Questions Swirl Regarding Recent Chase Endorsement

Questions continue to swirl as to why State Senator Amanda Freeman Chase (I/R) either failed to post this endorsement or removed said endorsement from her official State Senator social media page last week. There was no communication from the campaign regarding the situation however the endrosement was shared in multiple groups via social media including various fan pages of Chase.

Critics of the endorsement called it "rather timely" due to the recent protest events in Richmond and recent criticism Chase has garnered regarding her "white history" comments addressing the Confederate monument issue. No picture of the the two is posted on the Chase page nor was one easily found for this post.

The endorsement was posted on he VA-02 primary candidates page in the day leading up to he Primary Tuesday.

Chase has not endorsed often. Chase has endorsed Delegate Nick Freitas (R) in VA7 yet that endorsement does not seem to appear on the Nick Freitas for Congress site along with his other endorsements.

Constitutents raised the question post election after State Senator Chase posted a picture of herself with Representative Scot Taylor (R) after the primary on Tuesday. Taylor won the primary for the VA-02 and had he endorsement of Presiden Trump. Much of Chase's campaign thus far appears centered around rallying such elements as the Virginia Freedom Caucus which is a social media group that outwardly opposed Taylor. Taylor lost his seat in 2018 to Representative Elaine Luria (D).

The primary result on Tuesday creates a re-match this Fall as Taylor (R) and Luria (D) will face off once again in the VA-02.

We will update this post once any information is released from the communications director of he Chase campaign.

Amanda Freeman Chase (I/R) is running for Governor of Virginia in 2021.

"Virginia" No Longer: 2020 The Year That Made 401 Years Irrelevant

In July 2019, the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrated 400 years as the birthplace of democracy in the Americas. Virginia celebrated four hundred year anniversary of the First Representative Legislative Assembly which was instituted in summer of 1619 at Jamestown.

This celebration however, was not the only one that the Commonwealth of Virginia commemorated in 2019. What we are witnessing today, as protests focusing heavily on the goal of removing every physical representation of significant parts of Virginia and American history writ large continue to take place, is an attempt to completely erase our past.  If we want to be truly honest regarding Virginia, let's take a look at how it has actually approached representing its history. Virginia, as a state, has a long standing tradition of "sharing the full story," inclusive of the many proud moments, but also the challenging or uncomfortable pieces. Additionally, it has never sought to focus, or in truth even economically capitalize, on the Confederate period like other southern cities have.

To this point, where have we seen a state funded "Confederate" program on the scale in Virginia as say the "Virginia is for Lovers" campaign? Where have we seen our hospitality and tourism entities work to elevate the historical period of the Civil War? The period has always been a companion element to tourism, as logic would stand to reason, the past cannot be changed, but hardly a focus. One only has to compare Richmond, Virginia to Charleston, South Carolina to fully understand the difference and the very foundation of where the progressive academia portrayal of Virginia and Richmond herself is not only misplaced but also historically inaccurate.

2019 marked the 400th Anniversary of the first slave arriving at Jamestown and the first recorded slaves to arrive in the English colonies. Most historians place these slaves' origins to be Western Africa and were brought to the New World not by the English that settled the Virginia colony but by Portuguese slave traders.

In light of the past month it is hard to understand the perpetual misrepresentation of Virginia as a Commonwealth that has never embraced its African American community or its past. It may certainly be as simple as the fact that the Civil War created the narrative backdrop or "sword" that continues to be used against Virginia routinely by academia and activists alike. Under the framework of racial justice, progressive liberal voices, often found in the world of academia, neglect to present the whole narrative, including the historiography associated with how Virginia tells its own story. Not only is this academically dishonest, but quite dangerous and harmful. As the famous quote from German essaying Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) states, "Where they burn books, they too in the end burn people."

 Virginia has long been more of a "progressive" state than any other former Confederate state in the South. Virginia is targeted by those from other geographic regions in the US and with other experiences that are then projected upon Virginia.  What these activists fail to realize, is that Virginia has long attempted to address the stains of the Civil War. In truth, they have advanced past most every issue these activists have raised the last month in Richmond and Washington D.C.

Additionally, there is substantial evidence that Virginia has never actually mirrored its Southern brethern in many regards post Reconstruction. For example, much of the commemoration for to Virginian leaders of the Civil War was less about Confederate ideals and more about the fact these men were the lore of that century no different than the one prior and George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other Revolutionaries. In the 1890's to 1910 period Virginia witnessed a resurgence in commemorating the Civil War period not over many aspects that the Progressive academia like to focus upon but rather the fact that the men who participated in the war were now no longer with Virginia.  Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson had died in the war  along with Jeb Stuart and Robert E. Lee died in 1870. Twenty five years after the war the first monuments began to go up all over the country honoring both Union and Confederate leaders that commanded men in both armies. It is important to examine the aspects of society that differed in this time period than would in the century that followed. Its was closer to the Revolutionary tradition than present day of course. Examine how many Korean or Vietnam statues or monuments dedicated to "individual" men exist in America. These wars unlike the Civil War resulted in monuments dedicated to participants in those foreign wars in mass or collectively and not honoring individual leaders.

This is an aspect that gets lost on Progressive academia that influences the activism that we witness today. These Confederate Generals along Monument Avenue commanded divisions of Virginians. Unlike today's military, units during the Civil War were formed within communities and counties or "Home Guards". Fathers fought alongside sons and brothers alongside brothers. If you were born in 1855 you would have been forty years old at the time the Robert E. Lee monument was erected. Much of your life you would have heard story after story regarding the war and the Reconstruction from the devastation. Much of the mood regarding the erecting monuments had little to do with racial connotations but rather the two decades it took for the war torn South to recover from the wear itself.

It is easy for Progressive academia today to point to statues and monuments and say they were erected to advance hate and yet much of the historical evidence from first hand accounts says otherwise and the majority of the commemoration speeches were not centered around the "Lost Cause" ideology they profess they did. The Lost Cause ideology did not come into existence until much later.

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.^[1] These laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by blacks during the Reconstruction period.^[2] The Jim Crow laws were enforced until 1965.^[3]

In practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. Jim Crow laws were upheld in 1896 in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, in which the U.S. Supreme Court laid out its "separate but equal" legal doctrine for facilities for African Americans. Moreover, public education had essentially been segregated since its establishment in most of the South after the Civil War in 1861–65. (Wikipedia).

In 1913 it was Southern Democrat President Woodrow Wilson (New Jersey) that segregated the entire federal workforce. Wilson was the first Southern-born President having been raised in Virginia elected post Reconstruction and upon election placed many segregationists in his cabinet. Most are left with the impression that all the things resulting from Jim Crow all happened in a short period of time and the monuments were all tied to these practices when in truth if you consider that the Supreme Court heard Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 that upheld the Jim Crow laws in place and did not hear Brown v. Board of Education until 1954 some fifty years had past. Progressive activists from Monumental Lies advocated replacing Civil War figures with people like Woodrow Wilson and other Democratic figures from the period and yet this totally ignores the totality of the actual history of this period. Its does not examine each individual man but rather the advocacy based solely on tribalism.

In its continued attempts to evaluate all Virginia life through the lens of racial inequality, Progressive academia is disingenuous regarding the true history of the people of Virginia and the "progress" Virginia has made over the last century with regard to the diversity that exists in the Commonwealth. It is very hard to attempt to exploit the expressed condition of racial inequality and indifference in a state that elected the first African American Governor in Douglas Wilder. Virginia elected the Virginia's son, Douglas Wilder in 1989 defeated popular Republican Marshall Coleman and served Virginia from 1990-94 after having served as Lt. Governor the four years prior and before that as a State Senator. 

Virginia further dismissed the notions that the legacy of the Confederacy was actually still a thing when as it has continually filled its General Assembly with diversity of race, gender and national origin. Virginia has become one of the most diverse Southern States in the county and its State Legislature reflects this dynamic. In 2008 and 2012 Virginians supported Barrack H. Obama for President. Obama won Virginia by six points in 2008 and four points in 2012. Ironically, Progressive academia will never provide this context but Virginia did not support Bill Clinton, a southern Governor, for President in either 1992 or 1996. In fact, the last Democratic President that Virginians supported prior to Obama was Lyndon B. Johnson (D) in 1964. How much "progress" has Virginia made? Virginia in 1960 did not even support John F. Kennedy yet decades later after Civil Rights Movement elects the first African American Governor and then supports the first African American President not once but twice.

Progressives dismiss much of this of course. In fact they will not support a statue for Governor Doug Wilder (D) in large part because they do not wish for that to undermine the true nature of their agenda. Their fear has long been a statue honoring Wilder would neuter their cause. It is easy to point to all the "Confederate monuments" and depict them as such rather than Virginian monuments honoring those that led men in a war that cost almost 35,000 Virginian lives on battlefields throughout Virginia and beyond.

What the Progressive academia and activists will not tell you of course is that the 2019  Commemoration and  American Evolution African-American focused events were celebrated throughout Virginia:

• Faith Journeys in the Black Experience 1619-2019 Conference, March 19 – 21, 2019, Richmond, VA: The Virginia Council of Churches, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University will convene a conference focusing on "The Missiology of Jamestown 1619 and Its Implications" to explore long-standing assumptions related to Christian mission. It will focus on religion in 1619 Jamestown, its impact on Native Americans and Africans, and the origins of a religious and culturally diverse 21st-century America.  
• Historic Jamestowne: Democracy & Diversity, April 1 – September 30, 2019, Williamsburg, VA: Jamestown Rediscovery and the National Park Service will focus on the establishment of representative government and rule of law, protections for private property, and sustained encounters among different peoples – Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans – who first came together at Jamestown. This includes programs that exhibit the site where one of the first documented Africans in Virginia, "Angela," lived in the mid-1620s. 
• Dance Theatre of Harlem World Premiere, May 3 – 5, 2019, Norfolk, VA: The 2019 Commemoration and the Virginia Arts Festival have commissioned an original interpretive ballet from Dance Theatre of Harlem, which explores the African arrival story and the ongoing impact of diversity in America today. 
• Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South, June 8 – November 17, 2019, Richmond, VA: Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first Africans in Virginia, this special exhibition celebrates the extraordinary contributions that African American artists have made to art and culture since that time. The exhibition will include paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings and quilts from the VMFA's permanent collection and will feature recent acquisitions from contemporary Southern African American artists. This exhibit will reflect the Commonwealth's and nation's historical diversity and complexity, which are cornerstones of the 2019 Commemoration.
• Determined: The 400-year Struggle for Black Equality, June 19, 2019 – January 5, 2020, Richmond, VA: The Virginia Museum of History & Culture exhibition will explore the African American experience from the arrival of the first Africans in English North America in 1619 to the present day. This exhibition charts the advances and setbacks, the triumphs and trials of African Americans on their long and unfinished journey toward full equality by focusing on a series of key Virginians and key Virginia events – individuals and events that shaped the broader contours of American history. 
• African Arrival: Fort Monroe Visitor and Education Center Dedication Ceremony, August 23 – 25, 2019, Hampton, VA: To commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English North America, the 2019 Commemoration will showcase the dedication ceremony with hosts, Fort Monroe Authority and the National Park Service. This project involves the renovation of the former Coast Artillery School Library at Fort Monroe, where profound stories of Captain John Smith, the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, and the culmination of 242 years of slavery as the first contrabands came to Fort Monroe to receive their emancipation, will be told. 
• 1619: Making of America Summit, September 25– 28, 2019, Norfolk, VA: This two-day cross-cultural event will begin with the exploration of the contributions and influences of the three founding cultures African, Native Peoples, and English. This expanding cultural tapestry of our nation will be explored by celebrated scholars, artists, film makers, musicians, and students from throughout the nation. 

Richmond's own Riverfront Canal Walk commemorates the Richmond Slave Trail with seventeen markers highlighting the history of slavery in Richmond in an attempt to not only educate visitors but to also show that Richmond is more than simply a city tied to the monuments on Monument Avenue. The trail was completed in 2011. Furthermore, the Black History Museum in Richmond celebrates the long history and rich culture of African Americans in Virginia. The museum has evolved since it inception in 1981 and opening in 1991 in Richmond.

One thing is clear if any objective person evaluates the timeline of Virginia history either from a cultural or political perspective that Virginia is certainly one of the most "progressive" Southern states when it comes to the advocacy of multi-cultural diversity.

Progressive academia and activists from Black Lives Matters, BAM (By and Means Necessary), Monumental Lies, or Antifa may wish to malign Virginia history and its truth for their own purposes but make no mistake they are not portraying the Virginia that the majority of all Virginians experience. While protesters deface, destroy and malign Virginia history with the complicit support of Governor Ralph Northam (D) and Mayor Levar Stoney (D) it is important to note that these people are not speaking to the fact that last weekend alone 15 African Americans comprising 5 children were killed in Chicago in neighborhoods without policing.

Why do Progressive activists target a city that has made such "progress" in the last five decades in racial equality and recognition instead of speaking to or protesting the rising violence and death tolls experienced in cities being governed by their very own Progressive leaders.

If "Black Lives Matter" to them in truth than why is there not a massive mobilizations to address the plight of those innocent in the African American communities of Chicago or West Baltimore? Why do monuments matter more to these activist than actual lives?

Virginia will endure as it has for over 400 years long after these activists return to their own cities but the question remains how Richmond as a community will respond. The Mayor has set the city on a dangerous course in terms of future investment and economic activity that very well may hinder the city in making the necessary advancements it needs to in terms of education and development that would benefit the very people that the Progressive academia and activist claim to support.

The Hard Lesson of the Virginia 5th Congressional District

The entire goal of those that sought to remove Rep. Denver Riggleman (R) was to keep the process and convention itself small. No small task in a district like the Virginia 5th that covers more land mass than the state of New Jersey. Conventions are smaller affairs anyway compared to primaries and make no mistake conventions are controlled affairs from the jump. Normal conventions anyway yet the Virginia 5th was anything but normal in 2020.

The actual committee that overseas the process locally within the district my any objective analysis was compromised. Denver Riggleman was elected in 2018 in large part without going through the dated and in truth antiquated committee approval process. Committees like to lock in their preferred candidate long before the public is even aware of who it will even be. Riggleman was considered an outsider. In truth that is why Riggleman won in 2018 in the first place in the district that is one of the most diverse in Virginia.

The committee leaders such as Melvin Adams and Chris Shore set out along with Diana Shore and others to select their own candidate for 2020 independent of Denver Riggleman. This was rather alarming in truth the the majority of the Virginia conservative social media channels as Riggleman was endorsed not only by President Trump but also Jerry Falwell Jr of Liberty University. Ironically after the committee with the support of the Conservative Fellowship and Middle Resolution elements interviewed a half a dozen or so potential candidates they selected an individual employed by Liberty University named Bob Good.

Hand picked from the Campbell County board to challenge Denver Riggleman supporters than set out to orchestrate what can only be called the most corrupt and suppressive convention in modern Virginia politics. Accusations of pay offs  or as many call it "pay to play" where committee members were compensated by a candidates campaign. The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) must call for a complete review of this committee and investigate the basis of "pay to play" and determine future laws governing committees regarding participation with any campaign involving compensation. Thus, if you are a "political consultant" for a campaign one must recuse themselves from any committee activities pertaining that the election that a campaign they are involved with is a candidate.


Bob Good characterizes himself as as "a strong bright red conservative, biblical and constitutional conservative" however based on actions and threat from his campaign against committee members this appears to be nothing more than rhetoric. Surrogates from the Good campaign are claimed to have threatened various members of the committee regarding votes that would be cast to decide whether the nomination should move to a primary method over that of a convention. Threats and intimidation via email, letters and verbal confrontations were the normal means of business for the Good campaign and those on the committee that supported Good from the beginning.

The convention itself appears on its face an organized sham. Dozens of pro-Riggleman potential delegates were apparently denied throughout the process of participating and the committee failed to identify which Tree Of Life Ministries (Good's home county) location as there are  two different locations in the district where the convention would be located. The V5 stretches from the VA/NC line all the way north to almost the state line with District of Columbia. Yet the committee is only  described as comprising the heavy concentrated bible belt of Virginia in the southern portion of the VA5. It is not uncommon for conventions to be held at religious sites however offering only one site in a district as expansive as VA5 appears suppressive on its face. If you were a participant coming from the northern portion of the district one would expect an eight hour round trip travel. This of course was the purpose for those supporting the convention method. Keep it small and keep participants mostly from the central to southern portion of the district.

Why was the convention organized in Lynchburg? A location in Bob Good's backyard that very well may not even be in the VA5 come redistricting in the next year or so throughout Virginia. Why did the committee seek to host the convention there and not at a central location within the district? The committee is also the most openly homophobic and xenophobic and any committee in Virginia. These belief systems are the very basis of decline in Republicans outcomes in elections the last decade. These "biblical conservatives" are holding on to ideals that no longer are accepted in the mainstream. The are trying to hold on to something that us unsustainable politically as the majority of Virginians no longer seek to have morality legislated.


The "biblical conservatives" of which there remain quite a few like State Senator Amanda Freeman Chase whose rhetoric mirrors Bob Good's once supported Riggleman but remained silent during the primary. Some alluded she had promised to endorse Riggleman but failed to in the end only endorsing Nick Freitas in the VA7. The VA7 consisting of heavier suburban voters wants no part of Chase in large part due to the large number of active female voters. This could be the reason why Freitas as not referred much at all to the Chase endorsement. Others have speculated it is also a means to keep the door open for a run for Governor by Freitas should his Congressional bid fall short.

The changes in Virginia demographics continue to go relatively ignored by the social "biblical" conservatives bent on religious authoritarianism. They have lost every single election they have nominated a preferred candidate for more than a decade and even hold out hopes that a Ken Cuccinelli returns should Trump not win this November. Cuccinelli currently works in the Trump administration.

VA5 has highlighted just how controlling and manipulative the convention method can be and also highlights the very reasons why so many social conservatives refuse to accept or support "Primaries". In a primary "biblical conservatives" are often defeated by other center right candidates. There is less insider control in primaries and much more demands on the candidate and his/her engagement with the electorate. Conventions are a far cry from this reality. During primaries all registered voters may participate however as the convention in the VA5 illustrates when you control who can and cannot participate behind close doors and without transparency you can "steal" a convention nomination.

"Bob Good is not a conservative. Conservatives believe in a free-market and a fair and open process in elections. He does not. Bob Good is not a “Constitutional Conservative” or a “Biblical” one as he claims. If he was, he would accept gay marriage as the law of the land. If he was a Christian as he claims, he would seek to love thy neighbor like thyself, instead of treating Denver’s act of love and friendship as criminal and treating gay Americans as mentally ill.

This man does not deserve the seat of Madison, or to represent the home of Jefferson. He has the values of an America at its worst, not the ideals that it represents.

This seat belongs to someone who treats everyone equally, who cares about true service, and who realizes that the district has more to it than Liberty University. It has people of all colors, backgrounds, political opinions, and sexuality.

If the GOP steps in to help Bob Good, they deserve to lose – bigly. Bob Good is not representative of the party or its values, even if 30 Bible thumpers and a Basset hound tell us it is." (Michael Allers Jr.)

The lesson from the VA5 June convention should be that the Virginia GOP no longer supports the convention method until such time that it can establish clear and concise guidance and rules to govern such conventions that will not result in the corrupt practices that are so clearly evident in the VA5. These same individuals have made it clear they are targeting the VA6 next year in an attempt to repeat the same process of stacking the committee level before the next election in 2022.

As long as the RPV permits this pervasive disregard for the intent of the Party Plan and how Virginia Republicans get to select their candidates these individuals will continue to ignore the ethical means of conducting committee participation and attempt to reshape and reform the entire RPV (ie the State Central Committee" to the same level of contempt for the majority of Virginians who differ from them on just about everything.

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Northam & Stoney: Never Letting a Crisis Go to Waste

Never let a crisis go to waste right?

I guess in some peoples minds removing a statue will stop institutional racism that is overseen and fueled by the very government that tells us that it must be eliminated.

The very leaders who incited the riots and looting now will refuse to repair the statues that they themselves are complicit in having damaged. Instead they will now simply remove them.

Convenient right?

Who permits social injustice in the cities? Who permits its law enforcement to profile or violate civil rights in the cities where all the protest are happening? Why not have civilian oversight--non city employees-- of the internal affairs of local law enforcement right?

Go ahead remove the statue.

Then simply watch the next Governor of Virginia put Lee right back up at tax payers expense or will the city then oppose it? How aout the next Governor refuse to provide the City of Richmond with any state funding?

Is there a record of the City Council voting to remove the statues? Was not the new law passed not going into effect intil July 1 permitting statue removal?

Is Mayor Stoney or Governor Northam exercising abuse of power? Does a Governor have the aility to order the removal of a state monument without a vote by the Virginia legislature which is not in session?

Do the monuments that are controlled and maintained by the Commonwealth belong to all Virginians? How can a single locality like Richmond remove monuments that are located in a capital city that belongs to all Virginians?

It is high time that Virginians stop supporting anything in Richmond, Virginia. Stop contributing to the museums pushing liberal revisions and stop contributing to advocacy groups masquerading as charities in the city. Stop visiting every single musuem or facility run that supports the Richmond regime that in fact is the catalyst of institutional racism.

The City of Richmond and Commonwealth of Virginia since 2013 have done nothing to stem the tide of racism. NOTHING. They think removing concrete will address racism. They think that holding rallies and cheering will address racism......take a look at the footage of the cheers of the statue of Saddam falling and then look what happened years later. Did removing that statue remove the decades of civil strife in Iraq?

These leaders care little about history or the lessons from it. They are inviting future division which is exactly what they want. They have been trying to manipulate the issues for a decade now and want us all to believe that a cop in Minnesota is directly related to a staue in Richmond, Virginia. That only if that statue was never in place that George Floyd would be alive.

What they don't want to address is why did their own leader Sen. Amy Klobuchar not address this officer and this department when she had the chance years ago. Why? Answer that.

We have execuitve orders in place determining how we can live our lives yet Northam and Stoney will ignore them for a photo op and rally to remove the statues. The very same people who condemned Trump for a speaking in front of St. Johns Church in DC this week will hold their own rally in clear violation of social distancing and mask orders that they impose on everyone else.

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If your governmment official seeks to ignore their own orders for political gain should not Virginia business ignore them for theirs?

Do not support the regime that is the City of Richmond any further. A regime that has perpetuated racism for decades and done nothing to address it within is institutions of government like its schools and its police department.

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Virginia's Capital Under Siege: Richmond Turns a Blind Eye

None of what transpired in Richmond, Virginia over this past weekend should have ever been a surprise to anyone paying attention at either the local or state level. While the government and media have danced the last few months over COVID-19 and whether cities were going to "re-open" little attention was paid as groups organized in response to the George Floyd death in Minneapolis, Minnesota over a week ago.

City leaders failed their citizens. It seems apparent leaders routinely fail to grasp history or recognize that there are always patterns that can be demonstrated and analyzed. How could city leaders not comprehend the siege upon Richmond that was coming? How could they not not see any signs that a storm was on the horizon? Was there no history of violence or rioting to point to to justify securing the city? Were not the examples of Ferguson or west Baltimore coming back to them? Charlottesville 2017? Once again major riots and violence under the leadership of Virginia Democrats.

Many Virginians have lost faith in government and rightfully so. Governments that would put clear political objectives over the public welfare. A city can virtually shut down due to "perceived threat" like Covid-19 but the city cannot be secured to prevent widespread impending violence and rioting? An annual permitted rally held at the State Capital by law abiding citizens can warrant a "State of Emergency" and citizens Second Amendment rights infringed through "Executive Order" in Richmond like in January during Richmond's annual "Lobby Day" yet the government when under siege cannot bring itself to take any measure other than a "curfew" to protect citizens and property from those bent on rioting and looting?

The message from cities like Richmond, Va is clear. It will only impose restrictions on those that it deems as political adverseries. The media is not reporting that the very groups involved in Richmond and other urban centers across the country are funded by the very same groups and people as many of these leaders elected to office that are responsible for public safety. The media does not want to report this fact or how massive groups of armed "protesters" could get bussed in from multiple localities logistically and who is behind the funding and organization of events.

While the politcial class often wants to change the conversation and avoid having to address the very nature of these groups and the tactics they employ far too often the ties are clear. These ties represent a clear and present danger to the public safety of every Virginian. The very literature found on the ground in Richmond documents how the Democratic Party is in full suppoort of the destruction offering bail and bond services for any taken into custody.  This is where peaceful assembly turns into political endorsed rioting with no consequence as rioters and looters know they have the support of those in positons of authority.

Pay close attention to the news this week and look for stories where rioters and looters detained are released without prosecution only to return the the streets again because of the organized will not to hold them accountable. Remeember all those District and Commonwealth Attorney races last November that were bought by outside money in the Commonwealth of Virginia? It will be these individuals that determine whether the Commonwealth presses charges regarding felony property damage.

When the same people who fund the campaigns of the elected authority are the same ones funding the rioting organizations where does that leave justice?

Those that have doubts concerning the orgins of the riots should simply evaluate the weekends events in totality. The individuals in Richmond inciting violence and rioting were heavily organized. They were supporterd financially and provided enough funding to recruit and mobilize hundreds of individuals and have them bussed in. One such bus had license plates from Illinios. Individuals were assembled and organized into teams. One such group appeared to have clear defined leadership bearing ipads or tablets directing individuals while another group began moving cases of water bottles for staging throughout the city. These individuals were organizing and gearing up for nightfall not to participate with peaceful marchers in the city during the afternoon.

The siege to the city was an operation. Carefully planned and orchestrated on a city unprepared to hold back the violence. Teams were set about the city. It was not long before various quarters of the city from Monument Avenue to Virginia Commonwealth University area were almost completely under the control of the roaming teams set upon the city. In fact, near the Lee Monument one could visibly see rooftop spotters and at the base of the building detailed Antifa supporters providing what clearly was security. This is not the action of peaceful protesting but rather a coordinated military style operation using tactics employed by only those with the knowledge of how our military operations are conducted.


As literally hundreds worked diligently to deface the monuments it became clear they were the intial targets. Many groups like Monumental Lies have come into the city from elsewhere in the past regarding the Confederate Monuments and this weekend there were clearly coordinated efforts between those associated with Antifa, Black Lives Matters and BAM (By Any Means) to reek havoc upon the former Confederate capital. One such member could be heard chanting "Just like Charleston" which had come under siege the night before. Were these groups the very same that rioted in South Carolina the night before? Had they merely moved on to Richmond to continue the rioting?

These groups clearly came prepared. They created staging areas. They set up communications and moved groups from area to area while othewr groups clashed with police. They had small drones. Once police began to respond groups were directed to egresss and shift toward other objectives. It should have become clear that there was coordination. The city in effect for three nights was at the mercy of these groups which could target at will virtually any location.

Making matters worse the Mayor of Richmond sent the wrong message in an apology for the deployment of tear gas by police in an effort to keep units from  becoming seperated from one another amidst the escalating tension while a number of the rioters mixed in with peaceful protesters. Antifa elements merely became embolden by the messaging from the Mayor and even became more brazen by setting more fires.

Many leaders in the coming days will use the responses of the police as justifciation to reduce what they call the "militarization" of the police forces but of course this is exactly what Antifa, BLM and BAM hardliners and those supporting them want. These groups are unprepared today to clash with police if the police were permitted to use force. As tt stands today the main role being utilized by police has been a "show of force" and not actual force. If Antifa can strip the police of the bulk of its military style weaponery through the help of the political class than untilmately this last weekend's chaos will simply be a precursor to full insurrection in America.

And insurrection is the true goal of Antifa.

In effect Antifa elements for four nights used peaceful protesters as "human shields". Mixed with them and agitated and incited violence along the way and even "jumped" those they identify as anything counter to thier movement.

And the only response that the city would get from Mayor Stoney would be a curfew order.

Further proving the fact that Stoney and his fellow Progressives never understand or comprehend that criminals do not obey laws or orders. The nation has witnessed Antifa in the past and the destruction it leaves behind. One would think they would learn lessons regarding all the gun control laws that never seem to reduce gun violence but they never seem to. They either ignore the facts or simply place political agendas before the public safety of those living in the city.

Over the weekend even members of the Virginia General Assembly like Delegate Lee Carter (D) not only praised the results of the protest but participated himself in confronting police. Others like Delegate Joshua Cole (D) tweeted resources to those participating should they be taken into custody and require bail. Many legislators will use this weekend to advance further political agendas just as Presidential and Congressional candidate of both parties while cities are left to recover from the chaos. Many which will not recover for a decade.

The people are losing trust in the cities. Many will leave the cities once again. Its happened before. Richmonder's knopw this all too well. It took the city twenty years to see people return to live in the city and now city leaders have placed all that progress in jeopardy.

IThe events of the alst week will expose once again the extreme "activism" that supercedes "leadership" in the Virginia General Assembly and state government. The majority sat on their hands while the fires blazed.

The mere notion that law abiding gun owners from all over Virginia converging on Richmond for an annual event in January was a "perceived threat" to the public but riots that began Friday night were never in fact treated with the same level of concern. It took three days for the local and state government to respond but by that time the Antifa elements had already been successful at implementing the targeted siege organizationally.

Richmonders need to to take a hard look at city leadership. A leadership that apparently is willing to put politcial expediency before public safety and property.

The City Police stated the following:

"We do have anti-fascists, we have some anarchists, to a large degree, but there's people from outside of this state and outside of this area that we know that are involved and we're doing our best to identify them and backtracking what their affiliations are," he said. "I think that's clear. When you look at the things that they're targeting... I think we can all understand attacking the symbols of the past and of the racist past. But when you look at trying to burn down a VCU dormitory, or burn down people's homes, or burn down and loot the stores that we depend on every day. Those things don't correlate at all. So, you know, I think there is a much more organized effort, and we're doing our very best to determine where that's coming from and who's pulling the strings."

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Republicans Demand Delegate Lee Carter (D) Resign

The the wake of the riots this weekend and the involvement of Delegate Lee Carter (D) the Republican Party of Virginia is demanding that the legislator resign from his seat. Republicans released a statement found here:

https://virginia.gop/rpv-calls-for-delegate-lee-carters-immediate-resignation/?fbclid=IwAR21dSoI3ZkUyGCH6R7RNGcExnfM1bFIbn-AyveZAvXm81pJNdwdpzi979E

Carter represents the Virginia 50th House of Delegates District which is comprised of Manasssas City and part of Prince William County. Carter was elected in 2017 and again in 2019 to represent the district.

Delegate Carter has proven time and time again that he is an "activist" in a suit more than a true legislator. Carter participated in protests over teh weekend following the George  Floyd incident where police officers used excessive force resulting in the death of Floyd in Minneapolis, MN.

The following are screenschots of Delegate Lee Carter's enagagement with police officers over the weekend:

Carter clearly antagonized and provoked police in his interactions with law enforcement in an attempt to bait them into confrontation. Again Delegate Carter like so many of the newly elected Assembly members of the Democratic Party of Virginia cut their teeth as "community activists" and have  brought that kind of mentality to Richmond.

Carters colleague in the House of Delegates Joshua Cole posted on his twitter feed this during the weekend:
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One thing is clear if the aftermath of a violnet weerkend in Virginia and that is that oth Carter and Cole virtually signaled their support for the destruction and violence that ensued and at no time attempted to calm any tensions over the weekend.

Is this how Virginia Legislators should act? Is this the role legislators are to play going forward? Is it appropriate for a legislator to incite violence let alone participate in it as it unfolds?