Former seat of Confederacy takes down last monument

[Pellinore]

Mussolini’s Architectural Legacy in Rome

Rome is a very old city, by most estimates, over 2800 years old. You can literally wander from the 8th century BC to the 21st century in a day’s walk. The architectural styles of Rome are just…

romeonrome.com

Nothing in there shows a statue of Mussolini.

 

[Pellinore]

Funny thing is that the Union Jack was the flag that flew from the stern of slave ships for 200 years. When are the Brits going to tear down the statues of slave trading pirates?

They're working on it!

 

[Pellinore]

defend treason??????????????? How about the Biden treason that is going on right now via Hunter? Selling access to senile joe for millions of which joe (the big guy) gets a cut. The same treason is being played out through the kids of Pelosi, Romney, and Kerry who are also being paid huge sums to sit on a Ukrainian gas company board so Ukraine can blackmail their parents.

Even if Hunter Biden were found supremely guilty on every charge leveled at him, that would not rise to the level of treason. Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution, and it regards aiding enemies of the USA during wartime. We're not during wartime.

Also, the bit about Pelosi's, Romney's, and Kerry's children working for a Ukrainian gas company is complete fiction. You've been sold a bill of goods.

Fact check: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Mitt Romney do not have sons on boards of energy companies doing business in Ukraine

Posts claiming that the sons of U.S. President Joe Biden, Senator Mitt Romney, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry “are all on the board of directors for energy companies doing business in Ukraine” have been flagged by Facebook...

www.reuters.com

(Source: Reuters, Least Biased, Very High Factual Reporting.)

 

[Hutch Starskey]

R E Lee was a great American. The land that is now Arlington cemetary was given to the USA by Lee. He freed his slaves (which he inherited) before the war. He spoke out against slavery many times. There is no more reason to remove his statues than there is to remove Lincoln's.

You obviously know nothing about this topic and are merely repeating lies that have been implanted in your tiny brain.

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Chillicothe]

IMHO, the poster Redfish is not a serious poster.
Nor a student of the Civil War.
Again, in my opinion he is a gadfly, a silly frivolous man (I presume male?) that offers the forum fabrications, fantasies, and hope-its-true rumors.

I don't mean to pick on poor Redfish as he is just one of a handful of Trump University history students who post their QAnon interpretation of American history.

If it wasn't such snark-bait, so ripe for ridicule, satire, and smirks......well, if it wasn't for that......Redfish and cohorts would be just sad.

Bigly

 

[Mac-7]

The war was about treasonous war criminals who sought to destroy America in defence of slavery.

No

Very few Americans on either side died to free black people

Or keep them enslaved

 

[Redfish]

Lee and his family owned the property of Arlington Cemetary before the Civil War. After, the land was taken from Lee and established the National Cemetary. You really are a damn liar!!!

the government did not TAKE the property, the deed was transferred from the Lee family to the USA. it was a gift, not a sale or confiscation. The US government then and now, does not TAKE private property from the owners. Imminent domain is not confiscation, the owners are compensated (before you bring that up).

 

[Redfish]

IMHO, the poster Redfish is not a serious poster.
Nor a student of the Civil War.
Again, in my opinion he is a gadfly, a silly frivolous man (I presume male?) that offers the forum fabrications, fantasies, and hope-its-true rumors.

I don't mean to pick on poor Redfish as he is just one of a handful of Trump University history students who post their QAnon interpretation of American history.

If it wasn't such snark-bait, so ripe for ridicule, satire, and smirks......well, if it wasn't for that......Redfish and cohorts would be just sad.

Bigly

LOL, what a clown you are. My history comes from a time when actual history was taught in the public schools, not the propaganda and indoctrination that you obviously were "taught". Its sad that our educational system no longer teaches facts. The USA is almost over and fools like you are the cause.

 

[Redfish]

The land for the cemetery wasn't given to the USA by Lee; it was ultimately sold to the USA by Lee's son.

He received most, but not all, of his slaves through his father-in-law's will. He released them during the war (not before it), because it was a provision of his father-in-law's will, and only after he unsuccessfully sued to keep them.

And regardless of his own personal slaves, he led an army against the United States, in order to protect the institution from abolition. Lincoln commanded the army that defended the United States. That makes them polar opposites.

that is the version currently taught in our far left schools. you were a victim of the indoctrination of our youth. its quite sad to listen to you morons spout the lies that have been pumped into your little heads.

 

[Redfish]

The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

www.theatlantic.com

left wing propaganda from a left wing rag. zero value.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Tell us more!

Used to be nobody could post a picture like that. When did it change?

Before you blabber I distinctly remember getting a warning over it

 

[Mac-7]

the government did not TAKE the property, the deed was transferred from the Lee family to the USA. it was a gift, not a sale or confiscation. The US government then and now, does not TAKE private property from the owners. Imminent domain is not confiscation, the owners are compensated (before you bring that up).

The Arlington National Cemetery exists because of a gift from Robert E. Lee?

I did not know that

And clueless libs on this board call him a traitor?

Amazing

Lee devoted his entire life to serving his country

 

[Mac-7]

The Arlington National Cemetery exists because of a gift from Robert E. Lee?

I did not know that

And clueless libs on this board call him a traitor?

Amazing

Lee devoted his entire life to serving his country

After research the truth comes out

The land was stolen from the Lee family

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be

The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Zincwarrior]

After research the truth comes out

The land was stolen from the Lee family

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be

The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades

www.smithsonianmag.com

During then war they started burying soldiers there as justice for what Lee was doing. Very appropriate.

 

[Redfish]

Even if Hunter Biden were found supremely guilty on every charge leveled at him, that would not rise to the level of treason. Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution, and it regards aiding enemies of the USA during wartime. We're not during wartime.

Also, the bit about Pelosi's, Romney's, and Kerry's children working for a Ukrainian gas company is complete fiction. You've been sold a bill of goods.

Fact check: Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Mitt Romney do not have sons on boards of energy companies doing business in Ukraine

Posts claiming that the sons of U.S. President Joe Biden, Senator Mitt Romney, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry “are all on the board of directors for energy companies doing business in Ukraine” have been flagged by Facebook...

www.reuters.com

(Source: Reuters, Least Biased, Very High Factual Reporting.)

If Hunter was taking bribes from burisma and Joe was getting a % then it is in fact treason, selling access to the then vice president of the USA is treason. The stories and witnesses indicate that that happened, so let the investigation either confirm or deny. Why not? congress tried to impeach Trump on allegations which turned out to be lies, aren't we entitled to the truth about this too?

 

[Mac-7]

During then war they started burying soldiers there as justice for what Lee was doing. Very appropriate.

Excuse it any way you wish

Its hallowed ground via one of the greatest men in American history

Robert E Lee.

 

[pknopp]

After research the truth comes out

The land was stolen from the Lee family

How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be

The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades

www.smithsonianmag.com

Is stolen another word for gifted?

 

[Mac-7]

Is stolen another word for gifted?

It wasnt gifted

I wish it were because that would be a better fact for me

But it was taken by sour, vindictive republicans

 

[pknopp]

It wasnt gifted

I wish it were because that would be a better fact for me

But it was taken by sour, vindictive republicans

There were Republicans and Democrats in both the North and South. I find it so sad how people still think they can make any actual political point today over what happened 150 plus years ago.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

left wing propaganda from a left wing rag. zero value.

“There are unwitting victims of this campaign—those who lack the knowledge to separate history from sentiment. Then there are those whose reverence for Lee relies on replacing the actual Lee with a mythical figure who never truly existed.”

Which are you?