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  • [MD] Leggett wants Rockville statue of Rebel soldier off lawn near courthouse

    07/17/2015 6:42:21 PM PDT · by markomalley · 25 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 7/17/15 | Bill Turque
    Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett stepped into the national debate over symbols of the Confederacy on Friday, saying that he has ordered a 102-year-old bronze statue of a Confederate soldier removed from the lawn next to Rockville’s Red Brick Courthouse. Leggett (D) had been staying out of a community discussion over the Montgomery County Confederate Monument, sparked by the movement to remove the Rebel battle flag from South Carolina’s state capitol grounds. Last week, he said he wanted to hear various points of view on the statue, and the Rockville City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing Monday evening....
  • Morford: Genital Torture For Dummies (Hey, it's a war -- what did you expect)

    05/12/2004 6:29:10 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 30 replies · 608+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 | Mark Morford
    Just in time for your morning breakfast sausage, it's all-American rape and torture and rampant entirely condoned military sadism. Mmm, patriotism. The pictures are worth a thousand disgusted moans. It's all flag-draped coffins and dog chains and forced masturbation and pistol whippings and miserable bloody hooded Iraqi men -- not terrorists, just men -- with wires attached to their fingers and genitals and made to stand up for hours and days on end until their feet swell and their lungs collapse and their livers fail, and you can hear our stunned death-drunk nation cry: Hey, whatever happened to our nice,...