Protesters topple only Confederate statue in the nation's capital

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Protesters were jubilant late Friday after they toppled the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike near Judiciary Square in the District.

“Black Lives matter,” they cheered as the only Confederate statue in the District fell to the ground. “Let it burn,” someone said. And the group set it on fire. D.C. police looked on but did not intervene during the efforts of the group, which lasted about an hour.

That caught the attention of President Trump, who tweeted shortly after the statue fell: “The D.C. police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country!”

The effort came after a day of peaceful protests and Juneteenth celebrations throughout the city that brought thousands of people.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protesters-topple-only-confederate-statue-in-the-nations-capital/2020/06/20/d996348c-b2a8-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html

[Archetypist]

1. Excellent.

now I hope they put it in a museum asking with details on why it should not be venerated

[soothsayer]

2. Trump tweeted

Link to tweet

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The D.C. Police are not doing their job as they watch a statue be ripped down & burn. These people should be immediately arrested. A disgrace to our Country!

[riversedge]

3. to play donny.

[BComplex]

5. trump YOU are the disgrace to our country, and I know Putin put that tweet in your drug-addled brain

Traitor.

[paleotn]

8. And I think.....

That you...Donnie Two Hands...should be shackled and frog marched out on the south lawn and......(let your imagination run wild)

[NBachers]

4. When reading trump's tweet, my eyes read, "A disgrace to our Confederacy!"

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. No, it's a disgrace to Trumps conspiracy. nt

[packman]

7. Consider myself fairly well versed in Civil War stuff - had to look up Pike

Not a good guy:

https://meaww.com/confederate-leader-albert-pike-treason-kkk-freemason-slavery-lawyer-harvard-statue-washington

[ChazII]

10. That he was a Freemason

surprised me.

[Igel]

13. People are complicated.

Effigies are strawmen.

The simple get them confused.

[majam]

9. Too late

Whatever Trump's say for the people in the future ... it will be too late...He has embarrassed himself and his ego...He doesn't care about his people

[Crowman2009]

11. Talk about white privilege!

He was basically not brilliant at anything, along with being a failed general. Yet he gets a statue!?!?

[Igel]

14. It was put up by Freemasons.

He wrote a number of important and well-respected tomes as a member of the organization and worked to advance the organization. I know masons who range from speaking highly of him to speaking of him as one that others (sigh, eye-roll) value highly.

Military statues are in military uniform. His was in civilian stress for civilian "service." These things aren't random.

He also published just about the first large-scale works based on the Rg-Veda and Zend-Avesta on reconstructing the Indo-European gods, not because he was such a raging Indo-Europeanist but because he was an eternal dualist. Sadly, he spoke, as far as I can tell, neither Avestan nor Sanskrt. (Notice my pedantic pedantry with the syllabic / r /, and irritation at not having a subscript dot ! )

Pike even ran afoul of LaRouche (which, to my mind, puts him up a few notches--Pike, that is) who decried Pike as a Satanist when "satanist" was a general term of abuse and when you swatted a fly you'd say, "Die, satanist!" or say that the bad haircut you got was because the barber was obviously a satanist. Then again, maybe that's just where I was living at the time. Anyway, he avowed that just as Adonay is God, so must also Lucifer be God (because dualism--you can't have one without the other; no yin without yang; no Sonny without Cher; no black and white picture of Andrew Young or Melanchthon unless you have both white and black).

The only really important thing he did for many into other-definitionism was be a commissioned general and lose a battle, resigning 6 months after commissioning. Of course, his real problem at the time was political in opposing something the South did, compounded with allegations that he let his Indian (Native American) brigades scalp.

Build a dock, and you're not a dock builder. Built a house, and you're not a house builder. Pork just one sheep and you're a ... forever.

[dalton99a]

12. Pike was the "chief judicial officer" of the Klan in 1905

Throw it in the trash