Robert Gehl writes that the folks who are tearing down the nation’s memorials and monuments to the Civil War and its heroes aren’t who you think they are.

They aren’t concerned, patriotic Americans who are only concerned with protecting the sensitivities of people of color, or well-meaning activists who believe that a statue of Stonewall Jackson represents an affront to black people and a “triggering” reminder of America’s dubious civil rights history.

No. They’re radical communists whose ultimate goal is the destruction of the American system as we know it.

I’m not exaggerating or trying to besmirch these people because I disagree with their tactics.

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I’m calling them what they are because that’s what they call themselves.

Of the four people arrested earlier in the week for tearing down a confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina, three of them are members of the “World Workers Party,” a branch of International Communists – they call themselves “revolutionary socialists,” who idolize Fidel Castro, Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad and Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro. They even sympathize with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un.

Arrested were Dante Emmanual Strobino, Ngoc Loan Tran, Fatima Thompson and Peter Hull Gilbert. Thompson and Tran are active members of the radical communist group and after the court hearing, Thompson declared her political motivations as well, WRAL reports.

“There’s revolutions taking place all across the country right now, and those revolutions won’t be stopped,” Thompson said after her court hearing. “We are following a historical legacy of standing up to the powers that be, to these racist, fascist systems, and we’re on the right side of history. We’re not going to let the police or this jail intimidate us.”

After being released, Tran credited the “movement,” meaning the “Communist movement” for being responsible for removing the monuments across the country.

“Clearly, in Durham, we showed Gov. Roy Cooper that, if he didn’t take action, we would,” Tran said. “So, to Roy Cooper, we say, ‘You’re welcome,’ because it wasn’t his original idea to take down these statues. So, we’ll see what actions he takes next, but we want to claim that [pulling down the Durham statue] as a win for the movement. The movement did this.”

We can’t deny that it’s possible that the legacy of the Civil War, and these monuments might be troubling to people who are struggling with America’s legacy of slavery. But the driving force behind this chaos are not well-meaning anti-racists.

They’re avowed communists, whose main goal is to destroy America. Remove our representative system of government and replace it with a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” A Communist “worker’s paradise.”

To do so, they must first create racial and class division and chaos in this country.

Their goals are not noble. They are evil and America must know who these people truly are.

They are only using the – sometimes justified – frustration of minorities to further their own anti-American goals.

They must be exposed.

H/T: YoungCons