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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.
coverage:
- Washington Post
- The New Orleans Advocate
- WWL-TV (has statement from city government)
- ABC
- New York Magazine
- Newsweek
- The New Orleans Advocate
- Chicago Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- Times-Picayune
- Reuters
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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures
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(Score: 3, Informative) by gman003 on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:17AM (3 children)
"Worse than Hitler" is an extremely high bar to clear. Did Lincoln even *try* to kill millions of people for their race? Did he put his own citizens into camps to work them to death building weapons to kill more people with? Did he destroy Congress, seizing all power for himself and his party? Tear down the electoral system? Lincoln wasn't the absolute paragon he's often portrayed as but he didn't come even *close* to Hitler levels.
Then again, I'm pretty sure your grasp of history is pretty weak, since you made a leap straight from Lincoln to G.W. Bush, never mind all the presidents who came between. Your concept of scale is also lacking... I'm no fan of Bush or Obama, but they were far from dictators. And so is Trump, so far, but he's been talking some pretty authoritarian talk, so we'd best keep an eye on him.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:24AM (2 children)
Cheney was pretty authoritarian, and picked fights with anyone who got in his way... I mean, the president's way. Cracking down on internal dissent, dismissing or attacking external dissent, widening the divide in the country... Pretty much the closest the US has had (recently) to a dictator.
The "Unitary of the Executive" concept was extremely dangerous, and brought us the Iraq war.
Trump talks a lot, but he hasn't done anywhere near as much damage to the US as Cheney ... yet.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:22AM (1 child)
Cheney was definitely scary. Let's not forget that one of his acquaintances had a "hunting accident"! [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @04:09AM
Who literally apologized for cheney shooting him in the face.
Its the kind of thing that gives trump a wet dream.