Insanity and Lies -- It Seems To Be Everywhere

In the NY Post this morning, there's an article under a headline that says that the Secretary of Homeland Security refused to "denounce" the white supremacist involved in the Charlottesville murder last year.  That murder, of course, took place when a guy in a car ran down one of the counter-protesters who showed up to oppose the tiny white supremacist rally being held in that town.  There were other violent confrontations between the two sides, particularly between the Antifa group and the core white supremacist group.

I had thought that this story was over, so I read the article to see what the Secretary had said.  Here's what I found.  Secretary Nielsen told a crowd in Aspen that it wasn't that one side was right and one was wrong.  Rather, she said, it was that we have to work to stop any group advocating violence.

Isn't that exactly correct?  If Nazis or white supremacists or fascists or Antifa come to town and start bashing people in the head for whatever reason, shouldn't we work to stop that?  Shouldn't violent protests or political statements of any sort be prohibited?  I certainly think so.  We can't have the mob censoring speech no matter what that speech is.   That's called the American way.  We have free speech here.

So Secretary Nielsen actually condemned both sides in Charlottesville.  They both engaged in violence.  It's insane to write an article with a dishonest headline like the one in the Post.