[mvpel]

Because after the Confederate monuments come down, the monuments for Washington, Jefferson and the other founders will be targeted next by the cultural marxists. These efforts to erase history are stalinistic.

You don't need a monument to Andrew Kehoe in the town square of Bath, Michigan in order to remember that he murdered 44 adults and children and wounded dozens of others by bombing a primary school in 1927, and tearing down such a monument if it existed would not amount to "erasing history." And Kehoe's evil pales in comparison to those who were willing to fight a war to protect and proliferate the blood-soaked institution of chattel slavery.

[JBW1949]

From your homepage, I noticed the quote from Benjamin Franklin...You do know he also owned slaves at one time, don’t you???

[Timpanagos1]

That’s right.

Andrew Kehoe fought for what he believed in. There may have been others who strongly believed in Keno’s cause and that is now part of their descendent’s heritage.

Simply because times have changed, and we view people differently, we should not dishonor Keno’s cause or the heritage of his people.

[mrmeyer]

That’s a straw man argument. Regardless of your opinion on the civil war, don’t be obtuse and think it will stop with only Confederate monuments.

[ohioman]

I am as proud of my Confederate ancestors as my Union Ancestors and anyone taking down monuments to either side is beneath contempt - they were all Americans.

[DiogenesLamp]

And Kehoe's evil pales in comparison to those who were willing to fight a war to protect and proliferate the blood-soaked institution of chattel slavery.

The Union did not fight a war for that reason. The Union fought the war to control the money produced by the South. The South was going to destroy the money flow into New York if they had been allowed to remain independent, and the power barons of the North could not allow that to happen.

The "We are fighting to end Slavery" claim was simply mid-war propaganda designed to disguise the truth about why 750,000 people had to die to stop the South from being independent.

The Union fought the war to protect the financial interests of Wealthy industrialists/power barons who's descendants still run Washington today. Nowadays we call them "The Establishment."

Slavery continued in the Union until banned by the 13th amendment December 6, 1865. Six months after slavery had been abolished in the South. If the Union was fighting to end slavery, don't you think they would have ended it in their own States first?