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Fort Myers rally tommorow
The NAACP and Sons of Confederate Veterans, will hold a rally in Ft. Myers Fl., tomorrow. The NAACP wants to remove a Robert E Lee monument, while the Sons of Confederate Veterans want it to stay. Ft Myers is in LEE county for crying out loud!

If I had a way to get there and was not a caretaker of a dependant, bet your ass I would be there. As it is, I am looking into what is required to join the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Wonder if the anemic, tofu eating cowardly thugs will be there?



Police prepare for protests at controversial Fort Myers statue Tuesday

The debate over a confederate statue in downtown Fort Myers is going to get more heated, as protesters of the statue plan on making their opinion known on Tuesday.

The statue in downtown Fort Myers/WINK News
The two sides involved are far from reaching a middle ground over the Robert E. Lee statue.
As critics and supporters gear up for a showdown on Tuesday, Fort Myers Police say they’re making special preparations ahead of the planned demonstration organized by the Lee County NAACP.

NAACP President James Muwakkil/WINK News
“Obviously nobody wants any sort of violence….you know, altercations. Nobody wants any confrontation or hostility,” said Rachel Bass.
Those opposed to the statue want it moved from city property to a less conspicuous location like a history museum. Other groups say they plan to join the cause as well.
“It’s time for people outside of that immediate circle to come and support their efforts,” Bass said.
Supporters of the statue, like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, plan to stage their own demonstration.

The statue in downtown Fort Myers/WINK News
“They just want to protect the statue from a physical standpoint, so it doesn’t wind up like a lot of the statues vandalized that have been in the news recently,” said Steve Fabian.
As the group’s spokesman, Fabian says the statue should remain a visible symbol of the country’s history.
“If you can’t have a statue of Robert E. Lee in the county seat of Robert E. Lee county, and a portrait of him, where can you have it?” Fabian said.

Sons of the Confederacy/WINK News
But critics say it sends a hateful message.
“It’s not like a historical thing that happened right after the Civil War. It was put up during a time where the county and Fort Myers was being forcibly desegregated,” Bass said. “These things were placed here to send the message of who’s in charge, and it’s not the African American population.”
Both sides say they’re committed to making sure the demonstrations remain peaceful.
The event is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
 
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History erasers, coming to a town near you, soon!

They hate the America of our fathers. They wont stop at Confederate monuments, as we have seen.
 
Scrub-a-dub-dub....we gotta be squeaky clean to get into UTOPIA.

Minds all rightly ordered, with the right ideas, nobody talking disturbingly hurting the victims with their abusive language...












I take a pass.
 
Scumbags left the US and slaughtered Americans to preserve inhuman tyranny. Disgracefully, the last stand of Western slavers was made here in the US. Tear down the monuments to the American Taliban.
 
Ahhhh....the left. Tolerant until they aren't. Their faux outrage over a statue that has been there for decades is appalling. It's merely driven by hatred toward President Trump. It stood during both of barry's terms, right? and by the way, these rabble rousers will be a violent mob ginned up by the naacp creeps...then they'll place the blame on those being attacked. Mark my words.
 
History erasers, coming to a town near you, soon! They hate the America of our fathers. They wont stop at Confederate monuments, as we have seen.

Did Robert E Lee ever visit Lee County? Did he ever live there? Did he command a Confederate Army there? Lee county didn't come to be until 1887. No major battle was ever fought there, the Fort part of Fort Meyers was during the Seminole Wars.

Not history erasers but stain erasers. The stain is slavery. 'We' don't hate the America of 'our' fathers but rather don't wish the 'fathers' who promoted or defended slavery to be honored across America. General Lee had nada, zero, zip to do with Florida in general and Ft. Meyers in particular.

Now what towns 'they' come to depends on what monuments you have in your town... as an aside, three elementary schools in OKC that were named after Confederate generals have been renamed... the Daughters of the Confederacy didn't show up to 'defend' these schools... guess it isn't as flashy... :peace
 
I think it's appropriate to have a Confederate history museum. On this issue, I agree with Robert E. Lee himself who opposed public monuments to the Confederacy. Lee believed it would be a hindrance to the country uniting. He was right.
 
Wonder who or what they blame the next civil war on?
 
Scumbags left the US and slaughtered Americans to preserve inhuman tyranny. Disgracefully, the last stand of Western slavers was made here in the US. Tear down the monuments to the American Taliban.

The Taliban didnt exist in 1850. The North slaughtered quite a lot of Americans to preserve tyranny to this day. And of course western slavery didnt end with WW2. Blacks were convicted in order to satisfy a loophole in the 13th amendment which allowed forced labor as a method of punishment. Mexico continued slavery until the 1900s. In WW2, the Germans abducted and forced jewish and polish civilians to work. The allies likewise forced germans to work after the war.
 
The Taliban didnt exist in 1850. The North slaughtered quite a lot of Americans to preserve tyranny to this day. And of course western slavery didnt end with WW2. Blacks were convicted in order to satisfy a loophole in the 13th amendment which allowed forced labor as a method of punishment. Mexico continued slavery until the 1900s. In WW2, the Germans abducted and forced jewish and polish civilians to work. The allies likewise forced germans to work after the war.

1. Left the US, abandoned the nation and country.
2. Declared war against the US.
3. Slaughtered Americans to maintain tyranny.

The South were terrorists bent on maintaining horrible tyranny. They are no different than ISIS or the Taliban. They stand against everything the US and our Constitution stand for. If they could have killed us all, they would and the world would live in darkness.

We've spent enough time coddling the losers. It degrades us as individuals and as a nation to continue to support participation trophies for terrorists. The time of worrying about them rebelling is past. The time of endorsing the intimidation of blacks is past.

No more participation trophies for anti-US scumbags.
 
Vandalism is never proper.

The Confederacy was a traitorous, evil cause.

There ARE those who want to put whole swathes of history down the memory hole.

Confederacy fetishists are deeply annoying.

There are also those who WILL attempt the same for Jefferson, Washington, Madison, etc.

Symbols of the Confederacy, including the Bonnie Blue flag, are to the South what Nazi symbolism is to Germany.

None of the above statements conflict.
 
Statue of a dead traitor. You're losing your minds over the statue of a dead traitor.

FFS.

Here's what I recommend you guys do... All you people who give a **** about them, pool your money, build a lovely commemorative park, with a lovely, 40 foot wall around it (cuz you know you guys love your walls), and put all the statues in there. Then, to keep the filthy lefties away, put crosses all around the wall (cuz you know you guys love your crosses - plus you can worship God where you worship your traitors, I'm all about convenience...plus, since we lefties are all a bunch of godless haters, it should have the same effect as it would on vampires)... Then you can peacefully enjoy your pantheon of fallen heroes (who didn't win anything), and the vast majority of people who don't give a crap about this stuff can enjoy some peace.

And just to avoid the fallback complaining of history being erased, put it somewhere towards the middle of the country, somewhere just south of the Mason Dixon line, and have all the kids bussed out there at some point during their schooling to see what dead traitors look like.

While I would never exhaust even a bat of an eyelash to save them, I also don't understand the frenzy to remove them. There's something therapeutic about having statues of these losers around. How nice to have a lump of metal to flip the bird off about the things you're angry with about your country. How nice to watch the birds **** on their brass shoulders and eye lids and lips. I think if there is a reason to keep them where they are, it is to remind people that the people they hate are all dead, and the people we are now need not repeat their mistakes or adopt their division...or glorify their modern day equivalents. I get that it means more to other people, but at least consider the benefits.

Sorry for the flippancy...but seriously, America isn't divided enough, you want to divide yourselves further over loser worship? Fill your boots, I guess...
 
1. Left the US, abandoned the nation and country.
2. Declared war against the US.
3. Slaughtered Americans to maintain tyranny.

The South were terrorists bent on maintaining horrible tyranny. They are no different than ISIS or the Taliban. They stand against everything the US and our Constitution stand for. If they could have killed us all, they would and the world would live in darkness.

We've spent enough time coddling the losers. It degrades us as individuals and as a nation to continue to support participation trophies for terrorists. The time of worrying about them rebelling is past. The time of endorsing the intimidation of blacks is past.

No more participation trophies for anti-US scumbags.

The North attacked the south first, so technically they declared war. And yeah, the north slaughtered americans to maintain tyranny (preserve the union). The south did not engage in islamic like terrorism though and they certainly didnt want to kill everyone.
 
The North attacked the south first, so technically they declared war. And yeah, the north slaughtered americans to maintain tyranny (preserve the union). The south did not engage in islamic like terrorism though and they certainly didnt want to kill everyone.

Foreign scum murdering Americans for slavery. Same thing as ISIS or the Taliban. The confederate scum were traitors against America and our Constitution just like ISIS scum are traitors against Islam.

And we give the scum participation trophies. Should we have an Osama bin Laden Monument? Doesn't he get a participation trophy? He killed a bunch of Americans for slavery too.
 
Vandalism is never proper.

The Confederacy was a traitorous, evil cause.

There ARE those who want to put whole swathes of history down the memory hole.

Confederacy fetishists are deeply annoying.

There are also those who WILL attempt the same for Jefferson, Washington, Madison, etc.

Symbols of the Confederacy, including the Bonnie Blue flag, are to the South what Nazi symbolism is to Germany.

None of the above statements conflict.

Several are wrong though. Symbols of the confederacy are mainly used by ignorant youths to rebel against society or fit in with their peers. Much like liberals use symbols of Mao or Che.

The confederacy was not traitorous. They left the union. Certainly slavery was evil, but that didnt stop Lincoln skipping border state slaves or the north from emancipation, or the founders and founding from keeping it.
 
History erasers, coming to a town near you, soon!

They hate the America of our fathers. They wont stop at Confederate monuments, as we have seen.

No history is being erased by removing statues of traitors, no matter how desperately you need to be otherwise.

Lee should have been hung in public, as should the rest of them have been.
 
Foreign scum murdering Americans for slavery. Same thing as ISIS or the Taliban. The confederate scum were traitors against America and our Constitution just like ISIS scum are traitors against Islam.

And we give the scum participation trophies. Should we have an Osama bin Laden Monument? Doesn't he get a participation trophy? He killed a bunch of Americans for slavery too.

Technically they left the union, thus they couldnt be traitors against it. But since were tearing down monuments of killers, why not Lincoln? He led the killing of more americans than anyone before Hitler.
 
The North attacked the south first, so technically they declared war. And yeah, the north slaughtered americans to maintain tyranny (preserve the union). The south did not engage in islamic like terrorism though and they certainly didnt want to kill everyone.

Ah, yes. The sweet, fetid stench of historical revisionism.
 
Technically they left the union, thus they couldnt be traitors against it. But since were tearing down monuments of killers, why not Lincoln? He led the killing of more americans than anyone before Hitler.

We're tearing down the monuments to traitorous scum who left the US and murdered Americans for slavery.

Or perhaps you'd like to erect monuments to modern scum doing the same.
 
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Several are wrong though. Symbols of the confederacy are mainly used by ignorant youths to rebel against society or fit in with their peers. Much like liberals use symbols of Mao or Che.

Even if what you said is true, which it is not, especially in the way you want to use it, it doesn't make anything I said wrong.

The confederacy was not traitorous. They left the union. Certainly slavery was evil, but that didnt stop Lincoln skipping border state slaves or the north from emancipation, or the founders and founding from keeping it.

They were traitors, who rebelled to preserve an evil institution. Full stop.
 
We're tearing down the monuments to traitorous scum who murdered Americans for slavery.

Or perhaps you'd like to erect monuments to modern scum doing the same.

Traitorous scum who murdered Americans for slavery defines Lincoln and the North. No, I certainly wouldnt want to erect monuments to people like Obama who murdered americans.
 
Even if what you said is true, which it is not, especially in the way you want to use it, it doesn't make anything I said wrong.



They were traitors, who rebelled to preserve an evil institution. Full stop.

If what I said was true it literally makes what you said wrong.

They werent traitors. They left the union, they didnt try to overthrow it. It wasnt until the North attacked Virginia that there was even a war.
 
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