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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite Supremacists Used Racist Slurs & Cursed In Bizarre Opening Statements For The Charlottesville
TrialCHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia Check. Check. Check, neo-Nazi shock jock Christopher Cantwell spoke into the courtroom microphone.
Wearing a blue shirt without a tie or jacket, he proceeded to name-check Mein Kampf, drop the n-word, plug his far-right radio program, call himself good-looking and a professional artist, and blast antifascist activists all in a matter of minutes. Surprising nobody in the courtroom, Cantwell, who prepared for this moment with help from two other neo-Nazis in prison and spending evenings watching Tucker Carlson, said Im not a lawyer [but] I'm the best attorney I could afford.
He added, And I didnt even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
It was much more a racist, stream-of-consciousness diatribe than an opening statement in the landmark civil lawsuit trial that could bankrupt Cantwell and several other white supremacists and dismantle their organizations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacists-used-racist-slurs-235508829.html
A judge cut off Richard Spencer 3 times during his opening statement at the Charlottesville 'Unite The Right' trial
A federal judge cut off white nationalist Richard Spencer three times as he gave his opening statement Thursday at the civil trial for the organizers of the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally.
Spencer is one of 25 defendants in a civil lawsuit brought against the organizers of the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally where James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 other people.
The plaintiffs in the case are a group of nine Charlottesville residents and counter-protestors who were injured in the car attack and other instances of violence at the two-day rally. The plaintiffs allege in the lawsuit that the "Unite the Right" organizers conspired to incite violence, and are seeking compensatory and statutory damages for their injuries. caused to them.
Spencer is representing himself at trial because he can't pay attorney fees, according to the Associated Press.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-cut-off-richard-spencer-204412061.html
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White Supremacists Used Racist Slurs & Cursed In Bizarre Opening Statements For The Charlottesville (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Oct 2021
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. What? No gofundme cash from the trump christofascists?
Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. He has a fool for a lawyer
and a moran for a client.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,488 posts)4. Then I'll do it. Richard Spencer is smart.
He attended Colgate and the University of Virginia as an undergraduate. He has a master's degree from Chicago, and he was a doctoral student at Duke.
Nazi leanings notwithstanding, he's not stupid.