Posted on 08/18/2017 1:23:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The hacktivist collective Anonymous is planning a "Denouncement Day" this Friday to "denounce the Confederacy, to denounce racism, bigotry and hate," saying "it is time to take down these monuments of hate ourselves."
Supporters plan to gather at 6 p.m. EST at the statue of Rear Adm. Raphael Semmes in Mobile, Ala., the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Little Rock, the Jackson Guards Memorial in Jacksonport, Ark., the Searcy Confederate Memorial in Searcy, Ark., the Our Confederate Dead monument in Munn Park in Lakeland, Fla., the Confederate Monument in Piedmont Park in Atlanta (which was defaced with spray paint this week), the Corinth Confederate Monument in Corinth, Miss., the Confederate Soldiers Monument at the Bryan County Courthouse in Durant, Okla., the Confederate Monument in Lynchburg, Va., the Mecklenburg Confederate Soldier in Boydton, Va., and the Robert E. Lee sculpture in Charlottesville, Va.
Additional locations could be added as suggested, the release from Anonymous said.
In a video titled "We are Angry," prefaced with footage of protesters toppling a Confederate soldier statute in Durham, N.C., this week, Anonymous calls it "a sad state of affairs when in the year 2017 we still have Nazi party flags flying high and terrorists still killing for the Nazi cause."
"We are angry -- angry because there is an administration in the White House that has sold its moral and ethical obligation to represent the citizens of the United States in exchange for individuals who believe they are simply better than those who do not look like them or follow their sadistic ideologies," the video states.
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Anonymous is actually leaving their Mom’s basement?
I have always assumed this was a way of reconciling with the South after the bitterness of the war. Guess the communists don't like that.
Meridian, Idaho?
Here we go, CWII:-(
It is going to be difficult for these anarchists to get to the one in Corinth, Mississippi. The police are guarding it and several citizens are positioned in buildings around it to circumvent any attempt to damage the statue. The citizens are dead serious. I don’t think the police will protect any of them that try to destroy the statue or stop those that will harm the anarchists.
Yes, it was. Madison, WI longtime Mayor, Paul Soglin, has ordered that the Confederate memorial (a small stone with plaque) be removed from the cemetery. The stone was in memorial to Confederate prisoners who died while in custody at Camp Randall (Union) during the Civil War. These men were mostly teen-aged boys. Seems ugly of him to do that, and some have questioned his right since he is just a mayor and the cemetery is Federal. In any care, the marker is GONE.
25 years after the end of the CW, there were all kinds of joint memorials and meetings and celebrations between the vets from both sides, wearing their uniforms. If these yahoos would study their history, they could see the pictures of all the old soldiers socializing peacefully.
See Reply #26. It’s already happened in Madison, Wisconsin. And those men died while in the custody of Union soldiers. Were they fed? Wounds treated? Tortured? The shame of it! Remember the outrage when the Taliban blew up Bhuddist statues? Well, how about a communist mayor-for-life removing a small, simple Confederate memorial for a bunch of teen-aged war prisoners held far from home?
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