NSA McMaster on Charlottesville: ‘Of Course It Was Terrorism’

[Crabtownboy]

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Sunday minced no words and clearly labeled Saturday's deadly car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, as terrorism.

“Certainly I think we can confidently call it a form of terrorism,” the adviser, Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster, said on NBC's "Meet The Press."

“What terrorism is, is the use of violence to incite terror and fear, and of course it was terrorism.”

McMaster's words went further than President Trump did on Saturday, when Trump was widely criticized by members of both parties for pitting blame on “many sides” for violence that was sparked by a white nationalist rally, and for not specifically naming and condemning the racist groups involved.

McMaster said the president intended to denounce the racists.

“He condemned hatred and bigotry on all sides, and that includes white supremacists and neo-Nazis,” McMaster said. “I think it’s clear — I know it’s clear in his mind, and ought to be clear to all Americans: we cannot tolerate obviously that bigotry, that hatred that is rooted in ignorance. Ignorance of what America stands for, what America is.”

NSA McMaster on Charlottesville: "Of course it was terrorism"

 

[InTheLight]

I know I'll probably catch flack for this but I'm not so certain it was terrorism. If you define terrorism as violence or terror to advance a political goal, what was the political goal?

It seems to me this guy got caught up in hate and decided to kill someone.

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[MennoSota]

I know I'll probably catch flack for this but I'm not so certain it was terrorism. If you define terrorism as violence or terror to advance a political goal, what was the political goal?

It seems to me this guy got caught up in hate and decided to kill someone.

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White power is the political goal. Continued systemic racism where whites are extended privileges based upon their skin color. We have had 250 years of systemic racism. It's time that system of politics is ended.

 

[777]

It was terrorism because of the intimidation factor, next time Antifa meets, they are supposed to keep this in mind. And yesterday was an attack on the far-left by some one member on the alt-right and this is going to keep happening again and again in the current political climate.

 

[InTheLight]

It was terrorism because of the intimidation factor,

Serial killers intimidate. Are they terrorists?



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[InTheLight]

White power is the political goal.

Already achieved for past 400 years.





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[MennoSota]

Already achieved for past 400 years.





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Indeed, but the politics is in ensuring that it continues.

 

[InTheLight]

Indeed, but the politics is in ensuring that it continues.

So, you seem to be saying this is to maintain the status quo, not radical change. I don't call that terrorism.

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[777]

Serial killers intimidate. Are they terrorists?
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yes, if there's a political motive behind the attack, like with the Unibomber.

 

[MennoSota]

So, you seem to be saying this is to maintain the status quo, not radical change. I don't call that terrorism.

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Yes it's to maintain power. White supremacists have used terrorism for 400+ years to maintain their power.
It is absolutely terrorism.

 

[Crabtownboy]

I know I'll probably catch flack for this but I'm not so certain it was terrorism. If you define terrorism as violence or terror to advance a political goal, what was the political goal?

It seems to me this guy got caught up in hate and decided to kill someone.

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He is a long-term sympathizer with the Nazis and the White Supremacist. I do not know if he was a member of either group. He is a registered Republican.
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A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of protesters here — killing one person and leaving 19 injured — long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood with a group of white supremacists hours before Saturday’s bloody crash.

The alleged driver, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old who travelled to Virginia from Ohio, had espoused extremist ideals at least since high school, according to Derek Weimer, a history teacher.

Weimer said that he taught Fields during his junior and senior years at Randall K. Cooper High School in Kentucky. In a class called “America’s Modern Wars,” Weimer recalled that Fields wrote a deeply researched paper about the Nazi military during World War II.

“It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism and a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler,” Weimer said. “He had white supremacist views. He really believed in that stuff.”

Fields’s research project into the Nazi military was well written, Weimer said, but it appeared to be a “big lovefest for the German military and the Waffen-SS.”

Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says


Fields Registered as a Republican in Ohio in 2016 and May Have Had a Controversial Facebook Account

James Alex Fields, Jr. : 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

[carpro]

McMaster needs to be fired. Trump is making a huge mistake keeping him on.


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[Reynolds]

I know I'll probably catch flack for this but I'm not so certain it was terrorism. If you define terrorism as violence or terror to advance a political goal, what was the political goal?

It seems to me this guy got caught up in hate and decided to kill someone.

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I agree. I think it was just a nut who got too caught up in what was going on.

 

[InTheLight]

McMaster needs to be fired. Trump is making a huge mistake keeping him on.


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Alex Jones agrees with you.
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The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.

Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside the Trump administration familiar with the anti-McMaster campaign. The controversial nationalist Mike Cernovich, who has an inside track on the anti-McMaster campaign, teased the alcohol attack in an Internet video with Alex Jones of the website Infowars. Anti-McMaster forces believe this attack will harm his standing with the president, who is a teetotaler.

Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier


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[carpro]

Alex Jones agrees with you.
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The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.

Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside the Trump administration familiar with the anti-McMaster campaign. The controversial nationalist Mike Cernovich, who has an inside track on the anti-McMaster campaign, teased the alcohol attack in an Internet video with Alex Jones of the website Infowars. Anti-McMaster forces believe this attack will harm his standing with the president, who is a teetotaler.

Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier


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It's much less complicated than that.

He is opposed to almost everything Donald Trump was elected to do and will undermine him at every opportunity.

 

[Alcott]

I agree. I think it was just a nut who got too caught up in what was going on.

We'll see, I suppose. You recall that was the 'legal theory' that got the guy acquitted who pulled Reginald Denny from his truck and slammed a brick into his head-- he was"caught up in what was going on." Let's see the reaction if/when his attorney(s) bring that up.

 

[Adonia]

And here we go with labelling normal criminal acts terrorism. What we have here are two groups with different points of view fighting each other. As for the guy who ran over people with his car, he was rightly charged with the crime of murder.

I knew this was going to happen once they passed those anti-terrorist statutes and I wonder how long will it be before all of our civil rights are suspended because we now have to fight the "terrorism" that is occurring in our streets? This is like those "hate crime" laws, setting up a new category of offenses as if somehow they are worse than ordinary crimes.