New Orleans votes to take down statue of Robert E. Lee

[liveandletlive]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' leaders on Thursday made a sweeping move to break with the city's Confederate past when the City Council voted to remove prominent Confederate monuments along some of its busiest streets.

The council's 6-1 vote allows the city to remove four monuments, including a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has stood at the center of a traffic circle for 131 years.

It was an emotional meeting — often interrupted by heckling — infused with references to slavery, lynchings and racism, as well as the pleas of those who opposed removing the monuments to not "rewrite history."

http://news.yahoo.com/orleans-consid...102006325.html

[phill4paul]

The PURGE continues. Unchallenged and unabated.

[TheTexan]

I see Louisiana finally learned its place.

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

http://www.wwltv.com/story/news/loca...ents/77514082/

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" plaintiffs are asking a federal judge to issues a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction and permanent injunction against Landrieu and the city, "barring them from removing, disassembling, placing into storage or tampering in any way with" the Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and Liberty Place monuments.

"Filing the suit were the Monumental Task Committee, which recently called for keeping the monuments in place, the Louisiana Landmarks Society, Foundation for Historical Louisiana and Beauregard Camp No. 130."

[Dr.3D]

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Why do these people want to rewrite history?

[Brian4Liberty]

Why do these people want to rewrite history?

Communists and dictators always rewrite history. We have finally arrived at the Orwellian society.

[Uriel999]

Reconstruction is finally complete?

[Danke]

Ship it to Virginia.

[sparebulb]

Boobus knows that this could never happen here in the greatest nation in the universe.

[TheNewYorker]

It's about time, some voodoo cajun could have cast a spell on that statue, turning it into the real Robert e Lee, and he could have incited a rebellion.

Better safe than sorry.

[erowe1]

Good.

[tod evans]

I'll give it a good home.

$#@! the P/C crowd in NO.

[Ronin Truth]

Now, get confederate General Albert Pike statue out of D.C..

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...tration_1.html

'Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration has agreed not to remove four Confederate-related monuments from New Orleans' streets before a Jan. 14 hearing in federal court, public records show. Four organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday (Dec. 17) seeking to keep the monuments up, hours after the City Council voted 6-1 to remove the markers.

'U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier issued an order Friday to move a hearing on the plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order to Jan. 14. The hearing had been scheduled Monday. Barbier said the city "will take no action to remove the four monuments in question in the interim." '

[devil21]

Statues may disappear but the spirit that erected them doesn't have to.