branfont Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Washington, DC - Just weeks before a white supremacist rally turned deadly last August after a neo-Nazi allegedly drove his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Virginia, several of the rally's organisers discussed ways to use cars as weapons in an online chatroom. On July 17, one of those organisers, operating under the alias "Tyrone", posted a picture of a farm machine known as a combine harvester, writing it "sure would be nice". He then wrote: "Is it legal to run over protesters blocking roadways?" Tyrone's statements garnered media attention last August, but it was not publicly known who was behind the alias. That changed recently, when an anti-racist activist exposed Tyrone's identity as Michael Joseph Chesny, a 36-year-old active duty marine who was stationed at an airbase in Havelock, North Carolina with a speciality in explosives. Chesny received a general discharge from the Marines on April 5. In more than 1,000 posts in an online chat service called Discord, Tyrone gave detailed advice on how to fight in the streets of Charlottesville, and also posted a raft of racial slurs and statements pledging support for neo-Nazi causes and organisations. Unicorn Riot, a non-profit media organisation, published an archive of the Discord messages used to organise the "Unite the Right" rally that brought white supremacists from across the country to Charlottesville to oppose the city's decision to remove a Confederate monument. Full article @ Al Jazeera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 (edited) There were no clean hands at Charlottesville. The New York times reports both sides came spoiling for a fight, just as Trump said and got excoriated for. Well, he was correct. ANTIFA, as usual, was looking for an excuse to start a fight s is their pattern, they were called a domestic terror threat by the Obama administration, and another anti-right counter-protest group called Redneck Revolt came armed with rifles. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/who-were-the-counterprotesters-in-charlottesville.html Perhaps it would be better for all concerned if they avoided each others demonstrations, but there's no PR, political advantage or political donations in that. Meanwhile; the people's safety, property and the local peace pay the price for their tantrums. Edited April 20, 2018 by DocM DConnell 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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