This is as good an afteraction report as you’ll find anywhere on what happened at Charlottesville, Virginia. This is an afteraction report from Seattle, and this is a report from Durham.
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) – A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
Around 7:10 p.m. a woman using a ladder climbed the statue of a Confederate soldier and attached a rope around the statue.
Moments later, the crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell. One man quickly ran up and spat on the statue and several others began kicking it.
Durham police later said they monitored the protests to make sure they were “safe” but did not interfere with the statue toppling because it happened on county property.
“Because this incident occurred on county property, where county law enforcement officials were staffed, no arrests were made by DPD officers,” Durham Police spokesman Wil Glenn said in a statement.
Durham County Sheriff’s deputies videotaped the statue being brought down — but didn’t stop it from happening.
After toppling the statue, the protesters started marching. They blocked traffic with authorities trying to stay ahead of them. The protesters made their way down East Main Street to the site of the new Durham Police Department.
Watch the video. I suspect that when all is said and done, it will be learned that fat girl and metrosexual boy were paid protesters funded by George Soros because they are too stupid to find work any other way.
We already know that many, if not most of the protesters at Charlottesville, were in the employ of Soros, and one was clearly a high level DNC operative.
Attempts to blame guns and open carry fell flat today given that there was no violence perpetrated by anyone except Antifa. I said very little about what McAuliffe said about the event, except to quote him.
You saw the militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an army,” he added. “I was just talking to the State Police upstairs; they had better equipment than our State Police had,” he said, referring to the militia members. “And yet not a shot was fired, zero property damage.”
To which I said, “Good for you. Good job, boys.” Read between the lines here. McAuliffe is clearly a shill, and I’ve always thought of him as a rather dense one at that. He wanted to blame the right, and wanted to blame guns more than anything else.
But he couldn’t, and he knew it. He knew that as soon as he did so, he would be proven wrong by all of the video, afteraction reports and eyewitness accounts, some by the very police he told to stand down. He couldn’t blame the militia and had to stipulate that there was no property damage.
People damage – well, that’s another story. The various militia groups who marched that day did a great job showing restraint, and frankly I would have preferred to see more aggression. I would have preferred to see at least the use of bear spray on the Antifa rioters. So if each and every militia member wasn’t carrying and didn’t deploy bear spray on an Antifa rioter, I don’t understand why.
Furthermore, when someone like that attacks you, your life is in danger, regardless of the kinds of weapons employed. Fists can kill. Sooner or later, guns will have to be used in the defense of life and property. As Matt Bracken says, there will be shooting. Carbines, up until now unloaded and for show, will be aimed, and triggers will be pulled. You know it’s going to happen sooner or later.
These are the beginning stages of the great American split, and let’s pray that it is only a split into multiple countries instead of a civil war.
I will detail my thoughts on Robert E. Lee later. I am not as big of a fan of his leadership as many, and see him and his horrible tactical decisions at Gettysburg as one of the primary reasons for the loss of the South in the war between the states. The point of all of this is not what I or you think about Lee, it’s what we think about the erasure of our heritage.
