I really didn't want to respond to this whole thing, but this has gotten seriously out of hand. Since you've begun this I've gotten a myriad of messages, which I understand you're not directly responsible for, that have been rather hurtful. I wrote the status you heavily delve into to respond pre-emptively to my own friends on Facebook bringing this up. At first your following didn't overlap with mine, but now it's starting to spread so widely that it's impacting my everyday life.
Look, I'm sorry I called you a lunatic. If you've seen my Facebook through the last five years, you'd know that I encourage polite political discourse and reject namecalling. I failed to live up to my own standard in that sense.
Regarding calling you a "Youtube conspiracy theorist", you are on Youtube espousing a theory of a conspiracy. It's not derogatory, but that's what you are.
Regarding the use of the term "hoax", I wrote that you "[claim] the violence in Charlottesville was a "false-flag" hoax." Your videos do claim the attack was a false flag to hurt Trump somehow, and your profile has "liked" several videos with the precise word "hoax" in the title. I didn't claim you're intentionally propagating a hoax, but you're accusing the attack of being a hoax.
Regarding the Waldo image: with all the shitty things people did, that was comparatively funny. I didn't claim to be offended by it. People using the (((parenthesis))) to refer to me is offensive, though I'm not Jewish. What I said in my status following that is that "I am starting to realize what a force the alt-right has become as a coalition online and on the streets." I did not call you alt-right. I've not heard you espouse the views of the alt-right, or any ideology at all, to be honest. However, many of the individuals harassing me are clearly within that movement. I was commenting on them, not you.
I don't know your real name, and until this video, I did not realize you were an individual who called me. Now connecting the dots, I believe you called me twice actually. I forget the name of the outlet you stated you worked for (It was something "Pundit" but I forgot what you said), but I realize now that it was the same person. Frankly, I've been getting calls and interview requests a few times a day for the past two weeks, all about Charlottesville.
When you called, you didn't make these claims or ask questions like, such as in your infamous video that I "Work for a three letter agency" or that somehow I was aware these things would happen. As I've been with others who have interviewed me since, I actually tried to be helpful.
Here's why the whole thing is sad to me: I am not an expert. I don't have the answers, and I wish I did. I found out the 13th of August morning that the Challenger passed me. I didn't notice the maroon van that was the same one five minutes later hit until the person I now know was you told me on the phone much later. Frankly, I edited from my HD camera footage and didn't really study the livestream, which is low quality off a phone. I just threw it on Youtube since it was on FB and has evidence about the Challenger.
Look, you know how to contact me, apparently, since I now know you've done it before. I'm literally working on a commercial for a completely unrelated company that isn't news (my "day-job" that puts food on the table is freelance videography) tomorrow, but if you want to have a real conversation, I'd really like to end this. Given all of this, you don't seem like a crazy, unstable, or stupid person, even if you're wrong. The stuff you've accused me of is hurtful and incorrect. If you can provide me a rational explanation of how to make you concede that your claims about me were misguided, I'm happy to help you do that so you can move onto the real questions. I want to note that I appreciate that you have not drawn my friends, family, or girlfriend into any of this, and I'd appreciate if you keep it that way. Many people have seen these videos and asked if I'm afraid of you for my safety. I've said no.
I just want to finish off by noting that I am an indie journalist and probably oppose the mainstream media narrative as much, if not more, than you do. I was strongly critical of police backing down that day, and pushing the two sides into eachother, fanning the violence. I was repeatedly critical of the mainstream media for conflating right-wing groups and simplifying the entire conflict.
My interview on The New American Media:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNX-Q8U-zMM&t=26s My interview on Lions of Liberty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-dH89kjTM My interview with Luke Rudowski of We Are Change, hours after the attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eaQ8-NJa5c And on Boston Herald radio:
https://player.fm/series/boston-herald- ... r-08-15-17And on Boston Herald radio: https://player.fm/series/boston-herald- ... r-08-15-17 Ras Radio Live, a radio station led by an actual conspiracy theorist who I called a "cool guy." http://tf52.com/pcg/?name=2017-08-30_th ... who_is.mp3 I would have loved to have done an interview like ones of these in the first place, rather than the way you did it. But the past is past.
Also, I'd add my documentary on the whole thing, which InfoWars called "far superior to the one from VICE...a stark contrast with the heavily edited, sensationalist garbage from VICE and the rest of the fake news media."
https://www.prisonplanet.com/street-war ... -down.html I challenge the narrative, and I want to get it right.
I can't talk tomorrow, but I'd like to make peace and find a resolution to this.
Send me an email please, or something.