Man Hired To Remove Confederate Monuments In New Orleans Has $200,000 Lamborghini Torched

[Thomas the Tank Engine]

The man hired by the city of New Orleans to remove four Confederate statues has had his 2014 Lamborghini Huracan set on fire and reduced to rubble.

 

According to authorities in Baton Rouge, the St. George Fire Department found the $200,000 vehicle ablaze early Tuesday morning behind David Mahler's company, H&O Investments, LLC. The city announced a few days ago it had hired Mahler to remove the monuments, which symbolize Confederate history.

 

The car's tire rims and seat frames are the only things suggesting that it had once been a luxury ride.

 

"This is just a possession and can always be replaced, but someone has something to say to us," Mahler’s wife wrote on Facebook Tuesday.

 

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu called for taking down the statues after the racially motivated massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last summer. The monuments memorialize civil war figures P.G.T. Beauregard, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The fourth is an obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place.

 

 

 

 

 

Read the rest: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/confederate-monuments-new-orleans_us_569f9ec2e4b0fca5ba760b0f

[+JHBrown Subscriber¹]

Business must be good for the statue remover. A $200,000 Lambo? Anyhow, we Americans continue to embarrass ourselves, and look like fools to the rest of the world. It's great to see we've progressed as a nation. /s 

[wakjak]

good to see that racism is still strong in the south.

[Emn1ty]

32 minutes ago, wakjak said:

good to see that racism is still strong in the south.

This has nothing to do with racism. To be perfectly frank, this is a defacing of history. Removing a flag was one thing, but removing memorials? This is getting very dicey. Just because we don't agree with history doesn't mean we wipe it off the face of the earth. These monuments stand as a testament to the hardships and internal struggles of United States history. How we got to where we are, where we came from, however you want to put it.

We've become so intolerant of intolerance, we are beginning to erase all record of human progress.

[nekrosoft13]

9 minutes ago, Emn1ty said:

This has nothing to do with racism. To be perfectly frank, this is a defacing of history. Removing a flag was one thing, but removing memorials? This is getting very dicey. Just because we don't agree with history doesn't mean we wipe it off the face of the earth. These monuments stand as a testament to the hardships and internal struggles of United States history. How we got to where we are, where we came from, however you want to put it.

We've become so intolerant of intolerance, we are beginning to erase all record of human progress.

exactly, fools that ignore history will be doomed to repeat it.

 

I was born in Eu, and partially raised in Eu, and finished High School In USA, American history books are a joke, a lot of stuff is either not mentioned and "changed" to not anger people. Its a total joke what this country is doing.

 

[abecedarian paradoxious]

2 hours ago, JHBrown said:

Business must be good for the statue remover. A $200,000 Lambo? Anyhow, we Americans continue to embarrass ourselves, and look like fools to the rest of the world. It's great to see we've progressed as a nation. /s 

Yep. We've progressed to the point where damaging someone else's personal property is justified solely by emotional responses.

[oldtimefighter]

Idiots and cowards... You NEVER touch a man's car.

[+Red King Subscriber²]

So was it liberals that torched his car for being rich enough to afford one or was it conservatives for supporting history denialism and regressive left ideology?

[G.i.b.b.s]

I read the entire Huffo piece and NO where did I read that the vandalism and removal of statues were in any way related. I'm not saying they weren't but defacing luxury cars for reasons besides statue removal such as arson, theft, jealousy, greed is pretty common. js.

[Emn1ty]

Wrong thread

 

[domboy]

5 minutes ago, Emn1ty said:

I am really curious where this kind of thinking disappeared to.

 

Indeed. I guess in our time we are being taught to take offense at everything.

[Emn1ty]

Just now, domboy said:

Indeed. I guess in our time we are being taught to take offense at everything.

Indeed, even though that was posted in the wrong thread. This is a world of victimhood.

[wakjak]

1 hour ago, Emn1ty said:

This has nothing to do with racism. To be perfectly frank, this is a defacing of history. 

Do you think the Germans are proudly celebrating their Nazi history by erecting statues of Nazi's? Probably not, and for good reason. 

[LaP]

1 hour ago, Emn1ty said:

This has nothing to do with racism. To be perfectly frank, this is a defacing of history.

Not saying i agree with the removal of the statues but this is not really defacing history. Defacing history would be rewriting the history books and documentaries. This is just the removal of some statues.

[abecedarian paradoxious]

41 minutes ago, wakjak said:

Do you think the Germans are proudly celebrating their Nazi history by erecting statues of Nazi's? Probably not, and for good reason. 

There are big differences between "celebrating", "remembering" and "purging" history.

 

Contrary to popular belief, the American Civil War was not fought because of slavery or racial or religious supremacy, unlike some other wars.

[wakjak]

Just now, abecedarian paradoxious said:

There are big differences between "celebrating", "remembering" and "purging" history.

 

Contrary to popular belief, the American Civil War was not fought because of slavery or racial or religious supremacy, unlike some other wars.

Really? Because history would have us believe the complete opposite of what you just said. 

 

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Root causes

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Slavery

Sectionalism

Protectionism

States rights

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Among the ordinances of secession passed by the individual states, those of three – Texas, Alabama, and Virginia – specifically mentioned the plight of the 'slaveholding states' at the hands of northern abolitionists. The rest make no mention of the slavery issue, and are often brief announcements of the dissolution of ties by the legislatures.^[67] However, at least four states – South Carolina,^[68]Mississippi,^[69] Georgia,^[70] and Texas^[71] – also passed lengthy and detailed explanations of their causes for secession, all of which laid the blame squarely on the movement to abolish slavery and that movement's influence over the politics of the northern states. The southern states believed slaveholding was a constitutional right because of the Fugitive slave clause of the Constitution.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

To say it wasn't fought because of slavery would be an outright lie.

[DefyTheOutcome]

13 minutes ago, abecedarian paradoxious said:

Contrary to popular belief, the American Civil War was not fought because of slavery or racial or religious supremacy, unlike some other wars.

Seriously? Do I need to get my history book again and repeat everything I said last year when the Charleston shooting happened regarding the Cornerstone speech of 1861 ???

[Lamp0]

Instead of taking it down why can't they just put a white sheet over the statue?

[techbeck]

10 minutes ago, Lamp0 said:

Instead of taking it down why can't they just put a white sheet over the statue?

Putting white sheets over monuments that remind people of racism....joking, right...?

[+Raze Subscriber²]

5 minutes ago, techbeck said:

Putting white sheets over monuments that remind people of racism....joking, right...?

Sure why not, then you can't see 'em!  It's cheaper in the short term.  They can even make them pointy so the birds won't land on them.....

[Xilo]

39 minutes ago, wakjak said:

Really? Because history would have us believe the complete opposite of what you just said. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

To say it wasn't fought because of slavery would be an outright lie.

All of those causes can be grouped under States rights.

[wakjak]

56 minutes ago, Xilo said:

All of those causes can be grouped under States rights.

That doesn't change the cause of the civil war.

[Shiranui]

If the Southern states ever secede from the union, will they legalize slavery again?

[wakjak]

2 minutes ago, Shiranui said:

If the Southern states ever secede from the union, will they legalize slavery again?

They probably would.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

2 hours ago, abecedarian paradoxious said:

There are big differences between "celebrating", "remembering" and "purging" history.

 

Contrary to popular belief, the American Civil War was not fought because of slavery or racial or religious supremacy, unlike some other wars.

You are correct to a degree ... but what war has been fought over just one subject?  

 

In words of the seceding states themselves, the South wanted to secede because they wanted to preserve slavery. 

For example, Mississippi's declaration of secession stated:

 

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Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world … a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp

South Carolina:

 

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The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. /snip For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

Texas stated:

 

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We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/aboutt.../2feb1861.html

You can look at the other states declaration of secession and find similar feelings towards slavery. None of the state's secession declarations revolved around men being created equal.

 

..With that said ... I do not believe that they should be taking down the memorials nor do I think this guys Lambo should have been vandalized.