Posted on 06/16/2020 1:29:49 PM PDT by robowombat
Lol
But neither a traitor to America. Can’t say the same for those confederates.
Great suggestions. May I add;
Fort John Pershing
Fort Alvin York (Medal of Honor Awardee)
Fort William Henry Carney (Medal of Honor awardee)
Fort Roy Benavidez (Medal of Honor Awardee)
Fort Charles Leroy Thomas (Medal of Honor Awardee)
“But neither a traitor to America.”
Setting aside for a moment that it is generally claimed that they “fought to free the slaves,” how would you justify to the blue culture naming a military base today for a slave master or a white supremacist?
The French President shows more courage and leadership than the spineless party on destroying history .
Surreal .
Sadly , The Pill propaganda from Nutter Alex Bolton former Yahoo lefty news Nut job .
She never met the truth or facts .
Move the statues to museums. This would not be surrender or re-writing history. These confederates were not traitors, but slavery was a rotten cause. And what about the memory of the union soldiers who died at the hands of the confederates? Bottom line: a statue of man who fought for slavery is no better than a statue of, say, Lenin.
My initial post confused was inted to reply about the statues rather than the forts, but the reasoning is the same.
This is all a Democrat ploy to rewrite their own racist history & distract from their present racism.
This guy is worthy.
What I call a badass and a patriot.
It is a surrender. They put pressure and you negotiate. The only acceptable answer is ‘No!’
Conservatives always think they win when the left demands something and they accept the premise but ask for something slightly different.
If you must negotiate then one confederate statue for each MLK statue. I could almost go for that deal. Although learning from the left why not just demand the removal of MLK statues with no deal.
“Trump would veto the $740 billion defense authorization bill if it required the renaming of bases.”
Good to know there is at least one man in D.C. who is not pusillanimous.
“Bottom line: a statue of man who fought for slavery is no better than a statue of, say, Lenin.”
Bottom line is that there is very little evidence the majority of Confederate soldiers fought for slavery; very few were slave owners and probably didn’t care much more about this issue than the majority of Union soldiers.
But I am not trying to divert this thread to a WBTS argument. The point is the Left is always “demanding” this and that and the Right all too frequently gives in.
The Left strikes when the iron is hot, like big pushes for gun control right after a school shooting or some other tragedy. Right now, the Left is pushing hard and fast to erase history. At the next opportunity they seize upon, it will be pushing some other issue that is dear to their totalitarian hearts.
How will this shi% improve anyone’s life?
You realize that 99% of the rioters have no clue who these statues really are depicting or what they did or did not do, right?
One of those in Portland, OR and in no danger of being toppled.
The past is never certain.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~Ronald Reagan
Note to GOP Establishment. Stop stabbing us in the back. Stop surrendering to Democrats. Stop caving in to efforts by the cultural marxists to rewrite history.
Grow a damn spine.
Secession is not treason. Making war on them (the states) is. Lincoln is the only one who did that.
Nobody was fighting “for” slavery. Slavery was not threatened in the US. If anybody thought it was, Lincoln championed and got the Corwin Amendment passed by the Northern dominated Congress and signed by the president. This would have explicitly protected slavery effectively forever in the US constitution. He again endorsed it in his inaugural address.
In addition to that, the US Congress passed an express resolution declaring they were not fighting over slavery....indeed, both sides had slaves.
If the revolution succeeds, RINOS will be the first to be disembowled. I hope. Followed by all Moderates; useless POS that can not be trusted anywhere, anytime. Of course the revolution won’t last 2 years. They’re all idiots and will be taken over by NWO.
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