Why Statues In The First Place?

[ignoramus]

Planet upside down fender!

[Fireball]

I can't play a guitar in any sort of normal position, let alone with my teeth. 

[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

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I can't play a guitar in any sort of normal position, let alone with my teeth. 

I know how you feel - I can’t play a guitar with your teeth either.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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.

I swore an oath to protect the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic. Treasonous people come under that.

[The Valkyrie]

One day I hope to have a statue in place in front of the Opera House in Sydney.

I want it to be 15 feet tall, facing toward the city, my right hand extended majestically outwards, the hand clenched into a fist, palm up, and a single finger raised to the sky.

The plaque, made from electrum, will say, "She made it. Fuck you all!"