Posted on 08/18/2017 1:25:31 AM PDT by Helicondelta
A handful of self-described supporters of President Donald Trump converged on Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood Wednesday to call for the removal of a statue of Russian Communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin that has stood in the neighborhood for 22 years.
Protesters Wednesday wore Make America Great Again hats and held signs that said “Lenin = Hitler,” “100 Million Dead” and “Alt-Left Hate,” and they chanted slogans such as “Shame on Seattle,” “Tear hate down,” and “Genocide is not a joke” at passing cars and people grabbing lunch in the arty, tech-heavy neighborhood. Fremont is home to offices of such tech companies as Google, Adobe, Tableau, Outreach and Pixvana.
The protest comes in response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend during a rally around a statue there of Civil War Gen. Robert E. Lee, and the subsequent removal of Confederate statues in other cities.
One protester climbed atop the statue as others live-streamed their sometimes heated debates with anyone willing to engage with them on the walk past the 16-foot tall bronze sculpture in the center of the neighborhood.
Jack Posobieck, a well-known internet activist and political advocate for Citizens for Trump, stood below the statue wearing a red MAGA T-shirt. He said he flew into Seattle from Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning specifically to protest Lenin
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Tear it down. Seriously. F ‘ em all.
I posted this week an article where MLK told a homosexual to get mental treatment for his condition and that it wasn’t “innate.” MLK = homophobic. By leftists’ own ‘rules’ they need to blow up his monument in D.C.
I like the statue. It reminds me if the evils of communism. I think all statues should remain. Hooting and hollering on WMAL this morning because Annapolis removed a statue of a former Supreme Court Justice in the dead of might.
Keep a MAGA hat on Lenin 24/7/365 and leave it at that.
Yes, let’s become the 180 degrees asshats that the libs are...
Iconography could get ugly.
This latest fanaticism of the Ctrl Left for tearing down the icons that they find offensive is a knife that cuts in both directions. What I see here is the Ctrl Left being mirrored by the Alt Right. If the left wants to tear down offensive statues then there’s an equal number of leftist icon statues that the right will want to go after. At some point these two groups are going to come together in a violent struggle. Blood will be shed.
I dont know as a vet, I think this is anti soldier and anti military. I’m sorry my family immigrated here both before and after the Civil War. We fought from the North yankee land. But, I’m much older now, live in Texas and these people deserve as a right to be able to respect their ancestors.
Where I live the popo will never stand down I promise you that.
There is a 70 foot statue of Sam Houston about 10 miles north of me YOU CAN NOT MISS IT ON 45, anarchist will never ever get close to it.
Jack is awesome. Looks like the Seattle mayor is joining him in the fight, and adding a confederate statue? I think somewhere near Seattle.
How convenient! Old Lenin just standing there at a corner where it would be real easy to knock over with a dozer.
This is really sticking it to the libs.
Now they have to live up to their standards, instead of always having double ones.
I’ve lived in Texas all my life and I had never seen that statue until last year. It’s pretty awesome!
They should. Without those statues to remind us every day, our history and cultural traditions will not be there to remind future generations who they are and how they got there. It's the goal of every dictatorial government to rewrite the script to meet its goals.
Qs: Is the Lenin statue on public or private property, put up with public or private money? Anyone know?
CTRL- Left, gosh we are terrible at messaging.
Well, all talk no action. Why is the statue still there?
Fail
Some communist joker mortgaged his house to buy it from a scrapyard.
https://fremont.com/about/lenin/
Thanks! Well, if it’s private property sitting on private property, folks who don’t like it (including me) should dummy up.
Next they will want to tear down the statue of Balto, the sled dog that was instrumental in saving many children by leading a sled in Alaska many years ago. Basis of the Iditarod sled race.
Its a DOG...
Muslims hate dogs.
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