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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue coming down in New Orleans: Live updates
NOLA.com ^ | 5/19/17

Posted on 05/19/2017 12:12:01 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

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To: Timpanagos1

Cowards, just like Antifa, have to hide behind masks, masking tape and fences to do their dirty work. Scum trash working for those companies, getting their 30 pieces of silver. I hope they enjoy it because someone will find out who the company is doing that work and they will be out of business very quickly.


21 posted on 05/19/2017 12:29:51 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Timpanagos1

I don’t understand why the Democrat Party is still allowed to exist, given it’s history of slavery, support for the Confederacy, Jim Crow, segregation, and opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Surely, the left should be demanding that the Democrat Party be liquidated, and all of its assets paid as reparations to black descendants of slaves.

Why isn’t that happening?


22 posted on 05/19/2017 12:30:45 PM PDT by Maceman (Let's ban Muslims temporarily -- just until non-Muslims can freely practice their religions in Mecca)
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To: zerosix

Actually, several years after the “Unpleasantness” the Lee family did win compensation for the loss of their home at Arlington. Of course being smack dab in the middle of a graveyard made it unlivable, and that was General Meigs’s intention.


23 posted on 05/19/2017 12:31:26 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Timpanagos1

ISIS is destroying western culture and heritage and these morons are destroying ours.


24 posted on 05/19/2017 12:32:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Another thought comes to mind: New Orleans is so filthy, so corrupt and so crime ridden, it actually damages the reputation of these icons to be seen there. I have encountered the corruption in the police department there and can tell you it runs wide and deep. They are dirty cops, dirty city officials, dirty citizens.


25 posted on 05/19/2017 12:33:08 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Timpanagos1

The statue of Vladimir Lenin, who enslaved and killed millions, remains standing on the left coast while a brave American, Robert E. Lee, who freed his slaves, must come down.

Even the Snopes bugeaters concur:
http://www.snopes.com/confederate-history-slave-ownership/

“U.S. Grant also had several slaves, who were only freed after the 13th amendment in December of 1865. When asked why he didn’t free his slaves earlier, Grant stated “Good help is so hard to come by these days.”

“Contrarily, Confederate General Robert E. Lee freed his slaves (which he never purchased — they were inherited) in 1862! Lee freed his slaves several years before the war was over, and considerably earlier than his Northern counterparts.”
Of course they could be lying.

But by logical extension, will the left’s Taliban come for President Grant as general in front of the capitol next?
How much more of this nonsense can we expect from them?


26 posted on 05/19/2017 12:36:24 PM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: Timpanagos1

The Right surrenders at every level at every turn.


27 posted on 05/19/2017 12:38:39 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: WHBates

What are they doing with these statues?
Bronze is very expensive, high copper content metal.

Is someone tracking these things?

Is the mayor getting the dough?.................


28 posted on 05/19/2017 12:39:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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29 posted on 05/19/2017 12:41:28 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Red Badger

They belong to the City of New Orleans and their plan is to relocate them to a museum type environment.


30 posted on 05/19/2017 12:43:30 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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That will not work. The Libs/NAACP/BLM crowd will protest until they are destroyed and melted down, sold for scrap and forgotten.

When the last vestiges of the history of slavery are gone, we will all be slaves.....................


31 posted on 05/19/2017 12:46:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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That guy on the cherry picker looks a lot like an ISIS soldier...................


32 posted on 05/19/2017 12:46:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Timpanagos1

Seems like I sent the Red Cross a contribution after the hurricane to help people in New Orleans.

That $25 was wasted. And I will not make that mistake again.


33 posted on 05/19/2017 12:55:01 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Nice going! Stick to it.


34 posted on 05/19/2017 1:03:32 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Timpanagos1

Just another example of the destruction of the cultural icons of this country. Indispensable in order to eliminate the last vestige of pride in country and to render it ripe for overthrow.


35 posted on 05/19/2017 1:04:19 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

POS

If whites stopped their exceptionalism, the rest would fall.


36 posted on 05/19/2017 1:04:42 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: rhubarbk

They’ll be demanding the tearing down of the Washington monument next because Martha Washington owned slaves.


37 posted on 05/19/2017 1:06:20 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Timpanagos1

New Orleans is not worthy of General Lee’s statue. I don’t expect loyalty means much there.


38 posted on 05/19/2017 1:07:36 PM PDT by jch10 (Don't go along to get along!)
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To: Timpanagos1

He should have chosen to fight a decentralized defense-in-depth guerilla war, as feared by Lincoln and Grant.


39 posted on 05/19/2017 1:18:04 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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You, of course, are correct, however, as the "taint" of the good General Lee, his name (my ancestors as well) just as Beauregard, need be erased from not only the land but also history books.

Anything for the sake of black lives mattering, let's just return everything to the family, in order that NOLA's Mayor Landreau is able to rest peacefully!

After all, just like a good Democrat is supposed to do to keep blacks in a constant state of agitation, let's do anything to help Democrats keep reminding Southern blacks which party is the party that kept them enslaved, hmmm.

40 posted on 05/19/2017 1:37:39 PM PDT by zerosix ( Native Sunflower)
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