‘It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for…’
Sonny Dalesandro (center) shares in a song with other members of the Tulsa Athletics. The semi-pro soccer team plans to ditch the national anthem and replace it with a socialist protest song. / IMAGE: Tulsa Athletics
(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Tulsa Athletic, a semi-pro soccer team, said Wednesday that they will stop singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before games and instead play “This Land is Your Land.”
Tulsa Athletic, a part of the National Premier Soccer League, said the lyrics of the national anthem do not fit the environment that the team wants to foster, Fox News reported.
“After carefully reviewing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’s lyrics and meaning, including the third verse which mentions ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave…,’ Tulsa Athletic came to the decision that the song does not align with the club’s core values,” the team said in a press release.
“While this verse is rarely sung, Tulsa Athletic does not believe ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ represents or unites their diverse players, fans and community,” the statement continued.
The team said they believe Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” better reflects its values.
Guthrie was a communist who sought, like today’s Antifa and Black Lives Matter radicals, to destroy America’s economic, social and political institutions.
The song’s lyrics criticize capitalism and private property. “One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw my people — As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if This land was made for you and me.”
Tulsa Athletic co-owner Sonny Dalesandro commented on the song’s ability to fill the role that “The Star-Spangled Banner” could not.
“We live in a country that allows us to freely speak our voice. We utilize this right as a club to continually try and improve our team and community,” Dalesandro said.
“We believe ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not only captures a powerful patriotic sentiment, but that it does so in a far more inclusive way,” he continued. “The song speaks to this country being built and shared by every person of every race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. It represents a future Tulsa Athletic is committed to striving for.”
‘Elected officials have prioritized liberal agendas over order—putting dedicated law enforcement most at risk…’
Donald Trump and Dan Bishop / PHOTO: Jackson A. Lanier via Wikimedia Commons
(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Dan Bishop, R-NC, on Monday introduced the CHOPing Cash for CHAZ Act, which would strip federal funding from cities and states that tolerate no-police zones or “autonomous zones,” Newsweek reported.
Bishop said the federal government’s taxpayer dollars should not prop up “bubbles of anarchy.”
He named the legislation after the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, a mob-run, no-cop zone in Seattle, Washington that was formally known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
“I support federalism, but when liberal-run states and localities relinquish homes and businesses of taxpaying citizens to lawless mobs without objection, Congress must step in,” Bishop said.
Republican Reps. Tedd Budd of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida and Andy Biggs of Arizona sponsored Bishop’s bill.
Members of Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other domestic terror organizations tried to set up a “Black House Autonomous Zone” outside the White House earlier this week.
President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he would not allow a lawless, no-cop zone in Washington, D.C.
Twitter labeled the tweet as “violating our policy against abusive behavior.”
The police did not let the anarchists establish an enclosed area, WJLA reported.
“Elected officials have prioritized liberal agendas over order—putting dedicated law enforcement most at risk,” Bishop said.
“We are a nation of laws, and if a state or city chooses to promote anarchy, Congress should no longer fund them for they are not doing the basic job taxpayers pay us for—protection and order,” he added.
There have been multiple shootings and at least one death in the Seattle anarchy zone.
The chaos in the terrorist-led zone caused Mayor Jenny Durkan to announce that the police will take control of the abandoned East Precint “peacefully in the near future.
‘I’ve never seen anything like what you did and that’s why I’m so happy to have had you on this show …’
Chris Cuomo / IMAGE: CNN via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) CNN’s Chris Cuomo is facing backlash after praising his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the “best politician” in the country.
New York had the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country, especially in the state’s nursing homes, thanks to Andrew Cuomo’s policy forcing nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients.
In comparison to other states, New York handled the crisis disastrously. But Chris Cuomo had nothing but praise for his older brother on Wednesday, arguing that the Democratic governor “stepped up in an unusual way” to fill the “vacuum of power on a federal level.”
Chris Cuomo admitted that the segment wasn’t “objective,” but refused to apologize.
“Of course, I won’t always” be able to keep having you on this show. It will never be seen as fair in people’s eyes,” Chris Cuomo told Andrew Cuomo.
“Nothing’s perfect, you’ll have your critics,” he continued. “But I’ve never seen anything like what you did and that’s why I’m so happy to have had you on this show and I hope you know that.”
CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo to his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo:
“I’m wowed by what you did… Obviously I’ll never be objective. Obviously I think you’re the best politician in the country… but I’ve never seen anything like what you did.”
Viewers were quick to point out how “unethical” Chris Cuomo’s rant really was:
This might be the most unethical thing put on news network in modern history. And they all know it. People like @jaketapper just turn the other cheek and play the part Jeff Zucker wants them to play. Pretend they aren’t a part of this. https://t.co/VGYw8ozUyv
It remains astonishing that CNN thinks it’s appropriate for the governor of New York—who has presided over more than ten times as many deaths as Florida, a more populous state—to be interviewed as a matter of course by his own brother. And now this. https://t.co/cwLN5Rd3Vu
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 25, 2020
Chris Cuomo, however, defended the segment and argued that he doesn’t need to be “objective” when it comes to his brother.
Not objective but true,the facts tell the story.NY had & has its struggles but they’re doing way better than what we see elsewhere & no way that happens without the Luv Guv dishing the real 24/7.He works with relentless intensity & NY’s better for it.And as a brother, I am proud. pic.twitter.com/M1TrAtQwCo
‘I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump…’
Carly Fiorina / IMAGE: EWTN via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said she will vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in November because he is a “person of humility and empathy and character.”
Fiorina, who was briefly considered for the role of Director of National Intelligence back in 2016, has been openly critical of President Trump, accusing him of sexism and xenophobia.
Other Republicans feel the same way, she claimed, but they don’t want to put a Democrat in office.
This is “dishonest,” she argued.
“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump,” she told liberal publication TheAtlantic. “And elections are binary choices.”
She specifically criticized Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who tapped Fiorina as his running mate in 2016 and has since become one of Trump’s key allies.
“I don’t excuse it. I don’t,” Fiorina said of Cruz supporting the president. “It disappoints me. I’ve been public in my disappointment about how few politicians have been willing to stand up and speak on values and principles.”
Fiorina admitted that “there are plenty of policy differences” between her and Biden, but argued that Biden actually cares about “the soul of the nation,” and its “values and principles and character.”
“Leadership … is about problem-solving and making progress and changing the order of things for the better, which means it’s about humility and empathy and collaboration. And I think this moment calls upon Joe Biden to be a leader,” she explained.
Trump responded to Fiorina on Thursday morning and said he has “no complaints” about her endorsement.
Failed presidential candidate (thank you President Trump!), Carly Fiorina, said she will be voting for Corrupt Joe Biden. She lost so badly to me, twice in one campaign, that she should be voting for Joe. No complaints!!!
‘A bunch of s***tty f***ing rednecks threatening civil war if they remove our duly elected president… Trump supporters are f*cking crazy-*ss *ssholes…’
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Two days after Facebook whistleblower Zach McElroy exposed the rampant bias within the social-media giant’s content-moderation warehouses, a second whistleblower has come forward, adding to its woes.
On Thursday, Project Veritas, the undercover conservative watchdog that has cast light on the secret cultures of partisan leftist skulduggery in many supposedly mainstream institutions, introduced Arizona-based content moderator Ryan Hartwig to tell his story.
As an employee of independent contractor Cognizant (an arrangement Facebook uses to avoid paying benefits to its brigade of site-censoring “process executives”), Hartwig said he witnessed firsthand the company’s direct efforts to suppress conservative content as the November presidential election approaches.
“I was seeing them interfering on a global level in elections,” he told Project Veritas’s James O’Keefe.
“I saw a blatant exception that just targeted conservatives or favored liberals—and you know, we’re deleting on average 300 posts or actioning 300 posts a day,” Hartwig continued. “If you magnify that by however many content moderators there are on a global scale, that’s a lot of stuff that’s getting taken down,” he said.
Culture of Radicalism
Publicly, the company, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has declared itself to be neutral in the election and has maintained that it will not censor content as a conduit of free speech.
But Facebook has repeatedly made exceptions to the rule, shadow-banning and deleting conservative users that it says have violated its arbitrary community guidelines, while ignoring more egregious behavior from the Left.
Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg / IMAGE: The Obama White House via YouTube
Even more pernicious than the inadvertent, systemic bias that informs company decisions, though, is what appears to be a deliberate effort waged by its low-level service employees.
Content-moderators’ jobs consist of making spur-of-the-moment, snap judgments as to whether content is permissible, with only limited oversight and accountability.
Hartwig used a hidden camera to capture some of the shocking anti-conservative smears at his facility by those whose job it was to make discretionary decisions about what content complied with or violated company guidelines.
Several of those caught on tape expressed awareness that their actions not only were a violation of Facebook’s rules but were morally wrong.
However, they used their leftist co-workers as a support network to rationalize the actions.
One such individual was Israel Amparan, who was not shy about airing political grievances with co-workers, referring to conservatives as “a bunch of s***tty f***ing rednecks threatening civil war if they remove our duly elected president.”
“Trump supporters are f*cking crazy-*ss *ssholes, that every other f***ing word out of their mouth is, you know, ‘Come take it,’ ‘Seal the border,’” said Amparan, referring to the advocates of 2nd Amendment rights and enforcing federal immigration laws.
“I hate government as much as the next f*cking person, but you’re not gonna catch me rioting,” he continued, in an interview likely recorded prior to recent left-wing-driven race riots, which have only underscored further the hypocrisy in Facebook’s community standards.
“It’s like impeachment,” Amaran continued in his rant. “… Trump called it a f*cking coup–and it’s like that should scare you more than anything.”
Top-Down Corruption
The radical mindset espoused by their collective hostility left Hartwig wondering just how much their extremist viewpoints might be factoring into their supposedly dispassionate decisions about censorship.
“That was the tipping point—knowing about what I knew about how they were giving exceptions for the policy,” he said.
Facebook headquarters / IMAGE: Wochit News via YouTube
“I knew that it was likely that it was happening elsewhere on a global scale,” he continued. “Just seeing such blatant bias from Facebook really bothered me.”
However, even the supervisors and managers at the facilities seemed to play along, casually lumping in Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi party with President Donald Trump’s “MAGA” supporters, although no evidence supports the false equivalency.
Much as recent scandals involving the FBI and federal Deep State pinned the blame for misconduct at the bottom, while the top levels were aware of and directed the misconduct from afar, the upper ranks of the Silicon-Valley-based company may tacitly approve with a wink and a nod by failing to address its corrupt, outsourced culture.
Democrats, including Reps. Nancy Pelosi of California and Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez of New York have often used extremist rhetoric to suggest the supporters of their political rivals are dangerous white supremacists and “hate” groups, while mainstream media has been complicit in it promoting the fraudulent, partisan narrative.
Nonetheless, it is shocking that such messages continue to pervade platforms that rely on user-generated content, where the very people who rely on social media to broadcast their personal views and participate in democratic dialog are being mitigated through screeners who espouse radical leftist views.
“We’ve seem plenty of statements from Mark Zuckerberg about how they don’t want to meddle in the election,” McElroy said during his earlier interview with O’Keefe, release on Tuesday.
“… But we know that privately they [Facebook employees] have very different opinions,” he added. “I have no doubt that what he said publicly is not what he means to do privately.
In some cases, Hartwig said, supervisors at the warehouse were able to make arbitrary exceptions to the company’s policies, such as allowing pro-LGBT “hate speech” to remain up during the month of June, when the gay community celebrates its “Pride Month.”
A memo that Hartwig captured via screenshot stated that screeners should permit “[a]nything that is a delete per our Hate Speech policies but is intended to raise awareness for Pride/LGBTQ. This may occur especially in terms of attacking straight white males.”
Pushing Back
Conservatives have begun pushing back at the bias and discrimination. In addition to the whistleblower exposés, some leading voices on the Right are encouraging a boycott of Twitter on Friday, June 26.
This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!
The up-and-coming site Parler is now emerging as a Republican-friendly alternative where prominent conservatives and libertarians, some previously banned or censored on Facebook and Twitter, may freely express their opinions.
Meanwhile, Trump has issued an executive order that would impose new liabilities on sites whose censorship goes above and beyond the provisions outlined in Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
Online platforms that allow users to directly broadcast their ideas have long been regarded as conduits to the First Amendment, and protected accordingly from things like libel and defamation laws.
However, the decisions by these sites to re-contextualize and filter content based on an ideological agenda means that the sites are no longer acting in the public interest and should be held more personally accountable for the content, the president said.
“In a country that has long cherished the freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the speech that Americans may access and convey online,” said the order.
‘We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals…’
The White House is visible behind a statue of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park in Washington, with the word “Killer” spray painted on its base./AP Photo
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The U.S. Marshals Service has reportedly been asked to prepare to protect monuments nationwide as part of President Trump’s vow to crackdown on mobs that try to tear down historical statues.
Marshals Service Assistant Director Andrew Smith informed the agency that they had been “asked to immediately prepare to provide federal law enforcement support to protect national monuments (throughout the country),” he said, according to an email obtained by the Washington Post.
The directive seems to have come from Attorney General William Barr, because the subject line of the email read, “Attorney General Assignment,” according to the Post.
Preventing widespread vandalism would be “challenging,” Smith admitted in the email, considering the “breadth of possible targets for criminal activity.”
So the U.S. Marshals Incident Management Team will begin by opening a joint operations center to coordinate with various agencies. Each district and division must then identify personnel who could be reassigned to help with the initiative, Smith added.
The mobs have targeted statues nationwide, including figures of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Andrew Jackson.
After protesters tried to tear down Jackson’s statue in Washington, D.C., Trump vowed to punish the vandals and said Tuesday that he would sign an executive order that would reinforce laws protecting monuments.
“We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and the anarchists and agitators, and call them whatever you want,” Trump said. “Some people don’t like that language, but that’s what they are. They’re bad people. They don’t love our country. And they’re not taking down our monuments. I just want to make that clear.”
Existing law makes it criminal to destroy “any structure, plaque, statue, or other monument on public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States.”
Trump’s executive order would simply “reinforce what’s already there, but in a more uniform way,” he explained.
(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The personal notes of biased FBI agent Peter Strzok on Wednesday led to several stunning new revelations in the Obamagate scandal to frame former national security adviser Michael Flynn with a perjury trap.
?Peter Strzok notes from 1/4/17 released in Flynn case:
Discussion among Obama, Comey, Yates, Biden, and Susan Rice.
The notes, dated Jan. 4, 2017, confirmed the prior admission by Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that the former president had, himself, directed the smear against Flynn.
Obama appeared to be speaking in coded language and dogwhistles when he directed then-FBI Director James Comey and others to “have the right people on” the Flynn investigation, which the FBI was preparing to drop.
A Jan. 20 CYA memo by out-going national security adviser Susan Rice implied that Obama had encouraged the FBI to do everything “above board”—a likely deliberate misinterpretation of his statements in context—when, in fact, he was telling them to intentionally protract their investigation using false pretenses.
Strozk went on to tell the low-level attorneys handling the case not to dismiss it because the “7th floor” was involved, meaning FBI leadership.
Strzok’s notes raised serious questions about the false statements made by several Obama officials, including current presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden.
Rice—who is currently on Biden’s short-list to be his running mate—was one of several top officials who testified under oath denying knowledge of the FBI operations to smear both Flynn and Trump with false claims of Russian collusion and then use legal technicalities to claim criminal misconduct.
Biden, meanwhile, claimed in a Good Morning America interview with former Clinton stooge George Stephanopoulos, now the head of ABC News operations, that he was unaware of the FBI plot.
A day after Biden’s interview, his claims were discredited by the release of a list of Obama officials who had requested unmasked intelligence reports regarding Flynn’s conversations with a Russian diplomat.
However, Strzok’s notes seem to suggest that he masterminded the plan, raising the possibility of a Logan Act violation even though the 1799 law preventing civilians from conducting state affairs had never been used in a successful prosecution.
Peter Strzok / IMAGE: CBS News
Strzok and his FBI accomplice, Joe Pientka, went on to interview Flynn three days later with the Logan Act serving as cover to interrogate Flynn about the intercepted phone conversations. The aim, however, was getting him to issue a misstatement that they could use to press perjury charges.
In addition to offering evidence that Obama directed the conspiracy and Biden helped orchestrate it, a third detail notes that FBI Director James Comey may have undermined the operation by admitting Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak appeared to be “legit.”
Nonetheless, Comey himself attempted to lay a similar trap with Trump. During an infamous Trump Tower meeting later that month, Comey raised allegations about the innuendo presented in the Steele Dossier, which he knew to be false at the time, in order to trip up the new president.
“One of the ways you undermine an adversary is to tell them you know all about it,” Comey admitted last year in a speech at Charlotte’s Queens University.
The latest developments, although likely to be written off by leftist media hacks, could have stunning implications as Justice Department special prosecutor John Durham wraps up his criminal probe of the Obamagate scandal.
Attorney General William Barr previously said he thought it unlikely that Obama or Biden would be charged in it. However, there is a strong belief that other top officials from the administration could be prosecuted.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who oversaw a Congressional probe of the scandal during his tenure as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, estimated he had sent 14 referrals to the DOJ.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we will make a conspiracy referral there,” Nunes said during a recent interview with the Fox Business network.
Also on Wednesday, an appeals judge reversed the ruling of partisan judicial activist Emmet Sullivan in refusing to allow the Justice Department to withdraw its case against Flynn.
It is unclear whether Sullivan will honor the judicial determination after having already broken with legal convention in refusing to allow the Justice Department, as prosecutor, to withdraw the case.
‘Preserving the history, as ugly as it may have been, can be a sign and a symbol of how good it can be…’
Tim Scott / IMAGE: Fox News via Youtube
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., slammed the protesters tearing down statues across the country, arguing that the best way to make progress is to first look back at history.
“In America, we may have flaws,” Scott told Fox News.
“We may have challenges, but we get it together, and we come together to overcome those challenges,” he said. “And that’s why I think, oftentimes, preserving the history, as ugly as it may have been, can be a sign and a symbol of how good it can be.”
The real solution is to build more statues, he added, not tear down the existing ones. Men like Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver deserve recognition, too, Scott said, and dedicating our energy to their memory would be a “positive step.”
Instead what we have right now is the destruction of history “for the sake of anarchy,” he said.
Like many other conservatives, Scott expressed a willingness to rename military bases named after Confederate soldiers, many of which were named as a conciliatory effort after the Civil War. But that must be done in a democratic fashion, not by mobs armed with ropes, he said.
“I think we could have a robust debate about how to deal with the renaming of some military bases,” he continued. “There’s some things that we can have a serious debate about. But this desire to purge all of history because it was ugly or negative really does not serve the American people well.”
The mobs of protesters began by targeting Confederate figures, but then moved on to abolitionists, Founding Fathers, and religious figures. There is no standard anymore, Scott said.
This “is not how we make progress in this country. It never has been, and it never will be because we are the United States of America,” he said.
‘It looks like almost every criminal sketch of any garden-variety black suspect…’
(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) An Oregon County passed a directive last week requiring everyone to wear a face mask in public, except for people of color worried about “racial profiling.”
The Lincoln County Public Health Administrator announced last week that “all individuals” in the county would be required to wear masks in indoor and outdoor public settings.
Children and people with health conditions or disabilities are exempted from the rule, and so are “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public,” the directive states.
I don’t feel safe wearing a handkerchief or something else that isn’t CLEARLY a protective mask covering my face to the store because I am a Black man living in this world. I want to stay alive but I also want to stay alive.
This exception seems to be the result of concerns raised by online activists, despite the fact that black and Latino communities have been disproportionately impacted by the virus.
However, according to 2019 census estimates, only 13% of the total US population is black and 18% Latino.
Yet, exempting black Americans is necessary because of “the presumed criminality of black men in general,” claimed Trevon Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University.
A health-conscious looter engages in socially responsible behavior by wearing a surgical mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during race-riots in Minneapolis
“This is in the larger context of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on,” he told CNN. “It looks like almost every criminal sketch of any garden-variety black suspect.”
The American Civil Liberties Union even blasted the CDC for encouraging all Americans—regardless of skin color—to wear face coverings while in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The CDC’s information on masks is nothing more than “racial insensitivity,” the ACLU claimed.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandana in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose–lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” ReNika Moore, head of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, said of the CDC’s guidance.
But for those in Lincoln County worried about the new double-standard, it appears the county’s directive isn’t meant to be enforced anyway. It is designed to induce “voluntary compliance,” according to the order, and states that “no person shall intimidate or harass individuals who do not comply.”
‘It’s past time that these painful memorials be moved in a legal, safe way…’
Roy Cooper / IMAGE: MSNBC via YouTube
(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) Removing historic monuments from the North Carolina state Capitol without legislative approval isn’t just a submissive nod to violent mobs, but it’s also expensive.
A multi-day effort to remove a single 75-foot tall monument commemorating fallen Southern Civil War soldiers will cost “hundreds of thousands” of taxpayer dollars, a member of the removal crew told WRAL.
Additional heavy equipment will continue to arrive on tractor-trailers this week to remove the memorial.
Rather than uphold the rule of law, North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper recently directed law enforcement to stand down from protecting Capitol monuments.
He then issued an executive order circumventing the legislative process for “public safety” reasons.
“I am concerned about the dangerous efforts to pull down and carry off large, heavy statues and the strong potential for violent clashes at the site,” said Cooper.
Instead of confronting lawless rioters, Cooper blamed state legislators who oppose his unilateral approach. He even repeated incendiary language used by far-left protestors and rioters.
“Monuments to white supremacy,” he said, “don’t belong in places of allegiance and it’s past time that these painful memorials be moved in a legal, safe way.”
Cooper, who is both white and the state’s supreme government official — and whose family was recently revealed to have owned slaves — added that the legislative process creates unnecessary “roadblocks” to avoid dangerous incidents.
State House Speaker Tim Moore, a Republican, disagreed.
Moore ripped Cooper’s weak-kneed response to violent Capitol riots last week and blasted Cooper’s cynical use of the riots “to justify removing the statues unilaterally instead of following the process laid out in state law.”
Moore also blasted Cooper for continuing to drag his feet on reopening the state economy.
“Remarkably, Gov. Cooper’s actions come just one day after he blocked legislation providing a lifeline to struggling families across North Carolina. Not only is Gov. Cooper failing our small businesses, but he is failing to uphold his constitutional duty to execute the law,” Moore said in a statement.
Efforts to remove monuments began on Saturday and include one statue dedicated to the Women of the Confederacy, and another placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy honoring Henry Wyatt, the first North Carolinian killed in the Civil War.
Both statues stood for over a century.
But on Friday night, vandals pulled down two other statues that were part of a larger obelisk. They were dragged down a street and one was strung up by its neck from a light post.
