Tearing down the Southern Generals ...

[togor]

CH, some of what you'll be competing against in the war of ideas.

[Jiminvirginia]

Obviously, you don't, but how can you apply the same attitude to everyone? Yes, it's true that most people in this debased culture are totally self-absorbed, seldom give a serious thought to anything beyond their private, personal, selfish interests, & the next brainless text on their cells. But though they are certainly in the minority, there are still plenty of people having a deep & lifelong interest in the history of their region. There was never a time in my life when I was not curious about all historical monuments, particularly those relating to the "Second American Revolution."

Oh I care. And I can respect the professionalism of a Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson. But in the grand scheme of things you and I are just smoke in the mist.

[dogtag]

London (when I lived there) was alive with statues of people
I'd never heard of, except maybe during a boring history lesson.
Important ones like Nelson everyone has heard of - having a huge
column probably helps. Most statues are covered in bird sh!t anyway.

[rayg]

Well judging from the four bullet holes in it, some one used it as a target. Many years back when I was 16 and coming back from a gun show, one of the passengers in the car leaned out and shot at a road sign. That was bad enough, but the guy was a Chicago off duty Cop. Especially thinking about it now, and being a retired LEO myself now, that really pisses me off he did that.

[clintonhater]

CH, some of what you'll be competing against in the war of ideas.

Thanks for pointing out the glaring historical inequity of erecting (ugly) memorials like this at tax-payer expense, which is of course negligible compared to the costs of that hideous image of the "King" of demagogues now occupying prestigious real estate in DC, not to mention the countless other memorials to the "King" (is there any town in the South larger than a hamlet that does not have a MLK Drive, Parkway, etc.?), not to mention the National African-American Museum also in DC, not to mention the scores of other recently erected memorials to all the heroes of liberalism (a Rosa Parks Museum & Library, can you believe?). Meanwhile, century-old, beautifully-built, memorials sacred to many whites justifiably proud of their culture & heritage are destroyed.

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Well judging from the four bullet holes in it, some one used it as a target. Many years back when I was 16 and coming back from a gun show, one of the passengers in the car leaned out and shot at a road sign. That was bad enough, but the guy was a Chicago off duty Cop. Especially thinking about it now, and being a retired LEO myself now, that really pisses me off he did that.

Shooting holes in it is stupid. Spray paint (such as used to vandalize countless Confederate memorials) is far more appropriate.

[togor]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/u...n-bullets.html

Replacement signs to be donated by private business, maybe with hardened steel plate? Hope the South doesn't end up like the Middle East or Ulster.

[clintonhater]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/u...n-bullets.html

Replacement signs to be donated by private business, maybe with hardened steel plate?

Bullets unnecessary as well as dangerous--spray paint is the better response to such a deliberate provocation.