[BBell]

I agree with removing this Monument. The Liberty Place monument has nothing to do with the confederacy or the civil war. It is a memorial to a bunch of racist,The Crescent City White League, who rebelled against the state government because it did not like blacks having any rights or say in the state government. The Crescent City White League and it's off-shoots were responsible for the deaths of many innocent black folks.

Oh, and it was also a paramilitary organization of the Democratic Party. Imagine that.

[FlingWingFlyer]

To totally destroy America, you must destroy EVERYTHING American. The commie lib ‘RATS are on a scorched earth mission. Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Anybody fed up yet?

[Autonomous User]

Your average low information voter would not know that....NOLA is a chocolate city after all.

[Rodamala]

The Economist is a coffee table decoration that liberal hipster douchebags subscribe to so that they may put it on display so they look clever to their liberal hipster douchebag friends.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I agree with you. Conservatives should be 100% behind tearing down monuments to Democrat race riots in Reconstruction Period and Jim Crow South. We should be behind ripping down every monument to a Jim Crow Dixiecrat. And ripping down Woodrow Wilson monuments too. The Democrats erected these things as a political statement of White Supremacy when they used White Supremacy to maintain political control. They are disgusting.

[FlingWingFlyer]

One thing about America, we always put our history, the good, the bad and the ugly up front. This is the camel’s nose. The communists removed another Ten Commandment monument. Why? Because they can. All monuments must go to do away with America.

[Vaquero]

The economist is a keynesian socialist rag. Why are they calling it center right?

I’m leery right there.

[Billthedrill]

The Economist is a formerly astute London rag that now has one of the worst tin ears for American politics in an already lamentable foreign commentariat. Let them stick to dynamiting that column of Nelson's in Trafalgar Square because it offends the French.

[Cold Heat]

As with everything in the civil war, historical artifacts have two sides to a story.

IMO, in this case it’s just a obelisk. But it could have just as well been the grave of a southern general or a bust.

If you destroy or remove history without the consent of the public via legal threat or whatever, you have altered history, white washed it, so to speak.

No different then ISIS or the Taliban.

So what therefore is worse....The history or the destruction/removal of it.

[Sooth2222]

"The Battle of Liberty Place was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the legal Reconstruction state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, where it was then based. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary organization of the Democratic Party, made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of Federal troops that restored the elected government."

Really? I must have been out when we covered this in US History.

[TexasGator]

“The Economist magazine, a center-right publication “

ROTFLMAO!

[jeffersondem]

New Orleans needs just one monument - to Katrina. It did more good for New Orleans that anything recent. I hate that the mules drowned though.

[ncalburt]

This left wing rag is still in business ?I thought it died off when it cut back to part time.
Who the heck cares what a far left wing British rag thinks anyways in NOLA .
I don't even recall paying any attention to this statue so why bother .
The crime is unreal .
My wife's family is from the Quarter and we lived there recently until the crime was just too much.
In fact, the tenants who rent the house were held up on Barracks and Royal .
Then when I read about all the patrons getting robbed at one of our favorite places in the Garden .Its a relief to be back in a sleepy beach town.

[HamiltonJay]

I would not classify the economist as center-right...

[Ray76]

The Economist is UK. “royal” buttkissers.

[Redbob]

F*ck The Economist and all the rest of the revisionist @sswipes who want to destroy the South for once having had the guts to stand up to an oppressive government.

[scrabblehack]

Wow...I must have passed by it dozens of times and didn’t realize what it was.

I would hope that Lee Circle stays though.