A state of emergency was declared this morning by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe after violent protests broke out this morning at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.
Governor McAuliffe has declared a state of emergency to aid state response to violence at Alt-Right rally in Charlottesville
— Terry McAuliffe (@GovernorVA) August 12, 2017
Protesters were fighting the erasing of history. Government and city officials had moved to remove a statue of Confederate (and Union!) general Robert E. Lee from a city park. The protest quickly gathered the attention of far-left protest groups such as Antifa hoping to cause a ruckus. Group of liberal protesters gathered to drown out the “Unite the Right” chants of “white lives matters” with “black lives matters”.
Things took a deadly turn when Gov. McAuliffe ordered the National Guard be deployed to end the rally and the police to use force against the folks protesting the erasing of history. Continue to the next page to see videos from the protest, the how far the national guard went to push back the militia groups showing up to protect the protesters
white supremists are not the right. We believe in individual rights and the right to succeed for everyone. Stop making this about the right
Rosemary Karmazin you guys are wasting your time talking to a liberal, its like talking to a brick wall. this guy lives in the past. Civil war, come on.
Ben Dearing who’s a liberal Ben?
http://gotnews.com/breaking-charlottesville-car-terrorist-is-anti-trump-open-borders-druggie/
cauliff to blame!
The left has slowly erased so much of our history. Many college graduates have no knowledge of the battles this country has fought and the sacrifices that were made. Not all confederates were slave owners and the civil war was about much more than that.
The left has become extremely intolerant or willing to compromise.
The demonization of our country by socialist universities and colleges has fostered nothing but intolerant, hateful millennial.
The belief that our country owes them something has created a great divide.
I was raised and taught that life is not fair, someone will always be better off. No other country on earth has ever offered such limitless opportunities for success.
Also to blame is our federal government that has become a behemoth of waste, corruption and increasing encroachment into our lives.
Guest Submission by: By Zbigniew Mazurak
Too often, federal policy disputes are waged only on pragmatic grounds, i.e. the opposing sides too often debate only about whether the proposed program or legislation is practically good for the country or not. Whether it is constitutional or not is seldom considered. The Congress and the Executive Branch, whichever party controls them, often implement various policies and don’t even consider whether the Constitution authorizes them or not.
This is usually the case when they consider budgetary decisions, legislation on issues of all kinds (including gun bans and bailouts), and other policies.
Omitting the constitutionality question allows liberals to set the terms of the debate, specifically, to ensure that the program/agency/policy is continued if a majority of Americans believe it makes sense and deserves federal funding.
But the question “Is this Constitutional?” should actually be the first question asked, because the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land.
And if the federal government is reduced and reined in line with the limits imposed by the Constitution, the government will be small, will stop interfering with issues it shouldn’t tinker with, the federal budget will be balanced, and most of America’s social problems will be solved, because most of them have resulted from federal interventionist policies. In fact, there are practical and constitutional arguments against every liberal domestic policy.
So what is the proper role of the federal government?
The Constitution’s Preamble says the federal government was established (and the Constitution was adopted) to “form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
The Constitution’s articles, and the subsequent Amendments, specify the prerogatives of the Feds. They are listed in Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII-XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI. These prerogatives belong to one of the following categories:
1) Defense, war prosecution, peace, foreign relations, foreign commerce, and interstate commerce;
2) The protection of citizens’ constitutional rights (e.g the right to vote) and ensuring that slavery remains illegal;
3) Establishing federal courts inferior to the SCOTUS;
4) Copyright protection;
5) Coining money;
6) Establishing post offices and post roads;
7) Establishing a national set of universal weights and measures;
8 ) Taxation needed to raise revenue to perform these essential functions.
Those are the only prerogatives of the Feds. The Tenth Amendment states that all prerogatives not explicitly given to the Federal Government, nor prohibited of the states, are reserved to the states or to the people (i.e. individual Americans). So the Feds are not allowed to handle any issues not explicitly listed in the Constitution; their prerogatives are limited to what the Constitution explicitly states.
James Madison, the principal original author of that document’s original text who also wrote the first 10 Amendments, wrote in the Federalist Papers that “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
– Federalist Paper #45, paragraph #9.
Gerard O’Neill if you forget history you are doomed to repeat it.
Soros paid protesters!
interesting considering if you actually researched the confederacy you would find the majority of the soldiers were fighting for freedom and very few have slaves yet after the south released, the north kept slaves for several years afterwards? of course if you dont research it fast or look back in older history books it will be too late because it is slowly beign erased and turned into total slavery bs.
Karl Minor well said.