Whoa! Big list of monument-trashing gets bigger. Not even abolitionist Benjamin Franklin is safe from left's attacks

[rangerrebew]

Whoa! Big list of monument-trashing gets bigger
Not even abolitionist Benjamin Franklin is safe from left's attacks
Published: 11 hours ago



It’s the latest case of anti-Confederacy hysteria sweeping America: Now school officials in Texas may remove the name of Benjamin Franklin – an abolitionist and Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution – from a middle school over a “connection to Confederacy.”

WND has reported on the nationwide effort to remove Confederate statues and symbols from government grounds across America. Now Dallas Independent School District appears to be joining that movement with an investigation into the names of its schools.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/whoa-big-list-of-monument-trashing-gets-bigger/#iRJOb7We6MMIo51Y.99

[Fishrrman]

Their goal is not unlike that of the Khmer Rouge -- to "wipe out" history and remembrance, to take us to a "year zero" after which they can reconstruct history to suit their designs.

(sigh) I probably should have just quoted Orwell...