The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: edpc on August 17, 2017, 12:17:06 am
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The violence that erupted in Charlottesville over the weekend, which left one woman killed and dozens more injured, stemmed from a white nationalist and alt-right protest over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Debates about the removal of Confederate statues have been ongoing for many years, and opponents of removing the monuments often decry such attempts as an attempt to erase history.
In light of all this, it's probably best to remember one relevant historical fact: Robert E. Lee was opposed to Confederate monuments.
“It’s often forgotten that Lee himself, after the Civil War, opposed monuments, specifically Confederate war monuments,” Jonathan Horn, a Lee biographer, told PBS.
After the Civil War, Lee received a number of letters requesting support for the erection of Confederate memorials, according to Horn.
In June 1866, he wrote that he couldn't support a monument of one of his best generals, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, saying it wasn't "feasible at this time."
"As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated," Lee wrote in December 1866 about another proposed Confederate monument, "my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt in the present condition of the Country, would have the effect of retarding, instead of accelerating its accomplishment; [and] of continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour."
Not only was Lee opposed to Confederate memorials, "he favored erasing battlefields from the landscape altogether," Horn wrote.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robert-e-lee-thought-confederate-220734970.html
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This is not Reconstruction.
We're in a period of Mao-like cultural Revolution, where all aspects of anything that could be seen as not genuflecting to the State and the Zeitgeist of Leftist thought are being purged, torn down, criminalized and expunged.
The idea that anyone could dare defy the Federal Beast, are ideas that must be purged and eliminated from the entirety of existence.
Erasing history is what tyrants do to those people they intend to subjugate and liquidate.
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The idea that anyone could dare defy the Federal Beast, are ideas that must be purged and eliminated from the entirety of existence.
Erasing history is what tyrants do to those people they intend to subjugate and liquidate.
@INVAR
Another one of Orwell's works of fiction becoming reality.