Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
April 3, 2018
Bitch that swastika is backwards. Or is it never again Buddhism?
Well, our stint as a protest movement did not work out.
And there have been some pretty severe consequences.
But at least the Tennessee GOP is standing up for some form of common sense.
Sort of.
Two weeks after a subcommittee killed a Democrat’s resolution calling for the state legislature to denounce neo-Nazis, Republicans have introduced a nearly identical one of their own.
The second version, filed Wednesday, is virtually the same as the one introduced by Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville.
It omits a paragraph that urges law enforcement to recognize and pursue white nationalist groups as “domestic terrorist organizations.”
The new resolution’s sponsor, House Republican Caucus Chairman Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, didn’t respond to an inquiry Thursday.
In a statement to USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee, Clemmons criticized Republicans in the General Assembly not only for failing to pass the initial version, but also for plagiarizing his language, he said.
“In yet another example of how out of touch this Republican supermajority has become, they are the only people in this state who would ever require a second chance to denounce neo-Nazis and their acts of violence,” Clemmons said.
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Following the committee’s refusal to hear the resolution March 14, Clemmons told USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee that he was “in utter disbelief at what just happened,” noting that he didn’t expect his call for the legislature to denounce neo-Nazis to be controversial.
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Both House Joint Resolutions, the first of which was filed by Clemmons in August just days after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, states that white nationalist and neo-Nazi ideologies “remain very real threats to social and racial progress.”
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His resolution calls for law enforcement to pursue criminal charges against them as police would in other types of terrorism, though Williams’ version does not.
If approved, the House will resolve to “strongly denounce and oppose the totalitarian impulses, violent terrorism, xenophobic biases, and bigoted ideologies that are promoted” by white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups.
Well, we avoided being labeled terrorists, so…
It is clearly insane that we would be labeled “terrorists,” but that is the fallout from the attempts to organize these marches, which tended to descend into violence.
We all know that we were not the ones that caused the violence. But ultimately, we were blamed for it, and we had no ability to argue our case to the contrary.
I am feeling very positive looking forward, however. We are finding our way as a movement.
Many people are beginning to work to lay the foundations of organizations, which can serve as arms of our activism.
We are also continuing to build communities.
Here at the Daily Stormer, we are building Book Clubs., which are already engaging in productive activism that does not involve the risks – or the damage to our public image – that was associated with the street protests.
The Right Stuff is working on building their Pool Party network.
Hopefully this summer, we can all have some big parties, where we can get together and meet members of other communities and network.
Understand this: we made some mistakes. We all did. I certainly did.
But we are turning things around, and we are now headed in the right direction.
We’re going to get over the lawsuits, we’re going to get over the image problems.
We are going to prove to America that we are here to protect it – not go to war with it.