Posted on 08/18/2017 8:37:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Under the cover of night, a work crew removed the statue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous Dred Scott decision — from the grounds of the State House, ending the monument’s 145-year prominent perch in Annapolis.
At 12:20 a.m. Friday, flatbed trucks with equipment including a large crane pulled onto the street encircling the State House. Workers cordoned off the front lawn of the historic building and placed straps around the statue, the latest monument linked to the Confederate era to be removed from a public square.
Just before 2 a.m., the statue was slowly lifted from its base and clipped a few tree branches as it was guided onto a flatbed truck and wrapped. The statue has been moved to a secure Maryland State Archives storage facility.
The removal comes after mounting pressure to take down the Taney statue culminated in Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s reversal on the matter. His support, announced this week, provided enough votes for the four-member State House Trust to approve on Wednesday to remove it.
Why are they doing these in the middle of the night?
Destruction of our history ping list. I think this will be
a high volume ping list. Please let me know if you want on
or off the list.
Look at how many voted for this? 4? Horrible.
Any civil war Museums we can blow up?
Should I start ripping up my civil war books?
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”...George Orwell, “1984”
Use the middle of the night for counter actions
Sorry, but I don't have time to debate with someone who actually thinks Dred Scott was correctly decided.
I remember when I thought it was fiction.
Was not Dred Scott a slave trying to escape through the laws in place in another state?
Seems like it is exactly the question before the Court.
and it was not one of the primary authorities relied upon in deciding the issues that were before the Court.
Maybe a procedural mistake, but still arrived at the correct legal conclusion, so far as I can tell.
Sorry, but I don't have time to debate with someone who actually thinks Dred Scott was correctly decided.
I think this is an example of "Because... SHUT UP! He explained."
No, this wasn’t a Fugitive Slave Act case. I don’t have time to teach you the law that was at issue.
I’m not going to antagonize you any further. I don’t really see any point to it.
My modest proposal - surround the Jefferson memorial with a demolition team, and tell the dems in Congress “say when.”
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