There’s a lynching brewing in New Orleans.

“We’re going to go to Jackson Square. We’re going to put ropes around Andrew Jackson and we’re going to take him off his pedestal,” Take ‘Em Down NOLA organizer Malcolm Suber proclaimed at a public forum Thursday night.

“The key here is we’re not going to wait,” fellow radical Angela Kinlaw said, according to The Advocate. “The city has taken plenty of time to make a decision. But the people are ready to move.”

Suber told the news site after the meeting that “anything can happened during a demonstration” and toppling the former president’s likeness is possible “if we’ve got enough people and we’ve got enough rope.”

The group is planning the stunt at a protest scheduled for Jackson Square later this month as a means of protesting the city’s inability to remove local Confederate monuments. City officials voted in December to remove statues of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, “and a monument to militia known as the White League,” The Advocate reports.

But the decision was immediately met with lawsuits challenging the move, and an injunction has prevented city officials from following through until the litigation is resolved.

“I’m saying we should defy that order. That order should have no standing with us at all,” Suber told his supporters Thursday. “We have no respect for the 5th Circuit because they’re all (expletive) racists anyway.”

Suber said he believes the time has come to take matters into his own hands, and he’s shrugged off questions about possible criminal charges for damaging public property.

“The criminal charge should be against the city, the city should arrest themselves for allowing this to continue. We don’t think that we should be arrested. We think that we are doing a public service and they should be thanking us for relieving them,” he told WDSU. “We want the whole community to know that this is a decision that we can’t leave to the courts and the politicians.”

Officials came under pressure to remove the Confederate monuments following a racially motivated church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last year that left nine black parishioners dead. The alleged shooter liked to pose with the Confederate flag on Facebook.

The 7^th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is well known for his role in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, when he repelled a massive British force from taking over lands acquired through the Louisiana Purchase, which included the city of New Orleans.

His statue is not among those the city is slated to remove, but Take ‘Em Down is threatening to remove it nonetheless because they contend it symbolizes white supremacy. Jackson owned slaves and presided over the Trail of Tears as president, so Take ‘Em Down wants him gone.

“Why would we want to continue to honor this person?” Suber questioned.

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Suber believes that if Take ‘Em Down can take down Jackson, it will serve as a “shot heard round the world,” The Advocate reports.

Not everyone, of course, is on board with the Jackson lynching.

“I think that’s the wrong approach if everybody takes a rope or whatever they need to try and destroy what they don’t think in their opinion is something they don’t think should be in the public space,” artist Lee Tucker told WDSU.

The Hayride, a local political blog, also weighed in on situation.

“The Take ‘Em Down NOLA crowd wants a cultural revolution in which they erase every aspect of history they disagree with. The Confederate statues were just the latest phase in that. To them, history begins and ends with slavery and the overall context of the period is irrelevant. It is usually never wise to judge historical events by modern day morality,” the site opined.

“In a cultural revolution, you must demolish all symbolism of the past. It’s why the Taliban destroyed old Buddha statues in Afghanistan and ISIS demolishes historical monuments. To build the new, they must destroy the old.

“Hopefully, the latest bit of jackassery from Take ‘Em Down NOLA will open everyone’s eyes to their real agenda.”