Seattle Mayor Says Lenin Statue Must Go

By Dave Urbanski:

A small group of protesters — several wearing “Make America Great Again” caps from Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign — marched around a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle on Wednesday and demanded its removal.

A day later, Democratic Mayor Ed Murray agreed the statue of the brutal Soviet dictator should be taken down, KCPQ-TV reported. According to MyNorthwest.com, he made an official request for its removal.

“I have had a position on that for years, because Fremont sits in my old legislative district,” Murray told the station. “That monument represents to many people in this city their families having been murdered, the destruction of tens of millions of people.”

The protesters — led by pro-Trump figure Jack Posobiec — were looking to shine a light on Lenin’s murderous history, KCPQ noted in an earlier piece. Indeed the statue is often doused with red paint as a symbol of Lenin’s atrocities, the station said.

In addition, the protesters also called out the alleged hypocrisy of those who want Confederate statues down but are apparently fine with Lenin’s statue, KCPQ noted.

Posobiec’s video of the tiny protest was viewed more than 50,000 times, the station said.

Murray offered KCPQ the following statement:

“I think it’s time for these things to go,” Murry told the station. “They don’t represent the best of who we are.”

While the Lenin statue and the Confederate memorial are on private land and privately owned, the mayor said the case for their removal must still be made.

“We can’t tell the private property owner what to do,” Murray told KCPQ. “But we can say we think this isn’t a good message to the city.”

More from KCPQ:

After Murray’s call to remove the Lenin statue, Posobeic tweeted, “VICTORY!”

Here’s a clip of the protest:

Source: The Blaze