To: PATRIOT1876
Why should conservatives fight to protect monuments to dead Democrat slave-owners? What’s next, a statue of Ted Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick town square?
4 posted on
05/25/2017 11:22:52 AM PDT by
mvpel
To: mvpel
It is erasing history in Soviet fashion.
Besides, the Civil War was not primarily about slavery. Lincoln did that mid-war as a PR move.
At least, the majority of Confederate soldiers were not fighting to keep slavery.
5 posted on
05/25/2017 11:26:17 AM PDT by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
To: mvpel
Ted Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick town square?
Its why I LOVE FREEREPUBLIC!!!
Freegards
PS when in MV in 1999 my sister and I did our Conservative duty and went around asking for Chappaquiddick tee shirts.
it was barf alert
7 posted on
05/25/2017 11:29:57 AM PDT by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: mvpel
Because after the Confederate monuments come down, the monuments for Washington, Jefferson and the other founders will be targeted next by the cultural marxists. These efforts to erase history are stalinistic.
8 posted on
05/25/2017 11:32:10 AM PDT by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: mvpel
Thomas Jackson owned no slaves, Robert E Lee manumitted his wife's slaves. Jackson was looked askance upon and regarded to be eccentric in Lexington because he conducted Sunday school classes for black children.
Both were fighting for home rule (albeit for whites) and local democracy and regarded themselves as conducting the Second American Revolution.
You might consider them the anti-globalists of their time.
12 posted on
05/25/2017 12:04:13 PM PDT by
nathanbedford
(attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
To: mvpel
Civil War veterans are considered the same as any other US military veterans. This isn’t any different than removing statues of Washington because he had ideals that don’t agree with those doing the removing.
20 posted on
05/25/2017 12:20:57 PM PDT by
Travis T. OJustice
(<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
To: mvpel
You do realize that Ulysses S Grant was a slave owner...Also was William T Sherman....
Should their monuments also be removed????
25 posted on
05/25/2017 12:27:22 PM PDT by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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