The Douglasville 15, the "Justice" System and the Fake News Media....

The following is edited from posts and comments I recently made on Facebook following the sentencing of Jose Torres and Kayla Norton in Douglas County, Georgia...

 Some Troubling Aspects of the Douglasville 15 Case

I've touched on some of these aspects in other comments, but they can certainly bear repeating.

Maybe these defendants ARE white supes motivated by racial hatred, but the case presented by the justice system fails to show that. Claims to that effect are made by others, but actual evidence showing these defendants' statements and actions are far from conclusive. It's mostly just "they said..." claims. **

If actual evidence ever comes out that these people are haters misusing our ancestors' flag, I will have no qualms about acknowledging it and denouncing them.

But right now, I'm doubtful, for the following (and other) reasons.

Some of the judge's statements, as reported in the media, are troubling. And what the media "chose" to "report" about this incident reveals their lack of objectivity; it appears that they, and he, are trying to influence public opinion to hatred of the defendants.

>>>“Their actions were motivated by racial hatred,” the judge said.<<<

The judge is not a mind-reader. He cannot know this unless they told him that was what motivated them. I am deeply suspicious of this man's impartiality.

Although I haven't tried to verify this yet, I'm told that he is up for re-election. He's white. His opponent is black. Could his performance during this trial be currying favor with black voters? This seems to substantiate a comment I made in an earlier post that the excessive sentence for the defendants appeared to be politically motivated. Could he have sacrificed an impartial trial for these defendants on the altar of his political ambition?

The media reports:

>>>Just a month after Dylann Roof shot down nine African-American worshipers in a Charleston, S.C., church, Jose Ismael Torres and Kayla Rae Norton gathered with 13 other friends to make a statement about the Confederate battle flag.<<<

Roof and Charleston are irrelevant to this case. Bringing them up is a blatant attempt to falsely associate the defendants with Roof, and to equate their alleged actions with his crime .

>>>Roof had championed it and said he wanted to start a race war.<<<

Roof did not "champion" the Confederate battle flag. He had his picture made with it a few times, but he didn't even mention it in his manifesto, which is where it would need to be if he was "championing" it. If you are confused about this, compare his behavior to that of the Virginia Flaggers. THEY are champions of the battle flag.

>>>Over two days in July 2015, Norton and Torres’ group, which called itself “Respect the Flag,” decorated their convoy of pickup trucks and went on what authorities described as a drunken rampage through Paulding and Douglas counties.<<<

How do we know this description by "authorities" is accurate when there is very little elaboration on it or substantiation of it? A news report includes this:

>>>“Many good people in Paulding County saw you for what you are,” McClain said before he handed down the sentences. “Everywhere you went, 911 call centers were flooded with calls.”<<<

How many good people, Judge? How many 911 calls were there? "Flooded with calls" is blatantly nonspecific. Intentionally so? How many is a flood? Three? Thirty? Three hundred? This needs to be clarified. Calls to 911 are archived. It should be possible, and relatively easy, to get a precise number of the calls, rather than resort to the loaded word, "flooded."

>>>As the defendants wept uncontrollably, Douglas County Superior Court Judge William McClain castigated Norton, 25, and Torres, 26, for perpetrating what he called a hate crime. He sentenced Torres to 20 years, with 13 to serve in prison; Norton was given 15 years, with six to serve. Upon their release, they will be banished from Douglas County, McClain said.<<<

On top of these grossly excessive sentences, they are to be banished from the county? How medieval can this judge get?

There are many other things about this case, about how it has been handled from the beginning, about the trial and about the way it has all been reported in the media that are extremely troubling.

Yes, the defendants did something wrong and they should be held accountable for it. If the incident with the gun is being accurately reported, they *especially* deserve to be held accountable for that.

But there are too many troubling things about this case that makes me deeply suspicious that serving justice was not the point for the "authorities".

***** 1. The involvement of the Southern Poverty Law Center since the very beginning ... From the SPLC's website:

"The SPLC launched an investigation immediately after the July 25 incident and turned over videos and other evidence to Douglasville District Attorney Brian K. Fortner. SPLC attorneys also brought witnesses to the prosecutor and have been representing some of the people at the party."

We need to know what videos and "other evidence" the SPLC gave to the DA. We need to see the videos and other evidence ourselves.  We need the identity of the SPLC-provided witnesses, and what information/testimony they provided. We need copies of any depositions they gave.

***** 2. The repeated references to Dylann Roof and Charleston by the press.

If there was any actual connection whatsoever between Roof and this group, that connection needs to be presented in detail. If there is no actual connection -- if it is some mysterious "link" imagined in the press due to their prejudices about the Confederate battle flag -- they need to remove all references to Roof and Charleston from their reports about this Georgia incident.

***** 3. This incident needs to bring into sharp focus Georgia's "gang terrorism" law. Citizens of the state need to understand just how dangerous this law is, how it could endanger innocent people, or authorize cruel and unusual punishment for those convicted of crimes under its authority.

That's just a start on the troubling aspects of this case.

I believe there is waaaaaay more here than meets the eye.

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** The only video I've seen of the incident as it occurred (and it was winding down, as the trucks were leaving at that time), is a snippet of less than a minute. I note that 1.) no threats or racial slurs are discernible in the audio from those in the trucks, 2.) the party-goers do not appear to be the least bit terrorized or traumatized; they appear to be infuriated, at least one of them mindlessly so; 3.) there are no guns visible in the snnippet; 4.) there are no swastika flags, as some people claimed.

Dangerous, Violent, Hate-filled Left Shows Its True Nature

Yvette Felarca is a violent lunatic in California. She and her group, By Any Means Necessary, led the violent attacks to shut down Milo Yiannopoulos at Berkeley. Why? Because, she says, he is a fascist and white supremacist. Apparently, she is completely unaware that there are fascists and white supremacists who are nonviolent and thus morally superior to her. Or if she is aware, she doesn't care.

Felarca is an "antifascist" -- which is a title that its adopters believe gives them the right to do what they criticize in others -- violently beat, harass, silence and destroy people they disagree with.. Antifascist = leftist = socialist =  collectivist.

 Igor Shafarevic, author of The Socialist Phenomenon, concluded that the goal of socialism is destruction -- specifically, the death of the human race.

Paraphrased in Sobran's: "...socialism had endured throughout history, usually in the form of one or another Christian heresy. It gives expression to the gnostic urge to rebel — the rebellion of the educated against the constraints imposed by Creation and by God. In earlier periods, when of course the socialist label was not used, it could be identified by its insistent, unvarying emphasis on certain goals: the destruction of private property and of the traditional or 'nuclear' family; and above all, the dismemberment of traditional, or orthodox religion. Throughout history, the phenomenon has been obsessed with material equality, and with the eradication of individual and gender distinctions. It wars incessantly against the normal. A 'striving for self-destruction,' for nothingness, for the “death of mankind,” is the true goal of socialism. Instinctively, without stating it or even seeing it as the conscious goal, the socialist phenomenon seeks the death of the human race."

The left/socialism/collectivism is all about death and destruction, and this berserker Felarca is currently its poster child.

Over the years, leftists in the educational establishment and their anonymous follower/haters have persecuted and cyberstalked Confederate heritage defenders and the Virginia Flaggers in particular, with lies that they are "linked" to white supes like Matthew Heimbach. They are not, and it has been proven, over and over. But when a peaceful demonstration by Heimbach and his organization was held in California last year, and they were physically and violently attacked by Felarca and her fellow lunatic "antifas", did they say anything? Of course not. They don't CARE about REAL violence perped by people on their side; they care about attacking the Flaggers with lies and more lies.

The Difference Between "Anti-Fascists" and Confederate Heritage

Find me ANYWHERE online a video where an innocent pedestrian or even a Flagger critic walking down the Boulevard in Richmond gets physically attacked, hit, punched, slapped, and kicked like this. The worst that happens is that they get videotaped. As far as their organizations go, Lunatic Felarca is the counterpart of Susan Hathaway, but they could not be farther apart in morality, ideology and decency.

As far as I can determine, critics like the cowardly anonymous hate-blogger at "Restoring the Honor" (a blog specifically created to attack the Flaggers and incite hatred, and perhaps violence, toward them), and the cowardly anonymous "Liberty Lamp", and civil war bloggers like Brooks Simpson and Kevin Levin, have not spoken a word against the Berkeley Berserkers, or acknowledged how incredibly dangerous they are in a society such as ours, where Constitutional guarantees are supposed to apply to all.

But oh, someone who once did business with the Flaggers said some slurs, and that is WORSE than Felarca's violence and destruction. When the leftist lunatics disagree with someone, they want to shut them up and take them down, by any means necessary. I think Felarca is dangerous and spouts highly toxic rhetoric and people are going to get hurt or killed by it. And I believe she needs to be shut down, and her group obliterated -- the difference is I think it ought to be done lawfully and nonviolently.

Interview with the lunatic here:
She is what she claims to be against. I await condemnation of this from the usual suspects, but it will be a cold day in hell before it is forth coming ... and hell will freeze over before they admit their hatred for and cyberstalking.and harassment of Susan Hathaway and extend their apologies.

Felarca YouTube Index
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yvette+delarca

Gleefully Approving of Annihilation

What kind of civil war historian, or any other kind of historian, occupies himself with monitoring and trashing currently existing heritage organizations, and plasters his blog with gleeful disparagement of them?

Well, one example is a man who crafts a mission for his civil war blog that far exceeds history. Indeed, instead of naming his blog Civil War History, he names it Civil War Memory. Thus, if there is something he wishes to discuss (or "discuss") on his blog, all he has to do is find or fabricate some connection between it and "how the civil war is remembered."

Since January 14, Flogger Kevin Levin has posted no less than three blog entries with "Virginia Flaggers" in the title. In one of them, he cites a hate piece he wrote about the Flaggers for the ultra-leftist e-mag, The Daily Beast. I pretty much tore up that piece, examining his methods and the motives behind what he wrote, and you can read it here:  http://polygraff.blogspot.com/2016/09/kevin-levin-not-journalist-not.html

On January 16, his most morbidly gleeful headline is posted, which reads, Virginia Flaggers Outflanked and Annihilated. It is interesting that he uses far less inflammatory words in the post itself -- upstaged and defeated, which hardly means "annihilated" -- and the post actually acknowledges two Flagger victories, positive coverage by the press and the raising of another immense Confederate Memorial Flag in Lexington (the fourth in that significant Confederate town). I wonder how much this confused his readers....

But I find his use of "annihilate" in the headline the most interesting, and telling. Some synonyms for "annihilate" at Dictionary.com are: eradicate, exterminate, obliterate, liquidate, massacre, slaughter. If asked, he would probably say he meant the Flagger organization. But just as he interprets big flags by the highway to be defeat for the Flaggers (it isn't), I interpret his use of these words to reveal his agreement with the hatred for white Southerners that has characterized the USA on some level, for generations, and his latent approval of the union's desire to utterly destroy the white South.

I can't help but be reminded of Mrs. Kevin's wishing early death for heritage people (or maybe all white Southerner?) from unhealthy diets, because some people -- including herself and her husband -- misconstrued a meme about an Obama. http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-wish-for-early-croakin.html

Annihilate... very tolerant and inclusive word, is it not?

Hate and Bigotry Warming Up at XRoads.

There's a new online dating service called "For Confederates Only" that Simpson has featured on is hate blog. I know nothing about the service; had never heard of it until Simpson posted a link to it at XRoads to encourage hatred and ridicule of heritage folks in his readers.

But the gust of hate and ridicule coming from his comment thread doesn't hold a candle to the paroxysm gushing forth from the hate blogs of Levin and DeStroy, and from Comment-Thread Hate Jockey Andy Hall, who, for some reason, apparently prefers to display his hatred on other people's blogs instead of his own.

According to Wikipedia's entry on online dating services, "Successful niche sites pair people by race, sexual orientation or religion. The 20 most popular dating sites in 2006 as ranked by Hitwise include jDate.com (for Jewish singles), ChristianMingle.com, ChristianCafe.com, ManHunt.net (same sex introductions), LoveFromIndia.ini, BlackChristianPeopleMeet.com, Amigos.com (for Latino singles), AsianPeopleMeet.com, and Shaadi.com (for Indian singles)..."

Would these people ridicule and foment hate for people who use these services as they do "For Confederates Only"? Of course not.

This is just more confirmation of my claim that hating white Southerners (and fomenting hatred of us in others) is an agenda that has preoccupied the country since the civil war, and most especially has preoccupied leftists since WWII.

I could make some observations on several comments following that thread, but I'll choose just one:

Scott Ledridge   
January 11, 2017 / 1:25 pm

In a surprising bout of honesty from neo-Confederates, it seems they’ve used “actual photos of actual members” rather than the normal stock photos of models route.

The normal stock photos of models route? Normal for who, dating sites? Or normal for "neo-Confederates"? If you mean the latter, I'm calling you out, Sledge. Come here and provide a link substantiating that using stock photos of models is the "normal route" for "neoConfederates," which, presumably includes Confederate heritage folks.

Perhaps some heritage folks have used stock images or other fake photos for satire, but I'm not aware of it. The only person I'm aware of who uses fake photos is Corey Meyer, and he is a hater, a slimy, smelly deliberate deceiver -- not a Confederate....

http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2014/10/corey-in-drag.html
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-liar-lies-part-deux.html
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/06/news-flash-vic-hatcher-aint-vic-hatcher.html

Your turn, Scott. Link to stock photos of models used by "neo-Confederates" instead of actual photos of themselves. Make sure their motives are as disgusting and putrid as Corey's -- and a host of other anti-Confederate haters.

Believe It

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If the Virginia Flaggers and other Confederate groups announced that from here on, they would no longer commemorate Lee-Jackson Day, or any other public event, in Lexington, CARE would vanish into thin air. Anyone who thinks they marched in Lexington to "honor King" is seriously, deeply hoodwinked.

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Truth In Memes

 

They Gon' Shut Us Down? Ah, No

Anti-fa = communist.

Communist governments murdered an estimated 100 to 150 million people in the 20th Century. These figures don't include war deaths. These were deliberate murders.

So a bunch of anti-fa whack jobs that worship mega-murdering communism are saying they want to "shut down Southern heritage" --by what method? If last century's communist leaders are the example, they did it with extremely brutal mass murder.

There may be somebody or some thing that can shut down Southern heritage, short of mass murder, but not these whack jobs. The yankee army couldn't do it. The one-nation indivisible United States couldn't do it. The weaponizing of our language using authoritarian political correctness couldn't do it. The left, with which these anti-fa whack jobs are associated, or at least in tune with, couldn't do it.

So much for that subject.

But Southern heritage isn't the only thing in their sights.  They're agin' white supremacy and patriarchy, too. That's probably not a surprise. But they're also against.... Well, here, let them tell you: "...we are an anarchist movement for the full abolition of capitalism and the State..."

Abolish capitalism and the State? That will take more than a few out-of-touch dreamers in Virginia. (Or are they, more accurately, nightmare-ers?)

Here's part of the nightmarish quality to their ideology (idiot-ology?) -- they say they're non-violent ... then say they use violence, but "liberatory" as opposed to "dominating" violence.

Violence is violence, particularly to its victims, regardless of the intent or attitude ot the perpetrator.

Looking over their online presence, I see photos of people whose faces are hidden behind bandanas. I see fake names. Hiding, deceit and destruction are their hallmarks. Hiding faces and identities indicates shame, fear or both.

Fearful and ashamed destroyers who hide and deceive and perpetrate violence.

Their hate and violence makes white supremacy look not-all-that-bad by comparison ... and patriarchy is largely responsible for the success of mankind.  But leftists, commies, anti-fas, aren't interested in success. The left is all about destruction.

As Igor Shafarevich concluded in his book, The Socialist Phenomenon, a "striving for self-destruction, for nothingness, for the 'death of mankind,' was the true goal of socialism. Instinctively, without stating it or even seeing it as the conscious goal, the socialist phenomenon seeks the death of the human race." (http://www.sobran.com/hive/hum.shtml)

Remember that next time these nutcases march somewhere in Virginia...

Congratulations, President-Elect Donald Trump ...

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... on your phenomenal campaign and great victory. Looking forward to the restoration of America's greatness.

The Suppression of Ideas and Free Thought in the Service of Hate

I mentioned in my previous post that Kevin Levin's blog entry about the SCV's proposed museum advocates the suppression of ideas and beliefs he disagrees with. Of course, it isn't just him. Progressives have held that position, and made that effort, for generations. This is particularly true in education, especially higher education.

Perfect example: One of his commenters says,

"I may have to write a ‘letter to the editor’ about this one. I do think there are a lot of people who simply don’t understand that, as my grad school advisor once titled an op-ed “confederate history is about race.” Yet it may be for some, they are reachable and their opinions could be changed."

Heaven forbid somebody does "wrong-think" -- i.e., hold wrong beliefs that needs changing, in this person's opinion.

In fact, this commenter, who happens to be a college teacher of the progressive, all-slavery, only-slavery persuasion, did indeed write a letter to the editor of the Columbia (TN) Daily Herald blatantly advocating that people be indoctrinated into HER views, and not be allowed to hold their own.
http://www.columbiadailyherald.com/opinion/20161017/letter-to-editor-confederate-museum-skewed-version-of-history

Sez she,

".... the proposed museum would offer a highly skewed version of local and regional history, one which, crucially and intentionally, diminishes the significance of slavery. If this 'museum' is to be built, local people should insist that it raises (sic) critical questions about the role of slavery within the Confederacy, and that it includes (sic) the input of trained historians and/or of groups which specialize in African American history. Short of this, we cannot support local officials or schools associating with this institution, nor can we allow this version of history to seep into students’ curriculum."

This totalitarian attitude would do a Soviet dictator proud.

What lies beneath this mental tyranny, I believe, is not genuine respect for true history, or even for the African-American/slavery experience, but hatred of white Southerners, past and present, and the dedication to evilizing them in every way possible. For some, it is accomplished by lurid novels and movies, for others it is "history" and civil war "scholarship."

If you asked this "visiting instructor of history" whether she hates white Southerners, she would probably be appalled and babble denials -- I believe she identified Columbia as her home town, but of course, being a white Southerner is no guarantee that you will escape the indoctrination of self-hatred, because said indoctrination  runs the gamut from mushroom-cloud obvious to barely detectable subtlety.

Hatred of Southern whites is a subset of the progressive effort to foment hatred for whiteness overall, and we will look at the pheonomena more in future posts.

The SCV's Gonna Build a Museum, and Kevin Levin is Pissed

Levin has a post about the SCV's project of building a museum near its headquarters in Tennessee. He sez the SCV's "decision to call it a museum, however, needs serious qualification."

No, it doesn't. A museum is "a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed" (Random House via Dictionary.com) ... and ... "a place or building where objects of historical, artistic, or scientific interest are exhibited, preserved, or studied" (Collins English Dictionary via Dictionary.com).  

Levin further sez, "Let’s be clear that the epistemological foundation of this endeavor has much more in common with the Creation Museum, Noah’s Ark Encounter or even the Museum of the Confederacy in its earliest incarnation than anything that we normally designate as a history museum."

Than WHO "normally designate as a history museum?" YOU, Levin?

For the folks in Rio Linda, "epistemology" is a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge (Dictionary.com). If Levin is concerned about that with regard to civil war museums, he needs to understand that a great many of them existing today are not about knowledge of the civil war at all. They are about indoctrinating visitors into the progressive view of the South (evil), Southerners past and present (bad), the Confederacy (really, really evil), slavery (the greatest sin of mankind) and Abe Lincoln  (saint) and the union (sinless).

This is also the purpose of adding "interpretative plaques" to Confederate monuments that have been standing, quite well understood without them, for decades -- to indoctrinate visitors in the progressive mindset of the items named in the above paragraph. If you thought it was about "knowledge" and "truth," boy, are you wrong.

Levin concludes, "Ultimately, what we are seeing here is the further acknowledgment that the Lost Cause continues to lose credibility as a legitimate interpretation of the past and as something worthy of honoring or celebrating. ...It is another acknowledgment (at a cost of $5 million) that the Lost Cause has surely lost."

Well, Levin, obviously, the "Lost Cause" is not lost enough for you. You're obsessed with it.

But here's what's most instructive about your blog entry. I note that your post and many comments following it advocate the suppression of ideas and beliefs you disagree with. (That is standard fare on your blog, btw.) It's not enough for you to disagree with it -- it has to be figuratively strong-armed to force compliance, or else the public has to be verbally strong-armed to avoid it. Since the SCV isn't likely to knuckle under to progressive haranguing, you folks will have to go to Plan B.

The post and comments are a stark, clear example of the leftist mentality and the leftist approach. Progressives bill themselves as "tolerant" and welcoming of the free exchange of ideas. In fact, if they cannot suppress that which they disagree with, they will lie about it and strive to influence others against it (Plan B).

I don't think it will work, as it has in the past. Many recent events demonstrate that Americans are are sick and tired of the decades-long progressive strong-arming (i.e., political correctness) and they are pushing back. That's why Target is losing money hand-over-fist (and why it changed its "bathroom policy" yet again, and is spending $20 million to accommodate its customers and undo its earlier arrogance toward their beliefs). That's why the Washington Post speculates that the "NFL ratings plunge could spell doom for traditional TV" (although the article doesn't even touch on the reason for the ratings plunge; many commenters get it, though). That's why "Birth of a Nation" and "Free State of Jones" bombed at the box office.  That's why a brash New York billionaire who knows nothing of the verbal diplomacy needed in political exchanges is running neck and neck with his lying, dirty-trickster progressive opponent in the presidential race.  That is why, according to a Gallup poll and other indicators, Americans' trust of the media is at an all-time low.

But y'all sharpen your pencils, or get comfortable at your keyboard, and start churning out them efforts at the suppression of ideas. Write those blog posts. Comments.  Letters to the editor.... Show the world what you really are.

And to the SCV -- can't wait to visit your museum!

(Stay tuned -- I'll be addressing some of the more bizarre "progressive" ideas found in the comments in my next post).