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As far as the Conferedate statues goes, I was sort of automatically opposed to removal for several reasons, one, I’m a conservative and naturally opposed to unnecessary change especially change to history, two I hate like he$$ giving into the screeching left yet again but just the other day I saw a post that nailed it and that was ‘ you don’t think they’re going to stop with Lee do you?’
Exactly, next comes Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and then Washington, and let’s turn Mount Vernon and Monticello into ‘comooonity housing’
The Redskins – who came to DC from Boston – are named after white people who dressed as Indians who dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
This is really where my sympathies lay as well. But then I thought of the Stalin statues that have come down in the former USSR and I felt like I would be perfectly happy to have him and all who worshipped him expunged from history. The same holds only more so with Mao (if it ever happens). If I get to write history I want some people to be remembered – but only as villains.
@33:13…You can take the boy out of Lexington, but not the Lexington out of the boy. I dare say that take is Chomskyesque. The Continentals, primarily, fought the Brits in open battle formation- that’s often why they lost. But they won enough of the right battles to win the war.
There were irregular militia/guerrilla tactics employed- primarily in the South [used a little on the road from Concord back to Boston too]- but even this was not terrorism, it was an insurgency. Terrorism is when people out of uniform attack civilians to affect political change; had the Sons of Liberty bombed a London coffeehouse in 1778 and then mailed a letter to the Times saying “Free America”……that would be terrorism.