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How to Think About Monuments

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(Bacon’s Rebellion) The conservative movement in Virginia faces a huge dilemma: how to build a “big tent” political coalition that is welcoming to African Americans and other minorities while resisting the cultural cleansing of everyone associated, however remotely, with the Civil War, slaveholding or segregation — including founding fathers of the republic such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

The iconoclasts are full of fury, and their logic is simple: monuments to Confederate soldiers and generals, they say, were erected as symbols of White supremacy and racism; White supremacy and racism must be expunged; therefore, these figures must be removed from the public sphere. Step by step, this syllogism has been extended to any figure tainted by racism, segregation, or slaveholding. An individual’s contributions and accomplishments count for nothing. Historical context is irrelevant. Artistic and aesthetic considerations of the statuary and pedestals as adornments to public places are of no import.

Conservatives and traditionalists have been powerless to reverse the momentum. They have mounted many lines of defense…

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It’s a Memorial, Not a Racist Ideology

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(Carol J. Bova, Bacon’s Rebellion) Accounts from lawyers, reporters, pundits and other outsiders have severely distorted the debate over the Confederate memorial in Mathews County.
To The Washington Post, the controversy is about the ”enduring power of the Civil War’s legacy.”
To the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs and Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher, LLP, writing on behalf of the local NAACP, it’s an endorsement of white supremacy. “Confederate monuments were intended to assert that white supremacy would remain a dominant force of social control.”
To Mathews families whose ancestors never came home from the war, the monument in front of the county courthouse provides an enduring connection to their ancestors – a love and commemoration of family. The monument is not a political statement. …Read the rest
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Judges Ruling on AP Hill Grave Expected Next Month

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(When is a monument not just a monument? When the person it memorializes is buried there. That makes it a grave. Then there’s a whole lot more laws for cultural-marxists to ignore – DD)
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Richmond judge to rule on AP Hill monument removal petition next month

(Culpepper Star-Exponent) The last city-owned Confederate statue standing in Richmond could soon be moved after a circuit court judge Thursday listened to arguments regarding the city’s petition to remove it.
While the city took down the rest of its Confederate monuments two years ago, a court order is required under state law for the city to move the A.P. Hill monument at Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road because the general is buried inside its plinth.
Several indirect descendants of the Confederate officer, who are challenging the city’s plans, made their case in court Thursday. At the end of the hearing, Richmond Circuit Court Judge David Eugene Cheek Sr. said he will take the petition and arguments against it under advisement for the next 30 days.
The dispute is centered on the city’s plans to donate the monument to the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia and relocate the general’s remains to Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper…Read the rest
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Richmond’s AP Hill Monument called “Safety Threat?”

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(anti-Southern bigots and government-supremacists will use any angle they can get – DD)
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Richmond’s AP Hill statue poses safety threat, neighbors say

(WTVR) The future of Richmond’s last standing Confederate monument will be discussed inside of a courtroom on Thursday morning.
The case between city officials and relatives of the Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill will be heard at 10 a.m. in Richmond Circuit Court. The Aug. 30 hearing was continued until Sept. 29.
The statue has stood in the middle of Hermitage and Laburnum roads on the city’s Northside for more than 130 years.
Both sides have agreed that Hill’s remains inside the statue would be transferred to a Culpeper cemetery, according to the Richmond Free Press.
However, the city wants the statue turned over to the Black History Museum that currently possesses the city’s other removed Confederate monuments.
Hill’s relatives instead, according to the paper, want the city to pay for the statue to be set up in a place of their choosing…Read the rest
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Ft Smith Judge needs to be Retired. Why Arkansas has Term-Limits

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(It took more than 20 years to get the monument protection act through the Arkansas Legislature. Remember, In Arkansas the County Judge isn’t a "real" judge. He’s just an elected manager for the county. There are very few who make rulings like this because they know they are easily un-elected. That’s what my FORMER county judge found out after he made a BS ruling caving to groundless threats from an atheist group over a Revolutionary War flag at our courthouse. That’s also why we have term limits -DD)
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Confederate flag does not have to fly in Fort Smith park again, judge rules
State law does not mandate return of flag to Riverfront Park (Actually it does _DD)

(SW Times Record) Just because the Arkansas History Commission ruled the Confederate flag is historic and a part of a past Fort Smith flag display at Riverfront Park does not mean the flag needs to fly there again, a judge has ruled.
A flag display at Riverfront Park in Fort Smith that was put up in October 2001 and taken down in April 2020 is set to fly flags of the five branches of United States military service. Prior to April 2020, the display was of flags from Spain, France, the United States of America, and the Confederate States of America.
That was the decision from Sebastian County Judge Gunner Delay Tuesday in a hearing over whether the Confederate flag should be returned to the park where a Fort Smith attorney thinks it should be.
Attorney Joey McCutchen previously sued the City of Fort Smith for removing the flag from Riverfront Park.
The flag was taken down in 2020 before the state legislature passed the historic monument act in 2021, Delay said.
Since the flag was removed, and the city has no plans to return it to the park, there is nothing in state law that requires it to be returned to the park, Delay said…Read the rest
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anti-Southern Haters Expand Jacksonville Monument Suit to County Names

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(Never give a cultural marxist his half of a loaf. He’ll be back to claim the whole store before you know it – DD)
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From Confederate monuments, Jacksonville lawsuit morphs to also challenge 5 county names

(Florida Times-Union) A lawsuit in Jacksonville over using tax money to maintain tributes to the Confederacy has expanded to challenge the names of five Florida counties whose namesakes were Confederates.
“I’m swinging for the fences,” civil rights activist Earl Johnson Jr. told a reporter after he filed an amended complaint this week that also claims additional grounds to hold that spending taxes to honor Confederates violates federal law.
“The budgetary enactments challenged herein burden the liberty of Plaintiff, a Black American, as they abridge central precepts of equality based upon race and color,” argued the new filing from Johnson, a disbarred lawyer representing himself.
It asked a federal judge for a “declaratory judgment” confirming Johnson’s charge that the law has been broken.
That wouldn’t immediately change anything. But by asking for "such other and further relief as this court deems necessary," the suit set the stage for efforts to rename Baker, Bradford, Hendry, Lee and Pasco counties…Read the rest
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Arrest finally made in Washington Monument Vandalism

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(It would have come sooner but the full force of the US government was busy harassing grandmothers that might have been anywhere on Jan 6. – DD)
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People Saw Red When Looking at the Washington Monument

(Trending Politics) The United States Park Police revealed on Wednesday that they made an arrest in the vandalizing of the Washington Monument, which is located in our nation’s capital. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we can’t have nice things. People have become savages in this day and age, thanks in large part to the insanity young people are being indoctrinated with, in both public schools and universities.
According to a report from Just the News, a vandal decided to take a bunch of red paint and splash it all over the 555-foot obelisk monument, taking said paint and crafting what’s being called an “anti-government” message with it. The monument was then shut down temporarily. Given that this was destruction of public property, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the individual who committed this crime was a raging leftist who hates everything the Washington Monument represents concerning our nation.
Officials identified the suspect as Shaun Ray Deaton, 44, originally from the city of Bloomington, Indiana. This guy was clearly old enough to know better. You don’t need to destroy property in order to make a political point. We have the Internet…Read the rest
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