When a lion fights with a tiger, the wise decision is to leave
them both alone. If you help one of them to win, the winner will definitely
turn around and attack you instead.
On September 27, 2017, Black Lives Matter activists shut
down the Virginia executive director of the ACLU at a “celebration of free
speech” at William & Mary College. We, the comrades of Unit 1012, see both
BLM and ACLU like the Lion fighting the tiger, we see both of them as criminal
rights group and we will support neither of them. Hopefully, this is the beginning
of the end, as the two hate groups will be dividing themselves.
Black Lives
Matter Group Shuts Down ACLU Director, Shouts ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’
Black Lives
Matter Group Shuts Down ACLU
Williamsburg, VA – Black Lives
Matter activists shut down the Virginia executive director of the ACLU at a
“celebration of free speech” at William & Mary College last week.
Black Lives Matter activists swarmed the
stage before Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, the executive director of the ACLU of
Virginia, could speak on freedom of expression, according to Fox News.
As the Black Lives Matter activists took
over the stage, they could be heard shouting “Liberalism
is white supremacy!”, and “ACLU, you protect
Hitler, too!”
The activists
livestreamed the demonstration on Facebook for an hour, and
could be heard shouting other slogans, including “The oppressed are not impressed!”,
“Blood on your hands!”, and “The revolution will not uphold the Constitution!”
Gastanaga
came to the podium and tried to speak but the activists drowned her out.
Before she
was no longer able to be heard, she used the disruption as an example of why
she needed to talk about freedom of expression, and said “Good, I like this”,
as protesters raised signs.
Gastanaga
said, “I’m going to talk to you about knowing your rights, and protests and
demonstrations, which this illustrates very well. Then I’m going to take
questions from the moderators, and then questions from the audience”.
The activists
continued their shut down and would not allow anyone to approach
Gastanaga to speak.
Protesters blamed the
ACLU for the death of Heather Heyer, who died in Charlottesville, Va., after a
white supremacist drove into a crowd. (Facebook)
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One organizer
of the event ‘reportedly’ granted the leader of the demonstration consent to
speak.
That
organizer then said, “When is the free speech of the oppressed protected?
We know from personal experience that rights granted to wealthy, white, cis,
male, straight bodies do not trickle down to marginalized groups. We face
greater barriers and consequences for speaking.”
Taylor
Reveley, president of William & Mary College said in a statement issued
after the event that “silencing others was not acceptable in our community.”
He said that
debate is stifled, and “…prevents those who’ve come to hear a speaker, our
students in particular, from asking questions, often hard questions, and from
engaging in debate where the strength of ideas, not the power of shouting, is
the currency.”
Destroy, O
Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
– Psalm 55:9 (KJV)
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Claire Guthrie
Gastañaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, is seen isolated onstage
as protesters drown her out. (Facebook)
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