Looking back on Unite The Right
Four Year Anniversary Reflections
It has been four years since that fateful summer day, and a lot remains uncertain. In many ways, Charlottesville is still where the struggle is taking place and we don’t know how it will all conclude. The only thing we can be absolutely sure of is that the Unite the Right event did not manage to “unite the right.”
Aside from the tragic car incident and the helicopter crash, both of which occurred long after the event was canceled and most of us weren’t even in the same county, …it proved a successful event despite outright sabotage by the City of Charlottesville and its police department. In essence, they gambled that with our being unilaterally disarmed and strongly outnumbered, their decision to “stand down” would result in our being “chased out of town.”
The “state of emergency” was actually that the skirmishing was dying down, our shield wall at the perimeter of the event was holding, and the event looked like it was going to go forward despite unsuccessful antifa attempts to disrupt our permitted political rally. The worst conflicts occurred when the police disregarded the most elementary crowd control protocols and maliciously forced the two sides together after the cancellation of the event.
I’ll have my day in court to argue my case here in a few weeks, and I’m optimistic about my odds in the Sines v. Kessler trial. Though, regardless of whether I receive a punishing civil judgment, my life and work will go on. Our political struggle for our identity group will go on. And “Charlottesville” continues until the last of our men that we led into Charlottesville returns home. Please support the GMI.
Everything else about that day was naturally overshadowed by the automotive incident, the fatality, and the injuries related to it. And while the loss of life is regrettable, it did not justify the wholesale abandonment of freedom of assembly by the American Civil Liberty Union. The fact that only one side of America’s cultural divide is now allowed to assemble without a credible heckler’s veto in the form of strategic lawsuits against public participation marks the end of the American experiment.
No. I’m not exaggerating. Civil liberties were always a very fragile thing, and now they’re gone. Andy Ngo has committed to the quixotic task of following this process all the way to the bottom, with fewer and fewer right wing events being physically brutalized by increasingly emboldened left wing attackers. The survival of civil liberties required a vigilance and impartiality by the ACLU, local governments, and the judiciary that wasn’t there in the hour of decision. And now they’re lost.
Even if I win, which I certainly plan to do, the precedential damage has already been done. The fact that the judge permitted them to bankrupt and encumber me in an entirely frivolous lawsuit for over four years achieves the intended chilling effect on future political assembly. Despite no evidence whatsoever of conspiracy, no interface at all with the plaintiffs, and nothing of merit revealed in the comprehensive discovery process, the political pressures of the case overrode the facts.
A nationwide FEC-registered political party, Traditionalist Worker Party, was canceled and destroyed by a federal judge who refused to acknowledge the need to protect political parties from flagrantly political lawsuits that never even bothered to explain how the party had anything to do with the plaintiffs’ claims. The absurdity of this predicament will be aired out at the upcoming trial.
But I did get to go home. And even if I do receive an eleventy billion dollar judgment in a few weeks, I’ll be paying as much as I can on it from the comfort of my home. My heart goes out to all of those, on both sides, who will never get to return home from Unite the Right, and the many who have yet to return home after all these years. The incalculable damage to not only the attendees but to the republic boggles the mind.
As I stood up by the statue (since removed), watching the surreal scene of the riot police sweeping through the park, I had some sense that I was witnessing an important historical moment. I didn’t realize I had the best vantage point of all on the precise moment that the American Empire lost its patience with the American Republic and discarded the civil libertarian experiment at the heart of the American Revolution once and for all.
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