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Charlottesville covers Confederate statues with black shrouds
Fox News ^ | August 23, 2017

Posted on 08/23/2017 2:57:39 PM PDT by Coronal

Workers in Charlottesville, Va. shrouded statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in black on Wednesday as the city grappled with an outbreak of deadly violence at a white nationalist rally earlier this month.

Workers used ropes, poles and cherry-pickers to hoist what appeared to be a black tarpaulin over both statues as onlookers took photos and video. Some in the crowd surrounding the Lee statue cheered as the cover was put in place.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; dixie; purge
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1 posted on 08/23/2017 2:57:39 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

Do these drama queens have anything else going on in their lives?


2 posted on 08/23/2017 2:58:54 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Coronal

Did the statues join ANTIFA?


3 posted on 08/23/2017 2:59:40 PM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Coronal

4 posted on 08/23/2017 3:01:38 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Coronal

So basically, they just threw a burqa on them.

They need to be careful lest they trigger terrorists.


5 posted on 08/23/2017 3:02:28 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Coronal

Wouldn’t be easier for those offended to stick their heads in the sand?


6 posted on 08/23/2017 3:03:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tyranny can hide within decorum.)
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I fully expect to see posters of Che Guevara in leftist homes and offices covered up too. /s


7 posted on 08/23/2017 3:08:26 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: Coronal
But ... isn't Stonewall Jackson one of those gay rallying cries?

And the left would denigrate his statue in any way?

8 posted on 08/23/2017 3:09:59 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Coronal

Is it possible to cover the rest of the Democrats in black shrouds, too?


9 posted on 08/23/2017 3:11:10 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Peter ODonnell

It’s a great time to plaster the world with posters and online JPEG images detailing all the odiously racist statements made by Che Guevara with a demand that all imagery of him be destroyed, including those omnipresent and deeply stupid fascist fashionista tee-shirts.

And, do the same to that hideous hammer and sickle Soviet flag while we’re at it. Every atrocity in the third world, reel it off. They love THAT Russia. It’s the Russia that’s no longer communist that they hate.


10 posted on 08/23/2017 3:13:49 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: VanDeKoik
They seem to have to have something to be angry about. I never thought much one way or another about southern men, women and culture, always taught slavery was bad and suffering, but these people the statues represent are long dead and must have had some redeeming qualities. They are products of their time and place in history which surely would be taken into consideration on Judgement Day.

Maybe it would be better if we prayed for them and let God be their judges. This is too much like losers (minorities) rewriting history because the loudest and most troublemakers seem to win these days, just like the Communists were able to take over Russia with a very small minority. And the real Nazis, too. It was like infectious. Looking at those old films, I can't imagine who would want to follow that ugly Hitler who wasn't even particularly normal, wasn't born German and no wife (may have had children?).

Blame it on the Evil One. Works for me.

11 posted on 08/23/2017 3:18:35 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Coronal

Wussies!


12 posted on 08/23/2017 3:22:57 PM PDT by billphx (“Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face” Charlton Heston)
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To: LeoTDB69

Really...are they mocking Islam? This could have VERY unintended consequences! /s;)


13 posted on 08/23/2017 3:25:14 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Coronal

Screw northern Virginia, and screw every “institution of higher learning” in the entire state, with the exception of George Mason and Patrick Henry.


14 posted on 08/23/2017 3:35:41 PM PDT by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who don't)
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I guess Washington & Lee will be doubly screwed. They roll over, too.


15 posted on 08/23/2017 3:40:44 PM PDT by canalabamian
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To: Coronal
Maybe Donald Trump looks at this site. Maybe someone else knows how to bring something to Trump's attention. After that little prelude:

Trump needs to hammer home the notion of this statue destruction is precisely like the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Even the Chinese regret that idiotic move.

16 posted on 08/23/2017 3:41:28 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Coronal

Frightening to think what the eventual endgame is of all this nonsense when taken to its eventual and logical conclusion.


17 posted on 08/23/2017 3:51:22 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Coronal

someone should drape a big funeral shroud over Charlottesville...


18 posted on 08/23/2017 3:55:54 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: hecticskeptic

Frightening to think what the eventual endgame is of all this nonsense when taken to its eventual and logical conclusion.


Spell it out.

We need to talk about it.


19 posted on 08/23/2017 4:03:14 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Think something like Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. The elimination of all thoughts and actions that are not approved by the ruling communists.


20 posted on 08/23/2017 4:09:51 PM PDT by Truth29
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