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Seattle Mayor: Confederate monument and statue of Lenin need to go
Hotair ^ | 8/18/17 | JOHN SEXTON

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: communist; dixie; lastyearsnews; lenin; purge; seattle; statue
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


21 posted on 07/07/2018 9:28:31 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Libloather

It’s private property. None of the Mayor’s business.


22 posted on 07/07/2018 10:14:32 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: pepsionice

“Yep, once I read that...private land...then why bring this up?”

Virtue signaling! It’s fun and free!


23 posted on 07/07/2018 10:16:06 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Hugin

“It’s private property”

That is a foreign concept to the Mayor of Seattle.


24 posted on 07/07/2018 10:23:34 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Libloather
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.

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,

25 posted on 07/07/2018 10:49:25 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: right way right

Replaced by a crack snacker.


26 posted on 07/07/2018 10:51:08 PM PDT by punchamullah
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To: Libloather

Who made that idiot king?

I say, leave both of them up.


27 posted on 07/07/2018 10:54:17 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Libloather

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.


28 posted on 07/07/2018 11:00:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

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.


29 posted on 07/07/2018 11:11:03 PM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: angry elephant

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.


30 posted on 07/07/2018 11:23:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather
removal of a large statue of Vladimir Lenin

Well, OK ... just as long as the removal of Lenin's statue doesn't involve celebrants sucking on Starbucks Latte through plastic straws ....

31 posted on 07/08/2018 1:19:39 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Deplorable)
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To: Libloather

I support taking down anything with Obama’s name on it.


32 posted on 07/08/2018 3:41:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: PAR35

Forrest disbanded his unit and went home too.


33 posted on 07/08/2018 3:57:16 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Libloather

How does a confederate monument make it’s way to Seattle...lol


34 posted on 07/08/2018 5:39:24 AM PDT by wild74
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To: Bull Snipe
Forrest disbanded his unit and went home too.

Then he had that little meeting in Nashville with a half dozen of his friends.

35 posted on 07/08/2018 5:40:27 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Libloather
"but also requested the removal of a large statue of Vladimir Lenin. From the Seattle Times:"

Oh Oh.... He really stepped in it now... You don't mess with Lenin in THAT part of the country... They LOVE the guy...

36 posted on 07/08/2018 5:44:47 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Libloather

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?


37 posted on 07/08/2018 5:58:42 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: unread

“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.


38 posted on 07/08/2018 6:41:58 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: max americana

Actually, I think that’s the point - the left has no respect for private property.


39 posted on 07/08/2018 4:41:41 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: DoodleDawg

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


40 posted on 07/08/2018 4:49:59 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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