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Put Away the Pike Statue – Redeem the USA

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Anton Chaitkin
Aug 10, 2025
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""Albert Pike was an elite Northerner who had gone South to stir up anti-American treason. When assassination put Teddy Roosevelt in the White House, the erection of a statue in Pike’s honor was a signal, to the transatlantic elite, that America was to be humiliated and whipped into line behind the British empire. [America was] to be the dumb giant, with the muscle and the money, to pull the British irons out of the fire.""
- Uwe Alschner

By Anton Chaitkin, copyright Anton Chaitkin

During the Black Lives Matter campaign in 2020, a mob tore down and set fire to the statue of Confederate general Albert Pike that had been standing in Judiciary Square in Washington DC.

Now, President Trump has gotten the National Park Service to restore the statue. It is planned to put it back in its original …


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