Nazi’s speech undermines claims about Charlottesville violence

In the wake of the Charlottesville rally-turned-riot, the alt-Rightists/​White nationalists/​other-names-for-Nazis who participated are on the receiving end of a lawsuit accusing them of planning for the event to turn violent from the beginning. In typical shitlord fashion, their defense so far has been to claim all their racial supremacist rhetoric was really just jokin’ around, and that they just got caught up in the violence like innocent little does.

It’s really too bad for them, then, that one of their leaders was caught on video in the hours before the rally giving a speech calling for the death of “the enemies of the White race” to a cheering crowd of fellow Nazis:

The neo-Nazis gathered in a safe house a few hours after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. One of their chieftains, Robert “Azzmador” Ray, wanted to say a few words that evening, according to a description of the speech Ray posted online. As the man on the ground for the Daily Stormer, the biggest hate site in the U.S., Ray had been in the middle of the action all day, leading his “Stormers” into battle. Now he wanted to read a fiery speech the site’s publisher, Andrew Anglin, had written for the occasion.

“My brothers,” Ray began, looking at his phone in the dark room. “A day is quickly coming when it is we who will be digging graves.” The neo-Nazis howled their approval. For them, the “Unite the Right” rally had always been more than a protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. It was, as Ray and Anglin put it on the Daily Stormer, a “battle cry” for white nationalism.

“This is our war!” Ray yelled in the safe house. “This has always been our war. And I wouldn’t want it any other way. Death to traitors! Death to the enemies of the white race! Hail victory!”

That sound you just heard was their argument that they never meant for anyone to get hurt going down the drain.

(via @PykeA; retweet by @Popehat)