White Nationalist Rally Organizer Sues Charlottesville for Denying Anniversary Rally Permit

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By Adam K. Raymond

March 7, 2018
5:50 pm

Jason Kessler, the white nationalist who organized last summer’s deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the city for denying his request to hold a one-year anniversary event in August.

Kessler applied for a permit for the anniversary march last November and the city turned him down citing the “danger to public safety” posed by a gathering of angry young racists. It sounds like a reasonable decision given the chaos that erupted in the college town last year, which included the death of Heather Heyer, a counter protester who was killed when a white nationalist drove his car into a crowd.

In his lawsuit, Kessler blames the city for the violence that engulfed its streets last summer. It’s an assessment that comports with an independent review released in December. Prepared by the law firm of a former U.S. attorney, the report said Charlottesville police allowed the white nationalists and the counter protesters to clash in the streets in hopes of declaring the assembly unlawful and shutting down the entire rally.

“White civil rights activists cannot allow a precedent to be set where a government can trample on our rights, blame us for it and we take it lying down,” Kessler wrote on his website.

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1. On the other hand, maybe a permit is in order....Free Speech and all.

I predict Mr. Kessler's "anniversary party" will draw 1/4 of the Nazi's that attended last year's rally. For a number of reasons.....fear, revelations, education, whatever. But the opposition to these people will be 5-10x larger. Maybe it's time to send a message to these jokers that they do not reflect the thinking of a vast majority of rational and inclusive US citizens.

I'm so old, I remember when "anti-social" behavior was a term that targeted people with these ideas and actions.