Disclaimer: I haven't listened to the podcast and also this hasn't been picked up anywhere else
Kristin Rawls
Kristin Rawls @kristinrawls
Okay, so they're reporting that weapons caches were found in Charlottesville in the possession of white supremacists.
Here's something you need to know: Caches of weapons were found throughout Rwanda after the genocide.
They'd been stockpiled in places underground leading up to it.
That's the way everyone got access to machetes right away -- hate radio there told them where to go to get the weapons when it started.
That's why it was so efficient and appeared so spontaneous to people observing from the outside. No one knew about the weapons caches.
So, as @amaditalks just said, this wasn't about the CSA statue, but a test run for a militia takeover of a small city.
And it should scare you, because this is how genocide is carried out.
Spencer called it a success "as a show of force." And that's what was so terrifying about it -- the amount of weaponry at their disposal.
In this case, it won't be machetes but heavy artillery. The degree to which these people are gunned is terrifying.
Listen, they want us dead, and they're on to their strategy for carrying it out. This is not about speech and never has been.
It's about genocide. They're stockpiling the means to carry it out, and anyone who gave them a platform can get fucked.
"Who's reporting this?"
The governor of VA Terry McAuliffe says it on the Pod Save the People podcast tonight.
Of course I'm being accused of fear-mongering. Listen, the governor of VA reported weapons caches on today's Pod Save the People.
Apologies, it's yesterday's bonus episode of Pod Save the People.
@thecatstitution
Replying to @tsalaroth, @kristinrawls, and @tarpjerk
Here you go, scroll down a bit it's yesterday's bonus episode:
getcrookedmedia.com/pod-save-the-people-56bc42af53d?gi=1b98d5af874e
Kristin Rawls @kristinrawls
So it's been out overnight, and the media did not register it's significance. I'm not surprised.
Gov Terry McAuliffe: "They had battering rams and we had picked up different weapons that they had stashed around the city,”
Listen to clip here: mobile.twitter.com/crookedmedia/status/897190439375130624/video/1
CJ Ciaramella
CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella
I just got comment back from Virginia State Police. They say, contra McAuliffe, no caches of weapons were recovered.
Len M Nichols @LenMNichols
Police might lie if they don't want fascists to know they found their caches. I definitely agree this was a trial run of something. What?
[So the police have denied it, which I think is reassuring but I'm not sure why the governor would say these things if they weren't true. I'm sceptical that they were planning a genocide but if they did have caches of weapons, that is worrying.]