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 take the down they are committing a felony
This is a shame!!!!Who does this offend>>That’s what ISIS is doing overseas,destroying historical monuments!
The democrats are no different to ISIS destroying history. I do not like some things in America past but it’s is important to remember it.
But any thing with Obama name on it should be removed the day he leaves office.
This is disgraceful destroying our history, start saving books and hide them they’ll be burned next so these liberals will be able to supplant a false history of america
Ben Franklin on serving a short term in government ( note the low pay intended!) :
They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People’s Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections.
Benjamin Franklin, letter to George Whatley, May 23, 1785
If we are going to erase any sigh history deemed offensive, then erase mosques, qu’rans, all signs of Islam, as their pedophilic bloodlust prophet was offensive and created 1400 years of SLAUGHTER and SLAVERY!!!
May the South risa again. You’ll have some blue coats joining you.
candy ass
Sick people in high places. Polical Correctness is killing America.