By David Futrelle
Call it a tale of two videos. On Monday, Vice News released a mini-documentary on “Race and Terror” in Charlottesville chronicling the #UniteTheRight march of this past weekend and the murder of antifascist activist Heather Heyer.
Some of the most chilling moments in the highly disturbing video, as I noted yesterday, came courtesy of Men’s-Rights-Activist-turned-white-supremacist Christopher Cantwell, one of the scheduled speakers at the abortive rally, who proudly showed off his numerous guns for the cameras before telling Vice News that he considered the weekend to have been a huge victory for the cause of white nationalism.
The fact that nobody on our side died, I’d go ahead and call that points for us. The fact that none of our people killed anybody unjustly, I think is a plus for us. And I think that we showed our rivals we won’t be cowed.
When Vice News reporter Elle Reeve gently suggested that the ISIS-style car attack that left Heather Heyer dead was “unprovoked,” Cantwell was indignant.
“That’s not true and you know that’s not true,” he tells her. After accusing antifa “animals” of attacking the car, Cantwell declares that the driver had no other option but to “hit the gas.” (In fact, videos show the driver “hitting the gas” when he was more than a block away from protesters, then speeding into the crowd.)
“And sadly,” Cantwell continued,
because our rivals are a bunch of stupid animals who don’t pay attention, they couldn’t just get out of the way of his car and some people got hurt. …
I think it was more than justified. The amount of restraint our people showed out there, I think was astounding. …
I think a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here, frankly.
Cantwell is now singing a rather different tune. In a new video, a tearful Cantwell — who plainly admits he engaged in violence at the rally — laments that a warrant has apparently been issued for his arrest, and that he’s terrified that if he is arrested the police will kill him.
He also fears for his life at the hands of “our enemies, [who’ve] been threatening us all over the place,” taking exception especially to a tweet from Chelsea Manning promising to “curb stomp” fascists. (A somewhat ironic complaint from a guy who used to harass feminists on Twitter with graphic suggestions as to how they might best kill themselves.)
He insists that he and his fellow white supremacists — many of whom, I need not remind you, showed up to their Charlottesville marches heavily armed and armored — have done their best to be peaceful and follow all the rules.
Quite a change from the fellow who only a few days earlier was talking so confidently about the necessity of a white “ethnostate” and coldly predicting that “a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here.”
Before taking up arms as a would-be warrior for a white ethnostate, as I noted in a post yesterday, Cantwell was a race- and gun-obsessed Men’s Rights Activist — and a regular contributor to A Voice for Men.
Here’s the Vice News video; it’s a tough watch but, I think, a necessary one for anyone who reads this blog regularly. While Cantwell is featured throughout the video — spouting an assortment of truly awful things — his sit-down interview with Reeve begins roughly 19 minutes in.
Here’s a mirror of Cantwell’s new video:
EDITED TO ADD: And here’s a brief clip from CAFE that contrasts the two videos.
https://twitter.com/cafedotcom/status/897934439963021313
H/T — Raw Story
BLM – wave a ‘Please don’t shoot me’ placard at heavily armed, roller-ball cops, and are calm as they are arrested.
Naziboys – wear crap they stole from a Ren fair, and cry when the cops haul them away.
I think we see who the superior camp is.
The SPLC also reports he claims he has been sober since March 2017. So yeah…
This is why mobs exist: to offer courage to the craven and cowardly.
When they’re alone? Well….
“It’s only okay and frozen peaches when WE do it!”
To quote Justin Timberlake:
“The bridges were burned
Now it’s your turn, to cry
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river
Cry me a river”
You want to claim those frozen peaches, Nazi fucks? You better be ready for the fucking consequences.
(A repost from the last thread, but it’s so fucking fitting)
To, Christopher Cant-do-humanity-well;
….LOL! I love how these bigoted wimps talk a big tough guy talk then turn into Jello once the chickens come to roost!
JOKE’S ON HIM AND HIS ILK! THEY SHOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT! Everything’s falling apart around the Bigots/Wingnuts/Fake-POTUS’ ears!….
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/15/municipal-leaders-united-states-step-efforts-pull-confederate-monuments-public-spaces.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/16/baltimore-removes-confederate-statues-virginia-rally.html
….And the Confederate Monuments are coming down IN EARNEST!
A perfect example of what TV Tropes calls Nice Job Fixing It, Villain….
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceJobFixingItVillain
“Antifa” is shorthand for “antifascist” which, for any decent person, should go without saying.
@Nerd
CM Punkkk over here. I’d never really wanted to start drinking before I learned Trump was dry. Now this fuck? Ugh…
@Roberta
“Riley, that’s the whole point of bein’ in a crew! So you ain’t never gotta handle yo’ own shit like a man!”
-Flownomenal, Boondocks
@Axecalibur
Cantwell said he’s done meth also. He’s been living in Keene with his guns and drugs for the past few years.
Nerd, and apparently harrasing meter enforcement officers, shown in the link I posted. Much brave. So wow.
Meanwhile, the other Cantwell is doing good things. It makes for confusing headlines, though.
https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/following-events-in-charlottesville-cantwell-and-11-senators-renew-call-for-federal-response-to-hate-crimes
And yeah, his Radical Agenda Youtube channel is 404’ed, and banned from Twitter, don’t know about FB…
Ahh Nazi tears. Delicious.
Yeah, fascists are about as far from anarchy as one can get. Extreme nationalism and submission to the State doesn’t really gel with pointing out the immorality of State control.
And seriously? Most of the leftist activists I know wear their arrest record as a badge of honor, and this “superior jackass” starts crying at the possibility of arrest? Where’s the panel from Preacher when you need it?
Side note: Every time I see that Baked Alaska shithead’s name in an article I get confused, cause wasn’t that the name of a contestant on RuPaul? Not the same person obviously, but still confusing.
“Every step of the way we’ve been trying to do the right thing” ranks up there with Trump’s “wanting to know the facts” before making a statement. Blatant lies.
Also, this is a silly video, but watch for the brief segment where Anne of Green Gables swears at Hitler and then rushes at him, fists raised. It cheered me up!
Paypal may be getting the message (finally).
Several hate groups will not be getting cash through paypal as easily now.
@WWTH He lives in Keene, NH and yes, he is an Ancap.
@Weatherwax and everyone else Re: Godwin’s Law
From the Godwin who came up with the law:
When discussing actual Nazis who carry swastika flags and shields with fasces (not a misspelling) on them, it’s fine to call them Nazi.
They call them antifa and BLM to dogwhistle to each other, thinking that people who aren’t paying attention won’t notice. There’s a regularly updated post on antifainternational tumblr that shows the difference in violence levels very well… Useful in arguments with alt-reich that think they’re somehow “better” than the so-called “antifa”. Not that it convinces most of them, but at least the information gets out to people.
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I think it was Pratchett who said something like, the IQ of a mob is equal to the lowest IQ of any participant, divided by the number of people in the mob.
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
It’s Alaska Thunderfuck. Her name is sanitized to just Alaska for TV.
It seems like The Daily Stormer has been kicked off the net completely
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Btw I haven’t commented on here often enough.
This is fuckin’ great.
Have a nice day y’all.
Well, Andrew Anglin from Dailystormer said something about being banned by ICANN, which is more likely him misunderstanding how the process works, or pandering to his supporters sense of “OMG we have to help”. (He’s not banned, his name is still on the icann whois results, which still lists cloudflare as his DNS servers)
Banned by google, and godaddy, and Cloudflare. That last one is the biggy, they are the ones I see listed as DNS server for DS on whois.icann.org
Cloudflare or another anti-DDOS host (like google.. oh, wait :P) is the only thing that would keep up a site as thoroughly disliked as that one.
The loud reaction to them calling for that attack (peaceful protesters don’t bring fueled incendiary devices) on Charlottesville was the last straw for Cloudflare. Also some customers probably left them, referencing them still hosting hate sites.
I know enough technically to setup a DNS server if needed, but not going to give details here in case alt-reich checks in.
@JS
Apparently they now are going to host the site on a Russian server, because of course right wing stuff seems to always lead to Russia.
Russia is not more right wing than America – just more corruption and different kind of rightwing. You can’t say that when USA grew this racists and allow them to continue until someone die. Well, many people die already from right wing racists in USA. In Russia simply there is opportunity to host this guys because system is like that – could easily host on UA server or Chinese. But then also UA have right wing groups, so…I don’t know.
In the previous thread there was a question about why Baltimore, MD, had confederate statues in the first place, when Maryland wasn’t a “Southern” state.
Essentially, Baltimore, and Maryland as a whole, was Southern. In order to protect Washington, Maryland was under martial law, and treated as an occupied territory. The State Song still has lines like, “the tyrant’s boot is on thy shore”.
In Baltimore, at the time, south-bound troops had to disembark at on train station, and proceed on foot a mile to board trains for points south. They were constantly besieged by the locals.
As a former Baltimoron and Marylander, I used to take pride in that history, and felt myself a Southerner…and growing up there, there was a sense of, “Hell yes we’re Southern…but not that Southern“, that allowed us to identify with the Dukes of Hazzard (lol!), while holding Union troops, Abe Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman as heroes…