ORWELL IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

Nazis are bad.  The KKK is bad.

Way more than 99 percent of Americans agree.  People who embrace Nazism or KKK racism are a tiny fraction of our people.  The Anti-Defamation League puts the KKK membership at some 3,000 – 1,000^th of 1%.

But Leftists assert President Trump and his supporters are closet Nazis. This is pathological guilt by association, Alinsky hypocrisy on steroids. The world of Orwell’s 1984 exists in Charlottesville.

So it’s critically important now to remember:  The Left always projects.  They always smear their opponents of being what they are, proponents of fascist thuggery.

Some saw in Charlottesville last weekend an ugly reprise of the street battles between Nazis and Communists in Berlin in the 1930s.  But back then, the German Communist Party was a real political force, the obstacle Hitler had to remove to establish his Nazi dictatorship.

“White Nationalists” aren’t an organized political force in any way.  “Antifa” and “Black Lives Matter” on the other hand, are with mucho millions in funding from George Soros and others.

These two groups clashed in Thomas Jefferson’s home town: “White Nationalists” were there to peacefully protest removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a public park, “Antifa” went there to violently confront them and beat them up.

“Nazi” is the German acronym for “National Socialist.” Antifa’s chief funder, George Soros, was a Nazi collaborator.  Most any Antifa/BLM member would agree that this statement could be their manifesto:

“We are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of the human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”

That is until you tell them it was Nazi ideologist Gregor Strasser who said it as Hitler’s manifesto.

In a free society, we all have a right peaceably to assemble to peacefully express our views no matter how disagreeable to others.  In fact, having the freedom to say unpopular things is the very purpose of the First Amendment regarding speech.

So, yes, people say things that enrage us, hurt our feelings. But to respond with violence to what they said is verboten, out of bounds, beyond the pale.

President Trump condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” His critics expressed outrage because he didn’t explicitly blame White Nationalists for it.

Why didn’t he? Could it be because White Nationalists didn’t start the brawl?

They held their version of a Nuremberg torchlight parade Friday night. While many found it disgusting, it was entirely peaceful. So was their march Saturday: peaceful. Violence broke out as it was ending – and after the police all left.  Once the police were gone, Antifa was free to attack.

And note: the peaceful folks had a permit to protest. The violent folks didn’t.

A 20 year-old white guy with a history of mental problems, James Fields, drove into a crowd, killing Heather Heyer, 32, injuring many.  Reporter Taylor Lorenz was an eyewitness.  She tweeted:

Instantly, the entire chorus of the Left, from fascist Antifa thugs to every Lying Swine journo started screaming that Fields’ “terrorism” proves that every white person in America is a crypto-racist-terrorist.

Here’s a question: If Fields had shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he mowed down pedestrians, would anyone in the MSM call what he did “terror?”  Would there be multiple stories worrying about the danger of Whiteophobia with headlines “White-Americans  Fear Backlash After Charlottesville”?  Like the PBS headline of June 15, 2016: “Muslim-Americans Fear Backlash After Orlando Mass Shooting.”

Why didn’t President Trump call it terror? Why didn’t he blame it on White Nationalists?

Could it be because at the time he spoke Saturday (8/13), it wasn’t known who drove the car into the crowd, or what the perp’s motives were?

Waiting for evidence before pointing a finger? What a concept!

The president did explicitly and vigorously denounce white supremacists Monday (8/14), but he’d be criticized no matter what he said, or didn’t say. So would every other Republican.

Leftists say President Trump and his supporters are to blame.

In the last few months, Bernie Sanders supporters shot Rep. Steve Scalise, murdered a GOP committeeman in Pennsylvania, stabbed two people to death on a train in Portland, Oregon.

No one in the MSM blames Bernie for what those nutters did. Nor should they.

After a wacko affiliated with Black Lives Matter murdered five police officers in Dallas, President Obama condemned “violence,” but not BLM.

Charlottesville resembled Berlin 1934 because the cops did nothing to stop the violence. This happens a lot in cities governed by Democrats.

Antifa came by the busload with baseball bats and soda cans filled with cement. They intended to hurt people, as they have many times before.

Why did Mayor Signer order his cops to stand down? Why wasn’t the street down which Fields sped blocked off?

Did Signer want Antifa to get its Horst Wessel?   Many think so.  Michael Singer is a left-wing Democrat, a colleague of John Podesta, and on the side of Antifa.

“There was no police presence,” Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister-in-training at Charlottesville’s United Church of Christ, told the New York Times. “We were watching people punch each other; people were bleeding all the while police were inside the barricades of the park, watching.”

Leftists won’t condemn Antifa. They pin all blame on White Nationalists. Not because of what they did. Because of what they think.

Speech and violence do intersect. Inciting to riot has been a crime for lo these many years. But nearly always, speech isn’t violence, violence isn’t speech.

Leftists blur the distinction to encourage violence against people they don’t like.

Antifa thugs think if they beat up enough normals, they can overthrow the government. Democrats and the Lying Swine make excuses for them. Violence, they say, is okay, even commendable, when it’s employed against “haters.”

This is madness. Orwellian madness.  War is Peace.  Freedom is Slavery.  Hate is Love.  Fascism is Anti-Fascism.

Donald Trump is the legitimately elected president. If the “cold” civil war turns hot, there will be no doubt about the allegiance of our Armed Forces. Sorry, Chelsea Handler. The U.S. military doesn’t do coups.

So we’ll have the Marines, the Rangers, the SEALs. They’ll have Antifa, Black Lives Matter, MS-13. Mmmkay.

On which side do you think most cops would be?  (OK, unless they work for Mayor Singer.)

Among civilians, who owns over 90% of all the guns? If it comes down to an Antifa thug with a bike lock versus an NRA member with a Glock 27 or AR-15, on whom would you bet?

As Leftists grow more intolerant, belligerent, violent, insane, the more it seems one day we may have to kill them all.

I’m ashamed to admit I’m kinda looking forward to it.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret, and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force during the Reagan Administration.  Until his retirement in January 2017, he was the national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.