Posted on 05/07/2017 1:43:30 PM PDT by Ulmius
Enforcement isn’t up to the city. It’s patrolled by state police.
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.
Very well said....
Astute point.
I expected to see a lot more defense than there were. Where are the motorcycle gangs?
"...And on April 14, 1865, after General Robert E. Lees 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.
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.
They came for the confederate monuments, but I wasn't a confederate so I didn't speak up...
Yes: the Pastor Neimoller poem — I was thinking of that too.
“There is no Lee Square.”
It’s just down the road from Jackson Circle.
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What does Lenin have to do with US history?
How does that statue compare to confederate history statues?
New Orleans is quiet.
Just went by Lee Circle.
Quiet.
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.
You are right-I just told my friend the other day “the American Revolution will be next”.
There is a glimmer of hope there I guess.
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.
I believe it was the Feds who designed and built the levees that failed.
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