Should citizen statue topplers be prosecuted?

Breaking the law isn't breaking the law

 

You can say their heart is in the right place but their actions are silly and obviously illegal. You really can't say that about neo-nazis.

 

Well, glad you can see that CF is pretty reasonable on the whole.
Also, we should remember that the "comments section" of America is what got us in this mess.

 

Yes. Prosecute them and give them a one way ticket straight to Montego Bay.

 

Well, yes. I agree that the statue should come down but there is a process to be followed for such things. Several cities, in fact, have removed confederate monuments after going through the process.

By the way, I am kind of amused by the Amazon product ads displayed when I opened this page:

Guess Amazon thinks that I have an interest in "America," "Civil War" and "Statue."

 

OK, seems there is a lot of effort to defend Trump by false equivalences like "well, if you oppose white nationalists, you have to also oppose Antifa".

Anyone that breaks the law should be arrested and face trial. Folks with strong enough beliefs to do something like this may be willing to serve time to do it and may believe their cause is just. That is often the thinking of people that protest using sit-ins and protest marches.

 

They should be lynched /.

 

Robert E Lee is going to be a witness for the defense.



"I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered," he wrote.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/11/opinions/confederate-symbols-opinion-horn/index.html

 

I'm against digging up his grave, but Nathan Bedford Forrest is not a US veteran.

 

and he can kiss my ass

 

Is this where all the we're not really bigots but we're bigots are hanging out online today? Nice.

 

All the nice Nazis meet the same fate as the bad Nazis because they're like... Nazis.

 

You're the one posting from the Daily Wire and you're talking about bait? Ha. Your friendly neighborhood bigot. So nice.

 

That's not strictly true. The government recognizes Confederate soldiers as US soldiers and grants them the same benefits as any other veteran and there were plenty of Confederate soldiers and their children who received benefits from the VA much more recently than you probably think.

The reason the military refused to change the name of some of their bases that were named after Confederates was that they regard Confederate officers and soldiers as US soldiers.

Personally, the Confederacy means absolutely nothing to me. My people weren't even in this country at the time but attempting to erase history is never smart.

 

I'm pretty sure that's you comrade, don't you have an AntiFa riot to attend somewhere?