First let's define Agitprop, (portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda"), it is political propaganda, especially the communist propaganda that was used in Soviet Russia, that is spread to the general public through popular media such as news outlets, literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms with an explicitly political message. Democratic Governor McAuliffe of Virginia seems to be huge dispenser of agitprop.
Contradicting
statements by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Virginia State Police say they
did not find caches of weapons stashed around Charlottesville in advance of
last Saturday's deadly white nationalist rally.
In an interview Monday
on the Pod Save the People podcast, hosted by Black
Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, McAuliffe claimed the white nationalists
who streamed into Charlottesville that weekend hid weapons throughout the town.
"They had battering rams and we had picked
up different weapons that they had stashed around the city," McAuliffe
told Mckesson.
"The governor was referring to the
briefing provided him in advance of Saturday's rally and the extra security
measures being taken by local and state police," Geller tells Reason.
"As a safety precaution in advance of August 12, such searches were
conducted in and around Emancipation and McIntire Parks. No weapons were
located as a result of those searches."
The Virginia State Police also disputed McAuliffe's claims that
Virginia State Police were underequipped to deal with the heavily armed militia
members at Saturday's rally. "The governor was referencing the weapons
and tactical gear the members of various groups attending the rally had on
their persons," Geller says. "I can assure you that the Virginia
State Police personnel were equipped with more-than-adequate specialized
tactical and protective gear for the purpose of fulfilling their duties to
serve and protect those in attendance of the August 12 event in
Charlottesville."
McAuliffe claimed in
an interview with The New York Times that law
enforcement arrived to find a line of militia members who "had better
equipment than our State Police had." In longer comments that were
later edited out of
the Times' story, McAuliffe said that up to 80 percent of
the rally attendees were carrying semi-automatic weapons. "You saw the
militia walking down the street, you would have thought they were an
army," he said.
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