[Margaret Pilkington]

I see that 'thuggocracy' is winning.
Mob rule seems to be taking the place of democracy.
Police standing by doing nothing.....other than getting down on their knees...I guess the mob felt really worried by these men who are supposed to be promoting and ensuring law and order.
That was pitiful.

That the statues of men who are deemed by the BLM mob to be lower than dirt(in spite of them being part of the fabric of the country, contributing to the wealth and development, the education and progress) are being taken down. Because the mob want them down.....and the Mayor of London sides with them....well of course he would.

So taking these down makes it all alright again....wipes out what these men are accused of?

These non thinking reactive morons(I tried to think of a more flattering term, but couldn't) think that by removing these monuments will give back the slaves their lives......that because the presence of the statues is not visible anymore, the offences that they accuse them of are wiped out.

These are men that did what they did because back then it was deemed acceptable, laudable even...because these men funded good works that uplifted the poor in their communities.
They did what they did to give work to the people, to put food on tables.....and that some of these deeds go back to the 17th century....three and a half centuries ago.

The presence of these monuments should be viewed differently.
They should be seen as a milestone of how far removed we are from the ideas and ideals of that time.

All of this is similar to the smashing of the religious sites in Iraq.

History cannot be denied...it happened, it needs to acknowledged.
History denied is far more likely to be repeated...because if we do not learn from the past, then it is sure that we will make the same mistakes again