crossspur - 2017-08-15 9:41 AM It's awful. and then there's all this government fuss going on about it. With Korea looming over us. The government needs to get together and handle this as one government and we as a nation need to be able to get it together as one nation.

crossspur - 2017-08-15 8:41 AM It's awful. and then there's all this government fuss going on about it. With Korea looming over us. The government needs to get together and handle this as one government and we as a nation need to be able to get it together as one nation.

1DSoon - 2017-08-15 9:09 AM There is no Korea looming over us. There never was. 



 

Frodo - 2017-08-15 12:24 PM Especially disturbing to watch vandals topple the Confederate statue, then kick it (and how smart are you when you kick a piece of metal with your foot).  Good, bad, or indifferent the Civil War was part of our history and the men who fought it, on both sides, have a right to be remembered with respect....as does the Confederate flag.



I still believe George Soros money is behind these evil riots.





 

ridejg - 2017-08-15 4:52 PM Why is law enforcement allowing this destruction of public property??

The country is being destroyed from within... 

Nevertooold - 2017-08-15 7:47 PM Law Enforcement was told to stand down by their bosses.

Frodo - 2017-08-15 12:24 PM

Especially disturbing to watch vandals topple the Confederate statue, then kick it (and how smart are you when you kick a piece of metal with your foot).  Good, bad, or indifferent the Civil War was part of our history and the men who fought it, on both sides, have a right to be remembered with respect....as does the Confederate flag.

I still believe George Soros money is behind these evil riots.


 

Frodo - 2017-08-15 12:24 PM Especially disturbing to watch vandals topple the Confederate statue, then kick it (and how smart are you when you kick a piece of metal with your foot).  Good, bad, or indifferent the Civil War was part of our history and the men who fought it, on both sides, have a right to be remembered with respect....as does the Confederate flag.



I still believe George Soros money is behind these evil riots.





 

turnthree - 2017-08-15 8:12 AM Makes me very sad.... What is wrong with people.......

Chandler's Mom - 2017-08-15 8:28 PM

I just wonder what would have happened/been said if certain groups would have pulled a MLK statue down. . . . Someone finds something offensive about every monument---do we tear them all down?? It's our history, end of discussion. Tearing them down doesn't change that. And you know what they say about a country that forgets its history. I'm Southern to the core, and I find it beyond irritating that our heritage is being attacked over and over and yet people are shocked when we push back. (In no way do I condone what happened to the young lady or identity with white supremacist, etc.)

SC Wrangler - 2017-08-15 7:14 PM While I find the destruction of the statues disgusting, I am much more concerned that that a sick individual would drive a vehicle into a group of protesters because they happened to have an opposing point of view.   I mean come on we are talking about taking a human life.  I will never comprehend where that kind of violence and hatred come from.  

Bear - 2017-08-17 10:58 AM Many people are missing the point on this chaos completely. Tearing down statues and monuments cannot alter established facts. So-called historians who are revisionists try to alter history by injecting their own interpretations of events. Many of these pseudo intellectuals do not want to expunge monuments and reminders of our historical past, all under the guise of equality and harmony. No, it's quite the opposite for many of them, particularly those with a liberal-progressive agenda. They cannot win on the merits of their socialist-utopia agenda, hence they need chaos and division to win over the support of the feeble minded. They need hate. They need racism to persist. They need xenophobia. They need homophobia. They need feminazi's. They need abortion to flourish. They need class warfare. They need envy, hate, division, and identity politics. Deep down inside, they really don't care that Confederate generals were part of our past. They know that removing statues and monuments cannot actually alter historically established events and facts. That doesn't mean they won't try revisionist tactics, but the main goal is the creation of hate, under the guise of eliminating it. They need hate and racism. The frequent quote "never let a good crisis go to waste" is proof positive that they need things like this. Harmony, productivity, prosperity, and unity are poison to the progressive left. They want one thing: POWER. They need a thriving KKK and White Supremecist movement just as much as they need BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and Antifa. Those groups.....all of them, are vital to progressivism. The Progressives have one key advantage over their political opponents: the media. The liberal mainstream media is what controls the focused rage. When BLM operatives shot 5 cops like dogs in the streets of Dallas, the outrage against the BLM was short lived. They even managed to turn things around and blame racism for those assassinations. This crazed zealot who drove the car into the crowd and killed that girl has been the poster boy for driving the lunatics into their frenzy which has led to the current rage of removal ol statues and monuments. One year ago, on Bastille Day, an ISIS-inspired terrorist did the same thing in Nice, France. He was much better at killing.....he killed nearly 100 people with a truck. If that exact same thing would have happened here last weekend with a similar ISIS crazed lunatic, would the outrage be as vitriolic and focused? It won't be long and we will begin to see people calling for the Constitution and Declaration of Independence to be nullified on the basis that 50% of the attendees to the first Constitutional Convention were slave owners. We will soon see calls for Monticello to be bulldozed because Jefferson owned nearly 200 slaves. Theses things may sound ridiculous, but mark my word, incrementally we will see this. It's not because they are sincere in their expressed desire....it's because they need these tools......for POWER.

1DSoon - 2017-08-15 6:58 PM  They still did it. 



An unlawful order is unlawful. 

cowgalsissy - 2017-08-17 4:25 PM

    I think with the police having such a bad rap at the moment it was a good idea for them to stand down in this situation.
I also believe that if we try to forget or hide our past we are more likely to repeat it.
   I cant believe how mad people got that the president didn't say what they wanted him to either. I guess they do care what he thinks...

Bear - 2017-08-17 10:58 AM

Many people are missing the point on this chaos completely.
Tearing down statues and monuments cannot alter established facts.
So-called historians who are revisionists try to alter history by injecting their own interpretations of events. Many of these pseudo intellectuals do not want to expunge monuments and reminders of our historical past, all under the guise of equality and harmony.
No, it's quite the opposite for many of them, particularly those with a liberal-progressive agenda. They cannot win on the merits of their socialist-utopia agenda, hence they need chaos and division to win over the support of the feeble minded. They need hate. They need racism to persist. They need xenophobia. They need homophobia.
They need feminazi's. They need abortion to flourish. They need class warfare. They need envy, hate, division, and identity politics.
Deep down inside, they really don't care that Confederate generals were part of our past. They know that removing statues and monuments cannot actually alter historically established events and facts. That doesn't mean they won't try revisionist tactics, but the main goal is the creation of hate, under the guise of eliminating it.
They need hate and racism. The frequent quote "never let a good crisis go to waste" is proof positive that they need things like this.
Harmony, productivity, prosperity, and unity are poison to the progressive left. They want one thing: POWER.
They need a thriving KKK and White Supremecist movement just as much as they need BLM, Occupy Wall Street, and Antifa. Those groups.....all of them, are vital to progressivism.

The Progressives have one key advantage over their political opponents: the media. The liberal mainstream media is what controls the focused rage. When BLM operatives shot 5 cops like dogs in the streets of Dallas, the outrage against the BLM was short lived. They even managed to turn things around and blame racism for those assassinations. This crazed zealot who drove the car into the crowd and killed that girl has been the poster boy for driving the lunatics into their frenzy which has led to the current rage of removal ol statues and monuments. One year ago, on Bastille Day, an ISIS-inspired terrorist did the same thing in Nice, France. He was much better at killing.....he killed nearly 100 people with a truck. If that exact same thing would have happened here last weekend with a similar ISIS crazed lunatic, would the outrage be as vitriolic and focused?
It won't be long and we will begin to see people calling for the Constitution and Declaration of Independence to be nullified on the basis that 50% of the attendees to the first Constitutional Convention were slave owners. We will soon see calls for Monticello to be bulldozed because Jefferson owned nearly 200 slaves.
Theses things may sound ridiculous, but mark my word, incrementally we will see this. It's not because they are sincere in their expressed desire....it's because they need these tools......for POWER.