Posted on 08/18/2017 10:05:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
HIGH POINT, North Carolina — A High Point man, who stood in front of the General Robert E. Lee statue at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, has been removed from his college in Florida.
Allen Armentrout stood in front of the statue on Tuesday, days after a deadly rally Saturday where a car crashed into a crowd and killed a woman after unrest and violence between protesters and white nationalists and neo-Nazi organizations.
Armentrout says he made the trip to Charlottesville to honor Lee, calling him "the greatest American that ever lived." Armentrout stood at the statue with a semi-automatic handgun, an AR-15 rifle and a Confederate flag. His purpose was to honor and defend a statue that he loved, according to Armentrout
While standing in front of the monument, Armentrout was met with those who didn't agree with his actions. According to CNN, one man told Armentrout: "This is our town. Your people have killed us. You tore up our town. You ruined business. The statue is coming down," to which Armentrout responded "No, it's not. The state of Virginia has a law that protects monuments like this."
On Thursday, Armentrout found out the staff of Pensacola Christian College decided to terminate his enrollment.
"I have been released from my school and will be unable to return to college to finish my senior year," said Armentrout. "I'm processing this and making adjustments to my life to compensate for this scrutiny."
Armentrout says getting the news about his removal from the school has been gut-wrenching.
"I'm a born-again Christian and I believe this wrench has hindered my attempt to serve the Lord. I believe a Christian institution should support patriotic individuals who want to stand for American tradition and beliefs. It really hurts me a lot when you try to do what's right and you get attacked," said Armentrout.
Armentrout said he is desperately seeking a college that would welcome him after his choice to stand in front of the statue.
"At the college I was attending, my contract provided my fourth year free if I paid my payments on time, which I worked very hard to do," said Armentrout. "Now, essentially, if I want to complete my undergrad, I'll have to pay, which I don't have the resources to pay for a fourth year."
Armentrout declined to comment any further to WXII 12 News, only saying he is unavailable until he's able to "sort out the chaos" in his life "caused by those who wish to destroy Southern heritage."
WXII 12 News reached out to Pensacola Christian College in attemps to clarify why Armentrout was removed.
"We do not share any private information about the students. Our hearts certainly go out to people suffering there and we are thinking about them from afar," said Amy Glenn, the college’s chief communication officer.
Major litigation coming. P has on his side:
#1, First Amendment, two elements of it, speech and religion.
#2, Political speech is among the most protected of the speech rights.
#3, He can easily monetize his damages.
Wowza!
I bet it never goes to court, and even if it does, he’ll lose. Just a hunch.
Expelled from a college ( Christian no less) for displaying the exercise of 2 constitutional rights at a legally permitted rally?
He can easily monetize his damages.
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I sure hope so.
I wouldn’t wear such a costume and stand in front of that monument but he has a right to do so. I hope he nails the school.
Pretty soon they will be plucking your eyes out if you ever looked at a confederate statue.
Someone should tell this spineless college that first Antifa came for the Southern history monuments, next they’ll come for Christian history
Why Do they think CAIR has joined this lawless cultural purge?
PCC has crazy rules of conduct. They kick people out all the time.
Questions for the school at Depo:
“Had he been Africa-American, gone to New York, worn a BLM t-shirt, and chanted “What do we want? Dead Cops! When do we want them? Now!”, would he have been kicked out of school and forfeited his education, and his future?
Have any of your students participated in such demonstrations?
How can you be sure?
The video of this happening is a must see.
The Robert E Lee monument is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=7f3b2b20-29de-4b29-800d-2a2a806c69e7
scroll down
some background
http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Charlottesville/104-5091_Four_Monumental_Outdoor_Sulptures_in_Charlottesville_1997_MPS.pdf#page=60
Visiting a historic monument results in expulsion?
For political speech?
That is dangerous ground.
You cannot make a rule, at a place of public connection, to deny a person a constitutionally guaranteed right.
If that school has any “public” connection. If they have ever taken a penny in a federal grant, contracted for any government research, have ROTC, admitted one student on a GI Bill, applied for property tax abatement, gotten free or reduced cost food in their student nutrition program, (heck, I’d even settle for a student commuting to school on federally funded I-10 if I had to)... ANYTHING, I’ve got venue in the federal district for West Florida faster than you can say “subpoena” :)
It’s Pensacola Christian College. Trust me, things are weird there.
Since I don’t know anything about Armentrout other than what has been written in this article, and I do not agree that Lee was the greatest American, I do support his First Amendment right to speak out on the subject, his Second Amendment right to open carry where legal, and his guts to stop the Leftist thugs from destroying everything they oppose or think they should oppose.
This is the same logic that let the Khmer Rouge kill millions in Cambodia including people I knew, the No. Koreans keeping their whole country in ignorance and literally as prisoners, the Red Chinese in their attempts to “cleanse” their country of the “ Four Olds” basic structures of society (i.e. Culture, Ideas, Customs and Habits” and killed possibly tens of millions of people in this “cultural/history cleansing” “Amok” campaign, and Lenin/Trotsky/Stalin to kill tens of millions, torture many more, and imprison tens of millions of innocent people.
(See: “The Human Cost of Communism in China”, , p. 23, 1971, Prof. Richard Walker, Sen. Judiciary Committee, Sen. Internal Security Subcommittee, 92nd Congress, 1st Session, Subdoc number 63-549 O. It might be available online.).
If Armentrout did nothing illegal with his stance, then I hope he sues the hell out of this chicken-shit college to the point that not only will he win enough money to cover his last year of college, but that it will be enough to by the whole damned college and fire its’ “Free Speech” coward leaders.
It is ironic that the people I would call “Confederate conservatives” are doing more (legally) to preserve all American history than are the so-called protectors of Free Speech, the liberals, esp. the law professors who are pathetic cowards or hardcore Marxists. The same applies to so-called “conservatives” in Congress, local politics, the media, and academia (for the most part). They are nothing but “armchair cowards” and almost totally useless in preventing a well-planned, funded, staffed and mobile Marxist “deconstruction/destroy” force like that of Ghengis Khan, Kubla Khan, and other Islamic genocidal hordes that ravaged Asia Minor, Asia, and Europe for many centuries.
Ironically it was the Christian forces of Spain, Poland, Austria, Italy (city states), France and possibly Germany who finally stopped this plague of genocide and cultural destruction.
Who do we have today who will lead us in the defense of our history, culture, language, and American identity? Who ever you are, stand up fast because we are running out of time.
I’m getting older but I’m all in for this fight. Time to take it to the enemy on our terms and at the places of our choosing (all legal but we will be armed when necessary - trained, combat experienced, smart, and organized).
Now is the time for all good men (not racists and psychos) to come to the defense of our country. Not tomorrow, not next week, but NOW!
That boy ain’t right.
A combination of weird, belief their religions beliefs allow them to deny others their constitutional rights, and plenty of assets in the way of buildings, properties, trust funds, endowed chairs... we are talking about a great target of opportunity for a Ps lawyer.
And don’t be surprised if an ACLU Chapter from the West Florida Panhandle area (We call it “Lower Alabama” around here) jumps on this.
He may not be right but he does have rights. In fact they had a permit, the others didn’t.
“He may not be right...”
Did you mean bright? That’s how I read it.
He’s all over the place.
He of course has his rights.
Per the school, it’s a private school and he may have violated an agreement. Maybe not, I don’t know.
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