ICHEOKU says all anybody can do now is to second guess what indeed actually went wrong in Charlottesville, the usual Monday night quarterbacking; and there is a lot of finger pointing to go around and at so many different directions. ICHEOKU refuses to accept and is not buying the narrative that it was strictly a one sided madness that went uncontrollably too far, too quickly; because it is not. It takes two to tango; every coin comes with two sides and there are always two tales to a story. Yes, the original protesters, with permit, were protesting against something dear to their heart, the planned removal of a statue which they do not want to see removed; and they have the right to express themselves freely and without let. Suddenly, another group came to challenge their right to freely express themselves, resulting in the disturbances that was seen in Charlottesville Virginia; needless to add that these rabble rousers did not have permit to simultaneously stage a protest. They took the laws into their hands and got away with it, as the police stood idly by, hands akimbo, and watched as the disruption and protection took a horrible dimension. Did the nationalist have right to do what they did, you bet they did; and included in that right is the additional right not to be disturbed or molested as they carried on with their protest. So query, if they did and had necessary permit as required, why then did the police, paid with public money into which these white nationalists also contribute by way of taxes, not provide them with much needed protection and allowed the meddlesome interlopers to disrupt an otherwise peaceful march.
This is the issue that should be investigated and not all these ruse being thrown up in the name of racism, because it is not the underlying factor in the Charlottesville incident. It is on record that the opposite end of the political spectrum has been carrying on all manners of protest since last November 9, 2016 when President Donald John Trump won the presidency of the United States of America. Hillary Clinton, a sore loser, instead of conceding election as any sport would do and urge support for the new president, half heartedily did and immediately turned around to urge resistance to the new president and it has been one trouble after another from the far left ever since. It created so may reverse hate groups including the Alt-Left anarchists who has been agitating ever since. The same people have disrupted several conservative events and speeches including Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos aborted speeches in University of California Berkeley. They even nearly burnt down part of the school to make sure they caused enough terror to cause the university to revoke already granted permits to host the event that had them as speakers. The same group of leftist mad dogs went to San Jose to stir another trouble, yet they were not railed in.
It is on record that while all these leftist protests were going on, the nationalists did not bother them nor interfered to disrupt them and they had their way freely. ICHEOKU says why is it then that it is okay to treat the two groups differently and in America that is supposed to respect the fundamental rights of all of her citizens equally, regardless of how opprobrious they might be. Why is it then that the far left can enjoy their protected speech but the far right cannot? Why is it then that the far left is allowed to enjoy their freedom of speech to protest unmolested, but the far right is not allowed to also enjoy their own protest without being molested. No matter how reprehensible their protest action may be, provided they kept it within the law, it is nobody's business deciding what can be allowed or not. It is for the law enforcement agencies, led by the police, to determine when they went over and beyond their authorized permissible scope. It is not the opposing viewpoint agitators that has the right to decide this and this is where the injustice reared its head; because had there been no disruption or attempt thereto, those white nationalists would have peacefully carried out their rally and nobody would be talking about a rally that went awry including an avoidable death of a young woman.
Justice denied one is justice denied all, because if the nationalist are deprived their right to free speech today, whose turn will it be tomorrow, anybody's. What if it was the nationalists that interfered to disrupt other peoples rights to freely exercise a constitutionally guaranteed freedom, will the reaction have been the same? It is therefore unjust to selectively decide who enjoys what right, as guaranteed under the constitution and this is the real bone in the Charlottesville meat. There should be freedom for both sides, as freedom for one person should tantamount to freedom for everyone, including the bad and ugly of the society. Where does this censorship start and end? What if these nationalists did not like to hear all the horrible names the alt Left protesters have been calling President Trump and decided to take the matter into their hands to stop it? President Donald John Trump was called so many unprintable names including Hitler, but he did not and never gassed six million Jews. Yet it is okay by these leftist anarchists to use such name on a man who merely won an election against all odds and despite all roadblocks.
So why is the name calling of the president acceptable but the name calling of others, including the Jews, not acceptable. It does not make sense and only the conspiracy of parties of interest who want to stop the president or make his presidency difficult, find this double standards acceptable. The universal fairness test would have remained sacrosanct: does the constitutional protection of freedom of speech cover the white nationalists speech which they wanted to freely exercise? If yes, then those anarchists who muzzled their speech and prevented them from doing what they were constitutionally authorized to do and duly obtained permit to do, should be the culpable party here and not those who were merely victims of a reverse hate. This is the pertinent issue here and hopefully both sides will learn to tolerate each other because if they don't, and the authorities continue to carry on with their bias against one side, they might push that side underground and into a reactionary forces which America does not want now.
Thousands of Timothy McVeigh's clones are not what any sensible and rational America would rather trade for allowing mere speech, no matter how hateful and hurtful and even reprehensible. ICHEOKU says let both sides be allowed to freely air their grievances as there are a lot between them. It is their legitimate right of free speech to say whatever they want within codified limitations and they should freely exercise same without any hindrance whatsoever. The alternative is not a palatable option and this should guide everyone's action going forward in the current debate on racism in America.
Lastly blaming President Donald John Trump for what went down in Charlottesville is a distasteful brain freeze garbage because racism has always been a way of life in America, long before Trump became president and it will continue long after he leaves office. He neither engineered nor in any way was party to what happened or should President Barack Obama be held responsible for the murders of the five Dallas police officers by a Black Live Matter's nut job? In the same vein, should Bernie Sanders be held responsible for the lunatic who shot up a Republican's golf practice session? It is about time all these guilty by imaginary association ended. Lastly, President Donald John Trump was right in pointing out that it takes two to a dispute because nobody ever quarrels with him or herself. ICHEOKU will even go a step further in actually blaming the alt Left who went seeking for trouble where the alt Right were merely doing their thing as the party responsible who should be held to account for the near crisis which erupted in Charlottesville. They are not speech police and cannot and should not be allowed to pick and choose which speech qualifies as acceptable speech and which one does not. Enough of this needless storm in a tea pot.
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