DOJ hands down first Felonies for Defacing Statues

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I'm okay with this.

As noted, if whatever statue offends you for whatever reason, start a petition, get thousands to sign it; have it go to a vote and have the city take it down properly.

I think you're missing context Robtard, or you're being super post-modern, perhaps?

Let us take three statues as examples.

Ghandi in Ghana, Churchill in London and Bismark in Germany.

Okay, so in reverse order. Bismark united the German people despite being a brutal dictator to non-Germans. Good for Germany, appropiately placed in Germany.

Churchill won WW2 for Britain despite his horrible racist comments about non-British people, appropriately in London to celebrate someone who stood up for Britain.

Ghandi, a party man who abused African people having a statue in Africa to celebrate... well, I'm not sure. Maybe we shouldn't celebrate shenanigans.

This applies to a lot of the Confederate statues that celebrated racism and brutality towards black people in the confederate states. I'd say, if they were horrible racist twats then get rid of those statues. If they did good things with a bit of baggage, then let them stay to remember the good things and not the bad.

Appreciate good, shun the bad. That's all I'm saying.

I think people need to stop saying "post-modern" in here...

My point is, you're probably not going to get a shit load of people being offended and signing up to remove a Gandhi statue in India, so it'd likely stay.

People can even do a counter petition, getting people to sign to keep statues.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I think you're missing context Robtard, or you're being super post-modern, perhaps?

Let us take three statues as examples.

Ghandi in Ghana, Churchill in London and Bismark in Germany.

Okay, so in reverse order. Bismark united the German people despite being a brutal dictator to non-Germans. Good for Germany, appropiately placed in Germany.

Churchill won WW2 for Britain despite his horrible racist comments about non-British people, appropriately in London to celebrate someone who stood up for Britain.

Ghandi, a party man who abused African people having a statue in Africa to celebrate... well, I'm not sure. Maybe we shouldn't celebrate shenanigans.

This applies to a lot of the Confederate statues that celebrated racism and brutality towards black people in the confederate states. I'd say, if they were horrible racist twats then get rid of those statues. If they did good things with a bit of baggage, then let them stay to remember the good things and not the bad.

Appreciate good, shun the bad. That's all I'm saying.

Alternative take:

Felony vandalism is felony vandalism no matter the context.

Allow democracy to take its proper course: vote the statues off of public property.

^That's the right idea. I have no problem with statues being removed as long as the majority of people in the city or town where said statue is vote to have it removed; but thugs breaking the law by defacing them and/or trying to forcefully remove them because they childishly think what they want should override the will of the general populace or the law is despicable.

I don't give a shit if they're Confederate statues or statues of Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, or even a statue of the disgusting Karl Marx.

Glad that some of the lawbreakers are finally getting punished for their lawless behavior.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
^That's the right idea. I have no problem with statues being removed as long as the majority of people in the city or town where said statue is vote to have it removed; but thugs breaking the law by defacing them and/or trying to forcefully remove them because they childishly think what they want should override the will of the general populace or the law is despicable.

I don't give a shit if they're Confederate statues or statues of Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, or even a statue of the disgusting Karl Marx.

Glad that some of the lawbreakers are finally getting punished for their lawless behavior.

Nice. Very nice. This is such a good post that it is something I could see myself typing up.

Sometimes, you knock it out of the park, TheLoneRanger.

Also lol:

Oklahoma prosecutor charges allegedly violent protesters with terrorism: 'This is not Seattle'

Funny, we have a statue of Margaret Sanger, a pen pal of Hitler, and a woman that made it her life work to wipe Blacks from this Country.

All I hear is silence on that front.

Statue lives matter.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.

Originally posted by Surtur
Also lol:

Oklahoma prosecutor charges allegedly violent protesters with terrorism: 'This is not Seattle'

Aaaahahahaha, that's Oklahoma, for you.

I like the cut of their jib

Originally posted by BackFire
Statue lives matter.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881017611/west-virginia-born-out-of-the-civil-war-grapples-with-confederate-monuments

Stupid West Virginia...

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
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It is interesting that the Department of Justice can bring charges against a person for defacing a statue in four hours, but the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor are still walking free.

Because going after the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor won't win Trump support with his base, while going after some "thugs" who defaced a statue will. Trump should realize that he already has his base, ginning them up is kinda pointless aside from an ego boost a this point in time.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
It is interesting that the Department of Justice can bring charges against a person for defacing a statue in four hours, but the officers who murdered Breonna Taylor are still walking free.

You call it interesting, I call it: awful

Originally posted by Surtur
You call it interesting, I call it: awful

I call it racist.

Yeah, but you're not very bright and prone to calling things that aren't actually racist...racist.

Not your fault, you're democrat. How could you be any other way?