After the Election - Page 6

Especially an article from Breitfart... [rolls eyes]

As far as Charlottesville goes, awhite guy who was in his car trying to escape antifa hitting his car with baseball bats ran into acrowd that was blocking the street.. he hit a girl who leg wasbroken. The girl who died there,died from heat stroke and was morbidly obease...the guy was a scapegoat and wassent to prison, I think for life.

Joan, that is such TOTAL B.S. that I can't even bother replying to it. Oh, and he got TWO life terms...

Here's the woman you say was 'morbidly obese'!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40924922

Here is an accurate recount of what happened, supported by numerous cross-references: http:// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack

A 2010 Dodge Challenger drove down Fourth Street Southeast mall crossing and idled for a short time behind the Toyota at the Downtown Mall.[6][22][15] It then backed up and traveled more than a block before rapidly accelerating forward.[15] 

At around 1:45 p.m. on August 12, 2017, the 2010 Dodge Challenger impacted a crowd of counter-protesters while driving at a high speed.[1][3][6][22][24] The speed was estimated between 23–28 miles per hour (37–45 km/h) by a police crash reconstructionist.[25] It audibly rammed pedestrians and struck the white sedan.[6] The impact accelerated the sedan to 17.1 miles per hour (27.5 km/h).[26] The impact reportedly "[shoved] tons of metal into the crowd" and sent people "flying through the air" and over another car near the intersection with Water Street East.[6][27] The struck vehicle also hit the maroon minivan ahead, "sending that vehicle into more pedestrians".[6] A few seconds after the initial impact, some in the crowd began hitting the car with objects including a baseball bat,[28] and Fields drove in reverse—hitting more people—with his car's front bumper "scraping the road."[6][22] Pedestrians who had avoided the attack chased Fields along Fourth Street.[6]

Fields backed up at a high speed for several blocks, and then turned left and sped off down Market Street.[22][29] A Virginia State Police Bell 407 helicopter, that crashed about three hours later, was following the car and relaying its route to ground units.[22][15] A deputy stopped and arrested Fields on Monticello Avenue, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the attack.[22][30] The deputy waited for backup to arrive, and detective Steven Young came from the police department. According to Young, Fields kept apologizing and asked if anyone was injured. When Young told him that a person had died, Fields appeared shocked and started to cry.[22][15][31] Young said that the Dodge had holes in the rear window[30][32] and heavy front-end damage; Young said that the car was "splattered" with blood and flesh. A pair of blue sunglasses was stuck in the spoiler on the car's trunk.[22]

But of course, all the above carefully documented court testimony is 'fake news' isn't it, Joan? 

(Edit: yeah, I know I said it was so ridiculous I wasn't going to respond, but then I started to get mad a Joan's denial of the facts...)

white supremacists tried to tear down a Gen. Lee statue? do you even know who Gen. Lee was. talk about an oxymoron.

Rik, I can give you an eyewitness report - several actually:

http:// https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/what-the-alt-left-was-actually-doing-in-charlottesville.html

Around this time, statues of Confederate generals were being torn down. Although there was no sign the marchers at Charlottesville planned to do this, the Unite the Right faction wanted to get to the statue, because some people in the city wanted it removed. The wanted to make it a focal point for their protest and march.

A group of clergy who had united together were determined the weren't going to get into the park The were totally unarmed, but linked their arms together, hoping the protesters would respect them. It didn't happen, and they would have been beaten to a pulp if some of the armed left-wing supporters hadn't stepped in.

Hope that clarifies the situation. I read about it in detail at the time, because I was so shocked by the Nazi flag being openly displayed by the marchers, and by the death of Heather Heyer. 

Many different denominations of clergy (including Christians, Muslims and Jews) united together to protest the march, and I thought what they did was incredibly brave:

The page before there was a video of a car following the Biden bus being so-called run off the road. I can't say for others but I was taught that if you wish to change lanes you don't do it if there is another car there. You wait until the lane is clear. Is this different in Canada?

Sunsilver the bipartisan stuff did not used to be like this or at least as bad as it is now until say about 14 years ago. The last almost 4 years really bad and I don't blame Trump for that. Just the losers who could not accept the outcome.