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In his running campaign to preserve Confederate monuments, Jason Kessler keeps having brushes with the law. Though to hear Kessler tell it, those legal issues only reflect a much broader campaign to oppress white people.

The alt-right blogger had his most recent encounter during Saturday鈥檚 protests in his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of the pro-Confederacy monument to Robert E. Lee in the local city park. Kessler was one of during the protests, charged with disorderly conduct for attempting to incite the crowd with a bullhorn.

One of the other men charged was arrested after he spat on Kessler. The third was arrested after he was identified as the person who threw a cell phone that struck a police officer, and a concealed knife was found on his person afterward.

Kessler, who in addition to his own blog writes for the white-nationalist , as well as for The Daily Caller, had just been in court to face sentencing for an assault charge stemming from a confrontation he鈥檇 had in January involving the monument鈥檚 removal. Kessler, who鈥檇 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault, was sentenced to 50 hours of community service, with jail time suspended.

Combating the removal of the Lee monument has been a pet cause of Kessler鈥檚 for months now. The January arrest arose from an incident at a Charlottesville mall, when Kessler was gathering signatures for a petition to recall City Council member Wes Bellamy, an African-American community leader who has been the target of a race-baiting campaign on Kessler鈥檚 blog since last fall.

According to testimony at , he was approached by a man named James Taylor, who asked to read the petition, and then told Kessler he had no intention of signing it and insulted him. Kessler, according to witnesses, responded by punching Taylor in the face.

"The kind of fear, hate, and aggressive manner that it was being conducted by him and I called him out on it," testified Taylor. "So he hit me."

Kessler initially attempted to claim that Taylor had also assaulted him. However, he dropped that claim when surveillance video showed that not to be the case.

Kessler was involved in another assault case after a rally at Lee Park over the monument. A counterprotester named Sara Tansey apparently stole Kessler鈥檚 phone as he was live-streaming the event, and was tracked down by an associate of Kessler鈥檚 named Joseph Draego, who then punched her in the face to retrieve it.

Tansey filed a misdemeanor assault charge against Draego. Kessler responded by charging Tansey with "unlawfully removing without intent to steal" his phone.

Most of Kessler鈥檚 work for VDare and Daily Caller has revolved around his running claim that white men are under assault from multicultural culture (he has also labeled the 澳彩开奖 a 鈥渃ancer upon our nation鈥�). An features an interview with veteran border militiaman Robert Crooks, who has an extensive background of extremist activity as a Minuteman. He recently rooted on alt-right forces gathered to combat antifascists in Berkeley, California, and to remove Confederate monuments in New Orleans as 鈥渁bolishing America.鈥�

Kessler has been especially active in attempting to stop the removal of the Lee monument. In February, he led a rally at the site demanding its preservation.

鈥淲hat you have to understand is that every generation has its fight. And our fight is this, here and now,鈥� he told the gathering. 鈥淏ecause if the liberals are allowed to start destroying our history, they鈥檒l start with Robert E. Lee, they move on to Thomas Jefferson, they move on to George Washington, and soon the entire basis of our society is going to be wrecked.鈥�

Kessler鈥檚 ongoing organizing is largely credited with attracting the attention of Richard Spencer and other alt-right white nationalists who led the first rally on Saturday.

鈥淲hat brings us together is that we are white, we are a people, we will not be replaced,鈥� Spencer said. 鈥淵ou will not replace us. You will not destroy us,鈥�

Another, larger gathering occurred that evening. During , torch-bearing alt-righters chanted: 鈥淩ussia is our friend,鈥� and 鈥淵ou will not replace us.鈥� When a much larger crowd of counter-protesters appeared, the gathering mostly dispersed. The three arrests occurred during the brief interplay between the two groups.

Afterward, local GOP leaders denounced the white nationalists鈥� rally, which attracted Kessler鈥檚 ire. On , he tried to organize his fellow alt-righters to turn out to the Albemarle County Republicans meeting Wednesday night to let officials know such a repudiation was 鈥渦nacceptable.鈥�

鈥淲e need to show up to make it known that it is okay to be a white person and advocate for our interests,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淭his 鈥榠t's only history鈥� stuff is not enough. We are past the point of backing down because they call us 鈥榬acist鈥�. Our civilization is literally crumbling around us and we have to push back while there is still something left to save.

鈥淯ltimately the statues are meant to inspire the spirit of our people and culture. If we cannot stand for that then the statues themselves have become meaningless tokens of a bygone era. We cannot allow them to fall into the hands of Islam, illegal aliens, or any other people that would seek to replace us.鈥�

Kessler later explaining his behavior, as well as his worldview. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e only trying to tear down monuments made to white people,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e trying to rewrite the history books to demonize us and call us racist, this that and the other, when white people aren鈥檛 any more racist than any other group. Other groups are advocating for their interest, that鈥檚 why you have Black Lives Matter, you know, and you have the Black Congressional Caucus.鈥�

鈥淭he media tried to portray the rally as a KKK rally,鈥� he added. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just part of the hyperbolic demonization and fearmongering about white people, where they鈥檙e uniquely called racist, when you know that every group under the sun is racist.鈥澛� 聽