On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Virginia decided the state can remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
As reported by The Washington Post, the statue is allowed to be taken down from Monument Avenue in Richmond. “In unanimous rulings in two separate cases, the justices affirmed the power of Gov. Ralph Northam to order the 60-foot statue removed from state-owned property,” the outlet reported.
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Oh yeah, the guy that donated his property for Arlington National Cemetery. Perhaps disinter all those old soldiers too?
ReplyDeletePrecisely. I bet if Curtis knew what was going to happen today, he would have had them all dug up.
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"In rejecting one of the appeals, the justices found that requirements built into the 1889 deed giving the site to the state, as well as language adopted by the General Assembly in 1890 authorizing the accepting of the property, no longer bind the state to preserve and protect the monument.
ReplyDelete"The justices wrote that “those restrictive covenants are unenforceable as contrary to public policy and for being unreasonable because their effect is to compel government speech, by forcing the Commonwealth to express, in perpetuity, a message with which it now disagrees.”
Basically, by backing the governor, the court has declared the law D E A D and substituted the whim of men. Naturally their own.
If the definition of a republic is the rule of law, then by definition Virginia is no longer a republic and thereby the citizens are no longer bound by it any more than government.
Welcome to the jungle.
Y'all have a nice day.
DeleteIf the definition of a republic is the rule of law, then by definition Virginia is no longer a republic and thereby the citizens are no longer bound by it any more than government.
Agreed.
So if they elect a Republican gov. He can put it back?
ReplyDeleteThat’s what this decision says to me.
Hadn't thought of that. :) Thanks.
Deleteignorant bastards.
ReplyDeleteCommies......
DeleteJust because they say he can, doesn't mean he should. Can the next governor have it reinstalled? Is Northam legally required to preserve the statue, and not destroy it? If he does damage it, is he guilty of a crime?
ReplyDeleteIf one wants to reduce the political divisions among the populace, he'd be smart to leave it be. Something tells me he isn't that smart.
& old blackface is still in power.
DeleteHe who controls the present controls the past. He who controls the past controls the future. -- Orwell
ReplyDelete1984 was meant to be a warning, not a manual.
Really.
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