"Statuegate," Part Deux...

My old friend and blog-mentor Geoff West has ascribed the term "Statuegate" to the furor unfolding around the flagellating Leftoids' double-time effort to remove statues of Confederate leaders (and presumably anyone else who offends their tender sensibilities) from the Public Square. Oh yeah, and The Chuckmeister's choosing to cast on it the harsh light of negative publicity.

Sounds good to me.  And, as you'll recall from my 08/28/17 posting, "Why Stop at Just Statues," I offered up suggestions as to some other stuff that these bozos should get about removing if they were really serious about erasing potential "triggers" from Leftist snowflakes. 

That posting stirred up a lot of back-and-forth.  So, I, The Chuckmeister, your humble scribe, decided to do even more in-depth research and find a few more statues that we should remove post-haste if we're really serious about sanitizing our history of the Bad Guys and their evil actions.  Ready?  Here we go...

1.  Statue of Che Guevara:  There's a statue of Ernesto "El Che" Guevara located in Central Park in New York City, today.  Yes, my friends, this idol of the fawning Left and notorious crazed mass murderer has a statue right in the heart of the City he openly stated he would have "taken out" if Soviet missiles hadn't been removed from Cuba in the '60's. An early supporter of Castro, Che killed thousands of Cuban dissidents during the uprising that overthrew the elected government of Juan Batista.  He stated that "he didn't have time for trials to determine guilt."  Hmmm.  Sounds a lot like the rush to sanitize our history of all "unpleasant" things unfolding today in Liberal-dom.  

The crazed Leftists that are defacing Lincoln's statue and declaring Chris Columbus a mass murderer have somehow failed to notice that an actual communist mass murderer's statue is located within blocks of the New York Times (and close by numerous souvenir shops who persist in selling "El Che" t-shirts).  Does one have anything to do with the other? Hmmm, again. Maybe this posting will provide the necessary alert they need...

2.  Statue of Margaret Sanger:  In the venerable old Smithsonian Institution is a statue of famous racist and eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Even if you happen to agree with what her organization, "Planned Parenthood," has become today, you have to temper that enthusiasm with the reality that she was a Black-hating eugenicist.  One of her more popular writings was entitled, "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda."  In it she said things like "Eugenics is...the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." Eugenics, if you aren't aware, is "the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the desirable heritable characteristics." In other words, abort those who are less desirable to improve the breed. Like Blacks.  And Hispanics. And American Indians.  Adolph Hitler used Sanger's work as a basis for his "Final Solution."  Black groups and pro-life supporters have worked for years to try and get this statue taken down, with no success. Maybe those who are busy tearing down statues ought to consider adding this one to their list...

3.  Statue of Robert Byrd:  Located in the Capitol Building's Statuary Hall is a statue of Robert Byrd, one of the longest serving U.S. Senators. You may not know that this guy was at one time the leader of his Ku Klux Klan chapter, winning the title of "Exalted Cyclops" unanimously.  I guess that's good.  In 1944 he wrote a letter to Mississippi senator Bilbo stating, "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."  

Fewer than 10 years after writing that alarming piece, he was elected a Senator in the Democrat Party.  Oh yeah, by the way, the Democrat Party started the Ku Klux Klan.  He ran on a platform of opposing desegregation and civil rights, arguing it was for the states to decide, and was reelected time and again, holding that Senate seat until his death. Doesn't anybody but me know that Byrd's statue is in the Capitol? If you're of a Leftoid persuasion, would you be so kind as to inform your ideological soul-mates that here's another one for them to target?

4.  Statue of Vladimir Lenin:  Located in a park in Seattle is a 16 foot-high statue of this (in)famous communist leader. Has he gotten a pass because he was a liberal?  He was as violent and deadly as any Confederate soldier ever was, having used executions, hostage taking and concentration camps to force obedience or punish his enemies.  He used mass starvation of the peasants to insure his own followers were well fed.  In all, his death toll is counted at 4 million. Yet his statue still stands.  Leftist thugs are removing statues of Confederate heroes while this enemy of right-thinking people everywhere is still standing proudly. Why? 

Oh yeah, I'd be remiss if, in closing, I didn't mention to the nice folks in "flyover country," my old homies, that the Lost Angeles City Council voted last week to officially change "Columbus Day" to "Indigenous Peoples' Day."  Yes, they actually did that.  To them, this explorer, discoverer of the New World and hero of Italians everywhere is a mass murderer and exploiter of poor people who weren't bothering anybody, and It's getting to the point where one has to double check every unbelievable story like this one to make sure it wasn't ripped from the pages of "The Onion" or dreamed up by Saturday Night Live.  It wasn't...

By the way, the next time somebody wants to play Cowboys and Indians, tell them to change the designation to "Bovine Management Specialists and Indigenous Mistreated Peoples" before you agree to play along...