Posted on 09/08/2021 6:31:39 AM PDT by Cecily
Watch a livestream of the Lee statue in Richmond being removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue.
The stream, provided by VPM, will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, and for the first hour the stream "will also feature relevant photos and footage related to the removal of the monument," according to a news release from the state agencies overseeing the project.
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
Don’t get me started.
Saw this on news yesterday. First post about it I see here.
This is Violence against America! VIOLENCE! It is by proxy, exactly what they are doing, and will do to you and your children. There is no escaping this. They are destroying your country in your face, in broad daylight!! That scene should be surrounded by thousands of angry Patriots who understand this. And they must have the ability to defend the Truth.
Crazy. All that expense to appease this country’s leftist terrorists.
What will happen to that monument? Will it be moved somewhere in one piece?
Or was it destroyed, like the crowds did to some Columbus statues?
Do you enjoy your bloated, overreaching Federal government in DC? That’s exactly what Lee was fighting against. Slavery was a dying institution at the inception of the War of Northern Aggression and would have died of natural causes. Slavery has been extinct for almost two centuries and yet, the African American community continues to blame “slavery” as the cause for many of social and economic issues plaguing their community in the present day. Lee was an honorable man.
It truly is a sign of mental degeneracy when there is LIVE STREAMING of this event, and the paper is bragging about it. Looks like these people are celebrating the destruction of the country, and not a statue. Jumping for joy over the end of your country is insane.
Grant was clearly the best general in American history. Lee was an excellent tactical general in the Napoleonic tradition. Grant was perhaps the first modern general and a much better strategic thinker. His reputation is slowly rising to its proper place as the stain on his reputation soiled by a hundred years of Lost Cause revisionism has been washed away.
That being said, while I have mixed emotions about statues of Confederate heroes, I do not support this fever to remove them.
He was a great man, and great general, but not America’s greatest.
That would be Washington. His idol and his wife’s step-Great-grandfather.
Also I think Patton has to roll in there….
‘Lee was an honorable man.’
yes, indeed; but he bit off more than his men were able to chew...I read a book recently defending hid strategy for the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble assault on Cemetery Ridge, and while it made for compelling reading it was also grasped at non existant straws...
HEH HEH HEH!
Brilliant.
So I guess they’re saying all their predecessors, all their ancestors, were just a bunch of scum-sucking evil people. Not just Lee. Because THEY honored him. More than 100 years.
It would have died of natural causes? What a laugh. Tell that to the people who were actually owned by other people in 1860. Lee made a bad choice, and shouldn’t be lionized for it.
And if Lee had won, what is it exactly he would have accomplished?
Such a sad day in American history.
Richmond, VA is little more than a DC swamp suburb these days. I can’t wait to get past it and back into America when driving south on interstate 95.
“the end of your country”?? Taking down a statue of a traitor constitutes the “end of your country?” Easy there drama queen....
This is what happens when you don’t have an opposition party. The Dems and GOP are collaborating to move the electorate to the left. This Taliban style statue removal is the result.
If Lee had won then there would be no question at all that he is America’s greatest general.
If Lincoln, Grant and others of that time did not consider Lee a traitor, who are you to say that he was?
How many people even noticed the statue? They probably said cool horse with some dude on it. Now they can replace with just the horse. In Europe they have a lot of statues of horses. Kinda cool.
The War Between the States/Civil War was part of American history.
All over the world, most countries have statues and monuments that tell the story of their history.
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