‘Remove’ Mount Rushmore: Protests to Greet Trump in South Dakota

Breitbart ^ | 25 June 2020 | Joel B. Pollack

[KC_Lion]

Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner is protesting President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next week, saying the monument should be “removed” because it is on land claimed by Native Americans.

The Argus Leader reported Thursday that many — though not all — local Sioux “want the monument removed,” seeing the faces of four white leaders as an affront — including Abraham Lincoln, who was president when U.S. soldiers executed Indians.

Several groups are planning to protest Trump’s visit, and Bear Runner has written a memorandum to Trump opposing his visit.

Trump is planning to visit as a show of support for national monuments as left-wing activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement have torn down and destroyed them in recent weeks, including statues of abolitionists.

The Argus Leader elaborates:

Mount Rushmore was created to draw tourism to South Dakota and its carving took place between 1927 and 1941. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum intended for Mount Rushmore to stand for America’s greatness, and it’s referred to as the Shrine of Democracy. However, stories in recent years have highlighted Borglum’s ties to white supremacy, possibly joining the Ku Klux Klan, his Confederate sculpture funded by the KKK and that the tribes have argued for generations that the land was stolen from them.

[amihow]

How about the civilized remove the faces and relocate them? American ingenuity can do it. Give the new, flat mountain face to Indians and see if injunuity can match what was there with their heros.

[datura]

Born and raised in the Black Hills.

Bring it, you dog eating losers. You already lost one war here, this time we will eliminate your rampant alcoholism and unemployment - your attempted takeover back in ‘73 should have taught you, but your alcohol riddled brains can’t process it.

I’m on my way home soon - can’t wait to drive thru the res.

The Oglala Nation needs to cease existing - go back to Minneapolis where you came from!!?

[Bonemaker]

Maybe the bikers will keep an eye on it on their way to Sturgis?

[PeterPrinciple]

U.S. soldiers executed Indians during the Civil War? When did they have time?

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For Iowa it was a 3 front war, the Indian war, the renegades in MO and the civil war. We sent troops to all the fronts.

The Indians took advantage of the situation. Many Indian massacre’s in nw ia and sw minesota. Many were caught to be hanged but Lincoln made them go through formal procedures and the number was dropped considerably.

[piasa]

Since the Sioux were originally an Eastern tribe, there must be other tribes whose claim predates theirs.

[TLI]

Here he is in Novermber 2018

https://www.indianz.com/News/2018/11/08/oglala-sioux-tribe-elects-newcomer-julia.asp

Army vet, looks normal.

What changed him?

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[piasa]

Even funnier is they are part of the liberal - Marxist open-borders let illegal immigrants in crowd.

You’d think they would have learned their lesson.

[usconservative]

Someone help me out here, I didn't see any dates and read it 3x. Granted I'm post dinner, getting sleepy and had my rum 'n coke already.

What dates are these bastards planning on being there? I'd like to be there to "greet them."

USC

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The Sioux took it from the Cheyennes.

Add President Trump to Mount Rushmore.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

That land once belonged to the Cheyennes.

[5th MEB]

The problem with Conservatives is we know that if we pulled any of this shit in retaliation against the communists and democrats, the whole weight of the federal government would come down on our heads with bullets, swat teams, fed sniper teams, the National Guard with live ammo, bombs, grenades, and a thousand years in prison, IF WE WERE TAKEN ALIVE!

We are not STUPID, we know enough to wait until they attack us directly.

(which they will eventually)

Then we can legitimately say “I FEARED FOR MY LIFE, I WANT A LAWYER”, end of statement.

[smvoice]

LOVE ME SOME TRUMP on Mt. Rushmore!!!

Especially THAT one! LOL!!!

[5th MEB]

I just read your tag line; have YOU TAKEN ANY DIRECT ACTION LATELY?

[smvoice]

What are they going to do?? They’ll have to sober up first. And then MARCH..in hot weather...i don’t think so

[AllAmericanGirl44]

I thought this had been planned for long before the March of the malcontents had begun? But yes, use it to our advantage.

[EinNYC]

Oh, so this chief said nothing during Odungo, during Bush, but now suddenly Mt. Rushmore is no good? Go hump a buffalo, you old alkie!

[robowombat]

This was in the wake of the Minnesota 1862 Sioux uprising. Its narrative reads like a Hollywood movie treatment circa 1950. Lincoln took time to carefully scrutinize the list of the condemned and reduced by more than half to 36, I think. The execution was done at Mankato, I think, on the day after Christmas 1862.

[robowombat]

This sort of vitriolic ranting doesn’t belong here.

[Ancesthntr]

“I would rather be beheaded than to ever even consider living under socialism/communism. If that were the only choice, my life would only have the meaning that dying for freedom would provide, and the worth of my soul to God. I don’t think these pu**eys have any idea of what’s coming their way if they persist.”

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“Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

- General George S. Patton, Jr.

[CatOwner]

We’re not undoing this great country’s history.

Uh, hello??!! What do you think has been going on for decades? The left could deface Mt Rushmore, and conservatives would do nothing about it. Nothing.