Counter-Currents
Conspiracy:
Tucker Carlson’s Journalistic Obligation on Charlottesville
Jason Kessler
Tucker Carlson
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Since leaving Fox News, Tucker Carlson’s new media venture has been at best groundbreaking and inquisitive and at worst baselessly speculative and conspiratorial. The February 8, 2025 episode “Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)” is a case in point. Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, joined Tucker for a wide ranging discussion on the many sordid left-wing operations funded by USAID, a federal agency “primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.”
The department came under scrutiny after Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) targeted it as a source of wasteful spending. Since then conservatives have watched in horror as it was revealed that USAID had been a means of funding an international network of leftist causes and activists from Black Lives Matter to drag shows in Ecuador and transgender sex changes in Vietnam and India.
This brought Tucker and his guest to a subject I know quite a lot about: Charlottesville. I was, after all, the permit holder for the event and have written a well-received book on the topic: Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech. While Benz mostly kept to factual discussion of USAID funding, which is publicly available for anyone to see, Tucker began speculating about conspiracies, in the vein of his discussions of the JFK assassination and ‘spiritual entities’ piloting UFOs:
[00:35:38]
Tucker: But do you think it’s, I mean, look, just to go through them, the 2017 Charlottesville march, where all of a sudden, out of nowhere there are all these Nazis. Like, who knew we had so many Nazis in our country? Right? And guys, one, I’m thinking one particular.
[00:35:55]
Benz: USAID has never funded Nazis, by the way. Right.
[00:35:59]
Tucker: So, but like out of nowhere, Trump gets elected and all of a sudden, Charlottesville, Virginia, home of UVA, not a right wing town, there are all these people showing up, led by a couple of people who are just so obviously feds, it’s like not even a question in my mind. And they’re like marching with candles and we’re going to restore the Fourth Reich or whatever. And then that the next day is used to delegitimize Trump. And we’re thinking, we’re supposed to think that’s like all organic. I mean, that sounds like exactly what groups like USAID do in other countries.
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Benz: Well, I don’t know about the Charlottesville case. I can see enough domestic antibodies on that with The FBI and whatnot.
[00:36:39]
Tucker: And the fact is, is I’m not saying USAID did it. I’m just saying it’s the same template.
Two things:
- The jab about a “couple of people who are just so obviously feds” is probably about myself and Richard Spencer, an assertion made merely based on “feels” and the relentless smear job of conspiracy hacks like Alex Jones. It certainly has nothing to do with what I consider the far more credible accusation by “anti-extremism” researcher Jesse Morton (found in my book) that Unite the Right attendee Matt Heimbach confessed to collaborating with the FBI.
- There is no reason for Tucker to wildly and baselessly speculate when he has had the opportunity to investigate the matter first-hand but has repeatedly turned it down.
I am referring of course to the fact that I put out feelers in the aftermath of the rally to Tucker through former Fox News reporter Doug McKelway for an interview, which he declined. Since writing my book, I recently made another overture to get Tucker a copy of the book through a mutual friend who has his contact and has been featured on Tucker’s online show.
The book is well-researched, mostly using open source materials like news articles, videos, and audio to reconstruct the events surrounding the Charlottesville rally. Perhaps after reading it Tucker might still have some critical questions, but at least they would be based on facts.
In contrast to Charlottesville, Carlson has devoted perhaps thousands of hours to understanding the January 6th incident. He has not always been right, in my estimation, but unlike with Charlottesville, he at least granted that J6 was a protest intentionally sabotaged by the government.
Carlson seems hung up on the fact that there were “Nazis” at the Charlottesville rally and he doesn’t think they exist. I would be happy to explain the Alt-Right subculture and outfits like The Right Stuff and Daily Stormer that were teaching young men to behave like cartoon villains in public.
Tucker has had no problem looking past the emotionally charged “Nazi” accusation when it suited his agenda. He has repeatedly defended Douglass Mackey (a.k.a. Ricky Vaughn) as a “conservative journalist.” The publications Vaughn worked with were the aforementioned Daily Stormer and The Right Stuff, which are leading neo-Nazi platforms. Mackey was not just a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, he was also a promoter of the Jewish Question.
But that has been whitewashed. Doug Mackey 2.0 no longer talks about Jews or Hitler. He’s just a gosh-darn rootin’ tootin’ conservative hounded by the liberals for his free speech.
Let me cut to the chase: I believe that Tucker Carlson can, at his best, be a truth seeker who asks questions others are afraid to. That is the essence of fearless journalism. I am asking him to do the same here. After airing baseless speculations on Charlottesville to his audience of millions, I believe he has a responsibility as an ethical journalist to seek facts and truth.
Charlottesville is just as important as January 6, and Americans are just as deserving of the truth. If Tucker has actual evidence about “feds” he needs to share it. If he doesn’t have proof, he should join me in advocating for complete government transparency about the Alt-Right, Charlottesville, and the feds. My grievance is that the FBI was in the command center when the Charlottesville police chief suborned a riot, and I want to know why they had no problem with that.
I also want to put to bed, once and for all, the defamatory innuendo from the likes of Scott Adams, Alex Jones, and unfortunately Tucker Carlson, and clear my name. I have an outstanding Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FOIPA) request for my personal FBI files, that I will release to the public. The only catch is that I’ve been waiting 3 years (the original fulfillment date was supposedly going to be in February 2024). Only someone of Tucker Carlson’s stature can give elected representatives the urgency to release, not just my files, but everything. It needs to happen during this brief 4 year window we have in the second Trump administration.
Jason Kessler is the author of Charlottesville and the Death of Free Speech, available now from Dissident Press. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter,Youtube, Odysee, and Gab. Also follow Dissident Press on Twitter/X. We follow you back!
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Can’t we call the deradicalisation Agent Mike Benz by his real screen name. FrameGameRadio.
https://archive.org/details/framegames
Can’t you just tell us? Do we have to plow through a two hour podcast to get the answer?
Sir, you don’t have to siff through hours of podcasts. That’s optional in case someone wants to watch FrameGamesRadio doing his “deradicalisation”.
Since most of it happened on Canadian right wing commentator Jean-Francois Gariepy’s show “the public space” here’s less and additional information.
https://xcancel.com/JFGariepy/status/1864383810764198202#m
The whole Benz case is summarized well by what Benz wrote on X in the emotional atmosphere of October 7th, 2023:
“@MikeBenz Cyber 7 Oct 2023 First, let me state something for the record. I’m a Jew. I’m a Proud Jew. I’m the descendant of Holocaust Survivors who fled Poland. I was Bar Mitzvah’d, and not just Bar Mitzvah’d, I did the additional 4 years of Hebrew School to get confirmed, meaning I went to Hebrew School until I was 17 years old. My Hebrew name is Moshe, and my rabbi would reiterate to me that that name means “messenger.”
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Let me start with the bottom line and then I’ll tell you the backstory. The account in question was a project by Jews to get people who hated Jews to stop hating Jews. It was a deradicalization project, and it produced deradicalization material. It made contact with groups in the early primordial soup of the MAGA movement in 2016 and sought to move people from a place of hate and division closer to a place of love and unity. And it was successful. The biggest fans of this account, which was deleted around six years ago and to which I only contributed in a very limited manner, were fellow Jews who saw how effective it was at building a bridge and winning over hearts of people who held anti-Semitic beliefs, and non-Jews who would write in to say, “I’m so glad I found this account, I used to have a lot of hate and heaviness in my heart towards Jewish people, but since I discovered you, I don’t feel that anymore.” The biggest antagonists of the account were people complaining their followers were becoming less radical and less willing to blame their problems on Jews. Let me be clear: I am extremely proud of this. In another life, this thing I was briefly a part of in 2016 and 2017 would be getting National Science Foundation funds for combatting anti-Semitism.””
I first heard of this person when Tucker made his first interview with him, in which he brazenly lied concerning the origin of America’s TV media networks, to make them seem like sinister Deep State creations instead of the pre-WWII Jewish-led companies that they were. He literally re-defined top Jewish radio managers making Allied propaganda in WWII into a The-military-secretly-took-over-the-media-scenario.
Not a subtle propagandist, but one who makes wild claims that are factually wrong and clearly not the result of more than 10 minutes on Wikipedia fishing for info that supports his narrative.
He may be more accurate on matters relating to the present, but I’m not willing to invest time to check.
I can save you a lot of time, Fred, since this tangent is completely irrelevant.
Thank you. I was hoping to get a take on Trump giving refugee status to white South Africans?
If Sean Strickland and Jake Shields have been making some noise with their opinions maybe Dricus Du Plessis can jump in and advocate For the White South African exodus to amerika, or at least be a known voice speaking out against the violence. SA is if the worst of blm ran the government and fast forward forty years.
He interviewed Lydia Brimelow about Letitia James’ lawfare against VDARE. So I assume he was reading VDARE, which ran frequent articles about Charlottesville, including the Heafy Report. Which means it’s likely a personal failing on Tucker’s part.
Maybe it would’ve been going too far out on a limb to defend Charlottesville attendees. But the climate is different now, so maybe it’s time to reconsider the subject.
The advantage of an independent media venture is that one can cover whatever they wish without corporate oversight.
This is exactly the kind of investigation that he is in this business to do. And there is no one else with his cache that would possibly do it.
Regarding the newest “USAID” scandal:
I’ve looked a bit at one piece of the puzzle, namely the company Politico that obtained about 8 million $ in 2024 from bulk subscriptions paid by various departments/agencies with taxpayer money. This at first sounds immense, but the sources I’ve found concerning the overall revenue of Politico put it between $417.3M and $750M in 2024, so we’re talking about only ca. 1-2% of the company’s overall revenue.
Only a very tiny amount (the number 24k was mentioned) of those 8 million were from USAID. From what I saw, the overall sum came from a wide range of different departments/agencies.
Somehow this became a headline like “Politico funded by USAID”.
Going further:
“The “conspiracy theory” that the U.S. government is buying bulk subscriptions for establishment media publications runs even deeper. There are listings for HUNDREDS of purchases for Politico, the AP, the New York Times, and Reuters on this government contracts website adding up to millions of dollars. ” [https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887576883673338201#m]
So this is a n-to-n relation i.e. lots of departments/subdivisions of the government bought bulk subscriptions to lots of (Liberal) mainstream media publications.
That’s just pervasive corruption + ideological solidarity among the well-connected parts of the Progressive Left. I’ve seen some people on X trying to turn this into a big centralized conspiracy but what I’m seeing is Liberals in the gov helping Liberals outside the gov, which is exactly what I would have expected.
I haven’t looked into the other facets of the USAID story, but would note that one always needs a reference value/number in order to assess the relative importance of something, and that propagandists usually leave that reference out deliberately (or don’t even research it) because facts/numbers without a comparison “feel” unbounded (and hence more important).
JK: Charlottesville is just as important as January 6…
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More like just as unimportant, Jason. It’s going on eight years now since the Charlottesville Unite the Right debacle. Are you going to make a career of it? It would be nice if Trump pardons James Fields on his 400-plus year federal sentences, like he did the J6 defendants.
I had advised our Alliance members to stay away from both Charlottesville and the Capitol rally, that they looked like traps — which it turned out they were.
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Dominic Fox: February 10, 2025 Regarding the newest “USAID” scandal… I’ve looked a bit at one piece of the puzzle…I haven’t looked into the other facets of the USAID story, but would note that one always needs a reference value/number in order to assess the relative importance of something…
I searched C-C a couple of days ago, curious to see if USAID has been discussed and found this single reference from December: Paul Theroux’s African Safari, Part 1.
Biehl’s parents later forgave [Amy’s] murderers, allowing them to be released early from prison. They even hired two of them to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation, which, according to Theroux, “received almost $2 million from USAID in 1997, for being ‘dedicated to empowering people who are oppressed.’”…[Theroux] can barely hide his contempt for [the nigger savages that pulled Amy from her car and stabbed and stoned her to death] and professes no sympathy for her parents’ misguided compassion…“They killed her because she was white.”
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WikiJew history of USAID:
Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid. The goal of this agency was to counter Soviet Union influence during the Cold War and to advance US soft power through socioeconomic development. USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency.
That which is birthed by executive order can die by executive order, if not quashed by a Democrat federal judge.
I’d written an anecdote about my experience with USAID and the CIA in Vietnam in 1968, but it disappeared before I could send. Briefly, I’d been Assistant S-2 (Intelligence) officer for Kien Thong Province, and occasionally dealt with the nearby American Embassy that was cover for CIA and USAID’s covert operations, like the Phoenix Program: Phoenix 1967-1971 .
USAID worked hand in glove in such clandestine CIA operations, while dedicated to empowering people who are oppressed. Sure! Estimates upward s of 25,000 VC cadre were assassinated under Phoenix.
Quite diffferent from USAID’s mission today to use U.S. taxpayer funds to promote transgenderism and other LBQ propaganda in foreign countries.
The best way to deal with inherently antiwhite bureaucracies is to legislatively abolish them. Not “reform”, abolish! The Pentagon and Justice Dept need ‘reform’; most of the rest of the Federal Government needs abolition. No agency of government is truly the White man’s friend.
You were shrewd to instruct your membership to stay away from Charlottesville. I never had any intention of going, not only because my days of street activism are long over, but because I always disliked Richard Spencer (my negative opinion had been formed prior to his alt-right notoriety). During one period long ago, he continuously blocked me from getting an email to Paul Gottfried, despite the fact that I guarantee I’d first met Gottfried years before Spencer had. He also used to block my race-realistic comments on Takimag for being “too white nationalist”.
I still think Spencer got railroaded by the System (it was clearly antifa terrorists who caused all the problems), and that Trump should pardon him, Kessler, Fields, and everyone else (if he can … I’m not sure the Presidential pardoning power will allow it), but that doesn’t mean I gotta like the guy.
The Racial Right needs to remain working online as outspokenly as possible, while also quietly infiltrating MAGA (as I’m pretty sure is happening) to push it in a more prowhite direction. After Charlottesville and Jan 6, street demonstrations by prowhites are not effective, at least for the foreseeable future.
Both Charlottesville and January 6 were historical landmarks with wide ranging consequences for the body politic.
Every time we talk about the tearing down of monuments or the renaming of military bases, it is a repurcussion of the left’s rampage after Unite the Right. The 2020 Floyd riots manifested as a revenge campaign for Charlottesville.
It also had consequences for public free speech, the ACLU, censorship online, and the character of the White identity movement itself.
I’m very interested in direct observations/personal anecdotes regarding such matters, because most info that can be found online on CIA-related matters consists of highly biased outsider’s perspectives from the Left and is, moreover, overly conspiratorial.
Do I understand you correctly that back in the day, USAID helped the CIA with things like the Phoenix program i.e. was an active participant in the fight against Communism, while today, it is a tool of the globally-active Progressive Left?
I also hope he does some digging on this and sets the record straight. It’s about time.
BTW, I’m happy to say that I was not one of the people on our side who armchair-quarterbacked Charlottesville.
I don’t know if this is directly related to the article but Trump and his squad should relocate all the heroes’ statues that have been removed.
Thanks, Beau. It was a nightmare at the time but its better now. I just hope I’ll have answers I’m looking for before its too late.
In contrast to Charlottesville, Carlson has devoted perhaps thousands of hours to understanding the January 6th incident. I doubt he’s truly spent one hour if he’d refuse to have Jason Kessler on cuz the primary organizer is really scary SchNazi White supremacy guy. He knows better but would rather hover in dan bonginoland to fading irrelevance for never daring to discuss what needs to be discussed. What happened to the tuck don’t cuck of 1-2 years ago? I’m glad his 15 minutes of being republicans’ darling are up. Are those people still living in 1987 swearing on The Reaganomicon to shirk crisis problems both racial and jooish for embarrassingly acceptable outrages like taxes and removing the ten commandments from classrooms? That’s about what republicans are worth. Nazis = cool and ‘conservatives’ = crotchety old fartbaggerism.
I haven’t read Jason’s book yet, which I now own. I want to study it thoroughly.
But Charlottesville had very good intentions and he got a permit for a free-speech rally against defiling the statue of General Lee. What is next, taking down Thomas Jefferson at his own University?
From the time of the 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting ─ where the (((corporate news media))) blatantly lied that Martin was killed in a lynching by a “White” (actually mixed Hispanic) “Neighborhood Watch” guy for being a Negro yoof after dark and getting some Skittles past curfew instead of a simple case of a self-defense shooting ─ it was incumbent upon White activism to protest such outrages as White “Replacement.”
The White Neighborhood Watch lynching trope was more successful in the case of the McMartins, since “White Hispanic” George Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted for killing in self-defense and it was the McMartins who were judicially lynched.
Anyway, as far as I’m concerned, Unite the Right was not a bad idea ─ though easier said than done, and the “Optics” (for lack of a better word) are by definition hard to control.
In my opinion, there should have been nothing but U.S. and Confederate flags displayed by the Rightwing demonstrators there, and all protesters in casual but sharp civilian dress.
I thought the White polos and khakis were brilliant, but podcaster and blogger Mike Peinovich thinks that it looked too preppy. I wasn’t there so I can’t say, but I think this objection is rather lame.
What did not look so good on TV was Klan “Krinklejammers” and Confederates in grimy and ill-fitting T-shirts.
That being said, there were many groups protesting at Charlottesville over the Summer of 2017 about the impending General Lee statue outrage. Mr. Kessler can’t get the blame for all of the “Optics” fails.
I personally liked the flash-mob that descended the night before on the University of Virginia campus itself with the Tiki torches and White polos ─ the grizzled Texan Azzmaddor looking good in a trademark White Power T-shirt.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think Mr. Kessler was part of the torchlit parade at Jefferson’s campus the night before.
I think it was a brilliant torchlit demonstration on the UV campus, and flash-mobs may be the only way to organize such events in the future ─ if they can be done at all ─ without giving the Communists and Negroes time to organize violence, which the media will blatantly lie about and capitalize on (with or without the permits).
This is why I sensed trouble watching J6 unfold on TV. As Mr. Dunstan of TRS correctly notes, IRL demonstrations are too risky as they can lead to something like a traffic accident and then dealt with James Fields-style. And Mr. Dunstan says that he never liked the idea of his edgy and far-Right podcasting network being associated with costly IRL activism like the NJP (who at least took the optics question seriously).
The messaging at the UV torchlight parade was what we would call naming the Jew:
“Jews Will Not Replace US.”
Okay, that messaging is obviously better than “Jews Rape Kids” but it still might have bitten off too much and not been the best lead for an introduction to the JQ and the involvement of the Tribe in replacement immigration and anti-White outrages such as taking down iconic statues like General Lee, and replacing the titles of U.S. military bases named after Southern White heroes like Gen. Gordon in Georgia.
First comes BLM and Antifa and their cheerleaders in the mainstream media and the Swamp; they will come after Confederates, and then it’s on to Columbus, Washington, and even Jefferson ─ and onwards until it is open-season against Whites.
Trump appears to understand the Zeitgeist somewhat and is capitalizing on the blowback that the Left has generated by turning the knob up to 11 against those whom Hillary called the Deplorables.
Another word about WN branding and “Optics.” The torchlit parade looked good (I was impressed and inspired) but in the future, any kind of IRL activism has to conspicuously avoid what the mainstream media will call the literal weaponization of Hate.
Over sixty years ago, George Lincoln Rockwell instructed his humble Stormtroopers not to carry placards on sticks during real-life pickets, such at the White House or anywhere ─ because the enemy will argue that these things were taken there by oppressors as weapons to be used against the gathering Jews and Negroes and for staging fisticuffs with them.
Rockwell instructed them to use cardboard dowels from rolls of butcher’s paper to carry the placards instead of wooden sticks, as it would be very hard to construe cardboard as a weapon by System propagandists and prosecutors.
(Likewise, White amateur boxers, karate kids, or manosphere youth militias doing topical IRL demonstrations for the “Right” is not a good idea either.)
I’m not trying to dispense legal advice here ─ but if a torchlit parade is ever done again for the purposes of WN, or for White advocacy in any sense, then they should NOT carry Tiki torches (however harmless) but something involving cool LED lights and not actual fire.
If this symbolizes “the Holocaust” in the minds of the ADL and the SPLC, too bad. Getting the enemy to overreact is part of how you leverage propaganda legally. And totalitarian-liberals are only too happy to let their mask slip.
White advocacy and WN is by definition considered “Nazi” and “Genocide” to the enemy who viscerally oppose these things. One should not fear labels, but one should definitely not walk into clever enemy traps. We are capable of learning from our mistakes.
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Jason Kessler:
“While Benz mostly kept to factual discussion of USAID funding, which is publicly available for anyone to see, Tucker began speculating about conspiracies, in the vein of his discussions of the JFK assassination and […] ” (Link)
Tucker Carlson is here repeating the usual boneheaded logical fallacies about coincidental events and (((Mark Lane’s))) bullshït (repeated ad nauseam) about the Warren Commission somehow being flawed or a cover-up. Attorney and author Mark Lane pretended to represent the Oswald family, and since there was no trial, he shamelessly promoted the notion that his dead “client” was innocent and somehow framed.
The Dallas Police Department quickly solved the JFK assassination because the perpetrator panicked during his getaway (which was ill-planned) and slew a suspicious police officer and was then caught a few minutes later hiding in a movie theater near his home.
When Lane wasn’t misrepresenting himself as “counsel,” he was playing conspiracy-theory “journalist” and trying to coach witnesses for his books.
It might not be a coincidence that another member of a certain desert Tribe, the Columbia-educated academic historian Richard Hofstadter, sought to label Conservatives and the Right as kooky conspiratards in a famous 1964 essay and a 1965 book called “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.”
I have studied the JFK assassination pretty thoroughly ─ and am willing to debate it ─ and to me, the fact that so many people (who should know better) consistently go off on whackadoodle tangents about it is almost disturbing. The Right unfortunately has tended towards “epistemological nihilism” as far as I’m concerned, not to give Prof. Hofstadter any credit.
Anyway, in the linked video clip above, Tucker goes on to suggest CIA involvement in the JFK assassination and that the Warren Commission rushed to cover it all up somehow.
Well, I am no fan of Justice Earl Warren, whom scalawag LBJ trusted, but this was thoroughly investigated in the 1970s in various Congressional Committees and by CIA-critic Senator Frank Church (D-ID), whom Conservatives despised.
Church was one of the Black Propaganda Ritchie Boys during WWII, so he doesn’t endear himself with me for that alone, but Church probably did understand the spookcraft that he was later a critic of.
I remember Senator Church coming to our Government classes to answer questions and campaign for Democrats in the 1970s because my Government and History teacher was an Idaho state legislator (albeit an ultra-Conservative Republican). I was never a Frank Church fan. I was old enough to vote for the first time in 1980 and voted against Sen. Church who lost the election to a Reagan Republican.
Anyway, I think it is difficult to argue that Sen. Church was not a sincere critic of the CIA, but his and the other Hearings did NOT find the conspiracy angle with the CIA (or FBI) and Oswald (or Ruby) that Tucker is alluding to here.
Yes, the Warren Commission never studied the CIA, but that was because it was irrelevant to the JFK shooting by Oswald and the shooting of Oswald by seedy nobody Jacob Rubenstein.
The only CIA connection here ─ tenuous at best ─ is that Cubans were on the CIA radar, but Oswald was literally a nobody and therefore unknown to them.
Oswald was interested in Cuban Communism (where the “real” revolution was) and had unilaterally (and unsuccessfully) tried to start his own chapter of the “Fair Play for Cuba Committee” and gotten arrested briefly after fisticuffs at a demostration in his hometown of New Orleans, which led to a brief local radio interview wherein he identified himself as a “Marxist-Leninist.”
Yes, Oswald was vaguely on the FBI radar because as a former Soviet defector, they wanted a current address on him ─ and mistakenly thought that he was living with his wife and Mrs. Paine. They and the Dallas PD had no idea that it was loser-Oswald who had taken a potshot at the Rightwing politician Major General Edwin Walker earlier that year, or that Oswald currently worked at Dealey Plaza.
So Oswald was a former Soviet defector ─ but despite having a short and dull career in the Marine Corps, they thought he was one of McNamara’s morons, who could not hold down the cushy assembly job they gave him in a Minsk radio factory. Oswald was dyslexic and could barely write a basic business letter, and it usually took him many tries to fill out a simple job application properly.
I could go on ─ but there is not much point unless people have read the Vincent Bugliosi tome on the JFK assassination, plus another tome about the Tippit shooting by Dale K. Myers. And if your attention span is short, the popular book by the Jewish author Gerald Posner is decent. Avoid the book by the late tabloid journalist Michael Collins Piper, which claims that Israel ordered JFK to be hit because they wanted an atomic bomb. The JFK assassination does not have anything to do with Israel attacking and trying to sink the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967 either.
The silliest conspiracy claim that deserves some explanation is that Quaker busybody Ruth Paine was a CIA asset because she had a personal interest in languages and foreign missionary work; plus, her estranged husband worked for Bell Aerospace (gee, my Dad did too) and Michael Paine also had some minor business interests in Latin America.
Mrs. Paine met Marina Oswald hoping to learn Russian from a native speaker, and she tried to teach a Russian language class where she met the actor who later played Jek Porkins, the obese X-Wing pilot in the original Star Wars movie, LOL.
Ruth Paine’s former home in Irving, Texas ─ about a dozen miles from Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas ─ is now a 1963 city museum (LINK) and looks as it did when Marina Oswald lived there.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s unremarkable boarding house on Beckley St., in the Oak Cliffs section of Dallas, and about two miles from Dealey Plaza, is now a private museum.
The Texas Theater on Jefferson Boulevard where Oswald was captured is near the 10th Steet and Patton Avenue spot in the same Oak Cliff neighborhood where officer J.D. Tippit was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and there is a memorial marker to the slain officer on the corner.
The Texas Theater is still in business today and used for community events after getting some rennovation money from filmmaker Oliver Stone following his dumb 1991 movie, JFK.
The Texas Theater is a couple of doors down from a Quinceanera shop today, which was a Hudson’s Shoes store on November 22, 1963 when the manager called the police on a suspicious man fitting the police description announced on the radio, who was hiding from the police cars who were barrelling down Jefferson Blvd. shortly after the Tippit shooting. The Hudson’s Shoes store manager saw Oswald duck into the theater without paying and he reported it.
In the Oak Cliff neighborhood a few short blocks away is Oswald and Marina’s Neely St. apartment (that will probably be fixed up and made into a museum too) where Oswald and wife Marina were living earlier in 1963 when Oswald took a potshot at General Walker (which Marina knew about but was afraid to report since she was a Soviet immigrant with rudimentary English skills).
Earlier that year, Marina had taken several “Resume” poses there of her husband ─ the famous “faked” photos ─ in their backyard, Oswald brandishing his revolver and rifle, and both Trotskyite and Soviet literature (LINK).
It was Mrs. Paine who as a favor to her friend, Mrs. Marina Oswald, whom she was then supporting, that got Mr. Oswald an entry-level job at the Texas School Book Depository firm at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas because her neighbor in Irving, Texas was a young man named Buell Wesley Frazier, who knew of a warehouse job opening at the TSBD, where he worked.
Frazier also drove Lee the dozen or so miles to work that day from Mrs. Paine’s house where Oswald had been storing a package of “curtain rods” in her garage that was in reality hiding a disassembled surplus Italian WWII rifle that neither Frazier nor Mrs. Paine knew about.
This rifle had earlier in the year been used to take a potshot at General Walker, and later that Friday in the shooting of President Kennedy when his motorcade drove past Oswald’s place of employment at Dealey Plaza.
Oswald usually never stayed over with Mrs. Paine and wife Marina until the weekend, but did so anyway on Thursday night and then left Marina the rest of his meager paycheck and a weird farewell note about getting killed or captured on the morning of November 22, 1963, the day of the JFK murder and Gov. Connally shooting.
This does not make either Mrs. Paine or the young Mr. Frasier “conspirators.”
Also, if one is interested in “coincidences,” and fiction writing, it is often advisable to use well-travelled civic venues like parks, airports, libraries, and courthouses for chance settings. I have accidentally bumped into a lot of famous people at such places. These are not “suspicious” coincidences.
Mrs. Paine and Mr. Frazier are inadvertently crucial to Oswald and therefore to the Kennedy assassination itself in 1963 Dallas. However, this is not statistically meaningful in any way.
Lots of real-life events work out as opportunistic coincidences, and for Tucker to say something in his signature cringe voice like “What are the odds?” is primo fallacious reasoning.
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“Anyway, I think it is difficult to argue that Sen. Church was not a sincere critic of the CIA, but his and the other Hearings did NOT find the conspiracy angle with the CIA (or FBI) and Oswald (or Ruby) that Tucker is alluding to here.”
The Conspiracy Left has always operated under the assumption that anyone who claims to have investigated the subject yet doesn’t agree that there was a far-reaching conspiracy must be part of the conspiracy himself (“gatekeeper”, “limited hangout” etc).
It’s hard to argue against that logic because it is extremely simple (KISS-principle) and internally consistent. They simply declare all evidence that leads to a different conclusion to be contrived/concocted by spooks/part of a coverup.
How would you argue against such people?
“It’s hard to argue against that logic because it is extremely simple (KISS-principle) and internally consistent. They simply declare all evidence that leads to a different conclusion to be contrived/concocted by spooks/part of a coverup.
How would you argue against such people?”
I think that generally speaking the first problem is that we tend to teach people what to think and not really how to think. We have establishment “fake-news” organs “fact-checking” things for us.
We have the Internet, which was poised to revolutionize information not seen since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. But then almost as soon as there was alternative sources of information, the problem of censorship has crept up and things are dumbed down to the level of a latchkey adolescent.
I like how the Internet has made research easier but I’m not a big fan of social media and rarely bother. It got to the point in 2020 that even a sitting President was not able to make tweets on Twitter. Sure, Musk now owns Twitter/X, but I’ll bet that I would still be banned in less than a few posts. I won’t spend time on any forum that censors my content.
One of the reasons that I fool with Holocaust Revisionism is because it is by definition the third rail of debate, and essential to the JQ.
I’m pretty much a free-speech absolutist but I am not a contrarian.
To me, the purpose of Skepticism is to ask further questions and learn something new and to be more accurate. That is how the Scientific Method works. A big fail to me is an automatic, “I don’t believe,” followed by an “I am not interested in any facts, and you are just calling me stupid.”
One of the reasons that I don’t really like the term “Dissident Right” is because it implies automatic dissent and contrarianism, if not outright “epistemological nihilism” that basically leaves turning to the Scripture in the New Testament (I forgot the chapter and verse) that basically says nothing made of men is real and “Trust the Plan.”
The idea of Progress can be abused, but that is the opposite of Progress.
And a lot of our guys just can’t get past that. So they are fooling around with chem-trails and “fake nukes” and Flat-Earth, Moon Landing Hoax, or whatever.
This is how you get people who regard the Torah and the Gospels, or whatever Holy screed, to be regarded as the only Truth ─ and that man is doomed to make no progress like the “cargo cult” African who won’t plant a tree for his village because he knows that he will not live long enough for it to bear fruit.
And besides, if God didn’t want the lice to bite you and spread epidemics that kill millions, then he would not have made them and infested you with them in the first place, so don’t bathe or fumigate anything. Who is Man to rule over the Earth, over Mother Nature?
My late Grandmother lived at Redondo Beach, California in the 1920s, and she remembered the school kids contracting lice because the “Hindoo” immigrants that were brought in to pick fruit and so forth did not believe in killing bugs.
Ostjuden were the same way in the Interwar period ─ or is the fact that they were water-shy anti-Semitic? Dr. Goebbels documented just such a situation in one of the two anti-Semitic films that he made.
She also remembered bedbugs, which even the better hotels sometimes had issues with before the invention of DDT. I never actually saw one of those critters until I was almost 60. Now you have to check for them in every Motel. One of the reasons McDonalds no longer does their trademark children’s play areas was because immigrant kids were leaving infestations ─ or is that racist?
Even today, Reconquistas are whining that migrant workers were once subjected to health inspections, delousing, and fumigation at places such as El Paso, Texas on the Mexican border circa 1917 when there were some typhus outbreaks South of the border. And gasp! They were actually using this new genocidal German fumigant made under license by American Cyanamid called Zyklon-B. (LINK)
Some of the Reconquistas don’t know the difference between bacterial infections and pathogens spread by insect vectors, or viral infections like the 1918-22 influenza pandemic that killed scores of millions worldwide.
Oh, and a lot of “our guys” don’t believe in “viruses” either. I did not like the Covid vaccine mandate, but I got the shot regardless given my age ─ plus an annual influenza shot. Are we going back to enemas and blood-letting? I am beginning to think that the “Science is Real” protestors have a point.
I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I tend to lose patience with conspiracy-theory and ignorant contrarianism. Conspiracies certainly do exist but not because of “dissident” contrarianism or a “paranoid style.”
Just because someone does not understand something does not mean something is or is not real. Dissent is not the same thing as Truth. I think that, in general, if White Nationalists are to accomplish anything in this world, then some of them had better give deliberate theories of knowledge and historiography a little more thought.
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I don’t believe I’ve ever voiced my opinion on Charlottesville and Unite the Right. Warning; it’s going to be a dangerously milquetoast one.
Charlottesville was not as big of a scandal or catastrophe as either the right or left claim it was. It did nothing to stop Trump from getting re-elected. It did nothing to stop the march of populism and didn’t break or bolster the spirit of WN or the dissident Right in any meaningful way. I’m not so brazen as to say it was irrelevant, as it did lead to some minor shakeups in the fringes, but I would say it might be a chapter best forgotten as we move on from it. There’s no victories to be won on past battlefields.
James Fields doesn’t deserve his outrageous prison sentence, but thats about all there is to set right. It was a misguided display of power by people who had none, it was an attempt to push the Overton window in a way we now understand doesn’t work. The window doesn’t do anyones bidding, it takes careful propaganda to entice it rightward, the kind that Tucker is doing. He distances himself from Nazis while speaking to a Jewish guest and “jokes” about the country needing more Fascism with the black mayor of NYC, who laughs along. Tucker is playing it smart.
The WN and DR are, and have often been, too direct when it’s not our time to be direct yet. We so badly want to do what the left does, have open displays of force and express ourselves without biting our tongue, mincing words or hiding our symbols. Thats understandable. But just as the left had to come a long way before they could publicly fly the hammer and sickle, its gonna take more than 2 quasi-nationalist Presidencies by Donald Trump before the right can fly the Fasces, let alone the old hooked cross. The folks here on CC have always understood this. Unite the Right should be allowed to happen, but 2017 was quite frankly two decades too early.
Vauquelin: February 11, 2025 …[Charlottesville] was an attempt to push the Overton window in a way we now understand doesn’t work. The window doesn’t do anyones bidding, it takes careful propaganda to entice it rightward, the kind that Tucker is doing. He distances himself from Nazis while speaking to a Jewish guest and “jokes” about the country needing more Fascism with the black mayor of NYC, who laughs along. Tucker is playing it smart.
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Going with the (((smart money))) is dishonorable, dare I say cowardly, for a man like Tuck who knows the answers to the JQ and is in a position to inform and influence Whites, but will play pattycakes with a Jew to try and stay relevant.
Two years ago, before I decided to comment regularly on C-C, I posted this comment under an article about Tucker by Dr. Johnson: See: https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/tucker-carlson-on-white-identity-politics/
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Thanks, Greg. I don’t use the term white identity, but if I did I’d capitalize the word White. Pro-White is adequate in my book.
I admired Tucker back in 1996 when he wrote “With Friends Like Dees…” for The Weekly Standard magazine — archived at the WashingtonExaminer.com site. Who couldn’t admire this man, still in his 20s then, for exposing barrator Morris Dees and his SPLC as fraudulent?
My admiration wore off as I’d see the telegenic libertarian regularly toeing the Jewish line, but never crossing it. That was too much for me to expect from this media darling.
I still watch Tuck occasionally on Fox, to see if he’s signing off each night that he’s a “sworn enemy of lies, hypocrisy, etc, and group think.” That group think thing always gets me. Tucker is a member of a group, the White race. He has a beautiful family. but he doesn’t want Whites to think or act as a group for our interests. He doesn’t mind that Jews, Blacks, Hispanics and LGBT think and act as a groups. Tucker is two-faced.
I’m unable to put links here, but other informative, anti-Tucker articles from White loyalist writers Tanstaffl, John Massaro, Thomas Dalton, Douglas Mercer — especially Mercer — and others can be found at nationalvanguard.org by putting ‘tucker carlson’ in the search block there.
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The only sure way to end fraud and abuse of a federal program is to eliminate the program. I worked for a global engineering firm once and they had a few USAID contracts over the years. Even so I never liked it.
Anyone on the right that was railroaded by feds for unite the right should be pardoned to whatever extent possible. It was shameful how legitimate marchers were left to the wolves.
I like what trump and musk are up to so far. Expose and eliminate. Kind of ironic how elected leftists gnash their teeth over unelected doge employees terminating unelected swamp critters. Unelected lefty = good. Unelected dogey = bad. It’s fun to watch.
Lord Shang: February 11, 2025 …You were shrewd to instruct your membership to stay away from Charlottesville. I never had any intention of going, not only because my days of street activism are long over, but because I always disliked Richard Spencer (my negative opinion had been formed prior to his alt-right notoriety)…
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Street activism will return for us when the time is right and it is organized carefully by winners. What ever happened to Charlottesville alt-right organizer Spencer? That began great with the torchlight parade of young White men chanting “The Jews will not replace us.” From what I could tell it fell apart and backfired after that.
A template for how to conduct a demonstration was the Alliance’s anti-immigration rally in Siler City, NC 25 years ago. AmRen revisited it here, February 2004 – American Renaissance I left my one and only comment on that site because my name was mentioned in a hit piece about it:
National Alliance member Will Williams — speaks for whites (sic), and is presented, as we shall see, in the worst possible light. The other two whites (sic), a county commissioner and a Baptist preacher, talk about how important it is to seek “understanding” and “celebrate diversity.”
My response and the 160 comments, some quite favorable, under that AmRen have vanished, but I could expound on that successful Alliance rally on our site, like here, since AmRen, unlike C-C, blocks our site links: (184) Someting called Disqus? – White Biocentrism
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MBAchin wrote: “Of the three whites interviewed, only one — National Alliance member Will Williams — speaks for whites,” is the most significant point in this article.
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I don’t know about that. I would expect to be “presented in the worst possible light” on federally-funded, anti-White PBS for daring to speak for the interests of our shrinking White majority. What’s new? What is significant to me is seeing 160 comments under this 17-year-old article. Imagine what we could be doing if organized with a purpose rather than just commentating to one another about Aunt Bea and Mayberry and lamenting invasive Mestizos.
I never saw PBS’s “The Divide,” though its producer told me at the time that he would send me a copy. He lied. Imagine that. Nor did I never see this 2004 article by George McDaniel, an old acquaintance when we both lived in Raleigh, NC. He was AR’s Webmaster back then.
It wasn’t the “David Duke rally,” as reported by George. I brought David in just prior to the event as a draw because of his name recognition — it worked. We overwhelmed local law enforcement at our well-organized, peaceful protest. See a nice photo of our demonstrators here: https://whitebiocentrism.com… [That link is dead but the excellent, positive photo of our demonstrators appeared in the Charlotte Observer and other mainstream papers.]
There are a lot of inaccuracies in the article. I would know because I organized the anti-illegal immigration demonstration 20 years ago in “Little Mexico” aka Siler City. I was Regional Coordinator for the the National Alliance (NA) in the Carolinas at the time and we had an active Local Unit in Siler City. I have been Chairman of NA since 2014, but rumors persist that NA no longer exists. See the Wikipedia entry for NA for example.
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The Racial Right needs to remain working online as outspokenly as possible, while also quietly infiltrating MAGA …
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We radical racial nationalists/separatists (not right-wingers) do not go the mostly White MAGA suckers way. They must come ours.
(1) I am a National Socialist;
(2) I was at the Charlottesville demonstration with other National Socialists;
(3) We did not wear uniforms;
(4) None of us broke the law or incited others to do so;
(5) None of us are “Feds” or on the payroll of the Feds, nor did we take orders, instructions or suggestions from Feds.
I know that these points contravene the narratives that have arisen concerning C-ville by various vested interests, but they are truthful. Deal with it.
The voice of decades of experience. Thank you for that, Mr. Kerr.
I’ll bet that none of your crew were arrested
No, no one was arrested in our contingent. We marched and demonstrated, and displayed a 10’ streamer reading “LOVE YOUR RACE” (no Swastikas, as we didn’t feel that they would be appropriate for the occasion). We had our photograph taken numerous times and gave a few media interviews (none of which ever appeared anywhere, to my knowledge).
We did see some young NS and WN types who had been severely bloodied in unprovoked assaults by Antifa while peacefully walking down the street. But to be fair, there were casualties on both sides, and the pro-Whites generally had the better of it.
Martin Kerr: February 14, 2025 …We marched and demonstrated, and displayed a 10’ streamer reading “LOVE YOUR RACE” (no Swastikas, as we didn’t feel that they would be appropriate for the occasion). We had our photograph taken numerous times and gave a few media interviews (none of which ever appeared anywhere, to my knowledge).
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Thank you, Martin, There’s no “hate” in LOVE YOUR RACE. It didn’t matter that your disciplined contingent did not display its Swastika symbol; what mattered was the public’s perception, since others, less disciplined, did display the Swastika. Therefore it was a “Nazi” protest. Photos of the undisciplined flag wavers were what appeared in controlled mainstream media. Perception is everything.
In hindsight, lesson learned: I feel it would have been a succesful rally had the torch marchers, chanting “Jews will not replace us,” packed up their gear immediately afterwards and departed to somewhere outside of Albemarle County to celebrate, leaving what followed for the Jew-led opposition to just protest the march, swinging at the marchers’ shadows, and nothing more where our side would risk being bloodied, jailed, and marginalized, as usual. It didn’t matter that the organizers’ intentions were honorable, or that they were excersizng their “Constitutionally-protected” freedom to assemble and protest the issue. Forget Consttutional rights when the mayor is a Jew, his police chief is Black, and DOJ and the courts will side with them.
Local, state and probably federal authorities opposed the “good guys” in liberal Charlottesville, so having a legitimate permit to protest removal of the Lee monument didn’t matter, It was still removed because “they” had the authority to remove it.
Jew-controlled media didn’t publish photos they took of your group or interview you granted because to do so would not have fit the perception they had planned. Mainstream PBS/NPR-related VPM (Virginia Public Media) reported later: Confronting Hate: How the Jewish Community of Charlottesville Finds a Path Forward at Moments of Crisis
Alan Zimmerman, the former president of [Charlottesville’s Beth Israel Synagogue] congregation, says that after the Unite the Right Rally, the synagogue’s numbers grew… Beth Israel became a focal point in August 2017 during the white supremacist and neo-Nazi rallies that terrorized many residents and left one woman killed and more than a dozen injured…
It sounds to me that Charlottesville’s Jews declared victory and didn’t receive a scratch during “Unite the Right,” while their antifa/BLM buffalo soldies were bloodied. Perception to followers of VPM was everything.
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We did see some young NS and WN types who had been severely bloodied in unprovoked assaults by Antifa while peacefully walking down the street…
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I recall that Charlottesville’s mayor in 2017 was a Yid, and found this Jewish media report, contemporaneous with the event: Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer Becomes Hero
Charlottesville’s battle against racism this weekend has made Signer a national hero and a noted figure in progressive Democratic circles…
Know your enemy. Read the Charlottesville “hero” Signer’s long history of anti-White snivel rights activism by WikiJews, here: Michael Signer – Wikipedia
Our people can learn about our side’s annual LOVE YOUR RACE week that’s been celebrated around Valentine’s Day since at least 2017, here: New Outreach Tools for Love Your Race Week and Dresden | National Vanguard
This week’s LOVE YOUR RACE festival coincides with the 80th anniversary of the real holocaust that was perpetrated on the German people by Jew-led Democrat/Bolshevik Allies. We won’t be seeing Tucker Carlson or other Jew-controlled media commemorating that, but our own media will.
Good news for Charlottesville. The Supreme Court has been brought into the fray by the legal team of Glen Allen and Fred Kelly on behalf of Warren Balogh.
Read details put up here today: FEF Attorneys File for Supreme Court Review in Balogh v. City of Charlottesville Case – The Occidental Observer
…The general acceptance rate of certiorari petitions by the Supreme Court is quite low, at approximately 5%. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Allen, however, believe the prospects for Mr. Balogh’s petition are considerably higher than the average, given the magnitude of the questions it raises and the many conflicts in the federal circuit courts of appeal on these questions. The petition, if granted, will have a major impact on the future of First Amendment rights of freedom of assembly and speech.
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Jason Kessler: February 11, 2025 [Charlottesville] had consequences for public free speech…
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Not in the past tense, Jason, but Charlottesville still has a 5% chance to be consequential, thanks to Allen, Kelly and Balogh.
To sum up:
Mr. Balogh was among the protesters who arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 to participate in the Unite the Right (“UTR”) rally. In a complaint he filed in the District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Balogh alleged he was injured when the City of Charlottesville and its police officials pushed him and other protesters into close confines with violent counter-protestors, including ANTIFA, who attacked him and other protestors. According to Balogh’s allegations, the City and its police were ideologically aligned with the counter-protestors and exploited this orchestrated melee as a pretext to declare an unlawful assembly and shut down the rally.
Mr. Balogh’s complaint was unusually well-supported factually … The District Court nonetheless dismissed the complaint. The Fourth Circuit then affirmed the District Court’s dismissal on the factitious rationale that “the First Amendment [does not] obligate police officers to protect the constitutional rights of protestors amid violence.”
The SPLC: A Threat to Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law – The Occidental ObserverMarch 19, 2023/
“Glen, do you know an organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center and a woman named Heidi Beirich? She called to tell me she’s about to publish an article about you, accusing you of neo-Nazi ties. I assume she has the wrong Glen Allen.”
Those words came through my phone on an August afternoon in 2016, spoken by the City Solicitor for Baltimore City. He was a friend who had hired me to work for the Baltimore City law department after I retired from a large law firm. I’d been working quietly and competently for the Baltimore City law department for about six months following my retirement.
“Yes,” I responded, “I know about the Southern Poverty Law Center and Heidi Beirich. And I am that Glen Allen.”
The next two days were among the most difficult of my life. Beirich published her article in the SPLC’s Intelligence Report and, using her vast network of media contacts, caused the article to become headline news in dozens of major newspapers from Britain to Los Angeles, including our local Baltimore Sun. Baltimore City promptly fired me…
Latest Update on Allen v. SPLC Litigation | National Vanguard
The SPLC attorneys’ arguments have been quite weak, so if I can get a fair shake in the Fourth Circuit my prospects are good. I have raised some very important issues and I hope the Fourth Circuit does not avoid them, as Judge Blake did in the District Court.
Hoping against hope, It did not matter that Glen’s masterful complaint against the Jewish so-called “law center” for doxxing him and having him fired from his job. Though his complaint was also unusually well-supported factually, he got no “fair shake.” His own action was dismissed by the District Court — the female judge a Clinton appointee — and affirmed on appeal by the Fourth Circuit Court.
Mr. Allen is the best we have for protecting free speech, what’s left of it, Consider supporting his work for the cause, here: Free Expression Foundation. https://freeexpressionfoundation.org/donate/.
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