Posted on 08/17/2017 4:11:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws
At least he’s being consistent. Seattle has confederate statues? Washington wasn’t even a state during a Civil War.
This is really getting absurd. Liberals are all about symbolism instead of dealing with the problem.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy put up monuments to the Confederate dead all over the country back in the 1920s.
Why have it removed? Free speech goes both ways, and it is kind of kitschy.
Charges were dropped when he dropped out of next election if I am not mistaken.
I live only 35 miles from Seattle and that place may as well be Mars.
Seattle is boil on our ass.
Seattle earned his reputation at a young age as a leader and a warrior, ambushing and defeating groups of tribal enemy raiders coming up the Green River from the Cascade foothills, and attacking the Chimakum and the S'Klallam tribes living on the Olympic Peninsula. Like many of his contemporaries, he owned slaves captured during his raids.
That thing is always getting defaced somehow.
The snowflakes haven’t figured out that history has a lot of dirty hands—folks of every kind did some seriously nasty stuff.
If they want virtue I would tell them to visit Uranus. :-)
Honestly, Congress (lazy scum) should pass a bill that alternating public landscape should be by referendum only. These left-wing whackos are ruling by decree, a single man making these decisions? Shouldn’t it at least be state congress?
Autocratic rule and mob rule, that’s what we’re reduced to.
It's named for a slave owner!
Look it up, fool!
They had also better change the name of their city, as Seattle is named after Chief Seattle who was a slave owner.
Seattle might not exist without the Confederacy. Professor Mercer transported Yankee war widows there to reduce the large male/female mismatch. The CSA was making Yankee war widows by the bushel basket and, thus, deserves recognition.
Nowadays, of course, a Mercer equivalent would be recruiting young boys.
Private property?
What would Lenin think?
Hmm... on the one hand, I’m not sure about the whole removal of Confederate icons, since it is ultimately part of our country’s history for better or for worse. But on the other hand, I do like the idea of removing Lenin’s statue this time around, especially considering that honoring a mass-murdering dictator is NOT good by any stretch, and besides which, he wasn’t even part of American history in the first place, so he wouldn’t really belong here anyway.
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