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New Orleans considers removing Confederate monuments
AP ^ | Dec. 16, 2015 | CAIN BURDEAU

Posted on 12/16/2015 3:22:25 PM PST by PROCON


NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans is poised to make a sweeping break with its Confederate past as city leaders decide whether to remove prominent monuments from some of its busiest streets.

With support from Mayor Mitch Landrieu, a majority on the City Council appears ready to take down four monuments, including a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Their ordinance has sparked passionate responses for and against these symbols, and both sides will get one more say at a special council meeting before Thursday's vote.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: 201512; 2016election; bamyanbuddhas; bobbyjindal; confederacy; election2016; landrieu; liberalagenda; louisiana; memoryhole; mitchlandrieu; neworleans; robertelee; taliban
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Why do you say that?


81 posted on 12/17/2015 11:19:07 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: NFHale

Why don’t the people of New Orleans consider removing the
politicians that consider removing those monuments?

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White alone, 33.0%
Black alone, 60.2%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/2255000.html?cssp=SERP


82 posted on 12/17/2015 11:19:55 AM PST by deport
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To: mumblypeg

Then they’ll have to tear down the Washington Monument, Jefferson’s Monticello, and shut down most of the states in the US, because at one time or another they allowed or practiced slavery.


83 posted on 12/17/2015 12:28:47 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Lazamataz
It is breathtaking how quickly we have become the Soviet Union. Get the airbrush out. There are old photographs, still.

How right you are, Laz.

84 posted on 12/17/2015 12:34:49 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: deport

Clear enough...


85 posted on 12/17/2015 12:39:13 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: rockrr
We’re not like you cva - we don’t burden our souls with 150 year old grudges.

You're joking, right?

86 posted on 12/17/2015 12:43:25 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

No.


87 posted on 12/17/2015 12:44:13 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: ought-six

Like, duh. The entire infrastructure of this horrid land must be destroyed. Railroad tracks must be ripped up and every old brick building (yeah, maybe I have a little Irish in me). Every tree uprooted, every bridge and dam busted. My house (I live in a house that goes back to pre 1750. A minuteman lived in this structure). It has to go. We can not budge one inch into the future until we have obliterated the past. Our future is the obliteration of our past.


88 posted on 12/17/2015 12:53:17 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: HandyDandy
Our future is the obliteration of our past.

That there is the mantra of the detestable left and their useful idiots, the liberals.

89 posted on 12/17/2015 1:04:00 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Agreed. Unfortunately my sarcastic stream of conscious ended up with that idea. They actually plan to superimpose the past with the future.


90 posted on 12/17/2015 1:07:15 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: PROCON

Idiots.


91 posted on 12/17/2015 5:35:15 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: rockrr

As I’m sure you know, Gen. “Spoons” Butler ordered that inscription be added during the Union occupation of New Orleans under his martial law.


92 posted on 12/17/2015 8:13:30 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: central_va; rockrr
central_va: "The question is to you: would you feel it would have been justice if Lee and Davis were hanged? "

The Constitution defines treason, assigns Congress the power to prescribe punishments, and gives the President authority to pardon crimes.

After Vietnam, Peanut Cahteh also mass-pardoned draft dodgers, regardless of whether they had been charged or convicted.

So, mass-pardons of Confederates I think were appropriate, even though they clearly met the Constitution's definition of treason.
IOW, what they deserved was justice according to the Constitution, but what they received was mercy, also according to the Constitution.

And there's another factor to remember: nearly all of the top Confederate leaders, including Davis & Lee, after the war called for reunion and reconciliation, and that alone was worth the price of mercy:


93 posted on 12/18/2015 3:48:51 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: central_va
central_va: "The Lincoln Coven does not have the ability to answer.
So I assume they would really like for Lee and Davis to have been hanged as traitors.
Shows what kind of creeps these South hating bastards really are."

You ASSUME way too much, FRiend.

94 posted on 12/18/2015 3:56:51 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Yes or No you loser.


95 posted on 12/18/2015 5:27:28 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PROCON

I am reminded of the ancient Egyptians who chiseled the names of former rulers off of their monuments.


96 posted on 12/18/2015 5:35:58 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: PROCON
Don't worry. Have no fear. Only the Statute of Robert E, Lee will be removed from the pedestal. It will be replaced with one of two men engaging in sodomy. That will make the Wise Men of New Orleans happy.
97 posted on 12/18/2015 5:45:26 AM PST by sport
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To: sport
The New Orleans city council voted yesterday to go ahead with the removals of 4 statues including Lee's.

Just like the Taliban.

98 posted on 12/18/2015 6:03:28 AM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: PROCON

The Lincoln Coven here on Free Republic really doesn’t have problem with this removal thing. They pay lips service to history but they are in total agreement with the NOLA city council in this matter.


99 posted on 12/18/2015 6:06:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PROCON

In 2015 the mix was still 60% African in New Orleans. Not much else to say. Ray was right. It's a Chocolate City. What would one expect?

Interesting that in 1940 it was around 70 white.

100 posted on 12/18/2015 6:16:54 AM PST by CodeJockey
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