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After removing Liberty Place monument, Mitch Landrieu: Others coming down...
The New Orleans Advocate ^ | April 24, 2017 | JEFF ADELSON - JEFF NOWAK

Posted on 04/24/2017 10:49:40 AM PDT by yoe

Rest of the headline...'sooner rather than later'. Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a brief news conference Monday morning on the overnight removal of the Liberty Place monument.

He insisted that security concerns justified taking the obelisk down in the early morning hours and without warning, rather than scheduling any kind of public ceremony.

And he said the other three monuments scheduled for removal would be taken down in the same manner, adding only that it would happen "sooner rather than later."

The mayor chose to speak in front of a monument to fallen police officers in front of New Orleans Police Department headquarters. He pointed out that the Liberty Place statue was put up in the first place to honor an uprising that killed members of the city's integrated police force during the Reconstruction era.

Landrieu called the Liberty Place obelisk an "affront" both to the United States and "the humanity of millions of Americans."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: yoe

Taking a page from the Nazi Party playbook and its totalitarian quest of cultural cleansing, today the Democrat Socialist Party in New Orleans is removing four Confederate monuments from public view.

In this updated version from the 1930’s, American blacks residing on the Democrat Socialist plantation represent the new German victims, and the defenders of historical facts and Southern Heritage represent the new Jews.

In order to sanitize and erase cultural history to satisfy its “victims,” simply expropriate all of the structures, imagery and factual references connected to it. Liberal academic “historians” have already accomplished the latter.

The real problem is that most people are either too stupid or too illiterate to recognize what’s going on right under their noses. The South remains anathema to the Democrat Socialist Party, and they’re still trying to “Reconstruct” us.

Oh, and be sure to thank the “Educrats,” who are committed to teaching our children what they ideologically want them to believe, rather than what they factually need to know.


21 posted on 04/24/2017 11:39:26 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: Ancient Man

“Taking a page from the Nazi Party playbook and its totalitarian quest of cultural cleansing, today the Democrat Socialist Party in New Orleans is removing four Confederate monuments from public view.”

Please explain how the monument to the White League at Liberty Place is a “Confederate Monument”


22 posted on 04/24/2017 11:50:19 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: yoe

quote-Most history is an “affront” to someone as the Holly Bible is an affront to non-believers.

You mention the bible- The Scriptures have something to say about erecting ‘pillars’.
This nation has a big obelisk, in its capitol, that if God has His way, will fall.

watching a place like New Orleans, that has a history of voodoo, black magic and curses, tear down a ‘pillar’, is quite a prophetic statement.

if, or maybe ‘when’ the Washington Monument comes down some day, willingly or unwillingly, will people weep or rejoice?
depends on if they’ve read their bibles.


23 posted on 04/24/2017 11:54:21 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Charles Martel

It did vanish years ago. David Duke successfully sued to get it re-erected.


24 posted on 04/24/2017 11:58:12 AM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Read Write Repeat

Many Confederate Monuments commemorate the sacrifice that many Southern Soldiers made during the Civil War. Taking them down would be a travesty. I would also say the same for any monuments commemorating Union soldiers.


25 posted on 04/24/2017 12:18:47 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Timpanagos1

Because the other three memorials they’re removing include a statue of Robert E. Lee, a statue of Jefferson Davis and a statue of P.G.T. Beauregard. Can’t you read?


26 posted on 04/24/2017 12:21:49 PM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: yoe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place

Battle of Liberty Place

Monument taken down ..... Three more to be removed..


27 posted on 04/24/2017 12:26:05 PM PDT by deport
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To: Ancient Man

“Because the other three memorials they’re removing include a statue of Robert E. Lee, a statue of Jefferson Davis and a statue of P.G.T. Beauregard. Can’t you read?”

I think we can agree that you listed three (3) Confederate monuments, but you earlier stated that four (4) Confederate monuments were being removed.

Now, which is the the fourth (4th) Confederate monument being removed?

Or do you believe that the monument at Liberty Place is a Confederate monument?


28 posted on 04/24/2017 12:27:14 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Read Write Repeat

To include battlefield monuments on the actual battlefields?

I’m a Republican too and where I grew up every little town square and park has a monument to Union soldiers, leaders and units.

Memorial Day in my youth included a parade, ending at the old cemetery where the mayor made a speech and townspeople decorated the graves of the Civil War and Revolutionary War veterans buried there.

Every one took part in the parade; Girl, Cub and Boy Scouts, the American Legion and VFW.

Tuck Harris, the local Ford dealership owner provided convertibles for the WWI and Spanish American War vets, all the churches and service clubs, Moose, the Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis, Eastern Star, Shriners and Masons marched too. After the solemnities were concluded it was time for cook outs and fire works.

We were and are rightfully proud of our veterans; from our town of less than 5,000 several batteries of artillery as well as companies of infantry and cavalry, parts of 2 companies of the 2nd US Sharpshooters were raised locally, one of them fired from behind the stone wall between the Round Tops into the flank of Law’s Brigade as Chamberlain’s 20the Maine made their famous charge.

The America I grew up in would think your willingness to dishonor the memory of the sacrifices of brave men despicable.

Have you read Chamberlain’s description of the Confederate soldier as he saw them at the surrender of their arms and battle flags at Appomattox?

“On they come with the old swinging route step and swaying battle flags. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood. Thin, worn and famished, but erect and with eyes looking level into ours. Waking memories that bound us together as no other bond.

Was not such manhood to be welcomed back into the Union so tested and assured? On our part not a sound of trumpet more nor roll of drum, not a cheer, nor word, nor whisper of vain glorying, nor motion of man. But an awed stillness rather and breathholding, as if it were the passing of the dead.”

~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, describing the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.


29 posted on 04/24/2017 4:45:47 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: skepsel

There’s that word “manhood”. Its a dead concept now what with women in combat units and everyone (so far including Trump USMC generals!) “OK” with it.

So that bit of historical recollection will be headed for the dustbin if not already there.


30 posted on 04/24/2017 4:55:03 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Read Write Repeat

Shameful that you’d denigrate men that fought for their states rights and were conferred status as US Veterans with pardon and full veteran benefits, which makes every Confederate monument to war dead and their leaders no different than Union and current military monuments to our fallen.


31 posted on 04/24/2017 6:50:24 PM PDT by sandboxshooter (Iraq, Afghanistan, War)
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