Armed group protects Confederate statue in Kentucky: 'This is our battle line'

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Published 6 hours ago on June 12, 2020

On Friday, crowds of demonstrators gathered in Brandenburg, Kentucky — a small city west of Louisville — to protect a Confederate monument after local discussion of getting rid of it.

Local reporter Jessie Cohen posted images of the pro-Confederate demonstrators, many of whom arrived with weapons..........................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/armed-group-protects-confederate-statue-in-kentucky-this-is-our-battle-line/

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Hidalgo @MHidalgoUSA
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So why aren't these radical right white nationalists getting tear gassed?
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Because "these radical right white nationalists" are loyal #Trump fans!

[Botany]

1. What a bunch of ass clowns ... not a mask in the bunch ... (maybe one)

BTW why the guns, backpacks, and tactical gear? Is ANTIFA gonna try to take over
the Ohio River?

[Squidly]

4. That mask is one of those tube types with a skull face printed on it

Probably more to make him look tougher in his own mind. Or todays version of a white hood....

[Botany]

28. A few weekends ago I was at a local nursery/garden center and 85% + were wearing masks ...

... and one moron had a mask with the red and white stripes going vertical and
a picture of good old Donald Trump over his mouth pointing and screaming. He
tried to engage me in conversation but I turned and walked away. I was going to
tell him the reason why we are all wearing masks is because of Trump's fuck ups
but I didn't see the point.


I am sick of these phony freedom fighter commandos with their AKs and ARs all
suited up with tactical gear ready to "fight for their free-dumbs." For the love of
dog they were on the south bank of the OH River in KY what were they worried
about an ANTIFA barge with black panthers?

[Squidly]

34. Its all just compensation for their "short"comings

A bunch of grown men playing army for the weekend...commanded by private bone spurs

[Jersey Devlin]

33. COVID-19 Isn't Mentioned in the Bible

Therefore, to these yinyucks, it doesnt exist.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Kentucky was a border state.

AKA a slave holding state that did not secede from the union.

[augyboston]

3. Idiot Losers

Bunch of wanna be Rambos, who would soil their pants if they were in a real combat zone.

Why the American Flag? Don't any of these morons know that the Confederacy killed more American Patriots in battle than any other evil entity in history?!?

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. Shouldn't they be wearing Civil War uniforms instead of camo?

And carrying 19th century muskets? I mean, if one is going to stay true to the cause...

[Fritz Walter]

6. I recognize that "monument"

It used to stand in the middle of 3rd Street at the University of Louisville's campus. The City decided to remove it in 2016, and Brandenburg became its new home. More info here.

[flor-de-jasmim]

7. And he always says he hates losers...

[cstanleytech]

8. Put it to the voters and let them decide as that is what America is about

and if they vote to get rid of it tough shit I would tell these people.

[Beartracks]

9. Isn't that some kind of sedition?

[soothsayer]

10. What's the statue they're defending?

[SergeStorms]

12. This

A big dick.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. Nationalist: violence loving, other people hating white people aka Nazis.

Let’s call them what they are.

[SergeStorms]

13. These are Trump's people.

True American patriots.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. Indeed.

Scum of the earth!

[SergeStorms]

23. Mean little boys...

who never learned to share their toys. They never grew up either.

[groundloop]

15. I'm sure those idiots don't get the irony of showing up with an American flag

[PatSeg]

21. Good point

These fools need to get a hobby or maybe join the army, where they might see some real combat, instead of glorifying a war and soldiers from another century, a war that the south had lost.

[AZ8theist]

16. Not a single penis larger than 2 inches among them....

[Squidly]

35. Thats being generous

Just like their leader...mushroom man (and I use the word "man" very lightly)

[Chainfire]

17. The right wing version of a peaceful protest;

bring your rifle....

[paleotn]

18. What? No cops in riot gear?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. Why the Confederate monuments were put up

Some valuable insights from Susan Neiman's book Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019), which are important to hear at this moment in US history:

Neiman notes that the Confederate monuments about which people are fighting right now — “Don’t obliterate our glorious history!” — do not date from the Civil War. They were erected in two waves. The first was in the Jim Crow era, as the Daughters of the Confederacy worked to create the myth of the noble, long-suffering South, with its beautiful houses and plantations, and well-mannered people (and its slaves supporting that entire system and carrying it on their backs, depicted as happy, singing slaves by the UDC).

The second was the 1960s, when civil rights legislation and the end of segregation spurred white-supremacist Southerners to throw up another batch of these monuments. Neiman writes: “The monuments were not innocuous shrines to history; they were provocative assertions of white supremacy at moments when its defenders felt under threat. Knowing when they were built is part of knowing why they were built” (pp. 262-3).

[Nevilledog]

52. +1

[Laelth]

20. Boneheads!

How hard would it be to just wait them out? They can’t guard their precious statue forever. Wait until they leave, and then pull it down. Let them waste their time and money guarding a silly statue.

-Laelth

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

22. Do they know that Kentucky was never part of the Confederacy?

Just a simple question.

[Midwestern Democrat]

31. Kentucky didn't secede but it was definitely a state with divided loyalties - John Breckinridge was

an extremely prominent Kentuckian - Vice President under Buchanan, US Senator, US Congressman, the presidential nominee of Southern Democrats in 1860 - and he chose the Confederacy, becoming a General and finally their last Secretary of War.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

57. Most of Kentucky's young men fought for the Union

150,000 on the Union side, 35,000 for the confederacy.

[oldsoftie]

24. I guess they plan to be there a long time

[dalton99a]

25. Racists with penis extensions

[Duppers]

32. 😅

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Aren't boatloads of antifa headed down the river to do the demolition?

They'll cleverly divert this bunch with fried chicken and moonshine......

KY

[Botany]

37. An ANTIFA attack barge

[KY_EnviroGuy]

38. Even worse than I thought and from Cincinnati I hear.

Note the moonshine tanks on-deck........

[malthaussen]

29. Somebody should tell them Kentucky stayed loyal to the Union.

I guess if real history isn't good enough, people will just make up their own.

And yeah, I know all about the Orphan Brigade. TSIA, IMO.

-- Mal

[mcar]

30. Where are the riot cops with tear gas and rubber bullets?

[Paladin]

36. Damn good question. (nt)

[bluestarone]

40. SO TRUE!

Tells us something for sure!!!!

[RussBLib]

41. you forgot one thing

that crowd is all white

[hatrack]

39. No masks to protect themselves or others, but bang sticks to protect marble and metal

Whatevs.

[murielm99]

42. The Beer Belly Brigade strikes again.

[SKKY]

43. Y'all Queda back at it again.

[AllaN01Bear]

44. i want a lottery draft re inacted and these yahoos would be the first to go

you want to play with hi powered bang bangs , join the army.

[roamer65]

45. Look at all the inbred deplorables.

Bunch of idiot pinks.

[Barbara2423]

46. They have alot of ammunition

But the protesters have nothing but themselves. Sounds like they are ready for a fair fight (sarcasm).

[Yeehah]

47. Until they run out of cheetohs n/t

[jmowreader]

48. Two questions

1. How many of these Proud Patriots could produce their DD-214 if asked?

2. How many even know what that is?

[keithbvadu2]

51. Dubya couldn't.

[jmowreader]

53. Dubya has one

TRUMP is the asshole who is DD-214 free. He's the first Republican president in a very long time who wasn't in the military in any capacity. Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and both Bushes were veterans. Trump? He had a back problem (yellow stripe a foot wide running right up the middle of it) that got him out of the Army during Vietnam.

[keithbvadu2]

54. Dubya couldn't provide one.

[Kaleva]

58. Members of the Guard don't get DD-214s.

DD-214s are federal forms and guard units are not part of the federal government unless called to active duty by order of the president.

[keithbvadu2]

59. Then they get an equivalent form.

Then they get an equivalent form.

Dubya couldn't provide one.

What form do they get?

[hack89]

60. The press obtained thousands of documents regarding Bush's military service through FOI

There is no question that he served - the question was whether me met all his drill requirements in 1972 and 1973. He also completely fulfilled his two year active duty commitment while he was in flight training.

[keithbvadu2]

61. Dubya ran away from his military duties when the drug tests got too close.

Dubya ran away from his military duties when the drug tests got too close.

No DD-214 (or equivalent).

[hack89]

62. They didn't drug test then

I was in the Navy when they first started in the early 80's.

[keithbvadu2]

63. So many excuses for Dubya.

I was in the Navy in the 70s and they did drug tests then.

[Kaleva]

64. NGB-22. Which you only need if one wants credit for serving in the Guard.

If your superiors don't care if you stop showing up and you don't care about having official proof that you served in the guard, then no harm, no foul.

How Guard units handle members who stop showing up varies by the unit, state and situation.

[keithbvadu2]

65. Got it! Dubya did not want the truth out about his running away from his military service when the

Got it!

Dubya did not want the truth out about his running away from his military service when the drug tests got too close.

[lastlib]

49. Oh.

When you said "Confederate statue," I thought you meant McConnell...........

[SunSeeker]

50. They should be arrested for threatening people with guns, since that is what they're doing.

[rockfordfile]

55. Those people are idiots. The confederates attempted to destroy the USA

[Progressive Jones]

56. Confederate Treason Monkeys.

Anti-American trash.