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Duke University removes contentious Confederate statue after vandalism
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Posted on 08/20/2017 6:55:11 PM PDT by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws

Well they need to take it down as well. That would be funny as hell.Commies.


21 posted on 08/20/2017 7:36:45 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I think they showed us this film in high school. Or was it grade school?


22 posted on 08/20/2017 7:39:03 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: TigerClaws

Just want it on the record that I am happy to house these monuments to bigotry and hate on my family farm; hidden away from anyone who may faint at the obvious hate-mongering idolatry that they represent.

Just tell me where/when to come pick it up. I’m waiting and ready.

(These are gonna look AWESOME in my side yard.)


23 posted on 08/20/2017 7:39:27 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: a fool in paradise

BFL


24 posted on 08/20/2017 7:40:39 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: thecodont

I saw it in the 1980s when Rhino released it as The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!


25 posted on 08/20/2017 7:44:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Noamie; All

New Orleans mayor tossed their statues into a garbage heap:

https://oddgarfield.deviantart.com/journal/New-Orleans-Mayor-Exposed-for-Trashing-Monuments-681388209

The idiot (Landrieu) spent $2 million on statues while not getting the pumps working in his below-sea-level city. A small rain flooded part of the town and there’s another month left of tropical storm season.


26 posted on 08/20/2017 7:44:45 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Bon mots

Need a Hugo Black nomination meme too.


27 posted on 08/20/2017 7:45:14 PM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: a fool in paradise

He also sent back a shipload of Jewish refugees who were later exterminated.

The USS St. Louis.

A disgrace of a President, almost as bad as Obungler.


28 posted on 08/20/2017 7:47:22 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: TigerClaws

“New Orleans mayor tossed their statues into a garbage heap:”


I would honestly take a sculpture of Stalin or Saddam Hussein versus knowing that it would otherwise go to a junk yard.

Not all monuments are there to remind us of the good times, or even of good people... I guess that wisdom is lost on book-burning Liberals.


29 posted on 08/20/2017 7:52:07 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: stylin19a
Vincent Price Agrees
30 posted on 08/20/2017 7:52:34 PM PDT by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: TigerClaws

Time to replace their mortarboards with pussy hats.


31 posted on 08/20/2017 7:54:33 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: TigerClaws

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

~Pastor Martin Niemöller

Community and individuality are not opposites. People cannot survive on their own. When the odds are stacked against you, you must rally with the oppressed and hated.

When a growing oppressive regime is taking hold, you must act, otherwise you will soon face your enemy alone and hopeless.

Strength of community is a strength as much as individualism, as long you are willing to face weaknesses in your own community. Ignoring slacking values will mean that you will be rallied against by those you oppress.

Niemöller affirms we must rally against unhealthy organized regimes. We must also stay vigilant with those that appear to be good natured, as all organisation attracts corruption. Niemöller also warns us that if it is you who are corrupt, then you will face a stronger combined force of foe!

~Vexen Crabtree


32 posted on 08/20/2017 7:58:42 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: TigerClaws

I wonder when the Statue of John Wayne at the OC Airport will feel the wrath of the Left?

I recall he played a ex Confederate Soldier in a couple of Movies, Rooster Cogburn and the Searchers I think.

Clint Eastwood did in The Outlaw Josie Wales, but I don’t think there is a Statue of him anywhere though.


33 posted on 08/20/2017 8:00:43 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Wayne was also Republican and against Communists in Hollywood. He’s on the list for destruction no doubt.

Bill Clinton might be as well. He signed 3 Strikes into law, welfare reform, and opposed Sodomite marriage.

Complete destruction of our history is the goal. The Constitution itself says “3/5 all other persons” making it a Hate Crime document and, as we know, hate speech is non speech and must be eliminated. So add it to the list of documents to be destroyed.


34 posted on 08/20/2017 8:03:59 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

What about the Nifong statue?


35 posted on 08/20/2017 8:12:59 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Noamie

Some gun ranges could use good targets.


36 posted on 08/20/2017 8:14:19 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: TigerClaws

It is time to sue Duke University because Confederate soldiers are American Veterans by various Acts of Congress:

http://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2011/04/14/confederate-soldiers-are-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/


37 posted on 08/20/2017 9:51:13 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Bob Celeste

Duke no longer has any school values. We learned than with the false rap claims against some of their students about 5 years ago.

It looks like the Duke “Devil” is in charge of the cowardly administration and its minions run the campus doing his evil deeds.


38 posted on 08/20/2017 10:15:53 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: TigerClaws

And now the snowflakes at Duke can grab their “bankies” and go “ni-ni” because all is good.


39 posted on 08/21/2017 3:52:48 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: TigerClaws

The new Duke University President Vincent Price only recently came into office, replacing the notorious former President Richard Brodhead who helped blow up Duke’s credibility over the fraudulent charges of rape against the Duke Lacrosse team back in 2006. Brodhead should have been fired after that fiasco — but no, he served on until he was ready to go. Another 11 years of shame heaped on Duke University for retaining this gelded coward at the helm.

When the charges were made 11 years ago, Brodhead canceled the rest of the Lacrosse season and the coach was forced to resign. Broadhead expressed sympathy with the extremist views of the Gang of 88 in the faculty who proclaimed the guilt of the members of the lacrosse team against false accusations of rape, with no evidence.Brodhead did nothing to tamp down hostilities on the campus. A substantial payout was made in the lawsuit brought by former players, which Broadhead approved and kept secret. The board of directors continued to support him in spite of his clear failure to show impartiality and to try to get at the truth of what happened.

In the footshopts of the calamities of President Brochead, this new President has already failed in the most important test he has faced to date. Vincent Price should be forced to resign. The problem is that the board at Duke is filled with wealthy leftists who see no problem with this.

If Duke’s future is ever to be salvaged, the board should resign, too, and new members appointed who fervently believed in academic freedom and free speech.

Until there is a clean sweep, the stain of corruption will waft over the campus and it will continue to be a desert for academic freedom, free speech, and free inquiry and a blot on the name of fundamental human fairness and justice.


40 posted on 08/21/2017 6:05:56 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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