Posted on 09/15/2017 12:32:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Crews arranged by Dallas officials removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from a pedestal Thursday and carted it away from a park named for the Confederate general.
In an unannounced move, a large crane was brought through the city by a police escort to Lee Park, where it lifted the large statue from its pedestal late Thursday afternoon.
City officials said in a statement that an art conservator monitored the proper handling of the statue, and police tactical officers with automatic rifles provided security.
The statue was lowered onto a flatbed trailer for transport to an abandoned naval air station owned by the city on its western outskirts. It’s expected to remain there until city officials decide the statue’s future. …
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I guess they’ll have to replace it with a statue of Bruce Lee.
So much for Texas ‘not putting up’ with this crap.
Statues of Dean Martin next on the hit list.
Texas bravado often proves to be a whimper.
It’s Dallas; they’re about as “Texas” as Austin is, apparently.
Most of the big cities in Texas are liberal, just like big cities in pretty much every state. Why does that surprise you?
That is very depressing to know.
What happened to all the “We’ll be there with guns and ropes” crap?
*sigh*
Well, it’s not as if the rest of “good Texas” has no vehicles.
I’m extremely disappointed by this.
It “badass Texans” won’t fight, what hope is there?
What “surprises” me is that the REST of Texas did *nothing*.
Bikers For Trump can get up a thousand man posse in two days or less.
Et tu, Texas?
Nothing is ever what it seems ping
What part of “automatic rifles” did you miss? BTW, I don’t believe there are police departments with automatic weapons, but semiautomatic weapons.
That’s why they gave no “notice”...bet they wouldn’t have gotten within 2 miles of the thing if they had.
Have we now come to the point that we need to form chapters of the “Monument Guard Riders?” This is beyond ridiculous.
Dallas should hang her head in shame....for Texans to succumb to such silly and juvenile illiterates is indeed sad. Texas history as General Lee’s history is about how America became one of the greatest nations on earth.
The wimpy MD governor recently found some bits of random spine lying about [no idea whose but it surely was not his] and kneeled to the enraged citizens of “real MD’ and denied the snowflakes’ demands that our “confederate sympathizer” state flag be banned.
So the little whiny maggots attacked the Francis Scott Key monument, instead....because our anthem “promotes slavery”, ya know.
People who “didn’t care” and just sat on their asses while the rebel flag was attacked are gonna be shocked by how *much* that will prove a precedent for.
A pox upon the cops who abetted this.
I would join that group.
“That’s why they gave no “notice”.
[the Devil works in the darkness...just sayin’]
FWIW, I’ve made a habit of skulking around our *only* Lee statue in Sharpsburg, of late, since Delaney wants it gone.
Just checking randomly to see what’s going on.
Will I charge in like a berserker?
Probably.
I’m stupid that way.
What *is* fascism and tyranny?
Read my local news.
Texas as a whole shines through, but there are indeed too many depressing regions.
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