Statuary Rape

Original Material | 8/26/2017 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

Statuary Rape

A curious madness has swept the American left as of late: There is a hatred and a desire to tear down every monument and statue that 'offends' them.

Leaving aside the fact that there is no American right to remain unoffended, what started as a focus on Confederate statues has spread to every manner of marker or memorial.

Let us consider:

1. A Houston man attempted to destroy a Confederate statue at the General Dowling Monument.... with a bomb!

2. The 'offending' statue need not even be of a particular person, when, in Durham, protesters illegally toppled a statue of a generic Confederate soldier.

3. AntiFa activists, mistakenly believing Confederate soldiers were buried at Gettysburg, planned to desecrate gravesites of Civil War casualties. On the official, government front: The Mayor of Memphis called for the digging up of Confederate graves, most notably, that of Nathan Bedford Forrest. This is in direct violation of Public Law 810 of 1958, which makes provision for treating Confederate soldiers as US veterans in the context of grave memorials and other veterans' benefits.

4. The editor if Vice Magazine incredibly called for the razing of Mount Rushmore.

5. Calls for statue removal now even extend to those of Christopher Columbus and Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo.

6. Not even the statues of Catholic Saints are safe, when the mass hysteria that has gripped our nation extended to Saint Serra, and his statue was desecrated.

7. The madness even extends to names. ESPN removed an announcer from calling a football game because his name was Robert Lee.

8. Even more absurdly, the names of the animals of Robert E. Lee are even subject to attack: Traveler, a mascot of the USC, was condemned since it shared a name with of Robert E. Lee's horse.

If the name of a horse owned by Robert E. Lee is now forbidden, I shudder to think what comes next. Will the girl's names of Georgia and Virginia be stricken from the list of acceptable names, because those States joined the Confederacy? Will Mason canning jars be banned, because they remind someone -- somewhere -- of the Mason-Dixon line? Will flocks of geese, flying south for the winter, be shot out of the sky by crazed leftists, because "South" is now an expletive?

To the left, I say this: The comparison of your behavior to the behavior of MiniTruth (the Ministry of propaganda in the novel '1984',) is an obvious one. Further, to strike the statues that you object to makes you no different than ISIS, who regards any monument not directed towards the furtherance of Islam a "Haram" -- or forbidden -- thing. Finally, by deleting any statue of a historical figure, you diminish the publics' awareness of history -- and in so doing, increase the chance we will repeat that history. Perhaps these are your true goals, but if they are not, then I suggest you stop directing your rage to inanimate objects.

Besides, I would add, not even people of color share your priorities. In a recent poll, it was shown that Black Americans do not want Confederate statues removed.

This all started with the hysterical overreaction to the existence of the Confederate battle flag that occured after it was found that Dylann Root, a shooter who attacked a South Carolina church posed in one picture with such a flag. I wrote an editorial about that topic. I was not yet aware just how far this hatred of inanimate objects would go.

In conclusion, I would like to remind the American left that the urge to destroy inanimate objects that they do not favor will inevitably become an urge to destroy the people they do not like.

And there begins the Fascism and tyranny of which you so routinely, and inaccurately, accuse President Donald Trump.

[blondiegoodbadugly]

Great read. Thanks Laz

[5th MEB]

Damn Laz; if your that cotton pickin desperate add me to your ping list.
And if it has metastasized to your pee pee I would have that looked at ASAP.

[5th MEB]

And very true, at least until they run into that proverbial immovable object.
I for one choose NOT TO MOVE.

[5th MEB]

Any body who has ever talked to a shrink (I don’t mean as a patient) knows that they are all stupid as hell about the way the world actually works.
Their entire so-called profession is nothing more than the ultimate SNOWFLAKE SAFE SPACE.
These are the people who, although called doctor, couldn’t remove a splinter from your thumb in a competent manner.
The medical education establishment had to have a place to put all those students who they knew wouldn’t be able to graduate, so they called them psychiatrists and psychologists.

[Pelham]

“This all started with the hysterical overreaction to the existence of the Confederate battle flag”

Led by that loyal daughter of South India, Nimrata “Nikki Haley” Randhawa and her neocon pals in the media. She demonstrated her affection for the people whom she lives among and who elected her by denigrating the memory of their ancestors. Good job, Nikki. Be sure you take credit for the statue eradication that followed, you deserve it.

[Silentgypsy]

The most concerning issue for some of us is that this, like so many of the other nutty ideas they posit, can have many and severe unintended consequences which will affect all of us.

[Vendome]

Statuary rape...?

LOL

[poconopundit]

Excellent image!

[sport]

She may be Caribbean, but by no stretch of the imagination is she is American. This is why the Country is going to hell in a handbasket at warp speed. There is all these this that and the other with"American " as the last part of the name. Jesus, Himself, said a man/woman cannot serve two masters. Either you are 100% American or you are not American at all. If the Good Lord will only hold the Country together until He calls m home, I will be happy.

[Nifster]

It is important to recognize all of the kerffufle is not about any of the stated offenses

This is the way commies always try to destabilize the current government. This is not new...even in the US

We must call out the leftists for what they are

[Big Red Badger]

BLAZING SADDLES..

BLAZING SADDLES?

Never Heard of It.

[poconopundit]

[RooRoobird20]

:0)

[tuffydoodle]

I blame Alzheimer’s

[oldvirginian]

I was first called disturbed when I was 13. A little young for Alzheimer’s.
Nowadays I may be able to get by with it.

[Yaelle]

LOVE this.

[Lazamataz]

If you love this, then you love me.

[Lazamataz]

this noob humbly asks to please be added to your ping list.

You are the 370^th Satisfied Customer!™

[Yaelle]

Who can fight the syllogism??

[trebb]

That "hit it"...

Good article and reference links.