REFLECTIONS ON THE CHARLOTTESVILLE "SHOW TRIAL"

Fields is a synonym for soil; blood and soil, anyone?

by Daniel Barge

The problem with the trial of Alex Fields for the supposed murder of Heather Heyer is that it is being heavily politicized.

It is being politicized by the left,  who coincidentally have a lot of political power,  and it is also being politicised by what remains of the Alt-Right, who now have zero political power.

Furthermore the Left is much better placed morally, as Colin Liddell observed in his recent statement on the role of the Affirmative Right.

"The main problem that had to be addressed was the Alt-Right's failings as a moral movement, as this made it easier for its more politically powerful but intellectually weaker opponents to attack it and shut it down without engaging with its ideas."

Yet again, in moral terms, the Alt-Right is going into this renewed Charlottesville conflict almost naked.

It did not need to be that way.

When Unite the Right decided to stage a protest at Charlottesville to oppose the removal of an important item of historical commemoration and Southern identity, it was taking a stance that had moral support across much of America, and which even reached into the White House. As president Trump half correctly said,  "There were good people on both sides."

But, more correctly, there were also bad people on both sides. First of all, in my opinion, all the people on the left were pretty bad. This includes the antifa actively seeking violence, their camp followers like Heather Heyer, and even their pet Christians, out there to provide cheap moral ammunition against the foot soldiers of Unite the Right.

There were definitely bad people on the Alt-Right side too, people who spouted Nazi rhetoric and espoused the kind of views calibrated to marginalize and toxify any White identitarian movement.

Among the "baddies" on the Alt-Right side, you would have to include people like Richard Spencer and Mike Enoch who pushed the notion of "don't punch right" and turning a blind eye to the excesses of Stormerists and Feds, which could then be used by the Left to attack the movement. The rumours that these so-called Alt-Right leaders may not be as genuine and sincere as they claim should never be dismissed as long as their behaviour is consistent with infiltrators and disruption agents.

Spencer getting his "money shot" at Charlottesville.

The fact that members of the National Socialist Movement were invited was an obvious own goal as well, as this is a group that worships Adolf Hitler and fully approves of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime, while at the same time claiming that it was totally innocent. Also, the fact that what looks like an obvious shill was able to unfurl a swastika flag and calmly parade around without a word of disapproval, shows a sad naivety or chronic lack of judgement on the part of those supposedly in control of the demonstration.

Now, having set up the protest in this way, essentially framing it in the most immoral terms possible without actually sacrificing a baby and drinking its blood, whatever happened next was bound to be weaponized by the Left against the protesters. So, the Alt-Right pushing for this trial to be politicized and moralised is yet another defeat waiting to happen.

The best option for the Alt-Right in this case would be to unilaterally depoliticize this trial and to essentially ignore it. The more you have the likes of Andrew Anglin, Mike "Edge cases" Enoch, and "America's Fuhrer" Richard Spencer kvetching about what a "monkey trial" this is to get more hits and likes, the more likely you are to skew the court's decision in favour of the Left.

Also, it is relatively unimportant whether Fields turns out to be innocent or guilty, as the true verdict here is that he was neither entirely innocent nor entirely guilty.

A gun may have been flashed at him, mobs may have been milling around, his car may even have been struck by a baseball bat, etc., but remember these were mainly mobs of fat ladies and limp-wristed men LARPing as tough guys, plus there were plenty of other roads to drive away from potential trouble.

Not all the roads were shut down by baying antifa mobs.

While some degree of nervousness on Fields's part is understandable, the way in which he hit the gas and plunged into a crowd of people, throwing several of them high up into the air, was obviously excessive. In any case like this, even without politicization, there would still be a fairly good chance of the accused being convicted.

Also, whether or not Fields is convicted should have no bearing on the two most pertinent facts of the day, firstly that antifa, with the full blessing of the local police, initiated practically all the violence that day, and secondly that the Alt-Right idiotically attempted to stage a moral fight, while at the same time morally disarming and arriving on the battlefield naked.

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