More arrests made in gutsy statue mugging

Two additional socialists were arrested Wednesday for destroying a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina. 

Dante Strobino and Ngoc Loan Tran were arrested as they stupidly attended a court hearing for another socialist-anarchist woman who was charged Tuesday for climbing a ladder and attaching a rope to the bronze statue, in a move reminiscent of ISIS destroying Christian statues.

The Durham County Sheriff's office said the two were charged with two felonies related to inciting and participating in a riot that damaged property.

The ladder-climbing woman, Takiyah Thompson, was charged with the same counts the previous day. 

Fun Fact: Takiyah, usually spelled 'Taqiyya' means to lie in the service of Islam.

Thompson is a student at North Carolina Central University, allegedly majoring in lesbian dance theory.

All three anarchists belong to the Workers World Party, a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 and led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party. The group helped organize the Durham protest in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend.

Thompson allegedly climbed up and attached a rope to the statue and her colleague commies pulled it down.

After the statue fell, protesters thought it safe to kick the Confederate soldier while he was down. Some spit at it, others flipped him "the bird."

"I'm tired of white supremacy keeping its foot on my neck and the necks of people who look like me," Thompson said at a news conference. "That statue glorifies the conditions that oppressed people live in, and it had to go."

Yes, the anarchists are tired of waiting for lawful change--blame it on faster internet and leftist attention deficit disorder.

Insofar as white supremacists putting their feet on the necks of people like Thompson, there has never been a time in the United States, with more opportunities in education and employment than now. 

The number of neo-nazis and white supremacists in the U.S. is relatively quite low, however, it seems that the number is on the rise. On the other side we have the alt left, Antifa and other forms of mental illness.

The Durham anarchy event was in response to a white supremacist rally held in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend, which led to three deaths. While Charlottesville sparked new debate by government officials over removing symbols of the Confederacy and slavery around the South, the state of North Carolina has a 2015 law protecting their monuments--not that it made any difference to the actual law enforcement officials who sat on their hands while the statue of a Confederate soldier was being pulled down. The law prevents removing such monuments on public property without permission from state officials.


Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday that his deputies got off their butts and are now working on finding out who was involved in the incident that they could have prevented by upholding the 2015 law. The department plans to pursue felony charges against those perpetrators.

Late Tuesday, NC Gov. Roy Cooper suddenly realized after all his years on the planet, that the remaining Confederate monuments on state property ought to be removed and directed officials to study the cost and logistics of moving them to historical sites or museums. He also tallied up the likely number of votes, both plus and minus, such a move would render him come next election.

"We cannot continue to glorify a war against the United States of America in the defense of slavery," Cooper said in a statement. "These monuments should come down."

So where this epiphany come from, Gov?

It's all politics. Everything has become politics. Everything has become us against them.

Sad!


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Criminal charges against inanimate object attackers

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Law enforcement did everything in its power to avoid enforcing the law as angry protesters, inspired by the Charlottesville riots, toppled a Confederate statue in North Carolina on Monday. In fact, law enforcement stood by and watched the statue topple down.

Not once did the brave officers of the Durham Police Department or deputies with the Durham County Sheriff's Office step in as leftist activists brought a ladder up to the statue and used a rope to bravely pull it down. 

While not one militant was arrested Monday, on Tuesday, when the proverbial coast was clear, Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews told the media that investigators were working to identify the protesters and planned to bring criminal charges against them.

While they're at it, they ought to identify law enforcement personnel who refused to uphold the law and do something about them.

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"We decided that restraint and public safety would be our priority," Andrews posted on the agency's website known as 'We serve to not get involved.'

"As Sheriff, I am not blind to the offensive conduct of some demonstrators nor will I ignore their criminal conduct."

But he ignored their criminal conduct while they were actually committing the crime.

"My deputies showed great restraint and respect for the constitutional rights of the group expressing their anger and disgust for recent events in our country. Racism and incivility have no place in our country or Durham," Andrews said unconvincingly.

Calls for additional comments weren't immediately provided to the press.

Look, I understand where the protesters are coming from and I agree that slavery is disgusting. Insofar as the neo-nazi scum are concerned, I believe Trump was foolish not to have immediately called it out. It isn't like he's shy about calling out radical Islamic terrorism, fake news, lyin' Ted, Crooked Hillary, or anything else that pierces his thin skin.

I also know that these same protesters are planing a march against Islamic slavery, female genital mutilation, and anti-Semitism, some time in the future.

Or maybe not.

The problem is, anger does not trump the rule of law. And anger should not eradicate historical fact, like the Russians did when Communism was all the rage. If a town or state votes to take down an historical statue, then let them. But it isn't okay for a bunch of anarchists to go about destroying property that isn't theirs. 

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The Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham was dedicated in 1924 and shows a soldier holding a rifle. When it toppled down the crowd cheered and some brave boys and girls even began kicking it to symbolize what they would do if they outnumbered a real Confederate soldier.

Some of the boys and girls had selfies done standing or sitting on the toppled statue. It was a fun day for all the angry young munchkins.

It was obvious that somehow Donald Trump was going to get blamed for all of this. Identity politics is the only way the left knows how to operate and they're very good at it.

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But a young lady and two state troopers were killed in Charlottesville and that isn't about identity politics and shouldn't be used as a vehicle to launch one's opinion for either side.

It doesn't take a genius or a group of GOP pollsters to know that Trump should have immediately condemned the white supremacists, neo-nazis and KKK when the rally first began. It also should have immediately caused a reaction with the Charlottesville Police Department when both sides of the rally were showing up with weapons, shields and some had their faces covered.

The Charlottesville and Durham police departments failed to do their jobs when the danger was present and, in the latter case, when the law was being broken.

It's like the LifeLock commercial with the bank security monitor. He isn't there to stop the bank from being robbed--he's only there to monitor the situation.


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