Why Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike Statue Will Stand???

*Even after the removal of a statue of former Chief Justice of USA

Rodger Taney from outside of the Maryland Statehouse, Annapolis

Brigadier General Albert Pike is a public artwork in  Washington, D.C. honoring  Albert Pike  born in Boston(1809–1891  & Studied @ Harvard , a poet, lawyer, soldier, Southern Democratic leader and slave owner. A Master Mason in the  Scottish Rite of  freemasonry highly  influential figure, predicted  3 World Wars, as one of the early architects of the New World Order & author. 

His life-size statue has been accorded a prominent place at our Nation's Capital among the distinguished citizens of America.

.Honored a memorial is sited near the corner of 3rd and D Streets NW in the  Judiciary Square neighborhood. The memorial's two bronze figures were sculpted by  Gaetano Trentanove, an Italian-American artist responsible for another Washington, D.C. sculptural landmark, the  Daniel Webster Memorial. The dedication ceremony in 1901 was attended by thousands of Masons who marched in a celebratory parade.

The Pike memorial is the only  outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C. honoring a  Confederate general. Though Pike is depicted as a Mason, not a soldier, the memorial has often stirred controversy. The memorial is one of  18 Civil War monuments in Washington, D.C., which were collectively listed on the  National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The memorial is owned and maintained by the  National Park Service, a federal agency of the  Interior Department.