Posted on 04/30/2018 5:04:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Edited on 04/30/2018 8:28:37 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-- Officials at Andrew Jackson's historic home in Tennessee say the seventh president's tomb has been vandalized and marred by profanities.
Andrew Jackson Foundation President and CEO Howard Kittell said the vandalism was discovered early Friday at The Hermitage, the former president's home and museum in Nashville.
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That last sentence is a money shot CD
This might be a stretch but I bet that at least twice in their lives these vandals had a $20 bill with Jackson’s image in their pockets.
The Left is staging an all-out assault on American symbols and American history.
Last week the statue of Stephen Foster was removed from it’s longtime home here in Pittsburgh due to Leftist agitation. They are systematically going after every symbol of our past.
They won’t be happy until President Jackson is dug-up and fed to the alligators.
“anarchist” — No doubt the writer did not want to use the more accurate terms “antifa”, “fascist leftists”, or “commie scum”.
First of all, Jackson died sixteen years before the Civil War, so he was hardly a Confederate.
Secondly, he was a staunch unionist whose stance on South Carolina's attempt at nullification in 1832 paved the way for the later Unionists that neo-Confederates hate so much.
Thirdly, he was a radical and one of the founders of the Democrat party. America's true conservatives at the time were the Federalists and Whigs, not the Democrats.
This confusion is what happens when people start thinking that populism is "conservative."
Let’s not also forget that as left-wing liberals they also hate Jews, which no doubt some of these clown are Jews.
The Whig Party took its name from the Whigs of England who opposed royal absolutism--because they were opposed to "King Andrew the First."
“Someone forgot to tell the graffitti artist that President Andrew Jackson was a Democrat!”
The Dims had to rename their “Jefferson-Jackson” dinners already.
He definitely was a racist too. Look how he treated friendly native American tribes. DEMONRATS HAVE A HISTORY, OF RACISM AND SLAVERY.
Jeez...
Nothing is sacred? Even a grave?
You don’t have to be a right wing nut to respect someone’s final resting place.
““anarchist” — No doubt the writer did not want to use the more accurate terms “antifa”, “fascist leftists”, or “commie scum”.
During WW2 nazi was the worst epithet, then during the Cold War it was a communist. Now, it’s a democrat.
“Kittell said a police report has been filed.”
Police in turn filed it in the shit can.
He is dead.
All the people he wronged are dead.
So are their children and grandchildren.
Get over it.
It’s past time an act like this resulted in an extended prison sentence.
Many of these people applauded Obama's proposal to replace Jackson on the $20 with Harriet Tubman. Who needs the Left when you have self-proclaimed "conservatives" willingly doing the Left's dirty work for them?
So was Thomas Jefferson and that doesn’t seem to be stopping them.
This is true. While Jackson was mostly supportive of much of the ideology that later came to define the Confederacy (agrarianism, financial and economic de-centralism), he would not abide secession. Jackson's position was the Constitutionally correct one: there is nothing in the US Constitution that guarantees a right of a state to secede (Article I Section 10 bars states from printing currency, negotiating treaties, declaring war, or imposing tariffs - which makes it pretty clear by implication that states aren't sovereign entities that can secede at will).
I'd also add that Lincoln was in the right to wage a war against secession to preserve the union. Where he erred both Constitutionally and politically was with the Emancipation Proclamation, which turned what was a war to preserve the union into a war over slavery. Many Americans who were willing to fight and die to preserve the union (rightly) resented having to do so to end slavery.
Thirdly, he was a radical and one of the founders of the Democrat party. America's true conservatives at the time were the Federalists and Whigs, not the Democrats.
It's meaningless to retroject the issues defining today's political parties, or even today's political spectrum, back 150 years. The issues that defined Democrats vs. Republicans in the 19th century have nothing to do with the issues defining those parties now. For instance, the defining issue of the Democrats since the mid 20th century has become an expanded welfare state. Neither party supported a welfare state in the 1800's because the notion wasn't on anybody's radar then. Where you stood on tariffs was probably the most important Democrat vs. Republican (or Federalist/Whig) issue of the time. While people still debate tariffs today, that's hardly the key issue that distinguishes Democrats and Republicans today. Jackson's "radicalism" consequently had nothing to do with the issues the define political radicalism today.
///He was a jerk but I have no doubt if he had been alive he could have whipped all the vandals without breaking a sweat.
He is dead.
All the people he wronged are dead.
So are their children and grandchildren.
Get over it.///
Dear Harmless,
I am Choctaw. My family was directly and negatively impacted by this lying two-faced President. I will never forget what he did to our People.
BUT, you are exactly right. Jackson was a historical person whose actions had far reaching effects on our nation. He was really the first of our who was not a member of the Eastern elites. Andrew Jackson was an important man of his times and reflected those times.
Desecrating his tomb is stupid, low-class and criminal. The perps should be found and prosecuted.
It is way past time to get over it.
Oldplayer
She had a hard enough life as it was.
Yep, stupid, low class and criminal as you said. Hope they get caught and go to jail.
Where was Jerry Lee Lewis last night?
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