Far left Antifa activists are planning to protest at Gettysburg National Battlefield on the anniversary of the historic battle and burn confederate flags on the historic day.
The violent far left group has been
vandalizing Confederate monuments across the country this year. Over the past
few weeks, several US cities have been a hotbed of controversy over the removal
of several Confederate monuments. After decades standing sentinel over New
Orleans, the last of four Confederate monuments have been removed after being
labeled as “Monuments of Racism and Hate”. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu
said of the removal of his city’s monuments: “To literally put the Confederacy
on a pedestal in our more prominent places—in honor—is an inaccurate recitation
of our full past, is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription for
our future”. The next state to follow in the footsteps in the movement is
Arizona, where leaders call for the swift removal of six Confederate monuments
around the state…
…A local group of self-proclaimed
anti-fascism activists called “ANTIFA” are planning on holding a rally at
Gettysburg National Battlefield on July 1st in protest of President Trump and
asks it’s members to “Bring and Burn Confederate Flags”. The reasoning behind
why this group picked the date and location for their rally is for the
importance Gettysburg played in the American Civil War.
The Battle of Gettysburg started on July
1, 1863, when Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia met General George Meade’s Union
Army of the Potomac. During the three-day battle, about 165,000 soldiers
clashed in and around the small town of Gettysburg. When the Battle of
Gettysburg was over on July 3, 1863, 51,000 soldiers were casualties (killed,
wounded, captured or missing) in what remains the largest battle ever fought in
North America. There are approximately 1,328 monuments, markers and memorials
that stand in both the cemetery and battlefield to commemorate the Union and
Confederate troops who fought there.
In removing any monument or marker of
history, to what purpose does that serve? History in every corner of the world
while oftentimes ugly and heinous, still serves a purpose. It is a remembrance
to learning from our past and not condemning ourselves to repeat it.
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Statues
are probably not a good investment for tax dollars. I suspect that the Left
wants to remove all of them. That is also not a good investment for tax
dollars. If politicians allow the Left to push them around, they will go after
the Founders, who were also slave holders. They will want to replace these
historical statues with statues of Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela and Mao.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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