{"id":10661,"date":"2021-11-18T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:39:50","slug":"amren-conference-becomes-more-about-who-tennessee-law-protects-serves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/amren-conference-becomes-more-about-who-tennessee-law-protects-serves\/","title":{"rendered":"AmRen Conference Becomes More About Who Tennessee Law Protects & Serves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s about time that we start to recognize that when fascists defend free speech it is only their speech they are concerned about, and it is only theirs that is protected. No greater example of that is how Tennessee responds to the American Renaissance Conference year after year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

BURNS, TN \u2013 Much of the American Renaissance (AmRen) conference as well as the protest was truncated, with numbers well below what has normally come out due to COVID concerns and unsurety of the date being kept. The focus however was not so much on the conference itself but rather how the State of Tennessee continues to provide a safe space for those who wish to create violent civil unrest in this country and have been particularly open about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was attended by about 200 persons, about half the number that came out just two years ago. It included those who were representing organizations such as the New Order<\/a>, which until 1983 was known as the American Nazi Party and was founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1959, the American Freedom Party and VDARE, who\u2019s founder Peter Brimelow spoke at the conference. Media 2 Rise, a film crew founded by Robert Rundo, founder of the White terrorist organization Rise Above Movement<\/a> was there working on a documentary and attempted to speak to the small group of counter-protesters outside. Earlier this year, Rundo was in Europe reportedly fleeing charges of rioting stemming from a 2017 altercation with those protesting Donald Trump in Hunterdon Beach, California after those charges were reinstated after a dismissal<\/a>, but there is a possibility he is back in the country and possibly attended the AmRen Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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