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Mayor Orders Removal of Wisconsin Confederate Memorial
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| August 17, 2017
| Scott Anderson
Posted on 08/17/2017 3:44:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:23:11 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Chickensoup
It was more of a rhetorical question, but it is quite obvious what you posted is true. This is the method and motivation of the activists. And they are very good at manipulating people who think of themselves as decent, compassionate, and fair-minded. Plenty of evil has been accomplished through those types.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:23:26 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Will88
It doesn't say, but that is probably one plaque and one stone for all 140 deceased Confederate soldiers. I wonder if there are individual grave markers with names? There are individual markers for each grave.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:23:29 PM PDT
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: LIConFem
What does the city charter say vis a vis the authority of the mayor? He may have that authority, he may not. Their issue to resolve.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
These soldiers were Americans, too. What’s with this guy?
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:25:23 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Bull Snipe
I’m not sure I’m understanding you but bottom line, he either has the power or he does not.
I suspect not. Now if the City Council voted to take this action that would be a different story but unless I missed it, there is nothing in the article stating that the City Council had taken any such vote.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
great...remove the plaque that describes who is buried here and history about it...so much for not removing history.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:28:04 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
To: Maine Mariner
You’re probably right. I do genealogical research and have visited lots of cemeteries. Even when I go to where more recent relatives, such as my wife’s parents, are buried, I wander around to see if I can find anything historical. I would notice something like Confederate graves right away. Most people wouldn’t have the interest in the first place and would just go on by. The ones in Madison are probably aghast to find out about this because, if they had known about it before, they could have been outraged in a more timely manner.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:28:39 PM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Bull Snipe
That is an issue for the Madison city council and the voters of Madison to decide. Legally. But not morally. The descendants who come to the visit the site should have a say. After all some of the descendants of Lee don't want (and say Lee didn't want) the statues. Lee will remain in history. But when a dead prisoner of war has his plaque removed that's pretty much it, except the gravestone which doesn't explain anything.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:30:43 PM PDT
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I really hope someone is keeping a list of all these retards.
70
posted on
08/17/2017 4:32:03 PM PDT
by
Bulwyf
To: palmer
Since when does morality have anything to do with politics.
To: Bull Snipe
Authority is to some extent based on moral authority. A mayor can hide behind legal technicalities but that probably won’t help him polically.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:36:53 PM PDT
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
73
posted on
08/17/2017 4:39:47 PM PDT
by
x
To: Bull Snipe
But it up to the citizens of Madison to make an issue of this in the next election Up to the citizens of Madison whose ancestors erected that city on stolen Indian land? Who was that land stolen from, the Chippewas?
If we're going to be PC, then let's be PC. The POS mayor seems to have a huge blind spot in his half-witted desire to decide which aspects of history should be reassessed and which should not.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:41:58 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: PubliusMM
Amazing how prescient that book was.
I though it was fiction when I read it, I never dreamed I would be living it.
75
posted on
08/17/2017 4:44:38 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
76
posted on
08/17/2017 4:47:36 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: stylin19a
It’s as much a memorial of Alice Whiting Waterman as anything.
Truly disgusting to remove it.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:48:42 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Diana in Wisconsin; stylin19a
You've no idea how this disgusts me. Hopefully Veterans groups will stand up. My understanding is that the mayor referred to the depiction of the dead as heros. Feminists should also object to the slander of Alice Waterman, who maintained the graves. Heroic. But then taking down the monument to southern women in Baltimore wasn't an issue to feminists. Even former Speaker Pelosi, scion of a Baltimore political family.
Speaking of Democrat political dynasties, remembering Mayor Daley in 68, maybe we could use him now.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:49:22 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Anyone doing a Wisconsin ping list anymore to notify.
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:50:00 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
To: snarkytart
Good point. How come the VFW has not weighed in on this?
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posted on
08/17/2017 4:55:27 PM PDT
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
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