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WASHINGTON – Tensions were high in front of the White House Monday night after Black Lives Matter protesters worked to remove the Andrew Jackson
statue in Lafayette Square.

Additionally, Secret Service confirmed to USA TODAY that members of the
press were asked to leave the White House grounds after CNN first reported
that their staffers and other members of the White House press corps were
told to vacate.

Confederates toppled, Columbus beheaded: Protesters rip down controversial statues

A Secret Service spokesperson told USA TODAY, "On Monday evening, in
response to the increasingly violent demonstrations in Lafayette Park,
four members of the media were misdirected by the Secret Service to leave
the White House grounds."

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/22/dc-protesters-attempt-remove-andrew-jackson-statue-near-white-house/3240254001/

"The members of the press were rerouted to exits on the south side of the complex for their own safety," the statement continued.

Protesters have continued to target historical symbols of the Confederacy across the country. Late last Friday, protesters in Washington, D.C., and
in Raleigh, North Carolina, toppled statues. A statue of Confederate
President Jefferson Davis was toppled in Richmond, Virginia earlier in
June.

The Andrew Jackson statue had not been taken down as of 10 p.m. EST., and police officers have responded to the area.

The protests over racial injustice were sparked by the killing of George
Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned under the knee of a white police officer for nearly nine minutes in May.

President Donald Trump tweeted that "numerous people" had been arrested
"for the disgraceful vandalism, in Lafayette Park, of the magnificent
Statue of Andrew Jackson, in addition to the exterior defacing of St.
John’s Church across the street."

### - smile, it's about time anyway you lot learned some of the more
'correct' details of your history?

which is what's really emerging outta all this ya know...

the way it had all been 'papered-over' before lending itself to a more deliberately convenient pov rather than the way things actually were and
are?

thus it rankles when certain taken-for-granted icons are criticised &
toppled, we had gotten comfortable with the older, albeit erroneous, image/picture of the world and to see them falling is somehow vaguely disturbing + not also always warranted...

it's happening here too across the pond where they're wanna take the
statue of churchill down as well?

because yes he 'was' a fucking monster! and lol there's no doubt about
that either! a simply dreadful person hah! often accused of being a
war-monger? to the point he became an embarrassment anyway and so was
dutifully shuffled-off into some obscure bottom-draw we british typically
have & keep (we never throw anything potentially useful away heh)

and then ww2 came along and, well, drastic times calls for drastic
measures, we brits being at a bit of a loose end rifled through all our
bottom draws for anything useful, and before ya knows it we pulls out a
fucking churchill! yay let's throw THIS fucker at the problem! let's see
'em deal with this cunt! hah!

and he actually did a very fine job of sticking to the germans too! the
monster that he was: churchill! rose to the occasion! he not caring 'how'
he did it so long as he beat the jerries! and did too!

the point being, that 'yes' he was a racist fuck! completely! BUT even 'monsters' have been known to do great deeds occasionally - precisely
because they ARE monsters! - oh he beat them alright lol ! he knew just
how to do that!

and as such, even though he certainly was a monster, he still deserves a special place (and imho a statue) in history and for the job he did and
was called upon to do that no other fucker could have likely done under
the circumstances... we were fighting fire with fire and churchill was our flaming brand!

perforce his is not the only statue that should be left standing, the
thrashing out of which will necessarily result in a very needed updated education on each case, something which wont do anyone any harm at all,
rather the opposite actually ;)

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