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NC governor orders Confederate monuments removed at Capitol after statues toppled

2020-06-21

[NEWSOBSERVER] Gov. Roy Cooper ordered three Confederate monuments removed from the state Capitol grounds to protect public safety, he said in a statement, less than 24 hours after protesters pulled down two bronze soldiers from the 75-foot Confederate monument at the Capitol.

The monuments include memorials that have stood at the State Capitol for more than a century: the remainder of the North Carolina Confederate monument, the monument to the Women of the Confederacy and the Henry Wyatt Monument.

Crews removed the Wyatt Monument and the Women of the Confederacy statues Saturday morning.

"I am concerned about the dangerous efforts to pull down and carry off large, heavy statues and the strong potential for violent festivities at the site," Cooper said in a statement Saturday afternoon. "If the legislature had repealed their 2015 law that puts up legal roadblocks to removal we could have avoided the dangerous incidents of last night.

"Monuments to white supremacy

...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
don’t belong in places of allegiance, and it’s past time that these painful memorials be moved in a legal, safe way," Cooper said.

Friday night, after protesters removed the bronze statues, they hung the statue of a cavalryman by its neck from a streetlight. The other statue, an artilleryman, was dragged through the streets to the Wake County Courthouse, and later was carried away by police in a golf cart.

Posted by:Fred

#4 Do statues of Ulysses Grant and perhaps W.T. Sherman also count as Confederate monuments?

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-06-21 11:28

#3 Mike, you ought take a drive through the last Capital of the Confederacy. Lot's of battle flags, one of the biggest damned versions I've seen on the north side of the river.

Posted by: Cesare 2020-06-21 10:37

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-06-21 10:29

#1 ...Governor ~~Fu@kstick~~ - I'm sorry, Cooper - you also stated that if the NC Legislation hadn't passed laws forbidding the illegal removal of statues, this wouldn't have happened.

Got news for ya, Sugarplum. These morons are interested in erasing history and going straight for what the Khmer Rouge so charmingly called, 'Year Zero'. They wouldn't have cared how many laws your state did or didn't have; they are infuriated toddlers who want what they want when they want it, and unlike most toddlers are fully and completely prepared to resort to violence. At this point, since you seem bound and determined not to make any effort to stop them and indeed, are apparently encouraging them, the only conclusion one can come to is that you're hoping they come for you last.

And one more thing.

About a year ago, I had a chance to drive through the back country of NC. Even here in SC - where I have lived for 27 years - I have yet to see as many Confederate flags in toto here as I did in those few hours of driving through south central NC. You think your state is Charlotte and Raliegh-Durham.

It ain't. You would do well to remember that.

Regards,

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2020-06-21 10:01

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