[jarwulf]

They’re going after the statues again in DC. I hope Trump is on the ball.

[HighSierra5]

Great article.

[Ajnin]

Saddam Hussein and Stalin statues weren’t just historic depictions, they were embodiments of a cult. To even insult the inanimate representations of these Political Demons meant imprisonment and torture.

[Steve_Seattle]

"But some of those statues could have performed a public service, as reminders of past errors, and warnings that such errors must not be repeated."

And statues of past figures - especially political figures - could remind us that in human affairs perfection is not to be found, even among the saints.

Destroying all remnants of the past on the grounds that the past was imperfect, and was formed by flawed human beings, is extremely dangerous, because it suggests that those doing the destroying regard themselves as infallible judges and executioners, and these are the most dangerous people of all, and the most murderous, as 100 years of Marxist communism has shown us.

[Reily]

“.... You don’t see a statue of George Washington or Guy Fawkes in front of England’s Parliament, do you? ….”

You do see Cromwell !

[Vince Ferrer]

They want Year Zero

[Lurkinanloomin]

Nimrata Randhawa probably did not realize she was kicking off a frenzy that would erase our history, but she didn’t care, it’s not her history.

[Fungi]

Excellent John, thank you. The problem with tearing down anything, burning down anything, confiscating anything, rewriting anything, or anything of the sort, is the logical consequence: what do you replace it with. Truth is truth, wrong or right, it cannot be erased without a vacuum in its place. Leave everything in its place, but remember and teach the truth of why the past is what it is. That will be the problem going forward, and it does not look good.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32. Free to do what? To stand up for and act upon the truth. If there is no truth, a vacuum will encompass every evil that exists--what we are seeing now.

[DesertRhino]

This is pure pre-genocidal behavior. Trying to erase a people, a culture, a religion. Destroying and eradicating all signs of them in a society.

There is a point where they will get too strong. This movement needs to be strangled. They need to learn that we are not German Jews, Kulaks, Cambodian shopkeepers, or the simple people ISIS murdered wholesale.

We have 600 million guns, grew up on westerns, and we aren’t going anywhere. So unless they stop, a fight is coming. And it’s one they cannot win.

[Fungi]

John, one more issue to add as I forgot my favorite quote.

“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.

What could be more appropriate?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I cheered 30 years ago, when the Russians tore down statues of Lenin and Stalin.
And I cheered 20 years ago, when Iraqis tore down statues of Saddam Hussein. ***

Difference is these statues were raised by order of the very persons they represented, not an after death remembrance of someone the people respected.

Much as when King Nebuchadnezzar had a statue raised to himself, to honor himself.

[livius]

There’s a big difference between statues put up during the life and reign of a dictator - by the dictator himself - and statues put up commemorating a historical figure considered important by the people of the place where the statues is erected.

The author misses this fundamental distinction.