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The world's largest Confederate Monument faces renewed calls for removal
Reuters ^ | July 3, 2020 | Rich McKay

Posted on 07/03/2020 5:04:39 AM PDT by C19fan

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1 posted on 07/03/2020 5:04:39 AM PDT by C19fan
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The American Taliban wants to howitzer Stone Mountain.


2 posted on 07/03/2020 5:06:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

Please no!
Just stop!
My ancestors fought in that war.......they never owned slaves!
One of my ancestor’s fought on the Union side!

These were young men, some only boys.....
....Stop this insanity!


3 posted on 07/03/2020 5:09:34 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: Guenevere

I agree. It must stop.


4 posted on 07/03/2020 5:10:40 AM PDT by lysie
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5 posted on 07/03/2020 5:11:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Guenevere

It will not stop there.


6 posted on 07/03/2020 5:11:55 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: C19fan

Expect major vandalism at sites like this tomorrow.


7 posted on 07/03/2020 5:13:37 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: lysie

The statues and monuments point to history both good and bad. They are out in the open for all to see and learn. Who is going to go to a museum to see these? As they used to say in the 1960s... Let it all hang out. It is history.


8 posted on 07/03/2020 5:14:48 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: C19fan

They will never stop. People who think they can appease the left are fools.


9 posted on 07/03/2020 5:15:08 AM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: central_va
The American Taliban wants to howitzer Stone Mountain.

I read a short story a long time ago (70s?) where Stone Mountain's carving were obliterated by artillery fire, after a Communist take over.

10 posted on 07/03/2020 5:15:10 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: lysie

Blessings dear friend!


11 posted on 07/03/2020 5:15:16 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: lysie

The only way to stop it is to make the Democrats own their history.


12 posted on 07/03/2020 5:16:48 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: C19fan

This is a directive from anarchy HQ, AL Reuters. Sort of like John Has A Long Mustache for anarchists. Marching orders and the next target selected.


13 posted on 07/03/2020 5:17:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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The government isn’t going to protect Stone Mountain. People are going to have to do it themselves. The Feds will throw you in jail for protecting it as well.


14 posted on 07/03/2020 5:25:18 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: C19fan

No one is forcing anyone to visit it.


15 posted on 07/03/2020 5:31:27 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: Pilsner

I remember that story I think it was part of a collection of science fiction alternate history stories.

There was another entitled “Custer’s Last Jump”, wherein the 7th Air Cavalry parachute balloon infantry is decimated by a squadron of former Confederate Air Force fighters led by Crazy Horse, lol.

The story is told in the form of extracts from first-person accounts drawn from letters, diaries and newspaper articles of the period.


16 posted on 07/03/2020 5:33:59 AM PDT by skepsel (I miss William F. Buckley and the old Firing Line)
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“... removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously...”
Sure glad there’s no bias in the writing here...


17 posted on 07/03/2020 5:35:30 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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The war was fought over more than just slavery. Indeed, upwards of 90% of Confederate soldiers had no connection to slave-holding. Much of what the South fought for, we are still fighting for, today. General Sherman burned everything in a swath 300 miles long and 50 miles wide through the state of Georgia. Is the state not allowed some memorial to the men who tried to prevent him from doing so? Does England ask Scotland to remove statues of Bonnie Prince Charlie or William Wallace because they fought against them? OK, so we made Germany remove statues of Hitler, pure evil. But, part of what caused WWII was the utterly harsh treatment of Germany after WWI. And, even the Romans, as the Republic expanded in its early history, knew better than to shame and disgrace the people they conquered. They left their traditions alone.


18 posted on 07/03/2020 5:38:22 AM PDT by MrChips ("To wisdom belongs the apprehension of eternal things." - St. Augustine)
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Bolshevism is about the systematic destruction of a nation’s culture with political terror. That is what is going on.


19 posted on 07/03/2020 5:42:29 AM PDT by Shadow44
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That is just stupid.

Leave the statues alone, the people they represent are woven in the fabric of American history. We cannot unravel the threads without all of the nation coming apart.


20 posted on 07/03/2020 5:42:46 AM PDT by madison10
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