Posted on 09/24/2017 12:06:59 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I had a friend, Bela, who, along with his comrades, swam the Danube beneath whistling swarms of machine-gun fire during the Budapest Uprising of 1956. You want to tear down some statues, kiddies? He had just helped to topple the giant effigy of mass murderer Stalin and drag his big bronze head into the square where a beautiful old church formerly stood. The church had been arrogantly razed in order to accommodate that ‘gift’ statue for the pig Stalin’s 70th birthday.
Bela was a real revolutionary fighting for the lives and liberty of his countrymen. He and his fellow protesters hadn’t been bussed in by some billionaire ex-Nazi who had it in for Khrushchev. No, he was a student in league with a few genuine priests hoping to restore food and some freedom to fellow Hungarians. The folks Bela ran with didn’t have video games or cyber-social media to help energize their fantasies. They were genuinely oppressed people who were starving in every sense and living under the thumb of Soviet Russia - a misery that the ‘brave’ insurgents now only know about through action movies, if they even make that connection.
Somewhere in NYC is an apartment building with a large statue of Lenin on the roof. If I drove by it, yeah I’d be a bit Po’ed but I wouldn’t lose my shyt like a privileged snowflake, not would I demand dumbass deBlasio have it removed. In fact, I’d be inclined to move into that building and demand the owners let me live there RENT FEE, as any good commie should. Hey, Alinsky’s rules for radicals #4 force the enemy to live by their own rules. Like, SHARE THE LAND, man.
Perhaps the NFL should send the kneeling players to Sudan, North Korea, or Venezuela for an exhibition game.
After all, holding the exhibition games in London is sooo white supremist.
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