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'Silent Sam' is down: Protesters topple Confederate statue on UNC campus
WRAL ^ | 08/20/18

Posted on 08/20/2018 10:21:24 PM PDT by Simon Green

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To: Simon Green

Fox just had a quick clip of the little Nazi’s pulling down the statue and I saw police STANDING around....not arresting, and I even saw one black officer LAUGHING!!!!!

I am RESPECT THE BLUE to the nth degree!!....did the mayor or governor tell them to stand down?
But why was one of them laughing?????


41 posted on 08/21/2018 5:17:59 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Paul R.

The cops (or at least their commanders) should be fired!


Not fired. Doxxed. Show the world who these pay check checking cashing cowards are.


42 posted on 08/21/2018 5:22:42 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Rj Snows

They didn’t show up for a chanting mob of 300 screaming criminals?

1. Fire the entire campus police department that were on duty
2. Fire the Chief
3. Fire Campus President
4. Hire competent investigator to track down and prosecute every person who touched the statue
5. Any students present at march are automatically expelled
6. Cost to rebuild statue is added to student loans of all perpetrators.
7. Whiny, mealy mouthed Governor is replaced at earliest voter opportunity


43 posted on 08/21/2018 5:30:35 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: Simon Green

Mob mentality. Try this outside of your protective campus and you will get arrested.


44 posted on 08/21/2018 5:32:37 AM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: Simon Green

“...all people deserve to be treated with dignity,” says a protester? I guess all people except ones she disagrees with. Both sides are honored dead. It seems this modern generation lacks respect, embraces hate and violence, all the while calling themselves righteous.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. Isaiah 5:20


45 posted on 08/21/2018 5:43:08 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Simon Green

People who forget history are doomed to repeat it.


46 posted on 08/21/2018 5:46:51 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Simon Green

Silent Sam... What statue is this?? Either way, it’s amazing that the Police were not there to stop the criminal mischief that occurred there. Universities and Cities have all been infected with this disease called Liberalism. If it’s not stopped, it will be at your door step soon.


47 posted on 08/21/2018 6:02:23 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: Unam Sanctam

“My ancestors fought for the Union, and I hold no brief for the Confederacy, but I absolutely hate this Orwellian rewriting of history by the Left today.”

Mine were on both sides. I hold no brief for Lincoln.


48 posted on 08/21/2018 6:08:23 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Simon Green

“Gov. Roy Cooper”

Nice going East coast filth.


49 posted on 08/21/2018 6:09:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Simon Green
Protesters deployed smoke canisters

WAIT, shouldn't the police have done that to disperse these rioters?

50 posted on 08/21/2018 6:11:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: carton253

“The police were there watching the statue being torn from it’s base. According to reports, they were told not to interfere.”

The nation’s Chief Law Enforcement Officer does the same thing.


51 posted on 08/21/2018 6:12:13 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Unam Sanctam
I absolutely hate this Orwellian rewriting of history by the Left today.

It's scary

52 posted on 08/21/2018 6:12:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: tired&retired

Yes, tired&retired, I agree. Silent Sam has long been a POW in Chapel Hill. That nuthouse doesn’t deserve his dignified presence gracing its campus anymore.


53 posted on 08/21/2018 6:16:22 AM PDT by myerson
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To: 1Old Pro

“Protesters deployed smoke canisters
WAIT, shouldn’t the police have done that to disperse these rioters? “

They probably provided the smoke canisters to the criminals.


54 posted on 08/21/2018 6:16:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Where were the cops?

This is Chapel Hill, remember. Jesse Helms was wanting to put a fence around it and call it a zoo back in the 70's.

55 posted on 08/21/2018 6:18:48 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: wardaddy

This really is an outrage.

This statue was no slave owner turned Confederate general but represented all the soldiers in the Confederacy who gave their lives to their home and people.

Argue the war all you want—it shouldn’t matter at such a memorial. Less then 1 percent of Confederate enlisted soldiers owned slaves. Argue their lost cause all you want, but these men were doing their duty as they saw it.

Really, reprehensible act of children in desperate need of an old-fashioned paddling.

An insult to today’s Southern people, especially to those who had an ancestor who fought in that war.

Despicable, hateful and disrespectful of the dead.

I don’t see how ANY conservative, North or South, could be in favor of this. Those who love America love her history, too, warts and all.

I’m retired and on a fixed income now, but I just gave $100 to my town’s Sons of Confederate Veterans.

http://tallasseearmoryguards.org/


56 posted on 08/21/2018 6:21:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: Guenevere

When the Communists overturned the Tsarist regime only the very top ranks of the Tsarist Okhrana were eliminated. The rest joined Felix Dzerzhinsky’s secret police force. In sum, historically and universally, the police personality is a fascist mindset. It is no different in the good old USA.


57 posted on 08/21/2018 6:24:54 AM PDT by Bookshelf (`)
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To: Simon Green

Confederate and Union soldiers are considered co equal US military veterans under federal law. Therefore, any disrespect to a confederate veteran, memorial, statue etc is disrespect to EVERYBODY who ever wore the uniform.


58 posted on 08/21/2018 6:25:59 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SpaceBar

“’Silent Sam’ is down: Protesters topple Confederate statue on UNC campus”

Emboldened by Nikki Haley.


59 posted on 08/21/2018 6:29:13 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: cymbeline
“Certain blacks think they “achieve equality” by going to war with, well, it boils down to whites.”

It looks like many of the criminals in the mob were white.

The fault for the mob violence last night rests squarely on the shoulders of the white community. Weak white university and political “leaders” who colluded with the criminal gang to destroy historic artwork and to broadcast the message, “America was never great.”

And too, the fault lies with many white parents who have raised ignorant - truly ignorant - brats. If the parents had turned the damn television off and taught children right from wrong this would not be happening.

Right now the parents of these apprentice socialists need what they never gave their kids - a gallberry switch across their bare legs.

60 posted on 08/21/2018 6:52:59 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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