Posted on 06/22/2020 12:47:56 PM PDT by Starman417
Statue tipping has become the leftist activity du jour of late. Astonishingly, the magazine Popular Mechanics has published a story about how to take down statues without anyone getting hurt:
"Should you happen to find yourself near a statue that you decide you no longer like, we asked scientists for the best, safest ways to bring it to the ground without anyone getting hurt — except, of course, for the inanimate racist who’s been dead for a century anyway," writer James Stout begins.In what can only be described as karma, one protester had a statue fall on him, causing severe injury.Stout also taps mechanical engineer Scott Holland to provide explicit details of how to safely bring down a statue that includes assembling a team of up to 70 friends for the job.
A protester was seriously injured in Virginia this week when a Confederate statue he helped tear down toppled on top of him, according to reports.That's a real shame. It is also a shame that this country no longer has police who are interested in stopping this vigilantism.The man, believed to be in his 30s, was part of a group of demonstrators Wednesday night trying to take down the Confederate monument in Portsmouth, WAVY reported.
Protesters were seen hitting the 35-foot-tall granite obelisk with a sledgehammer and using ropes to pull it off its pedestal before it fell directly on him, knocking him unconscious, the report said.
The destruction of statues has become wanton. It is utterly mindless and stupid. It is ignorant.
Today Byron York wrote in his Daily Memo:
What do George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant. Father Junipero Serra, and Christopher Columbus have in common?
The answer was that none was a Confederate General. All were interested in making things better for the country.
But that doesn't matter. Anarchy matters.
Most of these damned idiots don't know the history of any of their targets. Cervantes? Serra? Grant?
Really?
The most egregious statue destruction was that of Ulysses S Grant. Ulysses S. Grant gave just about everything he could to this country. He admired Robert E. Lee as a soldier, politics aside, but had this to say:
The South’s defeat saddened Grant. As he wrote in his Personal Memoirs, he felt “sad and depressed…at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought.”It is widely acknowledged that US Grant once came into ownership of a slave, but despite his own poverty freed the man.
The same year, Grant acquired a slave from his father-in-law, a thirty-five-year-old man named William Jones.[96] Although Grant was not an abolitionist, he was not considered a "slavery man", and could not bring himself to force a slave to do work.[97] In March 1859, Grant freed William by a manumission deed, potentially worth at least $1,000, when Grant needed the money.[98]Another description:
The use of slaves on the farm…was a source of irritation and shame to Grant. Jefferson Sapington told me that he and Grant used to work in the fields with the blacks. He said with glee, ‘Grant was helpless when it came to making slaves work,’ and Mrs. Boggs corroborated this. ‘He was no hand to manage negroes,’she said. ‘He couldn’t force them to do anything. He wouldn’t whip them. He was too gentle and good tempered and besides he was not a slavery man.’”By any standards Grant was a good man. He defeated the Confederacy, smashed the KKK and appointed many black people to significant posts. Not good enough, says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project. Grant, you see, was just like Hitler or Bin LadenWhether or not Grant wasn’t a “slavery man” by inclination, we know he briefly owned William Jones. He does not mention Jones in his memoirs or other writings, so the exact nature of their relationship remains a mystery. We do know that in March 1859 Grant filed the following manumission document.
“I Ulysses S Grant of the City and County of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, for diverse good and valuable considerations me hereunto moving, do hereby emancipate and set free from Slavery my negro man William, sometimes called William Jones(Jones)of Mullatto complexion, aged about thirty-five years, and about five feet seven inches in height and being the same slave purchased by me of Frederick Dent-And I do hereby manumit, emancipate & set free said William from slavery forever.”
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One day these anarchists will need to be put down like a rabid dog. When it happens, it needs to be swift and thorough.
Simple solution. Knock sh*t out of Antifa.
All the Iconoclasts want is an excuse to destroy. If they have no excuse they will make one up.
The anarchists don’t know history. Who ever wins, they will be put down.
We the People don’t go to war over toppled statues or name changes of consumer products. Get in our faces in our HOME Towns and that’s a different story!
One day? It needed to happen years ago!
This may be the Summer of Love 2084 style!
It needs to happen NOW.
When the city people get tired of Antifa’s BS and start to exercise their 2amendment rights, Antifa folks will run away and hide in their parents’ basements again.
No. What happened?
No. They’re like the Great Leap Forward and French Commune members, using violence to terrorize people into submission to a social justice/communist dogma.
That is what needs to happen all over this Republic. However the states that continue to re-elect these idiot Democrats that allow this will probably not engaged in any push back.
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