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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs bill protecting Confederate monuments, other memorials
The Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | April 26, 2019 | Tyler Jett

Posted on 04/27/2019 11:17:01 AM PDT by Trump20162020

CHICKAMAUGA, Ga. — Next door to a plantation built by slaves, Gov. Brian Kemp defended Georgia's Confederate monuments as educational resources while he signed a bill to further protect them Friday.

"It is true that there are monuments in our history that do not reflect our values," he said, during a ceremony in front of Gordon Lee High School. "We cannot erase them from our history. We must learn from them. These monuments and markers remind us of how far we've come not only as a state but as a country."

Sponsored this year by state Sen. Jeff Mullis, the legislation allows local governments to sue vandals who deface monuments for up to three times the value of the damages. To the displeasure of some Democrats, the law also bans moving monuments from a prominent location to a museum.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: briankemp; chickamauga; civilwar; confederacy; confederate; georgia; godsgravesglyphs; greatestpresident; history; jeffmullis; kemp; stonemountain; thecivilwar
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

[B]lasted off the mountain,” just what her soul brothers, the Taliban like to do with others’ monuments.


21 posted on 04/27/2019 12:34:58 PM PDT by libstripper (A)
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To: Trump20162020

That fat black woman would have been crushing them left and right.


22 posted on 04/27/2019 1:09:32 PM PDT by FLvoter
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To: Trump20162020

Agree!
This is my neck of the woods...
....Chickamauga Battlefield Memorial is our history.....
....I’m so thankful to have a courageous Governor defending this history.

The whole of Chattanooga was a big battlefield........growing up I took it all for granted, never thinking some would try to erase history!

A relative lived on the east side of Chattanooga and all I heard growing up was about Billygoat Hill where blood streamed down the sides

From Missionary Ridge to Lookout Mountain War was raged......cannons now mark the spot!


23 posted on 04/27/2019 1:09:34 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Trump20162020

Excellent!

I am heartened that despite pouring in vast millions to get hardcore Leftists elected governor in both Florida and Georgia, socialist billionaires Steyer, Soros and Bloomberg FAILED. They outspent Republicans massively and still FAILED.


24 posted on 04/27/2019 1:32:00 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Guenevere

My Great Great Grandfather fought there as did several of my Great Great Uncles. One of them made the ultimate sacrifice there. We need to make sure Leftist PC Revisionists do not get to erase real history and impose their own fairy tale version of history.


25 posted on 04/27/2019 1:36:06 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rhubarbk

Yup. Bit the bullet on that one..that ugly midget would have done far worse in less time.


26 posted on 04/27/2019 1:46:13 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Trump20162020

Great job, Governor Kemp. Monuments are part of history. Just because, X was on the wrong side of history, was he Y or Z? Who knows, because at the time his views might be the opinion and if he was alive today, he might have a different view! We can’t rewrite history!!


27 posted on 04/27/2019 3:42:55 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: Irish Eyes; lastchance
....... only for those with an education.

Well, the white 20's something news reporter claims to have graduated from U of Florida (some would say for that he gets a pass, but I don't have a dog in that fight). {;^]

His first phrase suggests he thinks it necessary to remind readers that over 200 years ago there were slaves in the U.S.

Wonder how he feels about today's slave traders?

28 posted on 04/27/2019 4:16:16 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Forget the Electoral College, with both House and Senate, the D's will "Ballsy Ford" an R pres.)
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To: Trump20162020

Push back time has arrived!! The Deplorables need to consider this a war to protect our Donald, protect our Constitution, protect our freedom, and restore our history that is under assault by the Socialist Left.


29 posted on 04/27/2019 4:16:30 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Trump20162020

Well done Governor, my vote for you was a great pleasure as will my next vote for you. Thank you!


30 posted on 04/27/2019 5:46:10 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: FLT-bird

Bless you!


31 posted on 04/27/2019 6:54:04 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Bringbackthedraft

It’s not wrong to say Chickamauga was the biggest win in the West for the Rebs. They had just a few major victories, and, Bragg was in charge for at least two (Perryville and Chickamauga).

All Thomas’ stand did was keep our army from being totally destroyed by the Rebs.

Once Longstreet hit the hole that our Gen. Wood left in the line, our army ran..RAN.. back to Chattanooga, Gen Rosecrans in the lead. He told Thomas to hold, and, he did, but, his Corps was shred, scattered and running also.

The only thing that saved our army from ending up in the Tennessee River all together was that Polk and Bragg were totally useless as battle commanders.

Yeh, we got our butts handed to us at Chickamauga.


32 posted on 04/27/2019 7:09:56 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: frog in a pot

The first draft probably read, “Having forgotten to put on his white sheet for the occasion, Gov. Brian Kemp defended Georgia’s Confederate monuments as educational resources while he signed a bill to further protect them Friday.“


33 posted on 04/27/2019 7:13:37 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Trump20162020

Go Kemp!
We must fight the revisionist socialists at every step.

They want to control the present and future
by controlling the past. Not going to happen.


34 posted on 04/27/2019 7:17:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Trump20162020
"These monuments and markers remind us of how far we've come not only as a state but as a country."

Common sense! Thank you governor Kemp

35 posted on 04/27/2019 8:50:18 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Fake news lies, credibility dies.)
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To: libstripper

Common thread it seems


36 posted on 04/27/2019 10:03:03 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
"It is true that there are monuments in our history that do not reflect our values," he said, during a ceremony in front of Gordon Lee High School. "We cannot erase them from our history. We must learn from them. These monuments and markers remind us of how far we've come not only as a state but as a country." Sponsored this year by state Sen. Jeff Mullis, the legislation allows local governments to sue vandals who deface monuments for up to three times the value of the damages. To the displeasure of some Democrats, the law also bans moving monuments from a prominent location to a museum.
Let's make this the weekly digest ping as well, despite being a modern history topic.

37 posted on 04/27/2019 11:03:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ConservaTeen

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

I suspect if we lived back then, we would have a different view then we do now.

Was it really the war on northern aggression? Was slavery the reason? Was it to defend states right from the feds?

From what I recall the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the southern states.

Bottom line, we moved past it... until now.


38 posted on 04/28/2019 6:13:43 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: frog in a pot

Probably thinks they only exist because of President Trump.


39 posted on 04/28/2019 6:40:40 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lizma2
If you read the writings and speeches of the fire eaters who controlled the legislatures, it was all about slavery.

I think, however, it was more complicated for the ordinary Confederate soldier, few of whom owned slaves.

40 posted on 04/29/2019 9:52:52 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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