Duke University Surrenders to Terrorists, Removes Robert E. Lee Statue

The unfolding war on statues is unlike anything that has ever been seen in this once-great country.

Hordes of crazed leftists have been using bullying, guerilla tactics, economic terrorism, and most of all the threat of violence to force the removal of any and all Confederate monuments in America.

Local and state governments and universities haven’t even bothered to put up a fight against the demands of those who are behaving like Nazis and fascists who will never be satisfied until they have enforced a Khmer Rouge “Year Zero” form of governance on U.S. soil.

The latest to surrender? Duke University, famous for the Blue Devils college basketball team and a bogus story of campus rape published by the leftist rag Rolling Stone.

The university quickly moved to appease the fanatics and took down the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Saturday morning.

JUST IN: Duke University takes down statue of Robert E. Lee https://t.co/dRceXSvyIh http://pic.twitter.com/XVJKEF6gqQ

— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2017

The Hill is reporting “Duke University takes down statue of Lee”:

Duke University has removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its campus amid an intensifying national debate over Confederate statues and monuments.

The university said it took the statue down from its perch in Duke Chapel early Saturday morning, three days after it had been damaged by vandalism.

In an email to students, faculty, staff and alumni Saturday morning, University President Vincent Price said he chose to have the statue removed to protect the chapel and its parishioners, and to “express the deep and abiding values of our university.”

The Lee statue will be preserved to allow students to “study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future,” he said.

“Wednesday night’s act of vandalism made clear that the turmoil and turbulence of recent months do not stop at Duke’s gates,” Price said in the statement. “We have a responsibility to come together as a community to determine how we can respond to this unrest in a way that demonstrates our firm commitment to justice, not discrimination; to civil protest, not violence; to authentic dialogue, not rhetoric; and to empathy, not hatred.”

Lofty language from Mr. Price but he is caving to the haters to whom the last thing that they will ever accept is “authentic” dialogue and the Confederate statues are only the beginning.

Yet another coward who is unfit to head the institution that signs his paychecks and has tarnished Duke’s good name for surrendering to those using terrorist tactics.