{"id":81192,"date":"2017-08-16T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81192"},"modified":"2017-08-16T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:31:18","slug":"what-everyone-is-missing-about-charlottesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81192","title":{"rendered":"What Everyone is Missing About Charlottesville"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Allen West<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Charlottesville. This past weekend I was honored to be in a most picturesque place with some great and hospitable folks ib Prescott (Yavapai County) Arizona. I was there to address the Republican Women of Prescott, the nation\u2019s largest Republican women\u2019s club, on their 75th anniversary. The scenery there was just breathtaking and there was just a sense of solemnness that we all need experience from time to time. How great a contrast it was from what was happening across the country in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Let me begin by saying, I deplore any form of supremacist view \u2014 white, black, Hispanic, Islamic. I will be the first to openly state and embrace, a sense of American exceptionalism and supremacy that is rooted in our founding principles and values. Any and all else that is contradictory is to be condemned. What I have witnessed post the events of Saturday 12 August is the typical Rahm Emanuel mentality and political posturing: \u201cnever let a good crisis go to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

Therefore, I seek to assess what really happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n

First, may God rest the soul of 32-year-old Heather Heyer who tragically lost her life. My sincere condolences to her, her family, and those others who were injured. I fully support seeking the death penalty for 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio who committed this horrific act of violence.<\/p>\n

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But, how did we get to this place?<\/span><\/p>\n

This all\u00a0began because someone decided<\/a>, as other elected officials have across the country, to cave in to partisan political pressures and seek to erase American history.<\/p>\n

History is not there for us to love or hate, but for us to learn from and seek to not repeat its mistakes.<\/p>\n

If there are those who truly believe we protect ourselves by trying to revise history due to false emotions, then we miss out on who we are as a nation, and our evolution. The statues of long since deceased leaders of the Confederate Army do not stand to remind anyone of oppression. And if a statue can oppress you, then I submit that you have greater issues.<\/p>\n

I certainly did not appreciate former President Barack Obama taking a photo op in Cuba before the image of Che Guevara, nor do I enjoy seeing anyone wearing said image on t-shirts here in America\u2026but I do not go into some whimsical state of \u201coppression.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so it is that we do possess in this Constitutional Republic a freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It would appear that said group who didn\u2019t wish to see the statue of Virginian, General Robert E. Lee, who was a commissioned U.S. Army officer, graduate of West Point, and served the nation in the Mexican War, taken down did apply for a permit to hold a rally.<\/p>\n

We can dislike these individuals, but they took proper measures to secure permission to express their First Amendment right.<\/p>\n

Contrary to their position, the word went out for a counter-protest to occur which included groups from a different side of the political spectrum, who have also been very guilty of hateful rhetoric and violence.<\/p>\n

What should have happened is that these two groups should have been kept miles apart. I do not understanding why any local law enforcement agency would allow these two groups close proximity… the first lesson learned.<\/p>\n

And we must also ascertain, did the counter-protest group seek permit or did they just \u201cshow up\u201d in order to provoke, and elicit a response they could use \u201cpolitically?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, motivations are important to understand in this case, if we\u2019re serious about getting to the bottom of what happened in Charlottesville and not just the typical media-driven frenzy.<\/p>\n

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