Like the Taliban destroying ancient towering statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, and ISIS demolishing antiquities at Nimrud, liberal Democrats and some Republicans have begun a cleansing of anything related to the Confederacy.
The Secretary General of the United Nations described the destruction of cultural sites in Iraq as war crimes. The attack on symbols of the Confederacy should be considered as serious.
Besides the drive to remove the Confederate battle flag from state capitals, the list of proposed banishments and destruction continues to grow:
In Tennessee, lawmakers propose not only removing a statue of Nathan Bedforest from the capital building, but there is support for planting trees along a highway to block visibility of a privately owned statue:
http://www.tennessean.com/story/inse...atue/29128551/
The city of Memphis has renamed the former Forrest Park, Confederate Park, and Jefferson Davis Park:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/us...tles.html?_r=0
The mayor of New Orleans wants to remove the statue of Robert E Lee from Lee's Circle, and presumably change that name:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...ert_e_lee.html
The above is just a very small sampling of what is proposed, underway or already accomplished, and is no doubt just the beginning of an immense cleansing of the cultural landmarks and heritage of Confederate states. Thousands of statues will be removed and parks renamed, along with the countless number of renamed buildings, shopping centers, highways and streets. Liberals will say it is legal and morally right. I say they are no better than the Taliban and ISIS.
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