Statue of Canton hero (President William McKinley) causes fuss in California town

The Beacon Journal ^ | Nov. 27, 2005 | Associated Press

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[RockinRight]

Why can't KKKalifornia just secede and be done with it?

[Dallas59]

So when is this going to be taken down?

[orionblamblam]

The REAL hero of Canton and his statue

[ClearCase_guy]

"The truth of McKinley is he's just like any of the other people who throughout history caused mass destruction and death," said Schleyer, who has compared McKinley to Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong.

"Hello. I am a moron. Someone told me that William McKinley was a Republican. I figure he must be worse than Hitler. Would you like fries with that?"

[ncountylee]

Why the Hitler claim? I can find nothing distubing at all searching.

[babyface00]

and from fourth grade until ... I started going to junior college, we never learned one thing about McKinley

I'm curious. Did they not learn because they weren't taught, or did they not learn because they weren't paying attention when they were taught?

[jpf]

I can't wait to till some of these idiots figure out that Lincoln was a Republican too. Then the former slave holders of the South will be an aggrieved party.

[Tzimisce]

Yeah that's right - there has NEVER been a war that the US didn't start....

[L98Fiero]

Michael Schleyer: I Googled him and basically came up with an old hippie with a PhD in education. Bout right.

[Valin]

The Philippines.

[Mad Dawgg]

The HERO of Canton the Man the call Jayne!

[AzSteven]

Thank you - that was absolutely the first thing I thought when I saw this thread.

[PLOM...NOT!]

...with 1,300 signatures on a petition seeking to remove the statue there.

Do you think if all 100,000 plus FReepers sign a petition we could have all liberals removed from the country?
They all offend me.

[OSHA]

Did you see this one.......

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[DJ Taylor]

President William McKinley was a Union Civil War Veteran who was at the Battle of Antietam and fought at Burnside's Bridge. How soon we forget.

[orionblamblam]

> Goals - total enlightenment, holding the vibration...

Ummm... how does one "hold the vibration?"

Wait... maybe I don't really want to know.

> Ideal Mate - spiritually oriented, vegetarian, vegan or preferably living foods advocate...

[zombie mode ON] Brains....[/zombie mode OFF]

[DJ Taylor]

"Ummm... how does one "hold the vibration?"

I don't know. I always thought they used hampsters for that.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, McKinley was re-elected in 1900...he was elected for the first time in 1896, defeating William Jennings Bryan (whose dubious economic ideas caused conservative Democrats to back McKinley).

In the past, McKinley was dismissed as just another one of the boring do-nothing 19th-century Presidents, the last one before the exciting Teddy Roosevelt, but there seems to be a re-evaluation underway that gives McKinley more credit.

Of course he is linked to the War with Spain and the US decision to annex Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. For those for whom US imperialism is one of the worst evils of the past 100 years or so, he's one of the bad guys. In fact, he resembles Bush not only in wanting the spread civilization, even at the cost of American lives, but in being ridiculed as supposedly not mentally up to the job of President.

[dighton]

Despite the statue's longevity, people in Arcata don't particularly identify with McKinley . . .

No surprise, it's Moonbat Central.

Arcata Eye police log.