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Posted on 06/24/2020 11:30:24 PM PDT by knighthawk
The Albert Pike monument is the only outdoor one in Washington DC that commemorates a member of the confederacy and on June 19 - the Juneteenth holiday to celebrate the emancipation of African American slaves – it was vandalized and later removed.
However, two sources told NBC News on Wednesday that President Trump personally called Interior Sec. Bernhardt and asked the Park Service to put back up the statue of Pike, who was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Civil War.
The White House did not provide an on-the-record comment about the statue potentially returning but an Interior Department spokesperson told correspondent George Bennett: 'The Secretary has made his position quite clear when it comes to lawlessness, violence against police, and destruction of public property.'
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When they take down a statue put up two.
Obviously, this is because of RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!! /amiright, MSM?
I don’t care if every single statue in America, up to and including Lady Liberty, is taken down and melted down for scrap. I do, however, care a lot about the process for selecting and removing statues and under no conditions will I ever see any mob of stupid children as a legitimate arbiter of that process.
Replace all torn down statues with cross.
” lawlessness, violence against police, and destruction of public property.’ “
But the media loves that!
How dare you!
agree-its the way they are doing it, Trump ought to say that if they want to take down these statues of Democrats (most slave owners were Dems )they need to do it lawfully
...Jackson introduced the famed General Lafayette to the Grand Lodge of Tennessee...
Jackson fan Trump
I had never heard of juneteenth until about three weeks ago.
It’s already wearing out it’s welcome.
I take that back. Within ten minutes it had with me.
You should both put the crack pipe down. Erasing history is never a good thing. For God’s sakes do a little reading
Good to see Brother Pike returning, although I am sure he would find the whole thing side-splitting hilarious.
As a note, there are several copies of “Morals and Dogma” on-line, including audio book format for those seeking some historical context of this great man’s accomplishments and, maybe a little esoteric knowledge.
The irony is just irresistible, hipsters tearing down a monument to the spiritual grandfather of the New Age Movement.
C’est la Vie!
A southerner got in a fight at a bar?
Attempts at humor aside, Pike was a high mucky muck in the Free Masons ... maybe the tavern served coffee too? *bada*boom*kisk*
COMPARE WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP “PERSONALLY ORDERED...” WITH WHAT OBUMMER “PERSONALLY ORDERED.”
Miles and miles apart. I’ll take President Trump’s orders ANYTIME.
If for some reason someone feels there are reasons to take a statue down there’s a democratic process for that. The mob does not get to decide. Trump is simply standing up for the rule of law here.
Principles are hard to defend to people who are only and always driven by images and feelings about images.
The question is not if a statue of Pike should or should not be shown in Washington D.C. The question is how is that decision made? By the elected representatives or by an angry mob. That is the sort of thinking about principles, not Pike, that Trump is defending.
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