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Seattle mayor requests removal of Lenin, Confederate statues
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Posted on 08/17/2017 4:11:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray expressed his displeasure in a Confederate statue Lake View Cemetery on Wednesday. Now, on Thursday, he’s officially asking for its removal. That and the removal of the Lenin statue in Fremont.

RANTZ: Murray should mind his own business

See his entire statement:

“In the last few days, Seattleites have expressed concerns and frustration over symbols of hate, racism and violence that exist in our city. Not only do these kinds of symbols represent historic injustices, their existence causes pain among those who themselves or whose family members have been impacted by these atrocities. We should remove all these symbols, no matter what political affiliation may have been assigned to them in the decades since they were erected. This includes both confederate memorials and statues idolizing the founder of the authoritarian soviet regime. Both are on private property, but I believe the confederate memorial at Lake View Cemetery and the Lenin statue in Fremont should be removed. We should never forget our history, but we also should not idolize figures who have committed violent atrocities and sought to divide us based on who we are or where we came from.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bluezones; dixie; edmurray; lenin; mayors; purge; seattle
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Eating their own now!
1 posted on 08/17/2017 4:11:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Lenin ?

He’s their HERO


2 posted on 08/17/2017 4:12:15 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: TigerClaws
Both are on private property

Exqueeze me?! Then why does anyone other than the property owner get a frickin' say?!

3 posted on 08/17/2017 4:14:49 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Dang, beat me to it.


4 posted on 08/17/2017 4:15:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: TigerClaws

oddly this is a great victory for us to finally have someone on the left acknowledge the evil of communism and Lenin ...The Antifa is a Communist front group

if he has links it to a Confederate statue I’ll take it


5 posted on 08/17/2017 4:15:50 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: TigerClaws
Coming for the Confederate statues/memorials. Next up: coming for war memorials since they glorify war.

I said nothing when they came for the Confederate statues/memorials.

6 posted on 08/17/2017 4:17:19 PM PDT by SkyDancer (There Are Three Great Ways To Perfect Landings - Unfortunately We Pilots Don't Know Them.)
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To: tophat9000

Isn’t Murrey up on child molestation charges ?


7 posted on 08/17/2017 4:17:29 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: TigerClaws

The property owners should tell the good Mayor to stuff it.


8 posted on 08/17/2017 4:18:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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will be ironic if the Antifa came out to protest the taking down of that Lenin statue

who knows maybe that’s the answer to reveal who the antifa are the we start having anti communist protest


9 posted on 08/17/2017 4:18:42 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: SkyDancer

Guaranteed, but not until after they go after the founders.


10 posted on 08/17/2017 4:19:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mewzilla
Exqueeze me?! Then why does anyone other than the property owner get a frickin' say?!

In the People's Republic of Seattle? Does private property even exist?

11 posted on 08/17/2017 4:21:32 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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Lenin statue in Seattle?

Oh the IRONY


12 posted on 08/17/2017 4:22:34 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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I hope “someone” is thinking about where these works of art can be stored until this BS Monument Lynch mob comes to its senses.


13 posted on 08/17/2017 4:24:41 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: Col Frank Slade

He molested his foster kids. He’s a pervert and an idiot. His quote about Seattle residents “concerns and frustration over symbols of hate, racism and violence that exist in our city.” Anytime I look at a Demoncrat, I think of them as symbols of hate, racism and violence. Let’s get rid of all libs.


14 posted on 08/17/2017 4:30:19 PM PDT by dwg2
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Equal time for Lenin?

That Commandment against graven images is looking better and better.


15 posted on 08/17/2017 4:37:02 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
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To: mewzilla

He is trying to divert from his child molestation cases (mounted a’A Few Good Men’ when they were boys.)


16 posted on 08/17/2017 4:46:02 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: TigerClaws

On the other hand he’s commissioned a new statuary hall for Seattle depicting “The Sins of Leviticus”


17 posted on 08/17/2017 4:47:01 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
I hope “someone” is thinking about where these works of art can be stored until this BS Monument Lynch mob comes to its senses.

You raise an excellent point and a question that I have been pondering as well. Where are the statues being relocated? I have seen some scant mentions in the articles of the monuments being relocated to museums or private property, but I can't imagine that some of these monuments won't simply be destroyed by these totalitarians.

As a side note; all of this zeal on the left has prompted me (a northeastern yankee) to make a donation to The Confederate Memorial Hall museum in New Orleans.

18 posted on 08/17/2017 4:47:39 PM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: TigerClaws

The Lenin statue is private property and is on sale for the low, low price of a quarter of a million buckaroos. Let Hizzoner buy it and he can do whatever he likes with it. But not with public money.


19 posted on 08/17/2017 4:49:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TigerClaws

Just a few days ago I emailed Murray about the Lenin statue, and I got a polite and non-dismissive reply. The statue is on private property, so I don’t think the City can order it removed, but I pointed out to the mayor’s office that he could use his “bully pulpit” to exert pressure to have it removed.


20 posted on 08/17/2017 4:53:07 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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