Originally Posted by
BluesStringer
Permits to demonstrate for or against any action or position of government is anathema to the First Amendment. That "white nationalists" had a permit says nothing about them, their message(s), or whether or not they are wholly or partially responsible for the violence that ensued. It's for certain though, that the fact they had a permit doesn't absolve them of at least partial responsibility for same.
Government ordering the removal of Robert E. Lee statues, or any other symbol or tribute to the Confederacy, likewise is anathema to the First Amendment, as well as to the letter and intentions of the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The fact that Virginia and 10 other Confederate states were forced through violence to unwillingly continue the once-voluntary association that they freely entered into between the 1780s and 1860s, was our first clue that the First Amendment, nor any other, meant anything towards protecting the rights of any American going forward.
For the record, it was a Republican who repealed by fiat the Constitution during the War of Northern Aggression. McAuliffe's status as a modern-day Democrat is irrelevant to the Constitution's status as a meaningless historical document that holds no sway on behalf of American's rights anymore, if indeed, it ever did. Dem vs. Rep, white vs. black, native vs. immigrant and more, are all pretenses promulgated to keep us divided, and it's working like a charm. Just think what could be accomplished in Charlottesville and beyond if all The People in attendance over the last 48 hours were working towards the common goal of throwing off government-imposed chains that it has no constitutional authority to shackle them with. I realize that's a pipe dream, but that fact is because people are so easily-led by evil, not because what I'm saying isn't the truth.
White nationalists suck as much as Antifas and BLM'ers, but none of them suck as bad as government, and they (and "we") are all counted amongst government's natural and common enemies. Government has nothing to worry about in its insatiable appetite for our rights. We all have cannibalized that which We, The People combined in an effort to create - human freedom. And We, The People never sought a permit from government to do it. Permission from government to stand against government action is no way to legitimize standing against said action. In fact, the very act of seeking permission itself, delegitimizes the notion that those asking for it are free, as they themselves don't even believe it if they participate in asking for permission to exercise it.
Charlottesville was/is a government-run conspiracy no matter which sub-set of participants asked for and got permission to be there. They were all enemies of the state, not because of their positions on any subject, but because they were gifted freedom by God, and government is anathema to freedom.