Mayor, D.C. Councilmembers Want Statue Of Confederate General On Federal Land Removed (Albert Pike)

dcist ^ | Aug 15, 2017 4:49 pm | Rachel Sadon

[haffast]

The mayor, more than half of the D.C. Council, and the D.C. attorney general have joined activists in calling for the removal of a statue of a Confederate general from federal land in Judiciary Square.

"Albert Pike was a strong proponent of slavery and fought to try to preserve that in this country. Regardless of what he did in other parts of his life, it's inappropriate to honor him," says At-large Councilmember David Grosso, who sent a letter today to the acting director of the National Park Service calling for a statue of Pike at 3rd and D streets NW to be taken down.

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"We in the District of Columbia hold dear the values of equality, diversity, and inclusion, which are in direct conflict with the values embodied by the statue," it reads. "In a time when these values are under constant attack by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and far-right terrorists, the presence of a statue honoring Albert Pike only serves to perpetuate and incite hate, violence, and oppression."

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"[Pike] is a guy who loved slavery so much that he quit two political parties. He wrote pamphlets about it, and then when the civil war started, he raised three regiments of troops," Eugene Puryear of the Stop Police Terror Project told a crowd of protesters on Sunday.

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The Freemasons—who generally neglect to mention racism and treason in literature that extols Pike as a "jurist, orator, philosopher, scholar, soldier, and poet [whose renown] extends throughout the world"—sponsored and paid for the 11-foot bronze statue, which sits on a pedestal at 3rd and D streets NW. But it took an act of Congress in 1898 to approve its placement on land administered by the National Park Service.

[haffast]

"Eugene Puryear of the Stop Police Terror Project..." (so we of the "Resistance" rebellious can continue our "activism" without interference)

OK SWJs, if you truly believe in your deeply felt self-righteousness you need to boycott and remove your children from the free care of any Shriners hospitals, let your child suffer or die as a martyr, and begin to round up and burn any copies of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry that you can find. Do what thy will to the lodges.

/s

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Seems to me the Democrat party should be abolished! They are the biggest slave owners, ever!

[Political Junkie Too]

The mayor of Philadelphia should tear down the statue of Rocky because he beat up a black guy.

-PJ

[robroys woman]

Seems to me the Democrat party should be abolished! They are the biggest slave owners, ever!

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Maybe that is why they are so much behind this. They want to erase history.

It appears the educational articles, posts and youtube videos showing the history of the D party are having an impact.

i.e. this may actually be good news.

[Pecos]

If we are going to remove ALL honors for those who have EVER offended ANYONE, the nation's capital will be totally bereft of memorials. Personally, the FDR memorial makes me want to puke. Maybe 20th/21st century Dems could start there. At least then, I'd know there were serious.

But this isn't about honors, or racism, or persecution. This is about the raw, naked power of a mob designed to reduce our country to a Balkanized collection of enclaves. Leftists - Beware of the mob, for they shall eventually eat you, too (hopefully sooner rather than later). As a Christian, I understand that this may very well be part of the lead up to the End Days, but it's going to get ugly even for the good guys before it gets better.

[Trump20162020]

Albert Pike was a strong proponent of slavery

Founding Fathers are next.

[Bobalu]

[Always A Marine]

So, it looks like the Freemasons might get a taste of that “pure doctrine of Lucifer” that their theologian Albert Pike wrote about. We’ll see how this latest fratricide plays out...

[posterchild]

Will Washington DC become ‘Mandela District of Indigenous Peoples?’

[AndyJackson]

First let’s change the name of the District and tear down the Washington monument and Jefferson Memorial. Then we can take down the smaller things.

[Sasparilla]

....Seems to me the Democrat party should be abolished! They are the biggest slave owners....

I can’t recall any Republican slave owners. The Democrat party is the exclusive slave master club. And the party of the KKK. And the party of lynchings. And the party of separate but equal. And the party of Jim Crow. They can’t run from those facts. They can’t t run from that history by trying to erase it.

[dljordan]

Better yet, I’d like to see BLM and Antifa build one.

[Surrounded_too]

Commie and muzzie tactics morphing to divide the nation.

Intent is to emasculate the white men and strong Christians of any race, and

then possess the white women for a ‘blended’ society.

Makes it easier for a NWO under the Globalists or the muzzies should they

become the last two standing.

Then it will be one-to-one for world domination.

Same plan, different tactics than in Europe.

[haffast]

+1

Interesting irony. I’m expecting “supernatural” intervention, at least for this particular statue. We’ll see.

[JohnG45]

First let’s change the name of the District and tear down the Washington monument and Jefferson Memorial. Then we can take down the smaller things.

And the George Washington Bridge.

You're right. Let's start with the big stuff to show how sincere we are in this effort and then clean up with the little stuff.

And money! Let's burn all our money. Half of those guys depicted were slave owners.

Send your money to me and I'll take care of the incineration.

If what is now happening does not perfectly demonstrate the mental illness that is liberalism, I don't know what does.

[servantboy777]

>>I can’t recall any Republican slave owners<<

Revisionist attempt to hide that good ol Abe while in the senate tossed around the idea of repatriating/colonizing the slaves that were here back to Africa and or the Caribbean. Lincoln's thought was regarding the lack of assimilation of the black into American society. Hence Nigeria.

[Ken Regis]

Lincoln’s thinking on race was heavily influenced by the writings of Thomas Jefferson and the speeches of his fellow Kentuckian, Henry Clay, both of whom believed that blacks and whites could not live together in an America where slavery had been abolished because the very fact of slavery had created too much bitterness between the races. To both men, and — at least initially — to Lincoln himself, colonizing freed people in other locations — possibly Africa, where colonies of ex-slaves had been established in Liberia and Sierra Leone, or perhaps in the Caribbean where Haiti had become an independent republic under Black leadership—seemed the best option for resolving racial frictions. Lincoln, however, abandoned colonization as a post-emancipation option once persuaded that African American soldiers had demonstrated their viability for full citizenship through personal sacrifice on the battlefield.

SOURCE:
http://library.brown.edu/cds/lincoln/2009_exhibit_booklet_web.pdf

[Sasparilla]

....Hence Nigeria...

Liberia 1812.

[servantboy777]

Why I believe I had my eria wrong. Thanx y’all. lol

[DungeonMaster]

Everyone is forgetting that Obama started this with the removal of the Churchill bust.

It changes nothing and the only intent is to humiliate which was what Obama's entire presidency was about.