimed, Three people will die today and proceeded to steal a truck by stabbing the owner in the neck with a screwdriver before intentionally driving into pedestrians, killing an elderly man this time last year. Sound familiar? The examples could go on and on.

Did President Obama condemn the hate-group? No, President Obama embraced it, inviting its leaders and other Ferguson protesters to the White House on more than one occasion and appointing one, Brittany Packnett, to a task force on policing. He defended the slogan Black Lives Matter when asked, Dont all lives matter? and he went out of his way to defend the group at a memorial service for five Dallas policemen murdered by a black sniper at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Be thankful that President Trump hasnt gone that far.

The media, which is now obsessed with the Alt-Right, Nazis, and the KKK, did no better than the President, constantly giving fawning coverage to Black Lives Matter. In 2015, Time named Black Lives Matter a runner-up for its annual Person of the Year. Can you imagine living in a country where the KKK was a runner-up for Person of the Year for a major mainstream publication? You think things are bad under President Trump?

We cannot afford to have selective memories and selective outrage. We cant be against hatred when it suits us. You cant condemn Charlottesville but try to justify Ferguson. You cant decry Neo-Nazis and the KKK and support Black Lives Matter. If you do, you are the worst kind of hypocrite. Hatred is hatred is hatred. Lets stand together against all of it.

Paul Rivers Chattanooga

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Selective Outrage Is Unacceptable - The Chattanoogan

Photo The words Black Lives Matter could still be faintly read on the base of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., after workers cleaned it following vandalism in June 2015. Credit Bryan McKenzie/The Daily Progress, via AP Images

Since white nationalists marched Friday in Charlottesville, Va., the quiet college town has seen a nighttime brawl lit up by torches and smartphones, and worse violence that left one person dead and dozens injured.

At the center of the chaos is a statue memorializing Robert E. Lee. It depicts the Confederacys top general, larger than life, astride a horse, both green with oxidation.

The white nationalists were in Charlottesville to protest the citys plan to remove that statue, and counterdemonstrators were there to oppose them. The statue begun by Henry Merwin Shrady, a New York sculptor, and finished after his death by an Italian, Leo Lentelli had stood in the city since 1924. But over the past couple of years some residents and city officials, along with organizations like the N.A.A.C.P., had called for it to come down.

One local official made a similar suggestion as early as 2012 and quickly discovered that emotions surrounding the issue run deep.

It was during the Virginia Festival of the Book, a series of readings and events held every year in Albemarle County, which includes Charlottesville.

At a talk given by the author and historian Edward Ayers, a Charlottesville city councilor, Kristin Szakos, asked about the citys Confederate monuments. She wondered whether the city should discuss removing them.

People around her gasped. You would have thought I had asked if it was O.K. to torture puppies, she recalled during a 2013 conversation on BackStory, a podcast supported by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

The response to her comment was heated, and swift. Ms. Szakos said she received threats via phone and email. I felt like I had put a stick in the ground, and kind of ugly stuff bubbled up from it, she said.

It was a local turning point, helped along by national events. Ms. Szakoss comment came about a month after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Florida. The trial and eventual acquittal of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, helped fan the flames of the Black Lives Matter protests, which erupted into full force in 2014 following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

By 2015, debates about Confederate flags and monuments were heating up in Southern states including South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana. Those who favored removal saw the symbols as monuments to white supremacy, but their opponents accused them of trying to erase history.

In Charlottesville that year, someone spray-painted Black Lives Matter on the foundation of the Lee statue. City workers cleaned it quickly, leaving only a faint outline.

By 2016, Wes Bellamy, another Charlottesville city councilor and the citys vice mayor, had become a champion of efforts to remove Confederate monuments. At a news conference in front of the Lee statue in March of that year, he said the City Council would appoint a commission to discuss the issue.

When I see the multitude of people here who are so passionate about correcting something that they feel should have been done a long time ago, I am encouraged, he said to the crowd of residents in front of him. Some clapped. Others shouted, accusing Mr. Bellamy of sowing division.

That same month, Zyahna Bryant, a high school student, petitioned the City Council asking for the Lee statue to be removed. My peers and I feel strongly about the removal of the statue because it makes us feel uncomfortable and it is very offensive, she wrote in the petition, which collected hundreds of signatures.

The City Council established its special commission in May 2016. Later that year, it issued a report suggesting that the city could either relocate the Lee statue or transform it with the inclusion of new accurate historical information.

The addition of historical context might have been welcomed by some defenders of the statues. One group, Friends of CVille Monuments, said on its website that statues could be improved by adding more informative, better detailed explanations of the history of the statues and what they can teach us.

But in February, the City Council voted to remove the statue from the park. Opponents of the move sued in March, arguing that the city did not have the authority to do so under state law.

That court case is continuing, and the statue has remained in place. It was the focal point for a gathering held in May by the white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was among the demonstrators in Charlottesville this weekend. In June, the City Council gave Lee Park a new name Emancipation Park.

The rally that descended into violence Saturday was organized by Jason Kessler, a relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene who is well known in Charlottesville, where he has fought against the citys status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.

A self-described journalist, activist and author, Mr. Kessler also waged a monthslong online media campaign against Mr. Bellamy, whom he depicted as anti-white.

More recently, Mr. Kessler became involved in the fight against renaming Lee Park one reason for the Unite the Right rally this weekend. The rally was by far Mr. Kesslers largest undertaking yet. Last week, he won an injunction in federal court against the city, which had voted to revoke a permit for the rally.

This is my First Amendment right, Mr. Kessler said of the rally during a news conference on Thursday. This is the right of every American to be able to peaceably assemble and speak their mind free of intimidation. Thats why I decided to do it.

With the lawsuit over the Lee statue still unresolved, it remains unclear what will become of it. The violence this weekend was one of the bloodiest fights over the campaigns across the South to remove Confederate monuments, and the statue remains a lightning rod in Charlottesville. Mr. Spencer, for his part, has promised to return.

Alan Feuer contributed reporting.

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Ben Butler, the director of GoDaddys digital crimes unit, said in a statement emailed through a spokesman that the company generally does not take action that would constitute censorship. While we detest the sentiment of such sites, we support a free and open Internet and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content, he said.

In instances where a site goes beyond the mere exercise of these freedoms, however, and crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in violence against any person, we will take action, he said. In our determination, especially given the tragic events in Charlottesville, Dailystormer.com crossed the line and encouraged and promoted violence.

The company had been asked in a report in July in The Daily Beast why it did not take action against the website, even after Daily Stormer had published an article promising to track down the relatives of CNN staffers. At the time, Ben Butler, GoDaddys director of network abuse, cited the First Amendment in defending his companys business with the organization.

While we detest the sentiment of this site and the article in question, we support First Amendment rights and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content, he told The Daily Beast.

Like other homes for white supremacists on the internet, The Daily Stormer features message boards and sarcastic commentary. It was created by Andrew Anglin in 2013, amid a national uproar over the killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old black teenager, by a neighborhood watch monitor, George Zimmerman.

Other companies have also distanced themselves from the organizers of the rally in Charlottesville. Airbnb last week canceled a number of accounts and bookings associated with the Unite the Right Free Speech Rally, which had been described as an event that seeks to affirm the right of Southerners and white people to organize for their interests, according to a description on Facebook.

On Monday, the chief executive officer of Merck, Kenneth C. Frazier, quit an advisory panel over President Trumps statement blaming many sides for the violence in Charlottesville. Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Frazier for the decision.

And TIKI Brand, the company that manufactures the torches that were carried by some of the white nationalists on Friday night, slammed the use of their product at the rally. We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way, it said in a statement.

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White nationalists were in the quiet Virginia college town to protest the citys plan to remove the statue of the Confederacys top general, and counterdemonstrators were there to oppose them. The statue has stood in the city since 1924.

Since white nationalists marched Friday in Charlottesville, Virginia, the quiet college town has seen a nighttime brawl lit up by torches and smartphones, and worse violence that left one person dead and dozens injured.

At the center of the chaos is a statue memorializing Robert E. Lee. It depicts the Confederacys top general, larger than life, astride a horse, both green with oxidation.

The white nationalists were in Charlottesville to protest the citys plan to remove that statue, and counterdemonstrators were there to oppose them. The statue begun by Henry Merwin Shrady, a New York sculptor, and finished after his death by an Italian, Leo Lentelli had stood in the city since 1924. But over the past couple of years some residents and city officials, along with organizations like the NAACP, had called for it to come down.

One local official made a similar suggestion as early as 2012 and quickly discovered that emotions surrounding the issue run deep.

It was during the Virginia Festival of the Book, a series of readings and events held every year in Albemarle County, which includes Charlottesville.

At a talk given by author and historian Edward Ayers, a Charlottesville city councilor, Kristin Szakos, asked about the citys Confederate monuments. She wondered whether the city should discuss removing them.

People around her gasped. You would have thought I had asked if it was OK to torture puppies, she recalled during a 2013 conversation on BackStory, a podcast supported by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

The response to her comment was heated, and swift. Szakos said she received threats via phone and email. I felt like I had put a stick in the ground, and kind of ugly stuff bubbled up from it, she said.

It was a local turning point, helped along by national events. Szakos comment came about a month after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Florida. The trial and eventual acquittal of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, helped fan the flames of the Black Lives Matter protests, which erupted into full force in 2014 following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

By 2015, debates about Confederate flags and monuments were heating up in Southern states including South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana. Those who favored removal saw the symbols as monuments to white supremacy, but their opponents accused them of trying to erase history.

In Charlottesville that year, someone spray-painted Black Lives Matter on the foundation of the Lee statue. City workers cleaned it quickly, leaving only a faint outline.

By 2016, Wes Bellamy, another Charlottesville city councilor and the citys vice mayor, had become a champion of efforts to remove Confederate monuments. At a news conference in front of the Lee statue in March of that year, he said the City Council would appoint a commission to discuss the issue.

When I see the multitude of people here who are so passionate about correcting something that they feel should have been done a long time ago, I am encouraged, he said to the crowd of residents in front of him. Some clapped. Others shouted, accusing Bellamy of sowing division.

That same month, Zyahna Bryant, a high-school student, petitioned the City Council asking for the Lee statue to be removed. My peers and I feel strongly about the removal of the statue because it makes us feel uncomfortable and it is very offensive, she wrote in the petition, which collected hundreds of signatures.

The City Council established its special commission in May 2016. Later that year, it issued a report suggesting that the city could either relocate the Lee statue or transform it with the inclusion of new accurate historical information.

The addition of historical context might have been welcomed by some defenders of the statues. One group, Friends of CVille Monuments, said on its website that statues could be improved by adding more informative, better detailed explanations of the history of the statues and what they can teach us.

But in February, the City Council voted to remove the statue from the park. Opponents of the move sued in March, arguing that the city did not have the authority to do so under state law.

That court case is continuing, and the statue has remained in place. It was the focal point for a gathering held in May by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was among the demonstrators in Charlottesville this weekend. In June, the City Council gave Lee Park a new name Emancipation Park.

The rally that descended into violence Saturday was organized by Jason Kessler, a relative newcomer to the white-nationalist scene who is well known in Charlottesville, where he has fought against the citys status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.

A self-described journalist, activist and author, Kessler also waged a monthslong online media campaign against Bellamy, whom he depicted as anti-white.

More recently, Kessler became involved in the fight against renaming Lee Park one reason for the Unite the Right rally this weekend. The rally was by far Kesslers largest undertaking yet. Last week, he won an injunction in federal court against the city, which had voted to revoke a permit for the rally.

This is my First Amendment right, Kessler said of the rally during a news conference on Thursday. This is the right of every American to be able to peaceably assemble and speak their mind free of intimidation. Thats why I decided to do it.

With the lawsuit over the Lee statue still unresolved, it remains unclear what will become of it. The violence this weekend was one of the bloodiest fights over the campaigns across the South to remove Confederate monuments, and the statue remains a lightning rod in Charlottesville. Spencer, for his part, has promised to return.

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