Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy

Americans understand that if organizations funded by radical leftists like George Soros – including the Southern Poverty Law Center and Antifa – are allowed to act as the arbiters of who is allowed to communicate, about what and how, it’s just a matter of time before many millions of us are gagged.

The lack of police response at the August 12 Charlottesville protest seems clearly linked to political pressure coming from leftists -- the base of the Democrat Party. Now the City of Charlottesville has announced an "independent" investigation to be run by a radical leftwing lawyer - we smell a cover-up.

If virtue signaling corporations and institutions are truly opposed to “hate” and violence they should look to their own staff first, and terminate any employee caught assaulting the police or anyone else in the course of an Antifa or neo-Nazi riot.

It is bizarre that Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe and Charlottesville city officials Mayor Mike Signer, Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy and Police Chief Al Thomas Jr. had tools to stop the riot and didn't use them.