A North Carolina city has told the owner of a recently vandalized Confederate monument to remove it by Jan. 31 or face a possible lawsuit.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports the city's mayor, Allen Joines, announced at Tuesday's Emancipation Proclamation ceremony that the United Daughters of the Confederacy could face legal action if the group doesn't comply.
State law makes it difficult to remove monuments on public property, but the Confederate Soldiers Monument is on private property.
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So how does state law affect private property. If they can attack a memorial on private property, that means they (the state and the jerks pushing this agenda) will be able to go onto private land, like cemeteries and other places and change tombstones?
ReplyDeleteThis stuff has to stop, darned it.
If they can attack a memorial on private property, that means they (the state and the jerks pushing this agenda) will be able to go onto private land, like cemeteries and other places and change tombstones?
DeleteMind boggling, though I would think this would be struck down.
This is nothing more than mob rule; that the mob is partly populated by elected government office holders just makes it official mob rule.
ReplyDeleteI understand if emotionally immature and poorly educated people are upset by things they don't understand, but the remedy is to learn and respect, not bend to the rantings of the loudest.
There are national implications here that are exceedingly dangerous if a precedent is set to ignore the law: public safety concerns because of dislike of one politician or another, especially if loudly voiced by a protected class, could easily displace reason and logic with anarchy.
If there are public safety concerns then the law enforcement branch of local government needs to address that issue - the owners of the statue could be advised to move it for it's own protection but that is not the point of the disrupters of peace. The seek a target for their incited rage and who better to destroy than a symbol they don't understand, and one who cannot fight back?
Cowards and fools, all of them.
There are national implications here that are exceedingly dangerous if a precedent is set to ignore the law: public safety concerns because of dislike of one politician or another, especially if loudly voiced by a protected class, could easily displace reason and logic with anarchy.
DeleteGood points.
Would that mean that construction workers and protesters could be shot for trespassing and vandalism?
ReplyDeleteFine with me. We are a disgrace to our ancestors.
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