A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he appeared in a widely viewed documentary remained held without bond on Thursday, one day after the police said he had turned himself in to the authorities in Virginia.
The man, Christopher Cantwell, 36, was charged with two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one felony count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance, the Albemarle County prosecutor, Robert Tracci, said in a statement. A preliminary hearing was set for Oct. 12.
In a statement released late Wednesday, the university police said they had been notified that afternoon that Mr. Cantwell had turned himself in to the Lynchburg Police Department in Virginia. The brief statement did not say when Mr. Cantwell turned himself in.
He was being held at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail in Lynchburg, Va., pending transport to Charlottesville, the university police said.
According to the Chicago Tribune this Cantwell guy is being held without bond, but he has a reason for why he pepper sprayed that counter protester:
He insisted he was defending himself, saying he did it "because my only other option was knocking out his teeth." He said he looked forward to his day in court.
Boy he sure talks tough doesn't he?
Sadly for him we know the truth.
Oh yeah, he's going to do great in prison.
Donald Trump has lost his grip on reality
ReplyDeleteLast week Americans and people around the world learned that Donald Trump is morally unfit to be president of the United States. His response to the tragedy in Charlottesville showed he was unwilling to stand up for basic decency.
This week we’re learning something just as disturbing – that Trump may have only a tenuous hold on reality. The frightening prospect that the man with his finger on the nuclear button may actually be mentally unwell is forcing itself onto the public agenda.
Anyone who watched Trump’s extended rant at a campaign-style rally in Phoenix, Ariz., on Tuesday night could not help but wonder if the president is losing his grip. For 75 minutes he lashed out at his perceived enemies, flagrantly misrepresented his multiple attempts at a response to Charlottesville, and indulged himself in extended bouts of self-pity.
Words hardly begin to capture the profoundly unbalanced nature of Trump’s diatribe. Unleashed before a crowd of supporters, unscripted by his handlers, he turned live on TV into a caricature of himself, the proverbial car crash you can’t stop watching. At one point he was boasting pathetically about living in “a bigger, more beautiful apartment” than the “elites” he believes have it in for him.
This has gone beyond the usual calculated lashing-out at enemies in ways designed to gin up Trump’s so-called “base.” There’s no longer any obvious method to the madness. For an increasing number of people, there’s just madness – in the literal meaning of the word.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2017/08/23/donald-trump-has-lost-his-grip-on-reality-editorial.html
Alt-Right icon ‘Based Stickman’ sent to jail — won’t spread his hateful message at San Francisco rally
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‘No other place to go’: Former allies say Bannon’s return to Breitbart is anything but triumphant
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/why-steve-bannon-wont-dare-challenge-fox-news
He should tell the black prisoners how he feels about all black people.
ReplyDeleteHe may last a few days before he is beat to pulp.
Don't drop the soap lil BITCH!
DeleteI think I have figured out why these guys attend these riots -- they want to be arrested and go to jail.
ReplyDeleteIn the HBO report about him, I noticed that Cantwell keeps his guns and computer in his bedroom. Obviously, he lives in his mother's basement.
I suspect most of these assholes are unemployed, or, working menial labor. In jail, they get three meals a day; a bunk; a warm, dry place to take a shit; books; comrades; medical care; plus association with other assholes . . . what's not to like about it?
I thought that was a hotel room in Charlottesville. Doesn't the guy live in New Hampshire?
Deletehe has a famous podcast where he freely uses racial epithets. i'm a regular listener.
DeleteRead on The Daily Beast that Charlottesville Police ignored him. The people who he arracked went to a magistrate with video evidence and that is who issued the warrants. Usually warrants are issued after the police provide evidence from an investigation. Not this time
ReplyDeleteThat's because the Charlottesville police are closet nazis, fucking incompetent or both.
DeleteHe tried to run for Congress in NY District 1, Lee Zeldin's turf now, but couldn't get on the ballot.
ReplyDeleteSqueal like a piggy you little bitch. Heh.
ReplyDeleteis he still crying? i wonder how mr. big and bad will do in jail....
ReplyDeleteThe irony, that this racist turned himself in to the PD of a city with the name of LYNCHburg.
ReplyDeleteSure, it was probably named after a guy whose last name was Lynch, but really...!
Trump will just pardon him, like he did Arpaio.
ReplyDeleteHistorian warns Donald Trump may have to be removed from the White House at gunpoint
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/historian-warns-donald-trump-may-have-to-be-removed-from-the-white-house-at-gunpoint/
Removed at gunpoint.
DeleteWalked out in an orange jump suit.
Hustled out by US marshals, loaded into a limo and driven back to Manhattan.
Carried out in a body bag.
WHO GIVES A SHIT HOW THE MOFO LEAVES . . . JUST SO HE LEAVES . . . . SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out Rocky Mountain Mike's "tribute" to this guy. Nazi Bitch Tears sung to the tune of 96 Tears for those of us old enough to remember ? and the Mysterians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtPwZj9szD0
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/former-ethics-director-arpaio-pardon_us_59a0c524e4b06d67e337b44f?section=us_politics
ReplyDelete"President Donald Trump’s former ethics chief, who resigned last month because of disagreements with the White House over ethics policies, blasted the president’s decision on Friday to pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
“Vile!!” began Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, on a Twitter thread. “What POTUS says ‘exemplifies selfless public service’ is: dehumanizing inmates, racial profiling, and gleefully defying a court order.”
Shaub tweeted that the pardon was a “harbinger of worse to come.”
“This pardon also departs from procedural norms. And as an affirmative act by POTUS, it reveals an emboldening,” he tweeted."
Trump is moving on from defying and disrespecting the media to defying, disrespecting and undermining the judicial system.
Just another step on the road to FASCISM!
(You know, I posted here 10 year ago about the Republican Party heading this country down the road to fascism. During the 2007 campaign with Denali, lowborn of the House of Pancakes running with John McShameonyou.
Obama was only a pause, a respite.
Now they're back and worse than ever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-holocaust-survivor-noticed-a-detail-in-charlottesville-you-might-have-missed_us_59a09bf8e4b05710aa5c3feb?section=us_politics
"He noticed it while reading about a court hearing for James Fields Jr. on Monday, Aug. 14. The neo-Nazi was accused of plowing his car into a crowd at the white nationalist rally, leaving a 32-year-old woman dead and injuring at least 19 other people who were protesting at the time.
The article displayed a photo taken by Reuters of a riled Matthew Heimbach, leader of the white nationalist Unite the Right rally, who appeared outside the court to voice his displeasure after a judge denied bond for Fields.
Although the white supremacist’s clothing was largely overlooked by most people given the context, it was the first thing Jack saw. That’s because Heimbach was wearing a T-shirt portraying a picture of Corneliu Zelea Condreanu, leader of the Romanian fascist Legion of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Iron Guard political party ― both linked to the Nazi party."