Une s\u00e9quence brutale a eu lieu vendredi et samedi dans la ville de Charlottesville, en Virginie, État où naquirent notamment Thomas Jefferson, r\u00e9dacteur de la D\u00e9claration d’Ind\u00e9pendance de 1776 et troisi\u00e8me pr\u00e9sident des USA, et Robert E. Lee, g\u00e9n\u00e9ral commandant en chef de l’Arm\u00e9e de la Virginie du Nord, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de facto principal officier g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de toutes les forces arm\u00e9es de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration des États sudistes durant la Guerre de S\u00e9cession. C’est autour d’une statue de Robert E. Lee sur le point d’\u00eatre abattue et du Parc Lee qui doit \u00eatre rebaptis\u00e9 Parc de l’Emancipation (des esclaves, supposerons-nous), qu’eurent lieu les bagarres entre deux groupes, l’un des AltRight<\/em> (autour de 300, qui avaient organis\u00e9 la manifestation initiale) et l’autre des Antifa<\/em> (en contre-manifestation), avec l’incident d’une auto conduite par un \u00ab\u00a0supr\u00e9maciste blanc\u00a0\u00bb fon\u00e7ant dans le groupe Antifa<\/em> et tuant une personne, et en blessant plusieurs. En fait, l’essentiel de la bataille s’est livr\u00e9 ensuite, avec un formidable d\u00e9luge \u00ab\u00a0antifa\u00a0\u00bb (antifasciste), c’est-\u00e0-dire anti-raciste, anti-blanc, bien entendu anti-Trump<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « Ce qui cependant divisera encore plus ce pays<\/em>, \u00e9crit Ben Domenech de \u00ab\u00a0The Federalist<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0, c’est le fait que les \u00e9lites de droite dans la politique et dans les m\u00e9dias se pr\u00e9cipitent pour capituler dans cette bataille avant m\u00eame d’avoir commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 y participer, sans penser une seconde vers quoi ce comportement conduira<\/em>… […] La situation vers où tout cela nous conduit est infiniment pire que celle où nous nous trouvons actuellement<\/strong>, – puisqu’il s’agit d’un conflit d’une nation en guerre avec elle-m\u00eame \u00e0 propos de son caract\u00e8re et de sa nature<\/strong>. Cette guerre finira affreusement<\/strong>, quelle qu’en soit l’issue. Et toute cette histoire se terminera par le d\u00e9mant\u00e8lement de Monticello, pierre apr\u00e8s pierre<\/strong>.<\/em> »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Monticelllo<\/em> est le nom de la demeure de Thomas Jefferson, n\u00e9 \u00e0 Charlottesville et mort dans cette superbe maison \u00e9difi\u00e9e en haut d’une colloine, \u00e0 10 kilom\u00e8tres de la m\u00eame Charlottesville ; Jefferson avait fond\u00e9 dans cette ville l’une des plus vieilles et des plus prestigieuses universit\u00e9s des USA, l’Universit\u00e9 de Virginie. C’est dire si l’affrontement de la fin de la semaine derni\u00e8re est plein de symbolisme dans tous les sens<\/strong>, qu’il acquiert une d\u00e9mesure significative \u00e0 cause de ce symbolisme, qu’il est li\u00e9 \u00e0 la crise actuelle en lui donnant sa dimension m\u00e9tahistorique puisqu’elle renvoie \u00e0 deux grands hommes des deux principaux \u00e9v\u00e9nements de l’histoire de cette puissance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Il nous apparaît totalement inutile, fastidieux, hypocrite et simplement stupide de nous attarder \u00e0 la narrative <\/em>dans laquelle s’\u00e9bat, en extase sinon en orgasme, toute la presseSyst\u00e8me du bloc-BAO plus que jamais constitu\u00e9e en bloc inalt\u00e9rable d’une extraordinaire barbarie de l’inculture. Prendre une poign\u00e9e de pseudo-nazies hirsutes venus des quatre coins des USA, sans aucune repr\u00e9sentativit\u00e9, sans la moindre audience, etc., pour en faire une \u00ab\u00a0menace\u00a0\u00bb semblable aux unit\u00e9s puissantes, arm\u00e9es et d\u00e9termin\u00e9es, tenant la rue d’une main de fer balayant tout sur leur passage, des SA de R\u00f6hm<\/a> en 1931-1932 et quel que fût leur recrutement, cela ne m\u00e9rite pas une ligne de discussion s\u00e9rieuse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n (Il faudra voir d’ailleurs dans quelle mesure cette bande incertaine et plus qu’\u00e0 son tour manipul\u00e9e par des sous-marins du FBI infiltr\u00e9s dans ses rangs, comme le firent les SR italiens dans les groupuscules fascistes italiens dans les ann\u00e9es 1970, – les \u00ab\u00a0Ann\u00e9es de Plomb\u00a0\u00bb de la \u00ab\u00a0Strat\u00e9gie de la Tension\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, – dans quelle mesure ce rassemblement si limit\u00e9 repr\u00e9sente en quoi que ce soit le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne dit de l’AltRight<\/em> qu’Hillary Clinton nous sortit de sa manche dans un discours \u00e0 guichets ferm\u00e9s, il y a un an.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Par contre, les Antifa<\/em> m\u00e9ritent toute notre attention. Ils ont une longue histoire dans toute la sph\u00e8re occidentale, et notamment aux USA. Un des deux articles de The Federalist<\/em> repris ci-dessous se charge de nous en donner quelques d\u00e9tails. Ils sont devenus l’aile marchante, sinon l’aile cognante des d\u00e9mocrates eux-m\u00eames devenus fr\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement progressistres-soci\u00e9taux<\/strong>. Leurs \u00e9bats sont bien plus consid\u00e9rables, incomparablement plus nombreux, mieux organis\u00e9s, bien r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s (Soros fait teinter sa caisse enregistreuse) que ceux des pseudo-nazis sortis d’une sorte de parc d’attraction \u00e0 la-Mad Max<\/em>. Domenech fait un rappel de ces incidents violents provoqu\u00e9s par les Antifa<\/em>, qui sont autant de phases du type-\u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9volution de couleur\u00a0\u00bb, qui obtinrent en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral comme commentaires de la presseSyst\u00e8me de longues analyses de compr\u00e9hension et d’approbation pour la manifestation de leur juste col\u00e8re destructrice<\/strong> : Oakland 2009, Akron 2009, Pittsburgh 2009, Santa Cruz 2010, Oakland 2010, Los Angeles 2010, Oakland 2011, Chicago 2012, Anaheim 2012, Brooklyn 2013, Ferguson 2014, New York City 2014, Baltimore 2015, Anaheim 2016, Chicago 2016, St Paul 2016, Milwaukee 2016, Charlotte 2016, Standing Rock 2016, Oakland 2016, Portland 2016, Washington DC 2017, Berkeley 2017, Anaheim 2017, Berkeley (\u00e0 nouveau) 2017, Berkeley (\u00e0 nouveau \u00e0 nouveau) 2017, Olympia 2017, et Portland 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nous ignorons quelles sont les penses secr\u00e8tes, les orientations r\u00e9elles s’ils en ont, les id\u00e9aux, les utopies de tous ces Antifa <\/em>qui se placent bien entendu \u00e0 l’extr\u00eame-gauche, ou ultra-gauche progressiste-soci\u00e9tale. L\u00e0 aussi, inutile de s’attarder dans les descriptions complotistes et autres, puisqu’il suffit de parvenir \u00e0 la conclusion \u00e9vidente que leur action est absolument et totalement au service du Syst\u00e8me, directement ou par l’interm\u00e9diaire du Deep State <\/em>et du parti d\u00e9mocrate qu’importe<\/strong>. La rapidit\u00e9 et la perfection de la mise en sc\u00e8ne g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de Charlottesville, et le d\u00e9ferlement de communication qui a suivi montrent \u00e9videmment que ces actions entrent dans le sc\u00e9nario g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la gu\u00e9rilla postmoderne de la communication<\/strong>, et domin\u00e9 sinon activ\u00e9 d’une fa\u00e7on irr\u00e9sistible par les passions de la haine hyst\u00e9rique qui ne cesse de se r\u00e9v\u00e9ler d’une durabilit\u00e9 et d’une capacit\u00e9 de r\u00e9g\u00e9n\u00e9ration exceptionnelles<\/strong>. La s\u00e9quence anti-Trump a eu bien entendu sa place, avec la fureur formidable devant sa r\u00e9action imm\u00e9diatement d\u00e9nonc\u00e9e comme complice-approbatrice de l’AltRight<\/em>, nous faisant comprendre l\u00e0 aussi que la pr\u00e9sence du pr\u00e9sident constitue pour l’instant un motif consid\u00e9rable, type-muleta<\/em>, d’aliment de cette haine hyst\u00e9rique que l’on voit poursuivre sa course. (L’ancien gouverneur Huckabee a observ\u00e9<\/a> que si « Trump avait saut\u00e9 dans son h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re jusqu’\u00e0 Charlottesville, s’\u00e9tait rendu \u00e0 la prison <\/em>[où se trouvait le chauffeur de la voiture qui avait fonc\u00e9 dans la foule], l’avait abattu d’une balle entre les yeux, on l’aurait tout de m\u00eame critiqu\u00e9 \u00e0 cause du choix du calibre de la balle<\/em>… »).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n D’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, toute cette s\u00e9quence constitue un d\u00e9veloppement de plus pour renforcer notre jugement que la situation aux USA est sans issue et ne pourra d\u00e9boucher que sur des d\u00e9veloppements dramatiques dont le plus probable est une d\u00e9construction du pays<\/strong>. L’attitude de Trump, y compris ses h\u00e9sitations dans ce cas sous la pression de la presseSyst\u00e8me et de l’establishment<\/em> (d’une condamnation de toutes les haines et de tous les actes de violence \u00e0 une condamnation sp\u00e9cifique et conforme \u00e0 la narrative<\/em>-Syst\u00e8me du racisme des groupes AltRight<\/em>), pourrait \u00eatre jug\u00e9e dans des conditions normales comme une reculade et un affaiblissement de plus du pr\u00e9sident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mais nous ne sommes pas dans conditions normales<\/strong>. Trump n’a nul besoin d’\u00eatre fort, d’imposer une politique, de faire aboutir ses projets, etc. ; il est l\u00e0, le plus utilement du monde, pour entretenir la col\u00e8re du Syst\u00e8me engendrant le plus complet d\u00e9sordre, notamment le d\u00e9sordre du pouvoir, et renfor\u00e7ant chaque jour le constat fondamental que « la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence n’est plus le Syst\u00e8me mais le d\u00e9sordre<\/em> »<\/strong>. (En cela, effectivement American Gorbatchev<\/a><\/em> de la forme la plus inattendue, celle que nous ne pouvions pr\u00e9voir.) De ce point de vue \u00e9galement, la s\u00e9quence-Charlottesville aura son effet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Comme nous le laissions entendre plus haut, le site The Federalist <\/em>a mis en ligne une s\u00e9rie de textes tr\u00e8s remarquables sur la s\u00e9quence de Charlottesville. Nous en retenons deux, qui sont tous deux du 14 août 2017, de Ben Domenech<\/a> et de D.C. McAllister<\/a> (titre complet pour le texte de cette derni\u00e8re) : « White Supremacists Were Not The Only Thugs Tearing Up Charlottesville<\/em> »)… Il est toujours surprenant, par les temps qui courent, de trouver des commentateurs cultiv\u00e9s, logiques et n’appartennant \u00e0 aucune mouvance extr\u00eame, ainsi capables de d\u00e9velopper des r\u00e9flexions mesur\u00e9es et utiles en d\u00e9pit du climat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de haine hyst\u00e9rique qui a envahi le syst\u00e8me de la communication.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Neither the extreme left nor the extreme right is representative of any significant constituency in American politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The tragedy of deadly violence that happened in Charlottesville will be used by the elite left to call for the further destruction of monuments to problematic figures from the past. The elite right will concede this battle – they’ve already indicated their utter concession to it, because they have no recognition where this path will end up, just as the elite right has always lacked perspective on the true aims of the left.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Last night in Washington, D.C., a Black Lives Matter rally populated overwhelmingly by white people<\/a> took to the field in front of the White House and then marched to the Trump hotel to chant and rally against the existence of any confederate or slaveowner statues in D.C. This is what they want: to eradicate history and appreciations of American history because they judge all of it to be vile, and they believe – as many members of the media do – that deep down, American conservatives are all the same as those 300 or so would-be Nazis in Charlottesville. (Of course, they are pathetic would-be Nazis – they don’t have the discipline or the personal physiques to fit into Hugo Boss). That’s why they have been so eager to make such comparisons – remember when Seth MacFarlane said Nazis would love McCain-Palin? I do.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The list of protests which turned violent – which, when I shared it, triggered numerous accusations that I was defending Nazis, a white supremacist, and caused a reporter for one magazine where I used to be a columnist to describe me as \u00ab\u00a0alt-right\u00a0\u00bb – includes: Oakland 2009, Akron 2009, Pittsburgh 2009, Santa Cruz 2010, Oakland 2010, Los Angeles 2010, Oakland 2011, Chicago 2012, Anaheim 2012, Brooklyn 2013, Ferguson 2014, New York City 2014, Baltimore 2015, Anaheim 2016, Chicago 2016, St Paul 2016, Milwaukee 2016, Charlotte 2016, Standing Rock 2016, Oakland 2016, Portland 2016, Washington DC 2017, Berkeley 2017, Anaheim 2017, Berkeley (again) 2017, Berkeley (again again) 2017, Olympia 2017, and Portland 2017. This is a list of overwhelmingly leftist protests. But those have a different standard in the press.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Protest and assembly are the rights of all. Violent extremism is the enemy of all. There is no \u00ab\u00a0winning\u00a0\u00bb in such a clash, only loss. Their enemy is civilized society and the public square. But apparently listing such protests is all it takes to be considered an anti-Semite Nazi shill. Facts are not what people want at a time like this. They would prefer fiction.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n John Davidson has more<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The Left’s damnatio memoriae campaign to tear down Confederate statues shares something in common with the white supremacist impulse to stage tiki-torch rallies in defense of those statues: the ultimate goal isn’t to re-litigate the Civil War but to polarize the American body politic, to force the mainstream into a kind of crude tribalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Political violence and street fights of the kind we saw over the weekend in Charlottesville aren’t altogether new in America. We have seen such clashes — albeit less deadly ones — nearly every year for almost a decade. In nearly every case, they have been sought out and instigated by the extreme left.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n But Richard Spencer and his sparse band of J. Crew Nazis chose the Lee statue for the site of their rally on Saturday for the simple reason that it was the best location for attracting attention and provoking a violent counter-protest from armed cadres of left-wing street fighters, which it did. They came to town, apparently from all over the country, looking for a fight that would be televised.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n That strategy follows a certain logic, especially if your movement is small (estimates of white supremacist attendees were in the hundreds). For the left-wing counterprotesters, showing up en masse to attack such a gathering follows the same logic. The point is to put on a spectacle.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The fact is, neither the extreme left or the extreme right are representative of any significant constituencies in American politics. They do not wield actual power, but they have realized a way to exert out-sized influence through the instigation of publicly staged violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n John Robb, author of a book on terrorism and social disruption called \u00ab\u00a0Brave New War,\u00a0\u00bb wrote an insightful blog post about how Charlottesville wasn’t really a protest so much as an \u00ab\u00a0open invitation to a public fist fight between left and right.\u00a0\u00bb It was a perfect example of \u00ab\u00a0malicious social disruption\u00a0\u00bb that \u00ab\u00a0widened fault lines and damaged social cohesion at every level\u00a0\u00bb — by design.<\/em>\u00ab\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n What will divide the country even more, though, is the fact that the right’s elites in media and politics are rushing to concede this battle before it is even joined, without thinking about where it inevitably leads. They are willing to trash the history of a portion of the nation in order to satisfy the American leftist elite, and they will run eagerly to fulfill that task in order to demonstrate how civilized they are. Along the way, they will run rampant over a portion of history that includes recognizable relatives for the World War II generation, toxifying the entire discussion. The direction this leads is much worse than where we currently are – it is the open conflict of a nation at war with itself over its own character. This war will end badly, no matter how it plays out. And the way this story ends is in demolishing Monticello brick by brick.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The conflict between anti-fascists and fascists has been simmering for decades as they’ve been firing shots at each other and gathering recruits.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The violence in Charlottesville reveals not who we are as Americans, but who we might become if we allow radicalism and totalitarianism to become normalized. In America today, that possibility is most likely to come, not from the radical Right, but from the Left.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To understand this trajectory, we need to know who the players were in this weekend’s violence. Those behind the protest and the counter-protest were not average Americans, but two extremist groups: anti-fascists (Antifas) on the Left (the counter-protestors) and white supremacist nationalists on the Right (the protesters).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n These groups did not suddenly appear with the inauguration of Donald Trump. They’ve been around for a very long time. As Peter Beinart explains<\/a> at The Atlantic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Antifa traces its roots to the 1920s and ’30s, when militant leftists battled fascists in the streets of Germany, Italy, and Spain. When fascism withered after World War II, antifa did too. But in the ’70s and ’80s, neo-Nazi skinheads began to infiltrate Britain’s punk scene. After the Berlin Wall fell, neo-Nazism also gained prominence in Germany. In response, a cadre of young leftists, including many anarchists and punk fans, revived the tradition of street-level antifascism<\/em>.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the late ’80s, left-wing punk fans in the United States began following suit, though they initially called their groups Anti-Racist Action, on the theory that Americans would be more familiar with fighting racism than fascism. According to Mark Bray, the author of the forthcoming Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, these activists toured with popular alternative bands in the ’90s, trying to ensure that neo-Nazis did not recruit their fans. In 2002, they disrupted a speech by the head of the World Church of the Creator, a white-supremacist group in Pennsylvania; 25 people were arrested in the resulting brawl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n By the 2000s, as the internet facilitated more transatlantic dialogue, some American activists had adopted the name antifa. But even on the militant left, the movement didn’t occupy the spotlight. To most left-wing activists during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years, deregulated global capitalism seemed like a greater threat than fascism.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As Beinart mentioned, in 2002, these two groups violently clashed in York, Pennsylvania, with a street brawl that led to the arrest of 25 people, all of them Antifa except two. \u00ab\u00a0The scene was right out of the former East Germany, perhaps, or any of the hundreds of other European venues where ‘antifas’ (anti-fascists) and neo-Nazis have battled it out with clubs, knives and Molotov cocktails,\u00a0\u00bb one report stated<\/a>. Afterward, the city of 40,000 residents was \u00ab\u00a0left in shock.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The conflict between anti-fascists and fascists has been simmering for decades as they’ve been firing shots at each other and gathering recruits or engaging in a war of words on the Internet. The rise of Barack Obama pacified the radical Left to some degree, as much of the conflict during his presidency involved Occupy Wall Street and the anti-capitalist gang. But Antifa remained in waiting, finding cover under the broader progressive ideology of the Democratic Party that indirectly supports its totalitarian agenda and tolerates its violence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With the contentious campaign and election of Donald Trump, Antifa exploded onto the scene, along with its counterpart, the neo-Nazis. The radical Right—a tiny but despicable group—saw in Trump’s America First agenda an opportunity for legitimization.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Despite Trump and his supporters condemning racism, the Left characterized everyone who supported him as \u00ab\u00a0the radical Right.\u00a0\u00bb Loose and even unwanted associations were seen as blood alliances. Never mind that grandma, who wants better border control and loves Trump because he stands for American interests, has nothing to do with a neo-Nazi thug. She and everyone wearing a MAGA red hat have been deemed white supremacists and racists by the Left.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The result of Trump’s rise has been a flood of anarcho-activists joining the secret ranks of Antifa to silence these legions of so-called neo-Nazis who showed up at Trump rallies. \u00ab\u00a0On Inauguration Day, a masked activist punched the white-supremacist leader Richard Spencer,\u00a0\u00bb Beinart writes. \u00ab\u00a0In February, protesters violently disrupted UC Berkeley’s plans to host a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart.com editor. In March, protesters pushed and shoved the controversial conservative political scientist Charles Murray when he spoke at Middlebury College, in Vermont.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A brawl broke out in New York City on May Day when Antifas clashed with Trump supporters in Times Square. Antifa also participated in the violence at a Trump rally in San Jose, California. The pro-Antifa journal It’s Going Down celebrated the attacks on Trump supporters as \u00ab\u00a0righteous beatings.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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The Reality Of Charlottesville<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Ben Domenech<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n
White Supremacists Were Not The Only Thugs…<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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The Yin and Yang of Political Street Brawls<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n