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Originally Posted by Michael G.
Whatever side your on, one question I always wondered about.
If people insist on confederate statues being removed for whatever reason,
who is paying for the machinery and man power to remove them?? 
Can you say "the tax payers".
If these groups insist on removeable, let them collect the funds to pay the removal. |
We should never have had statues in honor of military officers who took up arms against the United States. We should never have named military bases after them.
On the other hand, there are laws against defacing or destroying a public monument, and those who did it are criminals and should have been charged and punished. There are legal, peaceful ways of petitioning for the removal of these.
And then there are the removal of statues of other people, like Dr. Marion Sims, the Father of Obstetric Surgery, because some people didn’t like his research methods. I expect that any day protestors will tear down the statue of Jefferson in the Jefferson Memorial because he owned slaves. They will tear down statues of Washington, Madison, Monroe, Jackson. They may even try to change the name of Washington, DC because Washington owned slaves. Maybe all the Leesburgs and Washington Counties and Jefferson Counties and all will be forced by violent protest to change their names.
Great people often do things they shouldn’t have done, especially things they wouldn’t do if they were here today. We should concentrate on their accomplishments and forgive them their trespasses, just as we would like people to forgive us ours.