The new face of America is eerily familiar.... It's the same group of Leftist making their excuse to attack.
Posted on 08/16/2017 5:45:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Baltimore City Council has voted to remove four Confederate monuments in the city. The move follows protesters pulling down a Confederate memorial in Durham, North Carolina after a deadly weekend of protests over another statue in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The council still has to decide whether to destroy the monuments or move them to a museum because of their historical significance.
We still emphatically do not want these to be placed on public display anywhere,” council member Brandon Scott told WMAR.
Scott, who introduced the resolution calling for the destruction of the monuments said, “we should melt them down and use them to erect statues of true heroes of Baltimore.”
In 2016, a task force created by then-Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake reviewed four monuments linked to the Confederacy. Their 34-page report recommended the removal of two and adding contextual signage for the others, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Before leaving office, Rawlings-Blake had signs placed next to all the monuments stating they were “part of a propaganda campaign” to “perpetuate the beliefs of white supremacy.”
Current Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has suggested the statues be removed and not destroyed. She told WMAR that the Maryland Historical Trust has to give permission to remove at least one of the statues.
Pugh said she had spoken to the mayor of New Orleans about the cost of monument removals. New Orleans spent $2.1 million. Pugh estimates the price tag will be lower in Baltimore and they could potentially be moved to the two or three Confederate cemeteries in Maryland.
The four monuments slated for removal are scattered across the city.
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1) Why the move to eradicate these "offensive" Confederate statues now, and from where did it come?
2) Where does this movement end? Only with Confederate statues?
Some private person should offer to buy them. Then set them up in a private park for display.
It won’t solve the murder rate. It won’t put food on the table for families.
It won’t create more jobs
Boom!
You nailed it!
It’s nothing but a distraction.
Progressives removing statues of democrats. Next up for the radical progessive left, burning books.
Nope. Demonstrators want racist Teddy Roosevelt removed from American Museum of Natural History in NY.
Right!
I am assuming the Deep State is making it’s move through it’s proxy armies Antifa and BLM.
Sort of like a salt lick for the Antifa deer?
As President Trump said yesterday, you could lump Washington and Jefferson (and so many others) into this situation. Where does it end? With Barack Obama on the $1 and Hillary Clinton on the Quarter, and the Washington Monument in ruins.
What is a private park?
People seem to have an unrealistic view of the value of these old statues. Museums don't want them. Schools don't want them. The only people who show to defend them are carrying nazi banners.
I highly doubt some rich benefactor will purchase them for display. Most likely, they'll be sold for scrap.
The fools who deem these desecrations morally imperative have no inkling of the horrors they unlease. Their own precious icons will be on the chopping block in due time.
One cannot erase history and denegrate ancient heroes without consequence. The price for these atrocities will be terrible.
It started w the removal of the 10 commandments monuments and ends w the confiscation of our guns.
no SCARY statues, no dreaded cops, no bothersome businesses...
wow it’ll be a paradise, huh..?
right, sure.
Haiti North.
Two of those monuments were there at the twilights last gleaming but were already gone as of dawn’s early light ..
But try to get the city to plow the snow off your street...
Seems like we should fund source a Confederate Museum to protect these.
Well, that ought to fix all their problems, won’t it. Let’s remove Baltimore, instead.
The new face of America is eerily familiar.... It's the same group of Leftist making their excuse to attack.
I suppose the one of Donald Schaeffer waving goodbye to the Colts gets to stay.
This ends with the total destruction of the United States we used to know. Little do they realize though that they will return to cannibalism and eat their own because there will be nothing left here.
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