Virginia newspaper puts KKK recruitment flyer on front page. Oops.

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

A Virginia newspaper has come under fire from its readers after it ran a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyer in full on its front page. 

The Westmoreland News ran a story on how KKK recruitment flyers and DVDs had started appearing in the town of Colonial Beach, Virginia. 

However, the paper decided to include a copy of the recruitment flyer, which included racist and anti-Semitic language, in full on the front page to illustrate its story. 

“They posted the whole flyer as if they were giving them free advertising,” Colonial Beach resident Betty Tate Thompson told WTVR. “It even had the number on flyer to contact the head of the KKK. Which I thought was totally ridiculous.”

Now I can see why the newspaper would do this as they are accurately relating events, and providing a visual example of what they are reporting. 

(I just did the same thing up above as well.)

However if you were the local chapter of the KKK, and you were having a devil of a time handing out enough flyers to really increase recruitment, just imagine how gratified you would be if the newspaper printed your entire invitation, including contact information, for their thousands of subscribers?

I mean that would be the kind of gift to warm an old racist's heart.

So the criticism is quite valid.

Five people indicted for crimes they committed during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. One indictment is for first degree murder.

James Alex Fields, charged with murdering Heather Heyer.

Courtesy of the Daily Progress:  

A grand jury has indicted five men on charges stemming from the failed Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. 

On Monday evening, the grand jury indicted James Alex Fields Jr. on all 10 charges he faces in the car attack that killed Heather Heyer, including first-degree murder.

Fields faces a penalty of 20 years to life in prison on the murder charge. In a preliminary hearing Thursday, prosecutors upgraded his second-degree murder charge to first-degree. 

General District Judge Robert H. Downer Jr., also certified charges against Alex Ramos, Jacob Goodwin and Richard Preston on Monday. Another judge had already certified a charge against Daniel Borden. 

Borden, Ramos and Goodwin were all indicted by a grand jury on charges stemming from the Market Street Garage beating of DeAndre Harris, of Suffolk. 

Preston was indicted on a charge of firing a weapon near a school.

You may remember that this is the rally of which Donald Trump claimed that there were "good people" on both sides.

Well it appears that these "good people" may be headed to prison. 

You know it continues to irritate me that the conservatives were essentially calling for a lynch mob to go after the undocumented immigrant who accidentally killed Kate Stenle with a gun, but seem completely undisturbed by a guy who killed Heather Heyer after purposefully driving his car into a crowd of people.

Big night for Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey. Update!

BREAKING: Democrats will sweep in Virginia, claiming victories in the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general races, CNN projects #CNNElection https://t.co/BARA8oQvDR

— CNN (@CNN) November 8, 2017

Of course this defeat did not sit well with the Twitler, who desperately needed to deflect any blame that might be coming his way.

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

Ed Gillespie meet the under carriage of Trump's bus.

Those were not the only victories in Virginia however, there was also this.

JUST IN: Danica Roem elected as first transgender state legislator in Virginia https://t.co/enrHTTlFno pic.twitter.com/G00ewI4hgA

— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2017

Damn! Look at Virginia getting all progressive and everything.

And then there was New Jersey.

Democrat Phil Murphy is elected governor of New Jersey https://t.co/acu67R5KRe pic.twitter.com/RTf7aQcosp

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2017

I personally would blame Trump less for this defeat of the Republicans, and lay that blame directly at the tremendously overburdened feet of Chris Christie.

I thought I was finished blogging for the day, but these Democratic victories seemed too important to put off until tomorrow.

Update: And the hits keep coming.

#BREAKING: Bill de Blasio elected to second term as NYC mayor https://t.co/1aNqjHbrrg pic.twitter.com/7t7eSJfAb1

— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2017

Update 2: And coming.

Democrat Vi Lyles is projected to win the race for Charlotte, NC mayor.

She will become the first African-American woman to lead the city.https://t.co/qgqYl32uor

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 8, 2017

Update 3: And coming still.

Jenny Durkan was just elected Seattle’s first lesbian mayor. She is also Seattle’s first woman mayor since the 1920s. https://t.co/UZ52y22MGW

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 8, 2017

The White Supremacists return to Charlottesville because...well because Donald Trump is still president isn't he?

White nationalists now chanting - “We will be back”. About 3 dozen supporters in Emancipation Park. Plenty of police on standby in park. pic.twitter.com/LuJEsAgxQy

— Matt Talhelm (@MattTalhelm) October 7, 2017

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Richard Spencer, who in August led white nationalists and white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, returned Saturday night to Charlottesville. 

Spencer, a white nationalist, posted video on social media of followers carrying torches to the statue of Robert E. Lee, which the city has sought to remove.

The march coincided with the university’s celebration of its bicentennial. 

“It was a planned flash mob,” Spencer said in an interview Saturday night. “It was a great success. We’ve been planning this for a long time.” 

“We wanted to prove that we came in peace in May, we came in peace in August, and we come again in peace,” he said. 

Their message, he said, is that, “Our identity matters. We are not going to stand by and allow people to tear down these symbols of our history and our people – and we’re going to do this again.”

Actually they are going to stand by while these symbols of hatred are torn down, because showing up with Tiki torches and Nazi armbands does nothing to stop them.

As for demonstrating again, I am sure they will.

However now they are too afraid to come out en masse and are only doing these quiet little flash mobs, and then fleeing the area before the big bad counter protesters show up and make them piss themselves.

No, despite having a sympathizer in the White House it is clear that the White Supremacist time is passed, and Americans will no longer cower in fear at their presence.

Homeland Security informs officials in 21 states that Russians attempted to hack their election systems in 2016.

Courtesy of USA Today: 

Russians attempted to hack elections systems in Wisconsin and 20 other states in the run-up to last year's presidential election, Wisconsin officials said Friday. 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified states of the attempted breaches on Friday, said Michael Haas, director of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The attempt in Wisconsin was unsuccessful, he said. 

According to the Associated Press, Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and Washington were also among the 21 states targeted. 

Wisconsin's voter registration system was targeted, as were election systems in other states that have a presence on the internet, Haas said. Haas said he did not know which states other than Wisconsin were part of the attempt by what Homeland Security officials told him were “Russian government cyber actors."

I am not at all convinced that these were only "attempts."

I think there had to be some successful hacks, and I would not to at all surprised to learn that there were a number of them.

I also think that ultimately we will learn that there more than 21 states targeted.

As I have said before, we are still at the beginning of all this and it is certain that there is so much, much more we are going to learn. 

In response to Russian hacking Virginia to do away with touchscreen voting machines.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

The Virginia State Board of Elections moved Friday to do away with touchscreen voting machines in the state by November’s election, a move aimed at boosting security. 

The board decided to phase out the machines this year after the Virginia Department of Elections recommended that the touchscreen voting machines be decertified. The recommendation came after security experts breached numerous types of voting machines with ease at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in July, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch. 

The move comes amid heightened concerns over foreign interference in future elections, in light of the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia used cyberattacks and disinformation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. 

Yes, yes, yes!

This is EXACTLY what needs to happen all over this country in order to regain our voting integrity.

We have known since 2000, that these voting machines can be hacked and it is WAY past time that we shit can them and go back to paper ballots.

The Russians will be back, and dammit we need to be ready.

Turns out the white guy who discharged his weapon at black people in Charlottesville is an Imperial Wizard of the KKK. Go figure.

Here's the video—racist pulls gun and fires on black protester, cops did nothing pic.twitter.com/lE2PcGKJRw

— Matt Bors (@MattBors) August 26, 2017

Remember this guy?

Well as it turns out he is not just some run of the mill racist with a gun.

Courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center:

A man arrested for firing a pistol at counterprotesters during the “United the Right” rally in Virginia earlier this month has been identified as the Imperial Wizard of the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. 

Richard Preston, 52, was arrested after a video, filmed by the ACLU of Virginia, caught him firing a pistol at counterprotesters. In the video, Preston is seen drawing his pistol and shouting, “Hey, nigger,” then walking toward the crowd, lowering his gun toward the ground and firing before walking away. There were no reports of injuries from the gunshot. 

Preston was charged last weekend with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, a felony that carries up to 10 years in prison. 

Yep, there were sure a lot of "fine people" on both sides. 

I wonder if the racist white guy who shot at black protesters in Charlottesville is counted among those "fine people on both sides" that Trump was talking about.

Here's the video—racist pulls gun and fires on black protester, cops did nothing pic.twitter.com/lE2PcGKJRw

— Matt Bors (@MattBors) August 26, 2017

Really trying to understand how this guy felt justified in pulling his weapon and firing.

Just so you know the police ARE on this.

Kind of:

Police say Richard Wilson Preston was charged with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school. The 52-year-old was in custody in Towson, Maryland.

So are we to assume that if this guy had fired his gun at unarmed black people more than 1,000 feet from a school there would be no charges? 

Cause I kind of think that if the black protesters had held up their fingers in the shape of a gun and gone "bang bang" that they would be facing life behind bars right now.

I'm just saying.

White nationalist Christopher Cantwell is now in jail cell. Where he absolutely belongs.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he appeared in a widely viewed documentary remained held without bond on Thursday, one day after the police said he had turned himself in to the authorities in Virginia. 

The man, Christopher Cantwell, 36, was charged with two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance, the Albemarle County prosecutor, Robert Tracci, said in a statement. A preliminary hearing was set for Oct. 12. 

In a statement released late Wednesday, the university police said they had been notified that afternoon that Mr. Cantwell had turned himself in to the Lynchburg Police Department in Virginia. The brief statement did not say when Mr. Cantwell turned himself in. 

He was being held at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail in Lynchburg, Va., pending transport to Charlottesville, the university police said.

According to the Chicago Tribune this Cantwell guy is being held without bond, but he has a reason for why he pepper sprayed that counter protester:

He insisted he was defending himself, saying he did it "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth." He said he looked forward to his day in court.

Boy he sure talks tough doesn't he?

Sadly for him we know the truth.

Oh yeah, he's going to do great in prison. 

White House economic advisor, who happens to be Jewish, slams Donald Trump's response to the Charlottesville neo-Nazi protest.

Courtesy of CNBC: 

Top White House economic advisor Gary Cohn says he seriously considered resigning after President Donald Trump's reaction to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

"I have come under enormous pressure both to resign and to remain in my current position," Cohn said during an interview with the Financial Times about economic policy. 

"As a Jewish-American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting 'Jews will not replace us' to cause this Jew to leave his job. I feel deep empathy for all who have been targeted by these hate groups. We must all unite together against them," Cohn said. 

The former president of Goldman Sachs has said that the administration "must do better" when condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Initially following the protests the president blamed "both sides" for causing protests to become deadly. Trump also said there were some "very fine people" among the white supremacist protesters.

"Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK," Cohn said in the interview.

Oh man, you know this is going to get Trump's panties all in a bunch.

And this wasn't a leak either, Cohn just said right out loud in an interview.

He clearly knows that Trump will not respond well to this, but he may not care because according to the New York Times he has already drafted a resignation letter: 

The sharp critique from Mr. Trump’s top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, came nearly two weeks after deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., in response to a rally led by white nationalist groups. Mr. Cohn, who is Jewish, seriously considered resigning and even drafted a letter of resignation, according to two people familiar with the draft.

By coming out publicly like this Cohn could be positioning himself to be fired by Trump so he can later say that he was willing to stay to make the administration better, and also further demonstrating Trump's inherent vindictiveness. 

One Idaho state representative is pretty sure he knows who was behind the violence in Charlottesville. Obama!

Courtesy of The Hill: 

An Idaho state lawmaker is facing backlash for sharing a conspiracy theory that former President Obama helped to orchestrate the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., as part of a plot to take down President Trump. 

Idaho Rep. Bryan Zollinger on Friday posted a story on Facebook that suggested Obama and other top Democrats like billionaire George Soros and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe were part of a conspiracy to set up the rally, the Post Register reported. 

“I’m not saying it is true, but I am suggesting that it is completely plausible,” Zollinger wrote on Facebook. The story claims that Obama has set up a “war room” to fight against the Trump administration — a claim that has largely been debunked — and that Charlottesville was a part of his plan. 

The lawmaker later told the Idaho Statesman that it was “maybe a mistake” to share the story but doubled down on his statement that the claims were “plausible.”

Plausible?

So it is plausible that a bunch of Nazis, KKK members, and White Supremacists gathered in Virginia to foment violence at the direction of the first black president in American history?

Sure, plausible, right.

But do you know what IS plausible?

That these racists assholes will continue to blame Barack Obama for every single thing that goes wrong in their lives for the next twenty years despite the fact that he is no longer in office, or wields any real power.

Because THAT is what racists do.

Vice reporter discounts the idea that the White Nationalist protest in Charlottesville had anything to do with Confederate statues.

Vice reporter Elle Reeve.

Courtesy of the Independent Journal Review: 

In the aftermath of the violence at the “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, footage captured by HBO's “Vice News Tonight” has routinely been cited as showing what happened with the most accuracy and clarity. While usually there is a delay before episodes hit YouTube, Vice posted this one right away. 

Elle Reeve, the Vice reporter who helmed the piece, was a guest on Sunday's edition of “Face the Nation” on CBS to discuss what she witnessed in Charlottesville and the reaction to the episode as part of a panel. In light of President Donald Trump's comments that “good people” were protesting quietly on the first night, she was asked what she saw. 

“This was an unannounced event, but a very well-organized one,” she began. “When we arrived, there were vans dropping off white nationalists at the field. On the field, there were organizers doing crowd control, security, handing out tiki torches. They picked tiki torches as to be menacing, sometimes they call it a torch-lit vigil, because it’s supposed to be an offensive spin on a candlelight vigil.” 

“Once they started marching, they didn't talk about Robert E. Lee being a brilliant military tactician, they chanted about Jews,” she said. “They wanted to be menacing, it's not an accident.”

That whole thing about protesting the taking down of Confederate was just a thin cover for the REAL reason they were protesting and that was to  incite violence and gain national attention.

And if there is any lingering doubt about that then just remember this guy:

This is actually how I see most of these White Supremacists.

Tough talking macho men online, pathetic little bitches in the real world. 

After Charlottesville the ACLU decides to stop representing hate groups that bring guns to protests.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

The American Civil Liberties Union took a new stance on firearms Thursday, announcing a change in policy that it would not represent hate groups who demonstrate with firearms. 

ACLU executive director Anthony Romero told The Wall Street Journal that the group would have stricter screenings and take legal requests from white supremacist groups on a case-by-case basis. 

“The events of Charlottesville require any judge, any police chief and any legal group to look at the facts of any white-supremacy protests with a much finer comb,” Romero told the Journal. “If a protest group insists, ‘No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,’ well, we don’t have to represent them. They can find someone else." 

The ACLU has come under fire after it filed a lawsuit in defense of the organizers who planned the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., after city officials denied them a permit to hold the rally around a statue of Robert E. Lee, which is set to be removed. 

The group was ultimately granted the permit for the Saturday rally, which later turned violent and resulted in one death and more than a dozen injured.

The ACLU just learned a valuable lesson that yes everybody deserves to have their rights protected, but fuck those gun toting assholes!

And why do these sacks of shit feel the need to bring a gun to a protest anyhow.

I go hiking in bear country all of the time with NO gun.

Are they trying to tell me that there is something at a protest that is scarier than a Grizzly Bear?

Because absolutely no, there is not!

James Murdoch criticizes Donald Trump's talking points, but he seems to get most of them from Fox News.

Fox News CEO James Murdoch slammed Trump's response to Charlottesville but much of what Trump said came straight from Fox News: pic.twitter.com/nFm3q3391O

— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 18, 2017

Let's face it Donald Trump is essentially taking the crap bloviated about on Fox News and making it a reality.

That is like giving life to the imaginary monsters that lived under our beds when we were children.

Terrifying.

If Murdock REALLY wanted to stop Donald Trump from tearing this country apart he would shut down his network, take his billions of dollars, and simply walk away from politics and cable news forever.

That would be so heroic that somebody might even put up a statue to honor his sacrifice.

For any of those still telling themselves that the marchers in Charlottesville were not White Supremacists there to incite violence, you should take a moment to watch this amazing footage from the folks at Vice, who were there since the beginning.

(Warning some of the language in this video is NSFW.)

Courtesy of Mother Jones:

A 22-minute documentary released Monday on HBO’s Vice News Tonight offers a chilling look behind the battle lines in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, with a reporter who embedded with some of the white supremacists who engaged in the violence that ended in the death of one counter-protester and two state troopers. The video has already received nearly 7 million views in the last 17 hours on Facebook. 

“Charlottesville: Race and Terror,” follows Christopher Cantwell, an unabashed white supremacist who spews racist invective while traveling around with a band of neo-Nazis. Cantwell is a prominent “alt-right” shock jock who came to Charlottesville to speak at the “United the Right” rally. In the documentary, Cantwell and a posse of assorted white supremacists speak forcefully about the warped theories underpinning what they consider to be an impending and inevitable race war.
 
Yesterday Donald Trump attempted to excuse the behavior of these people, and to suggest that the media was not being "fair" to them.

And they are now showing their appreciation for that.

Courtesy of TPM:

White supremacist leader Richard Spencer asserted Monday that President Donald Trump wasn’t being “serious” when he denounced hate groups by name, two days after blaming “many sides” for violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

“The statement today was more kumbaya nonsense,” Spencer said at a press conference. “You can say racism is evil; we should all love one another; the sun should always shine, seven days a week; everyone should be above average; everyone should be a wonderful athlete; everyone should love each other. It’s just silliness.” 

“It’s not serious, and I don’t think anyone takes it seriously, including the President,” he added.

That attitude has emboldened these groups to plan even more White Supremacist marches.

And while making those plans they are aggressively going after their perceived enemies.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Logan Smith, the 30-year-old man behind the @YesYoureRacist Twitter account, has been receiving death threats for his work exposing the identities of people who attended the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville this past weekend.

“I have been receiving death threats for the past 20 hours or so,” Smith, 30, said in a phone interview. “They have been threatening my family, too. The overall response of course has been 99 percent positive, but there’s always that extremely small but extremely loud and extremely angry minority that bites back… There’s a lot of them – and they are mad.”

“These people aren’t afraid anymore,” he said. “They’re not hiding behind their hoods like they did before the civil rights era. They are out and proud. I think if they are so proud of their beliefs and proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with neo-Nazis and KKK members and white supremacists of all stripes, then I think their communities need to know who they are.”

It has been pointed out by a number of commentators that while these folks seem upset that folks like Logan Smith are working to identify them by name, they are the ones who feel emboldened enough to march around without their hoods.

So what did they expect?

And soon they will all get the recognition they deserve, because Illinois just passed a measure identifying the Neo-Nazis as a terrorist organization, and I have a feeling that other states may soon follow suit.

Will things get worse before they get better?

Oh yeah.

But ultimately things WILL get better.

I think.

Update: So remember that guy talking all tough in the interview with Vice?

Yeah, well that guy is now freaked out that he might be arrested.

Too good, Christopher Cantwell, one of the #Charlottesville neo-nazis cries his eyes out at threat of arrest https://t.co/XteAzcofSa

— Henry Langston (@Henry_Langston) August 16, 2017

This is what these guys look like when they are called out on their shit.

Donald Trump defends White Nationalists and claims that the "Alt-Left" started the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

(The Nazi support starts around the 7:10 mark.)

 Courtesy of the New York Times:

President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend’s deadly racial unrest in Virginia, and at one point questioned whether the movement to pull down statues of Confederate leaders would escalate to the desecration of George Washington. 

In a long, combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the president repeatedly rejected a torrent of bipartisan criticism for waiting several days before naming the right-wing groups and placing blame on “many sides” for the violence on Saturday that ended with the death of a young woman after a car crashed into a crowd. 

He said that “before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.” 

And he criticized “alt-left” groups that he claimed were “very, very violent” when they sought to confront the nationalist and Nazi groups that had gathered in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park. He said there is “blame on both sides.” 

“Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee,” Mr. Trump said. “This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington next? You have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” 

He noted that the first American president had owned slaves. 

Mr. Trump defended those gathered in the Charlottesville park to protest the statue’s removal, saying, “I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.”

(Uh..that was a white nationalist protest march. Of course they were white nationalists.)


Again and again, Mr. Trump said that the portrayal of nationalist protesters in the city were not all Nazis or white supremacists, and he said it was unfair to suggest that they were. “Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. 

Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch,” he said, adding that blame for the violence in the city – which also took the lives of two Virginia state troopers when their helicopter crashed – should also be on people from “the left” who came to oppose the nationalist protesters. 

“You had a group on one side and the other, and they came at each other with clubs, and it was vicious and horrible. It was a horrible thing to watch,” the president said. “There is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. You have just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. You can say what you want. That’s the way it is.”

You know I often talk about watching Donald Trump speak with my jaw hanging on the floor in disbelief.

And that is certainly how I watched this.

Trump's attempts to blame the counter protesters and suggest that THEY were the ones who started the violence was, simply put, stunning.

He provided cover for the neo-Nazis, Klan members, and White Supremacists who beat peaceful protesters and murdered a young woman.

Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa https://t.co/tTESdV4LP0

— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) August 15, 2017

And clearly they both heard and appreciated that.

Just a reminder that this woman gave her life fighting against racism.

Heather was the resistance, she was a TRUE patriot. Rest in paradise. You fought, and we will keeping fighting like you're right here w/ us. pic.twitter.com/KNK0GA3enr

— Margaret Cho (@margaretcho) August 13, 2017

Heather Heyer is her name. She was 32 years old. She was murdered on Saturday, August 12th in Charlottesville, VA. May she rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/q8Fo4YdPiV

— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) August 13, 2017

I don't think that too many people set out to be a martyr.

I certainly believe that Heather Heyer expected to return home to her family after she spent the afternoon standing up for the rights of others.

However she did not get to return home, and it was those who have no respect for the rights of others who took her life.

Her mother would like her legacy to be about the fight for justice.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, told HuffPost that her daughter attended Saturday’s rally because she “was about bringing an end to injustice.” 

“Heather was not about hate, Heather was about stopping hatred,” Bro said through tears. “Heather was about bringing an end to injustice. I don’t want her death to be a focus for more hatred, I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion.”

Keep in mind that the man driving that car which took her Heather Heyer's life was not the only alt-right protester willing to resort to acts of terrorism.

Read the story of Deandre Harris, the Charlottesville boy violently attacked by a mob of white supremacists. https://t.co/f6FhvlpXOr pic.twitter.com/lD97LuVF8j

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) August 13, 2017

Trump's NSA adviser. H.R. McMaster was willing to call these acts "terrorism" on the Sunday Talk shows today, but so far our commander-in-chief has refused to do the same.

But WE know terrorism when we see it.

And we know that it is not indicated by the religion which you follow, or the color of your skin, but rather the darkness in your heart.

Mother of man who plowed into protesters in Charlottesville, killing one and injuring others, thought he was going to a Donald Trump rally.

James Alex Fields Jr

Courtesy of ABC News: 

In an interview Saturday night in Toledo, Ohio, with The Associated Press, Samantha Bloom said of her son James Alex Fields Jr., "I just knew he was going to a rally. I mean, I try to stay out of his political views. You know, we don't, you know, I don't really get too involved, I moved him out to his own apartment, so we -- I'm watching his cat." 

Bloom was informed by The AP reporter that the rally was indeed organized by white nationalists. "I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist," she said. 

"He had an African-American friend so ...," she said before her voice trailed off. 

In an interview with The Toledo Blade, she said, "I told him to be careful. [And] if they’re going to rally to make sure he’s doing it peacefully.”

 I actually feel really bad for this woman as she clearly had no idea what her son was into and to be confronted by a reporter and learn that he son is a murderer on camera must have been devastating.

Apparently her son told her he was attending an Alt-Right protest, but she heard it as "Albright."

Speaking of Donald Trump as you may have seen yesterday he refused to condemn what Fields did as an act of terrorism, and instead suggested that "many sides" were to blame.

“Many sides” didn’t do this. pic.twitter.com/4zJFyxzb1J

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) August 12, 2017

However former KKK Gran leader David Duke knew the score.

David Duke now here in #charlottesville for #altright #unitetheright rally @USATODAY @RbtKing pic.twitter.com/au69sTiTlR

— Mykal McEldowney (@mykalmphoto) August 12, 2017

And this is from the Neo_nazi outlet the Daily Stormer:

In case you're wondering if President Trump inspires neo-nazis--this is from their publication The Daily Stormer: pic.twitter.com/cT4OZv7VMP

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) August 12, 2017

So I guess in many ways this mother was right.

This WAS a pro-Trump rally. 

White Supremacists clash with protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Update!

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Once again, white supremacists and the aggressive fringe groups that show up to meet them took over an American city that never wanted them in the first place, enveloping the area in violence. 

On Saturday, thousands of “alt right” members, white supremacists and other fringe groups took to the streets in Charlottesville for what the supremacists called a “Unite the Right” rally that drew notorious far-right figures including Richard Spencer ― a white nationalist perhaps best known for being punched in the face after President Donald Trump’s inauguration ― alongside thousands of counter-protesters. 

The supremacists were met by counter protestors Antifa, a fringe left radical group that often wears black to disguise themselves. Violence was met on both sides, causing a declaration of a “local emergency” by the Charlottesville Police Department.

By the way I don't know who these Antifa douchebags think they are but I will eat my hat if their politics align in anyway with the progressives.

In my opinion they are anarchists out to start trouble, and nothing more.

And clearly trouble is what everybody got last night, and this morning.

You heard that right. They're chanting "Fuck you faggots." 2017. #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/pMwbSXZ3wW

— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 12, 2017

These guys are so young #charlottesville pic.twitter.com/ucMt8E0Vrt

— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) August 12, 2017

Protesters with torches surrounding anti fascists protesters on the University of Virginia campus #DefendCville #antifa #unitetheright pic.twitter.com/Y1pPxlh98y

— daniel shular (@xshularx) August 12, 2017

This apparently is Donald Trump's America now.

Update: Jesus this thing got even uglier!

#BREAKING : Video of the car running over protestors at the counter rally in #Charlottesville
Many reported injured ! pic.twitter.com/dbLvROZFra

— Zain Khan (@ZKhanOfficial) August 12, 2017

Courtesy of the New York Daily News: 

Several people have been injured after a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters marching against a “pro-white” rally Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., witnesses said. 

Video of the terrifying moment shows at least one person being tossed into the air as the silver Dodge Charger mowed into the crowd. 

“Yeah, it was intentional,” said witness Dan Miller. “About 40 miles an hour, hit about 15-20 people, crashed into the two cars in front of it, and then backed up and sped away while cops were standing on the side of the road and didn’t do anything.”

Yeah, Make America Great Again, good fucking job with that.

Update 2: Trump should appreciate this reminder.

Why look! It's David Duke reminding @realDonaldTrump that white supremacist nazis put him in the White House. #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/nxneYJrhLg

— Cornelia (@PaladinCornelia) August 12, 2017

Have to admit, he has a point.

There are now multiple grand juries gathering evidence for the Special Counsel's Russia investigations.

Courtesy of NBC News: 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has tapped multiple grand juries, including juries in Washington and Virginia, in an effort to gather evidence in the ongoing federal investigation into Russia's meddling in the U.S. presidential election, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. 

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Mueller had impanelled a separate grand jury in Washington, but sources familiar with the matter say that Mueller is using existing grand juries in both Washington and Virginia.

As NBC News has previously reported, the FBI, with the help of the Treasury Department, the CIA and other agencies, is examining evidence of possible contacts, money transfers and business relationships between a variety of Trump associates and Russian officials, the sources say.

Records related to business transactions for former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are among the documents that have been subpoenaed through the grand jury process.

So apparently the initial reporting that Mueller had impaneled a special grand jury just to look into the Russia matter was not accurate, but instead we learn that there are in fact two. (Actually to be precise it is two that we KNOW OF right now. There could in fact be more.)

Personally I think that is even worse news for Trump and his associates, because it could mean that the Virginia grand jury is gathering information about financial deals that Trump, his family and his associates, had with Russia, while the D.C. grand jury could be investigating Trump's attempts to interfere with the FBI investigation and the firing of James Comey.

The New York Times is reporting that both grand juries have already started issuing subpoenas for financial records and documents concerning business deals.  

All in all it appears that the more we learn, the worse it looks for Donald Trump and his supporters.