Into the Abyss

[gary webb]

I don't know about the rest of the list but I've been unnaturally disturbed
about the events of Charlottesville. As an American, I suppose I should be
more cynical, and actually come to expect this sort of violence, but there
is something off. Looking at the pictures, these Unite the Right guys look
pretty unremarkable, like VCR repairman,not what I'd associate with
storm-trooper, AKA Puck Beaverton, the resemble Arendt's depiction of
Eichmann, not paramilitary types, which I've come to expect, but its
nonetheless remarkable in 2017, that the "Blood and Soil" movement nonsense
feels it can make a big PR-push into the mainstream.

I found the President's silence to be remarkable, and David Duke's tweet,
and this all goes back to that NRA video Jerky posted a while back, a
campaign is afoot to provoke and demonize the left, and that's what these
Alt-Right Nazis do, then the right has images which they spin to scare the
hell out of paranoid suburbanites...

It looks like the plan backfired, and an innocent woman was killed
protesting, and others injured by some kamikaze white nationalist from
Ohio. But I'm sure in the coming months or years, they will have their
Horst Wessel... and the Right will continue to use these assholes as blunt
instruments, just like the Weimar right did, thinking that they can control
them, until its too late...
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