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I can understand both sides of the arguments on this issue regarding what happened in Virginia and the call to remove Confederate statues and monuments. But we need to step back, take a deep breath and look at things as rationally as possible. The Civil War is over and the South lost. To erect statues to those generals, politicians and heroes may have been called remembering their "heritage", but in today's modern world it is being used to scrape open the wounds of the past.

I have been to the battle field of Gettysburg and read the stories and saw where the battle raged. A person is in awe of the suffering, anguish, passion and sacrifice that both sides went through in that battle. It did not make me want to side with the south, but instead it made a deep impression on me how important it is to resolve differences without violence. It was a tragic time in our history and should never have come to a shooting war. The time of human slavery was over, and by the way, during the war every Southern state voted to outlaw slavery, long before the war was over. Did you read that in your history books? Did you know that 40% of the slave owners in the south were not white, but mulatto slave owners? The people of that time inherited that archaic system and there were nations all over the world that were doing the same thing. We have been born in a different era and see clearly the cruelty of slavery. The truth is the Civil war was not originally fought over slavery. It began over trade issues regarding the southern states trading directly with other nations, which bypassed the federal government from making any profit from that trade. The slave issue was used as a propaganda incentive to the citizens in the North to go to war. The people in the south were just as brainwashed as the people in the north. Many of them had no idea it was being fought over slavery, they thought it was over their "rights" to determine their own states sovereignty over the federal government power. The British government was still stinging from the loss of their American colonies and they sent in spies to encourage the south to go to war. The result they were after is to split up the US into smaller states so they could be defeated easier later. Here again this was not revealed in our history books. It was a conspiracy with money interests, foreign banks and Britain to divide the US. We lost over 600,000 dead in that conspiracy. We paid the price, and no longer have slavery in this nation. But now the ultra liberals, socialists and communist agitators are stirring up hatred and racial strife where it simply doesn't exist.

Who benefits? Answer; the globalists through a divided America. With new laws we lose more of our freedoms and Constitutional rights. What we are witnessing is the start of a revolution and blatant anarchy, and anyone that doesn't submit to the politically correct responses with genuine contrition, you will be labeled a racist. Our nation was supposed to be ruled by a Constitution that protected freedom of speech and peaceful assembly for the left and the right, equally.

Where do we go from here? Things got out of hand in Virginia, the ultra left attacked the so called "alt right" and a melee ensued which ended up with a person losing their life and numerous injuries. We cannot reprogram and re-educate an entire nation to a balance on these issues. The truth is we don't need all of those Confederate statues and monuments in pubic places to cause riots, dissension and mental suffering to those that feel offended by them. For example, what if the people in Germany would begin putting up statues of Hitler and his generals all over Germany and call it "our heritage"? It simply wouldn't be accepted by the people, it wouldn't work. In the same token we don't need these symbols of that time to stir up these passionate, divisive issues today. However, I would draw the line when it comes to removing statues of our Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Jackson. They are part of our US history and we can forgive and exercise tolerance for a system they inherited.
The ultra liberals are using public display of those Confederate statues as a rally cry of overthrowing this nation and stirring up hatred. Those monuments and statues have become a catalyst for their revolutionary activities. We are not going to change their minds, and in fact if the officials push back it only makes the movement grow even more. They have martyrs now and they have organized groups that are willing to do violence. Some may even be paid to start these violent protests by the wealthy elite. The nation needs to avoid confrontations, remove the catalyst that incites these riots and steer the nation towards peaceful protest and dialog. These moves will not placate the ultra left but it will slow the movement down and allow the nation to take a step back and look at these things rationally. Our police and military put their life on the line to defend any political side to have free speech and to peacefully assemble. In my opinion it was extremely unwise to even have the rally in view of the current political climate. It only allowed secret change agents to incite the crowds and start a fight. It is highly possible there were paid agents to incite that riot embedded in the alt right groups, as well as in the communist side. Once the police were ordered out it exposed the alt right group to immediate physical attacks by the alt left and communists. It smells like a total set up to me. Regardless how it was set up, it is now history and we are left with the aftermath. The best thing to do now is remove the symbols that are a catalyst for protests and do an investigation to prove how the fighting started in Virginia. The news media also needs to be called out when they paint entire groups of people with a broad brush. There is way too much name calling and labeling people racists, Nazis and KKK. In this nation we are supposed to be governed by the supreme law of the land called the US Constitution. And in that document all citizens are allowed freedom of speech and freedom to assemble. Those laws don't protect speech that we agree with and like, it protects speech we don't like. And, our police and military put their lives on the line to protect those rights. Those anarchists that exercised violence in Virginia were taking part in criminal activity and should have been arrested. That out of control riot is not how America works. And, if they are allowed to continue with their violent revolutionary activities this nation will not long endure.

George Eaton

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