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Confederate statue to be removed from outside courthouse [Rockville MD]
Associated Press ^ | Mar 1, 2017 11:26 AM EST

Posted on 03/01/2017 9:13:14 AM PST by Olog-hai

A century-old statue of a Confederate soldier that stands outside a Maryland courthouse will be moved to private property.

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett said in a news release Tuesday that the county will cover the cost to relocate the bronze statue from the courthouse in Rockville to White’s Ferry, a docking site on the Potomac River named for a Confederate general. …

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TOPICS: History; Local News
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; confederatestatue; freakstate; maryland; obamalegacy; rockville; whitesferry
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1 posted on 03/01/2017 9:13:14 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No one tell the left Washington owned slaves as I’d like to someday show my kids Mount Vernon.


2 posted on 03/01/2017 9:15:56 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker
"No one tell the left Washington owned slaves as I’d like to someday show my kids Mount Vernon."

Thank God Mt. Vernon is privately owned and not controlled by left-wing democrat extremists.

3 posted on 03/01/2017 9:19:41 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Olog-hai

1. I’m surprised it took them this long.

2. By Montgomery County standards, this is positively enlightened. I would have expected them to melt the statue down, erect one of an oppressed minority in its place, and issue a heartfelt apology for anyone and everyone who might have been offended at the previous statue’s former existence.

3. White’s Ferry is far more rural than Rockville, so the presence of the statue is less likely to offend delicate sensibilities.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 9:22:00 AM PST by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: Olog-hai
This is important because removing the Confederate statues will make the blacks behave and quit committing crimes. It will also make them more responsible and have fewer children out of wedlock and Fathers will stay around to rear the chillin’s.
5 posted on 03/01/2017 9:31:48 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: bus man

I couldn’t agree more with all 3 of your points.


6 posted on 03/01/2017 9:31:51 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: vetvetdoug

It’s just like the Libs trying to get rid of all of the crosses, so they can pretend that He never happened, too...


7 posted on 03/01/2017 9:36:08 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: Olog-hai
Meh, who cares? Seems a better place for it anyway.

I will note that it's hilarious that this is Democrats' idea of good government: Forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill for relocating a statue. "Don't you see, if we move it from this spot, to this other spot ten miles down the road, all racial wounds will be healed! Don't you blacks feel your lives are tangibly better today?"

8 posted on 03/01/2017 9:38:04 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Olog-hai
Northern bigots at work.

I'm still on the wall as to the necessity of the Civil War....and further...what the hell was won??

This was Washington's south and Jefferson's south. The war was all about money and power...not slavery.

Slavery was on its way out. The industrial revolution changed the world.

9 posted on 03/01/2017 9:38:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Olog-hai

Totalitarians like to erase history.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 9:44:18 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: MountainWalker

Maybe Montgomery County should change its name because I’m betting Montgomery was a slaveowner...


11 posted on 03/01/2017 9:47:22 AM PST by piasa
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To: Olog-hai

It’s kind of like what the muslims do when they take over new terror-tory. They destroy and deny the history.

Most of the churches in Kosovo are gone and the few remaining Serbs are being driven out of what was their homeland. While the Albanians gloat.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 9:56:40 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Olog-hai

Burning Civil War books too?

Might as well go full-blown facist.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 10:03:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: piasa

Can’t discern if Richard Montgomery (whom the county was named after) did own any slaves or not. He was born and raised in Ireland, served in the British Army for a long time (was involved in the Seven Years War) and eventually moved to Kingsbridge NY (now part of the Bronx) in 1773, where he owned a farm.


14 posted on 03/01/2017 10:06:30 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Being a Democrat means lying to ones self constantly....lie about the number of genders, lie about islam, lie about immigration and make yourself believe that removing a statue will actually somehow make race relations better.


15 posted on 03/01/2017 10:11:42 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: Trump20162020

I don’t think slavery happened. It think it is a made up lie.


16 posted on 03/01/2017 10:17:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Olog-hai

Factoid: Montgomery County MD has more public debt than the entire state of Montana.


17 posted on 03/01/2017 10:18:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bus man
"3. White’s Ferry is far more rural than Rockville, so the presence of the statue is less likely to offend delicate sensibilities."

Many moons ago, I was doing some contract work in the area and worked with this Indian fellow (dot, not feathers). I like to explore on the weekends and made my way out to that ferry. Pretty area up there on both sides of the river.

So, I was telling my work buddy, Singh, about my weekend adventure and maybe it was somewhere he could take the wife and kids for a nice drive.

He said he won't drive out in the country anymore because that's where the Klan is. I asked him how he knew that?

Haha! He said he knew when he saw three crosses up on a hill beside the highway. I laughed and told him maybe yeah, he's better off sticking to the suburbs. SMDH, Heck, I probably did those nice country folks a favor by not cluing ol' Singh in... ;-)

18 posted on 03/01/2017 10:20:07 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder what the demographic makeup of the crew will be.


19 posted on 03/01/2017 10:20:24 AM PST by PLMerite
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To: Olog-hai

I think that for every Confederate statue they remove, they should erect a statue of one of the thousands of blacks that fought for the Confederacy.


20 posted on 03/01/2017 10:27:49 AM PST by NY Cajun (I contributed to her pink slip this morning.)
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