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jimnyc
08-16-2017, 12:59 PM
That didn't take long. I said it would start things rolling, and its started already with other confederate stuff, then stone mountain and now, WTF? We are going to remove court members too, just because decisions back then weren't agreed with today. :rolleyes:

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Maryland Governor Orders Removal of Chief Justice Taney Statue

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered the statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who found in the 1857 Dred Scott decision that a slave had no right to sue for his freedom, removed from the grounds of the state house.

His 2018 challenger for the governor's seat, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, claimed that Hogan was making a political move a day after Jealous gave a statement in front of the Taney statue calling for its removal.

Taney, who was born in Calvert County, wrote in the 7-2 opinion for the majority that the framers of the Constitution regarded blacks "as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."

Rest here - https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/15/11508/

PostmodernProphet
08-16-2017, 06:52 PM
Ben Jealous
come on......is that really his name or is this from The Onion?.....

Bilgerat
08-17-2017, 07:43 AM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/USCGC_Taney_%28WHEC-37%29_in_Baltimore.jpg/1280px-USCGC_Taney_%28WHEC-37%29_in_Baltimore.jpg

This is the USCGC Taney, named for Roger B Taney who was at various times: US Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Formally decommissioned on 7 December 1986 and turned over to the city of Baltimore Md., for use as a museum shp. Over her distinguished career, Taney received three battle stars for World War II service and numerous theater ribbons for service in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.In 1988, the USCGC Taney (WHEC-37), Structure – #88001826, was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark on the same day.

The Taney is located in the historic Baltimore Inner Harbor as part of the Historic Ships in Baltimore collection. She is also included in the Baltimore National Heritage Area.

One wonders, is she next to be attacked by the "Re-write the History of the United States" crowd?

High_Plains_Drifter
08-17-2017, 08:31 AM
And the second civil war edges even closer...