The American Taliban wants to howitzer Stone Mountain.
Please no!
Just stop!
My ancestors fought in that war.......they never owned slaves!
One of my ancestor’s fought on the Union side!
These were young men, some only boys.....
....Stop this insanity!
Expect major vandalism at sites like this tomorrow.
They will never stop. People who think they can appease the left are fools.
This is a directive from anarchy HQ, AL Reuters. Sort of like John Has A Long Mustache for anarchists. Marching orders and the next target selected.
The government isn’t going to protect Stone Mountain. People are going to have to do it themselves. The Feds will throw you in jail for protecting it as well.
No one is forcing anyone to visit it.
“... removal of what many consider a shrine to racism, the giant depiction of three Confederate heroes on horseback still towers ominously...”
Sure glad there’s no bias in the writing here...
The war was fought over more than just slavery. Indeed, upwards of 90% of Confederate soldiers had no connection to slave-holding. Much of what the South fought for, we are still fighting for, today. General Sherman burned everything in a swath 300 miles long and 50 miles wide through the state of Georgia. Is the state not allowed some memorial to the men who tried to prevent him from doing so? Does England ask Scotland to remove statues of Bonnie Prince Charlie or William Wallace because they fought against them? OK, so we made Germany remove statues of Hitler, pure evil. But, part of what caused WWII was the utterly harsh treatment of Germany after WWI. And, even the Romans, as the Republic expanded in its early history, knew better than to shame and disgrace the people they conquered. They left their traditions alone.
That is just stupid.
Leave the statues alone, the people they represent are woven in the fabric of American history. We cannot unravel the threads without all of the nation coming apart.
The stock market doesn’t know the race or skin color of shareholders, nor does it care.
As far as I know the park and monument is privately owned and is in trust to preserve it. It will be much harder to remove than government owned/controlled monuments.
Have these morons gone after Lee’s statue and monument at Gettysburg?
“...since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died during an arrest by a white police officer who pinned his neck to the ground with a knee. The brutality of Floyd’s death, captured on cellphone video, triggered a national outcry against racial injustice, and revived a long-simmering battle between those demanding the removal of racist symbols from the public sphere, and those who believe monuments honor the tradition and history of the South.”
“since the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man who died during an arrest by a white police officer “
So far, so good.
“who pinned his neck to the ground with a knee. “
Not TOO bad except he kneeled on his neck, BUT didn’t “pin it to the ground”
“The brutality of Floyd’s death”
While you might argue the “brutality” of the arrest/detainment, but they are equating his death with the arrest and “brutal treatment of Floyd. WHICH WASN’T THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.
“triggered a national outcry against racial injustice”
Well it sure “triggered a lot of people, that’s true.
EXCEPT, there was no “racial injustice” committed against George Floyd, George Taylor, Floyd Taylor or George Kirby!
A WHITE career criminal, habitual hard drug user, high on Fentanyl and Methamphetamine, resisting arrest, would have been treated EXACTLY THE SAME!
YES, EXACTLY THE SAME!
“revived a long-simmering battle between those demanding the removal of racist symbols from the public sphere, and those who believe monuments honor the tradition and history of the South.”
The mostly true and somewhat honest part of the piece.
Flat out stating that they are “racist symbols” is biased.
Should have included “many Black people think...”
They DO “reflect” the tradition and history of the South, not necessarily “HONOR”.
While this piece is an improvement over the totally racist pieces I’ve seen lately, they may just be trying to hide their racist ideology. (racist against WHITE people)
We’ve had this discussion many times. Stone Mountain was a GIFT to the state of Georgia. The terms of the gift require that ANY attempt to remove or deface the Confederate Monument mean the gift is FORFEIT and returns to the private owners.
It cannot be removed. The state can give that land back to the private owners of it, but that’s it.
Suck it Maoists.
Hey these losers are destroying statues of: Washington, Lincoln...
Stone Mountain isn’t going anywhere. For one thing we have a law in GA that forbids the removal of civil war monuments. Secondly Stone Mountain is privately owned property.
America receives yet another lecture on morality from the stinking Brits.
In between lectures by the stinking Brits about “America’s lax gun laws”.
Screw Britannia! Enjoy your Muslims, you dhimmi slaves!
By the way....the Confederates were not fighting over slavery. They knew exactly what they had been fighting for. Consider these two quotes.
“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.” Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864
“I yet believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.” Robert E. Lee in a letter to Lord Acton
Just look now. PC Revisionists claim the only thing the South was fighting for was slavery - in the face of tons of evidence to the contrary. The ripping up of the original constitution by reducing the states to little more than administrative conveniences rather than sovereign constitutional actors as they had been....the creation of “one vast (consolidated) republic” as Lee called it has led to exactly what he and Patrick Cleburne said it would.
The unsustainable debts. The oppressiveness. The constant meddling overseas. It has all happened. If we do not alter course, the collapse he predicted based on a careful reading of Greek and Roman history, will happen to us just as it did to the ancients.
But we’re not supposed to look at any of that. We’re not supposed to consider if gosh, maybe Southerners knew what they were talking about. No No. Just repeat the holy dogma “Slavery! Slavery! Slavery!”.