Allow me to clarify, I have no problem with people standing up for what they believe in. I just want them to understand and accept that doing it through illegal activity is still illegal activity and should not be excused.

Just pointing out that if you are using things paid for by private funds as a judgement factor many monuments are paid for by private funds. They only become public property after their creation and installment.

I am curious how you feel about the original claim to the land, given that it was established with a treaty negotiated by the US Government that took this land from the Ponca without their consent.

Justice is determined by law. Where it is not determined by law it is determined by force. Justice determined by force is anarchy or at best dictatorship. Anarchy is contrary to the establishment of civilization. Dictatorship is rule by might makes right.

Because thats how the law works. People petition for a monument, they fund and develop it, assuming it passes and is accepted it gets installed, sometimes a small maintenance fund is created by the original funders as well if law requires it but it is never enough to deal with this kind of damage. Once in place on…

Around here its high school kids and people looking for better jobs. Do you think high school kids and folks down on their luck are a race, or for that matter that whites or any other color you care to think of are?

None of them considered that there was a perfectly legal way to get the monument removed that didn’t cause the government to spend their money to clean up/repair/replace a privately paid for monument I guess?

I think you are Judging Robert E. Lee unfairly. He was a man stuck in a very unenviable position. He actually hated the Confederacy, and loived the United States and was religiously loyal to his oaths. He was also loyal to a great personal sense of honor and his heritage and home in Virginia which is now the site of…

You have a lot of issues don’t you?

If you feel this strongly about these you can do what any other person has the right to do and petition to have them removed. Good Luck, you are probably going to need it.

Are any of the tribal nations that they depict calling for their removal? If they aren’t offended I do not see why anyone else should be.

Which tribe with claims to the land are you a member of, there are several. Though I know of only one that has a legitimate legal claim under US law currently. The history of the tribal claims, treaties, and wars in that area are both fascinating and tragic.

Renaming the hall he built with his money seems wrong, especially given his prevalence as an early american philantropist. Insead of renaming it, why not create a museum about the slave trade inside it and thus celebrate the good work he did with his wealth while at the same time explaining the cost of it as well as…

Most statues were bough and paid for by private citizens either as individuals or groups seeking to create a memorial.

Another rich person that must have paid for a monument to their own ego out of pocket. Nothing redeeming, nothing worth giving context to. Put it in the scrap piule or see if someone can find something redeeming to use it for as is, just not in a public space.

I have to say that I think FDR’s contributions in other areas outweigh almost any potential objections to his memorials that are not simply objections to poor taste.

The numbers are actually discernible and fairly well defined thanks to the US Census. Both “Free Colored People” and slaves were recorded by the census bracketing the Civil War. We even have useful mortality data starting in 1850 if I recall. This is also the data from which most of the casualty figures for other…

Did they or did they not commit a crime? That is all that should matter. Motive only goes to explain why they did it and to act as a mitigating factor during judgment and sentencing.

Who is Clay Aiken and why should anyone care about anything he thinks?