Last Tuesday, the FBI confirmed what we said for years. The hate rallies of the “Tiki Torch” boys in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 were as fake as TV actor Jussie Smollett.
Smollett claimed that on a cold January night in 2019, he was attacked by two white men who wore red “MAGA” hats and shouted racist and anti-homosexual slurs.
Chicago police were immediately suspicious. One month later, they found that Smollett paid two Nigerian actors to stage the fake attack. However, in March 2019, a Democrat prosecutor and a Democrat judge dismissed all criminal charges against Smollett and sealed all records. However, Federal officials and the Chicago police appealed that decision.
That August, Black comedian Dave Chappelle completely exposed and discredited Smollett with this Netflix video.
In February of 2020, Smollett was indicted on six “felony counts of disorderly conduct” for giving four separate “false reports” to police. On December 9, 2021, a Chicago jury found Smollett guilty of five of the six charges.
However, the fake racist incidents in Charlottesville in 2017 were never questioned, investigated, or discredited–until last Tuesday, nearly nine years later.
The trouble in Charlottesville began when Donald Trump and Republicans were campaigning against Hillary Clinton and Democrats in 2016. During national elections, Democrats often promote racially divisive issues to energize Black voters.
One month before the November, 2016 election, Colin Kaepernick, then quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began kneeling, rather than standing, during the national anthem. During this time, the city council of Charlottesville, Virginia announced plans to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from one of its city parks. On February 6, 2017, after Trump was elected, the city council voted 3-2 to remove it.
That decision triggered widespread national controversy. Robert E. Lee commanded a Confederate army and fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War. However, he also promoted peace, union and loyalty to the United States after he surrendered in April of 1865.
There were then months of demonstrations by those who wanted the statue to remain, and those who wanted to remove it.
On Saturday night, May 13, 2017, roughly 100 mostly young white men from throughout the country gathered near the statute. They held lit “Tiki Torches.” And chanted “You will not replace us!”, “Jews will not replace us!” and “Russia is our friend!” On the following Sunday night, May 14, 2017, several hundred other protestors gathered to protest the Saturday night protestors.
On July 8, 2017, about 50 KKK protestors demonstrated by the statue. They were drowned out by roughly 1,000 counter-protesters.
Above Image: Meme used by Antifa and other leftist brokers in messages to bring supporters to Charlottesville, Virginia in the summer of 2017.
During the next four weeks, a handful of anti-Black and anti-Jewish white activists urged supporters on social media to attend “Unite the Right” demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia during the weekend beginning Friday, August 11, 2017.
During this time, various leftist organizations, (including some who identified with violent groups like Antifa) urged supporters to arm themselves and travel to Charlottesville and physically confront “Unite the Right” demonstrators. Dozens or hundreds of them appeared. Many wore masks, helmets, and body armor and carried shields and objects that could be used as weapons.
On Friday night, August 11, 2017, anywhere from “several dozen” to “about 250” mostly young white men marched through the campus of the University of Virginia. Several dozen carried “Tiki Torches.” They chanted slogans including “White lives matter”, “You will not replace us.” And “Jews will not replace us.”
During the next few days, one person was killed and dozens were injured during violent confrontations between the two groups. However, neither law enforcement nor the media placed blame on any “woke” leftists for that death or for any of the violence or injuries.
As with Jussie Smollett, many details about the “Unite the Right” rally did not make sense. None of the leaders had more than a few dozen followers. None were connected the President Trump or the Republican Party. None requested any funds to support their cause or did any fundraising activities. Yet they all seemed to have all the money they needed for travel, communication, publicity, and supplies. And in spite of this, they could not assemble more than a few dozen to 250 people from all over the country. None of them held any public office or had ties to anyone in public office. None were candidates. None had any ties to any serious candidate for public office. There appeared to be zero female participation.
However, the national media reported these “Tiki Torch” boys as a major national force. All of the national cable and broadcast TV and radio networks made their activities headline news every day for more than a week. They all promoted the same narrative. They all claimed that the election of President Trump had triggered powerful new political forces spouting anti-Black racism and antisemitism.
Now we know that the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) alone gave the chief Unite the Right organizer $270,000. The SPLC alone also gave other “white supremacy groups more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023.
This fraud by the SPLC had spectacular success. It used its fake “right wing” hate campaign to raise millions of dollars from corporations and colleges. The national media gave non-stop media coverage to the “extreme right” hate groups financed by the SPLC. It presented them as serious organizations with large numbers of followers.
Nobody in the mainstream media ever questioned how a handful of obscure malcontents could suddenly raise enough funds to assemble more than a hundred people in Charlottesville. Nobody questioned why everything they said and did was perfectly designed to promote the scripted narrative of Democrats. It was obvious that everything they did and said in 2017 had the purpose and effect of weakening and embarrassing President Trump and every Republican in America.
Sadly, President Trump said and did nothing to address this problem during his first term.
“Woke” leftists and Democrats also silenced anyone who tried to use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media to challenge their fake narratives.
When Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election, Democrats were shocked and surprised. For months, they were convinced that the Russians had somehow rigged the election.
However, on March 2, 2017, Democrats learned the truth. That was when Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society and MIT’s Center for Civic Media explained how ordinary citizens like us had used Twitter and Facebook to reach more voters than all the mainstream media and Hollywood and TV entertainment industry combined.
During March of 2017, the executives of Twitter, Facebook Microsoft and Google and openly and repeatedly promised to fundamentally change Twitter, Facebook, and the whole internet, so this could never happen again.
Click here for link to our 2020 post: We Warned About Facebook & Twitter Censorship Since 2017! (Updated 12/16/22) – Liberty and Prosperity
Beginning in 2018, conservative groups were systematically banned from social media. Our Liberty and Prosperity accounts with Facebook and Twitter (now “X”) were “throttled back” or “shadow banned” at the end of 2019. During October of 2019, our post routinely “reached” more than 100,000 people each week. By January of 2020, we were reaching less than 6,000 per week.
When conservatives could no longer challenge them, Democrats promoted their fake narrative without opposition for the next six years.
We saw it here in South Jersey. In February of 2018, Stockton paid the SPLC to provide speakers and organize a Unite Against Hate Day. That event falsely blamed President Trump and Republicans for the racist “hate” that the SPLC had paid for the year before!
In August of 2017, Stockton University removed a bust of Richard Stockton from the front of its library and announced plans to choose another name for the institution.
In November of 2018, Democrats running for the House of Representatives received nine million more votes than Republicans. They gained 40 seats in the House of Representatives to win a 235 to 199 vote majority. They flipped four Republican seats in New Jersey to take 11 of its 12 seats. This allowed Democrats them to bring impeachment proceedings against Republican President Trump in 2019.
The fake danger of “white supremacists” continued throughout 2019 and 2020.
In April of 2019, the New York Yankees stopped playing Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of God Bless America during the 7th inning. One month later, Comcast removed and destroyed the statue of Kate Smith from in front of the Lincoln Financial Center (formerly Spectrum).
It reached a frenzy during 2020 with the George Floyd riots. In July of 2020 the statute of Christopher Columbus was removed from Columbus Park in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The fear of this fake “white supremacy” was a major factor in Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeating Republican Donald Trump in November 2020.
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