Posted on 07/02/2020 2:05:45 PM PDT by C19fan
Work crews acting on the orders of the mayor took down a second statue on Thursday of a Confederate military figure in Richmond, the Virginia city that was the capital of the pro-slavery Civil War South.
The statue of Matthew Fontaine Maury, a Confederate naval officer, was seen in televised footage being lifted off its stone base by a crane and placed on a flatbed truck.
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And now that the offending statues are gone, there will be unicorns romping in the streets and rainbows in the sky...
(sarc/off)
Dooming us to repeat our historical errors. MORONS!
Who would have thought this is what the USA would become? Book burning public opinion polling mobs looking for gibsmedats.
Let me know when they take down the statue of Aurthur Ashe.
At this point Virginia might as well be another planet! There is no legal way to stop Northam!
And yet, Lenin's statue still stand in Seattle...
Better to take them down and put in storage than let the idiots destroy them. At least that way they could be restored when America regains it sanity.
Maury was quite an accomplished scientist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury
It was an honor for Richmond to host his statue, and it is a GRAVE dishonor and a big mistake to remove it!!!!
The pedestals should remain just as they are now; empty and covered with graffiti.
A marker giving the date of removal and detailing the events leading up to the removals should be placed directly in front of each pedestal. Make sure the names of every responsible leader involved in the decisions are listed. Omit no one.
Each pedestal should remain there and empty for at least 100 years.
....I agree with all that you have written, up to the point
when you write “when America regains [its] sanity”.....
don’t hold your breath....if the Democrats take the
Senate this November, and that drooling idiot Biden
wins the White House, there will be NO regaining any
semblance of sanity...Tucker Carlson hit it on the nail
last night (or the night before...) we are looking at the
possibility of a one-party country; Republicans will never
gain anything from that point on.....
Hey, Oregon took down a statue of an Elk. A dangerous, racist elk.
And when that happens I hope Texas will be the first state to secede and I will be backing that move.
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