Why Statues In The First Place?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In the constitution. If you think that Abraham Lincoln or whoever was an enemy of the US, let's have a hearing and decide on it. I wonder if most of the people tearing down statues have any idea about what these figures stand for.

Really? Where exactly does the US Constitution provide that civil right? Where in US law is it a violation of civil rights to destroy a statue on public land?

Of course I don’t think Lincoln was an enemy of the US. But Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, et al certainly were.

The overwhelming majority of the statues people are objecting to are statues of treasonous insurrectionists who went to war to preserve slavery, as can be seen in the Confederate Constitution as well as in the constitutions of those states who seceded (the ‘states rights’ argument is purest unsupported bullshit).And the protestors understand that perfectly well.

Boru