Baltimore: ALL Confederate Statues Have Now Been Removed

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Marines got the official order to remove all items featuring the Confederate battle flag from public areas and workspaces Friday night as protests across the country continue into their 11th day following the death of George Floyd.

Marines can no longer wear T-shirts or drink coffee from mugs featuring Confederate flags on base, according to new force-wide guidance on the ban. The ban also applies to bumper stickers, posters and any other public displays of the flag on Marine Corps installations worldwide.

The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremists and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps," a Marine social media post about the policy states. "This presents a threat to our core values, unit cohesion, security, and good order and discipline. This must be addressed."

The policy directs Marine commanders to identify and remove displays of the Confederate battle flag within workspaces and public or common-access areas on their installations.

The guidance formalizes a directive Commandant Gen. David Berger first gave in February to begin removing Confederate materials from Marine Corps installations. Berger told Military.com in March that the decision was "about focusing on how we can get better."

"Things that divide us are not good," Berger said. "... When on government property, we have to think as a unit and how to build a team, a cohesive team."

None of the other military branches have announced similar policies to bar Confederate displays on base. The Army has faced criticism for its decision not to redesignate bases named for Confederate leaders.

The Marine Corps' new policy states that commanders have the authority to "take reasonable, necessary, and lawful measures to maintain law and order, and to protect installation personnel and property."

Authorized inspection areas include not only work areas on base, but also storage rooms, recreational areas, bathrooms and living quarters -- to include open-bay barracks and shipboard berthing, schoolhouses and yards or external porches on government-owned housing.

"This includes, but is not limited to, depictions of the Confederate battle flag on automobile bumper stickers, clothing, and other apparel," the policy states.

Commanders aren't allowed to conduct inspections for Confederate items in individual barracks rooms, assigned lockers, backpacks, private cars or military housing.

The ban doesn't apply to state flags that incorporate the Confederate flag, state-issued license plates with a depiction of the flag, or Confederate soldiers' grave sites.

The policy also won't apply to areas where the flag is displayed for educational purposes, including the National Museum of the Marine Corps or entry-level training sites, including Marine Corps recruit depots.

Black Lives Matters protesters in Bristol have pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston.

Demonstrators attached a rope to the grade II-listed statue on Colston Avenue on Sunday before pulling it to the ground as crowds cheered.

They then jumped on it and rolled it down the street to the harbour before pushing it into the river Avon.

The 18ft bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city’s role in the slave trade and the continued commemoration of those who were involved in it.

A petition to remove it had garnered more than 11,000 signatures. It said: “Whilst history shouldn’t be forgotten, these people who benefited from the enslavement of individuals do not deserve the honour of a statue. This should be reserved for those who bring about positive change and who fight for peace, equality and social unity.”

Colston’s company transported more than 100,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas between 1672 and 1689, cramming them into ships to maximise profit.

The slaves, including women and children, were branded on their chests with the company’s initials, RAC. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy killed more than 20,000 during the crossings and their bodies were thrown overboard.

Colston gave great sums of money to Bristol, but it was made from slavery.

Action has been taken to erase his name from other parts of the city. Colston Hall, Bristol’s largest concert hall, announced plans to change its name in 2017, and Bristol city council determined in January 2018 that a second plaque should be placed on Colston’s statue highlighting his role in the slave trade but wrangling over the wording delayed it. A portrait of Colston was removed from the lord mayor’s office later the same year.

Opposition to the Colston statue grew at around the same time as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which called for the statue of Cecil Rhodes, an ardent imperialist, to be removed from Oriel College, Oxford. The college refused to accede to the demands.

Explaining the reason for the grade II listing, Historic England says: “The statue is of particular historical interest, the subject being Edward Colston, Bristol’s most famous philanthropist, now also noted for his involvement in the slave trade.”

The British war hero's statue in London's Parliament Square has been defaced with Churchill crossed out with black marker pen and the words "is a racist" underneath. Protesters have also pinned a poster to the memorial with the words "Black Lives Matter".

This is the second day the statue has been defaced after protesters graffitied it with neon green writing during Saturday's rally.

NASCAR is finally showing a red flag to the confederate flag.

In a major move for the sport of stock-car racing, NASCAR announced it is banning the confederate flag.

“The presence of the confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry," NASCAR said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Bringing people together around a love for racing and community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.”

The move comes after Bubba Wallace, the lone full-time African-American driver in NASCAR’s top series, demanded the sport take action earlier in the week.

“There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying,” Wallace told CNN host Don Lemon on Monday. “No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. So it starts with confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.”

Wallace will be driving a #BLACKLIVESMATTER car in Wednesday night’s Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. He unveiled the new paint job for his No. 43 Chevy on Tuesday.

The 26-year-old Wallace wore a black “I CAN’T BREATHE"/"Black Lives Matter" T-shirt before Sunday’s race in Atlanta.

Nationwide anger over police brutality and systemic racism has turned toward symbols of America’s troubled past still scattered across the country: statues honoring Confederate figures and colonizers that have long invited heated debate.

In Portsmouth, Virginia, protesters covered a large Confederate monument dating to the 1800s with trash bags and spray paint on Wednesday. A crowd of largely celebratory demonstrators later took bolt cutters and sledgehammers to the heads of the statues, removing them as a marching band blasted triumphantly in the background.

In Richmond, Virginia late Wednesday, demonstrators removed a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis:

Outside the Minnesota state Capitol, a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled down with ropes as protesters cheered. And in other cities this week, similar monuments were beheaded, toppled into lakes, spray painted or ordered removed by local lawmakers.

Lawmakers have treated such calls with vastly different levels of support. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday she supported the immediate removal of 11 Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol, calling them “monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end.”

“Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage,” she wrote in a letter.

President Donald Trump, on the other hand, said he would “not even consider” renaming a slate of Army bases that honor Confederate generals amid reports the Pentagon was open to doing just that.

“My Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations,” he wrote on Twitter. “Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!”

LONDON —

BRITAIN : New Statue to Bomber Chief Raises German Ire

Old German and British war wounds have been reopened by a new controversy over a statue being erected in London to the officer whose bomber force rained explosives on Germany.

The statue commemorates Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Britain’s top bomber commander during World War II, who masterminded the RAF’s night bombing campaign over Germany.

Known as “Bomber Harris” for his single-minded execution of strategic bombing--characterized by mass raids with widespread devastation of major cities such as Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Wuerzburg and Dresden--Harris was called “The Butcher” by the Germans.

An estimated half a million Germans were killed in night bombing by British planes and in daylight raids by American aircraft. The efficiency of strategic area bombing has long been a subject of dispute. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

I hope they don't forget this one, in England.

Going be tough tearing down this one


And how will they do this one


Both are honoring racist. One was even slave owner.

Tearing down Cristopher Columbus statues. The Goombah’s are not going to like it. “Hands up, don’t shoot” won’t work against the Mafia.

Before everybody gets all offended
1. The Mafia are vicious criminals that are overly glorified in the movies and the media.
2. 95 plus percent of Italian-American’s are not Mafia
3. When they are not at “work” they are very much into traditional families and their Italian heritage.

The Mafia is not what it once was and they very well may be well behind Antifa tech wise but if they can I can envision the Mafia putting hits on people who tear down Columbus statues.

Old goombah's vs street soldiers, my money's on the ones who aren't in depends. A dozen members of a family can't match a few vans filled with kids with AKs and SKs.

ANTIFA are irrelevant in this, ANTIFA doesn't kill people.
Retaliating against racist mobsters is something that pretty much every street gang would support and they do kill people.