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-Land of the Free
Lee Circle no more: New Orleans to remove 4 Confederate statues
2015-12-18
[NOLA] Lee Circle will lose the statue of its namesake after the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 Thursday (Dec. 17) to remove four monuments related to the Confederacy from their prominent perches around the city.
"E pur si muove."
Besides Gen. Robert E. Lee, statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance of City Park and Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Mid-City and the obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place at the foot of Iberville Street will all come down.

"The time surely comes when (justice) must and will be heard," Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the council as he called for the statues to be put in a museum or a Civil War park. "Members of the council, that day is today. The Confederacy, you see, was on the wrong side of history and humanity."

Once again, hat tip to the famed Rantburg Graphics Department (RGD).
Posted by:Fred

#10  New Orleans, known for her morals!
Her politics, barrels of quarrels.
Who'll be her new teraph,
Dem Chinaman sheriff
Or rock-ribbed Repub Robert Charles?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-12-18 14:04  

#9  More inane B.S. in the quest to achieve stupidity. What does New Orleans plan to do, erect monuments to Obama? Next, the PC police will try to remove any reference to JFK because he supported the Bay of Pigs and Castro might be offended. Any references to Truman will also be erased because he dropped the A-bomb on Japan and offended the Japanese. Any reference to WWII will be dropped because we won the war. You can't win anymore; it offends the underachievers. Any reference to the Alamo will be punished because the illegals think this is their country. This stupidity is appalling--Nothing like wearing it on your sleeve and removing all doubt.

The Civil War was an incredibly important part of our history--too important to be removed or erased. It seems the barbarians are in charge these days. Not unlike ISIS or the Taliban blowing up antiquities. Similar to book-burning by the Nazis--get rid of what you don't want to see or hear.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-18 13:35  

#8  For those who are wondering about the Battle of Liberty Place:

The Battle of Liberty Place was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the legal Reconstruction state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary organization of the Democratic Party, fought against the outnumbered Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of Federal troops that restored the elected government.

In 1891, the city erected a monument to commemorate and praise the insurrection from the Democratic Party point of view. The white marble obelisk was placed at a prominent location on Canal Street. In 1932, the city added an inscription that expressed a white supremacist view.
Posted by: frozen al   2015-12-18 13:17  

#7  Yes, that should definitely reduce the number of shootings, lower the crime rate and maybe even disperse the general aura of corruption.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-12-18 12:11  

#6  Great news! New Orleans is now problem free.
Posted by: Matt   2015-12-18 09:32  

#5  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

Linkey above no workey.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2015-12-18 09:02  

#4  And yet on the left coast statues are being erected...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2015-12-18 09:01  

#3  If you want to erase a People, you have to erase their history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-12-18 08:11  

#2  The Confederate Spring. Yet another failed 'Spring' movement the Dems would rather erase from the memory hole.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-18 07:52  

#1  Jefferson Davis is good riddance but Beuregard??? He spent his last years helping Blacks!
Posted by: JFM   2015-12-18 07:39  

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