Bread and circuses are often enough to distract the masses from the more serious shortcomings of government. And so it is that the pandering to Black Lives Matter and politically correct college student demonstrators serve to help them forget that they are poorly educated, poorly served and just plain poor.
In the city of New Orleans, with so many other more important issues, the city council has voted to remove statues of Confederate civil war heroes in order to placate loud mouthed whiners who are “offended” by the statues, rather than deal with the real problems the city faces.
The monuments are of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, and the Battle of Liberty Place. They mark historical figures and events that cannot be erased. The city council voted 6 – 1 for their removal, and declared them public nuisances.
It is estimated that removal will cost $170,000, and all of the arguments made by groups hoping to keep the monuments in place were judged by the city council to be “frivolous,” “entirely without merit,” or “made no sense.” One wonders about other moments in history that various segments of society will find offensive and move to have them erased.
Who is paying for monument removal, page 2:
If they destroy those monuments there will be hell to pay.
Bull$#%&!@*surround all monuments im on my way
Words will not stop this!!!
Yeah well nun other will go up I’m sure
you can remove whatever you like..you cannot rewrite history
Buy them an put them on private land
The south fought for slavery, and lost. There’s no nobility there. The state governors mentioned specifically that their reason for cessation was to protect the institution of slavery for the state.
Wait until they have to put them back or be shot or hanged
This is so not right. Our history is being destroy .
This is the Progressive Movement. Remove history, wipe it away & pretend it never happened. Well, I hope the day comes that they try to start on Martin Luther King & Barack Obama & see how they feel then. Once you start changing & eradicating history it doesn’t stop. There will always be a group that will be offended by something!!