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.
15% of the population running the country-——with MSM approval.
This is NUTS !!!!!!!!!!!
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While I wouldn't put it past them to be that dumb, Taneytown predates Roger Taney's birth by around 20 years.
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.
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.
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.
The current Governor, Hogan, is a nominal Republican and the cancer treatments he was undergoing apparently cost him his balls.
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?
Well this Hogan is certainly no hero!
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.
I’m from Maryland. Hogan is a liberal. Not a leftist, but a liberal. Similar to Collins/Murkowski in the senate.
He wrote one of the worst decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.
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.
Today they “necklace” statues. Tomorrow, they “necklace” us. That is what history has shown.
“...politicians have showed how spineless they are when confronted by ignorant belligerent people.”
This is freakin awesome!!
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.
Maryland is a cesspool of thought control commissars.
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.
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.
How did he twist the constitution?
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