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2015-12-18 -Land of the Free

Lee Circle no more: New Orleans to remove 4 Confederate statues

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Jefferson Davis is good riddance but Beuregard??? He spent his last years helping Blacks!

Posted by JFM 2015-12-18 07:39|| 2015-12-18 07:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 If you want to erase a People, you have to erase their history.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-18 08:11|| 2015-12-18 08:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 09:01|| Front Page Top

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

Linkey above no workey.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-12-18 09:02|| 2015-12-18 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Great news! New Orleans is now problem free.

Posted by Matt 2015-12-18 09:32|| 2015-12-18 09:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 13:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2015-12-18 14:04|| Front Page Top

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