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Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace
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Posted on 10/26/2023 2:32:39 PM PDT by janetjanet998

Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.


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To: janetjanet998

I wonder why they would put up a statue of Lee 60 years after the Civil War ended? Was it to intimidate blacks in Charlottesville? Keep them in their place?


41 posted on 10/26/2023 3:06:28 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: Vesparado

See the book “April 1865.” Lee surrendered and did not call for resistance by guerrilla warfare.


42 posted on 10/26/2023 3:07:36 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Vesparado

“ Not sure this is correct even though there are some ads that act like it is.”

Ads?


43 posted on 10/26/2023 3:08:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: OKSooner

Reminds me of GOPe or Rinos who go along despite knowing something is wrong.


44 posted on 10/26/2023 3:09:24 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: janetjanet998

The vast majority of great Americans have been Southerners. Yankees have always been, and still are, puritanical scum whose main desire is to impose their will on others.


45 posted on 10/26/2023 3:10:04 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: clearcarbon
"Perhaps it will be recast to honor a hero of CW2."

I suggest they be converted into statues of Kyle Rittenhouse in action.

46 posted on 10/26/2023 3:11:23 PM PDT by The Duke (Why do I think that the cynicism gene is going to be prevalent in future generations?)
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To: janetjanet998
this is very sad. people offered to buy this statueyet the state still melted it. Very sad. lets melt down every george Floyd and MLK statue.

after all, MLK was the guy who really kicked off the poor black "Im so disadvantaged " movement.

yes, MLK was a racist.

blacks were better off before mlk encouraged them to be more black and less American.

47 posted on 10/26/2023 3:13:07 PM PDT by Ikeon (people who call you goyim and infidel are Fighting. chose a side. I chose bacon. )
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To: ifinnegan

Nikki Nimarata Haley is the BEEOTCH who started this scheisse.

Responsibility falls in her lap.


48 posted on 10/26/2023 3:14:34 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ifinnegan

“Lee may have been a traitor, but it’s history.”

You like the Union government we have?


49 posted on 10/26/2023 3:15:41 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ifinnegan
If that's the way you see it that's fine with me; I have no right to tell you what to think.

I'm just sayin' that Lee was the guy who was in the situation at the time and he made his choices according to the information he had at the time, and to his own convictions in the matter.

I understand that some will see it differently.

50 posted on 10/26/2023 3:15:46 PM PDT by OKSooner (Be especially sure to take extra wool socks.)
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To: janetjanet998
I'll bet that the statue can be faithfully re-created.

It's not a matter of race, it's our HISTORY!

51 posted on 10/26/2023 3:15:47 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Well, there are those who say that she really IS fun to party with.


52 posted on 10/26/2023 3:16:44 PM PDT by OKSooner (Be especially sure to take extra wool socks.)
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To: ifinnegan
Lee may have been a traitor, but it’s history.

I'm no fan of slavery, and I'm a northerner. But I have to disagree with the statement that Lee was a traitor. All our Founding documents recognize that it was up to the independent States to freely choose to join the Union by a vote of their own representatives. I have never seen a legal agreement stating that after that point, they ceased to be citizens of their States and that the States had no right to leave the Union.

I think the distinction matters. We can see the harm caused by central over-reach in our own times, when the Demo-Communists, unlike their forebears the Confederates, have become bloodthirsty advocates of centralized power (as long as it rolls their way). They go so far as to deny that the States have the responsibility and authority to set the rules of election procedure within their own boundaries and police the integrity of the process of selecting their own electors and representatives.

Maybe Lee was more of a prophet--a patriot who recognized a Federal power grab and the consequences that would follow. The States now lack the power to hold back those in Washington who claim that D.C. alone speaks for its subjects thousands of miles away on any issue bigger than parking tickets.

53 posted on 10/26/2023 3:17:56 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Truthsearcher

Where was Youngkin?


54 posted on 10/26/2023 3:20:02 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: janetjanet998
"2,250-degree furnace"

This from the global warming Nazi's........

55 posted on 10/26/2023 3:20:22 PM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: janetjanet998

Fie. Melt all statues of Marx, Lenin, 0buttbongo, and other icons of the fascist left! .


56 posted on 10/26/2023 3:22:02 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Wuli

All leftists do is destroythings!


57 posted on 10/26/2023 3:22:47 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: SamuraiScot

“Maybe Lee was more of a prophet—a patriot who recognized a Federal power grab and the consequences that would follow👍

👍
It was obvious then, imagine what a catastrophe it is now!


58 posted on 10/26/2023 3:23:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Truthsearcher
What about the sheer cowardice of the people who allow them to do it.

Good point. When I was in "C'ville" many years ago, even then it had many northern liberal immigrants--plus locals who wanted to copy them.

59 posted on 10/26/2023 3:25:58 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: janetjanet998

Most “public art” is ugly and doesn’t make sense. I won’t be looking forward to seeing what they make.


60 posted on 10/26/2023 3:27:26 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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