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Mob rips down Confederate statue

They’re coming for you next: A mob of protesters yesterday pulled down a Confederate statue in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The monument was ripped down after 9:15 p.m. Earlier in the evening, protesters covered the statue with tall, gray banners, erecting “an alternative monument” that said, in part, “For a world without white supremacy.”

Protesters were apparently working behind the covering with ropes to bring the statue down, which happened more than two hours into a rally. It fell with a loud clanging sound, and the crowd erupted in cheers.

After Silent Sam tumbled to the ground, people darted in and out of the crowd through a haze from smoke bombs. Atop the statue someone placed a black cap that said, “Do It Like Durham,” an apparent reference to the toppling of a Confederate statue there a year ago.

Just remember, this protest has nothing to do with fighting racism. This mob, some of whom were masked in black, not unlike the KKK, is instead telling you that they will do whatever they have to do make sure no one ever disagrees with them. And if you do, they will come after you with the same violence and force.

And if you don’t believe me watch the video at the link. These are not peaceful demonstrators promoting love. They hate, and they believe they have the right to do anything, no matter how violent, to get what they want.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • OM

    This has been going on for years, with liberals erasing our heritage. Fortunately, patriots are standing up against them.

  • Noah Peal

    Democrats erected the statues, Democrats toppling them. Sounds to me like they’re attempting to deal with their own sordid history. I’m content to bystand.

  • Noah Peal

    But removal by mob action is always wrong.

  • Col Beausabre

    “Protesters were apparently working behind the covering with ropes to bring the statue down, which happened more than two hours into a rally. It fell with a loud clanging sound, and the crowd erupted in cheers.

    After Silent Sam tumbled to the ground, people darted in and out of the crowd through a haze from smoke bombs.”

    And what we are talking about is pre-planned violence – smoke bombs, coverings, ropes or chains – not a “rally”

    The right thing tom do is put it back up – then decide what to do by democratic means after debate, but there is no hope of that, not when the police stand around for over two hours and do nothing (not a single arrest) It’s a fait accompli and these barbarians will be allowed to revel in it.

    And since there is no enforcement of the law, these terrorists will be emboldened and the violence will escalate,

  • hondo

    They are marking their territory – as should we

  • Dave B

    Big brother erasing their democratic history.
    Could have erected a monument of MLK (republican) two feet taller with a hand on his shoulder, but no it’s big brother lib.

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