Portland, Oregon — A statue of George Washington was pulled down by protesters on Thursday night, which was Juneteenth eve, reports CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV. The nation’s first president owned slaves.
KOIN said Thursday marked the 21st day of demonstrations for racial justice and police reform sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. Two groups — Rose City Justice and Lavender Caucus — hosted a sit-in rally at Jefferson High School in the evening where community members shared their experiences with racism with a crowd of a few hundred.
A separate group of about 20 people met around 10 p.m. at the site of the large bronze statue of Washington.
Some wrapped the statue’s head in an American flag and lit the flag on fire.
Their numbers grew over the next hour until there were enough people to pull it down. They quickly scattered.
A KOIN news crew found the statue face down and covered in graffiti.
Go here to read the rest. These people hate us as much as any foreign enemy ever has. They should be treated as we would a foreign invader come to despoil our land and reduce us to slavery, because these are their goals.
If they mean to have a war, let it begin here …
I’m with Jay.
No Jesus, no peace.
Re: Juneteenth, they can cancel “Presidents’ Day.” Then, they’ll have two national holidays. And, they’ll still be held in destitution and desperation by their multiple enslavements to Democrat politicians, sin and vice.
Quick snowflakes, name a world political leader who mankind owes a larger debt of gratitude to than George Washington. You can’t. What he did was unprecedented in world history. Unfortunately, I understand the fact you’ve been miseducated and you have no idea who this man was. Well, I pledge to make sure you know, every chance I get. Silence = violence. I won’t be quiet about truth any longer. Your “feelings” will no longer get in the way of my obligation to stand for truth, all the time. Christ, the greatest human being in world history, made it simple. He said he is the truth, and he said that if you don’t acknowledge him before men, he won’t acknowledge you before the Father. You know the Father, the person missing in all your lives. Well, Christ made it clear we must all stand and acknowledge truth. For now on, I won’t back down.
I’ve been far around too long. I’ve lived to see a violent mob of criminals and idiots gets to run things.
George Washington was instrumental in bringing forth on the Plant a nation wherein the issues were [note the past tense; see yesterday’s latest SCOTUS debacle and the mobs’ diktats on statues today and everything else tomorrow] decided by the people voting on them.
It was a short, but natural, step from idiocracy to mobocracy.
Best advice is to wait. Wait till after November 3rd. Let the public get the full measure of the Democrat anarchy.
Sorry, Rich Lowry. That Politico analysis on June 17 didn’t age well:
“Conservatives tend to come down the same way. They reflexively oppose politically correct campaigns to track down and destroy anything giving offense. They fear where the slippery slope of a campaign of woke iconoclasm will lead—first it’s Jefferson Davis, then Thomas Jefferson, finally George Washington. They value tradition, and Confederate statues have been part of the landscape of American cities for decades now, and they worry we are trashing part of our history.
This impulse, though, is a mistake.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/17/conservatives-should-feel-no-investment-in-confederate-monuments-327137
I am old enough that I can remember when National Review was not a laughing stock.
The City of Columbus, Ohio’s State Capitol will remove the statue of Christopher Columbus. How much longer will there be a Kinghts of Columbus?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbus-ohio-to-remove-christopher-columbus-statue-in-favor-of-diversity-and-inclusion.amp
Wm Buckley hired Richard Brookhiser in 1977 because he sensed RB could be trained to succeed him, a task for which Christopoher Buckley was not suitable (and in which he likely was not interested). After 11 years at NR, Buckley sends him a letter telling him he’s unsuitable for an executive position. So, Buckley retired two years later and the editor’s chair is turned over to John O’Sullivan, a British expatriate who had other things he could have been doing with his time. After nine years, he unaccountably replaces O’Sullivan with Richard Lowry, a 29 year old bachelor who had spent the previous seven years scribbling for various publications. Lowry hasn’t recruiting an engaging contributor in 17 years and the better ones he’s had have gradually evaporated – died, retired, taken their talents elsewhere. His otiose board approves an obscene salary for him and several others there employed. He himself produces perfectly generic prose and it’s a passable guess that he functions day-to-day by placating the stronger personalities with which he comes into contact.
Toppling statues will solve all their problems.
They’ll stop killing, raping, robbing, etc. each other.
Every one will be raised in a two-parent [mom and dad] home.
They’ll treat education as an opportunity not a punishment.
They’ll stop murdering more unborn black babies than they allow to see the light of day.
[…]
Black Lives Matter: Want to see racism? Look in a mirror.
Calling BLM hypocrites for being racist won’t stop them. They don’t care about race either. Their goal is destroy the country, it isn’t an unfortunate side effect.
“How much longer will there be a Knights of Columbus?”
Five years at the outside maximum.
Probably more like autumn 2020.
An organization that ash-cans its uniforms and rituals isn’t going to stand on principle for its name. Especially when the “r” word is involved.
And in all of this, where are the Republicans?
The University of Georgia will no longer play Gone with the Wind’s song “Tara’s Theme”. I think a better article headline should have been “Music for by Jewish Composer Banned”. It’s the 1930s all over again.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgias-redcoat-band-ends-tradition-of-playing-taras-theme-from-gone-with-the-wind.amp
An organization that ash-cans its uniforms and rituals isn’t going to stand on principle for its name. Especially when the “r” word is involved.
I notice they insisted there were no dissenting votes on that question. Not one, out of 26 people they insist were present. Are they lying or are they a bunch of ciphers?
And in all of this, where are the Republicans?
I think Ted Cruz said something about DACA on the floor of the Senate. In Virginia, the Republican legislative caucus was roused from its slumbers to denounce one of their own for saying ‘there’s an effort to erase white history’. Which, of course, there is. Bunch of capons.
“Are they lying or are they a bunch of ciphers?”
That’s an easy one. Liars.
At the time, no one at the local council level time knew it was even being discussed. It was “decided”, made public and then it was too late for any objections.
Over 6 month later, I was having a conversation with my own Grand Knight and he didn’t know about it. I had to show him photos and the articles before he believed me.
“In Virginia, the Republican legislative caucus was roused from its slumbers to denounce one of their own for saying ‘there’s an effort to erase white history’.”
Now that’s funny. Cowardly and pathetic, but in a sitcom style humor sort of way.
Using history to erase history is using a chainsaw sans kill switch to cut through the branch you’re sitting on. You attain your goal. But when you hit the ground, that saw’s going after you.
Destruction of religious icons and churches is coming. The zeitgeist is against Christian history, and our secular rulers have made clear that they despise the Church by their actions in the pandemic. And many churches have already received minor damage and vandalism in the riots.
Catholics in the time of the Spanish Civil War were surprised to see their neighbors drag out priests into the street and kill them. It’s not impossible for that to happen here, especially since Catholicism has never been part of our national identity, and it definitely isn’t part of the modern American identity.
Catholics in the time of the Spanish Civil War were surprised to see their neighbors drag out priests into the street and kill them.
They really weren’t. Anti-Catholicism had been on the rise in Spain for a century, with Church burnings becoming commonplace during Leftist riots. Anarchists and Socialists had been making blood curdling speeches about exterminating those who opposed them for decades prior to the Spanish Civil War, and engaged in an orgy of murder against priests, other Catholics and conservatives of all stripes in Asturias in 1934, a revolt put down by Franco and the Spanish Foreign Legion.
Dave, I hope the anarchists in Virginia figure out that their state Capitol was the Capitol of the Confederacy and that it is entirely too “Rich”.
“‘Are they lying or are they a bunch of ciphers?’
That’s an easy one. Liars.
At the time, no one at the local council level time knew it was even being discussed. It was “decided”, made public and then it was too late for any objections.
Over 6 month later, I was having a conversation with my own Grand Knight and he didn’t know about it. I had to show him photos and the articles before he believed me.”
From what I can tell, the governing structure of the KofC appear to resemble those of the NRA: in both cases, all the other members are mere extensions of the ruling executive. I don’t have much trouble picturing Anderson assembling a committee of amiable brothers which would get him whatever vote he wanted.
Lord knows that’s worked for LaPierre for decades.
But….yeah. The way the changes have been rammed down from above with the KofC have been so high-handed and open to question that doubting the honesty of the described process is perfectly-fair.
As with the NRA, my participation in the Knights is lapsing until the leadership changes.
A few minutes ago, I was watching the recording of anarchists burning the US flag on the head of a George Washington statue which they would later tear down and it occurred to me that many of them were carrying portraits of Washington, perhaps an Andrew Jackson, maybe a Jefferson or a Hamilton. I hope they gather as many of those pieces of paper with their pictures and burn them too. That’ll teach us….
I guess Alexander Hamilton would be considered Pro-Choice today. Technically he was against slavery and didn’t actually own slaves, but he did facilitated the selling of slaves for those (extended family members) who did own them. Does that make him prototype-Democrat?
President Grant was the last U S President to own slaves. With the exceptions of the Adams, presidents from Washington to Grant owned slaves in varying numbers. Several of them freed their slaves or willed that their slaves would be manumitted after the deaths of their wives.
Then there are the “colonial colleges” founded by Christian religions, with seven of the Ivy Leagues in that category. Most had some association with slavery through owning slaves or receipt of monies earned in the slave trade. Good examples for the former are Harvard and Georgetown and for the latter Brown. The Brown family made their money through “Atlantic commerce” i.e. the triangle of slaves, molasses and rum. See http://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy.
How far back is the renaming, and destruction and obliterating history going to go?
Cam, that doesn’t seem right. I knew of one in particular who didn’t own slaves which was missing, #16. I found that these Presidents before Grant also didn’t own slaves:
13. Millard Fillmore did not own slaves.
14. Franklin Pierce did not own slaves.
15. James Buchanan did not own slaves, although some may disagree. (Apparently he purchased his brother-in-laws two slaves and changed them to indentured servants.)
16. Abraham Lincoln did not own slaves.
JFK, You are correct. Thank you for setting me straight. How did I miss Lincoln of all people! Too tired.