Posted on 06/24/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
An activist group is calling for Orlando (Florida) to remove a monument to Confederate soldiers from Lake Eola Park, amid nationwide scrutiny for the Civil War South's symbols after the racially-motivated slayings at a South Carolina church last week.
The petition by Organize Now, an equal-justice group, calls for the statue to be relocated to a museum, "where such an oppressive image of racist American culture would be appropriately housed for historical reference."
As of about 9 a.m. Wednesday, only about 100 people had signed the petition. Heather Fagan, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's deputy chief of staff, said in a statement the mayor's office is "exploring options for the future of" the statue.
"We pride ourselves in being a diverse and inclusive community and value the concern raised by a citizen regarding the statue that has been in Lake Eola for nearly 100 years," the statement said. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
The snowball of losers is rolling.
The news media want to destroy freedom,liberty and individual rights . they are in a war against the individual.
The are in massive campaign against the Confederate flag to hide the coverage of the passing of Obamatrade which is really passing the obama immigration agenda . obama will import most of the 6 billion people now in the 3rd world into the USA : http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20710-obama-gop-trade-scheme-includes-unrestricted-immigration
Obamatrade is not news to the media but a flag is and an individual(one out of 330 million ) shooting people they turn into top news of the year
So what will they ban next? Memorial Day? which started as a day dedicated to decorating the graves of Confederate veterans.
When the yahoos go a’warring and a’whoring, not much is going to stop them, except possibly total fatigue.
Or a p*ss-elm club between the eyes.
Works on mules.
I would love to see this tried. Get the flag of ISIS and fly it next to the Confederate flag in a highly public setting. Just for fun, see how many call for the ISIS flag to be taken down. Hmmmm.
Was this all, including the murders, a Reichstag operation?
the trumped up ‘outrage’ was tailor made to get the trans-racial moron out of the news while hiding the fact that the killing in south carolina was an assassination
Just the "pigment" of some imaginations!
Next thing you know, we’ll have to remove lawn jockeys from our front yards.
They are going to go for guns. Obama is going to try to roll the round heeled GOP over with new gun control legislation, plus whatever else he can add to this run away wagon to take away individual rights.
Sanitize history so that those who weren’t even alive at the time don’t have to think about the pain caused to their “alleged” ancestors. Puke!
The Libs weep and wail when ISIS and the Taliban destroy ancient monuments and statues, then they foam at the mouth and demand anything Confederate be obliterated from the earth.
The purpose of this manufactured hysteria is nothing more noble than to further humiliate and demoralize Caucasian-Americans, as just one part of the leftard drive to turn this country into a black-owned-and-operated shithole like South Africa. Or Detroit.
People said “Blacks won’t be satisfied with equality. They will want to take everything and exact revenge.”
For this they were vilified, scorned as closed-minded bigots.
Well, take a look around, butt-munchers.
Look like ACORN retreads. And we THOUGHT we won the midterms. Republicans suck.
Destroying our history. Just like ISIS is destroying the history in the Middle East.
The next step in the ISIS wing of Democrat liberalism is destruction of all monuments depicting US history that they dont like.
If they really want contrition for Southern Democrat slave holding, then they should simply acknowledge that Democrats were the Confederate slave owners. And, then promise to release all current Americans from the chains of Liberal Democrat government bondage.
Amazing isn’t it?
Fine. Those who remove and forget the past are doomed to repeat it. The next slavery which brings this country down will be socialism.
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