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Roger Taney statue removed from Maryland State House grounds overnight
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 08/18/2017 8:37:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Under the cover of night, a work crew removed the statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous Dred Scott decision — from the grounds of the State House, ending the monument’s 145-year prominent perch in Annapolis.

At 12:20 a.m. Friday, flatbed trucks with equipment including a large crane pulled onto the street encircling the State House. Workers cordoned off the front lawn of the historic building and placed straps around the statue, the latest monument linked to the Confederate era to be removed from a public square.

Just before 2 a.m., the statue was slowly lifted from its base and clipped a few tree branches as it was guided onto a flatbed truck and wrapped. The statue has been moved to a secure Maryland State Archives storage facility.

The removal comes after mounting pressure to take down the Taney statue culminated in Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s reversal on the matter. His support, announced this week, provided enough votes for the four-member State House Trust to approve on Wednesday to remove it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: annapolis; dredscott; purge; rogerbtaney; rogertaney; scotus; statues; taney; waronart
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To: TigerClaws

15% of the population running the country-——with MSM approval.

This is NUTS !!!!!!!!!!!

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21 posted on 08/18/2017 9:03:47 AM PDT by Mears
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To: VeniVidiVici
They will rename Taneytown to Antifatown.

While I wouldn't put it past them to be that dumb, Taneytown predates Roger Taney's birth by around 20 years.

22 posted on 08/18/2017 9:04:06 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Timpanagos1
Bullcrap, a new poll from NPR and Marist shows 62% of Americans support leaving Confederate monuments intact, versus only 27% support for removing them.

And this guy was not even a Confederate. Removing a statue in place for over 140 years just to pander after some event in Virginia, and let's be serious it is pandering as this vote would not have succeeded a week ago, is disgusting.

Who's next? Andrew Jackson, surely. Sam Houston, maybe. George Washington in a decade or so when the Left's out of other figures.

23 posted on 08/18/2017 9:05:07 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: longtermmemmory
he was a chief justice of the court. The alt-left only sees ONE opinion not all the other contract opinions or credit payment opinions...

That's like saying that Blackmun shouldn't be remembered for the Roe v. Wade opinion since he issued so many others.

Taney deserves to be remembered most for Dred Scott.

24 posted on 08/18/2017 9:07:13 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: TigerClaws
I guess they will have to take the Taney out of Baltimore Harbor and sink it. USCGC Taney (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) (/ˈtɔːni/) is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last ship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although Taney was actually moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself (a non-combatant vessel at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy tug Hoga, also remains afloat). She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who was at various times: US Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
25 posted on 08/18/2017 9:09:07 AM 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: TigerClaws
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous Dred Scott decision

Good riddance. "Dred Scott" was one of the 3 worst decisions in American history. The other two are Roe v Wade and the one that legalized pervert marriage.

26 posted on 08/18/2017 9:09:43 AM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: KC_Lion

The current Governor, Hogan, is a nominal Republican and the cancer treatments he was undergoing apparently cost him his balls.


27 posted on 08/18/2017 9:13:17 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: TigerClaws

This is all about trying to remove white people..period. The crazy radical dems are being lead around by a bunch of radicalized anti American groups and black supremacists.

Americans by the majority oppose this removal nonsense, yet they keep going at it.

Is this because their plan to remove whitey via refugees and illegals through 3rd world has been put on hold due to DJT becoming POTUS?


28 posted on 08/18/2017 9:23:22 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: VietVet876

Well this Hogan is certainly no hero!


29 posted on 08/18/2017 9:27:11 AM PDT by princeofdarkness (Leftists. Their only response to failure is to double down.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
He was the Harry Blackmun of his day, twisting the Constitution to support Dem causes.
You are probably one of a handful of people in the entire country that knows (or cares) about that. How does removing a statue change that?

Next will be history revisionists and book burning. Will you support that too.

30 posted on 08/18/2017 9:28:51 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Transgender: A person who thinks s/he's wrong side out.)
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To: VietVet876

I’m from Maryland. Hogan is a liberal. Not a leftist, but a liberal. Similar to Collins/Murkowski in the senate.


31 posted on 08/18/2017 9:33:15 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: Trump20162020

He wrote one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.


32 posted on 08/18/2017 9:34:23 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: TigerClaws

Maryland — like most socialist states — is losing its identity to satisfy the current, no doubt temporary, needs of the Left. So very, very sad to see.


33 posted on 08/18/2017 9:34:51 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: snarkytart

Today they “necklace” statues. Tomorrow, they “necklace” us. That is what history has shown.


34 posted on 08/18/2017 9:36:30 AM PDT by Kalamata (With haste and GodÂ’s divine intervention, may Liberty be restored to the People.)
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To: silverleaf

“...politicians have showed how spineless they are when confronted by ignorant belligerent people.”

This is freakin awesome!!


35 posted on 08/18/2017 9:37:59 AM PDT by CaptainKip
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To: KC_Lion

ANTIFA with BLM is trying to throw the coup through violence that the dems want but don’t have the numbers and guts to do on their own through legal means...ie impeachment.


36 posted on 08/18/2017 9:38:55 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: glennaro

Maryland is a cesspool of thought control commissars.


37 posted on 08/18/2017 9:51:05 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Timpanagos1
He wrote one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.

The concept that people can be property wasn't ended in the US until the 13th amendment passed after the Civil War.

Dred Scott said you couldn't take property into another state and say it isn't property anymore. For example, you can't steal an F-150 in Tennessee and drive it to Vermont and say it's yours. Pretty cut and dried.

The Supreme Court decided to leave the issue of slavery to Congress (which kept punting) and merely interpreted existing law.

How radical.

38 posted on 08/18/2017 9:55:12 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: TigerClaws

Excellent. I hope it’s placed at eh headquarters of teh Democratic Party, considering Taney was a Democrat and it’s time to show who the real enemies of blacks and other minorities are.


39 posted on 08/18/2017 10:19:02 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
While I don’t like removal of statutes in general, I don’t have a problem with removing Roger Taney’s statute. He was the Harry Blackmun of his day, twisting the Constitution to support Dem causes.

How did he twist the constitution?

40 posted on 08/18/2017 10:44:53 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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