Confederate + Nazi a Natural Fit: Time to Outlaw All Hate Groups

I was in favor of the removal of the defunct foreign government monuments (confederate statues) before all this happened in Charlottesville,Va. Now that the supporters of keeping the monuments, who I have to surmise are loyal to that defunct foreign government, have shown their true colors I am even more in favor of their removal.

On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. 

Confederate = Nazi = White Supremacists; We fought two wars against this mindset. Two times the deluded ones were defeated. Now that the Trump has gained the White House this primitive notion again raises its ugly head. We need to chop it off once and for all.

May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl, representing the German High Command, signed the unconditional surrender of both east and west forces in Reims, France, officially bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.  

Outlaw the Confederate Flag and the Nazi Flag. Make it a crime to display in public those purveyors of hate. Destroy all Confederate monuments, including the biggest one of them all, the carvings on Stone Mountain in Georgia. The carving depicts three Confederate figures during the Civil War: Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis.

Stone Mountain was once owned by the Venable Brothers and was the site of the founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915. It was purchased by the State of Georgia in 1958.

"Jackson neither apologized for nor spoke in favor of the practice of slavery. He probably opposed the institution. Yet in his mind the Creator had sanctioned slavery, and man had no moral right to challenge its existence. The good Christian slaveholder was one who treated his servants fairly and humanely at all times." Robertson, p. 191.

"The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things."
— Robert E. Lee, to Mary Anna Lee, December 27, 1856

"Southerners wanted to increase territory held in Mexico as an area for the expansion of slavery. Regarding Cuba, Davis declared that it "must be ours" to "increase the number of slaveholding constituencies."" McPherson 1989, p. 104.

All three men depicted on Stone Mountain were traitors to the United States and supported a rogue government. A government that not only wanted to maintain slavery with all its horrors, but to also expand it.

Germany handled the end of the Nazi regime much better than we handled the end of the Confederacy. At the same time we offered reconciliation, carpetbaggers and other opportunist profiteers plied the South looking to rip people off. That should have been outlawed some way because it didn't help matters when it come to healing a wounded nation. Maybe the Germans learned from our history, thus outlawed all Nazi symbols and hate speech. We should learn from our own history and follow suite.

We should remove these offending monuments so that our wounds can heal. Remove them in the full light of day, not undercover of darkness to hide our shame. We have to own it, and then choose to do the right thing.

Removal of the Defeated Confederate States Monument