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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

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  • (Score: 2) by Spamalope on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:18PM

    by Spamalope (5233) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:18PM (#504040) Homepage

    If in a democracy political purity tests are being used as a condition of employment, voting and political speech records are being made public and used to end careers you might have a reason to hide. If recordings are made of private conversations and reviewed to determine if the participants are bolshivik enough you might have reason. If armed mask wearing groups stab, chemical spray and club people trying to attend a speech because their views aren't bolshy enough while the 'police' are ordered to disarm only one political side... well... (obviously I'm referring to Berkley)

    What you wrote really only applies to a healthy republic. A democracy trying on mob rule is a bit different - more like Athens when secret groups were murdering rivals and their supporters. Needing to hide your identity can be a symptom of many kinds of trouble.

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