Posted on 08/15/2017 5:31:16 AM PDT by street_lawyer
Despite laws making the destruction of public property a criminal offense the North Carolina police watched as a motley group of young vandals pulled down a statue of a confederate soldier and then kicked it repeatedly.
Question: Is is still safe to be a southerner in the US?
§ 14-127. Willful and wanton injury to real property.
If any person shall willfully and wantonly damage, injure or destroy any real property whatsoever, either of a public or private nature, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (R.C., c. 34, s. 111; 1873-4, c. 176, s. 5; Code, s. 1081; Rev., s. 3677; C.S., s. 4301; 1967, c. 1083; 1993, c. 539, s. 67; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
A protest in downtown Durham on Monday night left a statue of a Confederate soldier erected nearly a century ago crumpled on the ground. Sheriffs deputies recorded the event but did not intervene as a protester climbed a ladder and slipped a yellow, bungie-like cord around the soldiers head and arm and a group pulled the cord.
The statue did a somersault, collapsing against the stone pedestal in front of the old county courthouse on East Main Street.
Protesters cheered and started to kick the crumpled mass.
Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article167201667.html#storylink=
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It ain't just Southerners asking that question, counselor.
Ok, so you ran into an ignorant redneck. They exist in VA but they’re the minority.
Contrast that to when I went up to Pennsylvania to visit a friend in Harrisburg. We went to a local mall. Something hit me as weird. At first I couldn’t put a finger on it. Then I saw a black woman walked past.
She was the only black person I saw. No other shoppers, no employees. I couldn’t believe what I was experiencing.
I’ve heard Va. has a lot of mixed heritage persons. I haven’t personally seen that for myself, I’ve been there.
But the famous country singer, Patsy Cline was from there and she did have that.
“The authorities should have turned a fire hose on these vermin.”
What ‘authorities’? The ‘authorities’ that will beat your brains out if you try to stop the Marxists? The ‘authorities’ are on the side of their paychecks and pensions, they are NOT your friends.
Good point.
Read a biography of Truman and either his or Bess’s family talked of “how some damned Kansas family was eating off of their china”. Although Missouri stayed in the Union, western Missouri was pretty much considered enemy territory and I believe residents were forced to abandon their farms and move to towns. Of course Missourians weren’t the innocents either, they conducted raids into Kansas before the Civil War. Caused at least two or three generations of resentment between the two states.
“The authorities should have turned a fire hose on these vermin.
Whats happening in this country is disgraceful, and Im beginning to get pissed off at OUR side for doing nothing about it (and, no, a bunch of meaningless platitudes at press conferences isnt going to do the trick).”
Outstanding suggestion...spray these college punks down with some ‘Liquid Ass’...
Maybe not every state - but close enough. A lot of people are going to die, and soon.
I see no downside to that proposal. Let's start collating a list of targets.
“They are no better than the taliban”
Worse. They are here doing far more damage to the soul of the country than the Taliban ever will.
“The authorities should have turned a fire hose on these vermin”
No...a flame thrower.
Hell yes!
Even Trump is not going to be able to stop the civil war that has been brewing for 30 years. Unification at this point is not an option.
The division of the population is too hardened and the rhetoric too strident. There will be an incident or series of incidents that tips this into a hot war.
I had three great uncles from MO who ran with Quantrill and a Great Grandfather (their father) who provided financial support. They were force to fight when Redlegs came onto their land and hanged their mother’s brother for absolutely nothing. Antifa are the modern Redlegs.
Missouri’s post-war constitution disenfranchised any resident who so much as mailed a letter to anyone in the CSA. That constitution was replaced in 1875.
I’ve always been a northerner who loved the south. Just last week, family genealogy studies revealed that we actually WERE southerners at the time of the Civil War, lost everything, came west and north in the great migration after Sherman trashed the south. So I’m taking this personally.
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