I reached out to CJ after he was disinvited by Kessler. We established a dialog.
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A week ago, I drove to Roanoke and gathered friends for a security detail. We agreed to meet in a park.
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The meetup was heavily armed: I was carrying, as was my bodyguard and CJ's. We shook hands.
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We talked for an hour about our political beliefs, what we did and didn't have in common, and both agreed the event was trouble.
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We also agreed that white nationalism was the real issue, we both rejected it and knew it would lead to something bad.
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From that, we came to an agreement: we would encourage everyone we knew not to instigate against one another.
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Then we shook hands and left. Two people, opposite sides, both determined to fighr against Nazi ideology.
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When I say I did everything in my power to make this non-violent, I want you to picture me and a threeper sitting at a picnic table, armed.
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With no reason to trust each other. With armed security flanking us, watching each other.
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We came out of that determined to do everything in our power to prevent bloodshed.
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I don't agree with a lot of CJ's politics. But I knew he stood against Nazi shit and unchecked it would lead to disaster.
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We both ended up on that street yesterday. We tried our damndest. I want to think we succeeded.
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