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Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key Statues Pulled Down By Protesters In San Francisco
dailycaller.com ^ | 6/20/2020 | Alec Schemmel

Posted on 06/20/2020 12:01:53 PM PDT by rktman

Protesters tore down the statues of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key Friday in San Francisco.

Grant, who led the Union army into battle against the Confederacy, and Scott Key, who wrote America’s national anthem, are just two of the latest statues to be ripped down by protesters on the Juneteenth holiday that marks the 155th anniversary since a federal order to liberate slaves reached Galveston, Texas, almost two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Even though Grant is widely celebrated as the general who led the Union into the war that brought an end to slavery in the United States, some critics have pointed to his ownership of a slave for about one year as a result of his marriage, despite the future president reportedly working alongside him in the fields and setting him free before the Civil War began.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; culturalrevolution; fidiots; francisscottkey; sanfrancisco; ulyssessgrant; usebetterkeywords
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Well of course. And will chesa 'sausage' boudin attempt to prosecute anyone? Nah.
1 posted on 06/20/2020 12:01:53 PM PDT by rktman
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SPJNK.


2 posted on 06/20/2020 12:02:42 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Never thought Mao’s cultural revolution could happen here but here we are.


3 posted on 06/20/2020 12:03:00 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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You really didn’t think the BLM thugs would stop at Confederate Generals...did you?


4 posted on 06/20/2020 12:03:22 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Grant is widely celebrated as the general who led the Union into the war

Really, dailycaller? Grant led the Union into the war?

5 posted on 06/20/2020 12:03:36 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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More evidence, as if any were needed, that the George Floyd riots are really about “Death to America”


6 posted on 06/20/2020 12:04:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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These idiots are just pulling down statutes. They don’t know any American history. Wish we could have them be liable and pay for replacing every statute their take down.


7 posted on 06/20/2020 12:05:33 PM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: rktman

Ignoramuses


8 posted on 06/20/2020 12:05:58 PM PDT by Iowa Slim
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To: LoveMyFreedom

no history=no history.


9 posted on 06/20/2020 12:07:27 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Islam cannot tolerate statues. Communists cannot tolerate statues of non-communists. ANTIFA cannot tolerate anything or anyone.


10 posted on 06/20/2020 12:09:22 PM PDT by Ingtar
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Owned a slave for one year via his marriage.

Fought the Civil Was and ended slavery.

Which takes precedence?

This has NOTHING to do with what any of these statues represent. It’s all about flushing all American history down the Memory Hole. It’s all about the wholesale destruction of America.

There was an interview of a young white Woman anarchist at CHAZ a day or two ago. She was adamant and serious about “burn it all down.”


11 posted on 06/20/2020 12:10:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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I love it. The ignorance is astounding.


12 posted on 06/20/2020 12:11:32 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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> You really didn’t think the BLM thugs would stop at Confederate Generals...did you? <

I’m sure Antifa was there as well. But yes, they are just working their way done the list. Confederate leaders first. Then anyone associated with slavery in any way. Then it will be white people in general. Collective guilt, dontcha know?

As for me, I’m quite concerned that they will eventually get to the Elaine Benes mannequin I have in my front yard.


13 posted on 06/20/2020 12:12:42 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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New statues to be erected:

Mao...
Che...
Stalin...
Marx...
Obama...
Ayers...
Jackson (Jesse)...
Sharpton...


14 posted on 06/20/2020 12:13:39 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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It’s SF. Who cares. Those men would be embarrassed to have their statues in such a s***hole anyways.


15 posted on 06/20/2020 12:15:09 PM PDT by bkopto
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16 posted on 06/20/2020 12:15:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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Paul Joseph Watson just showed a video where on of the statue pullers admitted on camera that he had no idea who the person was that he was destroying.
pathetic


17 posted on 06/20/2020 12:16:50 PM PDT by mowowie
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Right. Grant got get his promotion as top General kind of late because Lincoln saw he was a fighter always taking it forward to the south, Grant promoted like minded generals, if Grant was promoted earlier the war may have been over earlier.


18 posted on 06/20/2020 12:17:18 PM PDT by Striperman (Striperman)
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Never thought Mao’s cultural revolution could happen here but here we are.

Me neither -- especially with the tacit approval of elected officials whose sworn duty is to uphold the law and the Constitution. If we don't rise up and fight this, when will we ever fight?

19 posted on 06/20/2020 12:19:36 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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Red Guards shave half the hair off "gangster" Li Fanwu. Photo: 1966. Coming soon to an American city near you.


20 posted on 06/20/2020 12:20:05 PM PDT by Signalman
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