Posted on 08/16/2017 8:15:20 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Protesters vandalized and attempted to take down the Peace Monument in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on Sunday, mistaking it for a pro-Confederate statue. The protesters were marching in response to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday where one woman died after being deliberately hit by a car, and two law enforcement personnel were killed when the helicopter they were in crashed.
“The Atlanta march traveled from Woodruff Park to Piedmont Park Sunday, where some damaged the Peace Monument, erected in 1911,” a blog on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website said. “The sculpture features an angel standing above a Confederate soldier, guiding him to lay down his weapon.” But the memorial attacked by protesters — some dressed in black and wearing masks — was erected to encourage healing and reconciliation:
“When the Civil War broke out, members of an Atlanta militia called the Gate City Guard were among the first to take up arms against the North,” the AJC blog said. “Afterward, some survivors became part of what would eventually become the Georgia National Guard.”
“Others, who felt they were too old to fight any longer, took up the cause for reconciliation,” according to AJC. “These guys realized a national healing needed to take place,” Thornton Kennedy, a history buff in Atlanta, said about the inspiration or the Peace Monument. “They organized a peace tour of the North, which is really remarkable,” Kennedy said. “These were guys who fought in the Civil War, against Union troops.” “They would go meet with Union soldiers and began to repair those fissures the war created,” Kennedy said. “It speaks to what we call the Atlanta spirit.” “No one, of course, suggests that 1911 Atlanta was the progressive bastion of equality, diversity and inclusion that modern-day Atlanta enjoys,” the blog said.
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This is all George W. Bush’s, McCain’s, Obama’s and Romney’s fault for letting it get to this point.
They know ISIS’s book of Destroy All Monuments cover to cover
Imbeciles. They probably believe the Mercedes Benz grill logo is a Peace Sign.
“Attack Turner Broadcasting! They show Gone With The Wind every year!”
Hahahahaha
“Attack MARTA! The Confederates had trains!”
“Attack the Atlanta Journal Constitution! They hired the lady who wrote Gone With The Wind!”
I changed my mind. All Confederate monuments should be taken down and transported to rural towns. The monkeys in the big cities will never open a book, so the monuments are a waste.
Burn the welfare office - it was started by confederates!
The same idiots who’ve absolutely no clue they voted for a man unqualified to be President as he was not a NBC: of both an American Mother AND an American father - the father was a British citizen of British Indonesia (Kenya).
Our Congress has a good deal of splainin’ to do. Where shall we begin?
“A monument to encourage peace and reconciliation”.
The violent left wants none of that.
If not for the idiot with the car into the crowd creating left wing martyrs, the Charlottesville story may have featured Antifa goons armed with clubs attacking the police and other nonviolent demonstators.
Hell, attack Coca Cola, because...HMMM...I dunno... because we’re dumbass antifags who get off on breaking things that’s why!
BARBARIANS!!
They are the American Taliban!
And would never had been a national story. Most people never even heard of Antifa even though they’ve perpetrated tons of assaults and destruction over the last year or two.
Leftists are hilarious! Their blind rage leads them to shoot themselves in the foot.
You can’t make this up.
They are the American Taliban!
Never forget the Buddhas...
They damaged it. It was not torn down.
They broke the wing off one of the angel wings
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