James Fields, the person who drove his car into a crowd of left-wing rioters in Charlottesville, during the Unite the Right rally two summers ago, was convicted of all counts last week. The top count was first degree murder, which means the jury agreed with the state that he drove into the crowd intending to harm people. Technically, he could get the death penalty, but the guidelines recommend life without parole. The jury will make a recommendation this week and the judge will formally sentence him in the next month.
Everyone with an interest in the case has made their position clear. The Left, of course, loves the sight of blood, so they are thrilled with the result. The alt-right people, who followed the case, are obviously disgusted at the show trial and result. They are correct that this whole thing was a mockery of justice. While reasonable people can disagree about his culpability, sending him away for life is a vulgar act of vengeance. Regardless, it is an event that should provide some very clear lessons for the dissident right.
For starters, right-wing movements in America have always made the mistake of assuming the Left is amenable to humanitarian appeals. This case makes clear that to be on the Left is to have abandoned any shred of mercy or compassion. The kid should not have been there and he certainly got mixed up with some bad people. Order requires he pay some penalty for what he did, but sending this young man to jail for life is vicious and cruel. There is no mercy on the Left. There never will be.
Another lesson, is that we no longer live in a land of laws. What has gone on in Virginia since that rally is an abomination. This is just the most recent act of lawlessness. Over the last year or so, other men have been sent away for hard time over trivial things, simply because they are white and hold the wrong opinions. Meanwhile, the blacks involved were handed checks and allowed to promote themselves off their crimes. For white people, there is no justice in the court system, so make sure you stay out of it.
Of course, this rally did not spring from nothing. The organizers who put it together and promoted it have some culpability here. The thing that leaders must always accept is they are responsible for their people. That’s part of leadership. When you lead your men into a fight, they expect that you are not leading them into a trap or into certain death. Leadership requires a sense of duty to those you are leading. The people who put this together failed in that regard and they should be judged accordingly.
That said, most involved were new to activism and can be forgiven for getting caught up in the spirit of the times. Mike Enoch, who has done everything he can to support the men being persecuted, has clearly learned a hard lesson from this. He is a guy who deserves credit for not only learning from the event, but accepting some responsibility for blundering into a trap. Not everyone involved has covered themselves in glory, though, and that’s a good lesson moving forward. Leadership is not just about being cheeky on YouTube.
That last point is salient, because that is another lesson of this whole affair. In fact, the best way to think about Charlottesville now is in the fuller context of the pogrom launched against dissidents this past year. The normal way of resolving disputes in a civil society are no longer available. The people in charge are slowly swinging the authoritarian door closed on us. They are corrupting every aspect of civil life in order to prevent any challenge to their authority. These show trial are just one aspect of their greater war on us.
There is no civil way forward and that means thinking different. The people who rule over us, whether you wish to use archaic terms like Marxist or socialist, or you like neologisms like cosmopolitan globalists, they do not see themselves as bound by the letter of the law, because they see themselves as the spirit of the law. Tim Cook is not ready to declare himself a god, but he has declared himself the high priest of the new faith of the ruling class. There’s no mercy in the righteous and no reasoning with a fanatic.
Finally, the deafening silence from the people claiming to be in opposition to this growing tyranny, people like Ben Shapiro, is important. A lot of people on the dissident right think these anachronisms from a bygone age will wake up and begin to agitate on our behalf, but that will never happen. As has been explained many times, their real role is as defenders of the system. It’s why they hate Tucker Carlson so much. he actually talks about some of these things, thus exposing the perfidy of the Ben Shapiros of the world.
Whatever comes next next is not going to happen within the old system. It is too corrupt and too compromised. That’s the great lesson of the last year. In a lawless age, one has to let go of the law in order to avoid the law. A great Chinese curse is “May the authorities become aware of you.” For our age, the opposite is true. Never let the authorities become aware of you. If the current slide into darkness is to be arrested, it will happen because what comes out of the shadows is strong enough to stop it.
There were many former military people who helped plan charlottesville. it amazes me that they did not perceive a trap. 1) They were planning an advance into an enemy stronghold. 2) They knew they would be outnumbered. 3) they were inexperienced. 4) They knew the local authorities were unfriendly 5) They did not properly recon the territory. These people were unaware that the local university has a berkeleyesque reputation. 6) The announced their event well in advance, allowing the enemy time to plan and prepare. If you advance with inferior strength into unknown territory full of fortified enemies you will… Read more »
Hindsight is always 20/20. I say that as someone who never thought it was a good idea. That said, it has opened the eyes of a lot of people. Everyone is a bit more skeptical about high profile people in this thing and that’s a good result.
C-ville was a “buffalo jump” from go. It played right to the enemy strength. The guys on our side were about as bright as buffalos thinking, “I’m not going to let any damn Indian wave a blanket at me!” (Cliff, straight ahead.) Be the Indian, not the buffalo. This is not rocket surgery.
I feel horrible for Fields and the others that have been wrongly imprisoned from the Charlottesville mess, and will send them money regularly to help them out. However, this was a learning experience and in the big scheme of things not that expensive of one. It is good to know where white men definitively stand in this society. I know we all had a feeling this was our status before August 11th, but we had it completely confirmed in fairly low cost manner, and this is serving as a wake up for more and more white people on the periphery.… Read more »
Yes. It’s time to put Southern nationalism aside. We are playing for far greater stakes than that.
Maybe not expensive in the Grand Scheme of Things, but for those being sacrificed in the show trial (and their families) I expect it’s devastating.
Yes, but they were not planning a military engagement. They were planning a peaceful protest of the removal of civil war monuments. What occurred was a completely unprecedented violence from counter protestors and that the government apparatus showed extreme bias in its enforcement of the law. I think no average person could have anticipated what was going to happen. That’s why I think Charlottesville was useful. You have to interact with a system in order to get data about it.
UtR leadership made the assumption that the authorities would play by the rules, follow the law, not lie to them while they planned the event, protect the free speech liberties of all, all that jazz. For much of America’s history, those would have been reasonable assumptions. Charlottesville disabused us of any notion of respect for rule of law on the part of the left and the authorities. As with any lesson worth learning, it did not come cheap. Making jibes at leaders and organizers for assuming yesterday’s rules still apply today is cheap after the fact criticism. Fact is, they… Read more »
I actually had this thought as a kid growing up in the 70’s ” I am glad that I don’t live in the Soviet Union or East Germany where the government tracks your every move and you can be snatched off the street and disappear forever”. Now 40 years later, it looks like my golden years are going to be spent living under a similar repressive regime.
It really is incredible, when you step back and look at it. In the 80’s, when I was a kid, the line was, “That could never happen in America.”
Now, it is happening.
Those were especially good times. Makes me sad to thing how badly things have gone since then.
Which really makes me hate the “conservative” fools who went along with all the “social justice” crap. If the shit hits the fan, I am personally going to track down people like Flake, Kasich, and Sasse.
The Stasi could only dream of the world that we live in. They were severely hampered by technology. Recording phone calls and having an agent listen to hours of tape hoping to find something. Relying on neighbors – though, admittedly, Germans are the noisiest people on the planet so that was likely fairly effective. It was incredibly cumbersome. Today, software can search for bad words and phrases. A slip-up in nowhere Wisconsin can quickly be relayed to the proper agents in SV who can sick their media hounds on this poor guy, destroying his life over the course of a… Read more »
I forgot if it was the Stasi or the Romanian Secret Police I was reading about – but at one point they only had the capability to tap 7 phones at a time in the whole country. Now we have every phone and computer in a far bigger country tapped and monitored.
I assume if they don’t like your politics you can kiss your Social Security and Medicare good-bye. And you will be at there mercy once they implement their much loved single payer health care.
While back had a dinner table conversation with one of the IBM Watson guys that architected one of their cancer treatment tests with MD Anderson. Asked how easy it would be to add other factors like age and “social utility” into the AI. His reply, “pretty easy”. You won’t be “denied” anything…what you get won’t be was a “higher value” person gets.
They have to clamp down now. The leftist dominated institutions are collapsing. The mass media can’t sell a newspaper, much less a narrative. The universities are pumping out brainless leftist morons like sausages and have become intellectual wastelands. The courts are infested with them and we can just flush the judiciary. The wheels are coming off, the house is on fire and we are all going to burn. The internet is the wild card in determining who wins in the days ahead. Sure, we know exactly what they are doing despite their best attempts to hide it… but they know… Read more »
The show trial is a message, as are all show trials. The message is loud and clear. Badwhites will no longer be afforded the protection of the law in any circumstances. Acquiesce quietly while we eliminate you. This is the norm now, not the exception.
The current paradigm being employed to oppose incipient tyranny here in the US is simply the wrong strategy. It plays into the government’s strengths and sets up the patriots for failure. The totalitarians own the justice system and LEOs. They spy on everything and everyone. The infiltrate opposition organizations. Rallying into groups make that job even easier. It is literally stupid to paint a target on your back and walk into their traps. Don’t do it. There are very effective ways to beat them, but they do not include pitching a fit in public.
An argument I have been making for a few years now is that a) we have to think of ourselves as an underground fighting an occupying force and b) we have create a culture around resistance. America is more like Iran now than a normal functioning country. It is a strange hybrid of theocracy and democratic empire.
Starve the beast(s)!
Some version of the “Committees of Correspondence” would be in order. Just devilishly difficult to keep operational security.
I didn’t follow the trial at all and the media seems to have ignored it. Did they even give that poor sap a real lawyer – or just a patsy to argue in the sentencing phase?
Did his lawyer call witnesses? Like the guy who bragged about chasing him with a rifle just before the crash?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/armed-antifa-professor-admits-chasing-charlottesville-driver-rifle-deadly-crash/
The idea this kid could even begin to get a fair trial in C’ville is ludicrous. Why was a change of venue not granted, especially in light of the local publicity the event received? Seating an impartial jury seems laughable. This has been an undeniable miscarriage of Justice but, as Z man points out, this is the new norm.
Put aside childish notions. We are no longer in the nursery. To oppose naked tyranny will require blunt force. Anyone trying to sell you on “reasoned arguments made through our democratic system” is selling you snake oil.
I’ll have a post about this later, but I think another type of person to avoid is the one claiming armed reaction is the only way forward. Those were the sorts egging on the alt-right. They could not have been more wrong. Frankly, I assume anyone advocating armed struggle is a Fed. Ditto for people littering their social media with epithets.
The guy offering to supply your group with explosives and target lists is always the FBI agent.
It would take a fairly low IQ person to fall for that. And they are useless at the moment anyway. They remind me of those wacky Q Anon types.
Generally agree, but sometimes you have to let the epithets fly. It’s cathartic.
But never in public.
I use them mercilessly against cucks. We have to drive them to one side or the other. I hate these assholes.
Advocating is different from warning people that there is no easy way out. That we can vote our way out of this. It can’t be done because the left will not honor elections. They will even overturn elections at the least chance. As you said before, we are in another era. It’s best to warn the conservative fools now so they won’t be surprised when the hammer comes down. And it’s coming down. There will be hotheads on both sides. But, the violence has already begun at a low level. The era of identity politics joined at the hip to… Read more »
I agree that the corruption is too deep to ever root out without a purge and start-over. They don’t even try to hide it. Mueller indicts anyone who supports Trump while granting immunity to Clintonistas like himself. He granted Tony fucking Podesta immunity! Imran Awan got a slap on the wrist for using his friendship with DWS to spy on Congress. A Clinton Whistleblower got his house raided by the FBI last week – all coincidences we are supposed to believe. It’s obvious and in your face now. Saying otherwise is the kind of forced lying / humiliation that Derbyshire… Read more »
“For white people, there is no justice in the court system, so make sure you stay out of it. ”
Wiser words have never been spoken.
No father in this guys life and not much future for him and many like him.
Cannon fodder for these evil progressives and their enablers. Guide your sons well people and take Z’s advice here.
They keep telling us how much they hate us and here is the message hammered home. What else do we need.
And complete silence from “conservatives”.
The USA is going to continue to fly apart like an out-of-control engine. Which part breaks first won’t matter, the engine is shaking to pieces. There is a dynamic at work similar to the process in Former Yugoslavia during the rise of Milosevic, that is, leaders on the left and right will find more short-term success in appealing to their radicals than to the middle. This will accelerate the disintegration process. The precise shape of the coming civil war is unknown, but it’s coming. Some type of “dirty civil war” similar to Argentina in the 1970s is likely at a… Read more »
I agree. Civilizations can never course correct, they have to crater. Out of that comes something different, not always for the better. The Roman empire is a oft cited example. It’s like a horrible dream that you know is a dream, but can do nothing about. The forces are now unleashed for the fall of western civilization, and in my opinion the locomotive can’t be stopped. California, the mass migration UN pact, the Somali invasion in my own state, all so depressing!
Charlottesville was a baptism by fire. It showed us that we really were a dissident movement and would be treated as such. The alt-right learned something important. If you cant be co-opted, like the TEA party, you will be crushed.
Anyone who doesn’t bend the knee will be crushed. Whites are the only group with the (potential) will and the ability to challenge Shlomo’s iron grip. Blacks? Meh. They can riot all they want. In the end they can always be brought to heel. All the other ethnic groups are too small or uninterested in revolutionary change. Ergo, Whites who haven’t bought into GloboGayplex must be crushed. The system doesn’t care about who can’t figure out what bathroom to use on any given day, or who wants to drug himself into oblivion. It likes movements like those because they can… Read more »
Nathan, it really is a perversion of human nature. We supposedly have agency over our genes (all the genders), and collectively over the climate by our living in caves, but not over things like self protection, association, speech, and thought. Those perversions have a way of fighting themselves, but it ain’t going to be pretty.
Yesterday marked 30 days since I moved from Charlottesville to a quiet farming community some 40 miles south. My only regret is that I didn’t move sooner. The entire city is overcome with a sense of guilt that is palpable the moment you step out the door. The burden of accepting diversity and tolerance has frayed the nerves of everyone to such a degree that it is impossible to drive 5 minutes in any direction within the city without witnessing an incident of road rage. From the balcony of my 4th floor apartment I could see the front lawn of… Read more »
Charlottesville was the prettiest town I’ve visited east of the Rockies.
The Ancien Régime of the United States is dead, has been dead. What will follow? History tells us that it’s gonna be a strong man. The populace is armed to the teeth, the federal government is bankrupt, and Robespierre is rabble rousing in the cities. I have a little farm in the middle of nowhere that I can run to. Hope I can ride it out.
We haven’t had our middle class revolution yet. Just rumblings. The French Revolution devolved into terror because the right wanted to have a war that they thought would cement their gains in the early revolution. All we need to do is stay out of war if we get in charge. In other words, don’t be a Girondin.
A simple point that gets lost in all of the 2nd amendment blather is that the concept of self defense is under attack. Fields panicked when he was attacked by a mob. His car effectively became a weapon. George Zimmerman killed when he was attacked by Travon Martin. The police officer in the Mike Brown/Ferguson fiasco was also under attack when he fired a fatal shot. There have been many other tragic deaths in the intervening time period between these incidents, but only the ones where self defense is a part of the scenario are blown up into media circuses.… Read more »
The assault on the 2A is only partly about guns. The 2A acknowledges your right to protect yourself and your own by any means necessary. Stripping the 2A is about stripping you of your right and your means to protect yourself however you see fit. The other rights will quickly fall in due course. “Rights? You have no stinking rights”. Plan accordingly.
All this happens while the Republicans hold the Executive, Senate and even the House at the time. Plus Trump has the Justice department. How bad do you think the future will be for our kind? By now, everyone has received the message, right?
Republicans? Trump? Those are good ones!
Are there any lawyers hanging around here who can explain this absurd outcome? I’m not a lawyer and I didn’t follow the case closely, but even a layman like me, watching lazily and from a vast distance, could spot mountains of exculpatory evidence. From what I could gather, based only on viewing the thing as a fairly simple chess position, it should have been a mighty struggle even to get a guilty verdict on something as mild as reckless endangerment. Presumably, touchy cases like this usually come down to crafty jury selection. A single non-NPC juror could have easily hung… Read more »
Each state has its own procedural rules, so it may be different. But generally, a “no evidence” or “insufficient evidence” point could be raised on appeal to reverse the conviction. Those are generally high mountains to climb. I did not follow the case, so do not know what was/was not entered into evidence. Ineffective assistance of counsel is another potential point, but short of showing up blind drunk every day, those usually do not fly. Doesn’t matter how credible evidence is – credibility is completely up to the jury. If there is anything, they can pretty much do what they… Read more »
Thanks for those insights, c matt. Still, I’m looking at this using chess logic, not actual courtroom know-how. All the same… Granted, procedures vary from state to state. But in my state, a standard, binding jury instruction is this: if a fact can be reasonably interpreted in more than one way, then the interpretation which favors the defendant is the one which must be adopted. MUST. Even the most Ernie Bushmiller-level review of the evidence shows that Fields can make a claim, based on tie-goes-to-the-defender rules, that he feared for his safety. So, premeditation goes straight out the window and… Read more »
The conviction will be sustained on appeal unless there is evidence already on record of due process else procedural violation. Criminally culpable mind: intended actions to cause grievous physical harm to political opponents —-> Fields published statements promoting violence against his political opponents both contemporarily and in the days leading up to the event Criminal act: turned the car into a weapon by deliberately driving into a crowd —-> Field was behind the wheel and operated the vehicle which struck and killed a woman No reasonable exculpation —-> Field was relatively safe inside his sealed up car, no door or… Read more »
Sometime I hate it when you are right. Field’s messed up big time; however, the difference between ending up like Fields vs. Reginald Denny is a few seconds. This is good to keep in mind if you are ever attacked by a mob. You must wait until the last possible instant before using force, and even then you need a lot of luck.
Show trials operate under their own logic and rules. We are going to see quite a few show trials in the near future.
The real lesson is if you find yourself in a similar situation, and have no other means of defending youself, and If you’re gonna be put away for life anyways, take out as many of the motherfuckers as you can.
I don’t think Fields’ car could build up sufficient kinetic energy under the circumstances to do a whole lot of damage. My understanding is the cat lady who died largely succumbed to her own physical liabilities.
JFK once said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” I think he was spot on with that.
Study the insurgencies of the past with an eye towards how their strategies and tactics apply to political and meta-political conflict.
I am disturbed that there are still many out there who regard Richard Spencer as some sort of leader. He never was, and never will be. In another context he might have been a glib and effective pitchman. That context is no longer possible.
To be strong enough to stop it means being strong enough to defend ourselves as well. This means we need to think and act logistically. The northern half of the US (north of the 40th Parallel) is very very very white (we can reform a few “troubled” areas). We should make it even more white. This will mean leaving areas where our families may have resided for decades if not centuries. Roots are important but survival has to come first. Have a region you dominate, have a region you can defend…and you have a region that can ignore whatever crap… Read more »
Fields fled from people pointing rifles at him and banging on his car with bats. The extremely obese “victim” died of a heart attack….Judicial lynchings coming to a court near you, stay away from crowds and lay low.