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Is the left attempting to destroy America as we know it?

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by pjohns, Aug 17, 2017.

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  1. Just_a_Citizen

    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Being a centrist, I see it about equal
     
    Just_a_Citizen, Aug 17, 2017
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  2. pjohns

    pjohns Well-Known Member

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    Those of us who voted fro Donald Trump are also "free citizens."

    Dis you not realize this?
     
    pjohns, Aug 17, 2017
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  3. MrTLegal

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    Would anyone care to guess the timeline for when the overwhelming percentage of the confederate statutes were built?

    Here you go:

    https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage-timeline150_years_of_iconography.jpg
     
    MrTLegal, Aug 17, 2017
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  4. pjohns

    pjohns Well-Known Member

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    The last paragraph, above, is particularly good: All things must be taken in context.

    At that time, there were essentially three classes of men: free men; indentured servants; and slaves. (You have alluded to all three.)
     
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  5. pjohns

    pjohns Well-Known Member

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    I will reiterate: I never mentioned Johnita Due.

    Nor did I ever make an allusion thereto...
     
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  7. Oh Yeah

    Oh Yeah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It sort of got lost on the way. Indentured servants built this country. Men and woman came to the Colonies in order to start a new life. For many it was to offer their services for 3 to 7 years. It was brutal for many but that is the way it was done then.
     
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  8. Moonglow

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    There is a degree of difference, but I wouldn't expect you to understand....Not every widget comes out the same..
     
    Moonglow, Aug 17, 2017
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  9. Moonglow

    Moonglow Well-Known Member

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    And outhouses are nicer, smell better...
     
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  10. pjohns

    pjohns Well-Known Member

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    A very good synopsis may be found on another political forum.

    It goes like this:

    "Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, that fought in the civil war, were made USA veterans by an act of Congress in 1957.... USA Public Law 85-425-section 410.

    "This made all Confederate Army, Navy and Marine Veterans Equal to USA Veterans.

    "Additionally, Under USA Public law 810 approved by the 17th Congress on May 26,1929, the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate Gravesites as USA 'War Grave Sites.'

    "In essence then, when you remove or deface a Confederate statue, Headstone or Monument, you are in fact removing a statue, Headstone, or Monument of a USA VETERAN.

    "By extension, doing so to the name and honor of a Confederate Soldier, Monument, Headstone, you are insulting a USA veteran.

    "Defending them is not a matter of being a Trump fan, or alt right. It is a matter of decency, principle and .....LAW!"
     
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  11. Distraff

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    Wow, you are disowning the article you based your OP on. So you got nuthin. And for the record I am proud of our founding fathers despite their faults and almost every liberal you ask will tell you that.
     
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  12. Merwen

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    It wasn't "moved to a new location" as a planned operation by trained professionals; it was pulled down by a mob in a sloppy manner that could have caused damage.

    If anyone has been over-the- top in their rhetoric since Trump's election it is the Soros-funded leftist operatives, who now are openly advocating violence against anyone they choose to slap a "Nazi" label on--ie, anyone that happens not to agree with them..
     
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    equal rights for all should be a goal everyone has, the southern conservatives white supremacist movement has no place in America - and some of those conservative are dem and some are repubs, this is not a party issue
     
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  14. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You finally said something I believe, and trust me, you shouldn't be proud of it.
     
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  15. Zorro

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    I'm perfectly aware of the Democrat Party's history as the Party of Slavery. And what about FDR, the racist President of the Japanese Internment, clearly his name too needs to be scrubbed from American life. His racist horror wasn't even in the century before last, it was within the lifetimes of many still living.
     
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    Where was the Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans 'relocated' to........I'm interested in visiting that 'museum'. What are their hours and what is the admission fee?
     
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  17. Zorro

    Zorro Well-Known Member

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    Don't forget those Antifa bastards, with the masked faces, swinging baseball bats!

    Chomsky: Antifa is a ‘major gift to the right’

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    “what they do is often wrong in principle”
     
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    Thanks. Did not know this.......

    NOT that it is gong to make any difference to the haters
     
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    .... or Mexican illegals carrying Mexican flags in the U.S. to protest the "brutality" of the American government towards them.

    ... or anti-fa carrying Soviet communist flags with the hammer and sickle, as a threat to the Stars and Stripes.
     
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    The last time there was a "fire" in the theater, the great divider Abe went down in flames. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
     
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  21. Zorro

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    OLD AND BUSTED: The use bull’s-eye clip-art in a political campaign can lead to a politician getting shot, and both sides must immediately dial back their rhetoric before it happens again.

    The new hotness, from Vice.com: “Let’s Blow Up Mount Rushmore!”
     
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    That's TOTALLY the same as so-called patriots running around carrying flags representing enemies of the US.
     
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  23. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    The founding fathers were hardly in favor of freedom and human rights for anyone except for themselves.
     
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  24. Mr_Truth

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    ''
    Is the left attempting to destroy America as we know it?''





    NO.

    The anti-USA right wing is the group trying to destroy this great country.
     
    Mr_Truth, Aug 17, 2017
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    They still think they won the war. ;)
     
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