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Arcata removes controversial McKinley statue that stood for century after surviving 1906 SF quake
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 28, 2019 | Bill Disbrow

Posted on 03/01/2019 6:30:59 PM PST by artichokegrower

After years of contentious debate, an act of vandalism and a public vote, President William McKinley has lost his home at the center of Arcata Plaza in Humboldt County.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: arcata; arcataplaza; billdisbrow; california; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; humboldtcounty; isil; isis; mckinley; mckinleystatue; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; sanfrancisco; smearmachine; williammckinley
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McKinley served with honor during the Civil War enlisting as a private and achieving the rank of major at the war's end. He was assassinated while serving as commander in chief. The dope smoking addled brained mom's basement living pajama boys of Humboldt County have the heads so far in rectal input that they can't recognize this. McKinley was big on tariffs and the gold standard.
1 posted on 03/01/2019 6:30:59 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

They are going to replace it with an open cesspool and needle suppository.


2 posted on 03/01/2019 6:34:51 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: artichokegrower

The propagandist said controversial statue.


3 posted on 03/01/2019 6:35:00 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: artichokegrower

SF is due to another great quake....or some such chastisement...


4 posted on 03/01/2019 6:39:04 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: artichokegrower

Erasing our history is part of the communist/progressive plan for fundamental transformation of our country.

Some of those progressives are wearing R jerseys.


5 posted on 03/01/2019 6:42:56 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower

They hate him because we won the Spanish-American war, twice.

I read that Canton, OH bought the statue for the McKinley Presidential Library.


6 posted on 03/01/2019 6:49:16 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I can think of a man who was a womanizer, hired prostitutes and beat them, and was alleged to have credulously believed soviet propaganda about American atrocities in a war.

Should his monument(s) come down?


7 posted on 03/01/2019 6:49:46 PM PST by CondorFlight
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What does mcKinley have to do with Eureka?


8 posted on 03/01/2019 6:53:11 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

McKinley deserves a better place of honor than the filth of SF.


10 posted on 03/01/2019 7:11:18 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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[Erasing our history is part of the communist/progressive plan for fundamental transformation of our country.]

I was gonna say - “Fundamentally-transforming the United States of America” - Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama.


11 posted on 03/01/2019 7:14:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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It’s absurd these people with their revisionist history look at things. McKinley’s policies were fine then and he and the times were a product thereof, yet these Leftists want to erase history like it never happened because they hate the so called outcomes.


12 posted on 03/01/2019 7:15:45 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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I read that Canton, OH bought the statue for the McKinley Presidential Library.

Good. It should be in America.

13 posted on 03/01/2019 7:25:49 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: G Larry

Better a 50MT nuke to completely obliterate the city, and sterilize the land.


14 posted on 03/01/2019 7:28:21 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

San Francisco needs to be “erased.”


15 posted on 03/01/2019 7:28:54 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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McKinley fought in the Civil War, freed the slaves and died while serving his country. These momma’s boys in Humboldt County haven’t done sh!t. Go cry when your latte isn’t hot enough.


16 posted on 03/01/2019 7:29:08 PM PST by artichokegrower
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McKinley was an enormously important man. He single-handedly set the US on an imperial course, for good or ill. His one decision, in 1898, to hold on to the Philippines put the US in the middle of the great power conflicts in East Asia. That was much more than the fluttering butterfly setting the course of the future by chance. He made a choice, overnight, that set the course of world history.


17 posted on 03/01/2019 7:30:46 PM PST by buwaya
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McKinley and Polk are very underrated presidents. I guess the folks in Humboldt County California hate veterans. So sad.


18 posted on 03/01/2019 7:57:27 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

The last time I was in San Francisco on business, the smell of urine exiting the BART station was overpowering. I had to walk through a tunnel in one of the stations that was lined by homeless sitting upright against the wall and I had to pick my steps so not to stomp their legs accidentally or to trip. Anyone who eats in a restaurant there is crazy - the human waste doesn’t stay on the sidewalk but is tracked into the restaurant where it creates a nice situation for communicable diseases like typhus. and the statue protestors (including some supposed “Indians” who look fairer than the current Mass. senator who took the slot at Harvard Law School intended for a “Native American”)are worried about a statue for a man who fought bravely in the Civil War, tried to serve fairly as President and accomplish a good deal of good. To live in the same country as such ingrates and stupid scum requires a lot of endurance.


19 posted on 03/01/2019 8:09:37 PM PST by laconic
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Had lunch in Arcata during a tour of NoCal. There was an honest-to-goodness Officer Dangle meter cop on the square! Saw the McKinley staute, viewed the hippie dippies lounging on the grass;aromas of pot and body odors everywhere.


20 posted on 03/01/2019 8:10:36 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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