No defence for Nazis

On the Charlottesville riots.

I find it offensive that people are defending white supremacists and Nazis by defending their right to free speech.

Don’t forget we actually had a World War where millions died to eliminate these ignorant ideologies.

These alt-right people do not benefit society and all decent people should stand up against them in every way possible.

People who remain silent, or legitimise them, become just as complicit. Michael Rodriguez, Edge Hill 1879: French Panama Canal Company is

formed under Ferdinand de Lesseps. 1920: Romania joins Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in alliance that becomes Triple Entente. 1943: Allied forces gain complete control

in Sicily in World War II. 1950: The Republic of Indonesia is

restored. 1962: East German border guards shoot and mortally wound 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector. 1976: Earthquake that causes tidal wave on Philippine island of Mindanao leaves an estimated 8000 people dead or missing. 1980: Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from Ayers Rock campsite in central Australia. 1982: The first CDs begin rolling off an

assembly line in Hanover, Germany. 2006: Australian wine industry pioneer

Len Evans (above) dies, aged 72. 2012: Russian feminist punk rock activist group Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism after they took over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin.