Houston man tries to bomb Confederate statue: gets caught

And that's fine that you see it that way, that said, the federal government means nothing to me compared to that of the state. That's where my loyalty primarily lies and I won't get upset about those who felt the same way.

Anyway, like I said, it's fine that you'd have had everyone in the south lined up against a wall and shot, you are entitled to that crazy ass opinion, but you'll have to understand if most people completely disregard it just out of hand.

I've spelled out to you why this specific person was important to Houston history and why it's completely appropriate to have a statue of him inside the city. As such we are at an impasse here and will have to just agree to disagree.

 

Agreed. All statues must go, this guy is old, probably a racist, let's tear it down



What's sad is that no matter how much they get made fun of, the anti-statue crowd won't realize how ridiculous they are being about this.

 

Thanks

I really was like

Is this an anti federal government guy which wouldn't make sense blowing up a Confederate statue

Another news media failure, they really didn't make clear this guy may not be stable

Obviously playing with bombs isn't stable but you understand. They certainly were implying this was some kind of protest or at least not being clear either way

 

I mean, just like you say, it should be implied that anyone who would blow up a statue like that isn't stable....even if he'd do it as part of a group of protesting idiots.

 

there are statues in centennial gardens of Confucius. Not even from this country. another one where the girl ihas no top and her t*** are out. several of foreigners.

public art is a sham. get rid of it. we got scammed by racist housewives with nothing better to do, lesson learned.

 

I don't think we can stop with public art, we need to go after all art. We can't let the racists win.

 

Timothy McVeigh wasn't unstable in the sense he knew what exactly what he was doing

He called those kids in the daycare collateral damage

That's incredibly cruel but very focused

Some terrorists are unstable some are just killers

That's the job of digging deeper, being a real news person.

 

I would have no issues executing all confederate soldiers.....especially those that left the us military for their rebellion. That is the punishment for desertion.

 

LOL that's fine, I get that you are an extremist which is totally within your rights to be....but doubling down on how much of an extremist you are isn't really advancing the conversation, it's just suggesting that there's no middle ground to be had here.

I think you might be the only person to say that Timothy McVeigh wasn't unstable. People who aren't unstable don't do what he did.

 

Did he know what he was doing?

You think he would have caught like that idiot trying to swallow the nitro

 

I think both bombers knew what they were doing, but knowing what you are doing doesn't mean you aren't unstable, hell it doesn't even mean you aren't crazy.

 

I tend to agree with pga. Im not going to bother to define 'crazy' or 'unstable' in this context, but one had a defined enemy and the other just wants to kill as many undefined people as possible.

There is a certain country on this planet that has a habit of bombing defined (brown skinned) enemies (those who just want to indiscriminately kill as many people as possible), regardless of infrastructure and non combatant lives deemed as 'collateral damage'. There are some people on this board who proudly admit they served this country.

Another poster suggested we should execute all members of a country's army that seceded from another country, despite said country forming a legit army that somewhat abided by the rules of combat. Never mind it was Sherman who marched down south burning every city in his path and terrorizing the population, but which same said poster claim these people as their own countrymen.

By all of this same logic, we are all terrorist for rebelling against King George III.

Its dangerous to go around flippantly labeling people terrorists to fit one narrative. McVeigh was an enemy of this country and rightfully should be executed by law.

A terrorist doesn't necessarily have to be one going around indiscriminately killing people. IMO, anyone who hides behind a mask to threaten or intimidate people should be labeled as terrorist too.

 

You can't execute hundreds of thousands of people. C'mon.

 

Why do you hate America?

 

No need. All the confederates are already dead

 

I don't. I served to protect America, unlike Confederate soldiers who actively worked to destroy our nation

 

They're not sending their best

 

LOL but you are still suggesting that you'd have advocated for the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people. You realize how insane that sounds right? I know that you've admitted to being something of an extremist, but....yeah, even you have to understand how crazy that is.

 

I don't believe in quarter for terrorists. If that makes me extreme then so be it.

 

SMH, they weren't "terrorists" they were an opposing army. Please tell me you can understand that concept.

There's a reason why we don't call German soldiers "terrorists" and why we didn't randomly slaughter about half of their country after they lost the war. If you think the wholesale slaughter of a losing military is in any way a legitimate idea then you are a crazy person.

Also, by that same "logic", all of America was comprised of "terrorists" as they broke away from England and they deserved to be murdered.