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Group calls for removal of Confederate monument from Lake Eola Park
Orlando Sentinel ^ | June 24, 2015 | By Jeff Weiner

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be relocated to a museum, "where such an oppressive image of racist American culture would be appropriately housed for historical reference."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 ...


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1 posted on 06/24/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The snowball of losers is rolling.


2 posted on 06/24/2015 9:51:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Brad from Tennessee; All
The news media is the enemy of every American and every individual

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

3 posted on 06/24/2015 9:54:26 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama illegally got his FCC gestapo to impose SOROS' regulations on Internet)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

So what will they ban next? Memorial Day? which started as a day dedicated to decorating the graves of Confederate veterans.


4 posted on 06/24/2015 9:54:41 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.


5 posted on 06/24/2015 9:55:03 AM PDT by alloysteel ("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.


6 posted on 06/24/2015 9:56:23 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Was this all, including the murders, a Reichstag operation?


7 posted on 06/24/2015 9:57:02 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The petition by Organize Now, an equal-justice group a communist and racist front group ...
8 posted on 06/24/2015 9:57:11 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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


9 posted on 06/24/2015 9:57:19 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Remove EVERYTHING related to the Civil War...then deny it ever happened.

Just the "pigment" of some imaginations!

10 posted on 06/24/2015 9:59:13 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Next thing you know, we’ll have to remove lawn jockeys from our front yards.


11 posted on 06/24/2015 10:00:02 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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"So what will they ban next? Memorial Day? which started as a day dedicated to decorating the graves of Confederate veterans."

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.

12 posted on 06/24/2015 10:00:58 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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!


13 posted on 06/24/2015 10:01:33 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.


14 posted on 06/24/2015 10:01:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Brad from Tennessee

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.


15 posted on 06/24/2015 10:01:42 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

http://www.orgnow.org/

Look like ACORN retreads. And we THOUGHT we won the midterms. Republicans suck.


16 posted on 06/24/2015 10:02:17 AM PDT by ZULU (Boehner and McConnell are Obama's Strumpets.)
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To: lonestar

Destroying our history. Just like ISIS is destroying the history in the Middle East.


17 posted on 06/24/2015 10:04:59 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Resolute Conservative

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.


18 posted on 06/24/2015 10:04:59 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Amazing isn’t it?


19 posted on 06/24/2015 10:06:19 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Fine. Those who remove and forget the past are doomed to repeat it. The next slavery which brings this country down will be socialism.


20 posted on 06/24/2015 10:09:04 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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