Breaking News: Crowd CHEERS as workers
use crane to remove statue of Confederate
General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville -
four years after deadly Unite The Right
rally rocked the city
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Andrew Court
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/10/2021 11:58:22 AM
Crowds cheered as workers removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday morning following a contentious four year legal battle. The 26-foot tall bronze monument - which has stood in the city's Emancipation Park since 1924 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 - was hoisted off it base with a crane shortly after 8am. It will now be placed in storage. A separate statue of Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson will also be removed in Charlottesville on Saturday afternoon. Both Lee and Jackson fought against the abolition of slavery in the US Civil War.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/10/2021 12:09:48 PM (No. 841407)
Robert E Lee was a true American patriot and hero....men of such honor and integrity are extremely hard to find now.
It sickens me that misguided morons on the left want to "cancel" him because there was slavery in the south...and that makes anyone who lived there or fought for The South to be "evil '...??
....meanwhile they ignore that politicians of the current left today support baby murdering...???
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/10/2021 12:10:57 PM (No. 841408)
When they get to the hereafter, they won't run into General Lee or Stonewall.
But not for the reason they think.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/10/2021 12:11:37 PM (No. 841409)
And why wouldn't there be anything but cheering crowds? Its not like free speech an open dialogue is legal anymore in this fascist country. Differing opinions are now illegal in our two tier Just-Us system. Destroy history is what the American Taliban does.
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Explain to me how this is any different than ISIS destroying anything in the ME that was counter to their pedophile prophet?
Well done, libtrash. You are now the moral equivalent of ISIS. Demmunists desperate to remove their links to the institution of slavery by any means available. You erase history to prevent it from ever being studied.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/10/2021 12:14:59 PM (No. 841415)
Not a very big crowd, and I'll bet there are a lot more people who are outraged at the removal. We're captives of a minority of leftists and anarchists who have intimidated everyone and are being appeased by our "leaders." It will not end well.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 7/10/2021 12:25:33 PM (No. 841420)
Can we use the same crane to remove Biden?
36 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Penney 7/10/2021 12:36:57 PM (No. 841428)
The anti-American thugs are dismantling American history before our very eyes in order to replace it with what? Socialist fiction? Venezuela?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/10/2021 12:41:00 PM (No. 841431)
Hence, of course our current famous congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
Should she be required to change her racist name to Sheila Dumbelkopfer ?
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Curious question. What is ultimately going to happen to Arlington cemetery? It was Lee's homestead before it was confiscated.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ruhn 7/10/2021 1:06:23 PM (No. 841440)
Charlottesville is a college town to the University of Virginia (UVa)...founded, by the way, by Thomas Jefferson. As a college town to UVa, Charlottesville has its share of loud and obnoxious pinko lefties from both the faculty and the student body.
The cheering is not necessarily a reflection of the native 'townies'.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2021 1:31:10 PM (No. 841467)
Robert E. Lee was a great man. Statue or no statue, that doesn't change.
Pitiful, useless fools cheering the removal of a statue of a great man do not make their pitiful, useless, nasty, irrelevant little lazy lives one iota better or more important. Losers trying to bring down a great man.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 7/10/2021 1:34:51 PM (No. 841473)
99.9% of all systemic whiners and complainers are democrat lefties.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/10/2021 1:41:09 PM (No. 841478)
Are they going to cheer when The Purge comes for them? If they bothered to learn some real history they would know that the first people taken out are the useful idiots who are no longer useful.
19 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/10/2021 1:47:29 PM (No. 841483)
Rewriting history one monument at a time. In its place will go a statue of George $20 Floyd.
9 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/10/2021 1:48:28 PM (No. 841484)
This is where the "fine people" myth began. And we'll hear about it everyday as the January 6th lie continues for the next few years.
6 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
terrywhite 7/10/2021 1:50:18 PM (No. 841487)
"Both Lee and Jackson fought against the abolition of slavery in the US Civil War." I don't believe that is an accurate statement. What they were really fighting for was their freedom from a tyrannical centralized government, much like we have today.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono 7/10/2021 1:55:14 PM (No. 841496)
Another excuse to drive home the operative narrative, with the loaded phrase "the deadly Unite The Right rally"... the goal of which, without a doubt, is to cement "deadly" with "right" and justify the coming force to suppress all non-Socialists.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
volksford 7/10/2021 2:31:41 PM (No. 841516)
After the surrender Lee told his troops "if you make as good of citizens as you were soldiers you will do well". I wonder if this "woke" bunch in Charlottesville consider themselves good citizens ?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/10/2021 2:47:31 PM (No. 841524)
Cheering drowns out weeping.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
judy 7/10/2021 3:00:36 PM (No. 841534)
Removing statues, empty food shelves, crooked elections….hmmmm reminds me of a foreign country….it took Biden a little over 6 months to destroy our country….
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/10/2021 3:01:25 PM (No. 841536)
If balance ever returns to America, the 1st two statues to come down need to be Obie's and St. George of Floyd's.
8 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
downnout 7/10/2021 3:06:03 PM (No. 841539)
These activists would do well to study General Lee’s history post Civil War. He was one of the finest men this country ever produced, a man of duty and honor. Our current crop of SJWs would not be fit to wipe the Generals boots. I hope they choke on their hatred.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 7/10/2021 3:18:48 PM (No. 841545)
What a disgrace... pity these who never learned about States’ Rights, and keep them away from W&L and Traveller...
https://www.historynet.com/robert-e-lees-horse-traveller.htm
The Best is Yet to Come
MAGA
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/10/2021 3:33:52 PM (No. 841551)
Blame the cowards in the Charlottesville Government.
The University of Virginia should also carry the burden of guilt.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/10/2021 4:51:18 PM (No. 841577)
who's stature is gonna take the place of General Robert E. Lee - Elizabeth Sanger?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BevNJ 7/10/2021 5:46:07 PM (No. 841598)
#20, I think we’ve been besieged for more than 6 months. I date it to 2008 (or January 2009). Pastor’s “God damn America,” Trayvon “if I had a son” Martin, Michael “gentle giant” Brown. We had a four year reprieve; we really, really needed eight.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Faithfully 7/10/2021 6:20:07 PM (No. 841617)
Years ago, I read Lee's letters to his son. He was exceptional!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/10/2021 7:16:39 PM (No. 841658)
Robespierre went last, but he went.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ldb51 7/10/2021 8:48:01 PM (No. 841734)
Meanwhile, the Leftist slime mockingly displayed their pure contempt for the country's righteous by draping a blasphemous "God bless abortion!" banner over a statue of Jesus. Just so we know where they stand ... May they all rot in Hades.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/11/2021 11:21:50 AM (No. 842233)
Bet those who cheer know nothing about General Lee. Too bad, but if they did know anything about him, they would not want his statue pulled down. Probably be replaced by some infamous rapper.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/11/2021 3:54:48 PM (No. 842523)
The Bible neither condemns nor condones "slavery" in fact it has been a way of life in the near and middle east for thousands of years. Everyone, white, brown, black have been "slaves" and the FIRST ones in North America were (drum roll please) WHITE! The blacks came with a price; the whites were free of charge from England and could be worked to death (and were). Before Australia was established as a penal colony for the British, there were the Colonies in North America, and this is where they dumped their Irish Catholics, London street urchin children, and even Continental Europeans they'd captured on ships, etc. It's truly sad that American kids don't learn the WHOLE history of slavery in North America... it's not all about Africans. And besides, there were a whole lot of freed black slaves who owned slaves themselves! Teach them THAT history too!
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