Utter Lunacy 60 Statues To Go

[retrocop]

BLM have targeted 60 Statues and Plaques. Their choices are bizzare. Will we now have black stabbing victims picking and choosing what hospitals save their lives. They apparently now don't appreciate Guy's hospital. I am sure Guys didn't turn them away when they were bleeding to death.
Arms manufacture and Engineer Armstrong. Obviously BLM would have sooner lived under a Nazi regime. Armstrong Company manufactured the Armstrong Whiteley Bomber in the 2nd W.W.

Horatio Nelson, Drake et al. It has to stop. Full list in Link

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/09/hit-list-racist-statues-black-lives-matter-protesters-want-pulling-12827249/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&;utm_source=pushly

[dannyk13]

Gherkins //I bet you wouldn't have been able to name any of the 60 statues or plaques.//
Neither would any of the protesters.

[Gherkins]

Dannyk13, you might be right but, it is obvious that they know what the statues represent. The history behind the men. How else would it have been decided which 60 should come down and why?

[naomi24]

Gerkins, do you relish the prospect of anarchy?

[dannyk13]

Gherkins, only a few of the statues represent slave traders.Were the likes of Raleigh and Churchill etc slave traders? I think not.

[naomi24]

Race is just a handy hook to hang the real purpose of this mayhem on. Pity those who support it for genuine reasons can’t see what’s really happening.

[Bobbisox1]

I wonder what dear old AOG would have made of all this, I miss him

[Gherkins]

Naomi24, what you refer to as anarchy, I would call revolution. I can't imagine you can sympathise with any kind of minority especially the black community.

[Gromit]

// Raleigh and Churchill //

Are not on the list.

[Gherkins]

Thank you, Gromit. I thought I would let the answer speak for itself, but it's nice to educate those who have only read headlines.

[bhg481]

I don't think Khan would dare to remove the statue of Churchill whatever the circumstances.

[Gromit]

// Pity [they] can’t see what’s really happening. //

What is really happening ?

[naomi24]

Gerkins, you have no idea where my sympathies lie - in fact you have no idea of my ethnicity - but this isn’t about me. You want revolution, okay, but to what end? What system of government would you prefer?

[Ken4155]

Nowadays, people traffickers get thrown into prison. Back in the day, they were honoured by having statues erected.

[Gherkins]

Naomi24, a nice end would be a social recognition of the systematic racism that occurs every day and an active effort from everybody to stomp this out.

Why would you ask to what end? Surely it's obvious.

51 years ago on the 28th of this month, a riot erupted in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Police wagons were toppled, cars were shook, windows smashed, bottles and bricks thrown at police attempting to arrest people who didn't want to show them their genitals to prove they were "real women" and not people in drag. Bins were set on fire and thrown through windows. This came after peaceful pickets had been ignored for 4 years prior to this.

This was the birth of gay liberation.

Without these acts of violence, gay rights would have been suppressed more and more.

To what end Naomi24? To what end.

[Gherkins]

Naomi24, educate yourself on things such as the Harlem riot of 1964. How many times must this movement have to push for it to be recognised? To what end... Maybe to the end of racism. That would be nice.

[royfromaus]

I don't give a damn or see the point of statues but I do give a damn about moron taking it upon themselves to pull them down.
They need prosecuting.

But as I have said before.

Lefty violence good
Righty violence bad

[tamborine]

Remove Mandella & Gandhi as they have NOT benefitted UK.

[dannyk13]

Gromit
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1293266/sadiq-khan-winston-churchill-statue-london-blm-protests-graffiti.

[naomi24]

Ken, we are not living ‘back in the day’. We are living in the here and now and making good use of the Oxbridge colleges, hospitals, art galleries, and everything else that benefits and has benefitted from the spoils of yesteryear. When we start saying that our principles are such that we are willing to abandon hypocrisy, I’ll believe that this wanton destruction is what it purports to be. Until then, it isn’t. It’s anarchy in action.

[Gherkins]

Naomi24, if you think what is going on is anarchy then maybe you should go to London to see what is really going on. You read too many headlines.