Comments on: The year of movable statues: what to do with Roger Taney?

By: Fox2!

Fox2! — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:22:13 +0000

Those “pagan antiquities” are the source of most of Egypt’s tourism, and much of its foreign exchange.

Although, IIRC, didn’t the Moslem Brotherhood government propose doing something to the pyramids and other tourist producing sites?

By: Hugo S Cunningham

Hugo S Cunningham — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:40:55 +0000

The Pyramids were built at the command of infidels, which would seem to qualify them for demolition under ISIS standards. But so far, national sentiment in Egypt has protected their pagan antiquities.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:57:29 +0000

In reply to Isaac. Perhaps someone familiar with the liberal agenda, whatever that is, can help Isaac out. Most of the monuments under discussion in the United States were not constructed by slaves.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:22:08 +0000

In the spirit of understanding both sides of an argument; Would the liberal agenda justify tearing down the Egyptian Pyramids because the Pyramids were constructed by slaves?

By: Moving the Roger Taney statue | Free State Notes

Moving the Roger Taney statue | Free State Notes — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 22:57:33 +0000

[…] from Overlawyered] And from Chuck Lane at the Washington Post: how about a replacement statue honoring Maryland […]

By: cecil

cecil — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:35:23 +0000

So what i’m hearing is that although the statue may be in bronze the subject may have had feet of clay?

By: Noncenx

Noncenx — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:16:50 +0000

The Cultural Revolution in its finest.

By: PaulB

PaulB — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:35:34 +0000

Besides being the first Catholic appointed to the Court, Taney was a radical Jacksonian critic who consistently opposed what he saw as efforts by Eastern banking interests to gain political control. His views in Dred Scott, notwithstanding that he had emancipated his own slaves decades before that case arose reflected in part his growing concerns over the growing power of those forces over the agricultural areas, which were either pro-slavery as in the South or pretty much indifferent to it as was the case in what we now call the Midwest.

I’m waiting to see what legal academia has to say about the removal of the Taney statue. For those who think it proper, perhaps they could let us know why the names of those three notorious white racists, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Black, should continue to be honored given their support for Korematsu. the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. And while we’re at it, let’s ban the names of Holmes and Brandeis for their role in Buck vs Bell.

By: Steven Jones

Steven Jones — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:19:07 +0000

The ancient Romans used to have statues with interchangeable parts. The head and arms were removable (no need to worry about the body, most posh Romans wore the same sort of clothing). When they got a new leader they would simply put a new head on the statue. The arms would often have props. If the leader was big on war, the arm would hold a sword, if he was more scholarly, the arm would hold a book, for example.