(Vanity) Antifa is entering New Orleans now, here's the live stream!

Baked Alaska's Live Feed ^ | May 7, 2017

[Ulmius]

It's here, folks!

Police have set aside the barricades in Lee Square, and things are heating up.

[meatloaf]

Enforcement isn’t up to the city. It’s patrolled by state police.

[Ulmius]

I’m in agreement. No way the thugs would attack in the South in the open as it is now. The cover of darkness will be their shroud.

[JBW1949]

Very well said....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Astute point.

[Chickensoup]

I expected to see a lot more defense than there were. Where are the motorcycle gangs?

[Charles Martel]

The great accident of the end of the civil war was the Grant / Lee attitudes and legacy of Appomattox. Each side was treated with honor. Each side soldiers were considered honorable men fighting on an honorable cause. Four plus years of death had to be put behind us.

"...And on April 14, 1865, after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, President Abraham Lincoln said: “Now Let the Band Play Dixie; it belongs neither to the South, nor to the North but to us all.”—New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 11, 1907."

I always thought that occurred the day after the surrender, but I suppose the date means less than the comments and the gesture. The too-easily-forgotten gesture, it turns out.

For 150 years Northern and Southern Bands played "Dixie", but no longer - it was more easily killed by political correctness than carved stone statues would be - but the same forces are pushing for the latter to go away now, too.

I assume that the link between political correctness and AntiFa (and similar groups) is obvious to all here.

[Charles Martel]

Absolutely in favor or an honest and open discussion of history. Monuments, though, are another subject.

I for one would like to see the statue of Lenin in Portland (or is it Seattle) nuked.

Go and try to remove the statue of Lenin. AntiFa will absolutely show up to defend it.

Whatever past meaning may have attached to Confederate monuments, images, flag, music, whatever - be it Yankee vs. Rebel, North vs. South, it all makes no difference. What is happening NOW is that a bunch of anarcho-communist thugs are trying to alter the American landscape because the issue of states' rights is threatening to them - and they are succeeding.

[meyer]

What happens when all the confederate monuments get toppled?- then it's on to the evil white man monuments to the American Revolution, then WWI/WWII, Christian and Jewish sites and every other representation of the American legacy.

They came for the confederate monuments, but I wasn't a confederate so I didn't speak up...

[Jackie in California]

Yes: the Pastor Neimoller poem — I was thinking of that too.

[Rebelbase]

“There is no “Lee Square.””

It’s just down the road from Jackson Circle.

[LeoWindhorse]

ready

[MileHi]

I for one would like to see the statue of Lenin in Portland (or is it Seattle) nuked.

What does Lenin have to do with US history?

How does that statue compare to confederate history statues?

[Timpanagos1]

New Orleans is quiet.

Just went by Lee Circle.

Quiet.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[vetvetdoug]

I hope they burn NO to the ground. NO is getting its just desserts for being PC. I have no sympathy for the city, its people or the economy there. Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, not NO. It was the corruption of NO that set those levees up to not withstand the water that came when Katrina went 100 miles to the East.

[stylecouncilor]

You are right-I just told my friend the other day “the American Revolution will be next”.

[Uncle Sam 911]

There is a glimmer of hope there I guess.

[Don W]

I suppose anyone who is able to consider themselves fan of the Confederacy might want to preserve its heritage but it’s not an issue for conservatives.

In case you missed it, in 1953 ALL Confederate monuments were added to the register of US military monuments, and Confederate soldiers were included into the honor rolls. So yes, this IS a thing for "Yankees" to consider.

If the anarchists can remove Confederate monuments, they will go for US military monuments too.

[Timpanagos1]

I believe it was the Feds who designed and built the levees that failed.

[Karl Spooner]

General Lee - looking North

History: The monument was dedicated in 1884, at Tivoli Circle (Lee Circle) on St. Charles Avenue. Dignitaries present at the dedication on February 22—George Washington's birthday—included former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, two daughters of General Lee, and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard.