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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is allowed theres no end. Such ignorant behavior. We are a land of laws or we are not.[/quote]

Do you even know how "laws" are created?[/quote]

Yes, laws are passed. There had been previous attemots to legislate the removal of the statue. They failed. You keep trying. Thats called being a nation of laws. We dont all get what we want when we want automatically or by force. Thats called anarchy, or in the hands of a few - oligarchy, faciscim or dictatorship. [/quote]

DC had wanted that statute down for years.  Its on federal property and I think it needs Congressional approval to be removed.  Congress won’t give it for reasons surpassing understanding but arising out of the completely dysfunctional nature of the DC-federal relationship.  Its behond stupid the city has been stuck with this offensive statue for so long.  [/quote]

Correct - the statute was like five feet from MPD headquarters.  DC has been trying for decades to get it removed.  Thanks Zoomers.[/quote]

Yes, in other places where the city council unanimously voted to remove a statue from their own city, which is what happened here, they’d be allowed to. Not the case bc of, frankly, racist attitudes toward our local government by a congress. Pike was a KKK founder. I don’t believe in “erasing history”—this IS history. But up an interpretive sign about what used to be there, and what was going on Juneteenth 2020 to finally topple it. [/quote]

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