Neo-Fascists to Hold Open Carry Rally at Kent State
Schwartz Center
800 E Summit St, Kent, OH 44240
USA
When you want to defend the right to keep and bear arms but you keep working with neo-Fascists and people connected to White supremacists to do it, everything you do becomes about the fascism, not gun rights. That’s what Kent State Alum Kaitlin Bennett is about, attempting to sneak fascism into some light of respectability by hiding it behind the 2nd Amendment. And that is what she is going to do in September when she brings her Open Carry rally to her old campus. Now it’s a little hard to support this particular rally when she is bringing people to campus that actually run afoul of everyone else’s rights and have been about the will to take them away through their own violence. Among the speakers Bennett has announced have been Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer, who has spent the past year holding rallies in the Northwest that devolve into his group attacking people, often unprovoked (one of his rally participants, Jeremy Christian, later allegedly killed two men and injure a third when they tried to stop him from racially harassing two teenage girls on a train and is currently awaiting trial), Millie Weaver, a correspondent for Infowars, who founder is Alex Jones, a guy who keeps “predicting” a second civil war if we are successful in taking Donald Trump down, and Ryan Fournier, who counts White supremacist James Allsup among his friends and routinely rails against Hispanics and Muslims. So IF this rally goes down, that is what folks will be dealing with, not the open carry thing, since a lot of leftists despite what has been the case in the past actually don’t have a problem with that.
That IF is put out there for a reason though. Kent State has issued a statement saying that unless Bennett’s rally isn’t sponsored by University student group, they will not sanction it. “Kent State University has notified a recent graduate that she must cease and desist from advertising a planned rally on campus because she has not registered the event and obtained the approvals required by university policy,” the statement reads, also noting that counterdemonstrators also received the same communication. Kent State is not really big on boneheads coming to their campus to play games with it. Earlier this year, they shitcanned White supremacist Richard Spencer when he proposed a May 4 event, that date coinciding with the anniversary of Ohio National Guard shootings that killed four students during anti-war protests in 1970. But Bennett still plans to hold the event so it remains to be see if this Open Carry rally actually does happen on campus.
In the meantime, we strongly urge Kaitlin Bennett to start pulling away from the Nazis and Fascists if she truly believes in the freedoms she says she cherishes, otherwise, as said before, her advocacy for guns will be seen as nothing more than a smokescreen – that people who really believe in freedom will see right through.