Good way to stem the tide of oppression and preserve history.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...e-monuments-removal/

Alabama governor signs law protecting Confederate monuments from removal

Alabama’s Republican governor has effectively safeguarded the state’s Confederate monuments from removal amid a recent purge of Civil War relics within neighboring states.

Gov. Kay Ivey signed the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 on Wednesday, putting in place measures to protect decades-old statues, monuments and other tributes from Decatur to Dothan.

Officially the legislation prohibits the “relocation, removal, alteration, renaming or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street or monument located on public property which has been in place for 40 or more years.”

The law’s Republican supporters say the legislation is meant to protect all monuments with historical significants, but critics claim the effort is intended to assure the state’s Confederate monuments are left alone as opponent rally for their removal.

“Contrary to what its detractors say, the Memorial Preservation Act is intended to preserve all of Alabama’s history ― the good and the bad ― so our children and grandchildren can learn from the past to create a better future,” the bill’s main backer, Republican State Sen. Gerald Allen of Tuscaloosa, said in a statement Wednesday.

“You say we are protecting history,” Democratic State Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma said of the bill’s supporters. “We are not protecting history. We are protecting monuments that represent oppression to a large part of the people in the state of Alabama,” he said previously.

Tom approves of this!

Whole heartedly!

Excellent.

Great,some of them SOB are acting just like isis,destroying ancient temples in the mid east.
They are also trying it in the next county down [Henry county Georgia]

There are many the cultural marxists are targeting

June 10 watch antifa protest Sam Houston in TX

Memphis

Shreveport

Tampa

More in New Orleans

The list is growing

Watch out after Meet the Press in the morning. The POS Mayor I have will be on spouting his lies and decete

Good. I am tired of this foolish crap.

I was born in Chula Vista and made my way south via Uncle Sam's Aero Club in the early 1970s and have been here (expect for deployments, TDY and PCS assignments) by choice.

And I have never seen any of the "Souther Flavored" flags, icons or lore as racists, but to the contrary.

I have seen my souther brethren as bold and brave as the souls that were more than glad to bury the King's best on "American" soil.

The "Southern Man" was just the "Minute Man" moved to a warmer climate.

Operation Push Back.
Push, push, push!

OMG, I am in Lexington, VA and had this discussion with a guy from Alabama today, not knowing it was in the news.

I am happy to see there are some who still have some common sense.

Now they are trying to remove a monument to Confederate war dead that has stood in Forest Park since 1914! Does no one have the stones to tell these people to STFU and stop their whining?

And, I realize it's a "Cap'n Obvious" statement, but these people are the "racists", "hating", "intolerant" people that cannot "coexist" with anyone.

They are one black flag away from being ISIS.

The Lt governor "hopeful" for Virginia, Susan Platt, is promising to remove all Confederate monuments and to rename all highways and buildings named after Confederates IN THE ENTIRE STATE. Link

I'll take our countries history, good and bad, over any country in the world.



Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZOozDHL0LA

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
The Lt governor "hopeful" for Virginia, Susan Platt, is promising to remove all Confederate monuments and to rename all highways and buildings named after Confederates IN THE ENTIRE STATE. Link

She'd have to change the states constitution to do so iirc. They all protected under it

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Originally posted by P-220:
OMG, I am in Lexington, VA and had this discussion with a guy from Alabama today, not knowing it was in the news.

I am happy to see there are some who still have some common sense.

In an It's a Small World bit my sister and her husband live in Lexington. BTW, he's a VMI grad and quite proud of that.

Seems that your Lt. Governor has plans that might really stir things up in Lexington. First, Washington and Lee will obviously have to be renamed, or possibly torn down. Because Robert E. Lee was the Commander of the Confederate Army and Washington was a notorious Slave Owner. Then there is the matter of what to do about VMI, probably clear those grounds completely and and void every single diploma it ever issued. Considering the contributions made to the United States by VMI grads throughout much of it's History that means that we'll just have to erase every reference to US history that took place before about 2000.

Washington and Wilder University?

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Good way to stem the tide of oppression and preserve history.
Alabama governor signs law protecting Confederate monuments from removal

Bravo!, Like!, +2, whatever, this needs to be done. These are monuments to our Southern history. They are not racist unless you choose to make them so.
 

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

“Contrary to what its detractors say, the Memorial Preservation Act is intended to preserve all of Alabama’s history ― the good and the bad ― so our children and grandchildren can learn from the past to create a better future,” the bill’s main backer, Republican State Sen. Gerald Allen of Tuscaloosa, said in a statement Wednesday.

^This. We do need to preserve our nation's history. Both for evil and good. Should we ignore lessons of the past, we may soon repeat them. Look at all those who would deny the Holocaust brought on by Nazi Germany. Absent the preservation of some of the more infamous concentration camps, I'm sure there would be a major push to erase it from history. Forgetting the lessons of history are far more dangerous than any hurt feelings people might get due to a war memorial that's two counties away.

Wonderful! A nice, obvious raised middle finger to the anti-American left.

However, any time a liberal state or region in the south can exploit Civil War Heritage to increase tourism dollars$$$ they will continue to do so.

Richmond, Va is notorious for that.

Roll Damn Tide!