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Originally Posted by dawg80
What do ya mean, no? Yes they are.
When I was a kid Brooks Robinson was my idol. So much so when I played Little League I wore #5 and played 3rd base. Like I said, he was my idol. Well, in baseball. I had other idols for other things.
Ironically, I don't have idols. Certainly not people.
I did not read through all the posts, so maybe it was addressed, but isn't the "evidence" that the statues were put up for racial motives sort of circumstantial? Is this fact or speculation?
Good old Memorial Gym
Pure speculation. Next question!
Circumstantial and strong,
It's only shared insofar as they both strive toward authoritarianism.
It's certainly irrelevant to the issues surrounding the VA monument, protests, counter-protests, and subsequent murder.
Time is your friend. Impulse is your enemy. -John Bogle
Total liberal idiots!!
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Now president who freed slaves torched by vandals
Trump gets blame after bust of Abraham Lincoln goes up in flames
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Not to change the subject...but when are liberals going to finally admit that autos kill people? We need much more strict auto laws in this country.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...owd/index.html
Tear down any monuments to cars!
Confederate generals are not idols.
It's not THAT bad of a movie and movie series. Lots of kids will be very heartbroken if Cars was taken away.
Buh bye Slick Willie
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/695/9...-bill-clinton/
OK let's get them all!
Racists, rapists, murderers: Four statues of liberals untouched by protesters
AUGUST 16TH, 2017
BY KYLE OLSON
Left-wing mobs are okay with memorials to racists, accused rapists and murders — as long as they’re liberals.
As agitators move from Southern town to Southern town to tear down and uproot Confederate relics, four statues in American city stand safe fro, progressive harm.
Former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd stands tall. He’s so well respected, he was named “West Virginian of the 20th Century.”
Chop his statue's *** off.
Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones call for destruction of Bill Clinton statue
AUGUST 17TH, 2017
BY KYLE OLSON
Why does America honor an accused rapist?
That’s what Juanita Broaddrick wants to know.
Speaking exclusively to The American Mirror, Broaddrick denounced the lack of efforts to uproot a monument to Bill Clinton in South Dakota, the man she says raped her in a Little Rock, Arkansas hotel room in 1978.
“I would like to ‘personally’ use a sledgehammer on it, with the help of Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones,” Broaddrick says.
A life-size statue of Clinton stands at the corner of 7th and Saint Joseph Street in Rapid City.
TIME TO DUMP LENIN STATUE IN SEATTLE
Neighborhood home to Google, Adobe, Getty Images
Published: 15 hours ago
As many American cities eliminate Confederate monuments amid a wave of protests, a tech venture capitalist is asking if it’s time to pull down a 16-foot tall statue of communist dictator Vladimir Lenin in a Seattle neighborhood that has become a tech hub, with offices for Google and Adobe and the headquarters of Getty Images, among others.
Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz, which invests in companies such as Airbnb and Lyft, says that if “one wanted to pull down statues of profoundly evil people,” the Lenin statue in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood should be on the list, reported GeekWire.
Evans tweeted about the statue to his 224,000 followers on Tuesday, noting Lenin was “responsible for uncountable human suffering.”
Activists regularly apply red paint to the bronze statue to signify the “blood on the hands” of the founder of the Soviet Union.
The statue was brought to the U.S. after being toppled during the 1989 revolution that overthrew the Communist Party in the former Czechoslovakia.
Defenders of the statue see it as ironic, particularly in the context of the quirky Fremont neighborhood. Known for its hippies and artists, Fremont’s motto is “De Libertas Quirkas,” the freedom to be peculiar. A giant statue of a troll sits under a major bridge, the annual summer solstice parade features nude bicyclists, and a cast aluminum sculpture at a bus stop of six people and a dog, called “Waiting for the Interurban,” is regularly dressed up by locals in a variety of apparel.
The Seattle Times noted in a 2015 story on the Lenin statue that it is “loved and hated – and very Fremont.” The eight-ton bronze was brought to Seattle from Poprad, Slovakia, by a Seattle-area man, Lewis Carpenter, who was teaching in the former East bloc nation. Carpenter died in 1994, but his family still owns the statue and, as of 2015, it was for sale for $250,000 or best offer.
The Independent Journal Review reported that in addition to Fremont’s Lenin, an 18-foot Lenin originally commissioned by the USSR stands on an apartment rooftop on the Lower East Side of New York City, and a large metallic bust of the Soviet founder is on display outside a museum in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday, Seattle’s Democratic mayor, Ed Murray, expressed “concerns” about a monument to Confederate soldiers in a local cemetery, which closed Wednesday afternoon after receiving threats related to the monument, the Seattle Times reported.
On the same day, a small group of protesters gathered at the Lenin statue, and on Thursday, the Times reported, Murray called for both the Confederate monument and the Lenin statue to be taken down, saying they represent “historic injustices” and are symbols of hate, racism and violence.
Red Terror
The Soviet Union, according to an averaging of academic reports by the war histories
website Necromatics.com, was responsible for 56 to 62 million “unnatural deaths” overall, with 34 to 49 million under Stalin.
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