[Hoot Gibson]

How do you know that people who served our country didn’t participate in the destruction of racist traitors’ statues?

So colonists had no right to destroy those King George statues?

Northern citizens and politicians of the time saw it as treason. The traitors saw it as their right. They lost, so it was treason. It works like that.
If the South would have won, it would have been secession.

Corruption kept traitors’ heads out of the noose. You know that.

All this spinning and attempting to dilute the point...Do you really believe we should have monuments celebrating the Confederacy on public land? Seriously?

Mobs have no rights to destroy or deface public property...period. Treason is a legal term and those who fought for the Confederacy did not commit treason. That is why the Confederate soldiers were not prosecuted and tried for treason.

The violent mobs who deface and destroy public property are criminals who should be arrested and tried for their crimes. Looters and arsonists should be shot in the act, IMO, but our current laws do not provide for such swift justice and I strongly believe that our government must rest on a foundation of duly enacted laws and not subject to the whims of mobs or anybody's opinions, including my own.