Posted on 07/07/2018 7:56:38 PM PDT by Libloather
The removal of offensive monuments took a unique turn in Seattle. Mayor Ed Murray asked a cemetery to remove a Confederate monument erected in 1926 but also requested the removal of a large statue of Vladimir Lenin. From the Seattle Times:
The monument, erected in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Lenin statue are both on private property. Still, Murray said, he believes they should be removed.
“Not only do these kinds of symbols represent historic injustices, their existence causes pain among those who themselves or whose family members have been impacted by these atrocities,” Murray said in the statement. “We should remove all these symbols, no matter what political affiliation may have been assigned to them in the decades since they were erected. This includes both Confederate memorials and statues idolizing the founder of the authoritarian Soviet regime.”
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Yep, once I read that...private land...then why bring this up? City-owned property, then you have some jurisdiction and decision-making capability. Private property? You’d have to get judges involved, and make people worry about what else you might go after in the next twenty years.
It’s private property. None of the Mayor’s business.
“Yep, once I read that...private land...then why bring this up?”
Virtue signaling! It’s fun and free!
“It’s private property”
That is a foreign concept to the Mayor of Seattle.
Liberals really don't understand the various different meanings of the word "should."
"Should" as in: "In a perfect world, everyone would agree to remove them."
Or "should" as in: "Those portions of the U.S. Constitution which protect private property, and thus allow these monuments to remain, must be abrogated."
Or "should" as in: "I don't like them! Make them go away!"
Presumably, the latter.
Regards,
Replaced by a crack snacker.
Who made that idiot king?
I say, leave both of them up.
The owner of the Lenin statue is willing to sell it - last I heard he wanted $250,000. It’s had a couple of, er, “modifications” over the years including the red paint on his hands and a marital aid attached to his head. Not sure the latter is still there. The Fremont locals aren’t exactly thrilled at the presence of the thing but enjoyed a sense of irony for a while. The Seattle city council could solve the entire affair by purchasing the statue and moving it downtown to a place where they could worship it properly, which its current members would very likely do.
The Lenin statue would have gone up when the Fremont area was heavily blue collar working neighborhood. That was back when the Communist Party was totally embracing the blue collar worker. There were a lot of cheap flophouse hotels where transient workers could stay.
The Fremont area has been heavily gentrified since then. Although it is a bastion of lefties and gays, they likely do not want an overt sign of their ultra leftism.
Yep, that was ‘95 and I was living in Seattle at the time. It’s actually sort of an interesting take on Vlad The Bad, not intended to be entirely complimentary and focusing on the fellow’s violence. And yeah, housing in Fremont has gone up just a tad since then and the residents reflect that.
Well, OK ... just as long as the removal of Lenin's statue doesn't involve celebrants sucking on Starbucks Latte through plastic straws ....
I support taking down anything with Obama’s name on it.
Forrest disbanded his unit and went home too.
How does a confederate monument make it’s way to Seattle...lol
Then he had that little meeting in Nashville with a half dozen of his friends.
Oh Oh.... He really stepped in it now... You don't mess with Lenin in THAT part of the country... They LOVE the guy...
Why did the UDC pay for a Confederate monument in Seattle when Washington was not only not a Confederate state, it wasn’t a state at all until 1889?
“Oh Oh.... He really stepped in it now”...……..
Pray that when the statue(s) are removed from Washington, the Seattle Mayor will be hauled off with them as well.
Actually, I think that’s the point - the left has no respect for private property.
It always appeared to me like dogs peeing to mark their territory. What I thought even stranger was the Davis Memorial Highway (Highway 99) that runs form the Canadian border to Mexico.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/jdavis.cfm
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