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Removal of Confederate symbols turns nasty in New Orleans
Associated Press ^ | Mar 25, 2016 9:47 AM EDT | Cain Burdeau

Posted on 03/25/2016 7:06:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by death threats, intimidation and even what may have been the intentional torching of a contractor’s Lamborghini.

For now, at least, things have gotten so nasty the city hasn’t found a contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The city doesn’t have its own equipment to move them and is now in talks to find a company, even discussing doing the work at night to avoid further tumult.

Initially, it appeared the monuments would be removed quickly after the majority black City Council on Dec. 17 voted 6-1 to approve the mayor’s plan to take them down. The monuments, including towering figures of Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, have long been viewed by many here as symbols of racism and white supremacy. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: beauregard; citycouncil; confederate; dixie; erasinghistory; handoinvestments; liberalagenda; louisiana; neworleans; pgtbeauregard; purge; robertelee
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To: pgkdan

“It’s not enough to force massive third world immigration on us to replace the white Christian majority that built this country. They need to replace us and erase our history.”

That’s pretty much the Nikki Haley theory of government, aided and abetted by her neocon advisers.


41 posted on 03/25/2016 9:51:55 AM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: trisham

I am glad there are still Southerners who will fight those who would erase their history and destroy their culture. If this county goes for Hillary, I say put that capital back in Alabama.


42 posted on 03/25/2016 10:43:21 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Olog-hai
The Four Olds
43 posted on 03/25/2016 11:19:19 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: IronJack

For “not much of a speaker” Forrest spoke volumes.


44 posted on 03/25/2016 12:19:36 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

White people deciding to start acting like black people if things don’t go their way.


45 posted on 03/25/2016 1:57:16 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Charles Martel

Will they be removing the Pirate Jean Paul Laffitte stores, etc. from New Orleans as well? Why celebrate piracy and banditry?

/sarc?
//no sarc?
///who can tell anymore...


46 posted on 03/25/2016 1:57:50 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: miss marmelstein
Seems Beast Butler is back in action

Reminds me of the song Butler's men sang as they marched through New Orleans.

Rape, Rape, Rape the women,
Loot, loot, the guns and linen,
All we will leave behind is ruin and some pregnant women...

47 posted on 03/25/2016 1:59:57 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Ugh. I never heard that. Well, times never change in a way.


48 posted on 03/25/2016 2:11:35 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: ro_dreaming

I wonder if the beautiful Joan of Arc statue down near the river will be slated for destruction?


49 posted on 03/25/2016 2:12:24 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: vetvetdoug

And these were the wonderful, morally superior “victors”, the forerunners of today’s leftists-set themselves up as morally superior based upon nothing more than their own say-so, while trying to degrade better men than themselves, and gratuitously insult women. It irked them no end that southern women and men considered them beneath notice.


50 posted on 03/26/2016 4:37:22 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Olog-hai
In the past 15 years, I have made 7 or 8 trips to NOLA for a weekend getaway.

I will never set foot in the #$%^&# town again in the rest of my life.

Eat that NOLA...... Hope your tourism dollars dry up to nothing

51 posted on 03/26/2016 4:50:43 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957

NO is a sh**hole and always will be. The only reason to go there is to flirt with danger and depravity.


52 posted on 03/26/2016 4:52:43 AM PDT by anton
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To: trisham

Nothing like leftist totalitarianism that the little fascists bring to the table.

Statues now,

You and me later.


53 posted on 03/26/2016 4:55:42 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftism is the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Olog-hai

Can we erase slavery then? Never happened.


54 posted on 03/26/2016 4:57:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: anton
NO is a sh**hole and always will be. The only reason to go there is to flirt with danger and depravity.

75% agree. However, if you pick and choose, there are points like genealogical research, which NOLA has for LA, plus the zoo, and French Quarter (morning only). You are right though, after 6 PM, there are places in NOLA that I would get a mile within.

Getting beignet powder on my shirt with coffee is a must too. But as a southern heritage defender, that is all out the window now.

55 posted on 03/26/2016 5:00:40 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, it’s true. A city with a majority black City Council, that’s been run by black mayors for roughly thirty of the last forty years, where the police superintendent and sheriff are both black and there’s substantial black representation on the city/parish judicial benches, has decided that racism and white supremacy are among its most important problems right now.


56 posted on 03/26/2016 5:15:55 AM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody was going to say it. Why not me?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

57 posted on 03/26/2016 7:18:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Chickensoup

Exactly right.


58 posted on 03/26/2016 7:27:08 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Olog-hai

To hell with these politically correct traitors.


59 posted on 03/26/2016 9:35:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: mrsmel

An excellent point.


60 posted on 03/27/2016 5:07:50 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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