Friday, May 3, 2019

unz.com - Gregory Conte - Charlottesville: The Last Stand of American Freedom - The extreme left and politicized elements of the government are using Charlottesville to crush your rights and solidify their power





A remarkable thing is happening in Charlottesville. Although the Unite the Right rally happened over a year and a half ago, Charlottesville is where the organized, militant left and its establishment backers intend to crush popular resistance to their near total control of American political discourse. If they succeed, public free speech–speech that challenges prevailing attitudes at any rate–will be nearly impossible. The American citizen will have been reduced to the status of a serf. Fight now, or that will be your destiny.
The hard left has been attacking its political enemies on two fronts: in the media and in the courts. In the media, they have spun a false narrative about the rally with the intent of stirring up moral outrage against the political dissenters, that is, the Alt-Right. The extreme left has succeeded in bringing about broad censorship of dissident opinions. Their narrative also justifies their second method: a campaign of lawsuits and frivolous criminal prosecutions, the purpose of which is to intimidate the Alt-Right and to drain what little resources they possess. Once the hard left has wrapped up the dissident right, they will move on to other targets. ...